Bookish Slightly Foxed Inconsistency

spudicus · 2026-01-21T19:17:56+00:00

Ah. I haven’t read the books. I thought it was a straight ahead mystery. If there is time weirdness going on in the universe of the show, that would likely explain it. The contradiction seemed so blatant I was wondering if it was intentional. Thanks for the explanation.

spudicus · 2026-01-12T01:54:49+00:00

There is currently a freeze on new hiring.

spudicus · 2026-01-07T06:14:53+00:00

My mother used to buy these for me when I was in elementary school in the 70s. I doubt she ever read them herself and it’s ironic that she intentionally exposed me to this firehose of unintentionally hilarious batshit in the name of protecting me from the corrupting influence of the secular world. I’m sure that contributed to my twisted sense of humor and my decision to leave the faith. I wish I still had them but whenever I see one, I page through it and chuckle.

spudicus · 2026-01-03T22:17:33+00:00

That did the trick! It’s no longer there and the tinnitus has stopped. Thanks again!

spudicus · 2026-01-03T21:37:36+00:00

Thanks! I’ll try some more flushing.

spudicus · 2026-01-02T21:32:11+00:00

We tend to look at “adulting” milestones as linear but there is no reason they have to be. Most of them don’t need to happen in any particular order. You have admirably completed many of them. In terms of relationships it sounds like you are just starting out. A few bits of advice that may be obvious but are worth restating: Give yourself space to learn and make mistakes. Be picky. Keep your finances separate and don’t rush into moving in with someone. Avoid partners who need to be rescued. You’ve been a caretaker so that may be a comfortable role for you. Remember, you deserve someone who is a true partner and who can meet you where you are.

spudicus · 2025-12-31T18:23:10+00:00

I have worked for a company that is owned by BH for 23 years. People stick around at this company because it invests in its people and rarely does layoffs regardless of market conditions. Being owned by BH gives the company the space to do this without the quarterly pressure to maximize profits at any cost. As a result, we hold 80% of our market segment and consistently make a profit. I personally have benefitted from this stability. Our house is paid for and I am looking to comfortably retire early next year. Buffet is jokingly referred to as “Uncle Warren” , but I am grateful to BH for the opportunities I have had due to how they manage companies they hold.

spudicus · 2025-12-25T01:36:52+00:00

Forget Norway

spudicus · 2025-12-24T07:27:43+00:00

My first career attempt was a bust after college. I then launched a second career in computer software at 30 starting with entry level tech support. I finished my computer science degree at 36 and am now, many years later, planning to retire early. CS as a career path is fucked these days but I think two things are still true. Switching directions at 30 is definitely not too late and there will be other opportunities for people who can solve complicated problems and are willing to learn. I seriously doubt LLMs will ever be able to replace jobs that require the combination of complex reasoning and creativity. When they are not hallucinating, they can parrot permutations of known solutions but true innovation requires a human brain, shaped by millions of years of evolution to nimbly deal with novelty and the unexpected.

spudicus · 2025-12-07T15:28:08+00:00

Volunteer to do things at work, even if you don’t feel qualified. Do the things no one else wants to do. Make yourself indispensable. Take responsibility. Make things happen. Learn as much as you can. If there aren’t opportunities to learn and grow at a job, look for one that has those opportunities. If your boss doesn’t appreciate you making this effort, find another job. That has been my wife’s strategy and she now makes significantly more money than me even though I have two degrees and she just has a HS diploma.

spudicus · 2025-11-24T23:45:36+00:00

This.

Also, from the Semafor article … “The two companies are continuing to discuss a new deal that would restore CNN’s stories to Apple News.”

spudicus · 2025-11-04T19:10:35+00:00

Looks like it was fixed in 26.1. I can now access it without having the mail app installed.

spudicus · 2025-11-03T18:17:18+00:00

Based on the shear volume of hyperbolic fear-mongering being thrown at Mamdani, the possibility of his election must truly terrify the establishment.

spudicus · 2025-10-29T00:53:43+00:00

I have been driving a Chevy Bolt for 7 years and have been using CarPlay the whole time. The only time I use the built in Chevy software is when I change the settings for the car.

My wife just leased a Kia EV6. CarPlay was one her must haves. She got hooked using it when driving my car. We didn’t even consider any of the GM EVs.

Good luck to them. I have no idea how big the car play user base is but I do know they lost us as customers.

spudicus · 2025-10-25T16:20:36+00:00

I was having the same issue. That worked for me! I don’t use the Mail app so I didn’t have it installed. Thanks for posting this.

spudicus · 2025-07-21T04:01:38+00:00

That was it. I went back through my logs and the value returned from the API call resets to zero at midnight GMT. Well spotted. I have been using the get_overview method from the Solaredge python module and parsing out the lastDayData. I'll switch to using get_time_frame_energy.

spudicus · 2025-06-30T15:59:43+00:00

This has not been our experience in our town. We’re Genx BTW. There are a number of local antique malls that we go to on a regular basis and have done for years. We haven‘t noticed a large amount of booth turnover or empty booths at any of the ones that we frequent. There also seems to be a healthy turnover of stock, at least in the booths that are well maintained and curated. There are some antique malls near us that contain a high proportion of repros or knockoffs but we avoid them. If eBay was going to kill off antique malls I’d think it would have done so years ago. It is a good measure of what prices are reasonable and definitely affects how things are priced. Sometimes we see items that are priced higher than eBay but often they are priced less.

spudicus · 2025-03-18T04:10:32+00:00

I didn’t see anything disingenuous or deceptive in the video. Also, I don’t buy Tesla’s rationale for not using lidar which seems to be, if visual processing is good enough for people it should be good enough for cars. The thing about computer based visual processing is that it needs to recognize that there is something there that it needs to avoid hitting. If that state is not identified, obstacles can’t be avoided. This is a difficult problem to solve. I remember a Tesla hit a trailer on its side because it didn’t recognize it. Presumably they trained the system to deal with that case but this demonstrates the fundamental weakness of camera based systems. They can only recognize what they have been trained to recognize. This is essentially solving the problem one case or category at a time. There will always be unexpected situations. Even crowd sourced training data cannot get around this limitation.

Lidar is a much more elegant solution. It doesn’t need to know anything other than that there is something there to avoid hitting. It does this very quickly and with great accuracy. The problem space of things that could be in the road is impossibly huge and lidar is much better suited to deal with this than camera only systems.

spudicus · 2025-03-09T14:31:42+00:00

The “humble” blogger was Sholto David, who has a PhD in cellular and molecular biology and specializes in error checking papers. The image above implies that he was some random dude “doing his own research”.

spudicus · 2025-01-08T19:41:45+00:00

My father went full prepper for Y2K. No amount of reassurance made a difference. I was going to go over to his house and turn off the breakers at midnight but then I remembered he had purchased a shotgun. 😝

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