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Journeyman human being. Sous-Chefs founder. Sacrificed my beard to a respirator against woodworking, PNW smoke and plague, the rest of the hair went on its […] [bridged from https://mstdn.social/@josephholsten on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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It’s been consistently above 45°F in my garden beds, so it’s time to start the first plantings of the season. Today, that’s germinating some lettuces for the first group in a succession, then some snap peas. I also have a couple apple’s worth of seedlings that […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

That feeling on Monday morning when you just changed your password the Friday afternoon before. And your built-in keyboard frequently drops (or doubles) presses of a particular key. Where that key is part of the intended new password’s characters. But the password was changed using the […]

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Anyone know if #pkgsrc on x86_64 macos is supposed to have #rust more recent than rust-1.75.0? I feel like we should have 1.82.0: https://github.com/TritonDataCenter/pkgsrc/commits/trunk/lang/rust/Makefile cc @jperkin

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

#FunEnglishMajorFacts: There are precisely two kinds of people in the English-speaking world: Hemingway people and Fitzgerald people.* *(And if you scoff and say scornfully that you are neither, then you are a Fitzgerald person.)

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

advanced pro tip: don't put your passport in the washing machine

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

LLM confabulations should never be cited unchecked, but it sure is useful getting a bullshit generator to give you a time range and handful of authors to check. This is how they’re going to get us hooked, isn’t it.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Having five kids in the house means every day I’m presented with an extended-cut modern-day reinterpretation of Rashomon.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

In a pique of foolishness this week, I bought some food I didn’t need. But hey, I can at least use it to celebrate right? First off, potatoes know nothing of @timbray’s mortal sins against angle brackets. So we’ll follow https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/12/08/Baked-Potatoes

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

You know you’ve got a very special online community when it’s members can have a prolonged and earnest conversation about the absence of a functional implemention of ed(1). It’s weird to imagine over a dozen other people even attempting to use ed on modern systems, much less lamenting its lack […]

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Let's agree to stop blaming Trump for All The Bad Things. He's old and unhealthy and will die within four years anyway. Let's consistently put the blame where it belongs: The Republicans. This Republican administration. The Republican DOGE. Etc.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Guess I should have something to drink which breakfast, and may as well show off the most unnecessarily unitasker gadget I own; the manual coffee grinder. A friend of mine is the importer, and these comandante really do have a lovely burr grinding mechanism […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Morning, time for a hot breakfast that isn’t farina since my jaw no longer hates me! I’ve got a scone mix that’s been tempting me so let’s throw it together. The mix is basically flour, baking powder, fat and salt; so we’re just adding water. This is […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Was just reminded that my greatest inspiration for info dumping random cooking experiences here is lawyer: https://linktr.ee/thekoreanvegan If you want legal commentary and delicious looking veggies, she’s worth your attention.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

“[solving a particular problem with a] General purpose transformer seems like generating a living human brain, then cutting it from the skull, freezing it and carving a hammer out of it.”

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

No wonder he's been ranting about how there should be no government regulations. https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Surely I can’t be the only person who has their testament, advance directive, power of attorney documents written up as asciidoc with mustache templates and the important bits in YAML frontmatter. But is anyone working together on these sort of documents? It seems amazing that […]

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

While I’m waiting for my 500mL of milk and water to scald, I can’t stop thinking about how malt o meal’s ground wheat component is called farina. Now speakers of any Romance language should instantly recognize this as cognate with their word for flour. It’s […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Do people actually rely on other to make commitments and perform them? I’ve been thinking about US referral of treaty obligations in the last month, and how our reputation is being damaged. But then I remembered that I basically don’t trust anyone any more. Not that I expect them to be […]

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Minor tangent about baking parchement: it’s covered in PFAS, silicone or other nonstick coating. So while you can compost it as part of your brown waste portion: make sure you’re not using a bunch. And if you think your compost is helping you be organic: then you need to be way more conscious […]

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment