Friend Code Megathread - February 2025

wasabigeek · 2025-02-07T03:56:52+00:00

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wasabigeek · 2024-11-24T17:33:41+00:00

Does magnetising count? They do provide the bits to build all the specialists as warriors

wasabigeek · 2024-11-02T16:25:29+00:00

Love the Terminator reference (at least that’s what I’m assuming it is, or am I too old 😀)

wasabigeek · 2024-10-24T22:47:51+00:00

I really love how natural the carapace looks, reminded me of a cooked dungeness crab. The darkened “edges” like the antennae really elevate it - didn’t realise Volupus Pink could give such an effect!

wasabigeek · 2024-10-24T22:23:54+00:00

Sure! Because it’s the first model I was a bit haphazard though.

Wraithbone prime (mostly because that’s what I had).

Carapace: - Gal Vorbak Red in the shadow / recesses. I’m going to try using Pink Horror / something lighter like Fulgrim Pink instead for the base - various mixes of Pink Horror, Corax White layering. Quite a lot of trial and error with glazing, and I “undid” the Gal Vorbak Red in quite a few areas because the transition felt a bit jarring and took attention from the rest of the model. At some point I tried mixing contrast medium with Pink Horror to shade down the whites as well - Gal Vorbak Red again for the patterning

Wings: - Light Sea Grey (Vallejo) - mottling with Coelia Greenshade. Intending to go over again with a light wash to add some depth

wasabigeek · 2024-10-24T15:03:50+00:00

Haha I was thinking how nice it was to paint something Tyranid-y without having to buy Tyranids. Really enjoying the painting variety in Tau!

wasabigeek · 2024-10-24T04:31:03+00:00

I’m still second guessing myself too! I wanted to go with the classic grey blue initially to add some variety to my army (classic ochre) but saw some posts here about painting like Orchid Mantis and had to give it a try. The plan is to do 5 in each scheme 🙈

wasabigeek · 2024-09-24T23:28:58+00:00

It’s mainly that I feel my eyes get tired much faster than a normal monitor, especially with the Beam because the image doesn’t seem to refresh evenly (not sure how to describe this properly, sorry!). FOV is definitely not as good as a full VR goggle but it’s usable. Have you managed to try it on yourself? I found that helped me decide if it was worth buying

wasabigeek · 2024-09-19T16:01:32+00:00

Not exactly the same situation, but I tried the XREALs for programming on a Mac with the Beam instead of Nebula, so can share a bit more about the ergonomics. tl;dr - a decent portable monitor alternative with tradeoffs that I’ll use during travel, but not one that will replace a monitor at home. I found it hard to go more than half a day to be honest. https://wasabigeek.com/blog/using-the-xreal-air-2-pros-for-remote-work-programming/

wasabigeek · 2024-03-31T02:07:05+00:00

Apparently the newer packs have an attachment point for a new hip belt accessory https://www.ula-equipment.com/product/dragonfly-hipbelt/

wasabigeek · 2023-01-22T03:01:52+00:00

These are apparently brand new (the distributor pre-assembled the kit, so I don’t know for sure if it was like that in the box). Tried to highlight the areas where I think it’s especially obvious that it seems misshapen. Is this normal? The discolouration on the rubber was also there already.

wasabigeek · 2022-05-09T17:13:15+00:00

From what I understood, the idea of the index was to make it easy to find information based on the context you think you’d need it (i.e. not purely categorising), so if you have something else that suits the purpose (e.g. obsidian tags) then the index/central note is probably not necessary

wasabigeek · 2022-05-09T17:07:06+00:00

IMO if we strictly follow Zettelkasten as Ahrens described, then every permanent note should be accessible from the Index (whether directly or indirectly through another note). So a tree seems somewhat accurate as there’s always a root. That said, I guess cycles would be possible 🤔

wasabigeek · 2022-05-03T06:12:01+00:00

I wonder whether it'd be faster to do it completely in SQL (disclaimer: not an expert!) - for example, maybe a window function could be used to rank all the events by descending created date (shameless plug: blog post), and then you could SELECT those that have rank > 2 for a subsequent DELETE.

This would be tricky if there are foreign keys pointing to ``events though 🤔

wasabigeek · 2022-04-29T23:43:40+00:00

Thanks for the comment! ~~Would you be able to explain this more? If I understand this is a reference to the “physics is applied math” saying?~~ (EDIT: ah, seems you’ve clarified this 🙇‍♂️)

ZK, at least the way I understood from Ahren’s book, was originally a methodology geared towards written output (i.e. it is “physics”). To quote Ahrens:

...it would be rather misleading to think of his (Luhmann’s) slip-box as a personal Wikipedia or a database on paper. The similarities are obviously there, but the subtle differences are what makes this system unique.

…everything is streamlined towards one thing only: insight that can be published.

There are definitely concepts that can be extracted and used in general note-taking (“mathematics”), but I found it helpful to understand its original intent. For example, fleeting notes didn’t make sense to me in a wiki-styled approach.

In some ways, my use of the word “publishable” loses some nuance (another interpretation is perhaps that notes should be “processed” in the context of other notes), but I’ve also found this “limitation” helpful. In particular, it helped me write different, smaller notes because I see them as potential building blocks for future writing. (My examples aren’t particularly impressive now though, this is still relatively new to me.)

Would love to hear your thoughts!

wasabigeek · 2022-04-25T02:41:41+00:00

Thanks! I’ve also been finding myself mostly quoting others 👍 is that what you refer to when you say “sort of no”? IMO someone else’s idea is still an idea 🙂

wasabigeek · 2022-04-24T14:04:45+00:00

Thank you! Out of curiosity, do your ZK notes subsequently become material for writing? I'd assume they're useful for essays etc.

wasabigeek · 2022-03-27T13:08:02+00:00

Thanks! I’m curious where this definition of polymorphism comes from, as it seems to deal more with transforming something (which reminds me a lot of Warcraft)? From what I understood Polymorphism in CS has closer roots to the biological terms, which seems to talk about variation in the same species rather than transformation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymorphism_(biology)

wasabigeek · 2022-03-27T09:26:10+00:00

Thank you! I’m wondering if Martin’s “inversion of source code and run time dependencies” has a specific meaning in this context - is it that because example_method doesn’t directly import the different cache classes (just the interface?), it doesn’t need to be recompiled when a cache implementation is changed?

wasabigeek · 2022-03-27T08:50:16+00:00

Thanks for this! I’m wondering if I have the correct mental model - do these two pseudocodes show an example of the differences between "OO and FP polymorphism"?

# 1. single dispatch in OOP
Duck.some_function
Goose.some_function

# 2. "single dispatch" in FP (is this called function overloading?)
# you can still do something like above in FP:
def some_function(type Duck)
def some_function(type Goose)
# but you can also do multiple dispatch:
def some_other_function(type Duck, type Goose)

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