The scary thing about desoxyn is that it's thoroughly unregulated, so you have to watch for impurities or contamination. Especially scary would be fentanyl hotspots, which can happen if the chemical was improperly handled during packaging.
It's a very scary thing to be attempting, and I've actually had the experiment sitting for several months in my kitchen without touching it, due to how slightly alarming the whole prospect is, but my natural curiosity and engineering instinct tends to win in the end, when I feel sufficiently prepared.
So far I've slowly ramped up to a 40mg dose of oral metamphetamine and I'm still not consciously feeling anything that couldn't be attributed to placebo, so I'm starting to consider scraping the current batch, sending it to a lab for an expensive analysis, and potentially trying again a few months from now, if I have the energy for it.
It's a pretty slow-going project since I have to prepare for 12h of potential effects of each dose, and ramp up slowly due to uncertain purity, but the potential payoff of not having horrible executive dysfunction is pretty interesting.
Because I flew across the planet to attend my friend's wedding, who I met on an open source conference, the OpenStack summit, many years ago.
At the early ages of my career I thought of any kind of tech gathering as a necessary forum to show off, be competitive, demonstrate how much one (individual) excel, and becomes superior to others. I definitely wasn't at the right spot with this toxic mindset.
I became a regular attendee and speaker and trainer on the summits, and made good connections who eventually became close friends. The community, and especially these people taught me how to be a better person, and showed me that one can maintain professional integrity while still having a more open, more friendly, more helpful mindset.
Thanks for this, community! And best wishes, Jay!
Also, workout & cleaning. Sorry for being off-topic.
If only airline prices were more affordable, I'd be speaking in-person rather than online.
P.S. I like this Ask HN already. Will this get posted every week?
The twist in the tale is that he finished Year 12 in 2020, a year in which we spent a fair portion of our life in lock-down due to COVID. We're finally catching up on the backlog of things we had planned!
Sometimes, I get in my head that I haven't gotten further in life. Building a career, getting a doctorate, buying a house, finding a surrogate to have kids... So I started taking Saturday mornings to celebrate the little things that make me happy.
It encourages you to walk/run/bike all the roads in a town/city/county and it tracks the percentage.
It’s a fun and creative way to go see parts of your area you wouldn’t otherwise. I’ve used it to walk 97% of the miles in Berkeley and seen so many funky little areas. I also really enjoy how much it has increased my walking over the last few years.
I also been binging People Do Nothing on Netflix. Really good.
Once I tie up the loose ends on getting the GPS and orientation data, I'll start on one of the other data types I plan to work with. Not sure which one will come next, but some of the things queued up to do include:
- integrating one or more webcams for visual processing
- integrating one or more microphones for auditory processing
- integrating a thermocouple interface board to allow it to sense the ambient temperature. Will probably actually do two of these and use one thermocouple to measure the temperature inside the "body" of the system.
- considering also adding a light sensor to sense ambient light levels, a proximity sensor, a barometric pressure sensor, and possibly some other miscellaneous stuff. But the big ones I wanted to start with were the position/orientation stuff, and vision and audio.
I also need to replace the amplifier I use to drive the speakers used for audio output. In the current configuration I get some unwanted hum when then box is running on wall current, and the amp isn't really powerful enough anyway.
Outside of all that, I am trying to get back to cycling 40 miles a week, and right now I'm sitting at 25 miles of MTB'ing for the week, so I need to go out for a road ride tonight, or tomorrow and try to pick up the final 15 miles I need.
And, of course, I'll watch the Dolphins / Bills game tomorrow. #PHINSUP
We learned a lot of Pinewood Derby science from this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RjJtO51ykY
Today, I went to a British Museum exhibit with my partner.
Tomorrow, I'm going on a 12 mile hike in Surrey with some friends.
Polishing my new Electron app which is a data viewer for the time-series data that my companies products produce.
Spinning up another side project with Tauri/Rust as a background data collector service.
Tomorrow, I'm planning to visit a lake on the other end of the city again (should be flush with all the recent rain) and do some shopping on the way back.
#livingthedream
It's a double 18" reflex cabinet I designed myself. I'm using 18mm birch plywood. I'm doing some finishing bits this weekend:
* Soldering the connectors, the drivers will be wired in series and are 8 ohm so the box will be 16 ohm. My soldering skills are trash so it looks terrible.
* Final sanding
* Oiling
Next weekend will be mounting drivers and handles and hopefully testing :)
To help me prep for my Fantasy Hockey Draft next week!
Around noon, once it gets a bit warmer, I'll go with the family on a hike to see the fall foliage.
A scrimmage each day. A big BBQ dinner tonight. Some alumni activities as well.
My Dad joined my wife and I, so we get some time with him as well.
It’s my first time here, and with the cooler weather it’s quickly becoming one of my favorite show venues.
Oh, and I might play same Avalon/Secret Hitler with some classmates.