Going through my #NoMansSky screenshots. A lot of them are from missions where I had to “take a photo” of some type of structure or animal or planetary environment.
But some of them I think I managed to compose pretty well.
Category: Fediverse
#Gemini question: about a year ago I settled on LaGrange and Amfora as my main …
#Gemini question: about a year ago I settled on LaGrange and Amfora as my main Gemini clients after trying out a bunch of what was around at the time. And then I kind of stopped paying attention.
Now I’m curious: have any particularly interesting client applications come out of Geminispace since then?
COVID, death (last year, but really f’d up)
I just found out that someone I went to high school with lost both her brother and father to COVID last fall because her cousin convinced them not to go to the hospital and only take quack remedies for things that definitely weren’t COVID, all while she and her brother’s friend tried unsuccessfully to get them to seek *real* medical treatment.
Ah yes, my favorite audio track: “Not Provided” by (Unknown).Awfully quiet, though.
Ah yes, my favorite audio track: “Not Provided” by (Unknown).
Awfully quiet, though.
Oh jeez, the kid is starting to ask about driving
Oh jeez, the kid is starting to ask about driving
He can’t even get a learner’s permit for several years yet, but he’s starting to ask
dubious accomplishment
Got a gold badge at a Pokemon Go gym before someone tells Niantic that the landmark has just been demolished.
TFW you realize you didn’t need the socket wrench after all, you just needed to …
TFW you realize you didn’t need the socket wrench after all, you just needed to move a wire clip out of the way
Updating my anti-procrastination setup before I get started on this.#irony
Confused spider forgetting that it needs to connect to a site through Ethernet, not USB.
Confused spider forgetting that it needs to connect to a site through Ethernet, not USB.
We already have one of those.
Read an op-ed about how we need a new party that’s in between the right-wing extremism that is now mainstream in the GOP and the left-wing extremism that exists, if at all, on the fringes of the Democratic Party.
We already have one of those. It’s called the Democratic Party.
To mix some metaphors, we have a tiny left wing, an oversized right wing, and a center that the right wing likes to think is on the left.
No wonder we keep going in circles.
It’s this article about a “Forward party” https://wapo.st/3OKLlFq
Interesting idea: Use electric schoolbuses as grid storage. Charge them overnight, use them in the …
Interesting idea: Use electric schoolbuses as grid storage. Charge them overnight, use them in the morning, top off for the afternoon run, and then send power back to the grid during the late afternoon and early evening — the peak hours when usage is highest and solar is dropping off for the day.
#energy
As usual, the party of “personal responsibility” blames someone else for their problems. It can’t …
As usual, the party of “personal responsibility” blames someone else for their problems. It can’t possibly be their messaging, it’s got to be Google’s spam filters! 
Current nemesis: processes that run too long to wait for, but just long enough to …
Current nemesis: processes that run too long to wait for, but just long enough to forget going back to them if you switch to something else in the meantime.
Amazingly it applies to work, chores, hobbies and games alike!
Today’s Fowl Language comic: Another Talk #funny
Today’s Fowl Language comic: Another Talk
https://tinyview.com/fowl-language/2022/07/27/another-talk
#parenting #funny
“Not all execution paths return a value.” Thanks for the tip, but it’s a …
“Not all execution paths return a value.” Thanks for the tip, but it’s a void function to begin with
At least I didn’t go into the office yesterday with the co-worker who came down …
At least I didn’t go into the office yesterday with the co-worker who came down with a fever today. The HVAC is all new, but I’m not sure how it holds up against the latest variants
Re: The Dispossessed is Solarpunk?
Of those I’ve only read The Dispossessed. Definitely worth reading, though I don’t think I’d call it Solarpunk.
One of the planets has a harsh natural environment and a mostly-functional anarcho-communist society made up of people who left the other planet’s rather less-functional hyper-capitalist society, though it has managed to clean up their damage to its more hospitable environment (in part because they outsourced most of their mining to the other planet)
Re: The oldest item I still use regularly
Probably the desk I’m sitting at right now, that used to belong to my great-grandmother.
The oldest item I received new that i use regularly…I’ve probably got some scissors or coat hangers or something from back in the day, but it’s probably my dresser, which I’ve had since I was…I don’t know, 10 maybe?
I just *love* programming languages that silently truncate big numbers instead of telling you that …
I just *love* programming languages that silently truncate big numbers instead of telling you that you need a bigger data type.
How did I not think of “gonna need a bigger float”
…Convert every ID to a string when building JSON. At least it’s consistent.
Back-end API calls, though, you wouldn’t think would be affected.
But apparently JSON doesn’t actually specify a precision level 
Gee, so sorry about your auto-immune disease…
“Gee, so sorry about your auto-immune disease, but the medicine you’ve been on for years *might* be used for something we don’t like, so you can’t have it anymore.”
Post-Roe, many autoimmune patients lose access to ‘gold standard’ drug
Six days after the Supreme Court struck down the right to abortion, lupus patient Becky Schwarz got an unexpected message from her rheumatologist. “This is a notice to let you know that we are pausing all prescriptions and subsequent refills of methotrexate…”
Brought to you, of course, by the party of “small government”