@davidnjoku I used to, but my state got rid of vanity plates or the ones that were your initials and a number, so I've got some unmemorable random thing now, and I don't care enough to put it in my head.

The more AI related projects I'm put on and AI tooling I'm asked to review, the more I realize how tight the seal on the vacuum will be when these companies start cranking up costs.

It's black boxes inside black boxes, all being offered at deep introductory rates, sold under the guide of 'flexibility and openness'. Problems that arise are 'solved' by installing more black boxes to fix the inadequate existing black boxes.

@mttaggart I propose a trade: You can borrow my 15°F clean air and I can wear a T-shirt and knock a few weeks off my lifespan. Just for a little bit.

TIL car tyre sizes (eg, 225/55R17) manage to combine metric (225mm width), a percentage for an aspect ratio (55%), and imperial (17 inch diameter). I think that’s just marvellous. Well done everyone.

@JessTheUnstill Had a conversation with someone asking me to try out some LLM coding tool recently and I was like, "just so you know, writing scripts and hitting APIs is easy for me, while 'natural language' is something I find exhausting, so... maybe I'm not the target audience for this concept."

I was well into adulthood before I learned most people hadn't spent much of their lifetime trying to reverse engineer "How to human", and having to create something approaching a personality from first principles.

Concept: a flute that blows different spices onto food based on which holes you're holding.

An Ocarina of Thyme.

Who decided to call them 'back to back meetings' and not... oh nevermind.

Gotta say, I really despise the stranglehold a particular generation has on the culture, especially how it's expressed during Christmas season. There's only so much desperation for the 1950s that I can abide.

...and yet I know that the only thing that will backfill it when they're gone will be an even more vapid materialism than the one we have now.

@DavidM_yeg @copysent @remixtures I dislike the idea that prices could be dynamically assigned based on a profile of the customer, but I do think it should be legal to change a price rapidly in response to actual supply and demand (e.g, hourly sales, stock remaining, and next expected resupply). It should just be the price for anyone, though.

I want that last parking spot on the street to cost $10/hr, or the convenience store to be able to have higher Game Day prices.

Source: I live in a place where parking is locked to a rate for a whole day, not dynamic for events, and we also disallow 'happy hour', and it doesn't help as much as you think.

from https://www.tumblr.com/chaapostrophena/802215975606009856

@lcamtuf Just don't use a new version. The stuff they released a few days ago has gone downhill. 😅

@WEATHERISHAPPENING In a row?!

‘An Airplane has been defined as a collection of parts having an inherent tendency to fall to earth, and requiring constant effort and supervision to stave off that outcome. The System called "airplane" may have been designed to fly, but the parts don't share that tendency. In fact, they share the opposite tendency. And the System will fly—if at all—only as a System.’

— John Gall, The Systems Bible

@danirabbit I think capitalism broke and nobody noticed.

I had a prescription that was going to cost me $918 out of pocket to fill "with insurance" and $60 to fill at a pharmacy down the street "without insurance".

@jernej__s @mcc Oh, what I do is issue the certs to DNS names and use DNS-01 to validate them. So yeah, going to the IP fails, but if I go to homerouter.mydomain.poop, it works.

@mcc Am I the only nerd so annoyed by this that I've written scripts to push LetsEncrypt certs onto all my stuff?

It was a total waste of time except for the practice, which has actually turned out useful at work for various embedded stuff.

@JessTheUnstill I have a few cheap Temperature/Humidity sensors in the house just so I can see them at a glance. If your humidity is hovering at 45% or lower, you should probably add a little humidifier somewhere on the first floor of your living space near a heat vent just to add some moisture back to the air. (humidity rises and cools, so having the humidity catch a blowing vent helps mix it in nicely)

in order to cope with today's DRAM pricing crisis, i propose we look to the solutions of the past

Looking into the future ten years and seeing that the entire used car market consists of absolutely ravaged unmaintainable luxury SUVs and oversized trucks.