hackers.town: 2023-09-30 Sat 14:54

dammit even Clippy — Cody actually — is trying to remind me to eat.

hackers.town: 2023-09-30 Sat 17:10

two and a half hours about meme stocks? Holy hell.

New Folding Ideas dropped: “This is Financial Advice”

https://youtu.be/5pYeoZaoWrA?si=TE5qQIB1Ub3uisbf

hackers.town: 2023-09-30 Sat 19:04

Been spending more time in #TriliumNotes — to the point where I’m starting to think about the blog posts.

Storing everything in a SQLite database — including media, history, and even the JS you write to extend it — makes it feel like a Smalltalk image or something.

https://github.com/zadam/trilium/wiki

hackers.town: 2023-09-29 Fri 06:55

I learned Feinstein’s name in the early 90s because of Jello Biafra.

So anyways.

#NowPlaying

Jello Biafra — “Running for Mayor”

https://song.link/us/i/274248722

hackers.town: 2023-09-29 Fri 11:57

TFW you have the kind of week that’d be the start of a decent country song.

Car broke down, wife’s out of town.

Deaf in one ear, ADHD in the other, so no I didn’t hear what you just said to me.

Besides the dogs gotta go pee

hackers.town: 2023-09-29 Fri 11:58

SQUIRREL

hackers.town: 2023-09-29 Fri 13:40

@_maleficentgirl @parsingphase ruff-ly accurate

hackers.town: 2023-09-29 Fri 17:22

oh lord

Job descriptions’ expansive (yet still somehow noncommittal) DEI statements are triggering resumé-tuned job alerts.

i.e. they mention “the elderly” as a group encouraged to apply, which the job board logic registers as a geriatric medical tech gig, relevant to me because I worked for a biotech place.

hackers.town: 2023-09-29 Fri 17:25

I still applied because heck it’s way too late to be fussy.

But still. This is not encouraging.

None of this is encouraging.

hackers.town: 2023-09-29 Fri 17:26

@WuMargaret I can imagine worse, but it actually takes a little effort nowadays.

hackers.town: 2023-09-29 Fri 21:47

Linux ultra wide DisplayPort fun, where a reboot both decreased my default resolution and increased my default display scale.

Yow.

hackers.town: 2023-09-29 Fri 21:49

@genehack I am shocked. Shocked!

Well, not that shocked.

hackers.town: 2023-09-28 Thu 08:50

@luis_in_brief Eventually. No rush.

hackers.town: 2023-09-28 Thu 13:47

At least the Exercism time has made me a little more confident in replying to the “hey we got a Java gig” recruiter messages.

hackers.town: 2023-09-28 Thu 20:14

Hm.

I think I’m about to meet Great A’Tuin.

#Minecraft

hackers.town: 2023-09-28 Thu 23:40

Thought I’d do something different than the usual symmetry for tonight’s quick bedtime #drawing

hackers.town: 2023-09-27 Wed 08:15

@baldur I’ve got the robots.txt entry, but I’ve also pondered an htaccess redirect based on user-agent. Just out of spite, really.

hackers.town: 2023-09-27 Wed 09:46

Pups were ready for outside. Mind you this is before they found out how much rain was out there.

hackers.town: 2023-09-27 Wed 09:55

The young couple’s constant bickery bantering is adorable and if they don’t leave soon I’m gonna feel awful about having to kill them both.

hackers.town: 2023-09-27 Wed 09:57

Leave as in go to another room where I can’t hear them, not leave as in exit the city. I’m not mean or anything.

hackers.town: 2023-09-27 Wed 16:20

Final revision of Two Scoops of Django 3.x is out and got me itching to do some kind of #Django project. (the book covers enough general practices with the framework that it’ll be useful way past 3.x)

Might check my project idea stack.

hackers.town: 2023-09-27 Wed 16:40

For those who tok the tik: The Brawl of Jumpy Dog and Bouncy Dog.

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPR7rQJNE/

hackers.town: 2023-09-27 Wed 16:43

@superflippy I felt like the world needed to know what every day with those pups was like.

hackers.town: 2023-09-27 Wed 18:14

@bitprophet dammit

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 09:20

@lmorchard everything out there reminding me about Nivalis oh I hope that game is as fun as it looks. Gonna have the best noodle house in the city!

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 09:29

Tell the person you love that you love them. This reminds them that the world can be a beautiful place.

Tell them by popping out from the corner you weren’t in just a moment ago, giving them a mild heart attack and reminding them that the world is surprising and dangerous.

Also, sorry @IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 12:57

First acupuncture appointment ever today. Nothing like getting stabbed in the face to make you feel alive.

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 13:29

@IamMrsGeek “aaah-AAGGH”

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 13:31

Shortly after I switched to the laptop, the thunder started rolling. I think I made a good call.

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 13:32

@tk I used to wonder that.

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 15:59

@nosherwan I thought it was gonna be a couple months and for me it’s been all year. I have no idea now.

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 16:50

@WuMargaret Thanks! I was pretty pleased, given how quickly I put it together.

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 17:06

@WuMargaret I mean yeah. Should the opportunity come up I would love to.

Though with my mild anxieties about being within line-of-sight of other humans, I may need to be reminded I said that when the opportunity does come up.

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 17:09

Hey in case anyone else skipped the fundamentals trying to get to the cool stuff, here’s one of those dumb code questions that tripped me up a couple times.

Finding the factors of a positive number in #python

You can get fancier but this is resonable.

(edited for line length concerns plus a suggestion by @cazabon )

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 17:13

Getting a lot of rejections from jobs I applied to a few months ago.

I mean.

Bravo for catching up on your backlog, but I kinda figured.

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 17:20

@cazabon that’s right! I forgot about the fencepost. Lemme go put that back in.

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 17:37

@cazabon updated to a more betterer “good enough”

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 17:45

@luciano Overall, similar. I think that means they started hiring HR folks back on.

It’s a start!

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 17:48

@panamared27401 and footrests

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 18:08

@thrillcat It’s a little confusing.

hackers.town: 2023-09-26 Tue 18:30

@steriana I need to play more with functools and itertools

hackers.town: 2023-09-25 Mon 00:25

@IamMrsGeek it’s a mochi pie thing!

hackers.town: 2023-09-25 Mon 08:43

Clearing out eye boogers and replying to job-search-related emails because I AM MULTITASKER.

hackers.town: 2023-09-25 Mon 08:56

https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/111124470095941000

hackers.town: 2023-09-25 Mon 09:23

My assistant falling asleep on the job.

#DogsOfMastodon

hackers.town: 2023-09-25 Mon 17:24

worth it for scientifically accurate velociraptor

https://youtu.be/Sb_zA-hLMO4?si=gFYzh7P-vAhib-hA

hackers.town: 2023-09-25 Mon 18:25

#ArkSurvivalEvolved servers getting shut down in a few days. Not that that matters to me, I only occasionally play, and only solo local. But it reminded me that I want to play Ark with mods.

hackers.town: 2023-09-25 Mon 22:44

Bedtime #Drawing playing with symmetry in #IbisPaint

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 14:27

Switching computer(s) to a new desk is kind of an involved process.

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 17:06

The Federal Way Suburban Canine Theatrical Group prepares for the debut performance of Fiddler On The Roof.

photo: @IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 18:31

@ifixcoinops I put my computer’s “Intel Inside” sticker on my coffee maker to amuse myself, and then had to spend the next couple years deciding whether to clarify a visitor’s innocent misunderstanding or to deepen it.

I generally opted for evil.

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 18:40

“Let the company know about your interest working there”

dear company

i am very interested in working there

kind regards

me

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 19:01

Been expanding the job search way past my conversational comfort zone as the quest goes on, which makes these conversational form questions an interesting challenge.

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 19:04

@thomasfuchs similarly, over here: “I, Mayo!”

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 19:24

@bitprophet TBH I have to interrogate myself a little more deeply than that, because there are still a fair number of orgs out there qualifying only under “I would exchange my labor for your money” and I’ve avoided applying to them.

so

maybe

“I want your money and you don’t suck as bad as the worst companies I can think of.”

or maybe not

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 19:32

@bitprophet I got about six weeks until unemployment insurance runs out, so we are uncomfortably far into “never say never” territory.

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 19:40

@bitprophet Given 2023 my main suggestion is give yourself the breathing time you need BUT if some recruiter or another reaches out during that breathing time, maybe take them up on it.

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 20:53

@ben “If you need an analytics script to know you’re achieving your goals, you’re probably setting the wrong goals.”

oh dang

That is a broad call-out for sure.

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 22:05

She made some dragon fruit baked sweet experiment and it did not work out to her satisfaction and I’m trying to respect this time of her grieving but my favorite dishes are the ones that are really good or really memorable and well it’s still going down as a favorite.

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 22:07

this is definitely a funky brain wiring thing and folks should be careful asking me for food recommendations

“I tried that thing you suggested and it was awful.”

“I know!”

“I was sick for three days!!”

“Wasn’t it amazing? You won’t forget that one for a while, right?!”

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 22:40

https://hackers.town/users/IamMrsGeek/statuses/111124172987554766

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 22:41

@IamMrsGeek Science! all up in that kitchen.

It’s the Pumpkin Bread Gambit. How do you make pumpkin taste good? Dump a load of sugar and some spices on it. Maybe drink some brandy.

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 22:51

@genehack @IamMrsGeek if we actually had any brandy I would be recommending it right about now.

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 23:02

@Gina good evening!

hackers.town: 2023-09-24 Sun 23:59

@IamMrsGeek This is exciting! The chances that we poison ourselves are very slim.

but not zero

You think the kids might want the first slice?

hackers.town: 2023-09-23 Sat 07:14

@zopher I’d be surprised if the mod list provided on Discord was much more than the file list from the sources: https://github.com/M0nkeyPr0grammer/Landscapes-Reimagined/tree/main/mods

hackers.town: 2023-09-23 Sat 08:45

“In this video I will describe my Neovim config. I have linked to the config in the video description. For the next 45 minutes—”

(clicks config link)

Thanks, neighbor. That’s all I wanted.

hackers.town: 2023-09-23 Sat 08:52

@minego I’d just be reading my literate config out loud.

hackers.town: 2023-09-23 Sat 09:10

@mjgardner yep though what I remember most fondly is search engines

hackers.town: 2023-09-23 Sat 12:17

@mjgardner Probably, isn’t speculative execution already a major security flaw already implemented in chips?

Dunno if they’ve gone for the additional privacy and security issues of training a dataset though, good point.

hackers.town: 2023-09-23 Sat 20:17

It’s been raining all day. Summer is over. Fall is here.

finally

hackers.town: 2023-09-23 Sat 21:52

@mcgrew it’s seasonally correct weather in the Pacific Northwest, and I am pleased. I’ll be bored of it by October sure. But finally can turn the AC off.

via Aeon.

This video essay traces the history of Kowloon Walled City from its origins as a small 17th-century military outpost to today, where it lives on in the popular imagination through films, video games and an ongoing fascination with this unlikely makeshift society.

The Densest City on Earth - YouTube

The idea of Kowloon fascinates me. Course, by the time I heard of Kowloon it was being torn down. But once you’re aware of it you see it everywhere, used as handy sci-fi metaphor.

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2023-09-21 Thu 00:23

@mhoye “what was this gap in your resume for 2023?”

“Shitposting mostly. I mean I posted a lot and most of it was shit, but —”

“When can you start?”

hackers.town: 2023-09-21 Thu 08:02

@mc @lmorchard poorly. I’ll try again later, though!

hackers.town: 2023-09-21 Thu 09:05

one of them job sites that displays statistics about a posting’s employers

-3% employee growth in 12 months

uh

hackers.town: 2023-09-21 Thu 21:10

Submit enough applications, the rejection emails don’t hit as hard. Especially the automated rejection emails. Especially the automated rejection emails for a job you applied to – (checks notes) – two and a half months ago.

hackers.town: 2023-09-21 Thu 21:17

@dysfun it ain’t much but it’s honest twerk

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 08:21

Seeing cybersecurity job postings (PS it’s about h*ckin’ time) and realizing how I’d be the most tightly wound infosec person you’ve ever met because I tag all my practices as common sense which means JUDGY AF if you aren’t even doing those. And that circle of “common sense” security practices would be sure to expand if it was my job.

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 08:27

@mhoye If my browser supports it, I’ll do windows per-role and tab stacks per-task

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 08:37

@IamMrsGeek blocking you from participating fully, and micromanaging the stuff they want you to participate in. No trust and no respect.

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 09:02

Six to nine months into the job search, depending on how you count.

“Why do you want to work for $company?” is rapidly climbing the leaderboard of really annoying questions at this point.

Like — I get why you’re asking it. But I’m running out of pillow talk.

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 09:30

@JessTheUnstill I’ve dropped a chunk of the pretense. My answer these days is along the lines of “Paying rent is nice, but also …” and then say a few nice things about the company.

End result has been the same, so why waste effort?

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 09:39

The job application form has a mandatory education section.

The mandatory education section institution field is a select + autocomplete.

The mandatory education section institution field autocomplete does not include the community college you took that math class at.

The incomplete mandatory education section institution field autocomplete does not support direct manual entry.

Make autodidacts mad with one weird trick!

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 09:45

Enjoy my education section consisting of “Art Design I” at Olympic College in 1992, jerks.

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 10:26

Yes this job is one hundred percent me. I am a principled software engineer with an eye for detail.

Sorry the title is what? “Principal” software engineer?

0 for 2 i guess

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 10:29

@socketwench I can only assume. I don’t know if I’m up to that. Can I be the Vice Principal Engineer? The cool one who brings cookies for staff and students?

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 11:32

@mcgrew thought about it.

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 12:29

My meeting notes have a “meanwhile” section to jot down things my #ADHD brain briefly fixated on, so I can let that thought go for now and get back to the meeting.

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 12:45

Pantomiming through technical issues in my therapy session was amusing and strangely therapeutic.

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 12:51

If it happens again next week we should do the therapy session as pictionary

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 13:43

@chrisisgr8 @JessTheUnstill “but what about PASSION?! We want passionate developers!”

Oh I’m very passionate. About eating, sleeping regularly, making sure my family and loved ones are taken care of. You make sure I can fulfill those passions without distraction, and you’ll be amazed by the work I get done.

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 15:20

Bouncy Dog is a master of the judgy side-eye. Guess he’s not into dad jokes.

accidental renaissance imagery courtesy of @IamMrsGeek

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 17:29

@genehack hm maybe I’d have better luck out there if I tried an HD adapter

but where would i put it

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 21:55

Using Landscapes Reimagined with seed -4284415405783007328 and I spawned down there somewhere. That was interesting.

#Minecraft

hackers.town: 2023-09-22 Fri 23:10

@bitprophet Welcome to the crappy side. Decompress, maybe have a nice cup of tea. Though we’re reusing tea bags at this point so don’t throw them away just yet.

(no but that’s a crappy situation. Thank goodness for good severance, and here’s hoping your landing is quicker than mine)