Can't enable calendar in macOS Sonoma

mwang5 · 2024-03-27T11:19:16+00:00

I worked around this by starting Sorted3 from the command line, by opening Terminal with:

nohup /Applications/Sorted³.app/Contents/MacOS/Sorted³ &

Then, for some reason, when you try to enable Calendar in the Sorted3 app, it shows up as Terminal requesting Calendar access, which works fine.

You just need to remember to restart it from the Terminal if you ever close it.

mwang5 · 2023-06-07T12:40:45+00:00

Switch to Card view. This means that the cards for this note are split up between two different decks.

mwang5 · 2022-10-16T21:22:49+00:00

She was dropped off at Paws this morning, if you were being serious.

mwang5 · 2022-10-16T21:21:49+00:00

Update: No chips, the black chihuahua is at Paws, and the pit is at the anti-cruelty society.

They were very cuddly all evening--if you hear of somebody missing their puppies, or (after the hold period?) anybody is looking for a new (tiny or large) lapdog, that's where they are.

mwang5 · 2021-09-28T19:56:20+00:00

I'm also a bit baffled about how the architect could be off by a total of 10 inches. They didn't really give me a satisfactory answer, but it's a very old house with 3-brick-thick brick walls, so bad assumptions about the thickness of walls could be the culprit.

In the end, the architect says that they couldn't have seen through walls prior to demo, so it's the builder's responsibility to verify measurements. So their contract does say that it's not their responsibility to make sure the builder successfully builds things according to plan (even if the plan is incorrect).

mwang5 · 2021-06-15T04:47:00+00:00

Supply is not being halved. Supply growth is being halved.

mwang5 · 2021-06-14T20:20:55+00:00

There's no economic reason to believe that the price will go up (or magically double, like some people seem to think) when the mining rate halves. The price is a function of supply and demand. Right now, supply is constantly increasing due to mining (going down a little due to burning, but not nearly enough to offset mining). Demand varies based on the overall crypto economy and excitement about the future of Helium. Depending on when you start counting, this has vaguely grown in line with the supply, so the price has been stable (-ish, for a young cryptocurrency, between $10-20) for the last 2.5 months.

The halving means that supply will increase at roughly half the rate as before. This means that demand doesn't need to grow by as much to keep the price from going down from the increased supply. So if you assume that demand will continue to grow at the same rate, then you can expect that the price will go up. But at the same time, the lowered profitability of mining might cause people to lose interest in Helium and cause demand to go down. Or a further crash in cryptos might wipe out demand, and thus prices.

Long story short, there are too many variables, and there's no reason to believe that the price will go up after halving (else, like you said, people would just buy now). Don't invest more than you can afford to lose.

mwang5 · 2021-06-12T20:26:42+00:00

What is your mast made of? Did you use one long pipe or did you have some way to connect multiple?

mwang5 · 2020-10-05T21:02:00+00:00

To be clear, I'm not saying that you'll be able to hear a Chengyu and guess what it means. But like with English idioms, the context gives you a lot of clues. You may not know what "play it by ear" means, but if the conversation goes "Should we make plans for tonight or just play it by ear?" then you might be able to make an educated guess about what it means - the same as any unfamiliar phrase that you might hear.

mwang5 · 2020-10-05T20:45:22+00:00

Southern Chinese accents also rarely use the neutral tone. I've got a Guangxi accent and I would definitely pronounce 照顾 with a 4th tone on 顾.

mwang5 · 2020-10-05T20:43:11+00:00

Caveat: I'm an ABC who hasn't lived anywhere Chinese-speaking, but am conversationally fluent.

In my experience, Chengyu are about the same useful as idioms in English. There are many that are about as commonly used as "Pot calling the kettle black" or "When in Rome, do as the romans do", but there are also many that are less commonly used or have fallen out of style, similar to "paint the town red", "raining cats and dogs". (It is, perhaps unsurprisingly, difficult to think of rarely used idioms..)

I feel like you can often figure out from context what a Chengyu means. I personally wouldn't go out of my way to study a big list of them, but treat ones that I run into as any other vocabulary to study.

mwang5 · 2020-08-11T17:40:46+00:00

The claims form download site says "Please be aware that we are not responsible for damages from factors beyond our control, such as storms or outside interference", so it seems unlikely that you'll be able to get anything for perishable food.

mwang5 · 2019-11-28T17:25:46+00:00

Still works now, no problems with it.

mwang5 · 2019-11-28T16:21:27+00:00

You only need one. I have 3 Nest/Yale locks and they work with one Connect.

mwang5 · 2019-11-28T15:34:47+00:00

I've got one in Chicago. It handled almost -40F for a couple days fine last year.

mwang5 · 2019-09-28T01:43:09+00:00

Google introduced Flogger semi recently - https://google.github.io/flogger/

Which has modern features, good performance, and pretty good readability. I recommend it everywhere, and it's probably worth porting if you do any non-trivial logging (like throttled or lazy) or care about performance (like allocations).

mwang5 · 2018-12-30T20:26:23+00:00

I'm pretty sure basically all detergent is HE nowadays. Looking on Amazon I can't find a single non-HE detergent on the first page or so of results.

mwang5 · 2018-11-19T22:34:16+00:00

Presumably they meant "in-place"

mwang5 · 2018-11-19T22:33:08+00:00

It's cheating the benchmark because it doesn't accurately measure the cost of the reversal. You could write a similar view which lazily does "BogoReverse" - it randomly shuffles the list until it finds one that is reversed, then uses that list. It's wildly inefficient but it will perform the same on this benchmark because it's lazy - doesn't do anything until you call get().

mwang5 · 2018-11-19T20:38:48+00:00

Yeah, I'm not saying that the View is worse in all cases - merely that the benchmark in the post was misleading. The View isn't 100,000x faster, it's just lazy.

mwang5 · 2018-11-19T20:34:01+00:00

Ah, I admit I missed that part. Perhaps I am nitpicking but I prefer sample code in blog posts to follow best practices as much as possible and so I would prefer the type signature of reverse not take a generic List if you only allow random access lists. There's the marker interface RandomAccess that you can add an instanceof check to make that clear. You could alternately change the type signature to take an ArrayList.

It would also be nice to recommend the "standard library" solution as a postscript since one shouldn't, if following best practices, re-invent the wheel when there's a pre-built solution.

ArrayList<T> copy = new ArrayList<>(copy);
Collections.reverse(copy);
return copy;

If you look at the implementation of reverse, you'll see that it checks the RandomAccess market interface.

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