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28 Dec, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Took kids to a dinosaur park. At souvenir shop, Liam was eyeing a paint set.

Clerk: Great choice! I did that triceratops.
Me: That’s really excellent, how do you say in Japanese, dry brushing?
Clerk: *startles*
Clerk: 40k?
Me: Fantasy.
Clerk: The Emperor protects, bro.
Globalization is wild.
Wonder which of the two of us would have said this interaction was less likely to ever happen, as of this morning.
Words cannot describe how much better the clerk’s triceratops is than my attempt, but Liam enjoyed it:
And from Liam (4 years old) demonstrating that the only important thing in art is picking up the brush:

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28 Dec
Oxygen Not Included is a fun base building game where the primary source of challenge is your own resource requirements and pollution output as you grow. Has about three fun and novel physics systems, which aren’t real-life simulators but fun analogs

It occasioned the following:
Me: This colony is going to die within weeks without a solution to two pressing problems: 1) lack of potable water 2) we’re expelling far too much waste heat and the backwash from it will make our air uninhabitably hot.

Lead explorer: Bad news, sir. Instead of useful things, …
… the next biome over included a mountain of -50C ice.
Me: What?
Explorer: A solid block of ice. At least kilotons worth, sir. It will take days to cut through.
Me: … Months, certainly. Excellent!
Explorer: Sir?
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16 Dec
The first version of the Bingo Card Creator CMS needed to create PNGs and PDFs of bingo cards given word lists, but it was my first Ruby/Rails project.

I did not yet actually have a functioning SaaS version of the app, just the downloadable Java swing app.

So here’s workflow:
Freelancer uses CMS to write new word list. It gets saved to database.

Periodically, I log in and run a rake task which dumps text files containing word lists which don’t have associated PNGs/PDFs created yet.

I then download them to a windows machine.
On that machine, I run a scripting thing (have forgotten name) which allows the computer to software automate the mouse and keyboard.

It then: opens the Java swing app, moves the mouse to X, Y whatever, clicks “New bingo card”, moves to the input area, clicks, types first…
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15 Dec
The quilt of red flags is now on fire.
None of this is all that surprising to anyone who knows the words “binary options” given the company kept there, and shady characters abound in crypto but were largely forced out / marginalized / conveniently ignored as the industry has may a play for legitimacy.
Celsius is not marginalized. They’re tied at the hip with Tether, the central bank of crypto, and there is a thin DeFi fig lead between them and centralized, ~indisputably legitimate organizations who are now offering crypto “earn” products.
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15 Dec
This sounds like an extremely we're-living-in-the-future medical treatment, for depression: kqed.org/news/11898991/…
I have (currently relatively well-managed) depression, and an *extremely* disconcerting realization last year was that my brain was hardware with some number of parts and that some of those parts might be degraded, impairing my desire to continue running MeOS.
s/desire/ability/ ; Wow that's a bad editing error on this subject. Never had that issue.

Anyhow, very, very glad that we continue finding new treatments here. Severe depression is, and this is the understatement of all time, no fun at all.
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14 Dec
I'm fascinated by the ritual of interbank verifications of transactions, which sometimes look like:

Bank A: Prove you're you.
You: *does*
Bank A: Alright let me put you on hold while I call Bank B's 1-800 number and explain situation.
*20 minutes passes*
Bank A: OK.
Bank B: Prove you're you.
You: *does*
Bank B: I'm satisfied. OK, what do you want to know?
Bank A: Can you confirm they have an account with you and read the most current balance?
Bank B: Yes. $X.
Bank A: OK we're done.
Bank B: Bye.
Bank A: Thanks for banking with us.
You: So what about that transaction?
Bank A: Oh we're going to bank the heck out of it now.
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14 Dec
This was a nightmarish blast from the past.
After encountering it in, goodness, late 2000s or so, added “New rule: no long-lived URL objects anywhere. Instantiate them from string immediately prior to doing an HTTP request using them.”

(We sadly had no linter at my employer, or rather we used fellow salarymen as linters.)
The amount of the Java stdlib that we had marked as Considered Harmful was far higher than my early career expectation.

As I’ve gotten more experience in my career, I’ve found this sort of thing is relatively common and, particularly at scaled shops, local standards emerge.
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