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Cake day: December 16th, 2024

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  • Sun films have been available commercially for a long while. Choose how much sunlight you want reflected (generally more in bedrooms that you generally want dark and cool, less in rooms where you want a view), and either get a professional to apply or do it yourself—it just takes a bit of soap water and effort.

    Generally better to have the sun rejection happen on the outside of the window, so as little as possible energy gets absorbed.


  • I’ve very barely dipped my toes in dbus before, and the option to have something else is on its face attractive (not a fan of XML and the late 90s/early aughties style of oop), but JSON for a system interface?

    I mean, Kubernetes shows that yaml can work, but in this day and age I’d expect several options for serialisation, and for the default to be binary, not strings.

    String serialisations are primarily for humans IMO, either as readers or writers. As writers we want something with comments (and preferably no “find the missing }” game), so for that most of us would prefer something like TOML if the data is simple enough, and actually Yaml for complexity at the level of Kubernetes—JSON manages to be even more of a PITA at that level.

    But machine-to-machine? Protobuf, cap’n’proto, postcard, even CBOR should all be alternatives to examine




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    aka

    >pls provide training material for the LLMs for free :pray:

    lol. lmao, even




  • When you see that sign you must. When you see this sign you can:

    Often it is preferable anyway, but there’s a difference between informational signs (blue rectangle) and mandating signs (blue circle). Here in Norway we generally don’t have mandatory bike & ped paths, just the voluntary ones.

    These combinations are generally not a good fit for urban areas, there we should have bikeways with sidewalks:

    (Generally new infrastructure in urban areas is being constructed as bikeways with sidewalks, and old shared bike/ped-ways are being upgraded to bikeways with sidewalks.)





  • I’m generally an en_*.UTF-8 user (even tried en_DK.UTF-8 for a bit for a reason we’ll come back to), so I don’t have a complete picture of it and would have to go look at the documentation or source for that, but I’d expect

    • documentation
    • date formats: en_DK.UTF-8 should give you ISO8601-formatted dates, if I can’t have that I at least want DD/MM/YYYY; the US-american nonsense is just plain unacceptable
    • sorting: e.g. Norwegian will have …zæøå and expect aa to be sorted as å, the Swedes have …zåöä, the Germans …zäöü, the Turks will want ı and İ sorted and upper/lowercased correctly, and there are some options around how you deal with “foreign” letters and diacritics.
    • Probably more stuff relating to LC_* that I can’t think of off the top of my head

    but in any case, an ls -l output should be different depending on your locale, and in ways you likely don’t even think about as long as it looks normal.









  • It’s actually a collection of four books, which I think these days are sold in sets of two.

    It’s got some fun stuff, like an author who’s convinced of his own infallibility, and fantasy-like vocabulary, except none of the words are really made up, it’s just applications of somewhat obscure latin and greek words. I’d also kind of encourage going into it blind, since there are some bits of it that are more fun to figure out as you go along.

    Bonus for /c/[email protected] players: it has Ascians.