Threw a couple of peanuts to a crow that was hanging out on the grass outside my window earlier this morning. Now every ten minutes or so three of them rock up and shout at me until I chuck them some more.
@Edent if you get a smart plug which reports current this is relatively easy, either by detecting a spike in current and then starting a timer for however long rice takes, or detecting a spike followed by activating an automation which notifies when current drops back down to baseline for a few minutes. It’ll take a few tries to adjust for baseline and wait times if the cooker is (as someone else mentioned) cycling on and off.
I’m begging you iPlayer, stop asking me who’s watching. No one else lives here. No one else has ever signed in on this device. You can just assume it’s me.
Is their any video format worse than “YouTuber watches TikTok videos”? This question brought to you by my son’s terrible taste in YouTube.
@CuTEL at this rate you’ll be doing gigabit fibre to the tent at EMF 2042.
I am now one full week into the worst insomnia of my life. It appears I can be tired at any time other than when attempting to sleep. If anyone has tips on dealing with this they’d be greatly appreciated.
@jonty I could find no evidence of it happening, but that may just have been Google being confused by the search “pelican (bird) in a pelican case”.
@barnoid my entire flat is currently using 148W right now, and that includes several servers. It’s truly amazing how efficient things have got.
Periodic reminder:
Are you feeling dispirited by the software industry? Does every job you look at feel like another bullshit way of transferring working-class money into VC pockets?
YOU CAN LEAVE!
It will mean less money, but you can leave.
Whether it's as small a step as a janky university webmaster job, or as large a one as retraining, you can leave. I have been so much happier for leaving.
Always happy to talk through logistics of this with the curious.
The problem with testing a thing that involves SMS delivery is eventually you have to send real SMS messages, and that involves waiting an indeterminate amount of time for it to arrive.
Apple Music appears to support animated album covers and I'm deeply disappointed that they're just static animations when they could have made them full blown custom visualisers for each album.
Please send help. I’ve developed a crippling addiction to pretend power washing. My plan tonight was to have dinner and get an early night. What happened was to have dinner and then Powerwash a house on the Steam Deck while half watching YouTube videos.
@tess @CatherineFlick I’m so, so, tired of the entire economy being built on the assumption of infinite growth. Facebook having a fit when they stopped growing quite so fast because *most of the developed world already had an account* also springs to mind.
Turns out the 31st January 2024 is today, not a year’s time. Thankfully I realised that in time to pay the tax I owed without getting fined for late payment.
I’m once again pleading with Minecraft streamers to stop screaming into their microphones. None of this is that exciting.
@pikesley base64 encoded shell scripts, for when just YAML isn’t cursed enough.
Someone created a fully funcional 16-Bit 3Hz CPU in Excel!!! with 128KB of RAM 16 color display, and a custom assembly language to run some programs in it. It’s open source too
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU
Code: https://github.com/InkboxSoftware/excelCPU
I just realised it's been over a year since I last touched a relational database in a professional setting. Guess that makes me a systems programmer now.