My doctor has a fancy new on-line booking system. Trying to set myself up an appointment to follow up on some blood work, but the system tells me he's booked solid for the next two months and won't even let me look at the schedule beyond that.
I guess I'll have to call the office to book the old-fashioned way.
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ed(1) requires me to escape (, ), {, }, <, and > in a regex to not use them as literal characters. This is the exact opposite of what I would expect.like this
Yes, like I said, in basic regular expressions those characters only have special meaning when escaped. In extended regular expressions, they have special meaning unless escaped.
Both types of regular expressions are well documented in the latest Single UNIX Specification from The Open Group. Older versions of SUS are available from Debian contrib (or non-free?).
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"I have come here to chew bubblegum and shitpost.... and I'm all out of bubblegum"
This is your regular reminder that the large tech companies are pretty evil. Also anyone wearing those glasses needs to have a good think about their lives and what they are doing.
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Meta and its subcontractor disagree over why over 1000 Kenya-based workers were made redundant.Chris Vallance (BBC News)
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Just got a letter in the mail that our healthcare information may have been compromised in a potential data breach. The hospital was very adamant that it wasn't their system that was compromised, but the systems of a third-party contractor used by the province.
Dear government, I take great pains to secure our personal systems. Can you please stop authorizing deals to hand over our sensitive information to sketchy third-party contractors without our consent? It's your responsibility to vet them. You don't just get to wash your hands of it when they inevitably screw it up.
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here are my favorite chess strategies:
- eating the opponent's pieces while they aren't looking
- the "pawn on a string" trick
- putting the opponent's pieces upside down so they can't identify them as easily
- hiding monopoly money up my sleeve
- playing on a very slight incline so the pieces slowly slide off the board
- knight dupe glitch
- arbitrary code execution via pawn placement and null piece reference
- bribing the opponent with a $20 bill to throw the match
- putting worms on the board
- putting superglue on some spaces so the opponent's pieces get stuck
- cheating
- intentionally underdeveloping residential spaces to keep demand high, ensuring steady population growth over time
- bringing an atari 2600 and a copy of video chess so i can just copy its moves
- using nucelar pressure to secure a draw
- threatening the opponent's family
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So... twice this week now the alarm that reminds me to take one of my meds has gone off, but when I've gone to take the pill, it's already missing from the organizer. No record in my medication log of my having taken it either.
That's... odd.
@Jonathan Lamothe that's incredibly concerning. Both because the lack of log event means you're either sleepwalking, or in a state to not perform a log. And the alarm is likely the trigger. Uh - can you account for theft? Are they worth stealing?
Sorry - that's "my brain goes paranoid" level of fear
@silverwizard No, they're antacids. If someone were going to steal a pill, the ADHD meds were in the same organizer.
There are many benign possibilities. It's possible that when I loaded the organizer, I accidentally put only one of those pills in it (I take two a day). It's possible that since I was late with meds today, I got the schedule wrong, and accidentally took one at the wrong time. These are much more likely.
Still, I'll keep an eye on the situation.
@silverwizard My medication schedule is... complicated. Med X needs to be taken with food. Meds Y and Z can't be taken within two hours of each other. It's like the damn wolf, goat, cabbage problem.
Getting old sucks (though it's preferable to the alternative, I suppose).
So I've solved the mystery.
It's the result of my half-asleep brain taking the wrong pill in the morning—by feel, in the dark, of course—and then failing to log that anything even happened. Problematic, but not so much as the potential reasons that had been proposed.
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If you are thinking about running your blogpost through an AI editor, don't! It almost always makes it more boring.
Whatever you have to say is what you had to say anyway. Just say that, you don't need more. And the mistakes are perfectly fine.
I spell check once, proofread once, then publish. When people point out errors, it makes me feel good, because it means people are reading what I write, and I correct it then.
I'd rather have your charming acoustic-performance words, even if you make mistakes! I love mistakes in writing. Rustic and cozy.
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Speaking as someone who is entirely sane and rational, obviously this being does not yet exist and is Roko's Basilisk, and it is threatening eternal punishment to a future simulated copy of Satan Himself if he doesn't keep up with its KPI.
Also, Roko's Basilisk isn't sinister or evil because it's very important that I say that Roko's Basilisk isn't sinister or evil or it will eternally torture a future simulation of me which acausal transaction me thinkie good very well brain works
There is a Fediverse alternative to Substack called Ghost. It allows you to host blogs and newsletters in a very similar way to Substack, but it has much less problematic management and you can host your own Ghost-powered site if you want to.
Lots more info about Ghost in the guide at:
➡️ fedi.tips/ghost-blogs-and-news…
Would also highly recommend the article by @molly0xfff which outlines the advantages of Ghost over Substack:
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#FediTips #Ghost #Substack #Alternatives
I migrated Citation Needed from Substack to self-hosted Ghost. Here is exactly how I did that.Molly White (Citation Needed)
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Ghost is infected with Magic Computer nonsense at this stage though.
Lead dev is big into talking to Claude and allowing it free reign on his projects.
In the year of our Lord, two thousand twenty-six, why are people still getting text encodings wrong?
I love #usenet.
Martino said there is "insufficient evidence" to conclude the five shots the officer fired were unjustified.
I'm sorry, what? Shouldn't the onus be on him to demonstrate that the shots were justified?
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@Jonathan Lamothe I once made a complaint against an office for pulling up to a bus stop at the mall and immediately drawing a taser and attacking a dude.
i got told drawing a weapon in a crowd was SOP and the standard plan for officers.
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@superketchup Right, I started using nnatom in the past few weeks and noticed its part of Gnus now. I've also running Gnus v5.13. Maybe there was no version bump when they brought nnatom in?
I had problems getting nnatom to work. IIRC it does not want http:// or https:// when specifying the server, unlike nnrss.
Just spent almost an hour on the phone with #Primus (my ISP) trying to get them to honour the original deal I had with them.
Long story short: my bill's still going up, but now it's only $2.
Not a deal I would consider fair, but the extra $2 isn't worth my sanity.
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Over the weekend I was messing around with ibuffer, integrating my custom ibuffer groups with @sanityinc's ibuffer-vc (recommended).
I was surprised to discover that documentation for ibuffer (in since 22.1?) is ... sparsely documented. But it was fun to get it working because the code (and Steve's add-on) is
PERFECTLY LIMPID
(the real story here is that I have been waiting a lifetime to drop the phrase "perfectly limpid" for internet points and here is my opportunity)
Let Emacs' ibuffer-mode group files by git project etc., and show file state - purcell/ibuffer-vcGitHub
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@jameshowell @sanityinc I also use Ibuffer but I am slightly annoyed that point changes on auto update (in contrast to Buffer-menu-mode). I would like to fix this sometimes.
@minad My annoyance with ibuffer:
The filter groups are defined as a list (of lists), which (per the definition of list) has an order.
That order determines the logic of which buffers get assigned to which groups. That order also determines the order in which those groups get displayed.
Sometimes I want those orderings to be different. Which would require two lists.
Each element already has a name string, so a display-order list could reference elements in the filter-order list. But that gets complicated when some of the elements are generated dynamically, like from ibuffer-vc.
This annoyance is probably not worthy of the effort to rewrite the package with a different abstraction. Especially not the effort to do so without introducing breaking changes.
A butler for your buffers. Group buffers into workspaces with programmable rules, and easily switch to and manipulate them. - alphapapa/bufler.elGitHub
Agreed. I think the point to stress here is that users can decide. Hydra, for example, always struck me as relatively bloated, buggy, and a little too idiosyncratic with respect to (at least my mental models of) Emacs internal and UI conventions. But obviously it was very popular! Let a thousand flowers bloom. Cherish the Four Freedoms 😀
@James Endres Howell @Steve Purcell @Bharath M. Palavalli @Philip @Daniel Mendler That's the beauty of Emacs: if you don't like it, it's infinitely customizable, and you can massage it into something you do like (assuming you're willing to do some digging).
There's also something to be said for an out-of-the-box solution that's close enough. I just prefer the former.
Okay, I need to do a hacky #elisp thing. Yes, I know it's terrible.
Basically, I have an existing defun. Let's call it foo. I need to replace it with a new function that calls the old one and transforms its output before returning it.
I naïvely assumed I could do it like this:
(let ((oldfunc (function foo)))
(defun foo ()
(my-transform (funcall oldfunc))))I'm sure there's a way to do this.
#AskFedi
Edit: Got it. It's:
(let ((oldfunc (symbol-function 'foo)))
(defun foo ()
(my-transform (funcall oldfunc))))Also, there's still something Gmail isn't liking. Looking at the differences in the headers between emacs and my other clients (whose mail does get through), the next most obvious difference is that the Content-Type header doesn't specify an encoding. Whether this is the actual problem or not, I should probably fix that. I'm just working on how.
The usual way to do this would be to "advise" the function with an "around" advice. gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/…
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Of course there's a question about your underlying logic lurking here: Why don't you just define a new function that calls the old function and transforms its output and then just call the new function.
Transforming the output of an existing function risks breaking all other callers of that function.
I have the same issue with @Tutanota : my emails never make it to some recipients. I’ve never sent a single spam on my life. The only factor I was able to isolate is that anything going to Gmail or a Google-managed address doesn’t make it, which I assume means it was caught in some spam filters. But it’s not the only factor. I just haven’t figured out what makes it so I can’t write to some other addresses.
It’s really a PITA, forcing me to keep another email.
@Celeste Ryder 🐾 🐀🏳️🌈 @Tuta The weird thing is that it works if I use any other client. I'm still trying to figure out what the problem is. When I find it in my spam box and I click "why is this marked as spam" it says that it's there because it resembles other messages that have been marked as spam.
In other words: we put it in spam because we thought it looked like spam, which is... unhelpful.
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You might want to try Wanderlust -- I find it very useful for email handling.
On the other hand I must admit I never really liked GNUS, even for Usenet.
Finally got aroind to signing up for an eternal-september account.
God, I'd forgotten how toxic the #StarTrek fan base can be.
That said, #usenet as a whole seems to be a magnet for toxicity in general.
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Dear non-autistic folk, AKA (also known as) allistic's. It's that time of the year again. Autism awareness month. That time when you can become aware of autistic's, raise some money and generally show your worth by acknowledging, if nothing else, our existence. Good on you. Although, I suppose it may come as a bit of a shock to know that we don't actually want awareness.
Awareness can and has been historically, "look at their difference," closely followed by "stone them, burn them, they're a witch". Or, being left to die alone in the woods, because they think that you are a changeling and have taken their beloved child. Or simply hearing someone telling a parent, or carer, "Oh, look at them, they are so special. That must be so hard for you, looking after them, I couldn't possibly do that". Or from someone, "but you don't look autistic, I know what autism looks like" and dying a little more inside. Not to mention, in this day and age especially, that we often have minds that see the patterns of the future writ large upon the wall in blood and knowing it will be our blood if the wrong people are only just aware of us and want to use that politically.
So no, we don't want awareness. Awareness is, at best, thinking that you know us, that you can see us. Awareness is feeling good about acknowledging our existence, not our lives. What we want and need is understanding. Understanding that we are different, not less than, or greater. That our minds and senses and bodies work differently to yours. That we have different needs and abilities and challenges. That the world you have made, is, in so many ways, difficult, if not impossible for us and that it is the reason why we so often struggle, or can't cope and not because we are deficient in some way. That we are not missing something (which is why most of us hate the puzzle symbol), or broken, or anything other than just different.
A difference that can't be seen from the outside looking in. By studying us from your point of view, or judging us by your standards. It has to be explained and understood by us telling and showing you. By us sharing our experiences, and knowledge and understanding. By working with us and not in spite of us. Because as minorities have called for throughout the ages, there should be nothing about us, without us, not if you want anything to be in any way meaningful, or true.
Only by truly understanding this. By learning to listen and value our opinions and stories, will you begin to understand and finally grow into where we really need you to be. Accepting us and not just aware of us. Accepting us truly as we are, in all our variety and complexity and not just thinking that you do. So enough of awareness month. Perhaps aim for something better.
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Hello Kevin. Persons who aren't autistic don't generally think about autistic persons.
I'm not a wheelchair user and I rarely consider if a building has appropriate access for persons who use wheelchairs. It took government legislation to force architects, businesses, etc., to become aware of the needs of persons who use wheelchairs. It took awareness, campaigning, political lobbying, to force through changes, and our society now perceives wheelchair users differently than they did in 1960s. Wheelchair users now occupy positions in society that they wouldn't if society hadn't started to make accommodations to meet their needs.
Surely the first step is to raise awareness of our existence. As we raise awareness, we educate, we inform, we increase understanding. We slowly and gradually take society on a journey to understand that autistic persons (persons with autism), we are there, around them, working alongside them, living alongside them, loving alongside them. But as with physically differently-abled persons with a need for things like accommodation for chairs, etc., we also need accommodations to allow us to live on equal terms with neurotypical persons who outnumber us.
Just my opinion, for what it's worth. Other opinions are available. Have a great evening. Take care. 🙂
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This is what I like to tell people when they tell me they learned something from an LLM:
Pick an obscure subject about which you know a great deal. Now ask an LLM a bunch of questions on that subject and see how long it takes it to give you a wrong answer. Now ask yourself if someone who didn't know the subject as well as you do would have caught that mistake.
Finally, ask yourself: do you still trust the LLM?
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5 Steps to a great day:
1. Go camping
2. Avoid people
3. Take a nap
4. Poke a campfire with a stick
5. Keep avoiding people
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Rideau Acres: Family campground in Kingston on Rideau Canal with heated pool, boat rentals, beach, hiking trails, and banquet hall for weddings and activities.Rideau Acres Campground | Kingston Ontario
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One of these days, I'll figure this whole #Monsterdon thing out. I mean, I get the general concept, but I never know what movie everyone is watching and when.
I'm always reminded as it seems to be in progress.
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I always have a moment if hesitation pressing the "share" button when I use an em dash in a post, lest soneone think I'm using so-called AI to compose my posts.
I guess the typo that escaped my proofreading will probably help to dispel that myth.
Edit: I just noticed the typo in this post. Screw it. I'm keeping it in.
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Historically, that hasn't really helped, has it?
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • • •I think they were looking for a human. I'm not sure why they decided that searching the woods at night was the best plan to find their proposed target.
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in reply to Jonathan Lamothe • •"Don't let any trick-or-treaters in."
Why would that even be a thing you'd have to say? #monsterdon
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The Wolf: Jimmie, lead the way. Boys, get to work.
Vincent: A please would be nice.
The Wolf: Come again?
Vincent: I said a please would be nice.
The Wolf: Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm here to tell you what to do and if self-preservation is an instinct you possess you'd better do it and do it quick.
Jules: No, Mr. Wolf, it ain't like that, your help is definitely appreciated.
#monsterdon #silverbullet1985