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Often riding a bicycle or tending the garden. Computing generalist working for better science and public health. But I don't post for work. He/him. Cars ruin cities.

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trs, to Seattle
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Faint whiteish green structure in the night sky

gvwilson, to random
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"Background Knowledge" is about Git pre-commit hooks, but also about lesson design: https://third-bit.com/2024/04/22/background-knowledge/

trs,
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@gvwilson I don't have any help off hand for the lesson design bit—that's a huge topic—but it's not running because the hook is "pre-commit" not "pre-commit.sh". Git's not even looking at "pre-commit.sh". (core.hooksPath is a red-herring here. The built-in default is fine.)

trs,
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@gvwilson I don’t see where an example script has .sh? I do see this in the “official explanation” you linked:

“If you want to use the bundled hook scripts, you’ll have to rename them; their file names all end with .sample. To enable a hook script, put a file in the hooks subdirectory of your .git directory that is named appropriately (without any extension) and is executable.”

mekkaokereke, to random
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🔮🧙🏿‍♂️ Blackstradamus remains undefeated.

$4K may not sound like much to people that work in tech. But for some of the people that were targeted with the lure of getting into tech, $4K was crushing.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-against-coding-boot-camp-bloomtech-and-ceo-austen-allred-for-deceiving-students-and-hiding-loan-costs/

People thought I was unnecessarily harsh when I called the Lambda school folks out over the years. It would appear that I was not.

trs,
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@mekkaokereke you opened my eyes to what was happening at Lambda School back on Twitter when Austen was pushing a very popularly praised (and easily believed, for me at least) story.

ai6yr, to random

So far, it appears you can be a "Feng shui" expert by making up whatever dang thing you want and writing it down. Also, they believe in ghosts.

trs,
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@ai6yr @mjausson @exador23 ha, I get it. I showed up to PHL one time for a flight and didn’t realize I entirely forgot shoes until my bare feet hit the airport parking lot. It was August, and I often walked barefoot around my folks’ property.

trs, to random
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Cars are death machines.

https://sf.streetsblog.org/2024/03/27/guest-commentary-traffic-engineers-must-put-safety-over-driver-throughput

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Today in ridiculously specific tools... if you ever have data that's been gzipped and then base64-encoded and you need to see what's in it, my new "base64 decode and then un-gzip" tool is for you! https://observablehq.com/@simonw/base64-decode-and-then-un-gzip

Built because I'm using pytest-recording and it turns out it sometimes stores base64-gzipped responses in YAML files https://github.com/datasette/datasette-embeddings/issues/4#issuecomment-2019434028

trs,
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@simon I'm genuinely curious: why not just use base64 -d | gunzip?

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Wrote up a mechanism I figured out for adding new labels to a GitHub repository by pasting in a GitHub Actions workflow YAML file https://til.simonwillison.net/github-actions/creating-github-labels

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@simon https://cli.github.com/manual/gh_label_clone

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“countless professors, when asked to perform a peer review for a journal, fob the work off to their hapless grad students”

Having been through the fact-checking process at the Times repeatedly, I can’t understand how nonsense like this gets through.

I can only speculate the perhaps these days their fact-checkers fob the work off to hapless interns.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/04/opinion/plagiarism-academia-claudine-gay.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

trs,
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@ct_bergstrom are the op-eds fact-checked at all?

trs, to Seattle
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New pedal day!

Test ride up and down the street felt great. Can’t wait to see how they feel on the evening preschool run.

Close up of a single bright blue pedal with many studs, branded DMR Vault.

trs,
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@grivettcarnac Yep! One of the first things swapped out when I got it back in mid-2019 were the pedals. The stock ones at the time were crap for grip. These new pedals today are a big step up from the affordable composites with molded pegs that I initially swapped for though!

I assume if it's your first winter with an e-cargo bike that it's relatively new to you? If so, congrats and welcome to the club! We're happy to have you. :-)

trs,
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@grivettcarnac Nice! A fat bike is something I've long thought would be fun and useful to have, but one still eludes me...

Cargo bikes are such a game changer, right?! Definitely a car replacement for me.

Before getting the Bullitt I test rode a Load 75 and it was a super plush, smooth ride. Really nice bike and appealing for sure. But the Bullitt had already stolen my heart years before, a test ride of one only cemented that, and in the end it wasn't really a choice for me.

trs, to random
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Well, I’m now papa to two.

ai6yr, to random

Beekeeping failure analysis notes: 20 lbs or so of honey applied to small plastic molded bottom against a wood floor results in cracking. Lost 2.5 gallons to the floor. 2 gallons recovered and will go to bee feeding.

trs,
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@ai6yr oh boy, if only we could have combined that with my big mess of 4 gallons of concentrated laundry detergeant spilled on the tile floor, under walls, under carpet, etc.

The floor doesn’t feel like surfactants any more, but it still suds up if you get water on it.

brunoph, to photography
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I'll start a thread of photos from my trip, starting with the seaplane approach and landing into Vancouver Coal Harbour, because I think those are some of the coolest photos I've ever taken.

A seat by a port side window, in the foreground, slightly out of focus. Outside the window, a wooded area can be seen, covered in thin clouds of evaporation in between the trees, In the horizon, the city of north Vancouver is visible, framed by the airplane's window.
The interior of a seaplane floating in the harbour, looking forward into the cockpit. The pilot is looking down towards the instrument panel, with her head turned slightly towards the right. The secondary glass display is visible, shining brightly in intrastate with the dull light from the cloudy day. Below that, some steam instruments are visible as well, cut off by the first row of seats. Outside the wet windshield, the Vancouver Harbour and waterfront buildings are visible. Outside the mostly dry port cockpit window, the docks are visible. An approach personnel waits wearing a life jacket, out of focus.
A closeup of the port side cockpit window. The pilot has her hand out through a small cutout, signaling to the dock personnel waiting. A windsock, and the harbour buildings are visible beyond that, out of focus.

trs,
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@brunoph Love that Cinerama sign!

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    trs,
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    @mathowie @PlinyTheOlder Not even the whole PNW. Washington is different than Oregon / SW Washington. Those are the region names I see on their website when looking for info. Your app screens are completely different than mine.

    genehack, to random
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    I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying: best cheese steak this side of the Mississippi. Epilogue Kitchen & Lounge,

    trs,
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    @mjgardner @genehack Tat’s Delicatessen, tatsdeli.com, up here in Seattle would probably also contest that.

    trs,
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    @mjgardner @genehack I have a late-breaking addendum here about Tats. Before today, I'd only had their cheesesteaks and only from their truck. Consistently excellent. Today, I sampled a cheesesteak and an Italian hoagie from their brick-and-mortar... and they both sucked. So, uh, Be Advised.

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    Data schemas change over time, so even v0.0.1 should have a version field. Data schemas change over time, so even v0.0.1 should have a version field. Data schemas change over time, so even v0.0.1 should have a version field. Data schemas change over time, so even v0.0.1 should have a version field...

    trs,
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    @gvwilson OTOH, you can always add a required version field when you first need a backwards-incompatible change and then "lack of a version field means it's version 0".

    trs, to Software
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    At work we just posted a job opportunity for an experienced, generalist software engineer to help us continue building all the bits and pieces that make up nextstrain.org and advance public health and research science. Our small team of great folks crafts quality software and services for realms neglected by industry. This is a place where you can really make a positive impact!

    https://bedford.io/blog/2023-nextstrain-hiring/#software-engineer-ii

    Happy to chat more if you're intrigued, and please pass this along to folks you know!

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    Things are going great, thanks for asking, I definitely know how to use computers.

    trs,
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    $ pwd
    /home/tom/src/docutils/docutils/docutils

    Yeah, things are fine. I swear.

    trs,
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    @michael do not ask anymore questions, please

    trs,
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    @mjgardner @michael hey now

    jesse, (edited ) to random
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    Didn’t know they did TV remote house calls.

    (please stop replying to this thread. we aware of A and AAAA batteries and the similarly named DNS records)

    trs,
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    @resuna @jesse and all of them are names of plumbing companies you’ll find in the phone book

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