Phandelver Probabilities
Let's use the Python programming language to explore some of the dice roll probabilities in a D&D 5e adventure. I personally find math easier to understand when it's expressed as Python code and I want to improve my familiarity with plotting (graphing) using the matplotlib
Python library.
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Emotional Labor Revisited
Back in 2015, I read an amazing document. It was a digest of a message thread about Emotional Labor. Before I was done I knew I wanted to share it with everyone I cared about.
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Abandoning SaltStack?
I really wanted to use SaltStack to configure my home Linux router. It would be wonderful to manage that infrastructure as code. Unfortunately, it does not seem tenable for me.
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Psychological Safety and the Unix Room
Ever since I first read it in 2004, the following quote has stuck with me. I've added it almost every internal company wiki I've managed.
One odd detail that I think was vital to how the group [at Bell Labs] functioned was a result of the first Unix being run on a clunky minicomputer with terminals in the machine room.
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International Date Format
Please use the international date format
Please consider using the international date format (ex. 2021-04-14
or YYYY-MM-DD
) instead of a local date format (ex. 4/14/2021
or D/MM/YYYY
).
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