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Cake day: June 6th, 2024

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  • My experience is with iPhone (yeah yeah boo Apple).

    Most of how I learned was just digging through Apple’s documentation, focusing on one goal at a time. How do I draw stuff to the screen? How do I handle touch inputs? How do I use the built in UI elements? How do I play sounds? How do I get GPS data? Things like that. I’d usually have an idea of a specific mini-project that would make use of a specific new tool.

    Note that I already had some programming experience (although it wasn’t much) before I started teaching myself this way.

    Here’s Apple’s website: https://developer.apple.com/develop/

    Just start by downloading XCode and playing with one of their sample projects. SpriteKit is particularly easy to get started with and there’s a sample project for it. (I’m assuming you want to make something like a game. If you want to make more of a utility app, look up SwiftUI).

    If you aren’t an iPhone user “Apple fanboy”, you can try this: https://developer.android.com/courses

    Also many game engines (e.g. Godot, Unreal, Unity) have support for both iOS and Android.







  • Based on the small town where I grew up:

    • convenience store: 2km
    • nearest chain/big supermarket: 5km
    • bus stop: what bus?
    • park: 10km (but there are hiking trails within 1km)
    • train (metro) station: 5km
    • library: 5km
    • long distance train station: 20km
    • my dad’s daily commute when I was growing up: 140km (that’s 140km each way, 5 days a week. 1200km of commuting each week. He did this with a combination of car, bike, and train. It took him about 3 hours each way.)

    Note that a lot of the roads don’t have sidewalks so even if you want to walk it can be kinda dangerous depending on time of day.

    Based on cities I’ve lived in:

    • convenience store: 300m
    • chain supermarket: 800m
    • bus stop: 500m
    • train (metro) station: 1km
    • park: 1.5km
    • library: 1.5km
    • big supermarket: 2.5km
    • long-distance train station: 2.7km
    • my current commute: 3km

    The cities tend to be a lot more walkable, but you still need to take the car or train to get to things like by the bigger (and cheaper) supermarket and other stores. The train is slow and unreliable (sometimes it’s faster to walk than take the train) so cars are much more popular.









  • Inkscape is for vector graphics, GIMP is for pixel graphics. You probably want to use a combination of both for many situations (design the logo in Inkscape, touch it up and scale it in GIMP).

    From my experience, GIMP is close to par with Photoshop in terms of both features and user friendliness. Inkscape is unfortunately much harder to use than Illustrator.




  • There’s only one explanation for this staggering difference in maternal mortality

    As much as I want to see data that demonstrates this, there is a very obvious other explanation for a staggering increase in maternal mortality in the years 2020 and 2021. And the mortality rate went down in 2022.

    Keep following the data but also stay wary of clickbait.

    They’ve made the correlation to race very clear though. But to show the effect of abortion bans, they need to compare between states with bans and states without bans.