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2022-10-08

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hackers.town: 2022-10-08 Sat 07:15

@dch now now let’s not be rude to everyone’s favorite short bus editor. VS Code did the thing and we’re all very proud.

hackers.town: 2022-10-08 Sat 09:39

Turning 1,500 Logseq pages into a flat list of 26,000 nodes because hey why not?

hackers.town: 2022-10-08 Sat 12:04

It’s a start.

Tabular Datasette view of a bullet point from a Logseq note

hackers.town: 2022-10-08 Sat 16:57

She tells me she’s dying and of course I need more information.

“pain, hunger, boredom, xenomorph, infected papercut?”

Pain. Long tattoo session and they reached the back of the knee.

hackers.town: 2022-10-08 Sat 21:04

The old power supply has been removed. The new one is in place. Now I just have to plug all the things back in.

oh no

A computer power supply on a desk, cables dangling loose in a serpentine mess

hackers.town: 2022-10-08 Sat 21:23

Jack is helping.

A cat reaches under the PC case, intently focused

hackers.town: 2022-10-08 Sat 22:05

Success! And something tells me I best get the case cover back on sooner rather than later.

The cat stares closely, fascinated by the lights on the spinning computer fan.

hackers.town: 2022-10-08 Sat 22:12

Bought this system in 2016. Have replaced RAM, video card, CPU, hard drive, mother board, and now power supply (and video card again).

We are well into Ship of Theseus territory.

hackers.town: 2022-10-08 Sat 22:45

#StableDiffusion with a 3060 Ti instead of a 5600 XT: 3.42s is a lot better than 318s

Also? This looks like what I asked for, which is pretty impressive.

photo of an actually plausible rendering of prompt: “the world’s most interesting octopus drinking an IPA at a sidewalk cafe in Seattle on a late summer afternoon”