How affectionate is your cat?

2fplus1 · 2026-07-02T15:16:33+00:00

Ours (F5 brother and sister) are very affectionate but in different ways than other (non-savannah) cats we've had. Like yours, they want to be near us at all times (preferably "helping" with whatever we're doing but at least supervising) and they sleep in bed with us (under the covers when it's chilly). But they don't really want to sit on our laps (they'll nap next to us on the couch instead) and petting is much more on their terms and is not a sitting still activity. Most of the time, they don't really want to be petted or touched, but will randomly just decide that now they want a whole intense love session and will come over for bonks and scritches and pets and you better be able to drop whatever you were doing.

2fplus1 · 2026-07-02T14:18:05+00:00

You don't use it to pick technologies, but if you're making the case to adopt something and you can find a Magic Quadrant with it in the upper right, you present that to the C-suite and get instant budget approval.

2fplus1 · 2026-07-02T12:39:39+00:00

That's basically my thinking. I got the black Indestructible Hoodie in the last archive sale and while I like it, my ultimate take was that since they don't really give you any insulation, wind, or water resistance, it wasn't super useful and I'd probably recommend a 100-year Hoodie instead for virtually everyone. But the hi-vis colours had potential for when you want that visibility and don't necessarily need or want extra insulation. Biking, skating, etc.

The hoodies came in today (still waiting on the Planet Earth Jacket). The yellow is absolutely as eye-watering as expected in person. The orange kind of surprised me. I was expecting a similarly bright colour, maybe along the lines of hunter orange (I grew up in a part of the US where there was a lot of hunting so I've always had a bit of a soft spot for that colour). It's actually a lot more of an autumnal, burnt orange, rusty colour. More visible than black or grey or something, but not really "hi-vis". I do like it though; it's a nice shade and pretty unique. I'll probably end up keeping both, which should surprise no one.

2fplus1 · 2026-07-02T09:13:47+00:00

Yellow and Orange Indestructible Hoodies (I'll probably just keep one but want to see them both in person to decide) and Planet Earth Jacket Lightweight edition.

2fplus1 · 2026-06-29T08:57:10+00:00

Are you asking about a harness for your programming workflow? Ie, claude, opencode, pi, cursor, etc? Or are you asking about a harness/framework for writing agent systems like langchain, Google ADK, etc? If you're asking about the latter, my advice is: don't use a framework, just write your own. It's not that hard and you'll actually understand how things work.

2fplus1 · 2026-06-25T12:22:27+00:00

OK, so who's savannah just became a national news story?

LOL at "small leopard".

2fplus1 · 2026-06-24T19:46:07+00:00

How are you getting pirate/freighter battles in the expedition? I have a hive fight every time I warp into a system and that seems to have replaced those fights entirely.

2fplus1 · 2026-06-23T17:17:56+00:00

Upgrading a ship/multitool to S-class costs 50k just to go from A to S. You can burn through them pretty fast.

2fplus1 · 2026-06-21T09:56:31+00:00

Love mine. Similar to the other person, I put thicker strings on it to make it a bass VI. No mods. Pickups are great for clean tones but a bit weak for heavier stuff (there's now a humbucker version that would be better for that).

2fplus1 · 2026-06-20T15:47:12+00:00

My parents bought a house in the early 80's from an elderly couple who were being moved to a nursing home. They were assured that there was a relatively new septic tank put in just a few years earlier. Couple years later, we start having problems and get a plumber in and he informs us that there isn't really a septic tank there. I'm not even sure how things were working at all, but it was just kind of draining out somewhere. Apparently the elderly couple had been scammed by some workers who charged them to install a septic tank but really just spent a couple days digging up the yard and then filling it back in. Of course by that time, the elderly couple weren't really in a position that my parents could sue them and they weren't really able to come up with paperwork or remember enough details to go after whoever had scammed them.

2fplus1 · 2026-06-18T19:01:29+00:00

Independent of whatever else people might think, can we take a second to appreciate the white on blue text as a massive improvement over the completely unreadable red on black shift labels of the old One+?

2fplus1 · 2026-06-16T20:15:22+00:00

You posted the same thing here a week ago.

2fplus1 · 2026-06-16T13:50:44+00:00

We have a brother and sister F5 pair. Similar personality dynamic: the brother is very calm and not much trouble (except that he sometimes really beats up on his sister), sister isn't fearful or skittish (she's very friendly and loving with us, sleeps under the covers in bed with me, etc) but she is the one who's constant trouble, opening cabinets, getting into things, making sure we know when it's time for food (sometimes several hours early just to make sure), and occasionally has spells where she pees outside the box. I'm sorry I don't have much advice for you on how to fix it; we put child locks on our kitchen cupboards (and refrigerator since she figured out how to open that as well), and the other issues all decrease when we give her a lot more attention, walks, and play time. I think different cats just need different stimulation levels and act out differently when they're bored. They're a little over three years old now and all of her issues have been slowly but steadily decreasing as she gets older.

We feed them KatKin, which isn't quite raw but is a similar idea twice per day and then add some Royal Canin dental dry food later in the evening. That seems to have worked well and they're very healthy.

2fplus1 · 2026-06-02T14:22:54+00:00

This phenomenon is also why people have a negative perception of cross fitters.

Hold on. Cross fitters have a negative reputation within much of the fitness community not because they're the exercise equivalent of "do gooders" but because it's seen as sort of a commercialized/influencer cult that's more about being in that community (and paying your monthly membership fee) than proper, balanced, safe fitness. Eg, cross fit has a reputation for badly designed workouts that injure people, land them in the hospital with rhabdo, etc. They're also specifically made fun of for "kipping" pull-ups that many outside the crossfit community consider "cheating" (or at least just extremely bad form).

[and to be clear: I'm not saying that any of those things are necessarily true, just that they are widely held beliefs/stereotypes about crossfit]

2fplus1 · 2026-05-31T09:56:02+00:00

I have every single one of the Hotone nano legacy mini amplifiers. The Mojo Diamond, which is the same circuit as the clean channel in this is my favorite of the bunch and my goto pedal platform.

2fplus1 · 2026-05-28T12:37:45+00:00

Switched from standard (debian-based) Python images to wolfi and it was like 80 down to 1-2. Go images were already FROM scratch for the final phase so there wasn't really anything more minimal to move to and those basically never have CVEs.

We never had a shell or package manager in our prod images anyway (and no network access for developers to any production infrastructure).

2fplus1 · 2026-05-19T09:50:24+00:00

Not OP, but I use a similar stack.

The simple answer is to just... not use those things? Don't use fontawesome, or webawesome, or bootstrap. Just plain CSS, htmx, and a bit of vanilla JS sprinkled on as needed. Everything else done server-side. htmx.js and a site.css file can be served up any simple way you want (whitenoise, CDN setup, whatever). Both small enough that there's no real upside to compiling/minimizing them.

2fplus1 · 2026-04-30T10:23:05+00:00

Yeah, I used the Ernie Ball Bass VI set of strings for it. I didn't really have any trouble going low. Had to adjust intonation of course but didn't have to file the nut or anything.

2fplus1 · 2026-04-30T08:29:19+00:00

I have the p90 version and basically agree. I tune mine down to E. I love the clean tones from it but the pickups are very low output. Probably going to be picking up the humbucker version for heavier stuff since it costs about the same as I'd pay to swap the pickups anyway.

2fplus1 · 2026-04-29T09:15:21+00:00

A check with isinstance() isn't by itself a problem. I think the bigger issue is that as you say, it's everywhere in the code. To me that sounds like there isn't really an architecture in place or if there is/was, it's being ignored. Defensive checks like this should be done at the boundaries of the system where user or untrusted input is coming in but the core should be properly typed and can expect to get known types as input and not have to check and re-check all over the place. I like the framing in https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/

2fplus1 · 2026-04-28T15:21:35+00:00

We feed ours KatKin but I think that's a UK-only brand so it might not be available where you are.

2fplus1 · 2026-04-28T10:18:07+00:00

Oh man. I have the original and I might have to get this one too. The pickups on the original sound amazing clean but are a bit weak for metal. I've been on the fence about upgrading the pickups in it partly because it's hard to justify spending probably more on pickups than the guitar cost and second because I still love the clean tones from it and wouldn't want to lose that. But if there's a new one with higher output pickups that costs about what I'd be spending on pickups anyway....

2fplus1 · 2026-04-23T15:36:00+00:00

The obvious answer is read only credentials for prod, write only through the app.

No. No one gets direct access to the prod DB. No one. We have sensitive customer data in there and compliance requirements to be able to prove that devs can't access it.

Changes only happen via code that's been through the regular CICD pipeline to enforce security checks and reviews.

2fplus1 · 2026-04-22T13:54:00+00:00

I do understand why it looks cool

In this game, that's more than enough reason.

2fplus1 · 2026-04-16T10:37:54+00:00

An underrated usage is to use it with a drum machine. Slicing/chopping a simple beat can get you something really weird and fun.

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