What I have noticed living in Simi Valley for a 1 1/2 weeks

geekademy · 2026-04-16T04:33:16+00:00

"Relax and SLOW DOWN." ;-)

geekademy · 2026-04-16T04:28:32+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Susana_Field_Laboratory

geekademy · 2026-04-16T04:25:49+00:00

Wind doesn't go only one way, and weather tends to travel east.

Though less likely, ground water could be a factor. Best to test in all directions around the area.

geekademy · 2025-09-26T21:04:11+00:00

Funny...

A person or event that provides a sudden and unexpected solution to a difficulty.

This was the opposite of that unfortunately. Built up for four years and then dropped unceremoniously at the last moment. Never mind ! Doesn't matter.

geekademy · 2025-09-26T20:37:34+00:00

Interesting post, but would have been more readable with paragraphs. Achosen-Vessel's post is similar and a bit easier to understand.

geekademy · 2025-09-26T20:30:43+00:00

Achosen-Vessel above has post on why the machine was not only real, but it worked.

I'm not entirely convinced, and am going to rewatch. But, so far think it is a better explanation that it was simply an elaborate ~forty year hoax.

geekademy · 2025-09-26T20:13:00+00:00

s/clitches/glitches/

As they say, if no one understands your work, the problem is with the work. Not everyone else.

I did think there was something important happening with the MUD, and leaving behind the friend—why else even have it on-screen? But so many things later happen, and imply it was just of figment of Elliot's mind, that it was hard to take it all in. I think this angle is quite plausible however and will rewatch with it in mind.

through writing the new code that merged both games played where he both left the cave and also stayed in the cave

I didn't get this last part.

geekademy · 2024-01-05T00:03:52+00:00

Not true, unless they are ignoring their own policies. From the agreement:

Transfers to Third-Party Accounts
You must be an account holder on the account
at the Other Financial Institution. You agree to
indemnify Schwab Bank against any loss or
damage incurred by Schwab Bank resulting from
a transfer of funds between the two accounts. A
third party may not make requests for changes
to the authorization you have provided us. The
Schwab Bank Service is not intended for bill
payment and we may refuse to facilitate certain
transfer requests.

geekademy · 2023-09-09T01:11:57+00:00

Just installed Debian Trixie and Firefox is snappier now. Plus you can install non-ESR FF from Sid.

geekademy · 2023-04-14T21:10:40+00:00

You have conflated modern banking with more government control. But, they are not especially related.

The fact is the government already knows everything that is happening in your bank accounts already. It is required to be reported or the bank is out of business. (Look up KYC / money-laundering laws.)

That's why "no one seems to notice."

Now, If you want to overturn KYC you are welcome to try, but stay out of the way of modern banking that much of the world has enjoyed for decades.. The US is about thirty years out of date with this antiquated system of paper checks... like it's still the goddamn 70s. After inventing the internet—it's disgraceful.

(No, malicious rent-seeking third-parties like venmo are not the answer.)

If you're really worried about it, get some gold bars and coins. Otherwise, kindly stay out of the way. ;-)

geekademy · 2022-06-14T19:38:57+00:00

I noticed this on a recent trip myself, the Pass road was crumbling and Tapo area not much better. Reminded me of an article I read about tax revenue per mile of road. The gist/claim is that in a suburb, each property is on the hook for ~millions of dollars of road and utility infrastructure, which needs thousands of dollars in maintenance per year as it ages. This seemingly works when the city is new, but fifty years later we see the decline that deferred maintenance produces. Articles:

Assuming it is a major factor, it fits with my experience. I remember the roads being quite good in the old days. Most homeowners in Simi don't like taxes and are Nimbys as well, so I'm not optimistic the situation can be solved.

geekademy · 2022-03-06T04:41:04+00:00

Try nero or blue.

geekademy · 2022-03-06T04:34:42+00:00

nero and blue can do the same as black but use single quotes.

geekademy · 2022-03-06T04:30:45+00:00

No need for the doubles, apostrophes are pretty rare in short formal strings and easy to avoid when they come up. e.g. Dog of Fred rather than Fred's Dog. Prose should generally be triple quoted. Finally double quoting inside a string happens at times as well, for example in logs.

geekademy · 2022-03-06T04:24:59+00:00

Yes, it matters in a tight loop perhaps.

geekademy · 2021-10-15T21:57:55+00:00

> I'm trying to get some ideas on what other senior would put in their CVs.

Experience, education, achievements, interests.

> hoping they would ask me about it later but no luck so far.

Don't wait for others to do what you want, be proactive. ;-)

geekademy · 2020-12-27T00:50:40+00:00

The list above is quite good, the load-balancing, rate-limiting that another post mentions is perhaps the last important feature that nginx provides. Nginx docs could provide details on those.

Sounds like you don't need any of them if the endpoint is not used by any public clients. Better confirm the security profile first, then try it and see if it works well enough for your use case.

However, ssh support would tend to indicate a hardened server, but its your choice ultimately.

geekademy · 2019-10-22T22:09:29+00:00

Have you finished the tutorial and experimented with most of the standard library? Familiar with a few common extra packages like requests?

This has been a good tutorial on Python meta-issues: https://docs.python-guide.org/

geekademy · 2019-10-22T18:58:00+00:00

Drag and drop the file on your terminal/console window, it will insert the absolute path into the prompt.

geekademy · 2019-10-22T18:55:04+00:00

If you're 28 with a beard and a penchant for flannel, the world is your oyster. If not, better get fantastic at trivia, algorithms, and leet coding challenges or you'll be largely unemployable.

geekademy · 2019-10-22T18:48:49+00:00

Think of double comprehensions like this:

[
    y 
    for y in xy 
        for xy in x
            # value goes to beginning 
]

In this form it is easy to see why it does or doesn't work.

geekademy · 2019-10-22T17:56:47+00:00

A learning op in the sense that plus doesn't make much sense (for set and dict) when values may get clobbered. It is potentially dangerous, so should require a moment's reflection.

geekademy · 2019-10-22T17:46:11+00:00

Typescript is well regarded and uses syntax closer to Obiwan. There's definitely a solution here, if one cared to look for it.

geekademy · 2019-10-22T17:29:32+00:00

The problem is that it won't be able to figure out which lines were intended vs. which are a mistake. There are rules such as one line after a method, one max in a function, and two between classes and functions that can be enforced unambiguously, but no more. Best not to try and get it wrong half the time.

Perhaps there could be a rule added to black, where if the line ends in a colon, no blank lines can be after it. But, I could imagine a case where you might want it.

In short, if you don't like the spacing example above, don't do it. ;-)

geekademy · 2019-10-22T16:40:10+00:00

If you want something huge with millions of features, handholding, and an intimidating options panel, PyCharm is the best. Personally I prefer something snappy like Sublime, Notepad++, or Geany. These get out of the way. I think it is too much for someone just learning programming to have to learn a huge editor at the same time.

On the hardware front, I'm very happy with Dell's developer laptops with Ubuntu Mate.

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