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Planes, Trains & 302 Redirects

June 14, 2019

$ curl https://www.sussex.ac.uk/gdsc/
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>302 Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Found</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/gdsc/">here</a>.</p>
</body></html>

Wrong direction, Sussex 🥴

Neeerrrrrd!

May 16, 2019

When has my IP change propagated? Terminal-driven alarm!

while [ "$ip" != "144.92.48.199" ]
do
  ip=$(host http://maven.imagej.net | sed 's/.* address //')
  sleep 60
done; while true; do echo -ne '\007'; sleep 1; done

In the beginning there was zero

May 7, 2019

I got a Fitbit! I like it a lot. After recording data for 2.5 days, it sent me my first 7-day summary. I am far too amused by the assumption that I must have walked no steps on days prior to device activation. Coin-flip fallacy variant: when data values are unknown, assume zero!

A reflection

May 1, 2019

Let’s Enhance!

I used to laugh. But it’s real now.

Zeus, Mightiest of the Olympyans

April 25, 2019

Not only will my fingers not stop typing “jupyter”—the word “jupiter” actually looks wrong to me now. Thanks a lot, Python! 😭🌍🐍

The sansest of serifs

April 8, 2019

What is wrong with this picture??

Technological tribulation IX

January 18, 2019

#include <iostream>
int main()
{
  std::cout << "hello world";
}

$ gcc hello.cpp
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
"std::__1::locale::use_facet(std::__1::locale::id&amp;) const", referenced from:
[ >4700 char long error message follows ]

#cplusplusbestlanguageever

Printers gonna print

December 19, 2018

Decades ago: special cable with special driver for every printer model. Linux not a thing yet.

More recently: maybe it works if you give some hints: IP address? LPD? IPP? JetDirect?

In 2018: you can’t even STOP that network printer from jumping onto the list. Skynet looms…

Rebuking away the alcohol

December 11, 2018

When beer goes horribly wrong… or horribly right! http://ab2.life #RenameAB2

Fight for transgender rights

October 26, 2018

DOJ Says Businesses Can Discriminate Against Trans Workers

Been fretting about this, and struggling with what to write here that could possibly change hearts and minds. As a person of cisgender privilege who keeps himself very busy, it is seductively easy to just cross my fingers and hope for the best when it comes to the societal trajectory of minority rights. But it makes me sick, and scared, to see our current administration explicitly condoning this kind of discrimination. Where is the compassion for fellow human beings? And why is it so hard to believe the science that overwhelmingly refutes the notion of immutable and infallible binary biology-aligned gender from birth? Are Republican priorities (building border walls, “saving” the unborn, growing the economy at any ecological cost) really more important than cultivating a society of mutual love, respect and tolerance?

The least we can do is vote. And if you have the time and energy to do more, you can do more!

Hell No to the Memo: 7 Action Items to Protect Trans and GNC People

Technological tribulation VIII

October 18, 2018

Spent literally all day trying to make video calls work again, after upgrading to Mojave last week. Still doesn’t work, but after several hours of research at least I know why: Mojave’s privacy support is broken and half-baked.

Poisoned Apple

October 15, 2018

I try to make software that is accessible and cross-platform. But sometimes I wonder about the ethics of enabling science at all on macOS and Windows platforms. Apple’s policies are actively harmful to long-term reproducibility.

Apple diagnostics software blocks third-party repairs of 2018 MacBook Pro and iMac Pro
Apple, Verizon Continue to Lobby Against The Right To Repair Your Own Devices

You think you're so funny

July 2, 2018

Smartass GitHub repository of the day: Neuroglycerin/hail-seizure - Submission for Kaggle’s American Epilepsy Society Seizure Prediction Challenge.

I can finally take good notes

May 10, 2018

Amazing! Looks like Half Past Never has finally arrived!

Notepad gets a major upgrade, now does Unix line endings

Technological tribulation VII

May 1, 2018

Returns a stream consisting of the results of replacing each element of this stream with the contents of a mapped stream consisting of the results of replacing each element of this stream with the contents of a mapped ... Exception in thread "javadoc" java.lang.StackOverflowError

Face fungus

April 21, 2018 · 😜 silly

I reached up absentmindedly to itch my cheek. There was something fuzzy and alien there, like a giant caterpillar. Panicked, I scrambled to tear it from my face before it assailed me with its deadly venom. But my efforts were in vain—for it was my beard.

Not an ordinary fella!

March 1, 2018

Teddy learned DDR yesterday! He passed Wild Rush, and Orion Civ mix, and was close to passing Paranoia Survivor. O_o

He scored a B on Butterfly! (PA still needs work tho lol)

He played for almost two hours! While we were playing “I Do I Do I Do” he was singing “I do I do I do, do I do love, Dada. Dada is the be eh eh eh est, dada”

What an amazing little guy!