@internetsdairy they all have that sort of plug because it’s assumed you’ll be plugging it in in the bathroom. I’m not sure I know anyone who actually does so because who has a shaver socket in 2026?
This trip I’ve been experimenting with a new toy: I’ve created a dedicated ticket carrier. I call it Ticky.
This is a reTerminal Sticky, a relatively cheap eink display run with an ESP32. The company openly encourages you to hack and replace the firmware.
I then upload my passkey or PDF tickets to an app I have on my server, that recreates them as an image the right size to display on the screen. For Interrail, I use a second device, either my iPad or my laptop, to scan the barcode off my phone, as they’ve disabled screenshots.
When I push the top button on the device, it hooks up to the hotspot on my phone and downloads the new images.
I’ve also put a summary of the next few trips on trainlog onto it, as well as a map of today’s trip and the journey as a whole.
It’s worked so far, Ryanair have accepted it, and all the British trains I’ve been on have too.
healthy masculinity is being gay for your air traffic controller
@janl so many of the big developments in software development and infrastructure in the last few decades boil down to huge corporates wanting to reduce how much different teams are required to talk to each other. Microservices, GraphQL, Kubernetes, even cloud computing as a whole to some degree.
@pikesley yes, except for the brief moment he took it off to remove the clothes he was wearing underneath it.
We lost direction as a society when we stopped making these.
@whitequark its best not to try and explain these traditions that are only very loosely attached to their origin.
@foone I’d go with the latter if Ruff was configured to flag it in that environment, because consistency is almost always a good thing, and the first option otherwise because fuck keeping the existence of contextlib.suppress in my head to avoid one extra line of easily read code.
I’ve had a low level migraine all day and have now had enough of it thanks. It’s not even a proper one that would cause me to stop doing things, just a dull annoyance that makes doing things less enjoyable.
YouTubers Stop Talking And Read The Code That Isn’t Working Challenge. Difficulty level: Impossible.
@CynAq @NanoRaptor I can kind of see the IT tech going “nah; printers don’t plug in via HDMI, they use USB, they’re just naming the cable they know” but also if the request has come from someone running a specialised unit at least double check that.
It seems crazy that we have an entire month dedicated to awareness of a single food allergy.
Like, I’d understand “Food Allergy February,” but “No Nut November” just seems like overkill.
Uber: “Our use of AI makes us able to respond to customers” (or something like that)
Also Uber: Advertises the ability to order some ramen delivered for dinner after my long commute under a 15 minute journey taken from the address labelled “Home” on a Sunday morning.
I’m mildly hopeful this time round because this will be the first time it’s happened since starting on the drugs which allow some level of persistence once things get frustrating.
Oh no. I’ve gone and got the idea of building a game stuck in my head again. Will this be the time I actually build a game or will I simply spend the next two to three months learning irrelevant details of game engines?
@mikechislett every now and then you post a thing and I think “huh, sounds neat” and then inevitably I look it up and it costs £7,000 so I again resign myself to not doing network AV distribution I don’t really need anyway.
@0xabad1dea something I initially missed is that this only appears to impact the Cursor Marketplace version rather than all installs at least. Also shout out to update cooldowns, when I went to check the copy I have installed it was queued for install but VSCode won’t update an extension unless that version has been out for a while.
@pikesley if you touch the screen of my laptop I’m going to touch your face. With a brick.
@scarlet I would watch the hell out of that, those of us outside the industry I think only get to see little snapshots of how these things work, or subsets of all the considerations.
@mjg59 oh amazing, looking forward to the blog post on this because it’s something I’ve been wanting to dig into soon.
@vampiress I re-read them all a year or two ago and yeah, the early Clancy books are alright but they get more unhinged as they go on. Don’t even get me started on the (in some cases literally because he was dead by then) ghost written ones, read a couple of those when I was younger and even then I could tell they were crap.