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May the 7th be with you
(30 Apr at 23:59) |
When the beginning of May came around, I seem to have forgotten that a new month was occurring, and then I was putting off this blog post (which would have been -1,000 points), and then I thought it would be funny (but really it was just procrastination) to try to lose a record number of points. Let's call it -7,777 points; this post was backdated a full week, from May the 7th! Anyway, I am all right, at least as much as anybody is all right these days.
After submitting my paper to SIGBOVIK (you can read it) I have been working on a video, but actually I have been continuing to work on the problem (but really it was just procrastination). Right after writing the paper I had some good ideas that I wanted to test out and show in the video, and it seemed wrong to not give them a fair shake before presenting them. I think the story is converging and I just need to do a modest-sized expensive computation, so tonight I'm struggling with Cloud Infrastructure. It's so boring, but not as boring as waiting for my computer to run it for ~60 days. And only related because it sucks and is boring in the same way, I have made some of the first steps towards trying to get this server to support https. I like cryptography and don't hate https, but I also do not see the need for the complexity and downsides of https on a website like this and so I resent this very much, but: Chrome has finally "succeeded" in making http too annoying and scary for regular people now. (There is still no https on my site. I'm just saying that I'm working on it again.)
I am itching to get back to other projects! I upgraded my 3D printer so that it can dry spools of filament, so now I can use some exotic materials. I printed a replacement door handle out of carbon fiber ASA (which supposedly has good outdoor durability):
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The old one was made of metal but it just broke off! So even though this one is plastic, I think it may compete with the quality of the previous. Very satisfying to pull on that big guy. |  |
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