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World Zen

Communication

Today was a strange day for communication… Back in 2000something, I did a project for an intermediary. I don’t remember the details, but I was making software for sure. When it was all done, I delivered the project, and hoped to get payed. Unfortunately, the intermediary’s customer, who was paying for this project, got in […]

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API Rust Story Zen

Team RTW-NIH

On the lookout for a Rust implementation of something that vaguely resembles DDS/RTPS, I found nothing more than a few crates that wrap around the C interfaces of other libraries, and a few people trying to build a fully DDS-compatible Rust implementation. So what do you do in situations like this? I need at least […]

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Improv Story World Zen

Conference Roulette

After a last-minute invitation, I attended an online conference, pretty much for the first time ever. I can say that it was a really interesting experience, that actually did feel a bit like a real conference from back in the day. You could log in to the lobby, there was a main stage, and various […]

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World Zen

Star Trek

I just came across somebody praising Star Trek for women’s rights and race equality and all that, and it really saddens me that it seems that nowadays that’s the only thing people see in Star Trek… I mean, of course people are equal in Star Trek! The fact that this is even a topic of […]

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Zen

Demos

I was raised a physics PhD, and we were told to read. Read everything. Read all the papers. Read all the existing research. The logic behind that was that if you know what experiments other people did, you wouldn’t have to spend money redoing expensive experiments with complicated equipment. This is of course completely valid […]