I passed the written test! From 93% -> 43% pass rate, I was worried, but I did it.
But it takes months to get a driving test scheduled, I’ve still got months of having no license. And with a 13% pass rate… well, who knows how much longer I have.
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the airs are so thin and nice! i was seriously considering it as well - and it would have been a fine decision, but I think it was RAM and color selection, and of course mainly poor impulse control that drove me to the pro
And probably just like software engineering, I’ll never re-use this over-engineered solution. But there is a satisfaction in making it.
I’ve been working on something super tedious but necessary. I spent about a week improving and over-engineering a way to make this fast the next time I have to do it. It’s not even software engineering, but it’s scratching that same itch.
Oh yes, I'm sure we're stuck with Liquid Glass for a while. I think it might evolve to fix some of the things people are complaining about, but not fundamentally change. The larger things that change will be touted as revolutions in Great UX Design rather than "we had to fix it cuz it was broken"
Maybe that's a tone you take with the Keynote, but I would much rather watch a PSotU or other WWDC videos where the people are honest about it. I appreciate talks when people are like "well, we tried this and it didn't work out how we thought it would."
I expect they'll address some of the criticisms in the changes they make.
But it will all be spun in a way that made it sound like they are making great things even greater, rather than saying out loud that they made some bad things that needed to be fixed.
I'm really curious to see what Apple puts out in WWDC2026, particularly in regards to Liquid Glass. iOS 7 was controversial too, but provided actual benefits and was easy to follow. Liquid Glass seems to make things prettier at the cost of readability, accessibility, and usability.
PIT airport has a t-rex skeleton. ORD (I think it was?) has a brachiosaurus. My data set is limited, but is it oddly common to have dinosaur bones in airports??
Wait shit I got the math wrong. For every 150 flights, one person gets struck by lightning lmao
Every time a commercial airline flight takes off, 150 people are struck by lightning. Think about that before taking your next trip, is it worth it?
Use Linux, they said. The world should be FLOSS, they said.
When I said "how do you reverse rows in a column in LibreOffice?"
"Make another row next to it, start with 1, drag down so you have an ordering. Then sort based on that row!" they said.
In other news, I probably have to pay taxes on some shares that lost value, because JPY got even weaker than that, so it still counts as a capital gain 🙃
Just read “pentesters” as “pentasaurus” and I think I’ve been out of tech too long and spend too much time around my son
yo the pteranodon didn’t gave feathers but the t-rex did, wtf
Let’s also not forget how I’m also required to do my USA taxes as well, despite not having lived there for a few years.
Working through my Japanese taxes makes me upset about how complicated the tax system is in the USA.
Everyone makes money. You shouldn’t require an industry of tax preparers to tell the government how much you made.
It’s tax season and I have all the income types and 3 different countries to deal with. So of course everything is complicated and miserable.
Or, as evidenced by some of my other investments, very poor.
Oh wow, I made 826% gain on one of my stocks. If I had the confidence in my real account as I had in my play account, I'd be incredibly rich.
Nothing makes me feel smaller than having the employee run the self register for me
Remembering that time I got mad at my credit card site for not accepting my login if I added it from the password manager
Until I found out that my password manager stored my username as c*****h and it wasn't the site blurring out the username
I spent weeks before properly investigating
In other news, I passed the document check and now have a knowledge test scheduled.
But despite that, nobody from the DMV came or left from here. Idk how they all drove there if none of them have their licenses.
The train station closest to the super-crowded everyone-in-the-tri-state-area-are-here DMV is the smallest train station I’ve ever been to. Little more than a bus stop with a ticket booth.
Harry Potter, Domo-kun, Ridge Racer, Sailor Moon
Stephen Colbert, Captain Picard, Attack of the Show 🎶
It’s 20 years later and idk how I remember the lyrics to this entire song.
I sped up my rclone syncs from 44 -> 2 minutes with ONE SIMPLE TRICK
Use the —fast-list flag
Today I am wearing a 2023 vintage from a historic region of Germany, with tones of Ikea and authentic scents from the owner. We will start the bidding at $200
That woody smell of the shirt that you haven’t worn in a year because it’s at the bottom of the dresser? Thats the same thing that happens to aged wine.
