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djcapelis, 20 days ago to random

Slightly after midnight, sitting outside in a tshirt perfectly content in this clear warm night after a clear temperate day in what the stereotypes would have me believe is a fog stricken part of the city.

Music plays gently into the night while the breeze grazes the trees. To the west, an ocean under cover of darkness with planes above bound for destinations across the globe. The nearby birds opt for closer destinations. While a train rumbles down below.

Ah yes—the San Francisco hellscape.

djcapelis, 29 days ago to random

China just sent a rocket to collect samples from the moon and if we had a better world we would all see more news in various languages following the mission as a group of folks try and grab some moon rocks from the dark side yet once more and get away with it.

May they have the luck they’ll need to succeed.

djcapelis, 29 days ago to random

The reason every single website takes seven years to load and chokes oddly if there's an error or delay in any of the hundreds of connections is because some engineers decided their jobs would be easier if everything was a microservice and then that decision slowly crept towards the actual frontend code until everyone else paid the price for it.

djcapelis, 1 month ago to random

On 13 of the 31 days of March, the California power grid spent at least some time during those days below net zero emissions.

Every year this happens more often, for longer. We are going to decarbonize this fucker and ain’t nothing anyone can do to stop it.

djcapelis, 1 month ago to random

Okay after that detour we’re back in El Paso where we’ve picked up my car and have resumed our roadtrip back from the eclipse! See ya next time Texas!

djcapelis, 1 month ago to random

It seems almost everyone I know who made an attempt managed to get some eclipse today! Even in the difficult weather places! Nice work all!

djcapelis, 1 month ago to random

100 hour eclipse forecast:

Models are converging for:

• San Antonio, South Texas through Torreón (high odds of cloud layers)
• Montréal, Maine and points north (low odds of cloud layers)

Models remain diverged along the following parts of the path:

• Mazatlán and Durango
• Dallas through Upstate NY
• Vermont and New Hampshire

djcapelis, 1 month ago to random

“Republicans get angry at the calendar” was the only responsible way to report whatever the fuck they were talking about wrt TDoV this last weekend.

mekkaokereke, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

As we hear reports that it will take 10 years (🤯) to replace the 1.6 mile Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, remember that China built the Danyang-Kunshan bridge and Qingdao Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in 4 years each.

Danyang-Kunshan Bridge is 102 miles long, and 100 ft above the water.

Jiaozhou Bay Bridge is 16 miles and 623 ft tall, earthquake and typhoon proof, and can withstand a direct strike from a 300,000 ton cargo ship. That last point is unfortunately topical.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U7iQqogVmr8

djcapelis, 2 months ago to random

As the eclipse becomes closer the weather sites have started laying the eclipse track down on the maps for anyone looking at a forecast image within six hours of the eclipse time.

But the forecasts themselves are getting pretty grim for many favored locations.

The models are still in rapid flux though and won’t be worth planning around until <120h out.

djcapelis, 2 months ago to random

Some of the first long range weather models for eclipse day are up! Cloud cover model is unlikely to be accurate this far out but general pressure zones maybe give a vibe. This is going to get a lot more useful as the eclipse approaches but I wouldn’t make any plans based on the current runs yet.

A long range cloud cover model for eclipse day showing clear areas in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, the southern tip of Illinois, and the adjacent southwestern tip of Indiana, but cloud cover challenges most elsewhere along the area of totality.

djcapelis, 2 months ago to random

We are having a wildly normal water year in California.

djcapelis, 4 months ago to random

Small Niklaus Wirth appreciation note. Pascal and its "related" family of technologies held a broad influence in much of UCSD’s computer science department for many decades. Which is why one of my first encounters with Oberon was writing a compiler frontend for it since it was one of the languages used in the compiler classes. It is also where I finally learned that not every school assignment can be done the day it was due and a parser might take at least a couple of days.

So—thanks for that.

djcapelis, 5 months ago to random

In state media coverage vs out of state media coverage.

Out of state folks really seem to care about stuff that isn’t about them.

djcapelis, 5 months ago to random

Finally under 100 unread slack DMs! The trick is having the entire rest of the organization go on vacation.

djcapelis, 5 months ago to random

I have to say, having been in Hong Kong recently in the lead up to the latest district council elections… I find it extremely hard to be excited about anything related to disqualifying someone from a ballot.

djcapelis, 6 months ago to random

In a dense metropolitan metro and my fastest public transit path to the airport tomorrow definitely starts by walking over to the dock on the canal and picking up a boat headed east and giving them 12 Baht to go a few docks down the canal and pick up a train from there.

This city has all kinds of transit. I’m also walking distance from another elevated train system station, but it’d be way slower than catching the canal boat over to the metro and airport train interconnect station.

djcapelis, 6 months ago to random

Anyone in or planning to be in Japan want to grab dinner in Tokyo on Monday evening? I gotta get back to HND before midnight or my plane ticket turns into a pumpkin, but am otherwise around.

Alternatively: restaurant recommendations for a jet lagged traveler welcome.

djcapelis, 6 months ago to random

Finished changing one hex value to another value and now need to change one small number on the line after that one of those hex values in half a dozen files and don't feel like it's the day you finally learn to make sed, ed, awk, or some other language do it for you?

Just run this and it'll open each file in vim with your cursor already on the line you need to make your edit:

for file in grep -l 2468a0000 *; do vim +grep -n 2468a0000 -A 1 $file | tail -n 1 | cut -f 1 -d '-' $file; done

djcapelis, 7 months ago to random

User agent - noun - a historical term from when web browsers focused on what and how a user wanted information displayed rather than what a web developer decided their computer should do

djcapelis, 8 months ago to random

One thing everyone who goes to Burning Man knows but some people outside are less familiar with is that there's always a waitlist, each and every year, of people who want to join the resto crew to pick up trash in the desert. Yep, too many people want to pick up trash in the desert, so you gotta join the waitlist.

These are uh, their stories from this year: https://journal.burningman.org/2023/09/black-rock-city/leaving-no-trace/checking-in-on-playa-restoration/

djcapelis, 10 months ago to random

The leadership of the US House of Representatives is so in thrall of vindictive tiny handed cowards that they have created not just an earmark, but the opposite of one picking a specific project to ban from any potential federal funding designed to go to expanding trains in the country.

So that’s… weird.

djcapelis, 10 months ago to random

Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why lipstick manufacturers don’t produce matched lipstick liners we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.

djcapelis, 11 months ago to random

Oh my god what a week.

djcapelis, 1 year ago to random

One of the senior developers on the team remind me of a classic mentorship rule of thumb: whenever a newer engineer wants to write a style guide, send them more engineering issues to work on.