Fellow oldie here

When we were in university, professors who had contacts in the manufacturing industry would post a bill on the notice boards stating that some of the factories they know have a slot for visit open. If there was enough interest, the thing would go on like any other group visit. Logistics, dates, etc.

During the visit, the professor and their contacts would walk us through the shop floor explaining the stations along their production line. Sometimes, there’ll be a walkthrough of their logistic decision making processes. Usually concluded with a q&a session with some manager in the factory. Back then, we broke students were curious regarding how our education made us suitable for a job there and what soft skills are expected of us.

So, hitting someone up where you are interested in visiting might be a good start.

Basically Australia of today has lost touch both with itself and with the ground. Worse, it lies to itself and believes it to be the truth.

All the more so incompatible with life when growth is prefixed to profit

Or incorporate it. Basically what George Carlin said. Evolution will witness a new paradigm of life plus plastic and will keep evolving as if nothing matters.

I don’t know

There was this Nobel Prize winning guy called Norman Borlaug. He gave an alright Nobel acceptance speech. Now seems to be a good time to dust it and start reading. Pretty sure it is a short and crisp read.

With the arrival of near infinite phonebooks, the drive and know-how to remember 100s of phone numbers is lost to humanity.

Passwords present added complexity to those of phone numbers. On top of a name to number (allowing a few collisions) passwords are required to be of certain length, contain an upper case letter, lower case letter, number, special character, and more importantly, a preset lifetime.

Password managers seem to be a safer and low stress bet for the vast majority. There will always a few exceptions who can do it all in their head. They don’t tend to advertise their presence.

Coming at it backwards

Jackie Chan was a martial artist who fought (on screen) his way into the film industry. Hard to imagine Keanu Reeves becoming a martial artist anywhere near the caliber of Jackie Chan’s

There are obviously those like Gary Oldman, who, unless you paid close attention to the credits list, won’t be able to tell that he worked in the Fifth Element, Harry Potter, and the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy. Did he learn new skills for the movies he worked in? Most likely yes. Does he retain those skills? Only as much as he practices them or else like in all of us, I’d wager that those skills atrophied away from the moment respective films wrapped up shooting.

If anything, those skills look more like accessories to the critical job of acting on screen.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/851489

Someone else had a similar or same question too. This is the discussion on Mozilla support on it.

That said, 2185? Don’t be miserly, come on, hit that sweet 2200 already

The word ‘screen’ is mentioned in some form or the other 19 times vs the word ‘food’ in some form or other mentioned just 3 times. ‘Diet’ in all it’s forms gets a grand total of 0 mentions.

So, screen, then presumably manage and treat more than look at ways to prevent? OK

What in the $&=>! Going on

Canada’s IBS is making similar headlines https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/canada-could-face-sharp-rise-in-inflammatory-bowel-disease-by-2045-global-study-warns/

My pea brained understanding is that IBS increases the chances for cancer in the bowels, colon, etc

The question feels lost on the destination for a path. If you can, describe the course you want to take at that reputed university with leafy lawns. What would you like to do with that education?

Did the fees suddenly explode in 2023 and surprise you? Had you not been looking up the fees prior?

This path you’ve chosen and are seeking validation looks unrealistic at best despite breaks, weekends, etc dedicated to catching up with sleep. The question, as of this writing, is silent on weekends and breaks. Let alone sustainability.

I think adding a bit of curvature to the six surfaces of a regular cube can throw off many. Then there’s scale. Astronomical scales and milli or micro meter scales adds its own complexity by the simple fact that we lack regular language tools to capture the ideas and express them completely.

Where do we see curved surfaces? Everywhere from flight routes to space flight to deep sea diving.

Though I am not all tbat clear where we apply 3d geometry at micro scale or smaller, just a hunch that we may need them.

Language plays catch up. Is.

Looks at Optus Australia, Medibank Australia Yea, nah not really Governments might find it easier to do something for the noisy customers at best

In the context of VFX/3D art jobs that you’ve mentioned, it can be that the ability to do everything on a Linux system. What that entails is beyond me. I’m far removed from the area.

Taking the stab all the same.

At a high level, can you get the software working on Linux system? Can you get the codecs and whatnot installed and working? Can you get the data to be processed prepared for working in the environment? Can you convert the processed data to the format that is friendlier for consumption on a wide range of platforms? Are some questions that pop to the top of the mind. Basically if you can run a non trivial part of the business without making a fuss, I’d consider you proficient. What you can and cannot do outside of this scope is, well, none of my business.

Thanks 👍

The pleasure of being understood is underrated

• Simon Baker portraying Patrick Jane in The Mentalist

TIL of IronFox 👍 Any chances F-Droid or FFUpdater can list it as well? Also, ironically, with enhanced tracking protection, JShelter, privacy badger, uscript origin on Fennec, https://ironfoxoss.org/ opens a blank page.

I tried arguing along similar lines. Failed and fell flat on my face when it came to history. There’s so much chat history on WhatsApp for instance that without a way to port it all over to Signal, near impossible if that to bring people over.