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hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 06:50
@packetcat I have one of these, and I like it.
https://www.amazon.com/Professional-Standing-Accessory-Balancing-Exercise/dp/B07RTYTKS6
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 07:39
Routinely see “Mastodon is awful” on Bluesky and “Bluesky is terrible” in the Fediverse and I’m just tired.
Everything doesn’t have to be for everybody.
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 07:41
I used “everything doesn’t have to be for everybody” in conversation yesterday for a different context and I guess my brain has latched onto the phrase.
It’s not a bad one to latch onto.
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 08:14
okay I’m real happy for your latest update but I’m starting to feel that “fishing minigame” is the game equivalent of Greenspun’s Tenth Rule Of Programming
I’m still gonna enjoy it. I’m just saying.
#NoMansSky
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 09:03
Seven whole hours of sleep, breakfast eaten, teeth brushed, meds taken, caffeine and backup caffeine handy, feeling so productive I got the ridiculously wide monitor split with 2/3 work and 1/3 home.
Obviously I must be coming down with something.
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 10:37
@spinningthoughts @toolsontech I’m mostly happy to hear about the turnaround on bug fixes. That’s what’s most promising for the alpha.
I won’t be trying it until they say out loud “hey download this” — which I’m sure I will even if they qualify the announcement with “it might melt your computer.”
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 10:54
Took the pups out for a quick walk outside between meetings.
Between the walking and the “quick” and the “outside” I think I am ready to die.
Hydrating now.
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 12:57
@IamMrsGeek that’s the best way to do it really
turning over helps prevent rot
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 14:17
Once again: the charger charges devices quicker if the charger is plugged in.
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 14:36
@aburka convenient!
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 14:41
Pulling forward a note on how to write good issue tickets from v2021 note vault to v2024 note vault, originally copied from to the first vault from a work Confluence page and my brain just registered that because that workplace no longer exists, neither does that Confluence instance, and thus neither does that page.
Weird.
Okay well here’s the important bit:
Every ticket should include an answer to
Who benefits from this unit of work?
What is the unit of work?
When can it be considered complete?
Why is this work being done?
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 15:30
I’m always going to be mad at Slack aren’t I.
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 15:52
@nomad Well that set off an interesting internal analogy-by-childhood-trauma train of thought.
anyways
That’s when you tell them “just because it could be worse doesn’t mean it’s good now.”
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 15:53
@nomad (which would probably help about as much as when I tried it as a kid)
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 18:05
Saw the Robert Palmer video so of course now Ingrid Michaelson is looping in my head.
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 19:03
The dogs startled a tarantula, startling the dogs, startling me. I think everybody peed a little.
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 19:31
@m may have come as a surprise to the tarantula as well
hackers.town: 2024-09-04 Wed 19:35
It’s recursive code sure, but given the data I’m processing my application-level call stack is way too shallow to be making Python panic over excessive recursion. Makes me wonder how busy things are in the support libraries I’m using.