Badabinski

I have a friend who is absolutely obsessed with roller coasters, but many parks don’t allow you to wear a body camera (to say nothing of phones, you’re absolutely not allowed to hold a recording device). Like, this guy will ride the same coaster back to back for hours and will absolutely watch a recording. He bought a pair for this one purpose. I would not have bought them and he definitely felt extremely conflicted. I think he keeps them in a case at all times and only wears them when he’s about to get on a ride.

Basically, he only bought them as an action camera alternative. He doesn’t use any of their creepy social media features.

For me, the special spot only works if I sit there and loudly say “I am putting $thing in $spot, I am putting $thing in $spot, I am putting $thing in $spot, remember this for $later_date!”

For future reference, you should remove set -euo pipefail and then add manual error handling to all commands which could fail. set -euo pipefail is one of the biggest, most disgusting foot guns in bash (a shit language cursed with many horrible foot guns) and does nothing but mask your problems. If every command has a unique error message, then you can much more easily track down your problems.

To make things more ergonomic, remove the foot gun and add a die function that accepts an error message and optional exit code and calls it like this:

echoerr() { echo "$@" 1>&2; }

die() {
  message="$1"; shift
  exit_code="${1:-1}"
  echoerr "$message"
  exit "$exit_code"
}

fallible_command || die 'shit is so fucked yo'

source: bash was my first language and I’ve been dealing with its bullshit personally and professionally for over 13 years now.

I did some searching but couldn’t find it. I’m also quite curious.

When you use a scrubby sponge on a scorched pan, the scrubby part becomes much darker and seems gross and dirty. It can be very difficult to remove the gross brown stain from the sponge. People like to use sponges for a while, but nobody wants to use the gross brown poop sponge, so folks attempt to clean them. This process is extremely frustrating.

I searched for this and found the source is this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54823479-the-witch-king

Manjaro isn’t Arch. Doesn’t use the same repos.

I use one of those every night and they’re awful. I buy them 5 at a time because they’re not very durable, and you end up with this especially irritating tangle of cables.

Look, I get it. It’s Q3 2026, and we should expect that everyone is utilizing AI at SOME point in their process (sourcing ideas, creating outlines, refining prose, etc.).

Should we?

These evil propane systems also attract many bugs from a wiiiide area, whereas the laser thing only kills bugs that happen to come by.

I still feel… very mixed about this thing. I’m not necessarily defending it, but if it actually works then it would be harm reduction.

If you want to use your own power and not give it to the grid, then don’t use a grid tie inverter. Get some batteries and only accept power from the grid, never feed back into it. If you’re feeding into the communal system, expect the rules to not always be exactly what you want. Don’t we all want people to use clean daytime solar power instead of dirty fossil fuel-based nighttime power?

i emailed them:

Hello,

I found your website and wondered what a spinning sandwich email would be like. I would like to request one email, please.

kubectl delete enemy --all made me fucking snort.

When I had a Samsung TV, I hated it intensely and printed a label that said “scamsung.” That TV eventually went to the recyclers with that label still covering the Samsung one.

McDonalds→McDicks→McPenis. I’m mature.

This mirrors my experience. I -Syu on a weekly basis, spend about 3 minutes doing pacnews, and then I’m done.

I will continue to pray for Slate to not completely suck. There’s a “smart” module that has a cellular modem, but it’s something you have to opt into and pay for it.

What is this from?

well that’s no fun!

Only possible AI thing I see is .zed in the .gitignore, but that’s not an indicator of LLM usage. Plenty of people use zed with all AI features disabled.

Try putting two spaces are the end of the line, or leave a blank line between each line.

two spaces at the end
of the line test.

blank line

test.