think tank forum

> the reward for finishing your work is more work, eh?

i mean, yeah, maybe.

or perhaps it's all about framing/bracketing. for example, i could see three projects. after i finish one, then i can begin another. or i can see all three projects as constituting something greater--a single encompassing project. i can continue to zoom in or out however suits me

> i think this is aka "yak shaving"

hi! i've been thinking about you on occasion, wondering about your haps!

here's 'a good reference on yak shaving':https://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb/old-archive/gsb-archive/gsb2000-02-11.html

here's 'a relevant vid':https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0

in my mind, it al comes down to being intentional at every moment. i feel like i'm continually trying to catch myself from falling down rabbit holes. 'my favorite related info-graphic':https://my.clevelandclinic.org/-/scassets/images/org/health/articles/23224-executive-dysfunction that's all too self-descriptive.

most of my procrastination is really just elaborate tangential work (i.e., perfectionism).

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how does the chicago manual of style reference tables and figures? it abbreviates them within parentheses but otherwise does not abbreviate them. it does not capitalize them except at the beginning of sentences. equations have numbers in parentheses, all other item types simply use the arabic numeral.

Equation (1) might be true (fig. 1) but table 2 lists the cases.

the latex cleveref package doesn't quite accommodate this behavior.

<b>compromise!</b> use option noabbrev and just avoid abbreviations everywhere. it's a bit nicer anyway, if anything.

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my opinion is that latex hyperref should use boxes to depict links (as opposed to the color of the text itself), so that the colors are not shown when printed.

ok but we need good colors for the boxes. ok hyperref doesn't use the dvips color names with the border colors. ok let's manually convert color codes and enter them. not too much work!

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why repeat a legend in a single figure? in my opinion, it's best to just show a legend once in a figure.

ok, but the stata package gc1leg doesn't respect sizing or aspect ratio. ok, the package gc1leg2 does! not too much work!

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how does the chicago manual of style capitalize these terms that i use frequently?

ok i read a lot on this but was never fully convinced.

<b>compromise!</b> just go with what seems to be the prevailing opinion and call it good. luckily this opinion is that the terms in question ought to be lowercase, which is preferred by default.

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why is biblatex-chicago not showing a citation?

ok, it seems to be because i had just cited it last. ok, apparently there's a noibid option for the package which fixes it. noibid should be default, because cmos doesn't promote ibidem. not too much work! (after debugging and posting the question on stack exchange, anyway; during this process, learn that natbib is largely unnecessary, so remove its usage.)

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hey, i have footnotes. we better ensure they're done however described by the fucking chicago manual of style.

ok symbols go <asterisk, dagger, ...>. both symbols and arabic numerals should be superscript in the text. however, they both should not be superscript in the actual note. further, only the numeral should be followed by a period.

<b>compromise!</b> i could not get this working within thirty minutes, so they will stay all superscript with without a period after the arabic numeral in the notes.

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why did my internet connection drop?

is it the wifi access point? is it the switch? my router seems to be working flawlessly. my router has a built-in wifi card that supports hostap, so let's enable it. we better bridge it with the ethernet because i don't want a bunch of unnecessary subnets. ok why are dhcp leases now only being offered on one of the bridged interfaces? ugh 'someone reports':https://misc.openbsd.narkive.com/Td6tPsud/dhcp-over-vr-4-on-bridge-4-through-vether-4-no-working this problem from 8 years ago.

<b>compromise!</b> now i have a bunch of stupid subnets. the external access point is now connected directly to the router on one of its ethernet interfaces, and a switch is connected to the router on a separate interface. now i hope to catch the access point being a shithead.

(this one took a lot of time)

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is this just me?

i can't even get git to work in general.

for example, on my laptop, i do the following:

<pre>lucas@calliope MINGW32 /e/testenv
$ git clone [ttf repo]
Cloning into 'thinktankforum'...
remote: Counting objects: 1377, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (421/421), done.
remote: Total 1377 (delta 975), reused 1344 (delta 954)
Receiving objects: 100% (1377/1377), 351.44 KiB | 459.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (975/975), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

lucas@calliope MINGW32 /e/testenv
$ cd thinktankforum/

lucas@calliope MINGW32 /e/testenv/thinktankforum (master)
$ vim register.php

lucas@calliope MINGW32 /e/testenv/thinktankforum (master)
$ git status
On branch master
Your branch is up-to-date with 'origin/master'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git checkout -- <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)

modified: register.php

no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")

lucas@calliope MINGW32 /e/testenv/thinktankforum (master)
$ git add .

lucas@calliope MINGW32 /e/testenv/thinktankforum (master)
$ git commit -m "WTF GIT"
[master 011af82] WTF GIT
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

lucas@calliope MINGW32 /e/testenv/thinktankforum (master)
$ git push
warning: push.default is unset; its implicit value has changed in
Git 2.0 from 'matching' to 'simple'. To squelch this message
and maintain the traditional behavior, use:

git config --global push.default matching

To squelch this message and adopt the new behavior now, use:

git config --global push.default simple

When push.default is set to 'matching', git will push local branches
to the remote branches that already exist with the same name.

Since Git 2.0, Git defaults to the more conservative 'simple'
behavior, which only pushes the current branch to the corresponding
remote branch that 'git pull' uses to update the current branch.

See 'git help config' and search for 'push.default' for further information.
(the 'simple' mode was introduced in Git 1.7.11. Use the similar mode
'current' instead of 'simple' if you sometimes use older versions of Git)

Counting objects: 3, done.
Delta compression using up to 4 threads.
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 306 bytes | 0 bytes/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0)
remote: error: refusing to update checked out branch: refs/heads/master
remote: error: By default, updating the current branch in a non-bare repository
remote: error: is denied, because it will make the index and work tree inconsistent
remote: error: with what you pushed, and will require 'git reset --hard' to match
remote: error: the work tree to HEAD.
remote: error:
remote: error: You can set 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable t
remote: error: 'ignore' or 'warn' in the remote repository to allow pushing int
remote: error: its current branch; however, this is not recommended unless you
remote: error: arranged to update its work tree to match what you pushed in som
remote: error: other way.
remote: error:
remote: error: To squelch this message and still keep the default behaviour, se
remote: error: 'receive.denyCurrentBranch' configuration variable to 'refuse'.
To [ttf repo]
! [remote rejected] master -> master (branch is currently checked out)
error: failed to push some refs to '[ttf repo]'</pre>

am i using git all wrong?

i think this is aka "yak shaving"

the reward for finishing your work is more work, eh?

disklabel -B doesn't exist.

also,
-19200 on soekris
-38400 on alix
-115200 on apu2

haha

pray for america (crying eagle)

still here baby

if you run out of problems to solve, you can just destroy your solutions, no?

i (usually) enjoy solving problems. but i also like when the solution is in place, performing well, allowing me to move on to the next problem.

i think what i fall in love with is the process of solving the problem, so much that i don't want to complete the solution, since that would be the end of what i liked. i fear losing purpose

[l___ r___]

there's not much left to my profile, i've stripped it out

it won't be much longer before i delete it altogether

it's not for an fdic spread. it's to segment ownership and access.

i have three business names and one checking account for each.

i have one personal checking account, one account that i own for the benefit of my mom (beneficiary), and a joint account with my mom.

how's that?

p.s. my business names are:
-> Winged Leopard Web
-> [LR] Photography
-> LARZ

<blockquote>Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 20:47:38 -0700
Subject: your reply is requested
From: [LR]
To: [CJ]

hi cj,

i'm just wondering something:
https://www.thinktankforums.com/thread.php?thread_id=1937

lr</blockquote>

> tampers:http://www.coffeetamper.com/store/pc/viewPrd.asp?idproduct=109&idcategory=9


<blockquote> From: [LR]
To: reg@coffeetamper.com
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:13:01 -0600
Subject: A few questions

Hi Reg,

My name is Lucas, I live in Bozeman, MT, USA, and I'm a coffee enthusiast. I have a few questions for you.

(1) I see that you have a purple powder-coated handle, but purple is not listed as a complete tamper. Can I buy a complete purple tamper?

(2) Is it possible to get a Zebrawood or Tulipwood tamper without the delron? If so, can you possibly engrave right into the wood (as in this:http://www.flickr.com/photos/10704206@N08/4393106715/ photo)?

(3) If I order a powder-coated tamper, can you put my personal logo on the top and put the RB logo on the side (as in this:http://www.flickr.com/photos/10704206@N08/4371562250/ photo)?

Thanks much,
Lucas</blockquote>

<blockquote>Hi there Lucas,

First, let me apologize for getting your name wrong in my past two emails. Really sorry about that.

Secondly, I realize that you are not trying to change your password. The thing is, you might end up having to change your password in order to remove your secondary email address. This is what I attempted to describe in my previous email.

As I said earlier, I'm really sorry about this inconvenience.


-Thomas
Slicehost Support</blockquote>



<blockquote><blockquote> First, let me apologize for getting your name wrong in my past two emails. Really sorry about that.</blockquote>


No problem at all (my full name is [JLR]).


<blockquote> Secondly, I realize that you are not trying to change your password. The thing is, you might end up having to change your password in order to remove your secondary email address. This is what I attempted to describe in my previous email.</blockquote>


I realize that. I'm just suggesting that the form work in two separate fashions. If there is a change to the email addresses and both password fields are blank, then it should accept the changes to the email addresses and leave the password alone.

Don't you agree?

In other words, if your dev team has a lazy day, perhaps they could segment the case logic in the script.

Cheers,
Lucas</blockquote>

it's a lot easier to print one pdf than fifty.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/intro.htm

<pre>"C:\Program Files\gs\gs8.54\bin\gswin32" -q -sPAPERSIZE=letter -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=out.pdf in0.pdf in1.pdf in2.pdf</pre>

sweet! do you have a case or bow for it? let me know how much shipping is.

[LR]
803 nelson story tower
bozeman, mt 59715

> HOLY SHIT FREE BUSINESS CARDS <3

it works now! i just ordered some. :D

on mine, i put:

"[LR]
(646) 875-8227
www.wingedleopard.net/lucas/
lucas@wingedleopard.net"

<blockquote>Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:25:47 +1100
Subject: domain names
From: [redacted]
To: lucas@wingedleopard.net


hey dude,

just wondering if you're still using the domain names

thinktankforum.com
thinktankforums.com

would be interested in taking them off your hands if not.

please get back to me.


thanks,

[redacted]</blockquote>


<blockquote>Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:35:12 -0700
Subject: Re: domain names
From: [LR]
To: [redacted]

yes, i'm still using them. feel free to make an offer, though.

lucas</blockquote>

i love my CNAMEs that map to s3 buckets (i.e., s3.wingedleopard.net). i asked a cs rep if they have the same feature for cloud files:

<blockquote>me: i'm looking for information on setting up a CNAME with a container

me: is that possible to do?

me: (for the CDN)

Ken F.: I apologize, but that is currently not available. It is being developed, but I do not have a release date.</blockquote>

cloud files doesn't seem nearly as mature as s3. we'll see what happens in the coming months.