Dan Lyke 20:43:46+0000 (2024-11-22)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2239,-122.628)

I hadn't ever updated my Zoom profile to include my pronouns, just got off a call in which I was trying to suss out the other party, and the fact that they included pronouns was a very useful tell. So I've finally updated my profile.

Dan Lyke 20:14:52+0000 (2024-11-20)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2272,-122.634)

Once again, Google's AI summary is a tremendous bullshit generation machine. In this case, positing that one of the reasons the Carolina bays got created was "The tail-fanning of a huge fish".

Dan Lyke 19:51:47+0000 (2024-11-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2271,-122.628)

Word to the wise: back up your SQL server to a text readable format regularly, especially if you hope that `apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y` occasionally will just keep you running along fine.

Dan Lyke 17:17:08+0000 (2024-11-19)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2271,-122.628)

I honestly don't know what Jira is trying to do here with its "Spark a conversation: Light up the comment section - add an update, ask a question, or @mention someone." prompt. Like, am I supposed to be doing "hey, @someone, do you come to this issue often?" or "Who do you think would win in a fight, XCode or VisualStudio?" What metrics are they trying to optimize here, 'cause it ain't good product.

Dan Lyke 20:31:16+0000 (2024-11-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2571,-122.648)

GM using religious overtones in their emails that attempt to upsell me on car bullshit is ... something ...

Dan Lyke 04:24:51+0000 (2024-11-18)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

I haven't been able to duplicate this Google AI fail personally...

Dan Lyke 18:40:26+0000 (2024-11-15)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2571,-122.648)

Okay, I'm gonna restart XCode, give the debugger one more chance to behave, but I'm about ready to try to figure out where the stupid binary it is and just use lldb directly. Argh.

Dan Lyke 01:02:56+0000 (2024-11-15)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2496,-122.649)

Dear XCode: It's cute that you think projects will have less than a page of tests, but losing my scroll position every time I click on the test tab is unconscionable.

Dan Lyke 23:22:14+0000 (2024-11-14)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2496,-122.649)

Ya know, Apple, if you could solve your MacOS "Thread 1: "The window has been marked as needing another Layout Window pass, but it has already had more Layout Window passes than there are views in the window." bullshit, there are a bunch of us on the Inkernets that would be super happy... okay, super less pissed off.

Dan Lyke 22:51:47+0000 (2024-11-14)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2496,-122.649)

According to Google Gemini, 1976 was a bad freakin' year for communicable diseases... "what were the socio-economic impacts of alabama avian syphilis outbreak in 1976?" indeed...

Dan Lyke 22:38:41+0000 (2024-11-14)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2496,-122.649)

Inspired by an AskMeFi thread, I asked Google "what were the socio-economic impacts of the texas locust plague of 1976?" It confidently gave me a list of impacts (of this non-existent event)...

Dan Lyke 20:23:21+0000 (2024-11-14)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2527,-122.658)

Warning on Stardew Valley 1.6: Spend down to under 100M before you upgrade, apparently it truncates that invisible digit...

Dan Lyke 22:27:04+0000 (2024-11-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.227,-122.633)

Wait, Midnight Burger doing a Huell Howser homage? Just when I though I couldn't love a podcast any harder...

Dan Lyke 03:48:19+0000 (2024-11-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Bao wow!

Dan Lyke 01:46:45+0000 (2024-11-13)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2173,-122.618)

The meat braise is simmering and the dough is rising for these Gua Bao with Braised Pork Belly, Seasoned Daikon, and Hoisin-Soy Sauce... https://www.americastestkitchen.com/recipes/16493-gua-bao-with-braised-pork-belly-seasoned-daikon-and-hoisin-soy-sauce

Dan Lyke 16:32:54+0000 (2024-11-11)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Epson Facebook ad for the SureColor v7000 crowing "the only UV flatbed printer under $200,000 with red ink", and... What do the other colors cost, I wonder?

Dan Lyke 01:13:56+0000 (2024-11-10)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2304,-122.628)

Dear social media websites: Reloading your shit and blowing away my in-progress comment is not a feature. And I wouldn't even be on Nextdoor except that the nEXTdoORTION business model of amplifying hate and rage unless you "volunteer" to moderate and fact-check makes it a necessity.

Dan Lyke 23:41:31+0000 (2024-11-09)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1)

Another view of the quadricycle mock up ..

Dan Lyke 23:40:46+0000 (2024-11-09)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1)

Zip ties and boards for testing the quadricycle steering geometry​...

Dan Lyke 17:09:59+0000 (2024-11-09)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Suggested on a local "Indivisible" group that maybe the progressive tendency of crapping on potential allies harder than adversaries might have contributed to low Democrat turnout, in this case attacking a town Councilperson over an "Is it time to make sure our passports are up to date!" post. Got back replies about how this person didn't pass a litmus test, so... I mean, proving the point handily, but datum.

Dan Lyke 23:14:23+0000 (2024-11-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2338,-122.641)

Crap, why didn't my image upload? Trying again: "Organic Erotic... Furniture"? Some sort of JD Vance reference?

Dan Lyke 23:08:56+0000 (2024-11-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.259,-122.647)

I see people going "oh shit, in 2028 the Dems are gonna run Gavin Newsom", and I've gotta say y'all's optimism is totes adorbs.

Dan Lyke 21:29:18+0000 (2024-11-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.236,-122.641)

"Organic Erotic ... furniture"? Is this some sort of JD Vance reference?

Dan Lyke 02:16:35+0000 (2024-11-07)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.236,-122.644)

"Hey it's <redacted>, and on my podcast <hip word> we are bringing you a special series about the basics of cocaine, what should you use it for, what tools are right for you, and what privacy issues you should ultimately watch out for..." <-- what your "AI" podcast ad sounds like to me.

Dan Lyke 17:25:58+0000 (2024-11-06)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.233,-122.641)

If you can't see because your windshield is sorry and you're driving into the sun, maybe don't accelerate hard away from the stop sign through the cross walk?

Dan Lyke 22:53:14+0000 (2024-11-05)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2239,-122.628)

More on all the helicopter traffic: https://www.petaluma360.com/article/news/police-petaluma-man-marina/ "Unconfirmed police scanner reports and witness accounts on social media said the man was complaining about Tuesday’s election." The article says "in the river", others listening to scanner suggest he's stolen a kayak.

Dan Lyke 21:38:20+0000 (2024-11-05)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2324,-122.633)

Tons more sirens, and a Nixle alert to avoid the Petaluma Marina off Lakeville. This is a large response. https://nixle.us/FY3F5

Dan Lyke 21:31:09+0000 (2024-11-05)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2342,-122.636)

Huh, not only Henry 1, a CHP helicopter, and a whole bunch of police cars (I couldn't see the agency markings), but at least one Petaluma Fire SUV. Activity is now down around 101 and Lakeville. Don't see any smoke.

Dan Lyke 21:18:16+0000 (2024-11-05)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.234,-122.64)

Huh. Henry 1, a CHP helicopter, and a parade of police cars with sirens and lights headed east on Washington.

Dan Lyke 00:27:33+0000 (2024-11-05)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2451,-122.639)

Dear PDF publishers: It's 2024. We lost the 8.3 filename convention decades ago. There's no reason to continue to name your files "G4149.pdf" or "science.pdf", you can actually tell me what's in the file, by name. Signed: Someone trying to make sense of his downloads folder.

Dan Lyke 23:58:56+0000 (2024-11-04)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2451,-122.639)

Whatever the results of tomorrow's election, we'll still need to keep our sleeves rolled up and keep working towards a better future. Useful: https://learningstore.extension.wisc.edu/products/no-box-thinking-navigating-change-resistance-in-small-town-america-p1875

Dan Lyke 17:23:44+0000 (2024-11-04)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2451,-122.639)

I grew up pretty rural, the school I went to as affiliated with a large dairy farm, my family had goats, sheep, and ducks, the latter two we ate. I enjoy meat. But I have had some ethical qualms about the impacts of meat on the broader world, and Sonoma County's Measure J has brought up a lot of issues about local factory farming. So the framing of "4H clubs are the ROTC for factory farming" has me pondering a few things this morning. https://allpro.social/@Pixley/113425176030836700

Dan Lyke 02:25:48+0000 (2024-11-02)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Facebook for me these days is filled with bullshit link bait posts. The most annoying thing about this is that they look like LLM generated hogwash. In this case, no, The Bee Gees were not Australian, they were born on the Isle of Man. So, yeah, the link bait has negative value, exposing ourselves to it makes us less smart.

Dan Lyke 20:26:46+0000 (2024-11-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2451,-122.639)

Google Gemini still seems to have problems with superscripts and exponent operators... Excerpting the Wikipedia article that says 2^136,279,841 − 1 as: "As of October 12, 2024, the largest known prime number is 2136,279,841 − 1, which has 41,024,320 digits" Which... well... 2,136,279,840 does not have 41 million digits.

Dan Lyke 19:09:31+0000 (2024-11-01)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2435,-122.641)

Just discovered Camo to use my cell phone as a camera. With Know Before You Grow done for the year, now I need to find places to practice broadcasting an event so that I can be better at this when we start again next year... https://reincubate.com/camo/

Dan Lyke 21:48:58+0000 (2024-10-31)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2304,-122.628)

"I thought Grace said the security system was state of the art?" "Yeah, but she didn't say which movement: Dadaist, maybe? Zombie formalism?" Giggling over Woodbine: A Parkdale Haunts Production, episode 4...

Dan Lyke 19:44:29+0000 (2024-10-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2435,-122.641)

The logical successor to buying parachutes off of Temu: _Chinese Startup Offers Trips to Edge of Space for an Absolute Bargain, Sells Out in Minutes_ (https://futurism.com/the-byte/chinese-startup-trips-space-bargain)

Dan Lyke 18:20:09+0000 (2024-10-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2364,-122.643)

"when all you have is a hammer ...": use my carefully polished peening hammer for driving nails and there will be hell to pay. https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/113384427061017890

Dan Lyke 15:29:15+0000 (2024-10-30)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

Forget rapscallion, I'm going for full-on hip hop allium.

Dan Lyke 22:40:13+0000 (2024-10-29)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2304,-122.628)

The Parkdale Haunt podcast was good, but also... not the vibe I need right now, so I took a while to start the next from those creators, Woodbine. But on today's walk I started it, and... I'm hooked. https://woodbinepod.com/

Dan Lyke 22:32:42+0000 (2024-10-29)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2304,-122.628)

Julia Evans does a great job of demystifying things like Git, and recontextualizing a lot of technologies that olds like me take for granted for the kids these days. It's fascinating to see this "what do the control characters do" chart, because there's so much "yeah, but, and...", and yet it's kinda mostly right and I can see that contextualization. https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/113392535388687769

Dan Lyke 00:03:30+0000 (2024-10-29)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2304,-122.628)

"You want plot twists, songs, everything, but kind-of bad? Go to me." _ I'm gonna replace AI Olivia Squizzle_ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbh_J7VI94g)

Dan Lyke 21:03:55+0000 (2024-10-28)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2304,-122.631)

Local giveaway group has a post: "Iso an adult costume size S/M please and thank you". And I was about to offer up an S/M costume, but then I re read it.

Dan Lyke 19:34:48+0000 (2024-10-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)

Spending the day down in the South Bay has made us way more open to the prospect of relocating out of the North Bay. I realize everyone in tech is holding their breath waiting for "AI" to do something or not, but if an opportunity occurred down that direction, or somewhere else cool, I'm suddenly more willing to chat.

Dan Lyke 02:28:45+0000 (2024-10-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (37.3868,-122.083)

I am here for the "Spangler Mortuary" traditional funeral home across the street from the "Direct Cremation $695.00" cut rate strip mall funeral services company

Dan Lyke 01:37:50+0000 (2024-10-27)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (37.3919,-122.08)

Killing a few hours in the South Bay between engagements, walking around downtown Mountain View... Connect 4, putting greens, corn hole... A lot Petaluma could borrow from where, maybe, we've got our chess tables..

Dan Lyke 00:26:59+0000 (2024-10-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (37.8506,-122.489)

About to feel more accomplished about my commute home

Dan Lyke 00:23:49+0000 (2024-10-26)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (37.8508,-122.487)

Feeling accomplished on the commute home...

Dan Lyke 22:01:09+0000 (2024-10-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (37.8479,-122.483)

I have become the guy whose letters to the editor get turned down because they're too frequent.

Dan Lyke 16:21:00+0000 (2024-10-25)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (37.8531,-122.489)

Good morning, San Francisco Bay!