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It’s not enough to decrease sugar intake (for healthy living) but also processed food. Sticking to one-ingredient foods sounds like a nice idea. Cheat days are okay but a good way to blunt their effect is to drink a fruit or vegetable smoothie before.

Carbs: 3 types: Good ones: vegetables and fruits. Eat a lot of veggies. Satiating too, because they are fibrous. So, will make you feel full. Bad ones: sugary things, avoid as possible. Middle ones: pasta, wheat, rice, oats and grains. Decrease their intake. Keto diet doesn’t have any or negligible carbs. But I don’t think that’s for me because I do want to consume vegetables (which contain carbs) for overall nutrition. Balanced diet still seems to be a good idea.

I relate a lot to this: Well, I can’t say the job made me this way. More like bein’ this way made me right for the job. I used to think about it more, but you reach a certain age, you know who you are. Now, I live in a little room out in the country behind a bar… work four nights a week… in between I drink. And there ain’t nobody there to stop me. I know who I am. And after all these years, there’s a… victory in that. ...

Here are some things I should keep in mind while giving a presentation (such as a tech talk): Speak slowly and clearly. Take your time. How to create the slides: Minimal content on each slide: 1-2 sentences. If a picture suffices, just add that without any text. In notes section, just add brief talking points only when required. Do not add full English sentences that you want to say. Remember that even though the content-on-the-slide is small, you won’t necessarily speak proportionately. In some cases, you’ll be brief and move to next slide quickly. In others, you’ll speak 2-5 minutes. Every slide should be a single point. Just one. Smile but don’t crack jokes (as I may not be comfortable with that just yet). Make sure that there is enough content. For e.g., at Linux Fest Northwest, I just had 21 slides - that too, including the first two slides and introduction - and because of that I could only speak for 26-28 minutes. I should’ve had 30 or so slides instead. Try doing an early dry run, as part of the content ideation process itself.

Properties I like: Full control over the data. Easy UI to publish what I want, keep rest of the things private. Don’t have to manually add front-matter etc. Makes it easy to start writing whenever I want, without first needing to think what title to put etc. Works decently on mobile. Next steps: How to enable search? Move old notes to this repo?

Florence: Rent an ATV and revisit the sand dunes. Sea lion caves. State park? Tillamook: tour at the cheese factory?

I followed these links: https://vandalen.dev/post/how-to-update-sonoff-zigbee-3-0-zbdongle-p-usb-firmware-using-a-mac/ Also, note: Couldn’t see the Sonoff dongle on my M1 mac but it showed up on an Intel Mac.

How to manage state in HA through an external sensor. Official doc

Proxmox has an in-built backup system which is different from Proxmox Backup Server (which I now use). Once setup, I used a script similar to the following to sync the backup files to rsync.net: #!/bin/bash if [[ $1 == "backup-end" && "${DUMPDIR}" ]]; then SOURCE_FILE=${TARGET} TARGET_FILE="proxmox-server-backup/$VMTYPE-$3" echo "Will now upload to rsync-net: $SOURCE_FILE to $TARGET_FILE" ssh [email protected] rm $TARGET_FILE rsync -azPH $SOURCE_FILE "[email protected]:$TARGET_FILE" curl -m 10 --retry 5 https://hc-ping.com/ktUIh79JnI51jskrZE6UgA/$3/$? fi Other resources: Example hook script here: /usr/share/doc/pve-manager/examples/vzdump-hook-script.pl I had to setup the hook script here: /etc/vzdump.conf.

Two main on stack vs heap: For pushing something on stack, you need to know size upfront (during compile time). So, any object that can change size needs to go on heap. Primitive data types (such as int) remain on the stack? Accessing heap memory takes more time as you need to follow a pointer. The term “memory allocation” only applies to heap. Variables move (for those allocated on heap) and copy (primitive types). ...