Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

@Gina great success!!

@jiminycricket @codesections interesting to know. It worked a charm for numerical methods, and for design and control of systems back when I took them. That said I haven’t had to use any of that since I left a .edu environment. Python + pandas has been sufficient for any and all data analysis I’ve need to do since then.

@kyle Nice!

@Gina nice!

@ju my fiancee will happily take credit for the current winter. At least a dozen times a day she's prayed to any and all available deities for snow. 😂

Still winter outside. This is the first time in my life winter (aka frozen things occurring in nature) has lasted more than 48hrs. 🤯

@codesections this doesn’t really bother me in the least. Companies that aren’t going anywhere anytime soon being on the board of my favorite language is probably a good thing for its continued existence and rapid development.

@Gina @nathand@fosstodon.org @amandag@tech.lgbt @sotolf@fosstodon.org

#5randomthings
1) I hated coffee until last year
2) I got lost in a rainforest as a child
3) While lost I saw a tiger and it did not eat me
4) My favorite breakfast as a child was Frosted Flakes
5) 11yr old me was convinced 3 & 4 were related.

@the_tower_power_ here’s the link https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/imposter_syndrome/

Most often it creeps up for me because I have no real formal training in any computing field, yet I have earned the label of “subject matter expert” in a few specific areas. When people I know to be extremely good at CompSci run across a mechanical problem and can’t grasp the failure mode sometimes that also triggers a feeling of “this must be what they feel like when I speak”. If I’ve struggled to solve a problem recently it’s worse.

Enjoyed two talks during #FOSDEM2021 today. One on imposter syndrome, and another on embedded Linux on RISC-V.

@Gina this morning I woke to the question “where can we go sledding!!!”

Finally got my own Matrix homeserver running today. Video call performance with my folks back home seemed significantly better. Not mad about it. Got several friends moved over to talking to me there, and made an account for my fiancée. Up next: the rest of my family.

@Gina ooo true. Maybe I’ll drop in on some of it. #checkstheschedule

@jiminycricket @codesections not sure if you’ve seen or used GNU Octave but back when I had a need for MATLAB in school it was a drop in replacement.

@kyle @twrightsman Fractal is doing work to move onto matrix-rust-sdk and then add e2ee so a native client is on the way. Hopefully they finish before my Librem 5 ships. Looking forward to always having a real Linux computer with me without having to carry around my laptop.

@purism that’s pretty cool stuff! I’ve got my own project for determining network status of defined resources, and plan to add a GUI using libhandy eventually. Glad to see I’m not the only person thinking along these lines.