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.
I just pulled some Energizer lithium AAs from an old set of FRS/GMRS handheld radios. The batteries have "expiration" dates of 2010, but they read 1.7 V on my multimeter, 14 years later. These batteries are rated for a 10-year shelf life, so they are 24 years old.
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.
In this remastered episode I talk with author Mary Mahoney who details her experiences in The Children of God, talking us through the trials of her memoir. Mary
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.
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.
Cast your ears back to the time I was given the chance to interview the legendary Jon Atack LIVE on stage at Crimecon UK. An experience I won't soon forget, and
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.
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.
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.
@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.
I hate it when I make an official release of a program with an ugly snippet of code that I can't figure out how to write more cleanly, only to come up with a solution 10 minutes after pushing the release. I just make the change in the dev branch so it gets incorporated into the next version.
In my defense, the thing I was overlooking was that #Haskell's Maybe type is an instance of Foldable. It's not the kind of data type that exactly screamsFoldable, is it?
Side note: I should use Hoogle's search by type signature feature more frequently. I needed a function that looked like this: Monad m => (a -> m ()) -> Maybe a -> m (), which is literally just mapM_.
Hah. In a similar situation, I knew I wanted whenJust (which is provided by various libraries on hackage), but in the end, I realized I could just use for_ from base. It's amazing how many functions are just traverse (or traverse_).
@Kalamata Hari Yeah, any time I end up writing a case statement on a Maybe or Either and one of the branches is -> return (), I die a little inside, because I know there's probably a better way that I'm just not seeing.
When in doubt, always check to see if `traverse` matches the function you need. It's odd how often `traverse` (or some variant, like `mapM` or `traverse_`) is what you want.
There's a notice posted on the front door of the building. Apparently the landlord is bringing in an exterminator tomorrow and we have ~24h to empty out all the cabinets, pull appliances away from the walls, etc. in preparation for their arrival.
Welp, I did have other plans for today, but I guess not any more. ಠ_ಠ
@Adam Hunt We've been very fortunate on that front. When we were living in the basement (we've moved up a floor), we had a singular rat once. Caught it and never again saw another one. That was the worst of it.
@Adam Hunt At the time, there was a massive construction project going on at the church next door. As near as we can figure, it migrated from there and the others went elsewhere?
Well, we've done everything we could think to do. There's probably more stuff that needs to be done, bit nobody has officially given us any direction at all.
All I know is that my neatly organized kitchen is in a state if disarray that's going to be a problem for my #ADHD brain for several days before I can reorganize.
And now, in typical and possibly pre-ordained fashion, the trades people won't turn up, because of... some reason they can't even be arsed to make sound as if it's plausible. And you'll be stuck this way for days, if not weeks, if you're really unlucky.
Make sure the people handling the pesticides are certified. Our friends' house was condemned because the idiot doing the termite pesticide application didn't properly seal the poison off.
@Ehay2k So if you're in a rental and the landlord is hiring them, what are you supposed to do if find out they aren't? Ask them to stop and leave, and if they don't threaten to call the police?
@janisf You're still free to ask about certifications, and also take down their name(s) so at a minimum, you have a path to recourse if they screw up. You can also ask (out of curiosity, not accusing them) what they are applying, how long it lasts, how long you should be away, etc. if they don't know any of those answers they're probably not certified.
Fun development: ours is not one of the apartments being treated. On the plus side, had we not gone through the exercise of emptying out all the cabinets, I wouldn't have noticed the leak under our bathroom sink. Gonna have to get that fixed. :/
I think this comes under the concept of, a silver lining. But still, it would have been nice if you could have been told this before you stressed and did all the work.
So, my partner who's "not into anime" and insistent that she dislikes the fantasy genre may or may not have spent the past three days binging on Frieren.
In this episode I speak with activist Evvie about their experiences in the Church of Christ. Evvie talks us through their activist work, parentification, and ho
Marketing spin is just wild sometimes. I literally just heard this one: "the only EV that's a Mustang", which is just another way of saying "the only EV we make". (Yes, I know Ford makes other EVs.)
I love when I'm writing software and I end up re-implementing functionality that already exists in a library I was already using because I didn't know it was there. 🙃
But now you understand the functionality much better than you used to. I implemented a really short and to me fun algorith for generating / calculating corporate dates like Week X Period Y Day z of Quarter and then I found out that someone just made a table with all the dates from 2000-2999 and was using that lol
I have a stainless steel travel mug that I have my coffee in (almost) every day. It's supposedly dishwasher safe, but I still usually hand wash it.
A few months after I got it, the paint started peeling. Within a year, it had all completely peeled off... except for the logo, which is painted over top of the said peeling paint and still in pristine condition.
a few years ago I moved somewhere with a significantly lower crime rate than the place I was leaving, with the result that my car insurance became more expensive.
I live in an area where I can safely leave while leaving the door wide open and nothing happening(1), no thefts, no fires, no flooding (top of the mountain, no public works), no tornadoes, no nothing, but seeing the rates go up every year, you’d never know that!
I did switch this year because by doing so and getting both cars and the house on the same one (previous best deal had them separated), I ended up saving some $1,000 a year…
… I was like, wut? Yes please! And took it before they changed their mind 😅
In this episode I speak with activist Evvie about their experiences in the Church of Christ. Evvie talks us through their activist work, parentification, and ho
high demand groups, specifically Mormonism, but generally applicable
High demand groups must always have an enemy. This enemy must constitute an existential threat to the group (real or imagined). It's what enables the group to make the demands it does of its members. The ends need to seem to justify the means, though actually achieving those ends are unnecessary. In fact it's not even desirable, because once they do, they need to manufacture a new enemy.
This understanding gives interesting context to the Mormon obsession with the quote "there needs be opposition in all things." There literally does.
I miss the days when a simple TUI application could easily fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk. Just compiled a simple program I've been working on and it's over 8 freaking megs! That's absurd!
I remember when a full featured application was a kilobyte to 60 kilobytes and was extremely fast getting work done. And the user interface was quite good and thoughtful
I've been slowly migrating my media collection over to a newly created Jellyfin server. It turns out that virtually none of my anime collection is from this century.
@Spacegoat No server (does sshfs count?). Just a big 'ol drive with a bunch of media files and a handful of DVDs I haven't ripped yet. It's just that Jellyfin is picky about the directory structure.
@Spacegoat Actually I had some stuff on Nextcloud when I wanted to watch it on the actual TV (via an Amazon Fire Stick), but it was a very non-ideal solution and kept locking up and crashing the browser.
aye. I've been a long time Plex user, have a lifetime Plex pass I bought forever ago. I've been thinking about switching my setup over to something else, like jellyfin, for years now because of the direction and decisions Plex keeps going and making. But it all really works quite well and has mobile TV interfaces, so I just keep sticking with Plex. Plex is really the only media server I've really used. Always curious to hear about others experience making the move.
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Mind you, it's a simple enough device where "off" actually means off, not some low-power standby mode.
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