I have literally one step left on my #python#pyqtgraph "measurement distance #simulator" #data vis project and I'm suddenly like...ugh, can I even go on
Meanwhile, I woke up at literally 2am with an idea for a scheduling algorithm based around a spring network #physics model that I'm excited to try instead
(Obviously neither of these gets the trash emptied, the kitchen organized, the TV movie folder fixed or the plumber called)
I want naive datetime objects. I want them to be unknowable because I want them to be unalterable.
I don't want some silent function in the middle of something somewhere to "help" me by changing my datetime objects to the timezone I "obviously" mean.
I want to be in charge of my own data representations.
@tshirtman I deal with space data. It is always and forever utc, period.
If there's no tz attached, "helpful" libraries cannot try to move that time to "local". If there is a tz attached, I 10000% guarantee they will. And my code will break.
@davidr I think we have a disagreement about what it means for a datetime to have a timezone, and to "change" it. Having an explicit timezone means nothing has to guess, it's there, and it makes the time universally understood, and "changing" the timezone, is only a matter of changing the representation of that particular datetime, i.e, to display it to a human in a way that's useful to them.
I'd be really curious about cases where a tz-aware datetime gets its tz changed, let alone silently.
Over the next couple of weeks, I'm going to try all my favorite Cointreau-containing #cocktails with limoncello instead.
Like...why is Lemon Drop made with orange liquer?
(Unrelated sidenote: While buying another amaretto, I noticed a hazelnut liquer. We'd already tallied >$100 so that intriguing item goes onto a future list.)
Almost all crunchy plant-based food is based on rigid, fluid-filled cells. Celery. Apple. Lettuce.
Almost all crunchy human-made food is based on brittleness. Chips. Crackers.
My fellow #food madscientists, I propose a new field of satisfyingly crisp food built on the principle of the plant cell. A taut, bursty, fluid-packed membrane.
We made gushers, but we can go farther, reach higher, chew louder.
Was it stupidity, denial or just obtuseness that made me not recognize #executivedysfunction for 50 years? Not even an "oh, it's that feeling again where I'll do anything I can to avoid this simple 5m task, maybe listening to music will help".
Or #RSD. Prooooobably most people aren't assuming that everyone not currently actively praising them is deeply angry at them for unspecified reasons.
Anyway, talk to your doctor and try some medication. It's pretty great.
Got yet another #meeting request that ignored my #outlook calendar but listed me as "required".
This time I declined and "proposed a new time". Politely but tersely noted if I was truly required I wouldn't be available at that time but that "my calendar is up to date".
My proposed new time is in a slot their calendar says busy. Huh!
Let's say there's a periodic process that I'm sampling. The period is changing slowly (<1% per cycle). I get a sample on a lot of the cycles, but not necessarily every one.
I'm sure I can bodge together an #algorithm to figure out the "fundamental period" and how it is changing over time, but I also bet something already exists.
@recursive Question clarified. No aliasing problem--I know what ambiguity zone I'm in, I just don't know the exact value. But the value is also changing.
Having a heck of a time figuring out what #guitar chord #GregDavies is playing here. The intro is G Em Am D. "although she will concede" looks like a C. "the cold rather gets to her knees" is ???
Ultimate Guitar thinks the C is Am (by ear maybe, by eye no way) but worse thinks the unknown chord is a D7. That's definitely wrong both by ear and eye.
I like saying "set a 10 minute timer", "remind me at noon on Tuesday" or "play Song X" because I can do it NOW without have to fumble through my phone or clean my hands if I'm cooking
@davidr I use siri a lot for this. I also get it to set reminders (or do them using text) so that at least its my executive function failing and not my memory 😅
@cytokine_storm I've actually been banned from setting reminders. Because I set the reminder and then forget all about it so I'm not even in the room, or even the house, when it goes off. So then the wife/kids have to shut it down and contact me.
So....first of all, they still sell Official Sheet #Music of popular songs. I bet it's a huge business for tribute and cover and school jazz bands, etc, but it's still funny to me
And second of all the "official" sheet music is in at least one case in a different key than the release itself.
why. why would you do that.
Ride by Twenty One Pilots (yes, I'm going to attempt to make and play my own #guitar lead sheet based on this) is F# on the radio but F on paper.
@eyesquash I'm 100% guessing here, but I bet F# fits their vocal range better. And I bet they have their instruments tuned up a semitone. (Watching the live performances, he seems to be playing an F fingering.) So maybe the sheet music is what they practiced to, but they didn't write the alternate tuning on there (or did and I missed it).