Gregory's Server
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Lawyer: my client should be able to Fuck Around, forever. Lefty SC justice: What about the Finding Out step that always follows? Lawyer: We eliminate it. It never happens ever again, but just for the office of President. Everyone else continues to Find Out. [6 out of 9 SCOTUS justices nod in agreement]
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1. Biden does not contest the case. 2. Trump wins the “principle” of absolute presidential immunity. 3. Biden shoots Trump. Problem solved. 
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When you’re formulating an emergency response to an incursion of Draculas, make sure to invite all the stakeholders NASA recovered a space probe's 47-year-old computer with about as much memory as my old Commodore 64 over a distance of 15 billion miles so it can (hopefully) continue to do science work, and it reminds me of how much ingenuity used to go into computers back when the assumption was you couldn't consume the water and electricity of a small nation just to power Ask Jeeves.
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Chapter five in this book is heavily related to the Voyager. I like to drop this link when the Voyager recovers from a malfunction. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19880069935/downloads/19880069935_Optimized.pdf  I have watched the voyagers with tears in my eyes ever since they launched. These intrepid little craft blow my mind and about bring me to tears every time I think about them. To have circled planets and then proceeded to go where no human has gone before and show us the way. Wow. They make me so proud to be a human. @gwynnion actually first computers were quite monstrous, but yes, a number of nonsense significanly rose since that times.
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 my letter to NIST on the unqualified expansion of biometric credentials is at https://cosmicexplorer.github.io I've realised that upon adding a new source file to a project, I almost always start off by inserting a syntax error to check the compiler knows that it's there.  @jsbarretto the sun vanishing must be a very regular occurrence in the UK so I understand why it's not very exciting Trying to get hold of a functional version of the old Google Sketchup before they screwed it up is a right pain. There are copies available when sailing the seven seas, but I'm not in the habit of trusting whatever iffy mods have been made to the thing.  @jsbarretto I got the washing up bowl out to soak my feet last night and the look my pup gave me. Her: Me: 🤷♂️ I feel like the introduction of snap/flatpak has seriously degraded the Linux desktop experience. Yes, I understand the on-paper advantages: but it's been several years now and I'm still constantly dealing with tiny papercuts, weird containerisation bugs, and not knowing which of the many different package managers I should use to install a piece of software. A few months ago I got an old Thinkpad up and running again to use on my commute. It's got a pretty tiny SSD on it so to save on disk space I decided I'd install a distro that leans into system-wide packages instead of containers. I've been very careful to only install things from system repositories (with a few minor exceptions for things I've installed from source). A few months later and things are going great. I spend much less time fucking around trying to make things work. It's blissful. I planted out some tomatoes today. Too early in the season so I'm risking frosts over the next month or two, but I've plenty of backup plants and it's nice to pretend that winter is over already. Today was the first day I've needed to open the greenhouse window, it hit 34 °C. I've learned my lesson with the absurd volume of rain we got last summer so I'm growing more things in containers this year, particularly fruit. Aside from anything else, I figure that going vertical is a more effective use of the limited space I have. It's weird that typing unusual characters like π, μ, √, and ∆ is substantially easier on my phone, a device with an apparently lower bandwidth / more primitive input system, than my actual desktop computer. That feels like a failure, on some level.  @jsbarretto windows and Linux desktop you press and hold down the ALT key. Then type the three digit ASCII or extended ASCII code using your number keys, then release the ALT key. Delta symbol: ALT-196 Extremely pissed off that the BBC decided it was a good idea to have an advisor to Putin on to talk about Navalny's death, presumably 'for balance'. You might as well interview a Nazi for a 'balanced' perspective on the second world war. Utter irresponsible. "I'll just spend my Sunday evening painting the bathroom door, half-hour job, easy peasy" I'm 4 hours in and I've somehow found myself under the bath, with sealant everywhere, caked in dust and old bath water, wondering whether I'm going to be able to get a shower tomorrow morning. Also, the previous owner of the house has left exposed, live wires here? Under a BATH?! With the only thing standing between live and neutral being a poorly tied knot? Christ on a bike My city is soon to run a pilot scheme that's going to make many roads, particularly in residential areas, access-only for motor vehicles. It's a great piece of #urbanism policy, but sadly it's riled up the usual conspiracy theorists complaining about '15-minute cities' and 'CCTV cameras' (there are no such plans). I've noticed a lot of them putting up stickers with disinformation about the scheme so I've decided I'm fighting back with my own more colourful and (hopefully) eye-catching design.
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 Nice! You should add the URL in text form next to the QR code. Also, I suspect some of the text doesn't meet contrast requirements - see https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/  @jsbarretto @jsbarretto I've tried repeatedly to get my city to make my street that way. I'm two blocks over from a neighborhood greenway, which is car-restricted with many diverters to force them off, but it causes mayhem to the adjacent residential streets. And this is particularly gnarly on mine because it narrows to a mere 16 feet with parking on one side (which is ridiculous). Today was the first sunny and somewhat warm day of the year, quite uplifting stuff. Did some gardening and some DIY and now I am happy again. |
