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I went to go write a blog post on #adhd stuff.
Wrote few words.
Spent many more hours on tweaking the CSS for edge cases that are nice-to-have but far from critical.
And as a bonus, I managed to repeatedly freeze up Firefox in the process!
The American Dialect Society's Word of the Year selections are in for 2021.
Word of the Year: insurrection
Most Likely to Succeed: antiwork
Most Useful: hard pants
Political Word of the Year: insurrection
Digital Word of the Year: #FreeBritney
Pandemic-Related Word of the Year: boosted
Financial/Economic Word of the Year: supply chain
Informal Word of the Year: yassify
Most Creative Word of the Year: Fauci ouchie
Euphemism of the Year: unalive
https://www.americandialect.org/wp-content/uploads/2021-Word-of-the-Year-PRESS-RELEASE.pdf
How many #Rust Team members are paid for the work they do for the language or its ecosystem?
How many members of the moderation team were paid for their work for the community?
When making screenshots of an application for use in documentation, should one turn off subpixel rendering in the font system?
How likely is it that the subpixel ordering and alignment on the reader's display is the same as it is here?
Ooooh, you're moderating a channel, not hosting an instance, is that it? That explains things. I'd misunderstood.
For so long, “throw more hardware at it” was the cost-effective answer. More/bigger/faster servers for your own processes. Assume your customers next year will have faster laptops/phones/tablets than last year's did.
Now costs are rising, new stock is less available, even finding a replacement for a two-year-old model may cost more than it did new.
Is that enough to pressure the industry to make better use of last year's tech?
“Laptop refreshes are on hold due to a supply chain issue” reminded me of my pondering from the other day:
Is the microchip shortage changing how software developers work? Is it forcing industries to give up their reliance on Moore's Law?
Almost-but-not-quite-total lunar eclipse tonight! https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/once-in-a-thousand-years.html
Trying out tools for near-real-time monitoring of metrics in a desktop application. JDK Mission Control does okay here.
`-XX:MaxDirectMemorySize=512M` appears to be the solution to my Java process's greed for RAM.
Some things use Direct Buffers. Those live outside of the JVM heap limited by `-Xmx`. But the allocator for them seems to be greedy, as if it assumes it should make use of the full capacity of the pool before it starts worrying about reclaiming space from discarded buffers.
The default size of the pool is not well specified. Maybe it assumes it can have its own share of memory just as big as that granted to the jvm heap? Maybe it assumes it can have _all_ the memory, regardless of your desire to have other applications running on this computer?
In any case, adding this to the java start-up options solved the problem where the process size continued to grow, seemingly without bound, despite the on-heap memory being well behaved.
A big chunk of tree came down in front of the house this morning.
For a town that named its soccer team the Timbers, it's surprisingly difficult to find a lumberjack when you need one on short notice.
pandemic, capitalism
Because private medical R&D companies can't give away their proprietary information for fear of losing competitive advantage—even if it affects millions of lives—the World Health Organization has hired someone to reverse-engineer the production process for Moderna's mRNA vaccine.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2021/10/19/1047411856/the-great-vaccine-bake-off-has-begun
I installed Seek from iNaturalist, but either I'm missing something or it doesn't have the progression mechanics to repeatedly provide interesting and achievable goals.
Alternately, can you recommend anything else to make going outside feel interesting/novel/urgent-but-not-distressing?
I appreciate Pokémon GO for being one of the few things that's been successful at getting me out for walks around the neighborhood. But I also giving *far* too much time attention to it while I'm at home.
How can I make a geofence that puts strict limits on how long I can have an Android app open while in a specific location?
Late to the bandwagon, but finally set up an account @keturntok@tiktok.com.
How is TikTok as good as it is???
I'm sure it has its problems—there are a few in its history I'm aware of. However,
• It's hardly showing me ads. (Less than one per day‽)
• People don't spend 20% of their airtime on plugs for a sponsor.
• Gender diversity of STEM TikTok is leaps and bounds better than STEM YouTube.
Recommendation: Find meeting times for your group with Crab Fit. https://crab.fit
* timezone support: each participant can declare their availability and see results in their own timezone
* each participant can declare blocks of time when they are available, not restricted to a handful of poll options
* optional integration with calendars from Google or Outlook
* minimal data collection and retention
It's exactly the tool I wanted for scheduling things with our widely distributed GSoC group.
Thank you, bengrant.dev!
Don't suppose you have a spare CB5-312T Chromebook I can strip for parts, do you? Busted a hinge on mine.
- Homepage
- https://keturn.net
Joined Jun 2017
