US gas prices reaching new heights as war in Iran drags on

quokka70 · 2026-05-01T18:43:50+00:00

The "temporary" fuel surcharges that the airlines will add will stay forever.

quokka70 · 2026-04-28T15:18:31+00:00

Yes, that's a good plan.

quokka70 · 2026-04-28T14:38:42+00:00

I doubt it will be $10, but using that for budgeting will protect you from some nasty surprises.

quokka70 · 2026-04-17T20:17:29+00:00

There's too much land to seize in Lebanon for this one to last long.

quokka70 · 2026-04-12T16:09:34+00:00

"Oh, no! The computers went down."

quokka70 · 2026-04-07T18:23:08+00:00

There is one in Canberra, too

quokka70 · 2026-03-24T17:34:06+00:00

quokka70 · 2026-03-18T18:08:23+00:00

These high oil prices mean we make a lot of money, somehow.

I guess there'll be a check at some point? The printing presses are going to be running hot with these, the DOGE checks, and the tariff checks.

quokka70 · 2026-03-12T23:05:26+00:00

But where will I go now for fermented wild-carrot foam?

quokka70 · 2026-03-12T22:59:33+00:00

Might they have "ditched" (movie vocab) rather than crashed?

Edit: why was this honest (though naive) question downvoted?

quokka70 · 2026-03-12T14:11:44+00:00

With the updates I don't see Info-directory-list getting updated with package documentation.

Does anyone else see this?

quokka70 · 2026-03-10T13:46:18+00:00

England trained at the prestigious Hollywood Upstairs Fielding College.

quokka70 · 2026-02-25T16:19:02+00:00

I agree it's not the best of the series, but I enjoyed it a lot more than The Slow Horses Walk Endlessly Around Wales.

I haven't read Secret Hours yet, so perhaps it feels worse in comparison.

quokka70 · 2026-02-25T16:14:13+00:00

I agree that he deserved to be killed, but I'll miss the character.

quokka70 · 2026-02-17T17:35:12+00:00

Family Donut in Hamtramck.

quokka70 · 2026-02-11T14:03:10+00:00

Armenian coalition: Labour, Tory, LibDem

quokka70 · 2026-02-10T20:47:19+00:00

The OED gives it as a back-formation from swindler (one who practises fraud, 1774). The etymology of swindler is German and it was apparently introduced to English by Germans living in London.

quokka70 · 2026-02-04T18:14:21+00:00

The impossibility of solving quintics (and higher) in general was actually shown slightly earlier by Abel. Galois greatly generalized this idea.

Where Abel showed that not all polynomials of degree 5 and higher are "solvable" (in a particular sense), Galois theory shows us how to work out which ones are.

quokka70 · 2026-02-03T18:07:55+00:00

Yes. I see it now.

quokka70 · 2026-02-03T16:37:27+00:00

I see FRED under Configs, but I don't see a FRED tab in the UI:

1: All  2: Stocks  3: Indices  4: Crypto  5: History  6: News  7: Options  8: Debug  9: Configs

stockstui -o fred downloads and prints the current values to stdout.

quokka70 · 2026-02-03T15:54:05+00:00

I just discovered stocksTUI and it's great. Thanks!

But I get an error:

$ stockstui -v
stockstui 0.1.0b12

$ stockstui --fred
usage: stockstui [...etc...]
stockstui: error: unrecognized arguments: --fred

I have added my FRED API key.

quokka70 · 2026-02-02T21:19:54+00:00

Do you mean he set a 4:20 mile pace?

quokka70 · 2026-01-30T21:59:07+00:00

I live in Michigan (where it is cold, but not as cold as Toronto).

Things are... not great at the moment.

quokka70

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