K‮ly‬e @khird@qoto.org

@Bahais_Mexicali are you looking for something like this? This is based on the "asentamiento" category from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography. I don't think Google lets you scrape their data like you're describing - their general model is to sell products based on data, not the data itself.

@mitch

@bibliolater Former QOTO user @peterdrake made [a game](https://redslash12.itch.io/gerrymander) on this theme a while back. Not much replay value but a neat puzzle to solve once.

@sunflowerinrain Culinary Cargo Cult! I like it.

@mitch kam kam, rúz be rúz

@sunflowerinrain my best guess is than the man/men distinction is easier to remember because changing the vowel changes its pronunciation. For some reason, in the woman/women distinction, the orthographic change is on the second vowel but the pronunciation change is on the first.

@mitch ah man it's there if I zoom in or read the mouseover text.

@mitch took me a minute, but I think I got it: "no'úmah"? I was trying to make the thin lines be diacritics at first.

@AnnemarieBridy [obligatory xkcd](https://xkcd.com/984/)

@mitch here's an alias for your `.bashrc`:

`alias resudo="(export \$(compgen -v); fc -ln -- | grep -Pv '^\s*resudo(?![^\s])' | tail -n 1 | envsubst | sudo su)"`

This handles one-liners with pipes, semicolons, ampersands, etc., which the double-bang version can't. It's slightly different from your request in that it executes the whole one-liner with a single privilege escalation rather than one for each constituent command, which no doubt will prove important in some edge case.

Briefly explained, the core idea is to pipe `fc` to `su`. The `export`, `compgen`, and `envsubst` parts are there to ensure that any environment variables get expanded. The `grep` and `tail` are there to exclude itself from the definition of "last-used one-liner", in case you should want to repeatedly invoke it. The whole thing is in a subshell to insulate you from the side effects of `export`.

@aarbrk

@sabbatical that works way better than I expected. I'm impressed!

@selzero as an undecided voter in a swing state who's getting really tired of political ads, please spend less time on us too ;-)

@mitch I'd love to learn how the video driver breaks the swapfile; that sounds like a story with a twist ending.

Just learned the specs for both MBR and GPT flavours of partition table, and rolled my own in a hex editor to solve a problem that `fdisk` and `parted` weren't able to handle. It's hard to express how pumped I was when this box booted, but I think Andy Weir did a pretty good job in "The Martian":

> **LOG ENTRY: SOL 211**
> I am smiling a great smile. The smile of a man who ****ed with his car and *didn't break it*. This is considerably more rare than you might think.

@mitch I don't think that'll be their problem. The trick is that salt corrosion occurs extremely slowly at the temperatures where we need road salt, so if you have a long prairie winter with very little time spent above zero, you can ignore it until spring. Then you just wash it well come springtime, and the CT might actually be better in that regard if it's smoother and there's less salt residue hidden in nooks and crannies that escapes the washing process.

I expect the bigger issue will be the weight of the thing; it's three tonnes and they had to make the tire pressure stupid high to bear the load. So it will have a much greater shear loading on its contact patches (easier to break free on ice) and somewhat worse flotation (sinks in deeper in snow).

@mitch when I was living in Philly I got the chance to see Streetlight Manifesto perform which was a real treat.

I don't understand recipes that start off with
step 1: preheat oven
steps 2-5: make dough
step 6: chill dough overnight
and the actual baking starts around step 8 or 9.
Clearly I'm not gonna run the oven all night. Is this just to make a point about "read all directions before diving in"? A prank?

It gives the impression that nobody bothered to proofread the thing and makes it really hard for me to trust that it'll turn out well.

@sunflowerinrain is a state pension, in this context, a retirement benefit paid to former employees of the state? Certainly it's unintuitive that it should be counted as welfare if so; private sector retirement benefits are not generally thought of in that way.

@mitch I'd never heard that. Neat!

@freeschool

> - thanks for not addressing the no updates,
> - and the no freemo

So to make this abundantly clear:
- I **am** a QOTO mod
- I **am not** the QOTO sysadmin
- Removing spammers **is** a thing I do
- Upgrading QOTO's software **is not** a thing I do
- Adding things to our rules page **is not** a thing I do
- Conjuring up freemo **is not** a thing I do
Nothing you say will change any of the above, so there's no point in complaining further.