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vwbusguy

@vwbusguy@mastodon.online

Do you use your powers for good or for awesome?

Senior #DevOps Engineer at a major research institution (views/opinions my own) and a severe #Linux and #opensource enthusiast. Also into #retrocomputing, #fountainpens, #Volkswagen, #music, and #cooking. #fedi22

Hoosier currently living in California.

Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/vwbusguy
Firefish: https://easymode.im/@vwbusguy

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vwbusguy, to random
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In the line to Rise of the Resistance with my son now and I'm not sure which of us is more excited to go on it.

vwbusguy,
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@benetherington It's definitely my favorite Disneyland ride!

vwbusguy, to random
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Star Tours, this is a restricted area! What are you doing here?!

vwbusguy, to random
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Idea:

Nintendo, Atari, Sega, Capcom, and Konami do a joint retro gaming theme park together.

vwbusguy, to music
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This morning, I woke up the kids by playing Mars, the Harbinger of War by Gustav Holst. Sounded like we were getting attacked by the Empire.

vwbusguy, to guitar
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I did something today I never thought I would do. I got my first . I traded the Stagemaster for it. I would describe both the visuals and tone as "shiny".

I might put a pic or two of it on my Pixelfed in a couple of days.

vwbusguy,
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@imabuddha Brian Setzer is immediately who I think of - or some random jazz guitarist. I recently found out the Fall Out Boy guitarist plays a Gretsch and I'm treating it as a sort of in between of my Strat and Ibanez and it fits nicely in that gap. Not as fat as a PAF and not as biting as a hot single coil.

vwbusguy,
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@imabuddha It's kind of weird in that the soloing sounds clean and crisp but rhythm sounds/feels a bit dirty.

vwbusguy,
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@mwhjohnson I have a PRS Custom 24-08, which is much more convincing for doing PAF and Strat sounds. This guitar tone lives somewhere inbetween those two worlds.

beep, to random
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you first, asshole

vwbusguy,
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@beep It's almost like they don't want some AI robot scraping their website 🤔

vwbusguy, to Kubernetes
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The library is over here making lists not iterable and harming my sanity this morning.

TypeError: 'V1NamespaceList' object is not iterable

vwbusguy,
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And yes, they named an object as List, so it's technically not a list type, but you can get the list with .items, which is unnecessarily pedantic since they could have provided an iter which does exactly this when you try to iterate it.

vwbusguy,
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@trouble @diji It's a shame they can't also auto-generate an iter from openapi.

nedbat, to python
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Remember that dicts can have tuples as keys! Consider a dict with (x,y) keys instead of nested lists for a grid. It simplifies sparse grids, "resizes" are automatic, it doesn't matter where (0,0) is, and you can use negative positions:

Adding more to the board in flexible ways. https://gist.github.com/nedbat/f22b03f70ceb9686881c4bcd442fad11

vwbusguy,
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@nedbat Indeed - the key just needs to be immutable and unique.

I did something like this in a Rust program once, but using defined structs. Unsurprisingly, the python way is much less verbose.

https://github.com/vwbusguy/curses-examples/blob/master/rust/src/main.rs

vwbusguy, to guitar
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Pound for pound, the whammy system on a Stratocaster is as good as it gets. I'm obviously not saying it's better than everything else in every way, but I'd take it over a Bigsby or Floyd Rose for any that I'm also in charge of tuning and changing strings on.

vwbusguy, to random
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Apparently being in my 40s means I can no longer sleep or sit in a number of different positions without somehow injuring my back for days, weeks, or months at a time.

vwbusguy, to random
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Another thing that's different from my childhood:

How ubiquitous the was. It was in every doctor's office and in as many homes.

I don't remember the last time I saw a Readers Digest.

vwbusguy,
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@peter @Ric I remember a sense of feeling like I'd arrived in adulthood when I saw my own name/number in the phonebook.

vwbusguy,
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@nullr0ute Not that I'm aware of. The company declared bankruptcy twice since then. There's still a website.

https://www.rd.com/

vwbusguy,
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@Mirppc Nintendo Power and EGM.

RL_Dane, to random
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I just typed "2004" instead of "2024" on a web form.

Oh gee.

@amin, I regret to inform you that you have been reverted to a baby.

The decades, they just slip by me, I tells ya.

vwbusguy,
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@RL_Dane @amin A baby? I was half my age and in college in 2004.

vwbusguy, to random
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Selling on Craigslist so far is a lot of people texting if it's still available, then never replying again when you say yes, except the ones that do reply after that are scammers with a pitch for some convoluted payment scheme.

vwbusguy,
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Meanwhile, Ebay just took a 13.5% chunk, including sales tax, of something I sold there, and then held the funds until I reverified all my personal info with them again.

Selling things on the internet is truly awful these days.

vwbusguy,
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@sudoedit That's honestly more reasonable than "I'll send someone over and send you a cashiers check, but first I need your personal info."

I am generally open to considering trades if it's interesting enough.

vwbusguy,
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@stepschwarz Absolutely amazing.

elilla, to random
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I didn't post this photo of my NixOS having some sort of existential ontology breakdown

vwbusguy,
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@elilla That sink isn't running

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