Software engineer in Seattle, interested in social justice, feminism, building dense housing, science, tabletop gaming, and more. Parent. No terfs, GOP, or other bigots tolerated.
@StarkRG
This is accurate. Also very cool video.
The coolest California earthquake I remember was sort of a quick shift, forward and back about 8 inches, and that's it. One and done. (Resident of Bay Area 1998-2022)
Interestingly, you can sometimes get fractional warning because there's a rustling incoming
@catsalad
If you missed it before, #HumbleBundle has their RPG Megabundle back up with some amazing games inside https://www.humblebundle.com/books/roll-big-or-go-home-rpg-megabundle-books-encore
Avatar, Apocalypse World, Spire, Wildsea, Dishonored, Night’s Black Agent’s, Root, and plenty more.
Comes out to less than $1 per game.
id Software just unionized, we LOVE to SEE IT https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/id-software-devs-form-wall-to-wall-union-with-165-workers-at-doom-studio-the-latest-to-vote-in-favour
@shauna
Probably you have a phone number you like, but if not, get one from a place you never go. Then you can ignore every call from that area code.
One of the best perks of moving states
Scientists Discover the Earliest Human-Made Fire, Rewriting Evolutionary History https://www.404media.co/scientists-discover-the-earliest-human-made-fire-rewriting-evolutionary-history/
When you write code to remind yourself of things, make it identify itself explicitly, because you know you're expecting to have forgotten about it.
This week I attempted a 'git push' at work and got a strange message:
$ git push
Push attempted to branch head 'refs/heads/foo'
on Gerrit remote URL 'ssh://[hostname]/[repo]'!
Set GERRIT_SAFETY_CATCH=EXTREME_DANGER if you really meant it.
I had no idea where that message had come from. But the wording made it look like my own work, because the combination of 'safety catch' and 'extreme danger' is an obscure Hitchhikers reference which I'm fond of. So probably it was something I'd set up myself, on purpose, long enough ago to forget about it completely?
After some searching, I tracked it down to a pre-push hook that I'd installed precisely to protect myself against this mistake. (In Gerrit you often want to push to a weird secondary ref name rather than a normal branch head.)
Well done, Past Me, for two things:
1. Installing the safety catch at all, which did prevent me making a mistake.
2. Putting a distinctive joke in it which at least allowed me to recognise it as probably my own work, rather than some new feature in git itself, or a message forwarded from the Gerrit server.
But here's what I _should_ have done as well:
3. Instead of the joke (or as well), write "This message is from Simon's personal safety-catch script". I only identified it as my own work by the luck of recognising my own sense of humour. I could have made it _deliberately_ identifiable.
4. Mention the _pathname_ of the script in the error message! Then I wouldn't have had to _search_ for it – I could have gone straight there.
@lambdasierra
At work, sometimes I organize them in different windows. Cycle through the tabs in the main working window when I'm mentally tracking what to do next
This is your annual reminder that if you are in the US and have FSA funds that you won't use, Menstrual products are covered by FSA funds and can be donated to food pantries and shelters.
Even if tomorrow covid really did completely go away, I would still keep my flo mask around for winter due to how great it is at keeping my face warm without all the downsides of scarves and balaclavas.
In a big fuck you to the hundreds of Oaklanders who stayed till midnight to oppose the expansion of the #Flock contract, the #Oakland City Council is now debating sending the item directly for a Council vote on 12/16. Extremely out of order. Rules committee meets at 10:30am at Oakland City Hall. https://oakland.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1352259&GUID=7DAF1C9C-D32E-4F01-8DBD-2EFC73119009&Options=info|&Search=
@corbet
The tech slack I'm in, someone commented:
giving this guy's vibes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbQh_S2g6CI&t=30s
😆
Calibri: the smoking gun of forged documents.
![In 2012, the Turkish government charged approximately 300 people with conspiracy to commit a coup. The incriminating evidence was a document alleged to have been written in 2003. The document, however, was written in Calibri, which was not available in 2003.[33][34]
In 2017, Gerald McGoey, former CEO of Look Communications, filed for personal bankruptcy. He produced documents ostensibly showing he had transferred parts of his estate to be held in trust for his children. One of the documents, which had a date of 2004, was typed out in Calibri.[35][36]
In 2023, Probate Judge Sandra A. Harrison of Macomb County dismissed a man’s claims against his parents for breach of contract and unjust enrichment after the defense counsel discovered that a business record, purported to have been signed on 13 December 2000, was typed out in Calibri.[37]](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/115/696/252/043/528/808/original/751b9d6cfbdc699f.jpeg)
for the people going hrr hrr don't build on floodplain here is a higher-contrast topological map of western skagit county with the 100-year flood plain evacuation area overlaid in yellow
you might as well be saying "don't build in skagit county" and if you want to say that fine but it is not helpful
you see
cascadia is a mountain country, mostly made mostly of tall, rocky mountains
particularly the western half
we might be on the coast, but we're still a mountain country
the flood plain _is_ the flat part
#SkagitCounty #WashingtonState #flood #floods #flooding #wawx #cascadia #pnw
Amazon data center linked to rare cancers and miscarriages in Oregon, report warns
https://www.techspot.com/news/110442-amazon-data-centers-linked-rare-cancers-miscarriages-oregon.html
#pollution #amazon #oregon #health #environment #tech
If you missed it earlier this year, Humble is offering it's Murderbot bundle again.
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/martha-wells-murderbot-and-more-tor-books-encore
I've read the first four books since and they are really fun. Highly recommended.
I think this bundle is the perfect place to get them. These are short books that are pretty pricey if you want to get them individually.
@bethanyrobison
I came looking for anyone talking about this, thank you
@acarsdrama
I can't believe I'm not seeing multiple comments referring to this classic best of #Craigslist story
https://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/48689488.html
my fellow seasonal depression enjoyers might be interested to know that in the northern hemisphere we have now experienced the earliest sunset of the year. due to Reasons, we begin to get evening daylight back before the shortest day of the year, which isn’t until the 21st. but from now on, slowly but surely, the sun sets later every day.
it’s just a minute every few days, at first, but things are going in the right direction now. hang in there. we’re gonna make it back into the light.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@rubenbolling/115691564369915601
By shifting to 98% renewable energy "The total cost of electricity production [in Uruguay] decreased by roughly half ... About 50,000 new jobs were created in construction, engineering, and operations, roughly 3% of the labor force … Its economy has been growing at 6% to 8% annually, and its poverty rate has fallen from 30% to 8%."
