@jerry
Imagine I replied with n<ThisIsFine.png> but with ice blocks instead of fire.
(I'm giving it a try creating that but my drawing skills aren't great. Perhaps my very artistic daughter will be interested in doing it when she gets up. 🙂)
@ernie
Unsolicited comment from personal experience:
Be alert for neck and back strain if the setup has the top of the highest screen above your natural horizontal view line.
The best thing is to avoid staying in the same position for hours at a time even if you do have a great ergonomic setup. As a programmer I can get in the zone and not move around much if I'm not careful.
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@ernie
My reply was written from the understanding that the "stacked" meant you have two active screens in a vertical configuration with the monitor above the laptop. :-) 2/2
@yacc143
Interesting points about the laptop being closed.
I understood "stacked" as meaning having a vertical configuration of two active screens with the monitor above the laptop screen. I had tried that at one time but it didn't work out for me. @ernie
This week I have been deeply surrounded by death, decay, heartbreak, and unraveling relationships. Most of it isn't mine directly, but I love my friends deeply and feel things a lot.
Which is to say: can you tell me a happy memory or interaction or anecdote you have of us? Or something this week that made you feel happy to be alive? I would love to hear what you have to say :blobhaj_heart:
@hazelweakly
We don't know each other, but here's a happy thing for me:
My wife and I love doing jigsaw puzzles and both our daughters will participate a little but they aren't super into puzzles usually. Our younger daughter used her saved up birthday and Christmas money to buy herself a really neat* puzzle and she's been working on daily this week.
It is a double-sided puzzle of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater house. One side is a photo of the house and the other is the blueprints.
My new release is Metaphysical Shitposting. It's an album of looser, weirder and more #experimental --but still relatively easy to listen to-- pieces. I'm releasing new tracks for it as I finish them; I work on new tracks for it when I get frustrated, stuck or bored with working on the more intricately produced tracks for my next release. It's a more casual, but still intense, take on my usual aesthetic. If you haven't checked it out yet... How about now?
@grivettcarnac
(Saw your post and wanted to offer encouragement as another random parent whose kids are older but still in school.)
It sounds like you're doing great even if you don't have a deep well of personal relevant experience.
Yes other people can be painful to deal but you demonstrating that it is OK and good to like different things and you wearing them too is -awesome-.
I hope he finds a good group to a part of so the naysayers fade into the background where they belong.
I watched a neat if somewhat synthetic ML demo based on this paper - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.11401.pdf - and on the one hand, the technique is interesting because it lets you isolate cited sources for the generated text fairly easily. But on the other hand... I remember when people thought using Wikipedia for research was cheating. And it still - sort of - is, in the sense that it's not your primary research, it's other people's distillates of other people's research. And that's what this demo is doing.
SITREP on trying to figure out where our new listeners are coming from -- downloads today are once again most-ever, second only to yesterday.
I included a little segment asking folks how they're finding us, but no information on new listeners has come yet. From what I can tell it isn't stemming from a link to minimumcomp.com, so some podcast must have given us a shoutout. Cool!
If you can see this post and you are under 30 years of age I want you to suggest a band for me to check out. Something of "your generation" tho; I know the old-man shit very well, thanks.
Electronic based acts preferred cause that's what I like but I am capable of appreciating anything, so if it's That Fucking Good, bring it!
@afilina
Thanks for this measured post with the context of your experience Anna. I too have been silent, primarily because I lack detailed knowledge of what is really happening.
This is definitely an area with lots of nuance so multiple things can be true at the same time.
I'm with you in the hope that new, moderate groups can step forward to lead Palestine and Israel. But as you stated, the usual human reaction after a brutal war is to lean right.