Gillar med Linux: Kan byta skrivbordsmiljö och laborera utan att tappa en endaste inställning. Fortfarande inloggad där jag vill i webbläsaren, osv.

Gillar inte: Ingen av miljöerna fungerar som jag vill. Därmed börjar jobbet att hitta vilken som är närmast och sedan börja tweaka.

#nerdsniped

@ruthan You could at least have used the #nerdsniped hashtag.

I definitely just #nerdsniped myself.

I’ve been using #Selenium & #Python for a browser automation side project at work) because that’s what the previous guy recommended) but I screwed myself by investigating #Playwright - because it’s clear now that a full refactor using playwright instead of selenium will definitely solve some issues I’ve been having.

Craaaaap.

Ok @futzle - late, but your 12 days challenge finally #nerdsniped me.. Super torn on the best way to abuse #fsharp. The dark horse approach would be to use simple loops but I went traditional, since it's #xmas season and just piped and tacit programmed it till it's undebuggable / unreadable..

https://github.com/daz10000/puzzles/blob/master/XMas/12days.fsx

It’s coming up to Christmas which means I’m ready to be #nerdsniped with a new project.

@scalzi I enjoyed your story, Mr #Scalzi, as I often do.

Now, to ENTIRELY dodge the actual point of the story, I’m going to share my journey of where I was #nerdsniped into looking at the time ratios in it. (John knew someone would do this, I’m sure 🙂)

Be warned: there is no actual point or insight gained from this; it’s just a small mathematical journey I took. John’s chosen time periods are story devices, not mathematical or real-world entities.

As well as the titular time periods of about 0.008 years, ¾ year, and 27 years (which we are clearly told are approximate), we are also informed that resonances exist at about 1 second, 810 years and 243,000 years.

Neat ones first:
The 27:810 years ratio is 30.
The 810:243000 years ratio is 300.

The nice round figures break mildly for the 9 month:27 year ratio, which is 36 (but remember the values are approximate anyway.)

The 3 day:9 month ratio is a bit over 90 (≈91.3).

And finally, the 1 second:3 day ratio is roughly 300000 (exact value is 259,200).

So: HUGE leap from 1 second to 3 days, quite smooth regression of leaps in the 3 day, 9 month, 27 years, 810 years section (≈90, 36, 30 times), and then a biggish leap (300×) to 243000 years.

Plotted on a log scale, you get this kind of S bend. Without having done any further math, if asked to extrapolate, it wouldn’t surprise me if the next smaller time was in the order of the Planck time, and the next biggest in the order of the age of the universe.

(That’s the end of the post; told you there wasn’t any real point!)

I was successfully if unintentionally #nerdsniped at #eth0 and we now have a #pixelflut server installed for our home projector. It’s not fast but neither are we.
Most recently I was using curl to do telnet on macOS and struggling to get netcat installed.
The other bottlenecks include the 15 year-old server hardware and the eight year-old wifi.
@Yuki what do they mean by random ? Can't you just generate a random column then rotate it by one to get all the other columns ?
Also I'm pretty sure Latin square are stable by line and column swapping, so you could start from the trivial Latin square and perform any amount of random line and column swapping ?
#nerdsniped

@jezebelkat

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And now y'all got me curious about FreeBSD on these! #NerdSniped

@jbaggs

The AI assistant I thought would help me with this JSONPath refactoring task just hallucinated a feature for OpenAPI Overlays that does not exist (citation: I maintain the thing). But now I’m thinking …. maybe we DO need template based variable replacement as a feature?!?? #NerdSniped