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hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 12:29

At some point in the last decade I learned that if you only shave once or twice a year, you should do it in two passes: clipper cut, beard oil on the stubble, wait a bit, come back later for the rest.

Injuries notably less frequent with that approach.

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 16:10

Bouncy Dog’s always giving side-eye. Most of that’s genetics, but some of it is attitude.

He wants my chili.

Black chihuahua mix dog looking at a plate of food off-camera while one eye remains aimed roughly at the camera.

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 16:55

Trying the Cypher queries with Neo4j and a different bunch of files this time.

Neo4j browser with query “match (f:File)-[from:FROM]->(fs:FileSource) return *”, and a network graph with a bunch of orange nodes indicating files radiating out from a central blue node labeled “Obsidian v2024”

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 21:08

I played #VintageStory on the M1 MBP! I had to launch it from WezTerm, via

I got a fire and a grass bed and uh sort of a house.

also it crashed when I exited

But it started back up!

Welcome to Ozymandias Estates. Look on my cribs, ye mighty, and despair. (Yes I’m playing in chill mode. I’m just here to figure out how food and walls work)

Minecraft-style voxel game, with player avatar standing in front of a tiny loosely assembled square of logs, planks, and dirt. The house is just big enough to cover the straw bed inside.

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 23:06

USWDS applied the mandated edits to their repos.

I feel so awful for these folks. You don’t join the team specifying accessible and inclusive Web design for the government as a side gig.

And kinda mad at PR comments telling them in what manner they should have resisted. They already stalled at least a week compared to the other repos I was watching, and pressure was high.

https://github.com/uswds/uswds-site/pull/3078

Summary of PR to remove content related to Trump administration’s 2025-01-20 repo

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 23:15

Dunno if it’s Neo4j, the Object-Graph-Mapper I opted myself into – neontology – or parsing 5k flat Markdown files instead of making trees and parsing 33,000 smaller nodes or what, but jeez this is way slower than Kuzu.

I mean a lot. Ten minutes vs seven seconds.

And I was feeling grumbly about seven seconds.

hackers.town: 2025-01-30 Thu 23:28

Well it’s not the parsing. Targeting the 5k page Obsidian bucket instead of the 1.8k page Logseq graph added about a second. It’s that KuzuDB is way better than Neo4j at supporting and documenting bulk inserts (at least for non-Enterprise users)