hackers.town: 2024-01-31 Wed 09:36

@the_etrain @llewelly we apologize for the billing error the previous two cycles. Your USE OF YOUR HANDS has been re-enabled and account credited for the next two months.

However, your family member was not pre-authorized to contact support on your behalf. As this violates the EULA, all Neuralink services have been canceled. Authorized account holders may contact our arbitration team if you feel this decision was made in error.

hackers.town: 2024-01-31 Wed 09:56

Well, first official rejection of this job hunt cycle. Ah well.

hackers.town: 2024-01-31 Wed 11:30

Honestly these two sentiments from @babe and @slightlyoff pair very well

hackers.town: 2024-01-31 Wed 11:41

Bouncy Dog napping with his head in my armpit again.

hackers.town: 2024-01-31 Wed 12:29

Oh I got a LinkedIn notification. Better see what it is.

“LinkedIn is better on the new Windows app. Never miss a—”

(close tab)

This may seem counterintuitive to product management at LinkedIn, but I only visit their site with great effort and extreme reluctance. Putting that experience in a desktop app is not doing me any kind of favor.

hackers.town: 2024-01-31 Wed 12:33

Since I can export to PDF from Obsidian, I pulled my resume in from its current Word document. One less application I need to think about.

hackers.town: 2024-01-31 Wed 13:51

Opening beats of this short Kotlin tutorial video are reminiscent of a Peaches song and that is very distracting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viiDaLpPfN4

hackers.town: 2024-01-31 Wed 13:55

@lmorchard awkward, yes?

hackers.town: 2024-01-31 Wed 20:23

Seeing a post by someone all excited about LLMs and hey I get it it’s 2024 that’s a thing for more and more folks. I’ve been digging into the locally hosted stuff because I was into the Foxfire books as a hyperliterate tot.

But that’s also why what jumped out at me about the post was tight focus on a couple brand names effectively out of one shop. I know the person well enough to assume it wasn’t a sponsored post, but ye gods it may as well have been.

Have some pride, man. Try ollama or something at least.

hackers.town: 2024-01-30 Tue 06:04

We had to stop serving water to our cats in those little water feature fountain things, because they kept tearing them apart in the middle of the night when the water got low and playing with the parts.

They’re all little hackers. “This thing is not serving me. Why is it not serving me? I must find out.”

hackers.town: 2024-01-30 Tue 07:08

“Processing Vulkan shaders” for an hour in case maybe I want to play Enshrouded on the Linux partition.

More like “Processing Vulkan shaders” for two and a half hours then watching launch fail quietly because perhaps unsurprisingly Enshrouded is not quite ready for an out of the box Proton experience.

hackers.town: 2024-01-30 Tue 12:18

five hours in linux and i start fiddling with my emacs config

I DON’T EVEN HAVE EMACS INSTALLED

hackers.town: 2024-01-30 Tue 13:47

So the conversion needs some manual cleanup, but you can successfully go from #ObsidianMD to #OrgRoam with obsidian-to-org if that is the sort of thing you’re into, and the links would be intact.

That’s #OrgRoamUI showing the pretty note graph.

hackers.town: 2024-01-30 Tue 13:53

Hey that’s what I do! AI’s coming after my job!

Rhyming AI-powered clock sometimes lies about the time, makes up words Ars Technica

hackers.town: 2024-01-30 Tue 18:52

Eyes zoomed in on $2 for adults, $1.50 for kids. And those were big city movie theater prices in 1980.

Ooh, “All That Jazz” — mom took me to with her to see that, which is an interesting choice in retrospect. Babysitters were more expensive than tickets.

https://botsin.space/@oldroadside/111847524703260211

hackers.town: 2024-01-29 Mon 07:46

Been out of bed for a couple of hours and I’m nearly awake. Which is good, because I got an interview in 45 minutes or so.

hackers.town: 2024-01-29 Mon 08:29

“you ever need to work in a multiplatform heterogenous environment?”

yes

my brain

hackers.town: 2024-01-29 Mon 09:48

Describing past workflows I have enjoyed with an imaginary conversation, and giving possibly more insight into my thinking process than I explicitly planned.

“Let me ask my development team. What do you think, Brian?”

“Sounds good!”

“Now let me ask my infrastructure team. What do you think, Brian?”

“Ehh, I’m not so sure.”

hackers.town: 2024-01-29 Mon 09:49

I suppose it’s not imaginary if it’s a paraphrase of actual conversations, but whatever.

hackers.town: 2024-01-29 Mon 18:32

Ask the automatic coding assistant for refactoring suggestions and literally the only thing it wants to do is remove the logging statements and HOW DARE YOU SIR NEVER TALK TO ME OR MY LOGGING STATEMENTS EVER AGAIN

nice to know that i write perfect code though

hackers.town: 2024-01-29 Mon 20:43

“The night was”

We are watching Throw Momma From The Train. Been a long time.

hackers.town: 2024-01-28 Sun 10:14

Bouncy Dog is classic small dog, in that he greets other dogs with some variant of “I’ll bleep*ing kick your *bleep, you bleep bleep!”

Other small dogs generally respond with “Not if I bleep you first, bleep! bleep bleep bleep bleep”

Large dog responses are more like “oh it’s the weird little dude. Hey weird little dude, what’s up? Want some tea?”

Thing is Bouncy Dog gets on great with other dogs once introductions are out of the way. It’s just that he’s terrible at introductions.

who among us can say they have never barked at a jogger?

hackers.town: 2024-01-28 Sun 12:26

@boris My brain (the rude ADHD one, not the useful public one) wants me to explore SiYuan Note’s format a little more. The editing experience is closer to Notion, everything collapsible like Obsidian / Logseq and uniquely ID’d like Logseq, so for outlining you just — make a list. Multiple hierarchical notebooks within one workspace. Notes aren’t Markdown, but they are local JSON files.

Course, the down side is with some of the plugins I have to pretend I can read Chinese.

hackers.town: 2024-01-28 Sun 13:44

Worked so hard at saying “salmon” correctly that now I can’t say “salmonella.”

hackers.town: 2024-01-28 Sun 13:53

XFinity support person finding new ways to mispronounce Mrs Geek’s name

hackers.town: 2024-01-28 Sun 16:18

Are you telling me an oat milked this coffee?

hackers.town: 2024-01-28 Sun 16:53

@baldur the bit about senior devs accepting fewer code suggestions? That checks out.

I’ve been using a code assistant. Occasionally it’s a pleasant surprise but mostly it gives me something to growl at.

hackers.town: 2024-01-28 Sun 18:26

A weekly update a week after the last weekly update. That’s just weird.

#Snapshot #Blog

2024-01-28 Snapshot

hackers.town: 2024-01-28 Sun 21:50

Thanks to Mrs Geek and her superpower of object permanence, we were able to find the needed HDMI cable right where she put it last.

hackers.town: 2024-01-27 Sat 10:27

Today’s weather outlook is persistent rain and Prismacolor 30% Cool Grey, transitioning to 50% Cool Grey in the late afternoon with blended 70% and 90% Cool Grey overnight (patches of 20% Warm Grey over towns and cities).

hackers.town: 2024-01-27 Sat 16:29

Got a conveyer built long enough that it takes five minutes for the “delivered” graph to catch up with the “produced” graph.

The #Shapez achievement is “I need trains” which yeah I can see that.

(played the Shapez2 demo yesterday and that had me itching for time with the old-school-but-finished version)

hackers.town: 2024-01-27 Sat 17:53

1970-something: I ask what’s for dinner. Mom says “Food!”

2020-something: Mrs Geek asks what I want for dinner. I say “Food? Maybe?”

hackers.town: 2024-01-27 Sat 21:34

Watching and enjoying Brothers Sun but every once in a while there’s a writing choice that breaks me out of the story enough to do a double take.

Everybody in it’s a delight though and it’s worth it for that.

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 08:00

I will always put the publishing date on my blog posts and their URLs because I’m not trying to waste anyone’s time with reader-hostile SEO garbage.

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 08:01

Bet you can’t guess what kind of outdated but improperly labeled link I just clicked to prompt a micro-rant like that.

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 10:53

@masukomi funky keypad, right-handed trackball and left-handed cat.

You got all the accessories!

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 11:02

@masukomi My old Logitech finally died a year or two ago. Been using something by Elecom which is almost but not quite as good.

The ploopy looks intriguing!

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 11:16

@lmorchard @masukomi It’s been a very long time, but I recall the Expert (or one of its ancestors anyways) being quite nice to use.

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 13:34

@jenniferplusplus I put a git repo in a fossil repo and then put the fossil repo in another git repo.

It was not one of my better ideas.

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 15:10

Looking at a job opportunity where “pension” is a listed benefit, which my dot-com poisoned brain had to read three times before successfully recognizing it as not “penitentiary”

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 15:29

@lmorchard some kind of shaved ice treat

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 15:33

@rafial a pensioner is a violent devotee of paper-free offices

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 21:12

Cosmetic change using MVP.css as the base, showing updated cards, and an actual scrollbar. Well, if you’re using Webkit. Firefox so far insists on its fine-liner scrollbar.

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 21:15

@ceejbot Its week one gameplay is better than a lot of technically post 1.0 games.

I feel like it’s still missing some QoL or ambience or something compared to Valheim (which has been cooking a lot longer so no judgment).

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 21:34

three cups of coffee today

shocked at how much I’ve cut back

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 22:34

@VE2UWY no idea

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 22:41

@ceejbot I definitely enjoyed my little hour or so. Been seriously impressed how quick they pumped out the hotfixes.

I think I’ll probably wait for the next big patch to revisit. Valheim, the many mods of Minecraft, and Vintage Story will keep me busy on the tree-punching side of things until then.

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 22:44

@IamMrsGeek well you like the manager as a person, so my A and B plans are right out. But you can get practical advice and a helpful pep talk from select coworkers maybe?

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 22:46

@ceejbot Minecraft modders went so deep they had to make a new game. Hardcore survival block game with knapping tools, properly inconvenient weather, mods, shaping and baking clay. Couple hours of that and i felt like I was learning things.

Then I died.

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 22:48

@ceejbot My goal is to last long enough to start chiseling stuff. That’s where the artistry part looks so cool to me.

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 22:50

@ceejbot oh right

https://www.vintagestory.at

hackers.town: 2024-01-26 Fri 23:15

@Wrewdison @IamMrsGeek that feedback has been given more than once in multiple forms. nice person but they let their anxiety take the wheel way too much.

hackers.town: 2024-01-25 Thu 09:42

Found debug printing insufficient and ran pytest --pdb to use the debugger on test failure.

Who even am I anymore.

hackers.town: 2024-01-25 Thu 12:36

MusicBee’s DJ autoplay thingie picked this to play after the Tom Waits album I manually selected.

Yeah I can see that.

#NowPlaying

Mr. Oysterhead by Oysterhead

hackers.town: 2024-01-25 Thu 13:11

Now my site’s got Python handling backlinks, I think I need tests for my test fixtures, and my brain is slightly melted so maybe lunch.

hackers.town: 2024-01-25 Thu 13:36

I generally point at my site — with only one lapse (sufficient to require a domain name change) in nearly a quarter of a h*ckin’ century as my persistent special interest to ramble about my ephemeral special interests — whenever folks ask why I suspect there’s some Au in my ADHD.

hackers.town: 2024-01-25 Thu 15:25

Been studying DevOps for a chunk of the day and it’s almost time to play Factorio design and implement microservice architectures in a sandbox environment

hackers.town: 2024-01-25 Thu 15:25

yes I am available to rewrite your resume

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 06:53

@pdcawley easy enough while I’m on primarily one system. For my partition-bouncing habit, I’ve got some ideas with building a history file from git and stat.

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 06:58

@gamingonlinux I have to remind myself how big Pokemon is — across multiple generations — to partially explain how a game concept like this would appeal to people.

Because I’m drawing a big “meh” on Palworld, but that was my reaction when Pokemon came out too.

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 09:18

Gonna play some #Enshrouded later but first I had to fix an oops

Remove a file from git history - Random Geekery

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 09:27

@Mnemonic @lordbowlich @gamingonlinux that’s awesome!

I was just never moved by the competitive collecting idiom, back to when Magic: The Gathering came out.

But one workplace had a poster with all the Pokemon evolution diagrams at the time, and I loved staring at that thing.

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 09:40

https://hackers.town/users/feonixrift/statuses/111811889304482426

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 11:23

@Viss capitalism being what it is — and Amazon being who it is — I assume either it was costing too much to process loads of requests, or was about to cost a lot from liability.

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 11:29

Abusing pytest.mark.parametrize so three lines of code creates and runs 788 tests.

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 11:30

course when it fails you have to run again with pytest -x to find the first of 384 errors but hey that’s part of the fun.

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 11:31

@rgegriff I —

I don’t think so?

But the Internet is weird.

So maybe? Perhaps metaphysically??

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 11:33

@rgegriff no but I can point you right at (the last pushed version of) my abuses:

https://github.com/brianwisti/rgb-brain-hugo/blob/main/note_processor/tests/content/test_content.py

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 12:45

So I think I’ve looked up enough to understand basically Palworld is Calvin peeing on a Ford logo, but for Pokemon.

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 12:47

@lmorchard dammit friend this was supposed to a shitpost, not accurate insight.

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 13:17

@DionRa Enjoy!

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 13:55

My inbox tells me The Zed editor is now open source. Cool! Wonder if it supports WSL in any way.

Download options are DMG and source. Okay so maybe no WSL today.

https://github.com/zed-industries/zed

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 13:58

@klardotsh It’s been a real fractured conversation, but we are connected and maybe a few more days of getting sufficient rest will continue to soothe my assorted ADHD dysfunctions and help me continue that conversation. Mai seems real nice though!

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 14:01

@tk No I think I’m doing enough damage in the first one.

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 14:28

He prefers to nap in the dark.

#DogsOfMastodon

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 16:22

Pylance code refactoring tools slightly less helpful with Pytest fixture arguments.

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 16:51

I’m so easily pleased but whatever George Takei has started adding alt text and I am happy.

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 17:36

#Enshrouded already has two hotfixes out and I haven’t even had a chance to open it yet today.

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 20:39

So I played Enshrouded for a bit and — it’s fine. For day one early access, pretty good. But I feel like it needs to cook more, and they’re way too eager to please with how they a) set up achievements already; b) set them at low enough thresholds that I was at 10% of achievements after 45 minutes?!

hackers.town: 2024-01-24 Wed 20:41

@IamMrsGeek Oh that is lovely!

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-01-23 Tue 05:44

celebrating my birthday by waking up at 2am and staring at the ceiling for a couple hours

hackers.town: 2024-01-23 Tue 12:01

“Okay you need to stop clawing my boobs.”

I’ll leave it up to you to decide if she’s talking to me or the cat.

hackers.town: 2024-01-23 Tue 14:16

Blocking AI sealions in other people’s mentions because a healthy keyword mute list and frequently fed blocklist are keys to happy social network life, no matter the platform.

hackers.town: 2024-01-23 Tue 14:19

I’ll put up with outright LLM enthusiasts far longer than I’ll put up with “well surely you hate all of modern technology I’m just asking where you draw the line” types.

You. I’m drawing the line at you.

hackers.town: 2024-01-23 Tue 16:06

Got a new headset that’s just the newest version of the last one I accidentally broke, which was the new version of the previous one I accidentally broke.

I am rough on things.

I don’t even bother paying extra for “unbreakable” because I’ve proven to be the exception to that rule too many times.

hackers.town: 2024-01-23 Tue 18:33

No I’m sure the ice cream that started to thaw is fine. No really. It would be a soup.

That’s more of a stew.

It’s fine.

hello 911?

hackers.town: 2024-01-23 Tue 20:47

With a 24 second build time, Netlify’s free tier of 300 build minutes per month is not much of a constraint.

hackers.town: 2024-01-23 Tue 20:51

Basically what I’m doing — when I remember it, which likely will be a constraint — is somewhere near the end of my day I pull note updates into the site sources, run tests to make sure it works, and commit the changes. Somewhere less than 30s later the updates are live.

May want to do something to show newest cards or something, though. Not too keen on giving visitors an Easter Egg hunt.

hackers.town: 2024-01-23 Tue 21:06

I could automate the pull & test cycle, but at this point the manual activity reminds me to process my notes a little, refactor bits to relevant cards, maybe designate private limbo cards as officially public or private.

So the ritual is good.

hackers.town: 2024-01-23 Tue 22:42

Automated list of new cards run counter to the flow I’m thinking of. I’m my primary audience for my site. Just mention any interesting new or updated cards when I do my weekly 🤞 update post. Posts are covered by RSS. Get search back in, and OMG I implemented the site flow I wanted 15 years ago.

I got a little better, but the tools got a lot better.

Activity Log

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 07:39

got a job screen in an hour

hope i wake up in time

(takes coffee bath)

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 09:31

I was sufficiently-but-not-overly caffeinated.

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 09:34

My brain picked a new phrase for that thing where some overly enthusiastic and often venture-funded group of nerds tries to automate or improve a process without doing any real research into what the process currently is: dropping a tech-bomb.

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 11:05

Not sure how “democratizing” became a warning flag for me in a company’s service description, yet here we are.

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 11:20

Job listings are disappearing quicker than they did a few months ago. TBH that might be a good thing, as those listings that’d sit for six months as they — I dunno, collected resumes? — are a special kind of demoralizing.

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 11:41

Took me thirty seconds to find the button for composing a new email.

Was gonna make a snarky self-deprecating comment but really? MMN applies.

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 12:30

My car is a 2003 Prius with a straight pipe presumably because somebody already stole the catalytic converter.

@IamMrsGeek: “If we need to go somewhere I have him drive because nobody’s gonna steal his car.”

Or if they do they must really need it.

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 12:41

Conveying an impression of barely restrained chaos and hoping that the hiring manager considers it a selling point.

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 12:43

“He could accidentally burn the whole thing down. We need more of that at ACME Online!”

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 13:20

I’m not literally literal, but if I see two interpretations with a non-zero chance of correctness, I need to clarify.

Usually humorously because “oh that silly random geek” is way easier to deal with than “what is wrong with that dude”

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 14:10

“Have you tried Palworld?”

No im not really interested in the slavery simulator.

(I opt not to mention that most of my victorious runs in Civilization were with brutally oppressive regimes)

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 14:13

but really it’s just that something about Palworld smells all kind of weird, kinda like how Army FPS games smell, and I just stay away.

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 15:33

I changed my blogging workflow — again

Rebuilding My Public Brain

#Site #SecondBrain #Blog

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 17:22

having a “too many noises” moment

hackers.town: 2024-01-22 Mon 20:00

Shifted to Netlify, so that’s an expense I don’t have to worry about next month. (annual renewal was gonna cost me $240 for a bunch of stuff I don’t use)