That super low unemployment rate? Sky high inflation? I did that. Bought a house and a car, I am funding so many jobs. Really people help me out. I'm going bankrupt here.
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Huh, can't get Fios unless the previous resident cancels or you have to wait 10 days or somehow prove you own the house
Twitter on my laptop loads without internet and is very tranquil and Zen. YouTube could have played static, but did not. Nothing else even loads, DNS error.
Abandon house! This one no longer has internet!
I got my first covid test. Baseline 3% chance. Son got a negative. I have flu symptoms but no classic covid ones.
Things I want to keep from this whole experience
- remote working
- zoom w/cameras on (we already had conference calls)
- masks in crowds/indoors
- Indian carryout
- indoor running
- an omnipresent sense of mortal doom (ha, just kidding, that was always there)♡ 3 ↻ 0Nope, no covid. I'm streak remains unbroken.
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♡ 0 ↻ 0Flu maps still exist! I haven't checked one of these in years - https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm
VA is green. CDC doesn't have a common cold map.♡ 0 ↻ 0
I put 4 screws into my rented house to secure book shelves from falling over & 1 of them had to hit a water line. (Which means the pipes are prolly not up to code, too close to wall)
Story in 4 parts https://x.com/mistersql/status/1511122461194166275/photo/1
♡ 3 ↻ 0That was a $997 anti-topple device.
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Starbucks (or mine) now allows personal cups again.
Indian restaurant game: why is my mouth on fire? (Probably the sambar) After the sambar, everything that follows tastes like fire.
I took a walk and I'm burned to a crisp. Summer and hat season is here. Hatless season lasted about 48 hours.
I think that neither the left nor the right nor anyone wants to do anything about homelessness in SF is what gives people license to believe whatever numbers they want. I visited 1x and it was like Paris, except instead of dog poop everywhere, human poop. https://x.com/petercalloway/status/1510032517876764674
Gitlab temporarily reports the wrong number of merge requests. I wish we were closing that many tickets this week. Or not. That would be like the mother of all merge conflicts. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1509970164053336067/photo/1
I'm going to hold out for Python NT https://x.com/bascodes/status/1509788654067240960
Huh. If you are moving effective 4/5... you have to update your account address on 4/5 because no one thought about move effective dates. Now that I think of it I almost never see account pages w/addresses provide an effective date.
Bad data modeling.
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Opinions on replacing an 25 y/o townhome AC with a heatpump in VA?
They seem to be popular with climate change activists. Looks like it is possible to have hybrid gas + heat pump. Not clear if they are effective on the coldest days or if that matters.
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IDEA: instead of TORNADO warnings, a TORONTO warning to let you know if Toronto is a good vacation destination or if it moving closer to us.
13% of people work for BYOL (bring your own laptop), not sure how to feel about that. Lots of pros and cons, and for me, it is a pro if the employer/client just doesn't have the IT dept skills to deliverable a usable laptop. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1506628679035727878
If I wrote a clone of Atari Writer using the user manual as a specification, does that violate the Atari Writer copyright? (WordTsar is a similar clone)
IDEA: instead of pi, we build a number by construction that starts with 0, 1 (all combos of 1 digit), then 01, 10, 11, 00 (all combos of 2 digits) and so on until infinity. That number really does have waldo in it and every possible version of every movie in bluray format.
KATA: write a program to find your resume in the digits of pi.
# doesn't work, too short
import math
print(math.pi)
# now we're talking
https://pi.delivery/#apipi_get
thinking about how 2 paradigms, REST and Domain Driven Design are kind of at odds. REST forces all semantics to 4 HTTP verbs (roughly CRUD) and DDD is about creating rich semantics that mirror a business' domain & somehow these two paradigms live in the same overall architecture
IDEA: take my 3br townhouse and cross it with "tiny homes" and create a 5 unit apartment building with not nearly enough parking or public transit. I figure that is what will happen to inner suburb TH in a "never build anything anywhere ever" housing policy.
So if everyone could update their DNA for Excel compatibility...inconvenient, but you will be able to run VBA macros https://x.com/SpaceWicca/status/1507107385156026369
Ordering big pancake with mashed potatoes, triangular burrito, rice pancake, but also some of that spicy stuff, the really spicy stuff, the really really spicy stuff.
Quick, check if there is PII in pi. Fortunate for me, my credit card number, phone number, social security is not in the 1st 200m digits of pi, but my birthday is. I'd like to exercise my GDPR rights and have it excised.
https://www.angio.net/pi/
This is the interview question if you want to be a staff developer working for a cartoonist. https://x.com/ZachWeiner/status/1507724463244206086
David Attenborough: Here we can see the majestic great ape breaking down the IKEA furniture in preparation for the annual migration to the next townhouse in Herdon as they migrate to follow the contracts
Me: How did you get in here?
David Attenborough: Cheeky fellow, isn't he?
It is hard to find staff, did you know you can hire a bear as a build master? https://twitter.com/decarboxy/status/1506734848198778888
Finally, I found a bug in a c++ compiler. If you put this in a file name cpp.exe -- it doesn't even execute. https://x.com/olafurw/status/1506715314024759304
Productivity Hack: Scale up all your story points so that 1 becomes 377, 2 becomes 610, 3 becomes, 987. Soon the enterprise will envy your team's velocity.
Hey python API team, the other rust systems dev team can finish a 3 story point ticket in 8 hours, why can't you?
If you code for pay, which machine do you use
No love for IKEA PCs. :(
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No Fios internet in Herndon for half hour, society breaking down, crime, cannibalism, and general boredom and falling behind on current events. Please send jolly memes, but low res because of mobile internet.
Large companies don't know what to do about phishing. The security mentality is still stuck in 2000 waiting for the next ILOVEYOU.vbs attachment to show up and that isn't how phishing works.
I'm clicking "Not Interested" on every <60 second @YouTube video until the algorithm gets the message.
Appropriate game to prepare or pass the time in your basement for the two weeks before the radiation sickness does us in. https://x.com/Steam/status/1504887864605097984
Boston is a winner! Despite no sleeper car. I did really like the restaurant scene there- also very walkable. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1502350626545704966
Javascript joke https://x.com/morinap/status/1504820655052791819
Logging libraries make it easy (well, hard but possible) to log to many destinations w/o recompile & some primitive per-source filtering. But what do I want? lots of features for tuning flooding.
4 levels of debugging doesn't capture that an INFO inside a tight loop could execute 10,000 a second in a parallel process. Warn/Error has 2 meanings, uncommon but also bad. But a Warn inside a loop is verbose.
♡ 0 ↻ 0Clearly the world needs a new logging library that will get no adoption because it is more useful to use the worst logging library in the world if it is used by your app and all the 3rd party libs you depend on.
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IDEA: rename OOO as OOOFF so I can make big oof jokes
IDEA: we'll create a database representing economic intellectual property. You won't even have to write an entry to it to have an enforceable claim. You'll be able to buy, sell and trade these claims like they were money. It will be worst database you've ever seen, mostly Oracle
It will support billions of dollars of economic activity, both unsympathetic rich fat cats and sympathetic literal poets and artists.
What to call it, maybe NFT?, nah, already taken. How about a right to copy, or copyright?
Oh, $#!+, it already exists. https://copyright.gov/♡ 1 ↻ 0