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today i received an email that my computer from work is eligible to be upgraded. this is hilarious, as i’ve never received one of these emails before. i started at IBM in 2017. i got a new computer in 2021 when i was laid off and rehired (obviously). i requested an “emergency” replacement last year to upgrade my 2019 intel-based macbook pro. they sent me a used 2020 m1 macbook pro.

given the everything that’s currently happening, this is extra ironic.

just watched The Sixth Sense with my boys. they had not been spoiled. it was amazing to watch them figure it out, like i did 27 years ago.

AI is really great but when you want to find an image on the internet you have to perform seven levels of spongy human brain jujitsu to find a version of a picture that doesn't look like a block-print made with a potato

home from seeing Bring Me The Horizon in Worcester, MA.

yes, i am too old for that. but what an amazing show. i have so much respect.

and my kids absolutely loved it.

the moon is all cinematic tonight.

🤨

@Akki @jerzone aha, thanks for the notes. this is on my list, i just need to identify a time when the fam is out of the house/i can have the water shut off for a while.

@jerzone @Akki ohh i wonder if i can do this to fix our slow shower instead of purchasing a new mixing cartridge for (checks notes) seventy eight dollars.

@cabel i love that they know who Columbo is.

@akahn very nice! i did this a couple years back. i was on assignment in NYC and the office there had amazing chairs so i found one locally at a used office furniture dealer and picked it up on my way home. still love it (in my case, i have a Herman Miller Mirra 2)

so today, i acted on some jealousy i had of the dimensions that @marcamos added to his reading page ( https://marcamos.com/reading/ ) and i added “Series” and the ability to log Ratings on my own reading list https://reading.mikesusz.com/ in the future. (marc still has photos and layout and stuff, which will always keep me jealous)

it's been a heck of a week.

i just wonder how much of my savings i will need to burn through before companies realize that their users require skilled and experienced people to be involved in creating the interfaces that they rely on day to day.

when examining my internal and external prospects for employment, i arrive at a question: who (or … what?) is responsible for producing the user experience in apps and websites anymore?

i predict that, as a user, things are going to get far, far worse. quickly.

@jerzone (on my mechanical boards) i remap caps lock to right ctrl. so then most of the time it’s just ctrl, but in games i can use it separately from left ctrl.

@jerzone what OS? mac’s let you remap the function keys. you can probably change globe to ctrl if you want two ctrls.

me, explaining my local development environment

@jerzone i’ve been wondering how to better utilize my PoE infrastructure. i obviously power PoE switches and access points, but could i deploy small arduino things and whatnot

@Meyerweb reading more about usage these features also really appeal to me. thanks again!

@jerzone thanks Jer! adding to my research playlist.

@Meyerweb i’ll check it out - thank you so much!

@Meyerweb i too am very close to finally allowing myself to get one of these. would love to learn from your reasoning on choosing one model over another.

@annika yeah this was Grady's point - for Durable software, you either don't use AI, or you use it for very specific tasks and you verify the output. (his entire argument is that you still need knowledge of computer science to produce good software, LLMs are just a new abstraction layer to creating it)

@mathowie this is something Grady Booch described as the difference between software that is “disposable” versus software that (needs to be) “durable” AI excels at disposable software - single purpose, limited user, reliability is not paramount.

@threetonesun i think that’s a Ground Type

@BasicAppleGuy interesting! way back in the day, they would have different branding for education. i was a campus rep, and i got marketing stuff like this (circa 1996?)

@irafcummings excellent choice! possibly one of the last days to do it without bugs

my lunchtime project today was kinda up in the air.

Happy ‘Big Wind’ Day!

on April 12th, 1934, the weather observatory on top of Mount Washington recorded a wind gust of 231mph.

a google search will turn up a lot of various articles, here’s a few — a quick read from the mount washington staff a few years back:

https://mountwashington.org/a-look-at-the-big-wind-and-measuring-extreme-winds-at-mount-washington/

the original American Meteorological Society review article:

https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/mwre/62/6/1520-0493_1934_62_186_wosfaa_2_0_co_2.xml

i declare this: Jinx Weekend! put the shovels away, drain the gas from the snowblower. change out the snow tires for summer wheels.

join me! *

* if we all do it, we can’t blame anyone individually when it snows again.

@jerzone eventually the sum total of one entire pizza arrived, yes

i say this for funnies but i really did explain IP addresses, domain names, and ports to them. the easiest metaphor is a building. a building has an address, a name, and several floors.

this building is at 390 park avenue (ip address)
it's called "lever house" (domain name)
there's a restaurant on the 3rd floor (port 3)
there are offices on floors 4-12 (ports 4-12)

or maybe i just make them watch Hackers again.

gave my kids the url to a service i have running in Docker on the server in the basement. they started asking “why does this domain not have a .com" and "what does :8000 mean" so...

we had _the talk_

@m750 probably nirvana.

@mathowie that’s so cool! when i lived in Everett, WA we would go up to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. i miss that.

okay here’s a measurement.

scientific deck-rail-o-meter

my brain keeps oscillating between “this isn’t funny anymore” and “this is utterly hilarious.”

i don’t even know if i posess the faculty to properly convey how tired i am.

@m750 here’s my office/corner.

I took the dogs out to play, and I caught a snowflake on my tongue and it tasted like hatred. Bitter, bitter hatred.

this is a new one for me. thankfully i was at home, and in the process of taking the watch off, so it didn’t fall.

@sarajw my wife puts vanilla soy milk in her coffee.

@mathowie LeeLoo (Milla Jovovich) actually released an album! it was pretty cool. https://youtu.be/fQ_I_aWsaRM

haha very funny!

@marcamos i asked a tax expert. ;)

1. if you’re involved in a corporation or entity that has to file also, the deadline for that entity is usually march 15th, so therefore any documents resulting from that filing won’t be available earlier.
2. certain retirement investment vehicles allow contributions for the prior tax year up to the filing deadline, so natually any tax documents resulting from those contributions would not be available until some time after the filing deadline.

@marcamos extension / wait

current status: balancing the emotional weight of: “the end of an era” vs. “no longer in limbo”

in case you were wondering how a pine needle thwarted my weather station, i found a fun gif explaining how this type of gauge works. the test for tomorrow (expecting rain) is whether i removed all of the pine needle or if there’s still a piece of it in there blocking the tipping-bucket from moving. 🤞