Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@shit I tried, it's a very different experience and the pictures don't come out great. 😥

Now I need to get a telephoto lens for my phone or camera, because I keep wanting to take pictures of the stuff I see in the binoculars.

Just got a pair of nice 8x42 binoculars (Athlon Midas ED) and #protip: they make #birding so much better.

I don't know why no one thought to use these to look at birds before I came up with this wholly original idea.

@freemo I heard Ohm got that law passed with a lot of help from Tamminy Hall, so I'm not surprised to find it on shaky ground, TBH. 😉

Tip: On Cinnamon (and probably other Window managers and OSes), Alt + ~ is the same as Alt + Tab, but restricted to the currently active application (e.g. tab between Firefox windows).

Learned this from @LarryHastings@twitter.com last year and I've probably used it every day.

@brainwane I feel a caper coming on.

<Googles "how to break into a zoo">
<Googles "discount clam outlet">

Having a pulse oximeter is kinda fun, though it's disconcerting that the pulse number starts blinking when it falls under 60 bpm, considering my normal HR is usually something around 50 bpm.

@meejah Yeah, that seems a bit of premature optimization for variable literals, though. I'm pretty sure it will always be faster and more compact to use chaining on the "is" case even if the number of elements grows:

if a is b is c is d:
...

This doesn't need to construct a tuple, a generator, or invoke a function.

For the `is not` case you need N - 1 "None"s to compare N variables, so:

if a is not None is not b is not None is not c:
...

So there's a stronger case for `all(x is not None for x in (a, b, c, d))`.

Context here is #python, if that wasn't clear.

If you wanted to write a conditional to check whether both a and b are None or neither are None, would you use comparison chaining for either condition, both conditions, or neither?

Chaining:

if a is b is None:
…
if a is not None is not b:
…

Non-chaining:

if a is None and b is None:
…
if a is not None and b is not None:
…

@brainwane I'm sure it'll be fine. A little back stiffness isn't going to do me in. 🙂

@whirli I got a big one (appropriate according to the size chart). It certainly feels as tall or taller than my chair, and my sitting position feels closer to the right height for this desk I have.

Been using an exercise ball for a chair for the past 3-4 business days and I can't tell if my back is sore because it's being exercised or because I have terrible posture.

Quite possibly both.

My brother apparently has a kidney stone, so of course I had to send him this: http://www.thomas-morris.uk/the-self-inflicted-lithotomy/

I should write a bot that cross-posts my tweets from my Twitter account, but also translates them into British English first.

A futuristic version of going to a new school where no one knows you and affecting an accent.

It's weird to me that in all the reporting about how a gender reveal party kicked off the CA wildfires, no one mentions what the gender of the baby was.

#python #pep615 #timezones