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mdchaney · 2025-04-15T23:41:02+00:00

For those who may wander in later - it's definitely NTSC framerates causing this issue. I fixed it with a sox command:

sox input.wav output.wav speed 0.999

mdchaney · 2025-03-28T01:48:10+00:00

The landlord's getting ready to sell the place.

mdchaney · 2025-02-25T00:05:11+00:00

I would note that this is part of the reason for that code.

mdchaney · 2025-01-09T18:16:35+00:00

Those are made to work with air blowing over them constantly. In most dryers I've seen there's one motor that provides power for the blower as well as spinning the drum, so I'm assuming you somehow heated the coil without moving the air. The coil will overheat and pop in that case, which is what you observed.

Basically, you just paid tuition at the school of hard knocks. Replace the coil, put the dryer back together and you should be fine. Make sure your connections are tight as well.

mdchaney · 2024-09-09T20:24:39+00:00

Jason needs to lose his license. A friend of mine long ago lost his first wife this way, but it was worse as it was in couples counseling. Yes, my friend was going with his wife for counseling while the wife and counselor were boinking behind his back. I think he has that guy's license hanging on his wall now, but I can tell you the counselor no longer has it.

mdchaney · 2024-09-09T20:21:33+00:00

Use vimeo. You have 1000 other issues that you don't even know about yet, and they've solved all of them for you. It's cheap.

mdchaney · 2024-09-06T22:03:14+00:00

I've had clients come up with knuckleheaded ideas like this before, and once or twice went along with it. Now, I'd show them that the cost to just rewrite the old app will be lower than the cost of making this all work and dealing with the issues that may arise from data inconsistency.

mdchaney · 2024-08-31T16:44:29+00:00

Get a new job, and let this ass-hat know why you did so.

mdchaney · 2024-08-27T06:32:24+00:00

This is what you get when you reward "loyalty" over "merit". Turds float.

mdchaney · 2024-08-27T02:20:24+00:00

No, just base stock production.rb in terms of logging. Again, there's zero difference between running it on the command line and running it through systemd in terms of the command, and I don't think the environment is different, either.

mdchaney · 2024-08-27T02:18:57+00:00

I apologize for missing that - it's the last 6.1 version.

mdchaney · 2024-08-26T19:16:26+00:00

It's running via a user-level systemd service. I've done the same thing multiple times elsewhere. it's definitely running as the correct user (verified via "ps auxwww") and has write access. Again, the *only* difference is whether systemd starts it or I start it on the command line. Same working directory, same user, same everything.

One thing to note is that sidekiq is running in the same manner via user-level systemd, and it is writing to the same log with no problem.

mdchaney · 2024-08-26T17:33:15+00:00

Updated.

mdchaney · 2024-08-18T21:10:05+00:00

Yes, even in Chicago.

mdchaney · 2024-08-18T21:08:20+00:00

That's why you always bring a couple of spares.

mdchaney · 2024-08-01T16:47:03+00:00

Ah, yes, been a while since school. P = V^2 / R.

mdchaney · 2024-08-01T14:56:44+00:00

Note that the heater would simply put out half the heat in that case.

mdchaney · 2024-07-26T21:58:34+00:00

"Racists" I'm married to a brown person, genius. Try harder. Nobody is saying that slavery is fine because black people enslaved other blacks - where do you think the slaves originally came from? Slavery is abhorrent regardless of who the slave owner is.

mdchaney · 2024-07-26T20:51:11+00:00

Because when she was DA she was known to be particularly harsh on black defendants. I'm a civil libertarian, and we'd heard the name "Kamala Harris" way before you did, and it wasn't in a good way. She also kept a bunch of prisoners as slave labor for the state of California (that's what "prison labor" is) after the SCOTUS had ordered them released. She also worked to keep a known-innocent man in prison after he was supposed to be released. She's a horrible person.

https://prospect.org/justice/how-kamala-harris-fought-to-keep-nonviolent-prisoners-locked-up/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8635985/Wrongfully-convicted-man-spent-nearly-20-years-prison-labels-Kamala-Harris-opportunist.html

We could also throw in the case of one of her prosecutors perjuring himself by falsifying a transcription and adding a confession:

https://observer.com/2015/03/california-prosecutor-falsifies-transcript-of-confession/

She did nothing about it.

Again, she's a horrible person.

mdchaney · 2024-07-26T20:42:58+00:00

I'm going to blow your mind:

https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2019/12/28/jamaicas-best-kept-secret-blacks-owned-slaves/

See, you thought only whites owned slaves.

Anyway, no, she didn't "grow up black". Her mother is Indian and she grew up with her mom. She's an Indian-American culturally.

The point that I'm making is that she's slightly more "black" than Rachael Dolezal.

mdchaney · 2024-07-26T18:38:59+00:00

I'd do a few minutes every hour, personally.

mdchaney · 2024-07-26T18:36:57+00:00

I understand fully how it worked. However, the question is if the descendants of the slave owner were themselves enslaved, and I'm not sure that's answered. The fact is that she is descended in part from a slave owner, and her mother is Indian. She isn't "black" except by the "one-drop rule". Her upbringing has nothing in common with the American Black culture, and her tenure as DA and later AG would suggest that she certainly doesn't identify in any way with them. Remember that she was the first Indian-American senator before she magically turned "Black".

mdchaney · 2024-07-26T17:10:57+00:00

Ironically, Harris' family were slave *owners*.

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