Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
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, 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 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
One of *many* desert cottontails I saw hopping around today.
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
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!
Desktop CPU is overheating during games again. Figure I’ll reapply the paste & add the spare case fan to the side.
Might upgrade the cpu fan too. Maybe one of the ones that aims sideways toward the back of the case.
Went to look up the socket type & discovered that the cpu model is 10 years old :blob_dizzy_face:
I’m sure there are newer CPUs that are both faster *and* more efficient. Might be better than replacing the heatsink. But a lot more involved.
Um… #ClassicPress seems to have had a major implosion over the weekend.
Over the last few days it has become crystal clear that the community feels that the Directors of the ClassicPress Initiative are now hindering the progress of the ClassicPress Project.
Has a definite “Oh, you think you can do a better job? SHOW ME.” ring to it
Wow, actually found “This resource fork intentionally left blank” in a file copied from a Mac drive
The stand-alone episodes are good, and the Burnham/Spock family dynamics, but the main arc gets really frustrating in the second half.
Some of the ridiculous things going on in the name of “freedom” make more sense when I consider that to some people, the only freedom they care about is the freedom to forcibly reject people who aren’t in their ingroup, and to some people, the only freedom they care about is how much money they get to keep, and some people have found it very effective to cater to these two groups.
Good: Got the battery replaced in wife’s otherwise still-working-great Note 8.
Bad: Repair shop told us Samsung is phasing out parts for it, and we had to go to another location to find one that had the batteries in stock.
Ugly: I had to drive on the 405. 4 times (there & back twice).
Stumbled across this article again…just as relevant (if not more) than it was back in the day.
Speaking of Portal 2, have i mentioned how impressed I am with the design on the multiplayer co-op levels? Every one of them actually requires 2 players working together. And it’s much better than trying to play a 1-player level with 2 players
I seem to remember reading that during play testing, if anyone found a 1-player solution it was filed as a bug
Looking at an icon that i think is supposed to be a rocket blasting off, but since the kid has re-discovered Portal 2, i swear it looks more like a Portal turret
Who called them indexing bots and not web phages?
