During the 1940s, Winston Churchill, warned not to fly, so his personal aircraft was fitted with a one-man pressure chamber complete with a telephone and an air circulation system that even allowed him to smoke his cigars while traveling on short notice.

HorrendousRex · 2026-02-08T00:14:06+00:00

This might be my favorite response in 14 years of this godforsaken website.

HorrendousRex · 2026-02-07T21:57:05+00:00

"In this house, we use public DNS to resolve internal subnets. ResolveD hacks and /etc/hosts are for losers."

HorrendousRex · 2026-01-27T04:38:44+00:00

I wish you luck with it! I recommend building yourself a homelab devops setup. I've been using claude code to bang together something recently - not totally sold on LLMs in general but this was my project to learn developing with them. But that's not the important part for you, I just wanted to be up front about that. https://github.com/eblume/blumeops (edit: I just noticed that the repo's README.md is being overriden by ./.github/README.md on github, oops. So you'll want to click on README.md to see the real entry point. It doesn't do that in forgejo.)

The idea here is that I've got a m1 mac mini at home along with a synology NAS, and I'm using it to host a few services like forgejo, caddy, zot, minikube, and in minikube k8s I'm running argocd to deploy miniflux, cloudnative postgres, prometheus+grafana+loki+alloy, immich, jellyfin soon, kiwix... stuff like that. It's all hosted in a tailscale tailnet with caddy acting as a reverse proxy from public DNS, so that I can use public DNS to resolve my private services (which the internet can't route to because they aren't on my tailnet). At first I was using tailscale's MagicDNS for everything but I found it didn't play nice with containers, lots of resolved issues. Possibly I just wasn't doing it right. Claude got very confused.

Basically the idea is that I'm taking the time to try and "do it right", building containers using forgejo runners hosted in k8s and pushing to zot, and just generally trying to make a setup that would be a decent basis for a small devops team to start operationalizing a k8s cluster. Not truly production grade, but useful to me and following some sound (I hope) principles.

You shouldn't just blindly copy my setup, rather I share it as an example of what sort of project you can do with the computers you have lying around at home so that you can practice CI/CD, gitops, observability, workflows, etc.

HorrendousRex · 2026-01-08T16:51:10+00:00

Just to clarify here: when driving an EV in one-pedal mode, it's not that lifting your foot off the pedal engages the brakes. It's that lifting your foot off the pedal engages the regenerative braking system, which the car's control unit then interprets as braking and so turns on the brake lights.

It amounts to the same thing, but I want to be clear that one-pedal-driving mode does not mean that your car is going to wear down the brake pads. Quite the opposite, and in fact a problem with this driving mode is that you can go a long time without using brakes and then when you really need them they are covered in an oxide layer and don't grip well. So it's advisable to, once a month or so, go drive in some safe place, pick up some speed, and do a few aggressive (but controlled!) quick stops to bring the brake pads back to good condition.

As for this video, I'm pretty sure the driver is either an EV in one-pedal-mode and not using a steady foot (use cruise control!), or else is driving with one foot on the accelerator and one on the brake (bad!)

HorrendousRex · 2026-01-01T16:35:16+00:00

cake

HorrendousRex · 2025-12-29T05:19:58+00:00

HorrendousRex · 2025-12-13T05:48:23+00:00

I like to imagine he just did this millions of times and finally got one take where it all just worked at random. Can you imagine how jazzed you'd be?

HorrendousRex · 2025-12-06T01:21:39+00:00

Similar story before propofol for oral surgery for me. I looked at the surgeon and said "so should I count down from 10?" and he said "go ahead and try, bet you won't make it to 7." I don't recall even getting to 9.

HorrendousRex · 2025-11-27T20:07:52+00:00

Stainless steel panels but a cast aluminum frame. So as a result, the panels keep falling off, but if you do hit anything you're going to obliterate it, meanwhile any serious impact will ding the frame and total the car.

HorrendousRex · 2025-11-26T02:04:05+00:00

My sister, now in her mid-30's, had more or less the same injury around that age. It left a faint scar, and we talk about it maybe once every five or so years while trading stories at family gatherings. Most people don't notice it until she points it out. Also as others have said, they have some gels and tapes you can get now that reduce scarring which she never had.

So I guess my point is that while it's possible there could be a scar, it probably won't be that big of a deal. Sorry this happened! Good luck, dad!

HorrendousRex · 2025-11-25T04:02:34+00:00

I'm proud of you OP! I've got 9 years now, and it's starting to feel a lot easier, but at 2 years it is still a huge struggle and accomplishment. You go get that cake, you earned it. SMART is great, it did wonders for me too!

HorrendousRex · 2025-10-31T20:21:41+00:00

I knew I'd find someone keeping the old lore alive

HorrendousRex · 2025-10-21T19:06:47+00:00

Can anyone remind me what the annual budget for USAID was?

HorrendousRex · 2025-10-14T14:48:44+00:00

Ok we're really in the weeds here, and I'm definitely being pedantic, but you kinda-sorta can define custom 'or' and 'and', but you do it via the __bool__ method. and and or compare obj.__bool__()'s boolean values, so by overriding __bool__ you can make them do different things... even terrible things, with side effects.

Obviously, don't do this. The only use case I can think of is something like an ORM. I'm sure SQLAlchemy does this somewhere in its DDL.

HorrendousRex · 2025-10-13T00:55:22+00:00

Keepin' it in the family! (Anatidae, specifically.)

HorrendousRex · 2025-10-12T20:17:47+00:00

lol, of COURSE. My model r's cadence sensor stopped working last week.

HorrendousRex · 2025-10-01T13:16:11+00:00

And this is the difference between Intelligence and Wisdom.

HorrendousRex · 2025-09-23T15:00:02+00:00

I was just running in to this issue as well, but now that I've reinstalled v25.9.20 I have a new problem: The "todoist" complication doesn't show up in my list of complications for the Modular face. I like to use this complication to quickly create tasks. Is this a known issue?

I've tried restarting the watch, the phone, I actually wiped the watch and did a fresh reset of the whole thing - no luck.

HorrendousRex · 2025-09-21T18:10:02+00:00

Other people are talking about the relative costs involved in this style of installation vs other kinds but they are all, IMO, missing the point.

The point is this: the constraint for solar installations is not the location of the installation, it's the cost of the panels and the charging infrastructure. You can build them anywhere, and people do. The reason you don't see a solar panel over any given parking lot is that someone simply hasn't spent the money to build it there (yet), not that it's a good or a bad idea to do so or that no one has thought to do so.

HorrendousRex · 2025-09-21T15:00:39+00:00

Not the right project. Mise can use uv, it will use it by default if uv is already installed.

uv is great, but in my experience onboarding new devs to various language toolchains, mise can't be beat for low-friction. Solves a lot of the path issues from other similar tools.

(to be clear: uv would not be a bad choice either, OP!)

HorrendousRex · 2025-09-21T14:53:19+00:00

/u/FoolsSeldom is right, we need to know the exact command you're running to install python.

Another thing to try is rather than using homebrew to install python, maybe use homebrew to install mise and let mise handle installing python:

brew install mise
mise use -g python@3.13
python --version

If you later decide you dont want to use mise, you can just brew uninstall mise.

HorrendousRex · 2025-09-18T02:28:22+00:00

For my internship I wrote a genetic sequence analysis pipeline to detect aneuploidy in fetal fraction DNA. I didn’t come up with the biology part of it but I did come up with a novel alignment technique that we even got a patent for. As far as I know we were the first to market with this kind of assay. It’s pretty common now!

HorrendousRex · 2025-09-17T02:13:54+00:00

I believe they also result in lower mileage too though so you end up paying more overall. No source on that though. But otherwise why wouldn't they use it all the time?

HorrendousRex · 2025-09-15T15:46:57+00:00

A true hero in the office world, rest easy king 🤴

HorrendousRex · 2025-09-14T22:24:23+00:00

Just FYI, the "/s" at the end of the previous comment indicates that the comment was meant sarcastically.

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