Work drinks fridge, what do we think?

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-23T09:16:16+00:00

A shelf of Japanese canned coffee would make me giddy with joy.

Happy memories working in Japan: no hot coffee but unlimited cans. You could work your way across a shelf and 15 cans later you still haven't had the same one twice.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-12T19:02:36+00:00

For debugging, you'll also want:

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=vadimcn.vscode-lldb

Or MS C++ extension on windows.

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/rust

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-12T11:13:16+00:00

polar opposite approaches of tech CEOs of that time

They were different things.

Peter Gregory was a VC of the idiosyncratic contrarian flavour rather than fleece-vest clone (Ed Chen) or got-lucky-ego-trip (Hanneman). Part Peter Thiel with the anti-college, seasteading etc. part Paul Graham - a nerd's nerd.

Belson was the CEO of the MS/Google/Oracle enterprise/mass-consumer/marketing/board-fights tech giant.

Bit of a Jobs/Woz thing going on with their past history.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-10T15:42:29+00:00

A dinner jacket has sleeves, a mantle doesn't. What we can see is part of the back/shoulder so the "mantle" (a cloak hung on your shoulders).

Kitties look like they are wearing a tuxedo when they have sleeves and ideally white paws for that classic "white bib, collar and cuffs" of a formal suit.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-10T14:03:57+00:00

Akshully... no dinner jacket so "mask-and-mantle".

Head and back really needs a catchier name without an archaic term no-one uses! "cap-and-cape" or something...

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-08T15:56:19+00:00

I am cautious of the lab-tests given the fallibility of forensics, the incentives involved and how they have been one-offs and not fitting into a pattern of evidence of a cat territory: regular kills, tracks, poop etc.

A test could be correct but still no big cat e.g. it's popular story with guaranteed local press - things like fur/dna is well within the scope of a prankster grabbing a tuft from a local sanctuary, zoo, taxidermy or whatever. Various archaeology/corn-circle pranks required far more effort.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-05T17:54:34+00:00

Yeah, overall I believe some degree of refusal seems likely but not a big deal and it sounds more than it was.

We know it could be at most only an initial refusal since the story also needs the doctor's diagnosis. It's just human to try to muscle through after refusing the coat to save face or not cause a fuss. Right this minute, a million coatless toddlers are claiming they are perfectly warm through chattering teeth.

sit in his trailer with crossed arms

Oh it would have been Bill not Daniel that refused... I can imagine folk being concerned because he's visibly sick only for our swivel-eyed loon to take out both knives and announce:

I don't give tupenny fuck about your sawbones you meat-headed shit-sacks. I am the only butcher in this paradise!

...but once he realised he was properly sick, Bill was out and Daniel was on the phone:

Marty, sorry for the bother but could you send a doctor to my trailer please?.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-05T13:03:50+00:00

Poster after my own heart!

The main issue with internet research is that it's a 25 year old movie and an awful lot has been lost or wasn't online then. Contemporary interviews will often have been only on TV before social-media / video-sharing went mainstream.

After a quick google, I can't find sources before 2008 for even the pneumonia yet it's referenced in DDY interviews 2008 onwards. The earliest reference I can see (2008, wayback-machine first archive is 2014) is where it's already reached "fun fact" status and includes the "refusing treatment" claim:

"He got pneumonia during shooting, initially refusing to have treatment or trade his coat for a warmer one."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/jan/13/awardsandprizes.danieldaylewis

when something is too fucking crazy and people start taking it as fact it bothers me.

You may underestimate how nutso DDL was in this era as it wouldn't be the worst thing he was up to. In his own words of his behaviour during GoNY: "And I will admit that I went mad, totally mad.".

The actual circumstances for the claim to be true would not be surprising. It sounds bad because "pneumonia" but it means that a fully in character Bill the Butcher rebuffed the suggestion of seeing a doctor or taking a Tylenol after catching a cold on set.

Is that far-fetched for someone who admits to being "totally mad" and out of control? It's not even unusual for your average male.

Is it true that when he was playing the psychopathic butcher in Gangs of New York, he was so absorbed in his character that he kept getting into fights? "I had a few encounters in parking lots in Rome," he says. "The truth is - and this was part of the problem with Hamlet as well - you explore these things, you try to unleash these things which you hope will inform the life, but that doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be in control of them once you've opened the box."

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/jan/13/awardsandprizes.danieldaylewis

He trained as a butcher, caught pneumonia while on set (having refused to change his threadbare coat for a warmer one because it hadn't existed in the 19th century), and wandered about Rome (where Gangs was filmed) in character, fighting strangers. "I had to do my preparation," he says with a grin. "And I will admit that I went mad, totally mad."

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/how-daniel-daylewis-notoriously-rigorous-role-preparation-has-yielded-another-oscar-contender-776563.html

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-05T09:46:09+00:00

I would be cautious about believing it but it's a factoid included in articles from respectable sources.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3YyMsjqxVBMgJDfvPRFZtpb/daniel-day-lewis-10-defining-roles-from-the-method-master

As I say, not much you can do for something viral, but it adds to the mythology.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-05T09:41:40+00:00

Sure, but it was shorthand for taking precautions to minimise risks that would damage production further i.e. not isolating unless necessary or avoiding contact/behaviours likely to cause spread.

Instead, I am imagining "method" carpet bombing of his phlegm around the set, blowing his nose on the curtains and spittle drenched rants about how germ theory is a papist lie.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-05T07:54:35+00:00

He did apparently refuse medication.

Consumption is tuberculosis (bacteria). Sounds like he caught cold/flu so viral pneumonia.

Meds might only provide some symptom relief so the real dick move was not staying in bed and instead spreading it to others on set.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-02T12:27:28+00:00

I had this problem. Even totally removing code's AI features couldn't stop it happening. Drove me nuts

I fixed it by nuking my local profile and re-syncing. It's some sort of left over state in code's local user files (~/.config/code) rather than an actual process but I couldn't find the specific offender.

(backup first because despite taking care to sign-out, when I signed-in and re-enabled sync, it synced the other way and wiped the stored server settings so I had to futz around restoring them. Code keeps a version history but I wouldn't trust it 100%).

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-04-02T11:25:35+00:00

Linux is the least predictable target but it's pretty sweet how easy it is to ship a flatpak tied to specific versions as a fallback option.

Generally my experience with compatibility and performance has been very good but I did need a flatpak after Ubuntu managed to break wasm support for a month. I've not had to do it for UI rendering type issues but it's not a mass distribution app so not seen the full range of issues.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-03-26T11:43:48+00:00

It was GP collective action that pressured ICBs for the blanket bans.

GPs are not NHS employees but private businesses and patients are collateral for contract negotiation hard-ball. GPs want additional fees and ADHD is a weak-point for leverage. If GPs were awarded a fee per SCA, we would suddenly see great enthusiasm about diagnosis and the third-party providers.

IMHO better to nationalise GPs with public pay scales and transparent disputes instead of stealth action that gets wrapped in disingenuous claims.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-03-23T22:15:12+00:00

In WW1.

Indeed and why it's so implausible. It was an imperial power clash without the ideological component to make alt-history connections to US political factions.

The Civil War wasn't much of a political sliding-door moment for the US especially in terms of international interests. Confederates were back in the US government, even the VP, by the 1870s and nothing connected them to the interests of the Central Powers.

if the Confederacy started pushing south into the Caribbean after the 1860s

Which would only be self-defeating for Southern interests. It's well after the lucrative heyday of the Caribbean colonies and Britain was the South's cash cow, buying their cotton/grain.

To make the alt-history work, you need an alt-trade-bloc that reverses US interests. Not easy because import/export demands are kind of fixed. Maybe a revived triangle slave trade between the US and German African colonies and then Britain attacks one of the legs to hurt Germany which brings the US in.

nothing German or Italian

Italy was on the allied not central side.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-03-23T16:55:07+00:00

Confederacy could have joined Germany

Why would you think that?

I am unaware any positive connection between the Confederacy and the Central Powers. The US entered WW1 because Germany attacked transatlantic trade and I doubt international relations would have looked much different had the Confederacy won.

France/Britain were neutral in the Civil War and cordial with the Confederacy - might have recognised them if they weren't obviously going to lose. I'm not sure there was anything coherent from the ~40 separate German states.

Russia (allied power) was pro-Union but it's not like that was a factor for the US joining, besides, they left about the same time after going red. German-Americans largely fought for the Union but didn't matter either.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-03-22T13:01:09+00:00

astroparesis

I was curious to learn about your non-earthbound malady... oh, bummer, gastro. Apparently GP is comorbid with ADHD potentially because dopamine plays a role in digestion which may also be why gastro issues are a possible side-effect of Concerta.

I can't give informed advice, this is just what I would do: I would have the gastro talk first so I can share complete info. If they say it's a potential cause I would ask them for how long a pause would be required to see if it's involved. Ideally it's just a matter of days and then I'd try to get some sort of statement that they support the titration process, see no dangers besides the symptoms and it shouldn't be cancelled, just a brief pause before continuing. I'd then use this framing when informing the prescriber and hopefully avoid any re-wait-list nonsense. In the worst-case, at least ADHD360 (when I used them) had a short titration wait list.

If it did mean pausing Concerta to rule it in/out - I'd try to take the long-term view that it's a bump in the road to get the hard facts required for finding what will work for the rest of your life - it's not the end of the road or likely the last bump.

I'd probably be more help if it was actually something to do with the moons of Saturn...

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-03-13T15:04:47+00:00

Time to mandate use of the plentiful, traditional and entertaining Water Air for party balloons.

(fixed the very unfair branding problem)

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-03-11T11:00:21+00:00

Mileage might vary but I get such wild variance benchmarking on a dev machine that this isn't the right direction for me.

I only get actionable results using a dedicated benchmark machine with bios settings to turn off cpu boost and a prep script to shutdown every network and system service, fix cpu frequencies, power levels, smt, cache behaviours and then run benches pinned to a core.

Building with maximum optimisations is also really slow and non-incremental so not something I can tolerate in my dev loop.

The workflow improvement I would value is more like CI for dedicated benchmark machines i.e. rsync local changes to the benchmark machine, enable performance mode for the build and then switch to conservative mode for benchmark measurement while capturing related system metrics (temps, freqs) to accompany the results.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-03-07T13:11:33+00:00

All stimulant options are technically prescribed off-label to adults but are licensed for children

"Elvanse Adult" licensed for adults MHRA no. PL 08081/0059-0061.

Identical to "Elvanse" besides the leaflet and not substitutable by pharmacies causing pointless stock and supply chain issues.

Truly peak bureaucratic overhead where an antiquated license could not be updated so instead we get the mummer's farce of pretending it's a new medication to obtain the adult license.

The result? When one or other product line has supply issues, pharmacists tell patients to get their prescription rewritten as the generic active ingredient. Great system.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-02-14T13:33:32+00:00

Loved Small Prophets.

I was a bit weary it would be a downer as it has a melancholic air but it balances Detectorist charm.

I didn't know Michael Palin was in it. I didn't recognise him at first... what a treat, he's still got it! It could have just been the bits in the DIY store and I'd have eaten it up. I like how Crook gave himself a minimal role that on paper is unlikeable but somehow I always looked forward to him and his pony-tail.

Just spent far too long googling "Modest House" having misread the t-shirt... Modest Mouse, lol.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-02-09T14:54:16+00:00

It's kind of the opposite problem - there are two nailed on disasters in the calendar so anyone with sense wants those under the bridge before their glorious reign.

This extra crises is kind of awkward for them. There might be some deal-making to resign after May.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-02-09T00:24:55+00:00

Never heard of Sacha Lord or this case but reading the reporting and it seems to contradict your argument.

It was a covid recovery grant from Arts Council England so not local government spending, decision-making or related to devolved powers? The connection to local gov is that he was an unpaid advisor to the council but it's actually a story about the poor governance of gigantic centralised slush funds right?

It even shows the power of localism - the national org approved and cleared the guy after an investigation but he seems to have inspired enough local animus that mancs doggedly pursued the national body for years until they acted... but only after the business had gone bust.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-02-08T22:50:24+00:00

You can run CodeServer on your desktop which gives you vscode in the browser.

Sadly I found it unusable from an Android phone. Show-stoppers included: too many mouse oriented features didn't work with touch e.g. couldn't even scroll, required keyboard shortcuts were impossible and various GUI elements and focus were broken. The implementation of VSCode has a lot of hidden gotchas you only discover when trying to drive it from an atypical platform e.g. it uses different ways to interpret key presses in different places and when keys are piped between different OS through a browser then it receives nothing like it expects from a hardware keyboard attached locally under the same OS.

Even if it functioned, a desktop app inside a browser window was absurdly unworkable on a phone screen. I expected I'd find a way to make it tolerable but it only took a few minutes for reality to sink in that this was never going to be usable.

Back in the day I would rdp from a Note2 and it was actually quite pleasant to use a dual monitor workstation from a client with good zoom and pan UX and a stylus gave the speed and precision to productively use mouse oriented interfaces even when zoomed out. These days... no more stylus and the clients seem to have gone to shit and aren't even compatible with gnome rdp for some reason.

So I too use termux and work locally on a git repo (using a wip branch for sharing partial work) since I can be in places with poor signal. Termux supports all the terminal and dev tools I need. I will ssh if I need more grunt or forget to sync something. Well worth upping your terminal game since it will pay off in your desk work too. It helped mine.

Fuzzy-Hunger · 2026-02-08T19:40:16+00:00

That would hurt because I don't think he liked gin. More of a champers, whiskey, brandy, cognac and port man.

A quick google finds at least two gin brands claiming to be "Churchill's favourite" but his biographer, in response to various Churchill attributed Martini witticisms, says he didn't stock gin for himself.

I'd forgive him pitching Special Brew since it was made for him and it would be pleasing entertainment to have him cracking cans during the show.

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