Ich hatte einen Bastelbogen im Adventskalender \o/
2020game.io
https://2020game.io/ – epic. I hope this is one of those pieces of art that stick around for decades on the internet. <3
nice try Dietikon
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one day you’ll use everything you’ve learned
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GCLOUD: The Annoyance
Whenever I need to do something urgent on glcoud, this will greet me for 15 (or 30) minutes:
Provisioning your Google Cloud Shell machine...COVID-19: The Real (Death) Toll
People are talking about “the lost year”. Based on that premise (which clearly isn’t correct), let’s do some simple math: Let’s say half of the world’s population had to change their lives drastically for a, per individual combined, period of 3 months. Let’s also assume the 7.7 billion estimate for the world population is correct, and that 71 years is a reasonable life expectancy estimate (as per wikipedia):
7 700 000 000 * .5 * 3 = 11 550 000 000 months lost
11 550 000 000 / 12 = 962 500 000 years lost
962 500 000 / 71 = 13 556 338 people lives lost
As of today, the WHO estimates 1.69 million people died of COVID-19.
Trump: 5 stages of grief
It’s fascinating to observe Trump going through https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief
Bundesrat Berset vs The Checklist Manifesto
Pretty interesting take on automatisms in crisis situations:
Coming from a long history of crisis response, I have strong opinions on clearly pre-defined, optimally automated, countermeasures as a critical pillar to stop the bleeding fast.
In addition, it’d be helpful for the population to understand which aspects kick in at any given stage, to weigh their decisions.
Karen Pryor: Don’t Shoot the Dog
I’ve recently re-read this book on positive reinforcement and am glad I did. Not only is it a profoundly educational read, it’s also light weight and to the point enough to not get boring. Highly recommended.
Jun’ichirō Tanizaki: In Praise of Shadows
Beautiful glimpse into the world of an individual observing the small details and how they interconnect. Short read, and certainly worth the time – if only to read something which is quite off the beaten path of mainstream.
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Finished reading Brave New World, which I picked up after hearing about it in relation to Orson Welles’ 1984. – The setting is scarily accurate, and the notion of ‘hiding in plain sight’ is something I hadn’t considered in the larger context of… well… population/mind/opinion control? – The writing itself goes from excellent to rather bad, the story telling is so thin at times, it gets really boring (which I take Mr Huxley also figured as shown in his post-factum foreword (1947)). Overall worth the read, because thought provoking.
AORUS XTREME X570 (r1.1): wake from sleep
Finally managed to reliably wake from sleep my new machine running on a r1.1 AORUS X570 board (yeah, I know). Which seemed to be a problem for quite a few of us: https://www.reddit.com/r/gigabyte/comments/geo9bt/x570_aorus_xtreme_failing_wake_from_sleep/
As outlined in that thread, F11 worked just fine – but upgrading to anything beyond that didn’t. Symptoms observed: machine wakes up, tries to spin up for 5 seconds, then powers off.
After some long threads with gigabyte’s support, and trying various configurations, we’ve ended up at the following, which works for me:
- NVIDIA 451.77
- Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz 21.90.3.2
- Intel Wireless Bluetooth 21.80.0.3
- Aquantia AQtion 2.1.018.0
- Intel Network Connections 23.5.2.0
- AMD Chipset Software 2.05.04.352
- Realtek Audio Driver 6.0.8945.1
- AORUS X570 BIOS F21
phew, it’s been slighly frustrating 🙂 Gigabyte support was excellent though.