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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I think the price is fair from a labour point of view, however, I feel like there may be an issue of offer and demand.

    If you are not doing a specific commission (someone asked for it) who is going to buy it? I don’t see many people spending that much money on an utilitarian object where the art, for how nice it is, isn’t going to add much.

    You may find someone for which money is not an issue and want something “extravagant” on display in their office, like a lawyer or a doctor. But I think is a small niche.

    This also taking into consideration how sturdy the piece is. A regular folder can get damaged pretty quickly, which may put people off from buying it. Which may be doubly so if the art could get scratched or is unprotected.









  • Have you seen the film Gattaca? It somewhat explores the theme of DNA as identifier — as well as some interesting associated themes.

    The hashing idea works fine imo. However, depending on how advanced or "primitive* the technology would be, it could be pretty trivial to impersonate another person if the only id used is the DNA sequence. A sample of tissue is not dead, and it’s — I don’t want to say trivial but — not that hard to culture it and keep the cells alive.

    With our current tech it’s possible to build layers of lab grown skin from the cells of a patient for transplants.

    Of course, this may not be a problem for world building. It could be an element intrinsic in it. After all people do steal identities. Or the tech could go deeper and use more information on the individual: DNA, the microbiote, neural patterns, blood vessel, fingerprints, all together.

    I think in the end depends also on the tone of the fiction.










  • Right now, macOS. Switched to it when I started uni and I’m never going back to Windows. The main reasons are:

    • unix based
    • generally easier to manage software
    • the OS itself has most of the basic utilities already packed in and most of them with the right features. I rarely felt the need to install new software to cover lacking parts.

    Also, generally stuff is packed fairly well, with care for user experience.

    I will say, I’m dipping my feets in linux as well, and it looks like a lot of distro now are mature and accessible. If I ever were to buy a second pc I would seriously consider the penguin.


  • I usually don’t have any strict roll at the start of the day. Only when in specific situations. For example I track weather only if the travel itself is the focus of the adventure.

    For time, I have started using BitD clocks. They are just the right amount straightforward to just works.