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I recognize these, but they're not what come to mind when I think of my early math education (mostly times table worksheets, or seeing a teacher do long division on the whiteboard.) Definitely possible that they influenced my thinking, though.

That description is eerily close to how I feel. Seven for me is definitely a very "loosely bound" number, and it wants to separate along the three and the four.

Negative numbers are just like the positive ones, but kind of... the opposite. Like the indentation formed if you pressed the positive number into clay or sand or something. It's like they want to be filled or take away from something else rather than adding onto other forms.

RE how I think about imaginary or complex numbers, in short, I don't :)

I've never studied much higher math, and don't have any reason to think that I'd be particularly good at it.

Author here: was definitely not trying to frame this as a tutorial or anything like that. I don't think that my "methods" have any particular advantages. It's just how my brain works.

Author here - like one of the other commenters said, I don't think there's anything wrong with your approach, or any way of thinking for that matter. I don't think there's anything particularly "right" or advantageous about the way my brain works either. I don't have any reason to believe I'm better at math than the average engineer - definitely not a math prodigy or super genius or something like that.

With that being said, trying to think a different way for the challenge of it is definitely interesting. Reading through some of the other comments here and trying to taste words or replicate other people's minds is a weird, fun exercise :)

A google search for "most obscure computer language" (with "computer language" being the terminology they use in the episode) returns this article as the first result https://blog.payara.fish/6-of-the-weirdest-most-obscure-prog...

My guess is that they just skimmed through that and picked "Malbolge" because it sounds the best.

I'd definitely agree that this is overkill for most people. In your case, though, I think that you could put the same amount of work into GnuCash and get the same results without writing any code. Plus you'd have a GUI with built in reports and whatnot. Not sure if that matters to you.

In the article, I briefly touch on skipping manual transaction logging and just importing statements from your bank / credit card. And I gloss over this, but it looks like GnuCash offers similar functionality for automatically updating stock prices https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Online_Quotes - not sure if it's a pain to set up or not, but it's probably not as easy as just calling a google sheets function.

Seems like you wouldn't have any reasons to switch over given that you've already got a nice system going, but just wanted to point out that you can use GnuCash in a way that's not quite as... rigid as the way I use it :)

This is exactly what made me switch away from ledger. I thought that a command-line/plaintext only workflow would be great, because that's what I usually prefer. However, a GUI + autocomplete just ended up being way more useable for me in this case.

I also wasn't super sure about sticking "simple" in the title, but while writing this article and going through the GnuCash setup steps, I actually started to feel like it was appropriate.

As another commenter mentioned, I think that the "complicated" part of using GnuCash is understanding double-entry bookkeeping, which is why I devoted so much time in the article trying to explain it in concrete terms. My intention here isn't necessarily to steer people to GnuCash itself (I'm learning about a lot of alternatives from these comments), but to simplify the core underlying concepts. Not sure if I achieved that, but I tried!

And that's definitely an important shortcoming in GnuCash. I don't know of a great way to deal with transactions that go beyond "categories". You could use the description field + custom reporting, but that seems a bit error-prone. Luckily, I haven't run into many cases where I felt like I needed something like this.

The very first plot shown in the article was generated with custom scripts, published here (https://github.com/csun/simple_gnucash_budget_plots)

I'm not sure how much it's changed since 2014. I think the "budgeting" system is still probably as bad as it was back then, though (and by bad I mean not really applicable for personal use, probably good for businesses). That's why I wrote this budget plotting script.

I used to use Cockatrice (https://cockatrice.github.io/) to play with friends online. The interface is a far cry from Wizard's MTG Arena, but you do get to build any deck you want for free.

Edit: It's been a while since I played, but does look like for IP reasons you'll need to actually download the cards separately from the actual program. I'm not sure where to do this, but I'd imagine someone on this subreddit or on their dedicated Cockatrice server can help you https://www.reddit.com/r/Cockatrice/

Command clicking a link will also open it in a new tab.

Thanks! I think of it as moving my finger in the same direction as the cursor, which ended up feeling the most natural during typing.

I recently went through the trouble of getting a custom split layout mechanical keyboard machined. I have a write-up/buildlog here:

http://www.csun.io/2018/07/16/custom-mechanical-keyboard.htm...

Anyone know of a good service for getting custom large format plots from a machine like this? Looking to make a custom poster in this style but would rather not invest in a whole machine.

> I live in Canada, and can't move for a variety of reasons.

> I grew up on a farm

Not everyone lives in the bay area. I'm sure there are plenty of places where it really is "that hard", and it sounds like derefr might live in one of them.