Mostly Software

    • Went to ear appointment with Allie. Was very interesting.
    • Did surgery on a couple keys on my laptop. The S key was sticking, so I removed and cleaned underneath it. I also checked the A key next to it, to make sure I had put S back correctly, but it didn’t come off as well. The retaining clip system is ridiculous, there are like 3 layers with 4 corner attach points each. It’s back in place and working ok, but definitely not perfect. You have to press the A extra hard to register (which is annoying since it’s a pinky key).
    • HN
    • Pineapple has the enzyme bromelain which breaks down protein chains. If you marinate meat with any pineapple in it for too long (hours), it will tenderize it into mush.
    • Updated al pastor:
      • Trim pork butt into slices. Brine as usual.
      • Mix marinade separately and apply right before smoking. Don’t want pineapple bromelain.
      • Put slices on grill like chicken thighs, not skewered. More surface area for bark/smoke.
      • Get the internal to 170-200 and you’re fine. Chop up. Don’t need to reverse sear.
    • NBA contracts are insane. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_salary_cap. It’s just as ridiculous as tax law, where there was a decent set of 10 original rules and then 3,000 people came in and exploited loopholes which resulted in new provisions. The worst way to scale.
    • Some questions for the interviewer. https://medium.com/free-code-camp/how-to-interview-your-interviewers-when-youre-looking-for-a-job-d848bc3a910.
      • Describe your CI/CD/CodeReview process.
      • How free are individual contributors to pursue new ideas? Even across departments?
    • I turn 1 billion seconds old in two months! The night of Wednesday, August 22, at midnight.
    • Domains are case insensitive, but you can totally make an endpoint case-sensitive. It just gets sent to the server. You shouldn’t. Users should always consider it to be case sensitive, to be safe, but it shouldn’t be.
    • Watched the smarter every day videos on tattoos and removal.
      • The guns are rotary (just a motor and a needle(s), like a crankshaft and piston) or coil (magnetically pulling a needle, then letting go while a sprint pulls it back).
      • Laser removal just sends a very tuned flash at the tattoo. This heats up one side of the microscopic ink particles quickly enough that the other side can’t deform, so it cracks. Once broken up, white blood cells can engulf the smaller ink particles and bring them to the liver for waste processing (this is the same reason tattoos fade over a long time, the white blood cells are eating away at them).
    • Smoked the tacos al pastor.
      • At first I thought the temp probe was bad because it just kept flashing “lid off” but it settled after a while. The forums say that sometimes you can get bad readings at low temps. Also, power cycling the unit seems to help.
      • I’ll have to screw the fan back on later as well.
      • Dicing the onion the right way is awesome.
    • USWNT beat Sweden to get 1st in their group. We play Spain in the round of 16, and then likely France in the round of 8. It could very likely be a USA-Germany final.
    • NBA draft.
    • The heaviest person of all time was 1400lbs.
    • If you just change the “r” in the reddit url to “c” then you can see posts that dumb mods have removed.
      • Hung out with Eric and the whole family all day. Woke up at 6, gymmed, then beached and piered.
      • Created the splitwise group to settle all the Austin finances.
      • (Certain) Corporate action(s) can be taken without a shareholder meeting, even if the company is private, like SpaceX. It must win by majority shareholder vote nonetheless. They must notify the shareholders, by law.
        • These are usually equity dilutions, like increasing the total number of shares by ~0.01%.
        • This directly decreases the percentage of the company you own, and therefore your voting right, but that was never substantial anyway. It does affect value though, because external valuations are usually done on the total worth of the company, and then simply divided by the number of shares. It’s a sneaky, indirect way to dilute your equity, since these events (dilution and valuation) are usually months apart.
      • Did Hawaii planning.
        • The friends leg is just pettys/gmereks/remilins (6) so far.
        • Harner/Eddie/Jonny already have flights home and other plans.
        • Allie is out for the friends leg, and is waffling the wedding leg.
        • Wes/Jcriss/I are the other 3 who are considering the friends leg, which would make 9. If so, Wes and I would be the only ones with the same flights for the whole trip.
        • I would like to go both legs. I will definitely need the LAX-HNL flight for the wedding. If Wes and Jcriss go on the other leg, I’ll definitely go, and would need HNL-LIH + LIH-LAX. I would like to encourage Allie to come to both.
      • I can make al pastor for the bay whenever they come down.
        • Trim a pork butt into strips (easier to buy boneless for this, obv).
        • Make my usual dry rub (salt, pepper, paprika, garlic, onion), but then add Achiote paste and Guajillo chili powder and mix it all with pineapple juice to make a marinade (or just buy a premade pastor marinade). Let it sit overnight, then smoke as usual.
        • Spritz with pineapple juice instead of water.
      • Using openssl you can create a root certificate (used to generate other certificates) and then specify localhost as the domain to trust. Fairly simply article here: https://medium.com/free-code-camp/how-to-get-https-working-on-your-local-development-environment-in-5-minutes-7af615770eec.
      • Guajillo chiles are the second most popular chile in Mexico. Poblanos are #1. Ancho is the name for dried Poblano.
        • The carolina reaper is the hottest pepper in the world. Before that it was scorpion, then naga, then ghost. There are claims for 2x the carolina (Pepper X) but they have not been confirmed yet.
        • New peppers are created by literally breeding other insanely hot peppers.
        • Remember superchargers and turbochargers are a little different. Both compress the air going into the engine to add about 50% more power, but the turbo takes it from the exhaust gases (turbine->compressor) and the super takes it from the crankshaft (belt->compressor). The turbine has a slight amount of lag and then will lurch forward (because the air must move through the whole engine before you get the boost). The super delivers extra power all the way through. The Kawasaki Ninja H2 is the first bike with a super, I believe. There are custom Hayabusas with turbos.
        • Oh, forgot to write my Franklin’s BBQ review.
          • Rankings:
            1. Brisket. The best I’ve ever had.
            2. Ribs. Good, but too much pepper.
            3. Pulled Pork. The usual.
            4. Turkey. Tasty, but too much butter, and they only had breast.
            5. Sausage. Surprisingly bad.
          • Overall, the brisket was incredible. Everything else was about par with what I cook at home.
          • The wait in line / drinking / relaxing was fun. We went on a Thursday and waited from about 830-1230. Worth it to do once – is probably not worth a repeat when there are so many other comparable BBQ places around.
        • Back home from the Austin trip with Richard and Derek! Was a blast. We even go to talk to James.
        • Medieval Times for Eddie/Ray/Haley yesterday. Awesome place.
        • USWNT beat Chile 3-0.
        • Finished Leadership and Self Deception and The Untethered Soul. Added notes to drive.
        • Periodicals:
        • Did some research for the Hawaii trip, both the first wedding leg and the second friends leg. Tentatively:
          • Fly from LAX to Oahu on Thursday August 8. Wedding Saturday 10th.
          • Leave Oahu Tuesday August 13 for Kauai. Stay at the Sheraton Kauai resort.
          • Leave Kauai on Saturday the 17th.
        • Really tough yesterday with Kevin Durant.
          • Reinjured the same leg, likely from playing before being ready/healed. You can see the leg snap here: https://youtu.be/lYrA30qcvK4?t=49.
          • Bob Myers gave an emotional statement about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3esK_em420.
        • Awesome reunion of 88 year old dad with 53 year old son with down’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXDvD-jLn74.
        • Cancelled classpass.
        • Received and set up the wireless mouse. Works great. The usb a-c adapters work well too.
        • Woah. You can send documents to your kindle via email. This is very convenient right now since my ubuntu laptop can’t talk to it. You simply make sure your email is whitelisted (your default amazon address is), then email your kindle address (check in device management, like brian.mahlstedt_<number>@kindle.com). You can type “Convert” in the subject to automatically convert. Amazing. Did this for two documents.
        • React/redux work. Took notes on my google doc.
        • Played with youtube live again. You have access to the same settings beforehand: private, public, chat enabled, etc. You can then edit the video after you end the stream, but it’s only stuff like captions and other standard settings. You can’t snip, filter, add sound, all the advanced editing functionality. Do that offline and upload, don’t use livestream.
        • The women’s world cup started. United states beat Thailand 13-0!
          • Android emulation.
            • Genymotion is probably the most popular android emulator for linux. Downloaded the personal-use edition.
            • Needed to apt install virtualbox first. Then chmod +x the genymotion bin and simply run it.
            • Created a desktop icon for it so I wouldn’t have to execute the binary from the command line every time (and leave the pesky terminal around). Just create a APPNAME.desktop file with a hashbang that farms out to xdg-open, including the paths to the binary and the icon.
            • Added StartupWMClass to the .desktop so the icon wouldn’t duplicate.
            • When emulating a device, my laptop craaawled. The galaxy s9 was unusable. An old Google Pixel (around galaxy s6 days) was even slow. My laptop only has 3.6GB of ram and 8GB of swap, but all ram was railed and swap was at 50%. Not sustainable, and I hadn’t even run any heavy android apps yet.
            • Ended up unistalling genymotion and virtualbox. Was too slow.
            • Looked around and found Anbox, which runs Android in a container instead of a vm, and farms many android tasks back to your native linux host.
            • Added the ppa and installed linux-headers-generic anbox-modules-dkms. Then installed the anbox snap.
            • Google play store doesn’t come automatically with android (licensing and such). You’d normally have to install apks manually, OR the better option of something like houdini. This script provisions all of that for you: https://github.com/geeks-r-us/anbox-playstore-installer/blob/master/install-playstore.sh.
            • Anbox also didn’t work. Games wouldn’t open because of Anbox’ unique configuration.
            • Lastly, looked at the Android SDK itself. It requires minimum 4GB ram and recommends 8GM. Mine is below both.
            • In summary, my laptop does not have enough memory to use a VM-based android emulator.
          • Bought an adapter to connect my phone/laptop to older hard drives and kindle and such. Usb-c (android size) male to usb-a female.
            • Remember, usb-b is the boxier one (usually printers and such).
            • Micro and mini are the other obvious ones.
            • Also, remember, usb-c comes in two sizes: android and iphone. My linux laptop is the android size, because that’s the standard. If you see usb-c with no other qualifiers, it’s the android size.
          • Bought a wireless mouse as well.
          • Reinstalled the gnome system monitor. It doesn’t open sometimes, and this seems to fix it.
          • MD. In javascript, the variable declarations are hoisted but not their values.
          • I feel like an absolute idiot for never taking advantage of this, but you can actually do curly brace expansion in bash. `echo {hello,world}` or `echo {0..10}`. You can even combine two curly brace arguments for combinations. My goodness.
          • DKMS = dynamic kernel module support. Used with virtualbox.
          • Shopped for a RAM upgrade to my XPS13.
            • DDR4 is newer and faster than DDR3L, which was a midterm upgrade for DDR3.
            • Need a T5 to open the back.
            • Unfortunately, I can’t upgrade the RAM on the 13 easily because it’s solder to the motherboard lol. On the 15″ and above models, they have additional slots but the 13″ does not. In order to have more RAM, I would have needed to upgrade at factory purchase, or replace the whole motherboard myself.
            • Don’t need the torx screwdriver anymore.
          • Brainstormed some ideas for internet companies. Nothing huge jumped out, but the immersion helps. I want to be more mindful as I go through my day-to-day about anything that is annoying, even in the slightest. These inconveniences are just opportunities for improvement.
          • YouTube.
            • Went through my channel and removed liked videos. Added a few subscribers.
            • YouTube Studio is in beta. It’s a cool dashboard for everything on your channel.
            • You can see your total subscriber count, but not the individual subscribers (unless they’ve chosen to allow that to be public).
            • You can change 3 privacy settings: your liked videos, your subscriptions, and your playlists. All of mine are not public.
            • You can livestream, but YouTube is much more geared toward recording and editing a video offline, then uploading it.
          • Motorcycles
            • Cool drag race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnTL4wDAbK0.
            • Quarter mile ranks:
              1. H2R
              2. F1 Redbull
              3. F16
              4. Tesla P100D
              5. Aston Martin Vantage
              6. Plane
              7. Lotus Evora
            • Observations:
              • Off the line, the bike and F1 and Tesla were all about the same, dusting everything else.
              • The bike took the lead through the midrange.
              • At a quarter mile, the bike and F1 were about the same, ahead of everything.
              • After that the F1 would have overtaken the bike.
              • After that, the aircraft pull way ahead.
            • H2R facts:
              • Same combustion volume as my ducati, but over 4 cylinders instead of 2. About 2x the horsepower and 1.5x the torque. About 35lbs heavier also.
              • It’s currently the fastest motorcycle. It’s not street legal.
              • It can go from 0-250mph in 26s (lol): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_n7ru1e-rg. My ducati top speed is probably around 170mph, and would get there in around 15s.
          • Gave Ken about 5lbs pulled pork for home, and gave Allie about 5 more pounds to bring to work. I’m leaving for Texas so I won’t be able to finish all the leftovers before Wed.
          • Finals game 5 in toronto. Warriors won! Back to Oracle.