@slab I think they genuinely thought they answered the question, but didn't read what they were posting. It's unfortunate because sometimes you want to engage with colleagues to specifically show that there's interest in their work.

@poorpossum goodness, you'd need one of those Dutch bucket bikes to transport all of that

@poorpossum I'm surprised. Shouldn't most of the EMT gear stay at the job rather than needing to haul it along for each commute?

It sounds like an unfortunate status quo.

Oh dear, I got LLMed at work today. I saw an interesting announcement and asked if there was a programmatic way of accessing the new functionality as a follow-up. Another employee copied my question and pasted the output of their LLM of choice. Unfortunately, it was almost entirely irrelevant :-/

@philpem My non-BSD based guess is a permission error. If the file descriptors exist then it's possibly almost working? Those descriptors in theory should be for the inter-process communications and if they're only partially working, then getting the right user perms might resolve things?

NetBSD has an strace equivalent, right?

@philpem This doesn't solve your problem, but I swear I've seen those same errors when starting up jackd (JACK2 specifically) on a Linux system.

Starting with the -d dummy backend might reveal any platform specific issues before debugging the likely very seldom used OSS backend?

The more German I learn the more made up it feels. e.g. from today's learning:
- Tip -> Trinkgeld ~= trink geld -> drinking money
- Change -> Kleingeld ~= klein geld -> (physically) small money

Maybe this is just duolingo's poor word choice, but linguistically there sure does seem to be a lot of glue-words.

@siriusfox That's something good to check on next time, though for at least one family member, I can't trust them to only use one web browser 😐

lazyweb question: What's the current antivirus solution that people recommend to relatives running windows 10/11?

@poorpossum Congrats on making it to a new milestone.

Also, don't sell yourself short, journeys are seldom as straightforward as the original plans might lead you to believe :)

It's pretty fun to listen to people advocating for NIMBY positions at small events and responding by saying "Wow, all those changes to the municipality you brought up sound fantastic. I want all of those".

I refuse to believe that:
GlobalEnumSpace::SingleUseNames::AlgorithmName::foomatic = "foomatic"
is better or more maintainable code than simply writing
"foomatic"

For external facing APIs you may want to constrain things, but for internal APIs, what are you saving yourself from? A typo? It's at the cost of quite a bit of readability given the length of the prefix. enums are great for int types, they're (IMO) pretty silly for string types.

Me: I figured out how to automate a way of gathering information on all batch jobs that were run in the past week. We don't have to click through a bunch of web pages or get people to log their own usage.

Boss: Ok, how are we going to have this run? A nightly batch job? A micro service? Integrations with other services? cron?

Me: I added a calendar event for every tuesday called "Run foo.sh".

Boss: ...

@stdlogicvector @gigabecquerel Good thing it looks like it's only the interior glaze.

Everywhere you look there's lemon teas, but where are the lime teas? 🤔

@directhex Better that than the "sharing horror stories of build systems written by LLMs" graduation that the current era seems to be trending towards.

@0xabad1dea While true I'd say the social dynamics around chat applications (even in chatrooms) is more akin to talking to people 1:1 than talking to a crowd. So, I would expect people to naturally forget about the seventeen thousand other people in the metaphorical cafe.

More classically, mailing lists for instance remove that full assumption of privacy since a larger portion of those conversations are shorter lived and more directed to the room as a whole. I do feel that older platforms like IRC had a strength in not typically being logged since it did make it harder to dredge up older conversations that newer platforms make easier to have a drive by data collection.

@0xabad1dea IMO the same logic applies to other surveillance problems. You can be in public and have an expectation that while people may overhear you or see you, the information about what you say in public and your exact actions in public won't be logged and shared with people beyond those that were involved in that public space.

A cafe owner having their own security recordings of the dining space is fine, the cafe owner sharing those recordings with people that do not have ownership and have not been at the cafe is not fine.

Today I finished off building my elevated bed planter. Now I have to hope the crops I'm going to grow in it will thrive.

@forty2 I believe you're looking at the rare 'root cause'