@gruber Curse you, John! Now I can't unsee this every time I walk past it.
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Dave Dribin
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I got some of my piano books spiral (coil) bound, so they would lay flat, when open, and I’m loving it so far.
They do flop a bit when on the piano, but that’s easily fixable by putting something stiff behind it.
But this is one the best $5 (per book) I’ve ever spent!
Finally deleting an old Linode server that’s been running since 2017. This Linode has been powered off for weeks (“just in case”), but it’s time to hit “Delete”. And this makes me a bit sad. You’ve done well, little buddy.
It was running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and the replacement has been running just fine.
Kids got a couple good photos of the wasp. Caught it in a drinking glass, against a window. Then my wife slid a piece of cardboard behind it and put it outside.
Don't know what kind of wasp it is, but it looked angry.
Going through some old boxes and found my Digital (DEC) badge, probably from early 1990s.
Yak shave intensifies!
Turned the EBNF into a Lark grammar and wrote a Python script to decode the part number and print a human-readable description by transforming the parse tree:
https://gist.github.com/ddribin/6be9227772295000cf45217302a0554d
Yak Shave of the Day (YSotD?): I was ordering some potentiometers from DigiKey and had to deal with part number codes like “PDB182-K420K-504B”. These can be encoded and decoded using the table in the data sheet as described in this screen shot.
I thought it might be fun/easier to translate this to an EBNF grammar, so here it is:
https://gist.github.com/ddribin/0b90263fafab8d56804b32b6496bae5e
Gotta say, I'm now sucked into playing records again, too. It's not because I think they're better sounding or more convenient. They are neither. There is just something fun about a big physical object that plays good music. One side of an LP is the perfect length to drink tea to.
Also, it's "records". When did it become "vinyl"? It's always just been "records." You never "put on a vinyl". You "put on a record."
Currently listening to I Fight Dragons "Cool is Just a Number".
Went to my first cubing comp since last November, and got a really nice single PR of 18.19 sec (first official sub-20!) and a decent average PR of 24.78, both in the Second Round.
Times: 27.94, 23.30, (18.19), 23.11, (27.96)
I got very lucky to even make it the Second Round, though. I threw pretty hard in my first round and was the last person to make the cut, only because 2 people dropped out.
https://live.worldcubeassociation.org/competitions/5358/competitors/530872
