Amongst other things I just took delivery of a satellite dish with a laser mounted on it, much to the bemusement of the guy driving the truck.
@CuTEL if you get one and put it outside the info desk I’ll love you forever.
@pikesley what do you mean you still don’t understand how it works. TRY READING AGAIN, SAM.
I'd like to talk to whoever decided these two hour delivery slots should have single minute precision at either end. 12:14 to 16:14. Your pickup will be somewhere in this four hour window, but by God it will not be before 14 minutes past the hour.
Me: “I’ll have a quiet day before going back to work”
My mortgage advisor: “I need bank statements, payslips, life insurance, and your firstborn to get this mortgage going”
Oh well.
@lunareclipse love this. I think my equivalent was realising I can just use the washing machine as a laundry basket, rather than using a laundry basket which then fills until I run out of clean clothes and have to spend two days straight doing laundry. Throw dirty clothes in the machine, when it’s full throw a laundry tablet in and run it.
@gsuberland @james I spent five years working in that space. It’s so much worse than you can possibly imagine.
I’m now 5 days into my 6 days of post-EMF doing nothing time. Turns out I’m terrible at doing nothing, I found myself thinking I needed a project yesterday and am having to fight quite hard against starting yet another new thing. Going for a long walk instead.
@lzg that’s the promise of generative AI isn’t it? Robots emailing each other with SEO optimised prose, occasionally popping a dialogue to ask whether you’d like to act on any of it.
This toot brought to you by me sending a message about wing shitting.
My phone knows me well enough that it now autocorrects suit to shit pretty consistently, even within words like suiting.
Step to write software by human:
1. Decide what you want your software to do (medium)
2. Decide what you REALLY want your software to do in all the corner cases (very HARD)
3. Write the code (Easy to Medium)
4. Test the code (Medium)
5. Debug the code (hard to very HARD).
Now, thanks to ChatGPT, you could improve this workflow by:
- making step 3, the only easy step, somewhat easier (and thus hiring less competent engineers)
- making step 5 nearly Impossible.
@thamesynne I decided I wasn’t going to use it until I stood up my own instance, which I’ve been on since doing so.
The Steam update logic baffles me. One of the < 100MB updates on this Steam Deck was scheduled to run on the 22nd, what possible reason is there to do that?
@jankmammal your mission is now to find them and put something more interesting on it.
@pikesley @moraghickman @Sinjo I was going to do a suit with EL wire running through it for this one but it got lost in the madness of everything else. (Also autocorrect nearly had me post that as shit rather than suit, which would have been a very different vibe)
@pikesley @moraghickman @Sinjo I really need to sort out some more fabulous clothes for next time. I’m a lifelong jeans and t-shirt guy, time to diversify a bit as I enter my 40s.
@james I have my sleep profile setup with a different Home Screen and even just hiding the icons for some apps makes a big difference for me.
@doop I’m still processing it all, really need to sit down and write a blog post about it because this year really was something else. My faith in humanity has been restored, and for the first time in years I feel some hope that maybe the future might be ok.
@herdingdata oh I love that it’s named after the Roci! Not sure what we’ve have done without your rescue service charging around the place pulling vehicles out.
Enjoying the post EMF game where I repeatedly test to work out whether the extreme fatigue, muscle ache, and warmth is covid or a week of not enough sleep, physical exertion, and mild sunburn.
Y’all know that you don’t have to do cookie consents if you don’t try to track users in ways that are creepy, right?
Like a better internet is possible? 🫥