2021-11-06                         from the editor of ~insom
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   It's been a minute.

   I've had a week full of pair programming (which is good),
   last week I was in Toronto (also good).

   I took the train, it's about 4 hours each way, and a great
   way to travel. Given that I might be doing a Chicago to San
   Francisco rail journey (or longer) next year, it's good to
   know that 4 hours didn't phase me.

   I've continued down the ARM64 rabbit hole by replacing my
   x131e with a pi400 which I am netbooting on NFS. Replacing
   the thermal paste did not make it run any cooler, while this
   thing is silent. It's technically slower, per core, but it
   has four cores vs. the x131e's two cores, so it ends up
   around the same speed when I can `make -j 4`.

   It's been a weekend of getting stuff done: finally installed
   a base board heater we bought weeks ago (and have been
   talking about since last Winter) and it was a cinch. Can't
   believe I put it off so long!

   I think Dylan and I have finally ended up with working
   settings for his resin 3D printer which lowers our failure
   rate (although we did have one failure today, it's pretty
   demoralizing at times). I now have the best quality benchy
   I've ever held.

   I picked up some broken stuff from Value Village and fixed
   it up -- an Xbox 360 controller with a broken trigger which
   was missing the USB convertor cable (the round thing to USB
   part of the cable, which I think was there as a quick
   release?). Due to the magic of "being a packrat" I had one
   of those adaptors in a box, and I was able to take apart the
   trigger mechanism and repair it with glue. Getting it back
   together was a fight, but it works now, and I can print a
   new trigger if this one totally fails.

   That might be it for obsessions for now: still ARM64, but
   not much else. No movement on Windows programming and very
   little lathe / metal work or CNCing. Just thinking about
   things.