Ravings of an Undead Cheese Minion

It's the dark time of year in Utah. The sky is filled with fog. There are no stars. The trees are dead, and the ground is white and brown. The air quality is terrible. There is no more birdsong. Outside, it's freezing, which means that indoors it's boiling.  I know that I need to get out of here soon. I was happy when in California for Thanksgiving, being with family -- then when I returned to Utah, everything came crashing back down. All the spark in me has died out. I feel like a hollow shell, with nothing but a black void within.  I made the mistake of checking my DreamWorks chats since I haven't been removed yet. I won't be removed for another 2 weeks. I saw all the pictures from the Trolls wrap party. Everyone was so happy, and it broke me all over again. That was my only movie and I might never get to work on another one, because of stupid outsourcing to Canada.  But here’s my name for proof I guess. I wanted to finish my career there at DWA, or stay until I t...

Mark Directory As -> Sources Root do this for the src  folder source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13157815/why-does-intellij-idea-suddenly-not-recognize-tests-in-test-folder-anymore 

We waited so many years for Visual Studio for Mac so we didn't have to boot into a Windows partition, and now they're discontinuing it? How long has it even been live for, like a year? Lmao, screw Microsoft for doing that. 

Finally figured this out through a lot of googling -- you hit Mode and then Adjust. Then you can easily scroll through the 4 US time zones it supports.  And it is usable again after being stuck in my closet for who knows how long! 

 

Constantly iterating until it's right. Condensing so I'm only attacking one CS course and project at a time. With EE, it will be 1-2 at a time. Coursework is getting organized elsewhere. The goal is to finish the majority of it by EOY 2024.   [ WARM - UPS ] Technical warm-ups: Cybersecurity Creative warm-ups: write a sentence, browse Inkblot [ FITNESS ]  Lifting Running GET READY FOR DAY, BREAKFAST [ DIGITAL ART ] Artwork Warm-ups: 2 poses, hands/feet, faces, anime, anthro Drawabox Current 2D course: Intro to Art and Drawing 50% rule: Digital painting in Photoshop Current 3D course: Intro to Animation Pipeline 50% rule: 3D art in Maya or Blender [ CS - 1 ] Computer Science Warm-Ups Cracking the Coding Interview, DSA, and Leetcode.  [ CG - 1 ] Computer Graphics Warm-Ups: Shaders, whatever current course we're on Computer Graphics via Master's Thesis [ MUSIC ] LUNCH BREAK, PLW Music: Clarinet, singing, piano [ CG - 2 ] Computer Graphics: More thesis work -- Finish thes...

I have long had an issue where I couldn't properly timebox my coding, because a massive bug would appear and suck out hours and hours. My debugging would bleed into subsequent timeboxes.  This would lead to issues like: scrambling to finish animation homework because I spent 20 hours fixing a systems programming bug. In the end, the lab is still turned in late, AND the art sucks and is ALSO late.  The issue is different for self-paced courses or readings. It just causes zero progress the moment I get stuck, like where I'm at in khan academy. And I was stuck on some simple priority queue stuff for months in an attempt to timebox my DSA review.  So, what is the possible solution to this? When the timebox is hit, don't go more than 20-30 minutes over. If you are stuck on debug bleed, then you do not fully understand the issue, and what is going on in general. As a result, you need to stop, leave some notes for your restart of understanding the logic of what you need to do, a...