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5/12/2024, 12:16:23 PM

Garden center is packed to capacity. It’s not an original Mother’s Day activity!
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5/12/2024, 10:22:46 AM

We made a physical joker.
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5/11/2024, 6:25:38 PM

This John might be hoppin’.
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5/10/2024, 8:30:23 PM

It turns out that it’s sometimes more fun to chisel something than to call it finished.
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5/10/2024, 7:59:31 PM

If you happen to live far enough from a city (as I wish I was), you could see auroras tonight from the geomagnetic storm “as far south as California and Alabama in the U.S. and as far north as Sydney, Australia in the Southern Hemisphere”.
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5/10/2024, 3:42:18 PM

I changed the Roomba tires, which were entirely bald. Now it can get over extension cords.

They fuse the factory tires through these holes in the wheel, which makes them hard to get out. I could see iRobot saying that this way, the tires are more secure. But I could also see them saying out loud that this forces people to buy their wheel “modules” for $30 each instead of tiny tires for $2 each.
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5/10/2024, 3:37:24 PM

Our view sometimes looks cut and pasted.
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5/10/2024, 2:45:24 PM

On almost every single game project I've done, I've had bugs because I've gotten confused while translating global, local, and map coordinates. And yet today, it took like an hour to figure out that was the problem.
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5/10/2024, 9:14:20 AM

I just slipped on the stairs while trying to do something on my phone. Heh, I’ve told the guy dozens of times to not read while walking down the stairs.

Fortunately, I hit my side and arm and am not hurt.
Yay for practicing breakfalls, boo for safety hypocrisy.
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5/9/2024, 9:11:50 PM

I prototyped a single player game idea with cards. I think it wasn’t terrible!
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5/8/2024, 9:14:34 PM

I noticed I had some songs, Kart and Hamburger, that I started in January (!). In case they never get finished, I’m posting what I have so readers here can freestyle over them if they want.
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5/8/2024, 3:12:10 PM

I’ve made this homemade pepto bismol every day this week. It is indeed easy and pretty good.
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5/8/2024, 12:39:41 PM

I was thinking that maybe I should raise the monitor when I have my desk in standing mode, but it’s actually tall enough that I can just leave it where it is and not use the bottom part.
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5/7/2024, 3:48:12 PM

Huh, there's no real national parks in the midwest. Finding things to do with my parents has gotten harder now that they (kinda understandably) don't want to fly anymore.
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5/7/2024, 2:44:35 PM

Too much dentistry
A 2020 Cochrane review that assessed the two clinical trials concluded that "whether adults see their dentist for a check‐up every six months or at personalized intervals based on their dentist's assessment of their risk of dental disease does not affect tooth decay, gum disease, or quality of life. Longer intervals (up to 24 months) between check‐ups may not negatively affect these outcomes." The Cochrane reviewers reported that they were "confident" of little to no difference between 6-month and risk-based check-ups and were "moderately confident" that going up to 24-month checkups would make little to no difference either.
This conveniently validates me not going to the dentist for about a year and a half. I should probably read the actual paper, though.
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5/7/2024, 2:38:36 PM

I used resume spammers to apply for 120 jobs. Chaos ensued.
Unlike the other bots, LazyApply did all the applying in real time, right in front of my eyes. It was as if someone had hacked my computer: I watched as the bot clicked on various boxes and typed out answers to short questions. For the first few minutes, I was mesmerized. Then, I started to panic. In one application, the bot indicated that I speak conversational-level Spanish, which I definitely do not. In another, it reported that I was African American, even though I had specified in my LazyApply profile that I am Asian.
I want out of this jobs system so much.
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5/7/2024, 2:18:57 PM

Junior calisthenics (I did rolling breakfalls, but on the mat because the longer you’ve been away from doing them on the floor, the scarier it is), 19-minute run, three pull-ups. Either my trap still feels slightly weird or I imagine that it does.
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5/6/2024, 9:25:08 PM

It's so rare that I search for something and actually find something useful, especially from an SEO'd-looking domain like 2daygeek.com, but I did, so I thought I'd point out this script that emails you how much memory is being used on your server and what is using it.

Here's my version, which uses sendmail instead of mail.

#!/bin/bash # Based on https://www.2daygeek.com/linux-shell-script-to-monitor-memory-usage/ ramusage=$(free | awk '/Mem/{printf("RAM Usage: %.2f\n"), $3/$2*100}'| awk '{print $3}' | cut -d. -f1) SUBJECT="[memmail] Memory usage on $(hostname) at $(date)" MESSAGE="/tmp/Mail.out" TO="deathmtn@fastmail.com" echo "From: bot@smallcatlabs" >> $MESSAGE echo "Subject: $SUBJECT" >> $MESSAGE echo "Memory Current Usage is: $ramusage%" >> $MESSAGE echo "" >> $MESSAGE echo "------------------------------------------------------------------" >> $MESSAGE echo "Top Memory Consuming Processes Using top command" >> $MESSAGE echo "------------------------------------------------------------------" >> $MESSAGE echo "$(top -b -o +%MEM | head -n 20)" >> $MESSAGE echo "" >> $MESSAGE echo "------------------------------------------------------------------" >> $MESSAGE echo "Top Memory Consuming Processes Using ps command" >> $MESSAGE echo "------------------------------------------------------------------" >> $MESSAGE echo "$(ps -eo pid,ppid,%mem,%cpu,cmd --sort=-%mem | head)" >> $MESSAGE sendmail "$TO" < $MESSAGE rm /tmp/Mail.out
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5/6/2024, 9:00:54 PM

The guy throws with osotogari often in randori, but he almost always gets stuck when attempting seoinage. There’s some fundamental aspects of the throw he needs to work on, but a lot of it is being familiar in terms of muscle memory with it being complete. Sort of a believe and achieve kind of thing.

That said, tactically, I’m not sure how useful it is because of its ubiquity. My crackpot idea is that being able to exploit the position gained by an unsuccessful seoinage is almost as valuable as having a strong seoinage.

I took some seoinages from him today, but when he got stuck, I just said try the follow-ups you can do. He has one good one (kouchi gari), and they worked on ouchi gari in class today. His follow-up to a failed kouchi is osotogari. Maybe someday he’ll have a directed cyclical graph of techniques.

Eventually, possibly very soon, he’ll have a lot of his own opinions about what to work on. Until then, I will continue developing my slightly unconventional judoka build.
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5/6/2024, 4:34:55 PM

The Roomba’s problems have wildlife struggle nature.
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5/6/2024, 4:27:51 PM

I’ve learned the secret to making a good fruit smoothie: Do not put protein powder in it.
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5/6/2024, 4:04:33 PM

You can build your own Wily! For $100, that is. (You can probably get a Wily-like at the shelter for $35.)
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5/5/2024, 12:17:04 PM

Bonus Cat enjoys life.
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5/4/2024, 9:11:30 PM

Since the beginning, I've had trouble with Matomo, the server-log-based web analytics tool.

Today, I couldn't post here because of an `ENOSPACE` error, which turned out to be accurate. My server's hard drive was full.

In the past when I saw low space, I assumed it was the media files from the posts to various weblogs. So, I built this thing that mirrors the web sites on server over at an S3-like storage service, and nginx is a proxy to that for some of the sites. (I then delete the media from the server once in a while because it's mirrored and also backed up on my home Pi.)

Turns out that media files were only 40% of the problem. When I run `dust` as a non-root user, it can't see `/var/lib/mysql`.

Matomo by default retains everything it ever ingests. So, the MySQL had 30 GB of Matomo stuff in it. I tried the things their web site suggested to purge it, and of course it didn't, as it is so often the case for me with UI and console commands suggested by their site.

So, I just got rid of the whole thing. I dropped Matomo's db table, purged the binary logs, deleted the PHP files, unhooked nginx from php-fhm, and removed a ton of stuff from the crontab.

I had no idea it would feel like such a relief.

Now that I have usage alerts, when the server gets bombed, I get an email, and I can just grep the nginx logs. I have no serious need for analytics.
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5/4/2024, 7:25:02 PM

I had to hand shell all of these peanuts. Which is why there aren’t many of them!
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