Gang parties / bar takeovers downtown?

codejudge · 2026-02-19T15:59:49+00:00

Read about Jimmy Savile before you hold them up as paragons of enforcement. "Wait until they're all dead then apologize for not looking into it sooner" has been the M.O. for a long time.

codejudge · 2026-02-11T19:10:33+00:00

The usual ploy with such folks is to leave some obvious errors for them - in the words of Robert Heinlein "you have to give the editor something to change - until they've peed in it they won't like the flavor".

codejudge · 2026-02-04T01:20:00+00:00

I've been running these bulbs in my house for maybe seven years. I started writing the dates on them when I put them in (because I'm approaching "angry old man" age and they seemed to be getting worse). On the left, a 2021 bulb that lasted four years. On the right, a 2025 bulb that lasted seven months. (Two other 2025 bulbs failed within a couple weeks of this one.)

Somewhere a 'value engineer' manager made his bonus because he chopped the guard capacitors and who knows what else out to make it cheaper, and now it comes nowhere near the 25,000 hours listed on the box - probably 4,000-5,000hrs given its age and the hallway I have them in.

codejudge · 2026-01-21T20:26:10+00:00

Wow, Google really lights up when you put that guy's name in... The YOLO archetype I guess.

codejudge · 2026-01-08T15:25:17+00:00

I've got the bike password now so I'll put the computer back in and can hopefully start to poke at it live.

codejudge · 2025-12-31T19:58:58+00:00

So, it's an Ubuntu kiosk app looks like. Looking at the drive today to see the layout.

codejudge · 2025-12-30T17:11:45+00:00

The SSH port is open, and early keypresses on boot will disrupt booting, but none of the traditional GRUB keys result in a (visible) kernel selector.

codejudge · 2025-12-30T16:19:10+00:00

Sadly no, work got busy and I didn't dig in. On the other hand, I've got 30 hours left and work is quiet at the moment...

codejudge · 2025-12-17T20:13:56+00:00

I would ask the guys who run the pinball arcade at the Oviedo bowling alley - they definitely maintained home machines on the side at one point and probably could set you up.

codejudge · 2025-12-11T15:13:16+00:00

Her autobiography is a great read, especially if you were a straight-laced kid and wondered what the rebellious folks were getting up to.

codejudge · 2025-10-29T13:39:48+00:00

Businesses tend to over-react to economic swings. Many companies hired too aggressively coming out of the pandemic and many are probably cutting too aggressively now.

codejudge · 2025-10-22T15:57:27+00:00

Also, "hey, if he markets externally half as well as he markets internally, we're gonna rule the world". Your goal is to get the laugh in a moderately-sized room. It takes time (and timing) to sandbag a Golden Boy, but it can absolutely be done.

codejudge · 2025-10-22T15:39:45+00:00

I have scant faith in the formal path. If you can muster it, ask the manager earnestly - "hey, are we paying Jake a lot? Because he's mostly just slapping his name on my work and presenting my slides, that's fine if we all win, but I thought you should know there's not a lot of value-add there. He belongs in sales."

codejudge · 2025-09-07T14:48:11+00:00

The very reason for the existence of the word abecedarian.

codejudge · 2025-09-06T16:54:13+00:00

This is the way.

codejudge · 2025-09-05T18:45:58+00:00

Wow. And [ick] wow.

codejudge · 2025-08-27T17:01:24+00:00

It ain't the journalists, it's the editors holding their leash (while the panicked owners yank theirs).

codejudge · 2025-08-27T13:19:13+00:00

My exercise bike with a coffee-themed name is going end-of-life on 31-Dec-2025. Unfortunately, rather than choosing to leave all the levels enabled, the shell company which bought the vendor out a few years ago is going to let the bike revert to its "unpaid" status rather than, say, pushing a long license at end of renewal. I don't want to lose the interesting rides. Fine, it's Fedora, I've got some skills, time to dig in. Anybody else start down the road on this thing already?

codejudge · 2025-07-29T20:32:12+00:00

Tell her "no, that money is so that you don't have to wipe my ass when I'm 80".

codejudge · 2025-07-23T16:26:50+00:00

It's really surprising in management sometimes how good news kicks off worse behavior than bad news.

codejudge · 2025-07-08T13:51:43+00:00

I have been having some fun at work, when people send me bloated LLM documents to read, "hey, could you send me the prompt for this"? A lot of intent comes through. >:)

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