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Fun fact, the cat can slip out of his harness when spooked by a passing car. We're hanging out in the tent with him until we can sort out this logistical wrinkle.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

So I think that when I took off after Benny when he got loose I got into some poison ivy/oak. I'm normally careful about such things, but I had to be quick to catch him.

I washed my arms immediately after and slathered them with afterbite (which I figured was the most useful thing we had on hand) but there was some itchiness/rash shortly thereafter. Fortunately Benny seems to have been unaffected.

Could've been a lot worse.



Well, we forgot to bring bug spray. Rookie mistake, but it's been a while. Ran off to the nearby pharmacy to pick some up, then we'll finish setting up camp.


Doing some last minute checking of the #camping gear for our trip tomorrow. We haven't touched any of it in like six years. I was sure the batteries in our lantern would be dead. I tested them and they're fully charged. I'm impressed.
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

Ugh, I hate that. My current EDC flashlight has a parasitic drain like that, so I have to keep the tailcap partially unscrewed so the battery isn't dead when I actually need it.







Lately when I wake up in the morning there's a 50/50 chance that the internet has died during the night and I need to reboot the modem.

This is not good when you're self-hosting stuff from home.



Okay, finally took the plunge and just booked a #camping trip this upcoming week instead of waiting for everything to just fall in place. We haven't been camping since before COVID.

I've got to go through all our gear to make sure everything's still in working order.

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Just for fun, I decided to look into how to use an abacus the other day. I have no practical use for this whatsoever, it was just something I was curious about. Learning this of course made me want to buy an abacus. I know myself well enough to know that while it would probably be an inexpensive purchase, it'd only end up collecting dust on a shelf within a week.

Then I thought about programming a virtual abacus that I could then play around with. I know this to be an absolutely absurd idea, but that absurdity only kinda makes me want to do it even more.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

So it's fun to use and all, but it's way too easy for a fumble with the keyboard to mess the whole thing up.

Besides, now I'm looking into soroban-style abacuses (abacii?) They seem more interesting. I'm probably going to break down and actually buy one.





Just started down the rabbit hole that is the Japanese electrical system. At a glance, it actually seems to make the North American system look sane. That's an impressive feat.


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I hereby resign my membership in the universal set (just to cause headaches for set theorists).
in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

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in reply to Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

@Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. Intellectually, I understand this.

I think that computers just trick us into believing them to be deterministic.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

They aren't quite as deterministic as we might like them to be these days. I think some CPUs have a quantum randomness source, and task-scheduling across multiple computation units often _feels_ non-deterministic to me.

Plus, I do believe the term "Heisenbug" can be applied to bugs that go away when you turn on debugging/profiling/tracing or any other type of monitoring system that might be useful to diagnosis, even if everything is perfectly deterministic.

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Just received an emergency tornado alert recommending to take shelter in a basement.

I live in an apartment. We don't have a basement.

in reply to Jonathan Lamothe

I mean, there is a basement floor and there is a hallway we could use down there in a worst-case scenario. Fortunately, the storm seems to be letting up.
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Jonathan Lamothe
@erin (she/her) You know, it's funny (in a not funny way). We've had a number of tornado warnings in recent years. In my childhood, I can only ever remember that happening once.
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We're having intermittent connectivity issues this morning. Seems to be an upstream issue.










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