Pigface had many times the number of members of This Mortal Coil and twice the output, but was way more chaotic and hit-or-miss. Grateful for both. 🎵
Still find the output of This Mortal Coil to have been miraculous. How such an amalgamation of a large number of artists, even under the direction of a couple of people, put out so much lasting music is beyond me. 🎵
I’m saddened every time I see anyone use alias; it should be considered a deprecated relic of ancient times. Any time you think you should create a shell alias, use a function instead. Aliases are just weird macros and functions are so much more sane.
You need to laugh at all the bros complaining about the newness of “cis”; were they not paying attention to all the mentions of cis-Alpine Gaul in their ancient Roman history?
🍂
I dislike when there are new credentials or other environment-specific configuration added to a system because you can’t test that your production setup is fully correct until you actually deploy, and so you need to do emergency fixes if anything is wrong.
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Reminder to myself that systemctl list-timers is a thing.
Reminder that Unix epoch time is a lie because it ignores leap seconds, i.e. seconds do not represent a consistent length of time.
You go into an Errol Morris documentary with high expectations, and The Pigeon Tunnel meets them. I really liked it.
I thought my web app’s date/time display functionality was broken. Went chasing things down, and it turns out that, if you turn on Firefox’s fingerprinting resistance, it forces Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone to UTC.
Slack interprets Mastodon post bodies as “mrkdwn”.
🤔
libyaml doesn’t support emitting comments? 😞
Sonoma apparently breaks wallpaper settings in all kinds of ways. I was able to mostly get things back the way that I want, but you apparently cannot have two different shuffled images on separate monitors.
Simple little zsh function that makes my life easier every day:
function newdir {
if [[ $# != 1 ]]
then
emit-warning usage: newdir directory
return 1
fi
mkdir -p $1 && cd $1
}
There’s nothing in the JSON specification that says that Graham’s number is an invalid value, although finding a computer that could do anything with that would be challenging.
Make everyone’s life easier and just statically link everything. Including libc.
Watching Andor again. I know what happens and yet I’m still tense.
So apparently, due to a 1920s Supreme Court case, all the data that current cars gather on you (e.g. every place you’ve been in the past however long) can be searched by the police without a warrant.
Watching old movies reminds me: I don’t miss dealing with paper maps.