Doctor Faustus asks Mephistophilis why Satan seeks to enlarge his kingdom. Mephistophilis replies with the Latin phrase:
“Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris“
This roughly translates to “It is a comfort to the unfortunate to have had companions in woe,” or simply “misery loves company”.
Doctor Faustus, by Christopher Marlowe, written in the late 16th century and first performed around 1594.
A very useful and also inexpensive mini keyboard found on AliExpress. Mine is the specifically this one. I have added the notes myself using a Brother P-touch label maker.
Here is the drivers and configuration application in a Google Drive. Note to myself: if this share is deleted, search for “3 key keyboard software-20251226T192116Z-3-001.zip” in your own Google Drive.
This is how the “MINI KeyBoard.exe” looks like:
It should display “Connected”. To modify each key, click the green keys (left top corner), it will become red. Then select the operations then click “Download”.
This is my configuration as of today:
Python 3.3 or later comes with venv. For Python 3.* < 3.3 with apt:
$ sudo apt install python3-venvTo create, activate and pip install packages:
$ python -m venv my_venv
$ source my_venv/bin/activate
(my_venv)$ pip install gimpformatsTo deactivate the venv:
(my_venv)$ deactivateThis allows to have Python virtual environments with isolation. It’s particularly useful when using systems that don’t allow to use pip directly as WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
Wednesday’s (2025-10-29) decision takes the Fed’s overnight rate down to a range of 3.75% to 4%.
I used to see horses while driving by. By then it was already an oddity to see horses around there. It was a nice pleasure to see horses running a green field when I was casually driving to Costco. Around Loudoun County, Virginia. Close to Sterling, Herndon, Dulles. Circa 2014.
In the winter they would put these “coats” in the horses to they could keep warm.
Around 2016, the green field was reduced to make space for a truck parking lot. It was like that for a few years and then very quickly a data center was built.
Definitely not the first data center in that region, but it was incredible how quickly and how many more came. Another one. Another one. This feeling of “hey, there is a data center here now” like they were dropped from the sky. I would miss an entrance, take another road, and whatever I was expecting, it was not there. There was another data center.
