Realist's romantic love letter, Darren Ldl

This was originally somewhat written for someone I loved, whom shall not love me back. It's a finctional scenario that I thought would be quite romantic and could be an interesting discussion, but not meant to be an actual letter I'd write to the person. The original piece was in Chinese, I've translated it into English. Translation is rough around the edges, but close enough.

I am well aware of the idea that soul mate is at best a fictive hope. Further so, the assertion of existence of soul is quite simply illogical. It cannot be touched, cannot be seen, cannot be heard. It fundamentally cannot be measured. And quite obviously, a person's character depends solely on the composition of the brain, the development and memory. To put it bluntly, we are simply machines which fail to read ourselves. Overall, this is a ridiculous theory, a fairytale if you will. Some even believe in reincarnation! Ha! And love, love is merely a consequence of primal nature and phero

• install_closeboot is the install hook
• runtime_closeboot is the runtime hook

1. Copy install_closeboot to /usr/lib/initcpio/install/closeboot

"starting from 2020 Dec, every 2 months, second thursday"

(since_year 2020 (since_start_of_month `Dec (every_nth_month 2 (nth_weekday 2 `Thu entire_day))))

"every other day of year 2020"

Articles

• https://beepb00p.xyz/scheduler.html

Existing schedulers

• https://github.com/leahneukirchen/snooze
• https://github.com/systemd-cron/systemd-cron
• https://ohse.de/uwe/uschedule/intro.html
• https://github.com/karlicoss/dron
• https://code.dogmap.org./runwhen/

This is a document in response to a Discord question on how to go about understanding the definition of nats in the chapter listed in title.

We cannot teach intuition, but giving one a more indepth view on how someone else thinks might allow one to draw inspirations and form intuitions more efficiently than just staring at a (very) abstract object for days.

Following documents some of the ways I dissected/thought about nats, as an attempt of achieving the above goal.

We want to be able to set up an encrypted Ubuntu installation where we can unlock using just an external USB key without entering any passwords

We do not consider evil maid attacks in this case, and are only worried about data leak

We also assume USB key is kept securely, thus we are not concerned with USB key not being encrypted