waded @waded@qoto.org

These rocket photo-measurement markers remind me of the "Purina logo" in the sci-fi.

That's what happens to QR codes in the future (and long ago, far away): there's just one code, it always means "dog food."

I like "Super chat" (pay-for Q&A) like the way NASA Spaceflight tube channel does it. Reminds me of PBS pledge drives but with rockets.

(I remember people also calling them "tabs", and Excel UI does use that language sometimes - "sheet tabs." I don't know if Sheets does.)

Google Sheets kinda flattens everything out into "sheets" doesn'it - the document and a document part can end up being called the same thing.

Excel steered "workbook" "worksheet (sheet)" here, but I remember Excel users I interviewed when doing UX work ending up at "it's all sheets" just the same.

Forgot we taggy here, thatsa #dadops.

"Reuse before build" (because otherwise you'll be washing a giant pile of barely-used laundry)

"0, 1, or N" (it really is best not to do it at all, but if you have to, try something that's low risk, does what's needed, helps you learn. If it comes up again, spend the time to do it right using what you learned. This conservation of energy is often necessary to cover all the other bases we talked about.)

Lessons from fathers to sons, extracted from software engineering:

"Don't throw it (cleaning) over the wall"
"Understand why, so you'll recognize when (cooking) recipes are putting unnecessary constraints in place - making it more complex, less fun, than it need be"

@JamesHMcLaren The first one I replaced about 15 years ago was one of those cases.

(I think the exact quote is "programming integrated over time" - as in, the area under a curve that does not exist until some programming occurred.)

Programming is far more difficult and involved than typing, obviously. It has its own timeline, iteration. But some timelines that are quite complicated, often involve no typing, simply don't exist until something's written down.

Software engineering is "programming over time." (Says the flamingo book.)

This is pretty similar to what I used to say: programming is "type something" (sounds easy enough), software engineering is "deal with the existence of what was typed" (it depends, but this can be a lot harder than typing.)

@knottedthreads As the telephone game progressed, yes, all in the same incident.

Broke:

- toilet seat
- can opener
- canning jar

all within hours yesterday. I'm still incredulous about the toilet seat - that's top of the list for "things you didn't expect to have to replace that often as a homeowner." #dadops

@gpowerf Yeah, the bullet in the settings making the case for it is "Needed for remote wake and fast boot" - "fast boot" is certainly quite fast, but not as notable as it used to be. Remote wake/install is good stuff but it's rare for me. (It doesn't mention updates at all, which is kind of odd.)

(I don't remote-install a lot of games, I assume that doesn't happen immediately in this mode? As long as they install by next session that's fine, I usually forget until I see the notification they're installed anyway. And game updates end up late? Anything else to be aware of? I'm sorta a miser with electricity.)

Doesn't seem like the sleep/quick resume option on Xbox Series X serves much purpose - it boots from full shutdown faster than I remember a PS1 booting.

I grew up in rural Idaho. Driving >20 minutes is too far. That's a line between home & town. Driving >20 minutes in the city? Pfft, that's silly - you're already in town, who designed this town to not be town.

Now, at least on the bus, at the stop, you can smartphone it up - I'll allow >20 for that.

@trinsec 🤣

This one server doesn't allow "ass" without hyphen. Still, pretty much all the talk is derriere talk, some intense derriere talk even. #nobutts.zocial

Some days you pull up vi in the VS Code terminal because you need to edit the file you're looking at, but you were in the terminal, and you're broken like that.