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Microsoft ruins my computer

I had performed one clean install of Windows since 2018. Since then I didn’t have any particular problems until last week when my laptop started acting up… I figured some driver is corrupted. A format is past due for that champ anyways. Let’s start over. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. Too much lemon though. I procceded with the recommended ...

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Τελευταία ακούω Audiobooks. Έχω μαζέψει πάνω από 12 ώρες αυτό το μήνα. 30 λεπτά το πρωί, 30 το απόγευμα και λίγα ακόμα στις μεγαλύτερες διαδρομές μου. Το αποτέλεσμα είναι σχεδόν να έχω ολοκληρώσει 3 βιβλία. Σε αυτά είναι και το Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! για το οποίο έγραψα ένα μικρό review. New pins 📌 • Sound level distance da...

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Ήταν ένας μήνας εκθέσεων για την Arpedon. Αρχικά το maintenance forum. Και έπειτα η Euronaval όπου ήμασταν μέρος του εθνικού περιπτέρου. Αυτό το μήνα έχω δύο βιβλία στη ζώνη μου: • Several Short Sentences About Writing Paperback - Verlyn Klinkenborg • Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It - Christopher ...

Review: Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! - Richard Feynman

Ο Richard P. Feynman, φυσικός και κάτοχος βραβείου Nobel είναι τουλάχιστον πνευματώδης. Το βιβλίο είναι γραμμένο από τον ίδιο. Review: ★★★ Ο Feynman είναι απόδειξη ότι οι καλές ιστορίες φέρνουν τους οπαδούς. Κατά δηλώσεις της περιόδου στο Caltech οι φοιτητές κρέμονταν από τα χείλη του. Πολλοί συνάδελφοι τον φθονούσαν. Έχει όντως απίστε...

Review: Deep Work by Cal Newport

I am falling much behind in my book reading. To change that and jumpstart that train again I turned to an Audiobook and in particular the Deep Work by Cal Newport. Cal Newport gives a lot of examples getting also information from different figures scattered across the years. You definitely get convinced that you can do this kind of wor...

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Let's make this newsletter an actual newsletter. Bellow are new posts, new photos, new pins. New posts ✍ • Tuscan roads 🇬🇷 Aug 24, 2022 The above post is also on the mialigoura instagram on three sections: 1. Firenze 2. Siena and Val d'Orcia 3. Rome (Follow to see when posted) New pins 📌 • The Ultimate Moka Pot Technique (Episode #3) -...

Tuscan roads

Μόλις γυρίσαμε από ένα ταξίδι στη βόρεια Ιταλία. Θυσιάσαμε το ελληνικό καλοκαίρι για brunello και ζυμαρικά και άξιζε. Οπότε αυτό το site μετατρέπεται προσωρινά στο food blog που θα ντροπιάσει τα food blogs. Φλωρεντία Το ταξίδι ξεκίνησε εδώ. Η Φλωρεντία είναι η μεγαλύτερη πόλη της περιφέρειας της Τοσκάνης με γραφικούς πλακόστρωτους δρόμ...

Who to revert a revert to avoid a revert of revert

I fucked up a git thing. I merged a big ui change that hadn’t tested with real data and resulted in crashes. No problem, I revert but how you continue working after? The Linux kernel team has an answer. As per their explanations this is my preferred method of those explained: The history immediately after the "revert of the merge" woul...

Get mains out of my signal

Power-frequency interference gets picked up through insufficiently shielded instrumentation or electricly generated mechanical faults. While correct installation, ground loop avoidance and elimination of other sources is the goal sometimes it is not possible. Bellow is the timeseries and spectrum of an heterodyned output ultrasound sen...

TIL I learn

Recently I stumbled upon Simon Willison's of Django and Datasette fame TIL project. It is a public scratchpad of sorts and I like the idea. That guy scratches a lot though. I bookmark all kinds of stuff without really getting back to it and take notes on many places. Some notes though and especially those for programming reference I wa...

Django: Redirecting from urls.py

I made some changes and slashed a page on Mechbase. Now it is possible some users have the page bookmarked or on an email and I wanted this to work but to not retain the url. At the same time I did't want to create a view just for that. There is a better way: fromdjango.views.genericimport RedirectView ... urlpatterns = [ ... path( "me...

Simpler search using Turbo Frames

Yesterday I wrote about a search implementation using icontains filters. It made me think of a simpler implementation on the HTMl side. In the past couple of years "extensions" to HTML that are not a full JS frameworks are getting poppular. We use the Hotwire. A useful feature of Hotiwire is that you can make a request through a form a...

Simple django search

Sometimes you want to create a search box for your model entries in a django app. In order to not mess with complex search packages you can use the icontains QuerySet test on a filter. And because the UI is almost always the same, for my simple needs I have the following starting point. On your views.py add a general form that contains...

Python instance check

Python being a dynamically typed (🦆) language lets you set whatever you want on a variable. Is it a string now and later a float. No worries now, we will worry when we have to. This is great when you want to set something but dealing with complex, not necessarily cohesive datasets gets you in trouble. Suppose you don't care about that ...

Setting a variable default datetime value in Django/python

Django comparisons almost always require timezone aware datetimes. I tried with a None value but the comparison failed. A workaround to keep this compatible is to use epoch and isoparse with the timezone in the ISO string. fromdateutilimport parser check_date = parser.isoparse("1970-01-01T00:00:00+03:00")

Uncloud

Recently I realized how ridiculus cloud storage prices are given that physical storage is dirt cheap. That relization was brought from our company's Dropbox anuall cost at 432€ for 3 people that need to share 250GB of files. A good quality 4TB HDD disk with 3 years of warranty costs about 100€ and I cannot accept that the management co...

Beach freeze

It looks like climate change is a thing and it is changing alright. In Greece every year now we experience heavy snow in southern places in February or March. It became our thing while it was not so much. Anyway… Will try to go out and shoot a bit if possible. Stay safe!

The Nemean Lion and its Wine

Start of December we visited a winery. I have been to distilleries and breweries but wine making has not made me drunk yet. Arriving at such facilities makes you aware of how much vines are needed for wine. Nemea is the place where the first Labor of Hercules took place. Myth has it that Hercules was sent to slay the Nemean lion which ...

Milos – Sea, See, Eat, Drink

While in love or alone, Milos is a place to enjoy the sand and sun. Bellow are some musts from my visit. I will not bore you with the unpleasant or meh experiences. Only with the great and there were many. Sea First order of business about a week before your trip, book a boat toor. Before you book watch the weather for the best possibl...

Snow Mask

On the snowiest day of the forever sunbathed Athens suburbia, I watch a boy cry about sand in his shoes. Little dude and his parents made the beach with masks and all the riches to enjoy the rare phenomenon. A pair of girls watch their dog joyfully jump around the kid. They nod at us as we smile at the adorable affair. We walk a bit to...