Operation: Have a Conversation

By Mark,Mikhail,Jack

Entrenched in a time where true conversation is lacking, a brave group of young men work to change this.... more

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February 21, 2022 OHAC 42: In the Non-lethal Way
Time is an illusion, the year 2021 doubly so. Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the standardized end of the decentralized arm of the Internet’s plumbing lies a really simple protocol for syndication. Clinging to this is a mostly harmless, audio-based feed whose infrequent updates feature content so amazingly niche that the show notes are often a garbled mess of obscure references. This episode is no exception, with Mark, Mikhail, and Jack maintaining a conversation much in the same way that bricks don’t.
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SHOW NOTES
Leonard Muise – Professional Disc Golf Association
Mark’s picture of frozen dairy dessert
What’s the Difference Between a ‘Frozen Dessert’ and Ice Cream?
Breyer’s | Ice Cream and Frozen Dairy Desserts
StackOverflow: Python string behavior shadowing builtin file object
Torchlight
Runic Games
NCAR – SHEBA Seacat CTD Data-Deep (Preliminary)
High dynamic range
Unicode
GoComics
Comical Start Podcast
University of Minnesota banned from contributing to Linux kernel
Monty Python intermission music
OHAC 30: I’m an Agent of Chaos (2021 Yearly Themes)
OHAC 21: 18 Pounds of Meat in the Mail (2020 Yearly Themes)
OHAC 14: Happiness is Shallow (2019 Yearly Themes)
The Theme System (see bottom of page for podcast episodes)
CGP Grey: Your Theme (YouTube)
Mark’s 2021 theme – Year of Transition / Season of Creativity
Jack’s 2021 theme – Year of Alignment
Mikhail’s 2021 theme – Year of Persistence
Mark’s 2022 theme – Year of One
Jack’s 2022 theme – Year of Execution
Sean Nalewanyj – Here’s why you’re not making gains…
Mikhail’s 2022 theme – Year of Flow
OHAC 32: This is a Family Show (The Oatmeal on Creativity)
MBMBaM 592: The Naming of 2022
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Audiobook, narrated by Stephen Fry
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Audiobook, narrated by Martin Freeman
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game
The Mountain Goats (band)
The Hands that Thieve (album)
Republic (Plato)
Richat Structure in Mauritania (Eye of Africa)
John Mulaney on quicksand
...more
2h 3min
January 15, 2022 OHAC 41: Into the Pods To Eat the Bugs
This is your final chance. After this, there is no un-reading this description. You stop after this sentence—the story ends, you go on with your life, blissfully unaware of what follows. Or, you read to the end—to learn about how Jack, Mikhail, and Mark discuss audio routing, fitted t-shirts, VM’s, VPN’s, and the sandy texture of creatine, only to realize it was about the Metaverse the entire time. The choice is yours to make, but if you’ve made it this far, you already have.
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SHOW NOTES
Audio Hijack
Mark’s Audio Hijack Setup
OpenVPN
Ethernet bridging
VM Manager
True Classic t-shirt
Creatine
The Matrix (franchise)
Ready Player One
Facebook Portal
Use Center Stage on your iPad
...more
1h 9min
November 23, 2021 OHAC 40: Some Feeling About Some Feelings
What a year to stay inside. Get cozy and join Mikhail, Jack, and Mark as they discuss indentation buttons, cloud syncing services, IP theft, and answer the age-old question: Who needs the great outdoors when VR disc golf exists? Oh, they also talk about Bo Burnham’s “comedy” special, Inside, I guess.
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SHOW NOTES
Beatsaber
Oculus Quest 2 VR Headset
Accounting+
Superhot VR
Disc Benders: Ace Runs
Highland Park Disc Golf Course (St. Paul, MN)
Slack update bullets to castle emoji – iOS release notes
Apple scanning iCloud Photos for child pornography
iA Writer
National Novel Writing Month
Huawei phones
Huawei – Wikipedia | Controversies Section
Bo Burnham – Inside
Wanna Talk About It? – Resource for struggles with mental health or suicide
They’re Just Movies Podcast on YouTube, and their Inside review
...more
1h 45min
October 27, 2021 OHAC 39: 💩, 100% of the Time
Whoops. This one’s all Corner Case Corner. Join Mikhail, Jack, and Mark for a truly precedented number of bizarre tales from the periphery of situations our modern society has been equipped to handle that will boggle your mind and make you wonder, “How the hell did they get themselves into that mess in the first place?”
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SHOW NOTES
Switching Browsers on Windows 11
Foundation | Apple TV+
Ted Lasso | Apple TV+
For All Mankind | Apple TV+
Slippi.gg
Missing package dependency on Linux for Slippi fix: `sudo apt install libopengl0` (from the Slippi Discord)
Diablo II (2000)
Diablo II: Resurrected
Parallels: Run Windows on Mac
32-bit vs 64-bit computing
ARM vs x86 Architecture
Diablo II Breakpoints: Frame rate creates discrete thresholds of attack speed improvements
Obsidian on iOS – no Dropbox support
ClickUp
Adding multiple users on Android
Island or Shelter, sandboxing apps
Cartopy | a cartographic python library
Anaconda (Python Distribution)
Natural Earth Data (used by Cartopy)
GitHub | nvkelso’s natural-earth-vector repository
Refined GitHub | Browser extension that allows downloading a sub directory
Procreate for iPad
Drawfee Show
Canadian Revenue Agency
Tax Free Savings Account (TFSA)
...more
1h 38min
September 13, 2021 OHAC 38: The Excretion Folder
Having fun isn’t hard when you have an ereader and online access to your local library’s collection of ebooks. Join Jack, Mark, and Mikhail for an extended discussion of keyboard shortcuts, books, and MacBooks with a healthy sprinkling of smooth segues between topics. Like, really smooth. Like, smoother than a rock eroded by wind, rain, and a mountain river then polished with a baby’s bottom. Smooth.
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SHOW NOTES
Slack’s keyboard shortcuts
Vim keyboard shortcuts
Vimtutor
Gmail – enable recall sent message
Gmail keyboard shortcuts
Vim in Obsidian
The Atavist Magazine (one long form story each month)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)
Foundation series by Isaac Asimov (1942-1993)
Tears of Amber by Sofía Segovia (2021)
Libby App by Overdrive for borrowing ebooks from the library
Man, Economy, and State by Murray N. Rothbard (1993)
Lindy Effect
A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) by George R.R. Martin (1996-?)
A Modest Proposal by Johnathan Swift (1729)
Creativity, Inc. by Amy Wallace and Edwin Catmull (2014)
The Only Rule Is It Has To Work by Ben Lindbergh and Sam Miller (2017)
7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey (1989)
Patrick Mahomes – Quarterback for Kansas City Chiefs
Inter- vs Intra-
MacBook Air (M1, 2020)
Oracle VM VirtualBox
Rosetta 2 – For using Intel software on Apple Silicon
Get on Down to Dongle Town
TSUPY USB C Dongle
Apple’s M1 MacBooks Will Only Support Single External Displays
Understanding DisplayLink, multiple displays, and M1 Macs
...more
2h 12min
August 27, 2021 OHAC 37: UPS is the Arbiter of Truth
After a long period of neglect, Mikhail, Jack, and Mark finally get around to responding to the backlog of listener feedback. Climb on in to hear yet another discussion of various popular Linux audio back ends, the efficacy of foldable backpacks, hypothetical numpties who peaked in high school, and the possible ramifications of scorpion-kicking a pedestrian with your car.
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SHOW NOTES
OHAC 36: Dot and Dot Dot
Symlink (Symbolic Link)
OHAC 15: Magnum, 067, and Slots: A “Star Wars” Story
WordPress Theme – Escutcheon
OHAC 22: Big Bidet
OHAC 12: Magnetic Resonance Enchiladas
Pop!_OS (Linux)
Ardour – The digital audio workstation
Jack audio interface for Linux
Generic qjackctl map (screenshot)
ALSA vs Pulse Audio
Mikhail bricked his ThinkPad: /dev/sda5: clean, 392649/15237120 files, 57879723/60918016 blocks
PyInstaller library for Python
Tkinter – GUI Programming for Python
PySimpleGUI – Python GUIs for Humans
Mark’s GUI code block
def main():
sg.theme('Reddit')
layout = [[sg.Text('', font=('Times', 12), key='timer')],
[sg.Text('Input Audio', size=(10,1),font='Times 14'),\
sg.InputText(key="audioIN",size=(50,1)),\
sg.FileBrowse(initial_folder="/home",target="audioIN")],
[sg.Text('Input Data', size=(10,1),font='Times 14'),\
sg.InputText(key="dataIN",size=(50,1)), sg.FileBrowse(\
initial_folder="/home",target="dataIN")],
[sg.Text('To Encode', size=(10,1),font='Times 14'),\
sg.InputText(key="audioOUT",size=(50,1)),\
sg.FolderBrowse(initial_folder="/home",target="audioOUT")],
[sg.Submit('Encode',size=(10,1)), sg.Cancel('Quit',size=(10,1))]]
window = sg.Window('mrmp3',layout)
Screenshot of Mark’s PySimpleGUI application
Mike Rowe’s Completely Transparent, Totally Honest, Eagle Scout Congratulatory Form Letter
Dirty Jobs – TV show on Discovery
Explain like I’m five
Stowaway Packable Daypack from Eddie Bauer
Cal Newport
Tiki Torch Fiasco in Charlottesville
Lindy Effect
...more
2h 3min
July 07, 2021 OHAC 36: Dot and Dot Dot
Tick tock, dot, and dot dot. On this episode of OHAC, Mikhail, Jack, and Mark each give breaking updates on developing Corner Case Corner stories, Jack and Mikhail dink about in a clock of Mark’s imagination, and, in an unprecedented turn of events, Jack is prepared for Hot Takes ahead of time. Like, wow.
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SHOW NOTES
Ardour – The digital audio workstation
ALSA vs PulseAudio
OHAC 30: I’m an Agent of Chaos
SciNet | Advanced Research Computing at the University of Toronto
“Most breaches … are caused by failure to update software components that are known to be vulnerable for months or even years.”
Big Sur Login Screen background image
“Solution for changing Big Sur login wallpaper to custom.” (Dosen’t work)
`Library/Caches/Desktop Pictures/UUID`
Background Music for Mac
MacOS Touch ID “…a total of five fingerprints can be enrolled across the system.”
Mark’s work using OpenAI
OHAC 35, where Jack tries to programmatically generate PDFs
Reportlab by PyPi for Python
Jack’s mind palace (notes from the text adventure)
Mikhail’s notes from the text adventure
...more
1h 45min
June 05, 2021 OHAC 35: A Font of Entertaining Anecdotes
As ever, Mark, Jack, and Mikhail round the infamous Corner-Case-Corner before diving head-long into a field of study in which none have training. On this episode of OHAC, you can hear their philosophizations on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, its relation to the Blackfeet Nation, and truth; all based on an episode of the Psychology Podcast which was generously sprinkled with charming Canadian affectations.
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SHOW NOTES
OHAC 34, where Mikhail complains about the CRA
WHOI archived ITP data files
Towards Data Science – How to load MATLAB .mat files in Python
Python package: mat37
xkcd: Wisdom of the Ancients
SMTP – Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
Ardour – The digital audio workstation
ALSA vs Pulse Audio
The Expanse – Erroneous German Captions
The Documentary Podcast: The Digital Human : Subservience
Psychology Podcast – Richard Katz – Honoring the Wisdom of Indigenous Peoples
Scott Barry Kaufman – There Is No One Way to Live a Good Life (brief history of Maslow’s Hirearchy of Needs)
Scientism – Wikipedia
Leopold von Ranke – “Every age is next to God”
Blackfeet Nation
Article – Fathers and youths’ deliquent behavior
Charles Murray (the wrong Murray)
Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
MENSA
Making Sense Podcast #62 – What is True | Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson
Sam Harris & Jordan Peterson – Vancouver – 1
Is-ought problem – Wikipedia
Consequentialism – Wikipedia
...more
2h 2min
May 09, 2021 OHAC 34: Additional Nonsense
The I-am-an-adult switch has been activated. Prepare for adult topics such as personal organization, self-improvement, and mild cursing. On this episode of OHAC, Mark dives into the convoluted world of online curriculum program funding legislation for public schools, Mikhail gets the run-around from overcautious security software while trying to do his taxes, and Jack is just overall doing pretty well.
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SHOW NOTES
Drops: Language Learning App
TeXable: iPad app for LaTeX
Obsidian
Obsidian’s “I am an adult” switch
MacOS: System Integrity Protection
Dick Van Dike’s British accent
Matt Parker on Spreadsheets – Festival of the Spoken Nerd
SimpleTax
WealthSimple
Canadian Revenue Agency
Zettelkasten
Mikhail’s Obsidian graph
Mark’s Obsidian graph
OHAC 21: 18 Pounds of Meat in the Mail (2020 Yearly Themes)
OHAC 30: I’m an Agent of Chaos (2021 Yearly Themes)
Jack’s 2021 theme – Year of Alignment
Butcher Box
Athletic Greens
Mark’s 2021 theme – Year of Transition
Common Core State Standards Initiative
Mikhail’s 2021 theme – Year of Persistence
Trello: App for Kanban Boards
Lord of the Rings – Black Speech
Shampoo bar – Pretty Clean Shop
Lex Fridman Podcast
Jelle’s Marble Runs
...more
2h 2min
April 07, 2021 OHAC 33: Smart Synk
Version 1.33.0: Small UI fixes and performance improvements. Mark, Mikhail, and Jack are now available offline. Retracted implications of extraterrestrial involvement. Introduced tautology in error messages. Fixed bug where Jack was actually prepared for Hot Takes. Loving the podcast? Don’t forget to rate 5 stars and leave a review!
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SHOW NOTES
ʻOumuamua intensifies
StackExchange – Play audio output as input to Zoom
Soundflower for Mac
Bash profiles: new() { mkdir $1 && cd $1 }
Real Python: Python 3’s f-strings
Drops: Language Learning App
Notion
Obsidian
Dropbox: Smart sync
Oura Ring Data Could Help Identify Early COVID-19 Symptoms
Ben Greenfield – Salt
Spotify Offline Music Suddenly Disappearing
Enable Developer Mode on Android
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
...more
1h 35min

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