Friday, July 26

[soid]

 Worked from home. Retro at 9:30. I'm still not sure what the usefulness of this event is. I say it's good to see the bus tab in our app now, even though it's quite buggy still, but I am indeed exited about using it, and complained about slow IT. My firewall change ticket has not been updated for 3 days.

Then worked on merging GTFS-rt and CBCT sources. Most of the time spent on the test: I tell it to ignore the estimated time, but it won't. Ended up just removing it from the objects before comparing. AssertJ, this thing is called, compares deep objects; otherwise, pretty nice library.

In the evening we watched "The Sound of Silence" (2019) on MUBI. I think it's full of very subtle and hard-to-trace humor, but most people probably don't get it – the rating is below 6 on IMDB. The guy's invention is to tune the ambient sounds of houses, which he tries to publish as a PhD thesis, but fails – cause he's a musician and not a scientist. The authors imply, that if he wanted to make it a commercial "product", he'd be rich and successful, but the guy hates the word "product," hates commerce, and ends up in depression instead of being rich and happy. Very real story, it seems, if read between the lines. I gave it a seven.

Then played Panzer Corps 2; still trying to understand the war – on the tactical level. I was never curious about it, but now the times are calling for it. The battle of Paris; (my) German Panzers capture Paris and its surroundings. I thought it was easy – I just had to be swift. Somehow, it's not. French tanks are just too powerful, and my artillery seems completely useless. I thought war was dumb, is it now? I should probably read something about the tactics. Somewhere I read recently that what Hitler had done on the western front took a militaristic and diplomatic genius; was it indeed? 

Slept by 2.