2021-01-14

• Daily Log:

  • 2021 PC build
    • Building a computer in 2021 has been a "journey"
    • GPU stock has been extremely low because of miners with Bitcoin hitting all-time highs. Scalpers are reselling them at 20-40% price hikes to miners
    • Trying to get a RTX 3070 or 3080 has been nearly impossible. I've set up various alerts on Reddit and Discord to try to get ahead of the bots but so far the furthest I get is entering PayPal
    • Cost Breakdown of the build so far | Part | Model | Cost | | ------- | ------------------------------ | ------ | | CPU | AMD 5600x | $428 | | CPU Fan | Noctua NH-C14S |$86 | | GPU | Gigabyte 1050Ti | $218 | | PSU | Corsair SF600 |$133 | | MOBO | ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX | $200 | | SSD | Samsung 970 EVO 1TB |$138 | | RAM | G.SKILL 2x16GB | $135 | | Case | Cooler Mater NR200P |$100 | | Total | | $1,438 |

• #workout Still have been doing regular pull-ups and push-ups

  • The goal is to do 100 pull-ups and 200 push-ups, but usually can only hit around 70 pull-ups and 140 push-ups
    • Can do 21 pull-ups in a row
    • Pecs are a bit strained from the daily push-ups

• #article Tech that will change 2021

  • Revisit in [[January 1st, 2022]] and see if any of these made an impact [[future]]

• [[Need Data Engineers not Data Scientists]]

• [[How to Become a Data Engineer]]

• Retrospective::

  • One week ago: [[January 7th, 2021]]
  • One month ago: [[December 14th, 2020]]
  • One quarter ago: [[October 14th, 2020]]
  • One year ago: [[January 14th, 2020]]

• Daily Stoic::

  • Humans are being pulled externally and internally by forces like gossip, work, fear, lust, jealousy, anger throughout history. But in the modern times, there are more forces specifically engineered to pull my attention away from myself - social media, entertainment,