i learned that windows has many different touch/pen implementations, and that the most recent one takes multiple inputs for a location, one at the pixel scale and another at the pixel scale multiplied by something like 2600 or so. i havent figured out why they did that yet, but ill find that out by eod
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#362Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same as white, green, yellow, black, pu erh tea, and all of their different varieties within those categories, it's all the same leaves, just different processes.
Well, not exactly in that there are cultivars and farm differences. In that way it is a little bit like grape wine, where different processing can produce very different wines from the same grapes, but there are also differences in grapes that can come through within a style.
In a way, yes; Wuyi rock oolong will be different than a high mountain Taiwanese oolong. But what most people think of as green vs black tea, they don't realize that it's the same exact plant. Camellia sinensis has only 2 cultivars, var. sinensis (the main one) and var. assamica.
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#363Set up motion detection on my home security camera. Caught four stray cats playing in the driveway at like 2am. Kind of annoying that the detection is unconditionally "object-based" (ANN is used to filter false positives like lighting changes). Also been thinking about game ideas for a while. Finally settled on an open world RPG where you control multiple (>10?) characters. Core gameplay loop will be configuring / op…
I finally kicked off my browser based game with the help of codex cli this year. It has been like having a junior developer that takes decent direction. There have been some missteps but "we" have made a lot more progress on it than I had the last three years. And it let's me spend my time optimizing the things I like doing.
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#364I'm doing PHP for the first time in years. I needed a function that returns the date of last week's Monday. Turns out PHP has a funky date querying language. I can just do: $today->modify('monday last week'). Makes me happy.
PHP is just awesome.
Right? I don't do much web dev, but now that I do, I don't see why I'd use anything else.
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#365Tangentially related: if I do this frequently how can I frame it as a hobby normies can understand? Knowledge explorer sounds too esoteric.
I like to describe myself as gaining/having "an approximate knowledge of many things"
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#366Finished "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Hemmingway Wow, so powerful. So real. I can see why it won the accolades at the time and why it stays. The ending. You could see it a mile away, but it was so hurtful still. Would love to see another adaptation made of it, especially nowadays. Maybe a really long movie, 2 parts?
Currently at page 127. Wish I didn't read this comment...
sorry!
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#367Surströmming, the Swedish can of fermented fish, is strongly recommended to be punctured while submerged in tap water. It is not pasteurized and is actively fermenting in storage, and the content will spray around if opened under atmospheric conditions. When transported on cargo flights, they are double packed as cans in a barrel in a crate, and considered UN classified "miscellaneous dangerous goods" with identifica…
I hope you didn't find that first paragraph out the hard way today!
Haha, no, I just came across these trivia... it scares me more than it intrigues me :p
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#368Earlier quoted context omitted.
What's the advantage to systemctl --host foo status httpd.service vs ssh -t foo systemctl status httpd.service ?
> What's the advantage to ... For me personally, I'd say "not much". I'm used to using the latter form, and it's fine. But I will say that now that I know about this, I see using it in scenarios where I'm running a lot of systemctl commands over and over again in close proximity and have the "muscle memory" of typing "systemctl" more in mind. For example, when working with a new service that isn't quite working right…
But that seems worse? If all your commands are systemctl, then you just have to ^p and edit/rerun, but there isn't a `systemctl $EDITOR /some/file`, so you'll have to ssh to run emacs (or use TRAMP, if using emacs), at which point you might as well just have a shell on the other end and do everything without having to tack --host onto your commands
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#369On a recent trip to Costa Rica, I discovered "Rice and Beans," which is not Gallo Pinto, but a Caribbean-influenced dish made principally of white rice, red kidney beans, coconut milk, and thyme. The dish name is in quotes because it's really the English words "Rice and Beans." It's marvelous, and I couldn't wait to try making it myself at home. Unfortunately, so far, it's been a mushy flavorless mess. I'll try a thi…
This is really interesting as it more or less sounds like the recipe for Jamaican "rice and peas" which is delicious and very easy to make. This recipe (minus the bacon, which has no place in rice and peas imo) is a solid easy entry recipe so might be useful: https://www.theguardian.com/food/2025/oct/05/how-to-make-ric...
happy cooking and eating!
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#370Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What's the advantage to ... For me personally, I'd say "not much". I'm used to using the latter form, and it's fine. But I will say that now that I know about this, I see using it in scenarios where I'm running a lot of systemctl commands over and over again in close proximity and have the "muscle memory" of typing "systemctl" more in mind. For example, when working with a new service that isn't quite working right…
But that seems worse? If all your commands are systemctl, then you just have to ^p and edit/rerun, but there isn't a `systemctl $EDITOR /some/file`, so you'll have to ssh to run emacs (or use TRAMP, if using emacs), at which point you might as well just have a shell on the other end and do everything without having to tack --host onto your commands
I don't know. Maybe. It seems like something that could be handy, but I don't yet know how much I'll wind up using it. For what it's worth, I was working on a scenario exactly like this earlier tonight, and I wound up just ssh'ing into a shell on the remote box to do stuff. But that might just be inertia from being used to doing that, or maybe it was because I had a lot of other stuff to do on that box at the same time...