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  The previous owners of my house used dark brown-grey paint. The rooms aren't all that big but painting takes at least 3 coats. Taking much longer than I thought it would

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  Getting my winter tires put on today, but it's 26C outside. However I need to do it before I move up north. Don't want to risk needing to drive all the way down to Toronto in November on my all-seasons in freezing rain since my tires are stored down here

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  Jon Peirce (my boss) did an interview for the Code for Thought podcast discussing PsychoPy and Pavlovia https://codeforthought.buzzsprout.com/1326658/episodes/19753740-en-psychopy-a-library-for-behavioural-sciences-jon-peirce #psychology #neuroScience #software #coding

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  I rented a truck and I was wondering why it felt like I was going so fast. Thought it was some optical illusion from being up so high, but it turned out the speedometer is in miles/h instead of km/h, lol

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  The average first-time home buyer in Canada is around 40 these days, about 25 years from retirement age. You might not qualify for a bank mortgage with terms longer than that since you're not expected to have an income after retirement House prices need to go down

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  Dune is the gold standard for media literacy

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  Good thing I'm too much of a dum-dum to figure out PHP. Security through stupidity

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  Never realized how easy it is to lose a connection with whole branches of your family after someone dies. My grandmother was the only person who knew anything about the side of my family that went from Italy to Australia. We have no way of contacting them now

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  Don't diss grandma's china cabinet if you got a Kallax just for your funkos

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  A PhD I was working with on a VR project quit halfway through and became a coffee roaster. Mad respect, not even upset

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  Sellers in the Ontario housing market are delusional. You're going to lose money at this point outside the GTA, get over it #ontario

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  Run operating systems so old that they can't catch modern computer viruses or spyware. It also helps if they don't have browsers that can access the modern internet due to the lack of HTTPS support

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  After upgrading to Kubuntu 26.04 LTS my screen brightness stopped being adjustable. The only way I found to fix it was by modifying the `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT` entry in `/etc/default/grub` to: `GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash acpi_backlight=native i915.enable_dpcd_backlight=0"` So if you're having this issue, hope this is helpful #linux #ubuntu #kubuntu

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  While I was working at a vision science lab studying the effects of spatial distortions on perception in VR, I was once tasked to decommission an old experiment. It was a rotating room that was used to study visual cue conflicts on perceived body orientation. However, something seemed familiar about it, so I asked my supervisor why that may be and he said that they presented it for a kids show which turned out to be Popular Mechanics for Kids The first picture is a screen shot from that episode...

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  Banks really don't like self-employed people when it comes to loans. Steady income for six years, but they would prefer if I worked at a company which is actively laying people off. If I took those Apple and Meta jobs I was offered (to work on 'metaverse' stuff) I would be screwed right now

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  Reddit nerds love to give a civics lesson as a counter argument too why it's impossible for certain government officials to lie. Always besides the point, but it shows people are having a hard time shaking their conditioned normalcy bias

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  Prototyping Cairo/Pango support for graphics rendering inside PsychoPy

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  Reviewing vibe-coded PRs is slightly demoralizing. Not a one-to-one match in terms of effort between the contributor and I

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  Who would have thought the neo-cons would be the ones leading the way on de-carbonization? Sure, cratering each other's refineries is a bit extreme, but at least they're getting results. Now, we're only a few weeks away from the post-petroleum world we dreamed of

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  There are whole ass skyscrapers full of people, other than those that clean the restrooms, who do absolutely nothing to better the human condition. Just business for the sake of business

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  I wonder which hardware I built for previous employers is still in use. If not, I hope they open them up before scrapping them. I wrote some corny stuff hidden inside them for my wife which might give someone a good chuckle

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  First batch of "Midnight Snack" cherry tomatoes from the backyard garden #gardening #tomatoes

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  How many trillions are we dumping into trying to replicate the mind? Money would be better spent on the ability to share and organize ideas rather than generate them

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  I'm pretty sure the people complain about "historical inaccuracy" in Nolan's 'Odyssey' probably are cool with '300'

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  Today I need to perfectly sync the audio and video for webcam responses in PsychoPy. I thought I nailed that but it seems a bit hit or miss so far

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  Found a music mix CD my sister burned 25 years ago and it's great! Been my work soundtrack this week #cd #music

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  My cat figured out what finger pointing means. Point your finger in some direction and he turns to look there without fail. He thinks he's people, lol

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  I believe data retention rates for CD and DVD have been greatly underestimated. Haven't gotten a read error yet for a collection of CD-R discs stored in a poorly insulated room for over 25 years

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  I hate ads so much that I go out of my way to avoid products and services shown in them

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  There must be a firmware bug in my DVD drive. It seems for single layer discs the speed settings are incorrect. So it ends up sounding like a Dremel while writing even though it shouldn't be going past 8X speed. Brasero seems to just crash out and the disc get ruined