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GeePaw Hill

@GeePawHill

6 Jan

Hmmm. I reference my playlist, the VBS (Very Best Shit), with some regularity. In the last couple of days, several have inquired whether I have published it.

I have not.

There are 517 takes on it. Some of them are, well, deprecated. But if I do one a day, in no order...

Idunno, tho. I mean. One's VBS list is inevitably intimate. Do I even trust y'all enough to share it? And what about the logistics? I mean, I don't want you to just see the artist/title, I want you to hear the take. Most are available, but surely not all.

I don't listen to the VBS all the time. I mostly listen to "all the songs I have online". I turn to the VBS when I need comfort.

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GeePaw Hill

@GeePawHill

6 Jan

The weirdest thing about being a teacher for young geek minds: I am teaching them things, like small steps, a walking skeleton, a making app, reliance on spikes, and even TDD itself, that their actual first jobs will most likely forbid them to do.

The young'uns I work with are actually nearly all hire-able as is, after 18 months of instruction, without any intervention from me. I mean, not exaggerating, these are good young geeks, clever and motivated and energetic and articulate.

No. The problem they're gonna face when they get to The Show isn't technical or intellectual at all. No language or framework or OS or library or algorithm is gonna daunt them, not for long. These kids are unquestionably well on their way to being professional geeks.

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GeePaw Hill

@GeePawHill

3 Jan

Well, I was - - this is literal - - just in the middle of typing the first line of code for the day when the power went out.

Country living, here, amid the snow storm. It will be out for several hours, minimum. Odds are good all day and in to the night.

No fear, tho we are well equipped and well stocked. Just frustrating.

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GeePaw Hill

@GeePawHill

20 Dec 21

In our efforts to optimize the Many More Much Smaller Steps (MMMSS) path, we've tried and rejected the "shortest-distance" floptimization. Today, let's take up the "pin-making" floptimization, in which we create specialists, stations, and hand-offs.

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The seeming awkwardness of the MMMSS path pushes us to propose various optimizations. Unfortunately, most of these are based in analogies that flop, they don't actually improve that path. We call them "floptimizations", and today we'll take up the pin-making floptimization.

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GeePaw Hill

@GeePawHill

19 Dec 21

https://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/1472216634744004613

Oxygen Not Included: It's Sunday, and I'm spozed to be writing, and that's not gonna happen.

Instead, I will continue from yesterday's game and feel somewhat bad about myself.

I left the game running last night, and have to backload to c100.

https://twitter.com/GeePawHill/status/1472216634744004613

As I said, this is always a dangerous time for me. The BBQ is coming on, but it's not full-on yet, so I need to watch food. I don't have a lot of coal or a lot of algae. Most seeds have a major vein of coal somewhere, but I haven't found it yet.

And there are so many projects to pursue! I think the answers are: 1) stabilize the coal & algae situation. 2) get some shipping going to reduce labor. 3) get some o2 going to reduce power and labor both.

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