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@jplebreton Well!!!? What did you think? I was incredibly hyped to see Joseph 2, and I am hoping against hope that he is in part 9. And I loved that the last chapter was all about drawing the line directly from SBR to Jojolion, and all about family and lineage in general which is obviously The Most Jojo Theme  @darius I loved it! I made the mistake of seeing what randos on twitter were saying about it and some of them were mad about "unresolved threads" and IMO everything important got a decent conclusion. As soon as Joseph introduced himself as "Fumi" in chapter 109 I knew he who he was. I can't tell whether part 9 is going to be him doing stuff back in the 40s/50s, or whether the "lands" (islands where Locacaca was found) Josuke spoke of are the titular Jojo Lands of part 9. The Fermi Paradox is an early-access game about "galactic gardening" -- you shepherd civilizations across a galaxy on a very high level (like making decisions for them once or twice per major "era" of their civ). Still a bit rough (since it's early access) but there aren't a lot of games like it out there. (Windows only.) https://store.steampowered.com/app/1543150/The_Fermi_Paradox/ Nice mini-site from Alvy Ray Smith, one of the cofounders of Pixar, debunking a lot of the myths about Steve Jobs' involvement in the company. TLDR; he was a very useful investor for them but the idea that his "vision" shaped the company is incorrect. Around the time Toy Story was poised to be a hit, he positioned himself to *look* like a visionary.
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@darius it’s frustrating to see things like the Mac and neXt lauded as “Jobs’ brainchild” when there were so many brilliant minds that also shaped these these things. I guess … American exceptionalism and billionaire hero worship?   Personal inbox down from 2800 unread messages to 1400. Tomorrow I'll try and hit 700. All part of my strategy I like to call... Inbox Zeno 😎
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I recently got a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 9 laptop. On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS it was overheating under load. It took me a few hours but I figured out a fix. I blogged about it so hopefully no one has to comb through forum posts to solve this problem again.  @darius since you mentioned secure boot on the X1, note that there is a  @darius I love me a ThinkPad, but Lenovo has really been fucking up the thermal/power aspects of them for years. Wow whatever Ubuntu did to their gui software center thingy in the ~8 years since I last used Ubuntu is awful! There is hardly any software, and it segfaults when I try to install something. On a clean OS installation! Am I missing a secret way to get the old functionality back? I mean I can use `apt` for sure but I did like being able to browse cool software. (Please do not recommend other distros. The ONLY distro I am allowed to use on my work laptop is Ubuntu 20 LTS.)
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  @darius a lot of things just plain don't work under Wayland, so use the Xorg session Figured out the two things that were making Ubuntu 20 slow for me. 1: It installed with 1GB of swap space. This is comically low for a machine with 16GB of RAM. Increased it to 16GB and that helped a lot. But my GUI was still really slow, at which point I realized 2: I had "fractional scaling" enabled for one of my displays. I turned it off and suddenly everything is butter-smooth. It means I have to run my high-DPI screen at a lower resolution but I'll take it. I recently learned that Postgres supports full text search: https://blog.crunchydata.com/blog/postgres-full-text-search-a-search-engine-in-a-database (It's supported this for a long time but I'm late to the party.) The single biggest pain for me running a small Mastodon/Hometown instance is running Elasticsearch alongside it. I was wondering: has anyone looked into either 1) supporting postgres for text search on Mastodon, 2) providing an API frontend for postgres that mimicks the Elasticsearch API? There is no better kind of post on the internet than "I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to do this task, so I wrote it down here as a reference for both for my future self and for others." (This post inspired by https://felix11h.github.io/blog/install-paprika-wine ) that feeling of pressure when your jira tickets are normally in the 4-digit range and you are assigned a feature ticket with 2 digits  New idle fantasy: being the camp cook for a bunch of rebel fighters https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-farc-ate-colombia (cw for food stuff at the link) ES2021 was just approved and is finally, FINALLY shipping with String.prototype.replaceAll. So 'falafel'.replace(/l/g,'b') both give you `fabafeb`. No more regex needed just to get the "greedy" flag in there!    @darius 1. Nice! Shouldn't need a regex just for that. The W3C Decentralized Identifiers standard is now a 1.0 draft. https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/ (I only just heard of it today, I have no opinions on it right now.) @darius Hmm. In terms of a generic data format, sure, that spec seems fine but kind of boring. It doesn't say anything other than "here's a URI format", "here's a document format", and "you have to use a resolver (not specified here) to get from one to the other". The actual meat of the spec is over in https://w3c.github.io/did-spec-registries/#did-methods and the heavy association with proof-of-work cryptojunk really turns me off :( @darius worked at a startup doing identity verification stuff a few years back. founders were very into blockchain-y things. very into DIDs. had meetings about them and how we should use them to revolutionize identity. none of us knew what anyone was talking about. to summarize: i still have no opinions on it. One of my favorite things about Looney Tunes as a kid was them repeatedly clowning on Betty Smith's 1943 novel "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". Had I ever heard of it? No. But as a little kid I loved that they were making fun of it. (Now that I look it up it seems like a very serious coming of age novel that deals with poverty and substance abuse.) @danbruno so I never got more than a few hours into Ao but I recently cracked my Vita and realized that there is an English psp iso floating around. Look at this glorious thing  @darius Oh nice! Portability can really help for long JRPGs, haha. I hope you can find time for it! Also: I'm hoping we might hear some good news at this event next week https://www.gematsu.com/2021/06/nis-america-to-host-falcom-40th-anniversary-live-stream-on-june-24 If I feel I'm not "done" with a programming task at the end of my work day, I leave myself detailed notes on what to do the next morning. Like: the next ~3 things I think I am going to need to do (update function X, run the tests, investigate function Y if the tests fail, etc). I've attached this morning's notes-to-myself. Basically this lets me just "follow orders" at the start of my work day and ease my brain back into a place where I can start thinking at 100%
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 @darius Doing that kind of thing also helps me put the task down at the end of the day so I'm not endlessly repeating those ~3 things to myself trying not to forget.  @darius Maybe this is why I suck as a developer (lol), but I find this to be a very fine line...once I start jotting down pseudocode, that project is probably *never* getting finished. The puzzle is gone, it's just translation, and that's the most boring task in the world :) So I find it's important to only ask questions. "Why the f- does this query take so long?" will get solved first thing in the morning, but "try adding an index to this table" is a recipe for procrastination! |
@darius Employee 1: "This batch of sponge colors are all wrong. They're all desaturated and ugly."
Employee 2: "Yeah, don't throw 'em out. Just put 'em over there with the others. We have a way to sell those."
@darius Are the filled with glass shards? I trust they are not soft or anything if they are for “men”.
@darius really a shame that "men's shower poofs" wouldn't fit on the sign