I'll probably end up using a Revolut pre-paid. I think it's good for cost control and the exchange rates are quite reasonable. Nevertheless I'll investigate the Oyster card too, might be useful for when/if I come again. I have to get used to the city first. I see on the Transport for London page that it's easy with any contactless, using the touch in/touch out method Archie talked about. It's explained in detail here. What I'm confused about is if I have to touch the same yellow card reader or there are special "touch out" ones. I guess I'll learn on the spot that. Thanks for the explanations, Archie!
@Stojke: I will risk it and hope to catch some good weather. Lately I've seen on sat24 that there were days with clear skies :D.
@Satchmo: Yup. Totally reconciled to the fact that it's gonna be expensive.
@Archie: Got the Citymapper as per your recommendation. I can see it's a clusterfuck of lines but hopefully I'll be able to navigate it.
Expect to pay upwards of £15 for every meal Expensive, but not outrageous. For that price you can get tasty food in some fancy restaurants around here too. Although I hope by "meal" you don't mean a McDonald's cheeseburger.
Buses are unlimited travel for £1.50 in and around London, and are therefore by far the most economical option, followed by the London Overground. An underground journey will cost around £4 per trip. You can pay as you get on to all of these with a contactless bank card/phone, so don't worry about getting an Oyster card or paper tickets. What does unlimited travel mean? I suppose a ticket is available only for a specific route, until you get off the bus. So the underground is per-trip... hmm. When I was in Madrid, I paid only at the entrance to the underground network and then could switch lines as much as I wanted until I got out again. Paying per trip in that maze sounds like a bad deal :(. Thanks for the other recommendations, I'll try to check them in the weekend (sorry for the late response but I arrived wasted every evening this week). As for meeting, yeah! Emergency beer hangs? Totally! That would be totally awesome, though our schedule would intersect in just a few days. I'll PM you the details.
@potatis_invalid: It's not that I wouldn't go there... ok if I have nothing to do maybe I will, but I realized I've mostly visited museums theme with history, cultures, skeletons, stuff like that. I really want something technical now.
@UrbaNebula: I hope UK doesn't steal my heart. Also, if I end up meeting with Archie, do you have anything you'd like me to tell him?
I had no idea primary school starts so soon in other countries. I thought everybody goes to kindergarten until 6. Related to speaking, I also knew someone who couldn't speak until about 3 or 4. I hope this doesn't give false... hope. I think she's a beautiful child and there will be a place for her in this world, it's just that she's going to use a different set of mental tools to navigate the sea of reality. For my own curiosity, when you say the she's not interested in seeing movies, why exactly? Is also play a subject that needs to have a purpose in her eyes?
Some autists turn out to be badasses. At least that's what Hollywood taught me. See The Accountant and The Big Short.
Seems pretty rough. Can you set a higher resolution for the printing nozzle?
Owning a 3D printer has been a desire for me for quite some time though I'm not sure I'd fully take advantage of it and even a decent entry-level model is between 200$-400$. Right now if I want something printed I'll call some friends who have one.
I'm actually searching for some free 3D modeller I could use to create a structure I need. I've heard good things about FreeCad, though people say it's a complicated. I've dabbled with blender before, but blender is too generic and requires god-level dedication to master it.
Commented 5 years ago2019-02-13 18:06:49 UTC
in journal: When high school rocksComment #101812
I did a mathematics-informatics high-school, it was certainly over-the-top theoretical compared to what you're presenting here. This actually looks a lot of fun, I would've had a blast at your age! I then got my B.Eng in Electrical, Telecommunications and Theory of Information. No, those are not 3 degrees, it's just the complete name. The "Theory of Information" part was especially hard, it's a lot of statistics and college-level math. Search for Claude Shannon - it's because of him we're able today to transmit information so flawlessly. I then promptly forgot a lot of shit that I studied and instead became a software engineer (or so they call it, I'm not sure I'm there yet )... and I might pivot again in the future. Most of what I apply at my job is stuff I learned on my own. I think less that 10% of what I learned in the faculty is useful to me, but I can't complain - it certainly opens your horizons and gives you inspiration - if you forget, at least you have some hints in this domain. I'm still trying to figure out what masters to pursue in the future.
My point is - life's complicated. Learn, read, play and experiment as much as you can while you're young - it gives you lots of doors you can choose from. It seems that you're fortunate enough to be in a good position to do that, so go on. Just do it ✓
Commented 5 years ago2018-11-30 22:59:57 UTC
in journal: Video editing softwareComment #101646
Whenever I had put together a video or make a quick edit I usually resorted to Sony Vegas, mostly because it's really fast and snappy for simple edits. I tried Adobe Premiere, I actually was obliged in college to use that for a course (we had a television course). But I didn't continue to use Premiere, mostly because I'm used to Vegas and I edit videos very rarely (more rare than SpaceX launches rockets nowadays anyway), and somehow I consider the editing flow faster there. Also Premiere gave me the impression that it uses a lot more RAM, and even today my most performant machine has just 12GB of RAM (plan on upgrading next year).
But I checked out the suggestions in this journal and I really dig Shotcut. I remember trying other alternatives a number of times but most of them were trialware/crapware. There was also this thing called Virtual Dub, but I swear to you it was easier for me to learn how to install Arch Linux and use it than how to use this mysterious tool reserved for the gurus.
Commented 6 years ago2018-09-27 18:49:41 UTC
in journal: I maked a thingComment #101540
The aesthetic of the opening scene is really jaw-dropping. I don't know if I'm permitted to have a critical reaction to this, I imagine how difficult it is to set up such a shoot, with those expensive assets and what not, but for some reason my mind was a bit dissatisfied with the constant focus on the details (the shots at the bigger focal length). It disorients me not having enough visual detail of the environment and subtracts from the action feeling. But given the under 24 hours of work put into this, my critical reaction is totally destroyed. It's just awesome that you're starting to have such film&editing opportunities. Cheers!
Commented 6 years ago2018-07-18 19:59:23 UTC
in journal: Bought a House!Comment #101386
Congrats man! Even without knowing where you are from I could tell from the picture, only the Jetta would confuse me a little bit. Americans like to build houses that look so fragile in the face of the extreme weather you experience around there. I think it'll be a good 10 years before I'll afford having my own house - and without being in debt, maybe more.
I can somewhat relate too your story. I received my first "beefy" computer when I was 14 after years of dreaming of one - I've used a Pentium 2 until that point since I was 6. I remember it even now: a Pentium Dual-Core, 1GB of RAM, Nvidia 7600GS. I remember that in the next few months I had basically become an information sponge - learning whatever there is to learn about using the internet, discovering mapping and TWHL and other communities. Some of the members here had crazy amounts of patience because - here I was, a foreigner with a passion for technology, not knowing English very well and certainly not acquainted with the way of ze interwebs. Those were some of my most enthusiastic times, I sometimes try to remember my enthusiasm when the gates of the internet opened to me to try and apply it to new domains of my life. I remember that I soon knew that my configuration wasn't really capable for the latest titles, so I began collecting whatever pocket change I could over the course of more than a year, and then bought myself 2GB of RAM, an Ati Radeon HD4850 and a new power supply. 2 years later I applied the same pattern in order to buy myself a camera.
I encourage you to continue with this behavior. I feel like an impatient man, but those years of having to have patience for so long for a thing balances things a little bit. You will find that most of your peers will become really just creatures of the moment, triggered by stimuli but not looking into the future. I can't say I'm not like that, I've just started to be conscious of that. Us millennials, and especially those born after 2000 had the bad luck of having their attention-span really fucked up by the social media.
One another advice: IIRC you're about 16, read the heck out of every book that you find interesting. I can't believe how much free time I had back then and wasted a lot of it. At about your age I remember I discovered League of Legends, and got so hooked on it that I used to play at least 4 matches per day (and some matches can last an hour). That's the most I knew.. I had not mentor and as every kid, didn't listen too much to my parents.Be careful with things that capture your attention too much, but give you very little over time. Sure, it's important to have fun and make friends. But I guess you understand what I'm talking about.
Congrats for your effort once again, keep us updated!
Commented 6 years ago2018-05-13 09:42:13 UTC
in journal: #8934Comment #44163
Btw, I recommend using FuelLog (Android app). I've been using it for just a little over a year now, trying to log in each time I fueled up the tank, and for each revision and change of parts, insurance, etc. It gives you detailed statistics and the average running costs.
Commented 6 years ago2018-05-12 16:42:24 UTC
in journal: #8934Comment #44162
Nice! Drive safe and without events and may the car serve you well.
I think your old car had the most basic package, otherwise it's hard to find cars after 2000 without air-con and electric windows. What's the spec on this one? (the engine?)
Commented 6 years ago2018-03-16 05:32:35 UTC
in journal: #8922Comment #63005
I use it at work. Be sure to use a tool for stopping some telemetry data if you're worried about your privacy and be prepared for unforeseen forced updates. Otherwise, it's a rock solid OS.
Commented 6 years ago2018-03-10 10:10:07 UTC
in journal: #8919Comment #62994
Thanks for sharing. I remember when I bought an SSD for my laptop I used Samsung's utility to clone the Windows partition. It was much less technical than your adventure though :D.
Commented 6 years ago2018-03-02 18:06:32 UTC
in journal: #8917Comment #58566
It's a spring time tradition around here to give one of these red and white braided cords. They're give the first of March and they symbolize the end of winter end beginning of springtime. I know, traditions are not up to date with the weather...
Don't worry, I'm very much unaware of a lot of cultures around the world too :P.
Commented 6 years ago2018-02-17 10:54:18 UTC
in journal: #8911Comment #67934
Sometimes you can be surprised by how high amounts of inner strength you've got in store.
I've gotten really bad stomach problems from worrying in the past during a stressful exam session (had an endoscopy and that's gross - literally), but I got over them by ignoring some of the triggers that would start me on the path of anxiety. I also drank lots of marigold and chamomile tea, I recommend those :). Haven't experienced a heart burn for a long time now, but when I feel the incipient symptoms I immediately know I have to take care of my mental hygiene and drink those teas ^^.
My good thoughts go to you and I send you a virtual hug. Just take care of yourself and in the long run everything will be fine.
Happy ~1.000.000.000 (that's 1 billion) heartbeats anniversary!
I see on the Transport for London page that it's easy with any contactless, using the touch in/touch out method Archie talked about. It's explained in detail here. What I'm confused about is if I have to touch the same yellow card reader or there are special "touch out" ones. I guess I'll learn on the spot that.
Thanks for the explanations, Archie!
@Satchmo: Yup. Totally reconciled to the fact that it's gonna be expensive.
@Archie: Got the Citymapper as per your recommendation. I can see it's a clusterfuck of lines but hopefully I'll be able to navigate it.
Expect to pay upwards of £15 for every meal
Expensive, but not outrageous. For that price you can get tasty food in some fancy restaurants around here too. Although I hope by "meal" you don't mean a McDonald's cheeseburger.
Buses are unlimited travel for £1.50 in and around London, and are therefore by far the most economical option, followed by the London Overground. An underground journey will cost around £4 per trip. You can pay as you get on to all of these with a contactless bank card/phone, so don't worry about getting an Oyster card or paper tickets.
What does unlimited travel mean? I suppose a ticket is available only for a specific route, until you get off the bus. So the underground is per-trip... hmm. When I was in Madrid, I paid only at the entrance to the underground network and then could switch lines as much as I wanted until I got out again. Paying per trip in that maze sounds like a bad deal :(.
Thanks for the other recommendations, I'll try to check them in the weekend (sorry for the late response but I arrived wasted every evening this week).
As for meeting, yeah! Emergency beer hangs? Totally! That would be totally awesome, though our schedule would intersect in just a few days. I'll PM you the details.
@potatis_invalid: It's not that I wouldn't go there... ok if I have nothing to do maybe I will, but I realized I've mostly visited museums theme with history, cultures, skeletons, stuff like that. I really want something technical now.
@UrbaNebula: I hope UK doesn't steal my heart. Also, if I end up meeting with Archie, do you have anything you'd like me to tell him?
Related to speaking, I also knew someone who couldn't speak until about 3 or 4. I hope this doesn't give false... hope. I think she's a beautiful child and there will be a place for her in this world, it's just that she's going to use a different set of mental tools to navigate the sea of reality.
For my own curiosity, when you say the she's not interested in seeing movies, why exactly? Is also play a subject that needs to have a purpose in her eyes?
Some autists turn out to be badasses. At least that's what Hollywood taught me. See The Accountant and The Big Short.
Owning a 3D printer has been a desire for me for quite some time though I'm not sure I'd fully take advantage of it and even a decent entry-level model is between 200$-400$. Right now if I want something printed I'll call some friends who have one.
I'm actually searching for some free 3D modeller I could use to create a structure I need. I've heard good things about FreeCad, though people say it's a complicated. I've dabbled with blender before, but blender is too generic and requires god-level dedication to master it.
I then promptly forgot a lot of shit that I studied and instead became a software engineer (or so they call it, I'm not sure I'm there yet
I'm still trying to figure out what masters to pursue in the future.
My point is - life's complicated. Learn, read, play and experiment as much as you can while you're young - it gives you lots of doors you can choose from. It seems that you're fortunate enough to be in a good position to do that, so go on. Just do it ✓
Happy new year mate!
But I checked out the suggestions in this journal and I really dig Shotcut. I remember trying other alternatives a number of times but most of them were trialware/crapware. There was also this thing called Virtual Dub, but I swear to you it was easier for me to learn how to install Arch Linux and use it than how to use this mysterious tool reserved for the gurus.
But given the under 24 hours of work put into this, my critical reaction is totally destroyed.
It's just awesome that you're starting to have such film&editing opportunities. Cheers!
I think it'll be a good 10 years before I'll afford having my own house - and without being in debt, maybe more.
[EDIT] Oh I see. I was the lucky drawer for 2^13.
I can somewhat relate too your story. I received my first "beefy" computer when I was 14 after years of dreaming of one - I've used a Pentium 2 until that point since I was 6. I remember it even now: a Pentium Dual-Core, 1GB of RAM, Nvidia 7600GS. I remember that in the next few months I had basically become an information sponge - learning whatever there is to learn about using the internet, discovering mapping and TWHL and other communities. Some of the members here had crazy amounts of patience because - here I was, a foreigner with a passion for technology, not knowing English very well and certainly not acquainted with the way of ze interwebs. Those were some of my most enthusiastic times, I sometimes try to remember my enthusiasm when the gates of the internet opened to me to try and apply it to new domains of my life.
I remember that I soon knew that my configuration wasn't really capable for the latest titles, so I began collecting whatever pocket change I could over the course of more than a year, and then bought myself 2GB of RAM, an Ati Radeon HD4850 and a new power supply. 2 years later I applied the same pattern in order to buy myself a camera.
I encourage you to continue with this behavior. I feel like an impatient man, but those years of having to have patience for so long for a thing balances things a little bit. You will find that most of your peers will become really just creatures of the moment, triggered by stimuli but not looking into the future. I can't say I'm not like that, I've just started to be conscious of that. Us millennials, and especially those born after 2000 had the bad luck of having their attention-span really fucked up by the social media.
One another advice: IIRC you're about 16, read the heck out of every book that you find interesting. I can't believe how much free time I had back then and wasted a lot of it. At about your age I remember I discovered League of Legends, and got so hooked on it that I used to play at least 4 matches per day (and some matches can last an hour). That's the most I knew.. I had not mentor and as every kid, didn't listen too much to my parents.Be careful with things that capture your attention too much, but give you very little over time. Sure, it's important to have fun and make friends. But I guess you understand what I'm talking about.
Congrats for your effort once again, keep us updated!
This is the future!
Turns out running a car isn't very cheap.
I think your old car had the most basic package, otherwise it's hard to find cars after 2000 without air-con and electric windows.
What's the spec on this one? (the engine?)
What was your BSc about?
Otherwise, it's a rock solid OS.
I know, traditions are not up to date with the weather...
Don't worry, I'm very much unaware of a lot of cultures around the world too :P.
How are you feeling and what do you wish for the next year?
Happy birthday!
I've gotten really bad stomach problems from worrying in the past during a stressful exam session (had an endoscopy and that's gross - literally), but I got over them by ignoring some of the triggers that would start me on the path of anxiety. I also drank lots of marigold and chamomile tea, I recommend those :). Haven't experienced a heart burn for a long time now, but when I feel the incipient symptoms I immediately know I have to take care of my mental hygiene and drink those teas ^^.
My good thoughts go to you and I send you a virtual hug. Just take care of yourself and in the long run everything will be fine.