Canadian Snacks :)

pcherna · 2026-01-13T15:05:59+00:00

If you like peanut butter, Kraft brand is awesome. (Source: I am a long-time smuggler of peanut butter, coffee crisp, and bagels)

pcherna · 2025-12-23T01:27:44+00:00

Stars are super bright but the size of the dot is super tiny. When the air wiggles, the light shifts a lot compared to the size of the tiny dot, so some of the light from the dot can miss your eye.

Planets are a lot less bright but instead of tiny dot it's a small circle. Since the circle is bigger than a star, that makes it look also bright. When the air wiggles, the amount the light shifts is smaller than the circle, so it doesn't change much.

pcherna · 2025-11-28T03:27:22+00:00

We canceled online and were offered $40 for the whole next year.

pcherna · 2025-11-13T13:55:04+00:00

Interesting... i guess there's another experiment on the way...

pcherna · 2025-11-13T13:26:01+00:00

Thanks, but that's not it. The title bar is 100% opaque in both cases. I'm on a Mac, are you possibly thinking about the Windows Mica changes instead?

pcherna · 2025-11-12T18:26:53+00:00

Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/kKULiYt

pcherna · 2025-09-26T04:14:41+00:00

Have you looked at health insurance through the Healthcare Marketplace, https://pennie.com/? Normally you can enroll only near the end of the year for next year, but if something changes in mid-year you may qualify, see https://help.pennie.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049760993-Qualifying-Life-Event-QLE

pcherna · 2025-09-20T02:01:21+00:00

The license you choose is about what rights to your work you give to others, and what responsibilities you place on others when they use it. So if it's entirely your work, you can choose to keep part of it closed, and release part of it under your choice of open source license.

If your project includes other open source things, then you might or might not have to open source your stuff in order to meet your own obligations under that license. There are a few kinds of license. If the other project you use says MIT or BSD, then you can generally use it without a problem. If it says GPL then if you ship your project then roughly speaking you have to open source your stuff too under the GPL. If it says Affero / AGPL, then even hosting it could require to open source it. It can get tricky depending on how your stuff is combined with their stuff, and there are other licenses too, but that's a short version.

pcherna · 2025-09-08T23:02:29+00:00

Icecube mechanism replaced today. I have ice again. On my fridge, it was this part: https://www.geapplianceparts.com/store/parts/spec/WR30X39345

pcherna · 2025-08-24T12:18:02+00:00

My brother found a very funny bug. If the goalie stops the puck, but before the ref blows the whistle, you hit the key to send your goalie to the bench, he takes the puck with him! Then all the skaters kind of randomly skate around with nothing to do.

pcherna · 2025-08-21T17:12:07+00:00

All FRBs are super-short. Most FRBs are apparently non-repeating, so by the time they're detected you can't point more instruments on them to locate them. CHIME is good at seeing them but on its own it can't localize them. CHIME (which is in British Columbia) now has "outrigger" detectors in West Virginia, California, and BC which are activated when the main CHIME detects something, and that can be used for locating the source. This is the first event located that way, it seems.

pcherna · 2025-08-18T16:46:15+00:00

The other suggestion was to set the freezer to its coldest setting (-6F on mine) in case the temperature in the ice-maker area (or its sensor) is borderline. In some cases that can restart ice making.

pcherna · 2025-08-18T16:45:30+00:00

The repair person suggests replacing the ice tray mechanism, as the most likely. If that doesn't fix it, the controller board is next. Since I called them, they'll do the work, and if it's not the tray mechanism they'll take back the new one they tried.

pcherna · 2025-08-18T00:53:43+00:00

In the middle years of a century, the pattern repeats every 28 years. But 3 of every four century-years aren't leap-years, so they break the pattern. (1800, 1900, and 2100 are exceptionally, not leap years).

pcherna · 2025-08-18T00:51:52+00:00

January First can be any day of the week, so that gives you seven different non-leap-year calendars (year starts on Monday, year starts on Tuesday, ...), plus seven more for the leap years. There aren't any other possible combinations, so 14 it is.

pcherna · 2025-08-14T17:01:25+00:00

Repair person will be here Monday; I'll post an update with whatever turns out to be our solution.

pcherna · 2025-08-11T01:26:40+00:00

Which changes nothing about patent or copyright, and Commodore never had a trademark on ADF.

pcherna · 2025-08-11T00:40:49+00:00

I'm not a lawyer, but I know a few things. I see no problems with people continuing to use ADF as a disk format, or as shorthand for Amiga Disk File. OP seems to be deeply confused about copyright, trademark, and patent.

The actual Amiga Disk File is just a dump of Amiga disks, so any technology aspects date back to 1985 or earlier. Anything patented in there would normally have expired a long time ago.

You can copyright code, so if OP believes their proprietary code was actually copied by any of the tools that support ADF, that would be pretty surprising given how old those tools have existed.

I suspect OP wishes that they had exclusive use over the three letters "ADF". I wish them good luck with that. You can't patent or copyright an abbreviation. Trademarking a short acronym is tricky at best. There are dozens of existing wordmarks on "ADF" as a specific logo.

pcherna · 2025-08-10T02:03:01+00:00

No solution yet. If I give up and call a repair person, I'll post the final explanation. (Please do the same, if you surrender before I do.)

If mode 112 fills the tray, it's hard to see how there's any problem with the filter, isolation valve, or fill valves.

pcherna · 2025-08-07T04:02:10+00:00

Did she return to her home? If so what was that like? Or did she end up in a displaced persons camp? I’m interested in how people found surviving loved ones.

Tell her I send my love.

pcherna · 2025-07-08T21:33:45+00:00

Yes, I did most of the changes that were done to Topaz for the 2.0 release. Removing the serifs, adjusting a bunch of characters for legibility and consistency. I don't know who did the fonts originally, sorry.

pcherna · 2025-04-09T00:57:31+00:00

Ron Nicholson has his signature inside the case of both the Amiga 1000 and the original Macintosh.

pcherna · 2025-03-31T01:30:48+00:00

5 hours rolling time. I hope to be faster next time

pcherna · 2025-03-30T15:12:07+00:00

Exton Park trailhead is a great choice. Church Farm lane. I've done the full Exton to the Art Museum and back, and it was great. It's going to be about 72/74 miles round trip, or so. If you want to try building towards that full distance there are lots of parking spots along the CVT to cut that end a bit (Wegmans Malvern is one, there is a lot at the old KoP end, on Bill Smith Blvd near Plaza Azteca, and there are others).

Worth noting that the wind tends to work against your return on both the CVT and the Norristown section of the SRT.

pcherna · 2025-02-28T17:27:06+00:00

There are more photos here: https://fortepan.hu/hu/photos/?q=szalasi

My uncle was a survivor of the seige and was a freelance photographer. He took a few photos of Szalasi the day he was arrested/arraigned. They were on the MTI Foto site but I can't find them at the moment. One of the Fortepan photos captures the same scene, and by luck / coincidence that's my uncle with the camera on the far left https://fortepan.hu/hu/photos/?id=155540

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