Adam Vartanian @flooey@mastodon.flooey.org

@hotdogsladies Oh wow, I remember watching Battlefield with my dad as a kid. Stellar maps in there.

@simon My biggest issue with them is that I can’t easily remember how to navigate to a specific file in a specific branch, you have to put “tree” in a specific place or something. But given how minor that is, it’s really a testament to how good the scheme is overall!

@nedbat I would assume it’s because they want to present kids with videos they might like, not videos made for adults (even ones that are fine for kids to watch), so they want to know if this video fits that use case

@mjd @robinhouston I believe the original is https://x.com/mathematicsprof/status/1235553604016070656

@kat I am pleased I have only gotten the secondhand discussion of whatever it is that’s going on. Makes me feel like my following choices are well-tuned. I similarly don’t care, I just want to hear from my friends.

@b0rk Definitely pull.rebase=true. I also have a couple aliases and a difftool (Kaleidoscope in my case), but those aren't necessarily generalizable.

@gruber The other day we discovered Siri’s absolutely deranged pronunciation of Murderbot and just about fell on the floor laughing

@danluu I think if you wrote a parser for the whole header section, it probably would have caught this. But since the header is line-oriented, most people would write a single-line parser that treats the invalid author line the same as seeing a different kind of line altogether (eg, committer) and thus would still be vulnerable to this kind of bug.

That said, regexes are so error prone I probably would want to use a parser anyway.

@whereistanya Hapy birthday!

Big picture, Ms. 4 is no longer wearing nappies at night as of a couple days ago, going well so far.

More prosaically, Pat read a terrible book about “plant consciousness” that had no data and basically guessed that plants might do some things. I joked that it’d be a better book if it just had each chapter about a facet of consciousness and then ended each one with “Maybe plants?” And now we just say “Maybe plants?” to each other and it’s very funny.

You know it’s a bureaucracy night when you need to use three different SIMs in your phone.

@grahams @weaver When I lived in LA, we would lose phone service during heavy rain. Being LA, that was like 5 times a year, but still.

For months, I would call the phone company once we got service back, and they would test the line and say, "Everything looks fine now, call us when it's happening." Which of course we couldn't do.

Eventually we borrowed a cell phone before a big storm and called them when it was happening. Of course, they found the wire to our house had no insulation left.

I had always thought that the Great Pyramid was some distance out into the desert.

Turns out it's like 200m from urban Giza, they just always take pictures from the city side so it looks like it's all on its own.

I wrote up my impressions of Zig after using it for this year’s Advent of Code, check it out!

https://flooey.org/zig.html

@b0rk That paper is great, thanks for linking it! This is one of those papers where I disagree with some of the conclusions, but it’s so well-written it clarifies my own position to me, which is wonderful.

In a delightful Americanism, you have to pay for passports by swiping a card and then signing the receipt. Feels like home!

Having been here a number of times (the new embassy opened in 2018), it’s a very nice place. I think the old location was better — hard to beat the heart of central London — but the citizen services room was cramped and they were clearly struggling for space.

Ms. 4 is almost Ms. 5! And that means an early morning trip to the US Embassy to renew her passport.

It’s Start the Year Off Right Day in the Gortanian household!

Every year, we take December 31st to do all those lingering chores that we’ve been putting off forever, so that we don’t need to bring them with us into next year.

Hang up those photos! Sort through that pile of paperwork! Mop that floor! Answer those emails!

It’s a great tradition.