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Oh hey, it’s been a while eh. I’m almost 40 now, have 2 kids and no time for gaming. Made a buttload of money by buying Bitcoin in 2011-2012 and holding onto it for a decade.

I gotcha beat I think. Still alive.

Hey, just doing my annual check in. Am I the oldest posting member yet? I got a nice paying engineering job, moved back to Vancouver. Bought a car a few weeks ago. Anyone else have a 4th gen Civic? Just painted the valve cover this weekend and going to try and adjust the valves tomorrow. Tried...

Seriously, it kills my browser at work (Firefox) and at home (Chrome). Sometimes I get hang ups for 5 or 10 seconds. Even when it's not freezing. Scrolling up and down I get about 1 fps jumps rather than a smooth scroll. And I can't tab out while things load because it's the browser that's...

Shutter Island had that music before Inception.

I'd say with an average razor and average skill it takes about twice as long as shaving with a safety razor. My razor isn't the sharpest out there and taking off a mustache makes me feel like crying. So long as you never pull parallel to the blade, it's pretty impossible to cut yourself. I've...

But holding a naked razor and stropping mid shave is so much more badass

I've picked up shaving with a straight razor lately because it's the easiest way to deal with a 3 week beard. Disposables get clogged really fast. I had some very old razors I picked up off EBay and honed them on a 2000/4000 grit combo Japanese waterstone. Some I took out some nicks and stuff on...

I'm starting to look at new cars. Probably won't by one right now, but maybe in the near future. I'm not much of a motorhead though. Currently I have a '91 Honda Civic hatchback 4 speed manual handed down from my grandpa to my dad to me. I like it a lot, and it gets great mileage, but it's...

The interface is the "connection" to the tool. It's all that he's talking about for the first half. Do you care to elaborate some? I disagree with the notion that a lack of appropriate tools is ever the limiting factor in design, or as he puts it, the cause of "stillborn" ideas. I don't...

Yeah, I know that's what he's saying. But I am saying that it pigeonholes design in to his idea of design. Take the coding example. What if you want to write something that is computationally intensive, like multidimensional optimization, or computational fluid dynamics. How do you live preview...

It seems a bit cumbersome to me. Part of the nice thing about code and more general tools is that they are flexible. I can imagine a lot of different ways to break his examples and I am sure he can too. They are great for the examples he shows, but they are limiting because of that. I think...

Listened to AWOL Nation Sail for this first time. Great song. Listened to the rest of the album and was deeply disappointed.

I would guess that most physics coding projects have something to do with numerical simulation or optimization or data processing. Even if you can formulate some useful theory just using a chalkboard, figuring out the repercussions of that theory probably involves some kind of simulation...

Depending on the language you choose, there are a huge number of absolute beginners guides. Most of them teach by having you write example codes to understand how everything works.

Today instead of working, I designed a Valentine's Day card, and I share it with you. All you need is card stock and a razor blade. Most of the lines can be free handed. The only important thing is that the folds are symmetrical about the centre line. You could probably fold the...

BibTeX as the name implies is a package for LaTeX. It's database file is probably compatible with EndNote I would imagine. So if you have a database of EndNote references, I bet there is some option to export them to a .bib file. I have never used EndNote, so I can't say how well it works, but...

There are a lot of guides to LaTeX out there. Report writing is pretty much a cinch though. You just write the text of what you want to write and pepper in a few bits of code to handle the sections or figures or equations. If you are juggling a lot of references for your bibliography, I highly...

Matlab is frickin' expensive, so that means if you want a personal copy, you pretty much have to pirate it. Python is free, and more powerful, and faster at most things than Matlab. It feels more like a programming language though which can be good or bad. Running Python with Numpy (mathematics...

$200 check from girlfriend's grandma, 25 ounces of silver coins from dad, Ipod touch from girlfriend, some screamers (climbing stuff) from brother in law.