fort mckay (7/12)

surely one of the USB drives around here has a Linux install drive on it?

💡 "get the c.2016 laptop running Linux, because Windows on an HDD is too slow" probably won't be done today.

I have come to the conclusion that, while the machine is good at some coding projects, it is uniformly bad 💡( or, at least, not good) at sysadmin tasks. It's not useless for them, the results for specific questions are still better than a Google search. But if you ask it to do a mildly complex task, it will almost certainly get something wrong. 💡( there is no reason to think this is any "universal truth"; it is more a reflection of the available training data and the limitations of an LLM-only system)

today's primary goal is the "frame-dispatch" database schema migration.

there are subgoals:

• set up the PRESUBMIT check for Python imports
• ensure the local environment can create the alembic schema migration scripts
• add some additional database fields for desired features 🔥( will they be "hashtags" or "channels"? or "topics"?)

I'm not stating any LLM-specific goals with the schema migration. But it is possible either "LLM-generated topics" or "LLM-generated copy-edits" or something will suddenly become very easy.

non-Atacama goals:

• time-permitting, today is the day I should get a haircut. and, go shopping while i am out.
• nothing else remarkable is planned.