Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

I don't particularly want to make friends with gym rats, but I don't know who else will understand all my gym rat memes.

@cnx I used a serrated knife to cut it in half along the short dimension, then a dremel to cut away the rectangular sections of the bone I removed.

Today's #science experiment with the boy: dissecting a turkey bone to see the marrow where new blood is made!

@cstanhope Haha, thanks. I seem to be doing better after a cortisone shot and I've gotten a trainer to help me with my form, so hopefully that helps.

TFW the doctor tells you your shoulder bone is dissolving because you lift weights too much.

(See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteolysis#Distal_clavicular_osteolysis)

A pseudo-TDD workflow using expected failures, wherein I describe how you can use xfail and VCS history rewriting to make a TDD history even if you didn't do TDD (this probably makes more sense once you've read the article):

https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/11/pseudo-tdd-xfail.html

@trinsec I was lying next to him and he stuck his finger in my eye. I thought he had displaced the contact because my vision in that eye seemed fuzzy, but when I went to adjust it it was just missing!

It is wild to me that

1. nearly every commercial species of eel is endangered,
2. no one has ever successfully bred an eel in captivity\* and
3. eel is available in basically every sushi place in America (it's actually hard to avoid!

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel#Commercial_species

\*Some scientists managed to get some new eels hatched, but they died after 18 days. Not exactly a good foundation for aquaculture.

I thought my first son was the master of stealing glasses because he had a way of looking away from you to draw your attention elsewhere while he grabbed your glasses.

Last night my second son took it to a new level when he managed to steal one of my contact lenses right out of my eye.

@Firaas It was an Amazon Echo Dot, so whatever that was.

TBH he has fixed it that way before, but this time the issue was that the modem was unplugged, so while I was fixing that he did his plug/unplug cycle and decided it worked. 😅

"Papa, I fixed it. I plugged it out and plugged it in and then it worked!"

Only 3 years old and already turning it off and then on again. So proud.

New blog post out today: How and why I use pytest's xfail: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/11/pytest-xfail.html

@skunksarebetter Am I mis-remembering, or did you once recommend a CLI tool that would execute a terminal command in response to changes in a set of files? I remember it as being a recommendation for `fzf`, but I'm not seeing that anywhere, and `fzf` doesn't seem to advertise that capability.

@schlink It's a variation on this strategy: https://github.com/pganssle/python-norm-estimate

@schlink The reason for choosing a pseudorandom subset rather than a fixed amount at the beginning or something is that a lot of files have a bunch of "header" or "footer" matter that will be identical. Choosing a random subset, you are more likely to encounter non-identical bits in similar files.

@schlink By the way, I dunno if this is helpful, but a while back I developed an application where I wanted to know if I had duplicate files anywhere on a disk.

Rather than hash the entire disk just to build an index, I used some deterministic algorithm to choose a *small* pseudorandom subset of each file and hash that to build my index. There were collisions among non-duplicate files, but they were few and far between (and often not even among files with the same size), and it was a simple matter to do a full hash on the small subset of files with collisions.

@astrojuanlu Luckily, the gap between FOSS and commercial apps has been closing quickly in the past decade or so.

Unfortunately, that's mostly because commercial / proprietary apps are *also* becoming terrible.