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microwave oven's niche includes "i want half a cup of boiling water and no excess heat released into the house".

(why yes it is summer and i enjoy pushing my house to its limits of non-AC thermal management before admitting defeat and turning on the window unit)

wow, red cross... wow.

I think I'm now comfortable calling it superintelligence -- claude just successfully walked me through setting up my neighbor's random inkjet photo printer under linux. and I didn't even have to touch CUPS??!!

sometimes the chickens make their "hark, an unidentified flying object!" noises and it's actually just a stale tortilla that i chucked to them like a frisbee

www.codetriage.com is a very nifty idea if you're into that kind of thing -- get emails to find out about OSS issues you could help with!

(posting because it turns out i am not into that kind of thing at the moment but i still like the idea)

Livestock are the ultimate pen testers

screencap of claude where claude claims to have fixed the overlapping regular polygons, and svg of polygons that aren't all regular and sometimes overlap

in claude's defense, SVG is hard.

screenshot of terminal showing `git init` output: hint: Using 'master' as the name for the initial branch. This default branch name hint: is subject to change. To configure the initial branch name to use in all hint: of your new repositories, which will suppress this warning, call: hint: hint: git config --global init.defaultBranch <name> hint: hint: Names commonly chosen instead of 'master' are 'main', 'trunk' and hint: 'development'. The just-created branch can be renamed via this command: hint: hint: git branch -m <name>

huh, looks like I set a default main branch name on the old laptop, because I'd forgotten that Git does this. Nicely handled, git.

Photo of the ground showing moss, grass, clover, and assorted other plants. One of the clovers in the picture has 4 leaves.

Spot the 🍀

TIL that chatgpt flat-out won't draw clothes if you so much as hint that you're looking for fashion illustrations. But, if you manage to con a picture of clothes out of it, the reply comes with "here's a fashion illustration"....

long-haired black cat with one eye open and one tooth sticking out of his mouth, standing on office carpet beside a filing cabinet, partaking of an ear scratch from an arm that reaches down into the photo

good thing the home office doesn't require guests to badge in

$ tail -n 7 ~/.bashrc function ding() { local prev_cmd=$(history 1 | sed 's/^[ 0-9]*//') prev_cmd=${prev_cmd%%; ding*} local main_cmd=$(echo $prev_cmd | awk '{print $1}') notify-send "Command Complete" "${prev_cmd} has finished" spd-say -r -10 "ding! ${main_cmd} is done. I repeat, ${main_cmd} is done." }

"Wait, when did that finish installing itself?"

$long-slow-command; ding

(code in alt)

Also shows how pavement creates its own microclimates. I missed this bulb when removing a garden bed to install the reclaimed asphalt path, and it managed to fight its way up between the pieces. It has dozens of siblings around the garden, but none of them are even budding yet, except this weirdo.

First crocus of spring! The anthers look a softer yellow in daylight than on my phone camera, but it nails the vividness of the stigma's orange.

harvesting water chestnuts is simultaneously so gross and so satisfying. It's amazing how a single year underwater turned clay topsoil into anaerobic sludge... but the plant loved it and that's what matters!

it's gotta be some kind of genetic engineering to get them to make the fresh-off-the-vine chemicals despite having been shipped and refrigerated, but i am here for it. Not sure how they're selling them for under $3/lb but i am not complaining.

there's few enough people around here that it's probably safe to share a secret: i impulse bought these at winco yesterday expecting them to taste like cardboard because they're huge, but they taste like actual real strawberries! no cardboard-flavored ones in the whole container.

also if a summary of how theretowhere could be used for evil would amuse or interest you, i'd be happy to share in a less public place (can't chat you on bsky due to your settings)

here's a demo with the SF area airports!

when you show locations in the autocomplete, it'd be super helpful to put the city and state as well as the distance and what road they're on -- would make things much easier when examining distant locations or not sharing one's own location with the site :)

it works! very pretty!

did you also change up the location autocomplete? in the old version, i'd type an airport code like sfo and the airport would be the first hit, whereas now the codes are giving a bunch of non-airport things that happen to have the airport as a substring

@andersonaddo.bsky.social i tried asking for a heatmap of areas that are X hours from airport A and Y hours from airport B and also it is sad. It's probably just getting the HN hug, but maybe it's also wildly out of the design tolerances to use it on the scale of distances measured in hours by car?

screencap from vscode, "//TODO" has been typed, and "implement this" is the suggested completion for the line

today's award for least helpful comment autocompletion goes to....

Funny how we say "built" when we mean "designed" in that context.

Maybe it ties into broader cultural distinctions between the roles and value of the carpenters vs the architects?

screencap from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42908/i-eat-my-peas-with-honey: I Eat My Peas with Honey By Anonymous I eat my peas with honey; I've done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny, But it keeps them on the knife. Notes: This poem was recited on the February 2, 1944 broadcast of the radio program "It Pays to Be Ignorant." According to the Estate of Shel Silverstein and the archivists who oversee his literary works and manuscripts, Shel Silverstein did not write this poem. Source: The Random House Book of Poetry for Children (1983)

look, it's the prototype for xyproblem.info!

The "VIP unreads" thing in slack shows a "VIP" badge next to the people whose pings you ask it to place in that category.

Expect some hilarious awkwardness in screen sharing before people realize the implications of this.

If you routinely encounter frogs that need to be eaten, maybe get a pet chicken to and delegate instead of trying to do everything yourself?

there's an obligatory "lifetime warranty" joke around here somewhere =)

kinda nifty, how "pass it through a flame" is such an ancient sterilization method, but it's gradually been superseded by the widespread availability of copious amounts of incredibly clean water

from a supply chain integrity perspective, it seems like "house brand" household products actually have an advantage over name brands -- far less lucrative for anyone to bother trying to put fakes into the supply chain?