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”
I love the fact that we can actually *use* gravitational lensing to see things in …
I love the fact that we can actually *use* gravitational lensing to see things in space even more distant than our telecopes can, almost as far out as the edge of the observable universe. (i.e. before things are too far for light to have reached us yet at all.)
And find surprises, like this early, early galaxy that looks like it had already started rotating 13.3 billion years ago.
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/bad-astronomy-alma-observations-galaxy-jd1-rotating
#space #astronomy #science
Love the smell of roofing tar (or is it for paving?) in the morning….
One of *many* desert cottontails I saw hopping around today
One of *many* desert cottontails I saw hopping around today.
Goldfinch
“Migrating from WordPress to Markdown sounds easy…6months later and you’re losing your mind.”
So true!
“Migrating from WordPress to Markdown sounds easy. Mention it to any developer and they’ll say “Pfft, an afternoon of work at worst”
…
Suddenly it’s 6months later and you’re losing your mind.”
How to Export a Large WordPress Site to Markdown
I think I’m going to try the resulting script on one of my WP sites & see how it goes.
Actually had the letters “JFC” as part of a captcha
Actually had the letters “JFC” as part of a captcha
A quick search at suggests that I already have the best power/performance chip for this …
A quick search at https://www.cpubenchmark.net/ suggests that I already have the best power/performance chip for this socket type. I can get a marginally faster processor that uses twice as much power (which would mean I’d need even more cooling).
So yeah, any practical CPU upgrade would spiral into replacing the whole cpu/motherboard/memory, which of course involves dismantling the whole machine…
Fan & thermal paste it is!