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My family learned thirty years ago never to utter the words ‘Doctor Who’ in my presence.
I have 4, one for each decade of life
- Stargate SG1
- Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology, and Sociology of Sex
- Violence prevention, deescalation, and management in inpatient psychiatry (which became my career)
- Western Esoteric spiritual practices including Tarot, Astrology, Tasseography, Palmistry, and the myriad religious beliefs that they syncretistically evolved from
Ive always kinda been obsessed with truth. Its not a good obsession. outside of that I can be a bit of dilettante sometimes delving deeply but for a period and you can’t really stay at depth if you keep moving around as in any field things change a lot. There were times I was into scifi/fantasy/reading and technology and its not like Im not anymore but its more like its not that unusual anymore compared to when I was young.
Currently it’s buying stupid but vaguely useful things.
I spent $50 on a SDR radio that can listen to a very wide spectrum of stuff. Also got a cheap pair of GMRS radios and got hooked onto the local repeater tower for about a 50 mile radius of communication.
A friend had a gas coming from their oven on occasion so I got a sensor for about $70 to try to fix it (and did so successfully)
I have more flashlights than any one man needs, but they do come in useful.
I just got a lock pick set and a practice lock. Probably never use any vague skill I’d develop, but if it saves me calling one locksmith, one time, it’ll have paid for itself.
A good pair of binoculars is just nice to have.
Tools of any sort.
Non-stupid prepper stuff should some crazy shit go down. Water purification, solar systems, weapons.
I’d like to try one of the mesh networks, but have more pressing hobby-crap to pursue.
Art and science in all forms, which covers a lot. Daily it’s mostly gaming, music, movies/shows and science videos and articles.
I am one of the developers for Project Rubi-Ka, a server emulator/private server for the classic sci-fi MMORPG, Anarchy Online.
AO is now nearly 25 years old and no longer has any developers at the company that released it, but it is still running.
I have written over 2,000,000 lines of server emulator code for AO. I am now probably one of the world’s foremost experts in how the game works.
Huh… I have definitely played Anarchy Online at some point in my life but only just remembering now after checking YouTube to find out what it actually is. I think I didn’t get very far at all…
The UI and aesthetic is so nostalgic. I miss games like this, except for the unnecessary complexity that got in the way of the game.
With all the extra processing power we have now, I wish we could see more games like this but polished.
For many years now, unions. It started when I became a union organizer in 2021. I love the rich history of the labor movement, the unending struggle against capitalist forces, the drama, the conferences, all of it. I’m going to Labor Notes this year as a rep for my local!
I tend to have distinct phases of special interests, and I still find the topics interesting after they fade. The earliest I can remember is tractors, then space, then castles and knights, then guns, then ww1, then ww2, then computers and programming. Now it’s unions
During the pandemic I decided to get a barbell and start lifting at home. Fast forward a few years and I have a full on powerlifting rack and weights and completely changed my physique from “skinny runner” to “quite stout”. I’ve never felt or looked better in my entire life, and will yap uncontrollably if anyone mentions lifting within earshot
Rock and stone.
For Karl!
My special interest is everything. Well, everything except getting my ADHD treated.
Same. Systems dynamics, mathematics, physics and metaphysics, etc. If people have tried to devise a system to explain everything, I’m interested in looking it over. I gotta know at least the basics of basically everything.
I have a system dynamics question! Maybe you could point me in the right direction? If I have the system response to a step input, what is the simplist way to derive the transfer function? I’ve only ever learned how to use a system to do modeling, not how to reverse engineer the model.
In a broad solution, you need to reverse the convolution of your system’s output.
Assuming it’s a linear continuous system, and it’s Single Input and Single Output (SISO), you do the Laplace transform of the signal L{y(t)}=Y(s), obtain the Laplace transform of the input L{x(t)}=X(s), and then obtain the transfer function of the system: H(s)=Y(s)/X(s), you must be aware the transfer function of the step is 1/s, therefore: H(s)=Y(s)/(1/s) => H(s)=sY(s), then you do the inverse Laplace transform: L-¹{H(s)}=L-¹{sY(s)}, which, depending on your system, may require partial fraction expansion. By the end you have h(t) (got a bit lazy here since y(t) is not known, but the step function is very well known).
Of course I made a bunch of assumptions about your system, if your system has discrete steps, the Z transform is of interest, with its own caveats mind you. Then there are filters and other numerical approximations for a reverse convolution.
Thanks, I haven’t touched DiffEqs properly for a while
Excellent write up. Appreciate your time!
Fucking mood lmao
I’m between sprcial interests rn
Got tired of sharks?
I’d really like to play D&D.
I used to play all the time with on again off again groups. Even when I wasn’t playing I was still immersed in the culture and constantly thinking of fun quest or character ideas. But, adulting gets in the way and I haven’t had a group to play with since COVID.
I know it’s not for everyone, but I play online weekly-biweekly and it’s great.
Very excited that the Draw Steel VTT just dropped
That last one I mentioned during COVID was online, I didn’t have any problems meeting up that way. (Although it was a little tricky being 3 hours ahead of everyone on the West Coast.)
Maybe I’ll put some real effort into finding groups who are willing to take in a poor stranger.
For another 2¢ from me, there are a lot of paid DMs out there if you can swing the bill.
After turning in my own DM cloak, I decided to jump into a beginner friendly PF2e game and met a ton of friends. Also became good friends with the GM there and they don’t have our group pay any longer. It’s just friends playing for fun now.
Not to say that will surely happen, but it’s a great way to at least expand the social circle if you want to work your way toward free games some day ahha
Relevant: !dnd@lemmy.world
HISTORY AND HUMAN EXPERIENCE!!
And with history i mean EVERYTHING Music, philosophy, archetecture, theologie, society, musical theory, design, aso!!
EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE JUST IS SO BEAUTIFUL!!
Currently on developing a mod (well development is on a hold because so many things happening that keep me buissy so there was no update since last august sob crying) for europa universalis 4 that expands on religions! So many interesting proto-protestant groups! The evolution of christianity really is interesting!
You sound a lot like me friend
Mapping!
Presently I’m using aerial photography to produce a map of local cycle ways and walkways.
This is really cool. Are you taking the photographs yourself? Are you using a GIS program? Running Q or something?
Its a lot more complex than it sounds. I have a post grad in geo spatial intelligence, even though its not something I do professionally.
These maps are stylised, meaning that the location of some things in some cases is moved slightly to improve readability. For example, I want the map to cover the entirety of my small city so the scale has to accommodate that. However, in some areas like beach fronts and tourist precincts there’s a lot of important features to include, which the scale just doesn’t really allow for. So you take some editors license to move things in a way that fits everything, but no one reading your map would think “Hey that path is supposed to be 30m to the west according to this map.”
For this reason the whole thing is more of an exercise in graphic design than it is one of geo spatial manipulations. Im using inkscape to create the map but i have qgis open alongside for things like street names and suburb boundaries.
The photography im using as a background on which to draw streets and paths is published by our state government. Its a tiled view of the entire state compiled from aerial surveys by plane. The resolution and quality available is truly beautiful.
The thing about this process which is truly captivating is that despite living her for 40 years, and growing up here as a curious and nosy scallywag, I’ve discovered so many little things in my area I didnt know existed. For example, there’s a network of paths that runners use behind a lake that I always thought was just a swamp.
There are also features I suspect may be similar to “crop lines” - vegetation growing in a different way due to man made features beneath the surface. In this case, fish traps constructed by first Australians perhaps hundreds of years ago. Or maybe its not that at all.
That sounds awesome. Come do my area lol. Maps are great.
That’s really cool! What a neat project!
Certainly not to this degree at all, but I do love having a satellite or aerial view to just look around my area. I recently found there’s sprint boat races on a small man made course nearby and I’m excited to go check it out!
Good luck on your future endeavors and I hope you find some more neat stuff :)
Aztec History and Culture
Super cool.
Pls hit me with some non-stereotypical facts.
Sounds cool, could you give us a fact about them ?
For the past several years I’ve been slowly teaching myself audio production and engineering. I worked as a professional musician for decades but never bothered to learn that side of the craft. So once in a while I’ll go down YouTube rabbit holes, watching tutorials on, say, creative uses of EQ and/or compression, or an analysis of the mix of a well-known song, or bouncing ideas and feedback off a small group of friends. Then I try to apply that to the songs that I’m working on.
The results I’ve gotten from my learning approach are decent, but I’m always comparing my own work to that of other established recording artists, and I have a lot yet to learn.
It’s a shitload of fun too.
You appear to already be there, but for anyone else: !musicproduction@sh.itjust.works
