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ok, fixed contact info: https://gitlab.peach-bun.com/snippets/120/raw

for the paranoid, the current SHA-256 of that snippet is ef81bc8943f25a46b5e664d98887b71202b07861fa9d81f3fb67cd8c5e8a4445

Still one of my favorite Ubuntu bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qtbase-opensource-src/+bug/1731646

Especially the "workaround", which turns on debugging output for *literally everything*, burying your debug output in a sea of noise

tech sites really gotta stop just writing "Intel HD Graphics" when describing what a laptop has for graphics capabilities. that brand covers a frigging enormous range of GPU speeds and capabilities

Not nearly as light-hearted but probably much more interesting, even if the article is a year old (well, it was to me; I didn't know about these relocation programs):

"Bussed out: How America moves its homeless": https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/20/bussed-out-america-moves-homeless-people-country-study

"Slightly greasy solar atoms"

well, it looks like you can still buy 12oz cans of the stuff on Amazon

oh

TIL as of 2018-1-1 you need to have a 609 certification with the US' EPA to buy R-134a refrigerant, and, well, I don't have one

so even if I *did* manage to isolate and plug the leak in this A/C, I'm not likely to be able to recharge it. bah, I guess getting a new one is the easiest way

also I should probably try to fix this broken A/C unit at some point. these damn things aren't built to be user-serviceable anymore though; this one in particular doesn't even seem to have a service manual

current status: sweaty as hell and loving it. it's 97 F (36 C) and sticky-as-hell% humidity but after this winter it's amazing

(please take care to make sure you stay properly hydrated in this heat; also use sunscreen)

I have a picture of Comcast's current routing graph but I don't want to display it because it may induce severe trypophobia

subs on a Twitch stream where doms force subs to make subs

Was talking with some Twitch streamers and they brought up some ideas about "exclusive Discord channels for their subs"

Yeah, I was confused for a little bit, but this term overload appears to be common

Const-correctness in templated C++ classes has some surprising verbosity consequences.

Specifically, if you have a template function F that operates on a template class C<T>, it looks like you have to define F for C<T> and const C<T> if you need both. Template template parameters (not a typo) don't seem to encompass constness.

(If none of that made sense, that's fine, I'm confused too)

"Why athletes need a 'quiet eye'": http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180627-is-quiet-eye-the-secret-to-success-for-athletes

The next time I try a jump, I'm going to see if I can feel this phenomenon. These days I feel a sense of calm when I'm committed and I'd like to see if that has physical manifestations also.

I was going to make a snide portmanteau about social media influencers and influenza, but according to OED, the etymology of "influenza" is literally the Italian for "influence". Looks like I got beat to the punch by 300 years

I'm being facetious here (I mean it's social media, what do you expect), but the US Department of State admits this is a major contributor to passport processing delay, and it's also my biggest source of anxiety with my renewal application. An instant-feedback arbiter that both the US and I could use would be fantastic

if that isn't possible but running over people with robots and tagging my face in some facebook database is, computer vision researchers should just give up

A useful application of computer vision: does my passport photo satisfy all the requirements

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LB: remember those photos of my half-ass lab bench yesterday? I was assembling a power supply (nothing huge, right) and this seemed nicely relevant