@adamsteer Sorry to hear that.

I remember being told from several people that it would be hard for me to get back into academia if I left for any significant amount of time.

@officehippy Yeah, I didn’t realise how fast that was until I also tried some very short, all-out sprints. I could also just hold 3:00/km (=4:50/mile) or a touch faster but never for more than 100m or so.

It’s also wild to me that Kipchoge and Kiptum (and others) could hold a 2:50/km (=4:35/mile) pace for *two hours*.

View of the front yard in Jindabyne this morning.

@murph 🤣 They were all also on six or more instruments. It’s a big sound.

My wife recorded a bit of the performance on her phone. The audio is not great but you can hear that we’re kind of holding it together most of the time, at least in this final head of Lullaby of Birdland: https://youtu.be/5wn_vpEUSeI

I only started playing piano and taking lessons three years ago, so I’m pretty happy with now being able to play in a group like this.

My technique still has a long way to go but I can hear the changes and play something simple along with them, so that’s a win.

Played piano in my first jazz performance last night and it didn’t suck!

We had me on piano, double bass, drums, guitar, sax, and vocals. The set list was:
- There is No Greater Love (3/4, Eb, 90bpm)
- Honeysuckle Rose (G, 175bpm)
- Ladybird (C, 200bpm)
- Ain’t Misbehavin’ (G, 95bpm)
- Lullaby of Birdland (Am, 130bpm)

I took solos on the first and third songs and I think they went fine.

Although pretty stressful the experience was great. I’m looking forward to doing it again soon.

#jazz

@baldur No time for silly things like pleasure when you are speed-running life!

@zakb You probably find it a lot simpler if you get the basics down with just one machine involved.

Using git push and pull is essentially just copying the state (ie, commit history) of one repository (eg, on your laptop) to another (eg, GitHub). Of course, the more machines you add the more complicated synchronising and merging all that state becomes.

@zakb Branches are kind of the superpower of git. Definitely worth diving into, although if you just want simple snapshotting to experiment with ideas, you can get along way with “stash” without needing to branch.

You don’t need a remote server for git to be useful. You can just do `git init` in an existing folder and you’re off!

I have a few personal projects that are 100% local that I still find git handy for. You only really need GitHub or similar if you want to share code.

@zakb Also, if you are finding your editor/windowing set up less than ideal you could take a look at VSCode. It’s free and extremely good, albeit with a bit of a learning curve.

That said, tmux, vim (or your favourite editor), and a shell can also work very well with a bit of configuring. I use this for my personal projects and VSCode for work.

@zakb You don’t need to know even close to all of git for it to be useful. 95% of my usage is “branch, checkout, add, commit, pull, merge, and push” and you don’t even need the last three if you are not using a remote repo.

@zakb It sounds like what you are doing for the type of coding you are doing is pretty reasonable.

If you are struggling a little with organising files, etc. it may be worth investing some time in learning the basics of git. Being able to make a branch of what you are working on, mess everything up, then roll back all the changes without having to think about copying files can be pretty handy.

@mcc Sorry, never mind. I read through the rest of the thread and you’d already more or less answered these questions.

@mcc I’m not that familiar with Codeberg but that’s weird that they limit your choice of license. Does having a LICENSE file or very obvious section in the project’s README not carry the same legal weight?

Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"

@raganwald But I also remember feeling differently when I watched it when I was younger and probably also identified with House more than I should have and was rooting for him against “the system”. Maybe it needs a M40+ rating so that it’s not watched by impressionable “youngsters”.

@raganwald I also recently rewatched all of House with my daughters. I was also conflicted, especially early in the seasons where he constantly gets away with all sorts of crap, but if you don’t fall into the trap of believing all protagonists have to be role models then the show seems more reasonable. By the end of the series House has been, jailed, committed, rehabbed, loses nearly everyone he cares for, and is miserable. Hardly outcomes most people would choose.

Feeling torn. I’m very curious to hear what Terence Tao has to say in his most recent interview but I really do not want to give any views or support to Lex Fridman.

Hopefully I’ll be able to read a transcript of the interviews at some later date.

“You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens,” Lander said. “I’m not obstructing, I am standing right here in the hallway. … You don’t have the authority to arrest US citizens asking for a judicial warrant.”

This is fascism.

https://www.amny.com/news/brad-lander-arrested-ice-court-hearing-06172025/