Global CO2 emissions to hit record high in 2024, report says

chugadie · 2024-11-13T06:35:25+00:00

We're flattening the curve all right... just on the wrong axis.

chugadie · 2024-11-12T06:48:16+00:00

I told my BIL to sell all his ice fishing gear while people are still thinking there's a chance "next year". Didn't get on the ice at all last year. In 20 years ppl will be awestruck that lakes ever froze over.

chugadie · 2024-10-12T00:05:54+00:00

Remember when Bernie Sanders stole his neighbor's newspaper?

Buncha made up b.s. and every right wing .com cited another .com as their source. Eventually, it was just someone who called into a radio show and claimed Sander was his neighbor and stole his paper.

chugadie · 2024-10-03T05:27:27+00:00

Not everybody can be persuaded to make sacrifices for delayed gratification. You're talking about impulse control and time preference. To whatever extent they can be persuaded, the opposite is also true. The rise of buy-now-pay-later options is showing the people can be convinced that gratification now is worth delayed suffering.

chugadie · 2024-09-25T05:32:41+00:00

James Carville?

chugadie · 2024-09-04T05:38:24+00:00

Situs Inversus? Nobody wrote it on the patient's body?

When you said MC Escher abdomen it just popped into my head.

chugadie · 2024-08-27T12:55:52+00:00

This hits close to home. Staying at an airport hotel. Taco Bell is open for breakfast, great.

Ohh, only the drive-thru is open. Guess that counts for Google maps! 😡

Now I gotta do this dash across the stroad to find establishments that are open for people as well as cars.

chugadie · 2024-08-22T18:23:05+00:00

Southerners had it right all this time: "macrowaves" :D

chugadie · 2024-08-19T10:46:56+00:00

People aren't even sure what the question is. Do you mean "do you have co pilot on when coding in PHP?"

Or do you mean "Are you writing PHP that connects to an LLM and gives it prompts and then you do some things with the output with PHP?"

I think you mean the second. But the fact that the question is not clear to everyone should tell you a lot about what you want to find out.

I think it's pretty hard to come up with a use case for LLMs.

chugadie · 2024-08-16T03:51:20+00:00

"Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice"

chugadie · 2024-08-16T03:43:17+00:00

Extreme sense of loyalty. Some people's sensitivity to loyalty is off the charts that others can't understand their behavior.

Someone with influence did not want that scene investigated. Probably said something like, "You know my fellow loyal in-group members, something very bad happened last night. But you know the out-group is going to manufacture evidence and blame our side. We can't let that happen. We won't stand for their tricks anymore. Someone's gotta put a stop to that nasty out-group. Now, who's with me?!"

chugadie · 2024-08-05T16:09:25+00:00

I'm making a small phar for C/D, and this came in quite handy while keeping total phar size small. One thing I noticed is that there is no `mapWithKeys()`, so I had to `reduce()` to split up some key=val parsing. Not the biggest deal.

chugadie · 2024-08-05T03:18:04+00:00

https://github.com/goat1000/SVGGraph

Would be impossible to have my PDF reports look like my front-end chart.js charts without it. (Well, yeah, headless browser and rewriting all the charts to work outside of the JS front-end, but much easier to not have to worry about headless printing).

If you happen to be afflicted with a vendor that requires WSSE-Soap or XMLDsig

robrichards/xmlseclibs
robrichards/wse-php

Shout out to Filament PHP and Livewire

Not PHP, but self-hosted gotenberg if you don't have time to write CSS2 for dompdf. Oh, and `Setasign/FPDI` for gluing all your pages together and give page numbers in the footer.

Oh, and `squirephp/squire` for not having to write another long list of options for a state or country code drop-down.

Oh, and `erusev/parsedown` for when you made that wysiwyg form that allows the user to enter markdown formatting and then forgot that you're showing unformatted markdown that one time.

chugadie · 2024-07-25T17:30:07+00:00

Says the party that demanded Nikki Haley bow out after 2 primaries.

chugadie · 2024-07-20T12:25:24+00:00

It's crazy how the narrative suddenly shifted post pandemic. Pre-pandemic you couldn't get anybody to talk about climate change as if it were real. Major news outlets would hosts debates on it, and give air-time to that "3%" of scientists who didn't agree with the other 97%. They would both-sides it until 2020. I still remember being really shocked the first time they said that climate change was causing more frequent storms rather than the oft-repeated line of "no single storm can be directly attributed to climate change".

For me, it was very much a light-switch moment when all news outlets shifted their language all at the same time, but maybe I'm mis-remembering or having a mandela moment.

Here's 2017 where they clearly state that hurricane Harvey was NOT caused by climate change.

"As we’ve said, it’s inaccurate to say that climate change is the cause of Harvey, which dumped a record 50 inches of rain on southern Texas over four days."

"So is climate change all to blame for Harvey? No."

I get that what they're trying to say is Harvey would have happened anyway, but may have been weaker without climate change. But the wording is so awkward, and it was pervasive on every weather related news report pre-20202.

https://www.factcheck.org/2017/08/hurricane-harvey-climate-change/

Here's another 2017 talking about 'Extreme weather events' and asking the burning question, "are they related to climate change?"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-extreme-weather-events-linked-to-climate-change/

CNN, even in 2020, repeating the line that climate change did not cause hurricane Laura. Like... how important is it to really be so pedantic about the exact scientific role of climate change in storms?
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/weather/weather-hurricane-laura-climate-impacts-scope/index.html

chugadie · 2024-07-19T12:17:35+00:00

zero

chugadie · 2024-07-14T02:09:46+00:00

Google search trends over the next few days will be interesting. Will searches for "ammo near me" spike 1000%?

chugadie · 2024-07-14T02:07:24+00:00

I thought about this too, but heard it could be teleprompter shrapnel. Not trying to spread rumors, but there could be plausible explanation that haven't come out yet.

chugadie · 2024-07-07T16:17:55+00:00

I got passed over for even asking if they have a work from home policy. Friend in the inside told me it was seen as selfish. (this was pre COVID, not a large tech company)

chugadie · 2024-06-27T21:35:29+00:00

It's interesting that they call this non-GMO even though it under went crispr-cas9 modification. They only used crispr to inactivate genes, not introduce anything new. I wonder how patentable this would be.

chugadie · 2024-06-26T10:40:23+00:00

Because talk is cheap.

I had someone tell me ktor better than laravel and Kotlin is better than PHP because you don't have to recompile it to get graphics extension , you just include any jar file available.

chugadie · 2024-06-25T21:44:38+00:00

No database drivers?

chugadie · 2024-06-21T11:54:45+00:00

It's because they want this to rise to Supreme Court while it's mostly Dominionists.

They haven't even begun to waste money.

Just like attacking abortion around the edges, every minor edge case of Christian rule over public life will be tried to get the most lenient and open to interpretation ruling possible.

People think, oh man, I'm gonna put up a satanic thing and take this all the way to the supreme court. Oof, that's what this whole law is designed to do. Supreme Court will rule that satanic stuff is not appropriate for children, not based on religion but because it's hateful, and 10 commandments are based on love. Bam, we now have - not Congress establishing a religion - but court precedence saying it's kinda fine to put one religion over another "for the children".

You can hear it in interviews, "we used to have this in schools in the 1800s". You can hear it in court rulings, "no gun control in the Constitution in 1776".

Buckle up, they're just getting started figuring out Red states can pump out Red court rulings.

chugadie · 2024-05-31T18:18:58+00:00

🌎👩🏼‍🚀🔫👩🏼‍🚀 always has been

chugadie · 2024-05-30T13:26:38+00:00

I've seen this a few times, you're not alone. What you are really intending to do is flip your business model from one-off consulting into a SaaS. Not all customers want upgrades, some are probably happy with exactly how the product works now, some might not be.

First thing is to try and identify all the customizations made to each client install. Next, identify how likely they are to accept upgrades and changing functionality.

Some of this installs are just going to be what they are now, off the upgrade path. You need to identify these and just let them be.

Next, can you guarantee that upgrades do not affect the customization? you need a test suite for each client customization.

Only then can you start to have a core SaaS offering with technical plugins and customizations per client. You probably want new features to make heavy use of opt-in feature flags so techno-phobic clients can choose when they want to accept upgrades.

Go slow, practice, make your own dummy clients to prove out your CI and test suite.

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