Operation: Have a Conversation

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

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

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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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

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)

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

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

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 

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

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

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

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