most of the people buying these are buying a costume, not a work vehicle, if my neighbors are any indication
it's a status symbol
I'm not going to get excited about any "deceleration"; this is still an increase. And due to "base effects",1 we're comparing against high values. Until it's steeply negative it's nothing to get excited about.
1 year over year measures compare now versus a year ago. if a year ago was unusually high, you'd expect this comparison to revert to the mean over time as the window shifts forward; it could have more to do with what you're comparing to (a year ago) than what's happening today
My Nova Scotia home was built by the government in 1990! This entire street was. There's also a little cul-de-sac of co-op rentals. Doesn't that sound like a great idea today?
My last post was about what makes trading so attractive, and so dangerous. It marks a turning point in my own mindset towards trying to be a good trader. What Does a Good Trader Look Like? To me, a good trader is: never exposed to unlimited risk never over-leveraged does not steal from people for th...
I wrote a farewell to the thousand plus hours I spent on trading
I traded futures in my personal account, worked for a small trading firm, and have always been into a rational, scientific look at evidence.
I gave it as good of a try as any retail trader can, and learned a lot. Mostly that it's a waste of time, because trading is a wicked problem.
This is a plea to others that might get sucked in to run away and touch grass instead.
I think it might have its place, but that place might be part of calligraphy in an art class.
the sobeys in my area has some decent in-house bread. i can't get a decent loaf of third-party bread off the shelves anymore - it's all wonderbread etc. was really loving dave's killer bread but it's been seemingly replaced by extremely mediocre bread with similar marketing, as if i'm buying the packaging.
not a lot of respect for consumers on display
Yikes. Can you imagine a more soul-crushing job than making marketing posters for the most boring soup possible?
I imagine it goes something like this:
Jim, we've got some ad space. Malls across the world. You're going to use that as a canvas to sell tomato soup. People love tomato soup. Sells itself, by itself. Don't show a grilled cheese near it - we don't sell those and lets face it, tomato soup is not the arm candy in that pairing. Oh, and have fun with it! We're a family. Please have it done by Sunday.
Repaired an Octatrack DPS-1! ("performance mixer", music thing)
Secondary Market Problems Aren’t Excellent I bought a used Elektron Octatrack DPS-1 on Reverb in the spring of 2023. The condition of the device was listed as “excellent”, and it seemed that way. By the time I had the hang of the device, I noticed the audio connections were spotty. Volume was incons...
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Luckily, I had some repair tools (specifically a hot air rework station), enough experience to make me cocky, and a general disregard for the risk of destroying the thing.
It's as good as new now! Details in the attached link, I hope it helps someone else; I was flying blind.
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Solid handling of asynchronous interactions with overloaded servers i.e.: a user API action queue with clear indication of API return response status, ability to retry if necessary.
I'm pretty jazzed for it; my current app experience is not great. I don't blame the developer, I understand the difficulty, but it's pretty clunky.
Computer, establish a security code for access to all functions previously transferred to bridge.
1734-6732-1476 Charlie 3278-9777-643 Tango 732 Victor 731 1788-8732-47 6789-7643-76.
Lock.
Yeah, there's really no reason to spread this except to piss people off.
I stick with vim for years out of that sort of badge of honor. Now I use vscode and nobody is taking it from me.
You can do almost anything in vim or emacs, but I can do it faster in vscode. It's a really fantastic tool and it's completely free.
I'm currently working on a disaster recovery plan using fsarchiver. I have very limited experience with it so far, but it had the features and social proof I was looking for.
I have so far used it to create offline filesystem backups of two volumes, one was LUKS encrypted (has to be manually "opened" with cryptsetup).
It can backup live filesystems which was important to me.
It's early days for my experience with this, but I'm sure others have used it and might chime in.
Seconding Amid Evil, it's a lot of fun. Sometimes I fire it up for a quick game. Cool weapons.
I've had a couple tabby cats in my life and they'll always more sway over me than other cats do
still waiting for mine! then it's delete content, delete account
Open source and AGPL licensed, we can separate the code from them at any time and we do not need permission.
Agree re: $ towards instance admins; I have a tiny Mastodon instance and it isn't cheap.
I think I got this for free on Epic and I haven't touched it, but this might change that.
Haloomi Salad
I made an arugula salad with a bell pepper, some cherry tomatoes, sunflower seeds, mushrooms, and grilled pan fried haloomi. Honey mustard dressing using fancy raspberry honey.
It was a nice light dinner!
I tried mending on a whim and this is who I am now
I'm grabbing every favourite piece of clothing I have around the house and mending it with a needle and thread
I'm not very good at it, but it's not terribly hard to close up broken seams good enough for some use. It sure as heck beats buying a new pair of jeans for $70 just because I somehow destroy the crotch every year
I'm finding this to be really satisfying and relatively easy to do. Certainly I can develop better stitching technique and use better tools and material, but it's easy enough to be good enough, or so it seems to me now