@prologic@twtxt.net No idea, in theory that could work. But I’d assume very low output. Or you just have extremely good panels. You could try to improve the yield by moving them under the street lamps at night. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net Yeah, bug was also my first association. :-) I’m surprised how good it still looks after all those years. I thought there might be more decay. But insects are just very tough.

@prologic@twtxt.net I see these kind of things pop up as promotional giveaways everywhere. But they all look like rubbish. Not sure if that one is any better. Who needs high quality product photos these days?

@prologic@twtxt.net Maybe the full moon was producing some juice. :-D

@movq@www.uninformativ.de You can’t go wrong with them. :-D

We rode our bicycles to the Reiterleskapelle (Rider’s Chapel). At first the sun was out but then it vanished behind the clouds. Icy headwind from the east and a subtle incline all the time made for a physically demanding journey there. The way home was rather quick and effortless. We could have used gloves, it didn’t feel like 14°C at all, not even close.

15 shows the drain pipe for the giant tree hole.

Golden rider on the chapel's vane

It’s finally up! Well, at least the first part of the L. Half way completed. I used just hand tools except for cutting and routing the sheets of OSB and drilling into the concrete wall.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Today I actually received an e-mail à la “I reply directly to your questions down below in red”. Not the same, but I was still happily surprised. With my own plaintext reply I got rid of his nice color… ;-)

The only upside with TOFU is that you can easily forward an entire conversation to somebody else. But these chains tend to be quite horrible to read anyway.

@mckinley@twtxt.net No, I don’t mirror code from others unless I work on that project, too. But then it’s all manual git fetch, nothing automated. If something is taken down or vandalised I hope that somebody else has a mirror and can help restore. This of course only works for popular code bases.

Good thought, though. I might have to look through my dependencies and identify candidates that might not have somebody who could help to get things back online.

After reading the first messages this morning, I wanted to go back to bed again, too.

I glued the third ladder and started with the fourth. Slow progress, but it’s good fun: https://lyse.isobeef.org/tmp/laundry-shelves/3/

Making mortises for the crossbars

@movq@www.uninformativ.de After just two weeks. Phew.

Oh yeah! Tommy Johansson and Petter Hjerpe covering Helloween’s Future World: https://youtu.be/lEj5i_SZqZY

@prologic@twtxt.net Good to hear, the article left it open.

@prologic@twtxt.net Good read! I loved the introduction. :-) Is Mike now connected or still waiting?

@adi@twtxt.net Not bad! That reminds me, my sed and awk skills could be improved. :-)

@mckinley@twtxt.net I see. Once more fields are of interest, this is definitely the way to go.

@mckinley@twtxt.net Woah, how cool is that!? :-D Thank you! I’m sure gron will come in very handy some day, now that I have it in my tool bag. My jq skills are pretty much non-existent, though. I don’t use it often enough.

@adi@twtxt.net Ah! What are you currently building?

@xuu Ah! I never did something with SIGQUIT.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @bender@twtxt.net I agree 100% and refuse to TOFU. Even at work.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Haha, nice. :-D

@xuu Cool! I particularly like the idea of converting it into a grep-able version, that’s very neat. Interesting choice of aligning the colons at the values and not the keys, I think I never came across this.

@mckinley@twtxt.net Same here. Reading the spec I came across some confusing or not inherently logical things. Maybe they turn out not so bad in practice.

Being also a Python programmer, I wish there would be more indentation-based stuff. I do like that part with YAML.

Oh no! :-( That’s bad to hear. I configured ejabberd years ago and it just is Erlang if I remember correctly. Quite a cool choice for that software.

@mckinley@twtxt.net I hear you, that’s why I prefer * as the bullet point wherever possible, e.g. markdown and RST. Not sure if YAML has it, too. I just know at work we use - for lists as well. But then use blank lines to separate list items that are spanning multiple lines. That helps a bit.

Yeah, the lack of comments makes regular JSON not a good configuration format in my view. Also, putting all keys in quotes and the use of commas is annoying. The big upside is that’s in lots of standard libraries.

I think the appeal with YAML is that is has comments, is kind of easy to write and read and also provides unlimited nesting levels. But it has all its drawbacks, no question. Forbidding tabs, thousands of different string flavors, having so many boolean options (poor Norwegians) etc. I use it, but I don’t particularly enjoy it.

Among simple key value pairs, I like INI files, but with # for comments, not ;. I never used TOML, read up on it yesteray before writing this question, but it looks a bit weird and has some strange rules. I guess I have to give it a try one day.

And yes, as mentioned by several of you, it always depends on the complexity of the configuration at hand.

I’m developing something for the scouts at the moment with rather simple requirements on the config. Currently, there are just four settings. Even INI would be overkill with its section. I selected JSON for now, because that’s readily available with Go’s std lib. But I do not like it.

Btw. what’s your own config format, @xuu?

Question of the day: What configuration file formats do you all like and use?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Exactly. But I fear you just don’t learn these kind of skills for real life in school. I think overall I was pretty lucky with mine, but I don’t have the feeling that school particularly prepared me all that well for reality out there. I would give my social environment much more credit. But it’s very hard to say, maybe subconsciously school had a larger effect than I think. :-?

Anyway, they definitely should teach that, I fully agree! :-)

Oh my goodness! https://www.troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex-this-is-why-we-keep-getting-phished/

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no I just feel like Nanook after our 10-11km hike. Looks like vandals grilled their thermite schnitzel on the public barbie. :-(

Primroses

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Ah! Yeah, it’s raining here all day long, too. 10°C at the moment, but it should reach 12°C later evening with the small storm. The severe weather map is quite colorful, but we’re lucky down south:

Colorful storm map for Baden-Württemberg, Germany and Europe

Looking out the window I saw a buzzard sitting in a tree, so I wanted to take a photo. But then its two bodyguard ravens attac^Wsaved it from me and it took off. :-(

Delphi at school, later Java and an own teaching assembler. Uni started out with Ada and then added Java as well. Here and there a few other languages, like Prolog (that I knew from school, though), I think C, the hardware guys brought us VHDL and some assembler that I don’t recall anymore.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Nice! Is it still frozen?

Cody delivers again, I love it! Making pop can thermite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9rGAA6eF10 I don’t want to spoil, this is so cool, crazy, interesting, educational and entertaining. Highly recommended.

When dealing with unsigned integer, I always write e.g. unit8 instead of uint8. Every. Single Time. And this is usually only noticed by the compiler. I would blame the auto-correction, but I – luckily – don’t have any.

@xuu These are indeed iterators. Very weird syntax, though.

@xuu Oh, I wasn’t aware of this! Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

I do like that they move away from one shared variable per loop to an own one per iteration. That makes sooo much more sense. I don’t hit that often, but it happened a few times in the past and getting this figured out is not the easiest thing in the world.

I have to read up on the yield functions. From your examples I fear iterators would have been more useful. Let’s see.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I just listened ten (lol) times very carefully, but it’s much closer to “ten” than “tin” I think. Hahahaha, the dickheads video is fantastic! :-D Can’t tell if I would have understood that correctly if I weren’t reading the subtitles.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de @prologic@twtxt.net Haha, this is nice! I have to admit, my ears cannot differentiate between Aussie and Kiwi, both sound the same to me. But then, for New Zealandish I also just watch Project Brupeg. Two Kiwis rebuilding a sunken boat in Down Under, so they might already have been Straya-lized, no clue.

@mckinley@twtxt.net My goodness, 99 specifications!? I’m out.

Maybe some people want to periodically change their keys or if your private key is lost or leaked, you also need a new one. But yeah, you’re right. You have to draw a line somewhere.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh dear, you should probably switch shops. At least the Verbraucherzentrale backs us up here.

ARGH! All tests passed, but once I ran the exact same scenario in the real application, numbers didn’t line up anymore. What the heck, how in the world is this even possible!? Turns out I haven’t committed the changes to the database, that’s why I still could see them perfectly fine in my debug session, but the application’s session of course didn’t. Took me four (!) hours to figure this out. Yeah, I really have to go to bed now. Good night.

@stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no Cool. I was coding today all day long.

@prologic@twtxt.net Are you already sick of your fast internet? :-D Enjoy your holidays!

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Wow, when entering or leaving?

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Just 13°C with cold wind. But the sun shining through the window was nice.

@mckinley@twtxt.net Brings up a few interesting points. But I fear it’s a rather complicated protocol. I read through a few pages on that site, but I haven’t seen a real specification for it. I immediately thought that you can’t really change your keys without losing your identity. Basically the same as with changing feed URLs over here. Maybe slightly better, but not much.

Something is wrong with me. My eyes fell on the onions and I thought, mmmmm, those apples look delicious. But I’m now eating a real apple.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, the visual emoji thing is silly. Picking letters or words only would have been way too easy… So oldschool! But that’s what you get with today’s kids, they’re all emoji power users.

Luckily, my terminal font shows all the same seven squares in the correct order. :-D

I think I see a water pistol in Firefox.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Bwahahahahaahaaahaaaahaaaaa, that’s a really good one! :‘-D I love it!

When I was tying my shoelaces on the landing, the birds in the neighborhood gave a real concert. Sounded great.