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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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    • What happens to the ball?

    It slowly rolled toward the edge but stopped before falling to the ground. The path was somewhat eccentric because of the texture of the ball.

    • What color was the ball?

    Yellow

    • What gender was the person that pushed the ball?

    Male

    • What did they look like?

    Green and white track suit (why? IDK), mid 60’s Italian, chubby

    • What size is the ball? Like a marble, or a baseball, or a basketball, or something else?

    It was one of those foam Nerf bullets, so about the size of a shooter marble

    • What about the table, what shape was it? What is it made of?

    It was that black IKEA table where the four metal legs screw into the corners. About 6ft by 3ft.

    • And now the important question: Did you already know, or did you have to choose a color/gender/size, etc. after being asked these questions?

    The entire scene sprung into my head at once after reading that someone interacted with the ball













  • I started using Python ~15 years ago. I didn’t go to school for CS.

    Compared to using literally anything else at the time as a beginner, pip was the best thing out there that I could finally understand for getting third party code to work with my stuff, without copy paste… on Windows.

    When I tried Linux, package managers and make were pretty cool for doing C/C++ work.

    Despite all that, us “regular” engineers were consigned to Windows.

    We either had to use VBA or a runtime that didn’t need to be installed.