At 50F outside, the new double-pane windows read 6F warmer than the crummy old single-pane ones. Not bad, I guess? (Though I'm not planning on having the one remaining single-pane still around when it gets significantly colder to be able to compare then, alas.)
And on a related note, recent & ongoing experiences are really bringing into sharp relief the difference between good tests and voluminous tests.
So, so, so tired of reviewing LLM-generated PRs whose authors don't seem to have reviewed them themselves.
Your name is on this; if you're going to claim it's your code, at least take some damn responsibility for it.
Sigh.
A new stapler isn't usually cause for great excitement, but when the old one is that bad (on the left here, utter garbage, not recommended)...it kind of is!
In a dozen or so tests so far, the DeWalt has managed to jam or double-fire a total of zero times, which is about a dozen or so better than the Arrow.
`FnOnce` — función que se puede invocar 11 veces
why.
Rebirth Brass Band last night; a good time was had.
Mammals the size of buses swimming around singing. How lucky we are to live on this planet. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/jun/19/bury-me-in-the-whale-graveyard-let-the-weird-starfish-chew-my-bones
It baffles me that so many people can agree with the common understanding that symbolic constants are preferable to sprinkling numeric literals throughout their code, and yet still simultaneously somehow think that space indenting is a good idea.
I keep a dedicated, well-backed-up filesystem for relatively important documents of (at least potential) long-term significance -- mortgage, tax records, job contracts, etc. (This is not terribly noteworthy.)
Anyway, recent events have precipitated some somewhat memorable entries in my shell history:
$ cd ~/docs
$ mkdir -p kids/kid0(A more conventional name for the latter will probably be chosen in a few months.)
Sad to say farewell to The Bad Plus, but glad I was able to catch the final tour.
...and again a year later.
Ways to make a software-rendered (on-screen) digital clock terrible:
The combination of all three is both (a) something I've now encountered multiple times in the last 24 hours, and (b) worthy of a lengthy prison sentence.
Every time I turn my oven on to preheat I think I'm hearing the opening of A Love Supreme. It's not quite identical, but close enough that I wonder if it's a tribute by a Coltrane fan nestled somewhere in the depths of LG Corporation.
You where all thinking it. And the answer is 'yes!'. Yes you can totally LASER engrave a banana to exfiltrate data from your secured premises. Just out of the machine the text is barely noticable. But the next morning? Clear as day.
TECH WORKERS: There’s a petition calling on our leaders to get ICE out of our cities, and to cancel all contracts with the agency. Sign and share the petition at https://iceout.tech/, and then look for ways to get organized at work.
Subsequent research indicates that this is known as "surface hoar": https://avalanche.org/avalanche-encyclopedia/snowpack/weak-layer/persistent-weak-layers/surface-hoar-2/
Here’s a short poem about the power of poetry to change the world.
Assuming a causal relationship (naturally), the obvious question is its direction -- nominative determinism or merely descriptivism?
Glancing through @paulmckrcu's perfbook, it occurs to me that the strength/weakness of a CPU architecture's memory model is in most cases reasonably approximated lexically.
How does SPARC compare to Itanium? Well, I comes before S, so ia64 is the weaker of the two.
