John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
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John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
12d ago
Like the IBC spent the last three revisions updating the spacing of outlets on a kitchen island, but there's no standard place to mount an extinguisher.
Oof, that's annoying. Especially doesn't help that mine is mounted under the kitchen sink, which is a great way to rarely see or think about it.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
12d ago
Is your bathroom fan on a timer that runs for hours a day?
It is not, we just tend to run it a lot cause GF and I tend to nuke the bathroom. Plus the white noise helps me sleep, usually.
Having a washer and dryer in the house rather than a shed sounds like a lot of trouble. I'd never even thought about dealing with lint in an interior.
To be clear, the bathroom fan is on a different duct than our dryer - there was just so much dust buildup/clumping on the fan intake that it was basically the consistency of lint. Sorry if that was confusing. I've had a washer/dryer combo in every place I've lived in and never had much trouble beyond the dryer not drying effectively. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
12d ago
Had a fire in my apartment early yesterday morning - bathroom fan burned out and ignited a bunch of trapped lint. Saw it very quickly after it started, thanks flu making it hard to sleep. Didn't remember we had a fire extinguisher until girlfriend called 911. Extinguisher put it out quickly, thankfully the only flammable stuff that was touched was the bath mat and not the very full trash can. Burned my hand and foot, thankfully not too heavily. Girlfriend and cats are completely fine. Currently staying at a hotel, gonna crash with a local friend once we check out tomorrow.
If our management hadn't sent out an email the other week reminding us that it's almost time for the yearly fire extinguisher inspection, I might not have remembered we had one. As it is, I only made the association when GF said she'd call 911. There's a whole lot of little things that have lined up recently that by some factor have contributed to saving our lives. It is a miracle to me that the only casualties in this situation are my bath mat, a bunch of my stuff being covered in soot, and blisters on my hand and foot.
If anyone has any advice on how to de-soot linens and stuff, or anything else I should know about...just processing a near-miss like this. I'd appreciate it.
Double-check where your nearest fire extinguisher is. Make a mental note.
>front page
>not browsing by board catalog
hownew.ru :^)
Sorry to break character but I didn't want that to make an actual link, would anyone happen to know a convenient way to break autolinking with The Motte's comment formatting? disregard that nyeh
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
2mo ago
Brave (browser), DDG/Startpage (search engine). I've heard about Kagi but haven't actually tried it yet.
Also worth noting that Brave is a great mobile browser given how few adblocking solutions there are for mobile platforms.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
3mo ago
So, Quokkit. Haven't put in any time on it this last week due to IRL responsibilities. The big thing that's currently annoying me: I'm currently storing the list of comment ids in a flat array, this makes navigating comment threads cumbersome because there's no concept of comment depth. Changing this to a tree would be more representative of thread structure and simplify future work on comment navigation and loading comments after the initial page load. Once that's dealt with, a nice-to-have for this week would be making the "Load more comments" button navigable so it can be activated with keybinds.
I was working on a click-to-select feature as a workaround for having to manually navigate through a thread, and that's still on the map, but I haven't nailed it down yet.
Undefined behavior isn't something you solve at runtime, it's literally implementation-defined behavior. Working in kernelspace is definitely not gonna give you the performance leeway to catch UB whoopsies. What should be catching it is a static analysis tool like Fortify, especially given Falcon is deployed on government hardware. If Crowdstrike doesn't have Fortify or a similar tool as part of their ops process, they've got security compliance issues.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
3mo ago
Forum-specific keybinds like voting and replying and editing comments I guess. Why use RES over vimium?
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
3mo ago
Likewise, I got a notification for this QC within the last few hours.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
4mo ago
Sure, I'd be happy to. I'm Issier on Chesscom and Lichess.
tl;dr simple RES ripoff for The Motte
I made a userscript to add keyboard navigation to The Motte. I've been missing RES keybindings since we ditched reddit and I finally got off my ass and did it myself. I call it Quokka Kit, or Quokkit for short. I pretty much just implemented my most-used RES keybinds and called it a day, so if there's a feature you'd like, poke me about it or have a poke at it yourself. It's got vi-like up/down navigation keybinds for comment threads and the front page (though I'm just noticing it doesn't do anything on page 2+ of the main site, so that's one for the queue), voting keybinds, opening comment threads from the front page, expanding post text on the front page, and returning to the front page. If you're used to RES keybinds they should be the same defaults here.
In the event you don't know how userscripts work, think of it kinda as a slapdash ad-hoc browser extension. But if you don't know how userscripts work, I wouldn't advise installing one in the first place.
Anyway, have a gander at it here, pull requests are welcome. It's very small, so you can vet it yourself (or I guess I should summon a mod that could vet it? @ZorbaTHut ). Obviously you'll need GreaseMonkey or TamperMonkey installed to install it, in which case clicking the Raw button (see attachment) on Github should pull up the userscript installer page. It's also GPL if you're into that.
Edit: just added comment reply and edit keybinds.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
4mo ago
Also, this might just be Baader-Meinhof, but I have a subjective feeling that mistakes of this kind have become more prevalent recently. Use of "should of", or "i.e." instead of "e.g", etc.
It's something I've been noticing for at least 7 years. I think it's mostly kids/teenagers. Apparently it's rude to correct people online on their spelling these days as well, so I guess the answer to "do people just care less about proper language use nowadays?" is yes.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
4mo ago
This is what I use.
.active.arrow-up::before {
color: #bd2130;
}
.active.arrow-down::before {
color: #0062cc;
}
It's not perfect when I'm using the Motte on my phone (need to tap somewhere else for the color to update) but works fine on my desktop browser.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
4mo ago
The teleprompters were intact after the shot. This theory doesn't hold, unless you have evidence for some other source of broken glass?
Not dead, looked like if it hit him it grazed his ear.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
6mo ago
New Reddit has followers, it's had them for years. Following someone is approximately equivalent to Old Reddit's friend feature, though I think you can only see your own follower count or it may have a privacy toggle somewhere. If you pull up /r/friends on old reddit you'll get a feed of posts from people you've added as a friend, and since that doesn't require the other person to accept a friend request, it's functionally a follow.
What is medical weed like as compared to the kind you can get on the streets? is it harder or does it make you sleepier?
tl;dr: they're the same weed.
Longer: The effects depend on the strain. Ratios of THC:CBD in prescriptions appear to be up to the doctor's discretion rather than legally mandated, and in some states medical weed is taxed less (or not at all) compared to recreational purchases from the dispensary.
Street weed isn't always homegrown, you'll often find that someone in a legal state sourced your flower/cartridge/edible from a dispensary. Before recreational weed was legal in my state, my dealer got their supply from a friend with a medical card in California. I've also bought from a friend who grew it in their garden. The point is that "medical" and "recreational" and "street" are largely just rule-based distinctions about how you got it, with the additional qualifier that dispensary weed has some assurance that you're actually getting the weed you want.
Sourcing street weed (or drugs in general) tends to be a matter of "knowing a guy who knows a guy" and who'll vouch for you not being a snitch. I met my dealer via my roommate, who I drank with regularly on a dry campus. Something something #networking.
Obvious caveat: my perspective is US based, I'm not familiar with international weed legalities.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
7mo ago
I enjoyed Scott McCloud's The Sculptor quite a lot. Maybe not everyone's cup of tea but it made me feel things.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
7mo ago
Yes, and it's a stupid context because it's meta. Apparently I missed that there's some meme of "men spend a lot of time thinking about the Roman Empire", so last night when I mentioned to my girlfriend that there's this ramen place across the city that I keep thinking about daily, she said "so it's like your Roman Empire?" So I got the quick rundown on the meme from her, said she missed a great Ramen Empire pun, and said that if she actually asked me the Roman Empire question, my answer would be around once a week. Which is apparently the exact stereotype, heh.
She said she never bothered to ask it because she's seen my bookshelf with How Rome Fell on it. I might be a little basic.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
7mo ago
So, I agree that Royal is easier than OG - but I'm also aware that when I played OG I was completely blind and very inefficient. Like, I never maxed Kawakami because I thought (incorrectly, from half-remembered information I'd read about Persona 3) that maxing a social link would require romancing them if they were romanceable and I was skeeved out. Going into Royal I knew what a colossal mistake that was so I maxed her ASAP and having those extra night timeslots back definitely made a difference. I was also more confident in my ability to stretch my resources to complete an entire palace in one shot, though again, Royal does have systems that make that more viable earlier in the game. I actually think the biggest relaxation in difficulty was the Mementos modifiers you get from Jose. I spent a real-time afternoon in there farming stamps and running over shadows with Ryuji's instakill and completely broke the late-game difficulty curve. (Speaking of which, don't miss talking to Jose after you collect all his stamps. I missed an achievement there.)
I don't entirely agree with you on dialogue bloat, but I do think that Yoshizawa's introduction scene in the casino was gratuitous and flow-breaking. Plus, if you think about it, how the heck did she know how to get there? Showtime attack unlocks do feel a little contrived I guess. This might just be down to personal taste. I do think that the more I play P5 the less I like Morgana.
I liked the new semester, I feel like it's a better resolution than the OG ending (mostly). There's a particular unlock in it that I believe is potentially missable if you don't hit certain dialog flags in the Justice confidant beforehand though.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
7mo ago
My girlfriend's basically been living at her computer playing Stardew all week. Works out for me since I'm hogging the couch playing Persona 3 Reload, and if she were in any vicinity of the living room there'd be spoilers abound. Buuuuuuut I think the timeline of her actually getting around to P3R after I finish it has been delayed by a few months.
I guess that gives me some time for when the DLC comes out.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
7mo ago
I don't disagree but I'd like to register that drivers in my particular region of the Midwest drive like they want to kill everybody, including themselves. I have two grocery stores practically two blocks away but I'm not walking it if I can avoid it. I don't have a sidewalk for most of it and I'd have to cross an intersection that's constantly handling traffic from the freeway exit.
The thing that really kills me is that the town is actively working on updating road infrastructure, but they didn't put a sidewalk in when they added two more lanes to the road.
John_Doe_Fletcher
anarcho-heretic, Quokkit guy
7mo ago
So I've recently rediscovered Processing, a programming environment that bills itself as a "programming sketchbook". Which I think is pretty apt, it's basically a Java environment that lets you skip over the boring boilerplate bits and get right to the interesting bits of drawing shapes and graphics on screen, fast. And I mean fast, the shortcut bar has two buttons, play (run your sketch) and stop the running sketch. There's stepping controls if you're in debug mode, but I haven't really bothered with debugging - I've just been doing rapid iterations on generating and displaying a grid-based map based on RuneScape's dungeoneering dungeons.
God I love it. I've actually been doing hobby programming regularly, I thought my job had burned me out of wanting to develop on my own time. Turns out I needed more creative expression than "make thing go work" script modding and tools, apparently.
At the moment I have one niggling annoyance with it: the IDE's theming options are terrible. The default theme is a perfectly acceptable light mode, but all of the other themes are either garish multicolor gradients, look like poop, or have terrible contrast - particularly the themes intended to have a dark mode look and feel. And the process for creating custom themes is poorly documented and there were breaking changes in theming between Processing 3 and Processing 4 and the only decent Monokai theme I can find was made for 3 and nobody seems to have a straightforward method to convert themes to the newer version.
Maybe the annoyance is more than just a niggle. Anyway. It's been a good few weeks for my hobbies.
Does anyone have any advice on safely getting rid of a smallish, mostly-full canister of propane? Most of what I'm finding online assumes the canister is empty. Hazardous waste disposal in my city is handled in a different county, by appointment, bringing it to their facility and waiting in line, and the next day they have appointment slots open is December 7th. I want to get this out of my space as quickly as possible - at the very least I'd like to find a safe way to empty it. The only reason I even have it is that my old roommate brought it from our previous apartment and the canister wound up in a box of stuff in a bathroom closet when we moved.
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