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- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 15 hours ago:
I haven’t been all over that area, but at night when there’s nearly nobody on the road it does have a feel to it.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 17 hours ago:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin-walker
Almost every place has its own myths.
- Comment on How best to open a blueberry? 2 days ago:
After the torx bit snaps off in the blueberry, what size EZ-out gets it out the best?
- Comment on Is Anon the asshole? 3 days ago:
If it came with batteries they make a Ryobi 40v inverter that’s not a bad, but I have a few other things that use those batteries.
- Comment on Why do so many programming languages have their own package manager? 1 week ago:
C and C++ are the only exceptions I can think of, off the top of my head; libraries are managed by, and coupled to, the operating system
For C/C++ there’s conan, vcpkg, and whatever Redhat calls their scl system these days. I know there’s more, but those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head. You could argue that podman serves in this capacity to some degree.
- Comment on A true Bullwinkle fan 1 week ago:
Doesn’t have to be in the state:
Some LLM assisted Fermi estimation suggests that those long European style plates would have room for plenty of characters and a QR code if you choose the right character set. As long as the camera resolution is good enough to pick out the QR code it should be good, but since they’re already issuing tickets for distracted driving for cell phones sitting inside the car, it should be good to go.
- Comment on A true Bullwinkle fan 1 week ago:
At least until the flock people raise a red flag because they’re too lazy to handle an ampersand in their OCR/database code.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
In the comments you said you get tests run every 4-6 weeks. In my experience old age problems don’t start at 32.
Try some different things in between one of those 4-6 week cycles:
- Track your diet with whatever website or software looking for basic stuff like calories and all the little sodium/calcium/potassium type stuff.
- Drop caffeine entirely. Taper off because the withdrawal headaches suck, and it’ll take pretty much the whole month. I doubt this will help, but the best sleep I ever had was when I quit caffeine.
- If money isn’t a problem grab a blood sugar monitoring kit and spot check it depending on how quickly you want to burn through the consumables. Get advice from people who have to do this on how to do it right.
Is it like a brain fog? One that no amount of water seems to touch? Like you’re moving and thinking through a soup that gets thinner and thinner through the day until it finally gets thin enough to seem normal?
- Comment on This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee 2 weeks ago:
Never served; don’t know for sure.
It makes more sense when you consider that the point is to get rid of the psychological blocks that would keep you from being able to do your business as quickly as possible whereever possible under whatever circumstances. That three to a urinal thing is under a short time limit.
Read up on what snipers do.
- Comment on Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors? 4 weeks ago:
You could probably get 80% of that process done by learning some python. If you have a string “s”, then replacing double newlines with a single newline is as easy as
re.sub(“\n\n”, “\n”, s)where “\n” is an LF in many programming languages. A CR is often “\r” in the same vein. Just be aware that regular expressions can be very, very frustrating; and every webpage is going to be a new adventure in how it got formatted. If you use something like spyder it’ll allow you to see what the data looks like inside the python process so you get a chance to iterate.
- Comment on Why does not a CR (Carriage Return) automatically start a new line on some online text editors? 4 weeks ago:
There is Carriage Return (CR), and also Line Feed (LF, often called New Line). If you think about old mechanical printers with the metal arm sticking out, a CR operation would move the type head to the far left column, and a LF operation would advance the paper by one line. Variously through the years depending on hardware (typewriter, teletype, those early CRTs that you had to refresh the screen, or modern computers) you would get one or both of those if you pressed Return/Enter, and it’s configurable in software, depending on the software. I don’t know what windows does these days with notepad, but at one time the Enter key sent both (CRLF). UNIX style systems tended to use LF, and older Macs as someone else referenced used CR. If you wrote a generic program to handle anything you had to account for all of them. Mostly these days it gets abstracted away which generally works well enough unless a team of people used a random collection of software to edit a text file.
printf "\r\nHexadecimal, like that scene from The Martian.\n" | hexdump -C 00000000 0d 0a 48 65 78 61 64 65 63 69 6d 61 6c 2c 20 6c |..Hexadecimal, l| 00000010 69 6b 65 20 74 68 61 74 20 73 63 65 6e 65 20 66 |ike that scene f| 00000020 72 6f 6d 20 54 68 65 20 4d 61 72 74 69 61 6e 2e |rom The Martian.| 00000030 0a |.| 00000031
The 0a is a Line Feed character, and the 0d is a Carriage Return character. In my terminal without piping it through hexdump you get:
printf "\r\nHexadecimal, like that scene from The Martian.\n" Hexadecimal, like that scene from The Martian.
The LF at the end of the string makes it so that the prompt at the terminal doesn’t appear on the same line as the output, and the blank line before the text is caused by the LF at the beginning. I don’t know/care/have to worry about what eats the CR.
- Comment on A Ripple in Space 5 weeks ago:
johncderrick.com/dinosaur-timeline
The timeline stuff always gets me.
- Comment on A Ripple in Space 5 weeks ago:
Pretty good resource for that kind of thing if you have another interested kid and access to the internet. There’s also this:
- Comment on A little dehydration Never killed nobody 1 month ago:
I, too, try to avoid the water fountains on the common wetwall where the water in the pipes is cycled all the time thanks to the constant use of the bathrooms. I usually shoot for the fountain next to the old eyewash station they were forced to put in when the electronics lab used to be the chemical lab–there’s never anyone using that one.
- Comment on This has gotten out of hand and I demand satisfaction. 1 month ago:
I know this is a shitpost, but here’s the explanation: you can’t force people to like you.
You may get off on power trips going to businesses where people aren’t allowed to deny you service or return bad attitude in kind, but everywhere else you’re a $1000/hour with a forty hour minimum payment in advance work starts after the check clears kind of guy.
- Comment on What is 3x/4x USB ?? 1 month ago:
They’re revisions to the USB standard. USB stands for “Universal Serial Bus.” In the before times there used to be different connectors and formats for sending data over wires for a lot of things. Eventually USB came along and solved a lot of problems all at once: simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB
- Comment on Engine auto-off 2 months ago:
A jeep renegade I rented did ok
You must’ve gotten a good one.