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I automated another joke: You Never See It Bot
As usual, you can subscribe to its RSS feed or email bots@fastmail.com to get new posts a few times a week! -
New miscellaneous findings with a
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Someone’s been trying to take over my Instagram. On one hand, I’ve posted four pictures there five years ago and haven’t used it since because fuck Facebook. On the other hand: No.
They (or someone else) got as far as replacing the profile photo with theirs at some point. Maybe they genuinely think it’s their account somehow? I’m genuinely interested in why they’d bother. Is the username that important?
Well, I’ll file this under stupid unsolved mysteries, along with Why Did My Bean and Potato Soup Turn Out So Bland Even Though I Followed Steve Sando’s Recipe Exactly? -
I just set up a calendar reminder to check to see if a bug I may have fixed was really fixed. The best kind of bug
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I tend to think of sous vide cooking as relaxing, but it is a nightmare when the bag opens and the stuff spills out, especially if there is raw meat in there. And after the cleanup, you have no idea how much water and how much food needs to be replaced, sending the whole project into doubt.
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I can’t count the number of times I thought I was getting up early on a weekend, only to hear the guy come out of his room five minutes later.
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Whoa, despite having developed on it, and it being the basis of many, many popular desktop apps, I just now could not recall the name of Electron. Another middle-age recall failure!
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While waiting on hold with AT&T with Wily, Elementary started working on the old iMac! It's not garbage now!
Unfortunately, I don't know exactly what fixed it. Those ringing sounds were actually from the functioning Elementary OS. When I timed holding shift down during a reboot correctly, I was able to get to the boot loader, then go into recovery mode. There, I ran a repair of missing packages, then rebooted again, and everything worked.
My best guess is that wifi was lost during the initial install, and graphics drivers weren't installed, hence the blank screens.
So, that big pile glass and aluminum is usable now and doesn't have to be chucked for the crime of being ten years old. -
35-minute run, 13 pull-ups. I think my back is back to normal!
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I remembered to post notes to my "Official" weblog. This one has a few web dev findings.
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The guy felt a rule was really unfair, so I gave an example of that rule being applied to a situation. Then, I asked, so does that makes sense?
He came back with “Only in your example.”
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OH Kid saying "Oh, wait. I have way too many tabs open."
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20-minute run, 12 pull-ups. Kept it short because my lower back is feeling stiff, but halfway through I realized running doesn’t affect it all. Still, treat yo self, as they said four years ago.
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I got paid today for an art commission that I submitted a proposal for back April. The broker (for lack of a better word) expressed interest at the end of May and asked me to make and submit more work, which I did.
My art was selected at the end of September. And now, two and a half months later, I've been paid. That's a long turnaround time!
I am guessing that works were less laborious than most artists' because I produced them programmatically. However, producing the additional works (which they ultimately were not interested in) and getting it into the format they wanted easily took 30 hours. The pay was $900 for three images. If you included the time I took to write the program I used to generate the images, the hourly pay for that would end up around $10/hour, I think.
As we all know, it would be (and is) hard to live as a professional artist.