"is that a biblical thing or is it star wars? I think it's star wars"

overheard at the coffee shop

@zpojqwfejwfhiunz

in haskell,

(🥖) = (</>)

But: https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5518#comment:7

"The investors combined to purchase 7.5 percent of the protocol at a $136 million valuation."

ICO scam or not, the concept of owning some percent of a protocol is incredibly disturbing.

From https://www.coindesk.com/handshake-revealed-vcs-back-plan-to-give-away-100-million-in-crypto/

@liw @algernon I wonder if there has been any study of how submitting such a form affects the overall level of spam received. It seems that an confirmation that a human read the spam would be valuable

@liw @algernon oh idk, if you're running a million spam bots on IOT devices, talking to third party CNC servers run by some mobsters, it may take a while to get in touch with them all

↻8.2 ∿❄74% 28.00V 365W 1.22kwh 75(75)°F ☔6mi

My custom xfce panel data has kind of metastisized. That's 8.2 satellite SNR, inverter on, fridge on, battery 74% full at 28 volts, 365 watts solar production and 1.22 kwh total today, indoor and outdoor temp currently the same, and nearest storm is 6 miles.

I'd cram in indoor and outdoor humidity and stuff, but I'm out of pixels.

@paul "Use mode 5 to disable DoH under all circumstances."

"DoH". Magic number 5.

It's almost like an engineer is in there trying to stealthily say something.

good seeing tonight, milky way seems unusually clear

and 2 shooting stars in 5 minutes, early perseids

@algernon not just APIs https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/documentation_first/

@Greg this beats my car-buying experiences, which have all included the seller removing the license plate

@er1n it gets better.. haskell now has stringily kinded types.

@Ayior $100 times the check's number.

Why? Most people don't write a lot of checks anymore, and the check number typically starts at 100 or 500. Median bank account contains less than $3k. So, this guarantees I won't drain such an account. But if the account makes a lot of transactions, it's likely a lot bigger.

Cheating? shrug

@jamey glamourous? County commisionner candidates, with their outstretched cards and subliminal drifting toward you are reminiscent of zombies

@sajith or they're going to see less than 100 people at the poll today and ...

#Voted in primary election & got mobbed by county commissioner candidates & one election official told me he had been meaning to get around to grading my driveway & the shocker -- other election official said "I read your blog"

I need work. If you have use for software development in Python or C, on Linux or Debian, I'm available: short-term contracts, or part-time or full-time employment. I can do coding, and software architecture. I can work remotely. I reside in Finland, if that matters.

https://liw.fi/cv/

Spending the next week camping on a desert island. ciao

@Ninjatrappeur The only other fee for Euros will be the Transferwise fee for conversion to USD, which is 0.35%

Successfully got Euros out of #Liberapay, finally. If you're in the US and similarly stuck, Transferwise borderless account seems the way to go.

(Be sure to use IBAN to transfer to it, other methods don't work.)

(freudian typo)

@switchingsocial every time I view source on yourube to find the channel_id buried in some mess of javascript, I am again stunned at Google's commitment to web standards.

@alienghic good idea, doesn't fit the current time limit I'm afraid.

anonymous donation (160 weeks of $0.25)
anonymous donation (171 weeks of $0.47)
anonymous donation (36 weeks of €3.47)

#Liberapay backers are amazing me -- that's a lot of weeks to have pre-donated. But also stressing me out; I have a *lot* of Euros stuck in my account now.

(Was able to finally withdraw USD, which is like 1/5th as big as the Euros.)

@mulander don't forget 600 ms latency

worth noting that these issues with open-plan offices were known as far back as 1997, well before the current fad

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/the-open-office-trap

After drying my sumac harvest and rubbing the berries off the clusters, I ground it by hand with mortar and pestle.

Passed through a sieve to remove the seeds and stems, an amazing spice emerged.

This is the first time I've processed a spice. It reminds me of processing tobacco in the barn as a kid. So tactile, hands become sticky with dry sap, and it smells amazing.

Found this gorgeous thing on a bush, in a spot that I'm eyeing as a site for a small pond.

Been online via satellite for over 24 hours straight and have not used dialup at all for ~5 days. Solar upgrade is really working out; batteries have recovered significantly in the past month and despite summer waning, I have more power every day.

Cut a bumper crop of sumac just ahead of the rains. Amazing flavor.

Don't know yet how to process/store it, but I did make this jar of infused sumac garlic olive oil.

Split out the biggest cloves of Anna's garlic and planted them today.

The remaining pile-o-garlic should satisfy me for a month.

http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2017/08/disabling-intel-me.html

Minix won: Every modern Windows or Linux PC requires Minix to boot.

Guess how long this sign has been up.

This is my biggest lemon harvest ever from my potted meyer lemon tree. I've had it for 10+ years and it's always a joy. Next two lemon harvests in prep already..

Traffic was heavy through Asheville this morning.

Borg seems like the closest backup program like obnam. The main difference is it uses per-client AES keys, rather than gpg keys. So a backup can't be easily made accessible by other gpg keys.

I suppose that encrypting its AES key to the gpg keys you want to be able to access the backups, and storing the encrypted AES key alongside the backup will get the same functionality.

Did I mention the alien abduction part of my trip to Canada?

Drove to Canada and back. Home!

I walked over this bridge probably a hundred times, but never went down to see the waterfall. Let alone hiked down the gorge to Ithaca before.

Probably sums up my Cornell experience in some way.

Back at Cornell for the first time in 21 years. My feet still remember the way around.

Around a quarter of my pear harvest canned now.

The small jars are ginger-pear chutney. Need to find the time to make more of that, it's stunning.