Two months ago, I upgraded almost all my computer components except for the SSD, PSU and monitors, because I was getting tired of how it was beginning to show sluggishness. I could choose to step down the heavy usage a bit, but also felt a little bit money could do the trick. One thing led to another and it ended up being a bit more than what I originally planned to do.. but we are here now.
Tonight, I pushed the computer pretty close to its limits, and satisfied to see that it still hustles around without breaking much of a sweat
Ubuntu server running on VirtualBox to run nginx RMTP repeater that copies the livestream to both Twitch and YouTube
OBS streaming
a voice transcriber webapp for the livestream
Voicemeeter (virtual sound mixer program)
BlueStack creating a virtual instance of Android on whcih I’m running HelloTalk (a Language learning partner app)
HelloTalk messages webapp
WhatsApp webapp
Hangouts Webapp
A dozen Google Docs/Spreadsheet windows open for document cross-reference and taking notes
A dozen WordPress tabs open in editor mode
A dozen chrome webpage tabs open for research
YouTube
Slack, Signal, Discord, KakaoTalk
A dozen File Explorer windows for design assets
Dropbox
Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop all open with no open documents, because they take a long time to load
What does “patchiness” mean in this passage? Is there a similar word in Spanish?
“Many ecologists now think that the relative long-term stability of climax communities comes not from diversity but from the “patchiness” of the environment; an environment that varies from place to place supports more kinds of organisms than an environment that is uniform.”
I often see people use double quotes on an expression when the writer is grasping to find a word that precisely describes the writer’s intended meanig.
It’s possible that the word does not exist in this language, and instead of using “the word”, a flshed out out explanation must be provided instead.
Maybe the writer just doesn’t know the word.
The writer feels that a particular word would be a close approximation of the intended meaning, but it’s not quite there. So the writer uses the word, but puts it in double quotes to indicate that the exact intended meaning is the word plus some additional the context.
The word that the writer is using may be a slang or generally not recognized in the specific environment as the class of word to use. (For example, if using a soccer metaphor while describing politics)
The word that the writer picked may be something close to “private language” – something known in a close circle of friends, or a small specialized segment of the population and the writer is aware that this population does not intersect at all with the intended readership.
In this case, however, it’s easier – there is a semicolon, and the flow of the sentence shows us that what follows the semicolon is the definition of the word “patchiness” as intended by the writer. “an environment that varies from place to place”. However, interpretation of the overall sentence reveals a contradiction, which is puzzling:
A. Ecologists think that stability comes from “patchiness”, not from diversity
B. An environment has “patchiness” when it varies from place to place. An environment that has patchiness is not uniform.
Isn’t the concept of an environment that varies from place to place (B) very close to the idea of a diverse environment(A)? What’s going on here?
Maybe the writer is trying to differentiate between what we would usually imagine when we think environmental diversity (just things being different and varied all over the place) with “patchiness” – possibly the overall environment having multiple, smaller areas within – these smaller areas are uniform internally, but each area is different from other areas. This concept also nicely aligns with the visual image of patches of cloth. You have worn jeans, and patch it up with a square piece of cloth. Now imagine a jean made up with many patched pieces of cloth..
I can also think of another concept that is similar to this – when people describe urban landscapes, an interesting concept is the idea of “microneighborhoods” – the idea that there are neighborhoods, just a couple blocks wide, each being pretty homogenous within each microneighborhood, but wildly shifting in demographic makeup, architecture, and mood when moving to another nearby microneighborhood.
Many of these Biden associates have been pushing alternatives to Harris, such as Rep. Val Demings, D-Fla., Rep. Karen Bass, D-Calif., former U.S. ambassador Susan Rice, and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill.
while searching for photo shots with asians latinx and black students in Adobe Stock Images, I see plenty of white students or white+black students but barely any latinx or asians. And like 99% of Asians I saw were women. Lol what decade is this stock library from? I even tried searching “California classroom”
there are way more low-information & “low-care” voters out there, but approaches that are effective with these voters are super counterproductive with high information voters (many of whom you find on the internet). and not just voters; the public in general as well.
and then in online spaces – i wonder how much does information and conversations that high information voters put up impact the low information voters who are usually merely browsing
When I saw this AMEX offer, I thought huh that sounds good but there’s no way I’m gonna call a restaurant to charge the credit card directly to them instead of using a middleman delivery service like Postmates.
Now why is Adobe in this list as a “small local business”?
Gutenberg lets you edit colors with the hex code, but the Theme customizer doesn’t allow you to edit the accent color with hex. So instead I exported the Theme configuration from Customizer, edited the Customizer and replaced the section where it read s:6:”accent”;s:7:”#EA7C22″, and imported it back. It worked.
First half of the year has been very close. I’ll need to tighten up a lot of the expenses for the second half. Food, donations… shopping should decrease as it was setting up the home office. Income is projected to increase as I work closer to full time in the Summer-Fall cycle, but that’s assuming that I can handle working full time. Still feeling pretty weak physically.
i dreamt that i was training people on how to make a pitch to korean small businesses for an upcoming gala fundraiser. It may have had to do with the WordPress Gutenberg rollout..
How many people with need companies like Themeforest, or custom site and plugins developed if they can largely do most of it themselves in the future? The argument already exists when trying to pitch a custom site for a few thousand bucks when the clients ask “Well I can get a really nice site set up faster for free, how are you different?”
Northgard is this cleverly executed real time strategy-management-survival computer game rolled into one. It made a splash when initially released a few years ago, and as the game wasn’t terribly deep, the playerbase rush seems to have moved on. It’s not dead, though. A new faction DLC came out as recently as this month. There’s people on the subreddit. Last I checked, you regularly get matched on multiplayer ranked battles.
I’ve been experimenting for about a year with using a tablet to read ebooks while on the elliptical at the gym. At first, I was using the 12″ Surface Pro. The Kindle Windows program didn’t make the font big enough, so instead I used the browser-based Kindle Cloud Reader because Chrome allowed for a much wider range of zooming in beyond Kindle’s built-in font zoom. The fact that the screen was so big was nice, but because it was so big, I couldn’t lug it around while doing weights. So my routine was going to the gym and throwing stuff into the keyless locker (as it’s closer to the ellipticals than the locker room padlock lockers), doing ellipticals, then weights, then pulling the tablet out and doing the final stretch of ellipticals or other cardio.
Reaching to the tablet to touch the screen to turn the page breaks the workout flow. Also, at this level of zoom, you have to turn pages a lot. So I got a bluetooth clicker. I settled for the Logitech R500, which has a much thicker body than other models and makes it easier to hold on without dropping while while also holding on to the handlebars using some of the fingers. Also, both the “Next” and “Back” buttons are very big and there is none of the useless extra stuff that other models have. Other than not allowing me to fully grab the handlebars (holding on to the handlebars comes in handy especially when I start jumping), this was a pretty good setup. It also worked well with the Aladdin Ebook Reader for Korean language books.
Neat.. the fitness center I started going in November last year has already made it to the top 13 of all places I’ve been to, since like 2010.
Top 1 and 3 are current and past home.
Seeing how my church does not make it into the rankings, and how some of the numbers are too low, I think it only counts automatic location tag as a visit when 1) there are no other competing business locations overlapping within the same GPS margin of error, or 2) I have confirmed the location manually on Google Maps. (Although I don’t think my church would be near anything else..?)
