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websites using social media auth are great until you need an account that represents two people-- e.g. I had to create a plaintext password so I could put instacart onto my wife's phone so that the shopper could chat with her instead of me.

TIL: If you are shoveling in a garden, your fitbit will misread it as walking.

I'm trying out instacart for the first time. They got slots now.

https://inst.cr/t/ZTFTM3QwM2dI

I didn't make a one-off error. https://x.com/medburnbook/status/1263677983199461376

Today spent finding out that when you Popen a process on python on windows, sometimes you get "can't find the file specified" which means the PATH was ignored & you have to set shell=True. Now you have shell problems, especially cross-plat

I wrote up my (evolving) covid plans for my household. Next I should write up a similar doc for my covid personal finance plans.

http://www.suburbandestiny.com/?p=1460

you could ruin most programming languages by changing the ; into anything, C, C++, C# wouldn't compile anymore.

META: if this remote working thing catches on, it is going to really mess with my twitter feed. I follow people who live in greater DC & work in tech. Bio don't have enough info to know if you live in CO & work "in" DC.

before quarantine: no pics of grocery stores. who does that

just before: pics shelves, just look at them

now: no pics of grocery stores

I got new vendors now, haven't been in months. why didn't I always do this

Not good. You used to be able to quote retweet and avoid having to talk to the followers of the account you are retweeting. This is going to a problem for quote retweeting celebrities & controversial people with nasty "fans"
. https://x.com/NathanPatin/status/1263942560218861570

Ah, browsing the way it should be. Never click a link, only click "open in new tab" and never close a tab. And never reboot. https://x.com/isaaczara_/status/1263850969152045056

This python app is on my TODO list to try out-- especially with the "old twitter" retiring June, 1, I'm going to have to reinvent my twitter workflow anyhow. https://x.com/edsu/status/1263857258393407488

IDEA: photoshop but using it to remove bugs from code instead of blemishes from portraits. I mean, take a screenshot and change that ** 10 Tests FAILED ** message to ** All Tests PASSED ** https://x.com/mattlovesjenni/status/1263867218418446336

I highly recommended this graphic novel about immigration policy. It is written from a pro-immigration standpoint, but covers all the counter-arguments.

For me, my allegiance is to my species first, the wealth a nation (and its people) is meanless if any one nation is still poor https://x.com/bryan_caplan/status/1263846271388839936

Ruin a [band name|movie name|book name] by changing the encoding.

Star Wars -> □□□□ □□□□

A lot of developers won't get the joke because this is just what happens when they import text and feel that □ is fine, someone in 1980, or in Japan must have typed that.

image of me getting a build script to pass on a remote server. It finally works! I feel like I should add another git commit to say so. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1263673897997619200/photo/1

I should update my header from a train to some symbol of contact-trace-and-isolate public health policies because public health is more fundamental than transit.

IDEA: Terraform grocery provider. You declaratively write your grocery list in terraform and install the shipt, instacart, peapod, freshdirect providers and run `terraform apply` and food appears in the cupboard.

So you want to install a thing
http://setup.py isn't enough.
pip is painful
So you use pipenv. That is painful
So you want to use poetry

Today I find dephell-it converts among the formats & lets devs pick & choose which they feel like using today https://dephell.readthedocs.io/index.html

Amazon pricing
Want 4 oz? $2, but not for you, no WF delivery slots.
Want 4 oz of baking soda? $10
1lb? $20
You want 5lbs? $20

Electionbetting odds is saying trump will lose the popular & electoral vote, but win the election. So the gamblers are all in on suspending democracy.
Or the odds are irrational & people with money to bet on this are all jerks.
https://www.electionbettingodds.com/

Same. Been doing some bad handwaving because I can't do even a simple whiteboard diagram. I guess I need either
a- a 2nd camera pointed at a whiteboard
b- something like a wacom tablet, which feels like overkill as I'm no artist https://x.com/jsylvest/status/1262751654547341313

This is pretty much a reputation on SO. Did you answer/ask a question between 2007-2010 or not. If you didn't, you're dull-witted & of ill-repute. https://x.com/sixty4bit/status/1262758153680125958

Anyone have any product recommendations for strava, but for the post-covid era where a lot more exercise is happening indoors? Am I really going to have to go back to pencil, paper and excel?

I'm taking the stairs. The buildings in DC aren't very tall anyhow. https://x.com/JoeMiscavige/status/1262377194736812038

A seller already was selling a mask to simulate high altitude running. Oddly this one makes no claims about filtration.

https://smile.amazon.com/VO2MAX-Training-Mask-Simulation-Resistance/dp/B07YC6RSNV/ref=sr_1_29?dchild=1&keywords=n95&qid=1589742170&sr=8-29 https://x.com/mistersql/status/1262093773833736192

Baldor's now delivers to my zip code. $250 min order. If I was poor & had a freezer, Baldor would be a good decision because that is like a month or threes worth of food. Makes Costco look like they fun sized food.

They're kind of like the tea party...they like chickenpox parties...how about the Covid Party? https://twitter.com/jimsafley/status/1261845433867001857

R0 in a crowded room is up to 53 per 2 hours. In optimal conditions this is measles-like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPHSmOhqdHA

Status- waiting for WSL2. The only thing slower than this release schedule is the disk I/O on WSL1.

I still can't find a way to get these delivered (I mean, you can get them 10 at a time, but why pay $25 for $5 of tortillas) https://x.com/mistersql/status/1261024573686001666/photo/1

Stay

IDEA: marketplace to buy and sell AWS bucket names. I hear there is a lot of demand for the bucket named `test`

"Χωρίς τη σάλτσα ένας άνθρωπος έχει χαθεί αλλά ο ίδιος άνθρωπος να χαθείτε στη σάλτσα. It’s difficult to disagree."

Because that is Greek and who knows what it says.

ref: https://www.theawl.com/2016/11/the-spirit-of-the-internet/

TIL: There is a fruit in the middle of every go program, main.go.

I think we can all agree the case fatality is a reassuring zero for those who don't die of covid & rises to a scary and shocking 100% for those who do die of covid.