Notices by Strange Attractor (strangeattractor@refactorcamp.org), page 2

Will be riding the Texas Eagle from Austin to San Antonio today. Super excited as I haven't been ridin since childhood.

Made a trains playlist to listen to while traveling If anyone is interested.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0fIYqJyWfVHHxIxM1yWzzE?si=tt8nblhzSPOz6e4iseDv9w

(1/3) Call for recommendations: what's the best note-taking app?

I'm looking for something to bridge the gap between paper-and-pencil and typical computer interfaces, which is cross-platform and accessible via the cloud. When you need to write down ideas fast, and those ideas involve something other than just text - writing up little diagrams to express software architecture or organization planning or draw a picture of something or what have you - or you need to rapidly organize things visually into hierarchical lists so that there's some semblance of structure to the ideas your taking, without taking up precious time thinking about how to muck around with some formatting UI to do that, nothing seems to beat paper and pencil/pen.

I think I've watched this simulation of baking/heating different textures five times today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpolaB4DqA

In a forceful ruling, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court found that disclosing a password is “testimony” protected by the Fifth Amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination, citing our amicus brief in the case. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/victory-pennsylvania-supreme-court-rules-police-cant-force-you-tell-them-your

PSA: you can re-enable subpixel font antialiasing for MacOS (removed as a default when Mojave was released). I thought my eyes were getting way worse when, no, Apple just decides they're going to break the user experience for non-retina monitors.

Tiki bar pulls thousands of dollars from ceiling and walls, donates it https://boingboing.net/2019/11/17/tiki-bar-pulls-thousands-of-do.html

just thinking about photographs from before affection and physical contact between men became heavily socially stigmatized

looking to buy a brownie tin made in the shape of the Hilbert Function (as tooted by @OpenCulture) I came across this mathematical article on the Optimisation of the Brownie Tin: https://sites.math.washington.edu/~morrow/mcm/mcm13/22553.pdf
#baking #math