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Updated to the latest Sequoia 15.2. Still has the bug where if you're backing up to a NAS, every so often diskimagesiod suddenly eats all the CPUs and causes youtube to stutter and freeze.

@ArchiteuthisFlux Come up with two more, and we can improve the names of quarks (except for Charm)!

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I've started feeling kinda bad for all my knobless old boat anchor equipment being reduced to a place to harvest cool metal knobs for projects. So I've taken matters into my own fingers.

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I keep forgetting this isn't Twitter and external links won't effectively hide this post. So here's a @crowdsupply update where I talk about the rationale behind this.
crowdsupply.com/architeuthis-f

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@adafruit I agree on the Alex drawers: I use them with Target's "Brightroom" line of containers to organize Lego bricks.

@adafruit Here's my first computer, a Motorola 6800 evaluation board. It was maxed out with 768B of RAM. I'd write my programs in assembler, hand assemble them, wrap them in S-records, and key them in on a teletype (hooked up to a serial port connected by a 1/4" stereo plug). I still have it, it still works (but now sports 16kB of RAM.

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I teach my law students that law’s most important purpose to address anger, where possible, in a socially functional way. The social media reaction to a cold blooded first degree murder suggests laws governing health care are not performing that task adequately.

I dreamed my sweetie was showing me a new basically pointless meme that was just pictures of puddles with the text: "WET: The Strong Stay Away". So when I woke up, I made one. Enjoy?

Filled out a survey and was offered a gift card or donation as a reward. When I tried to make a donation, it required an email address! I don't want more requests for money, I'm just trying to do a nice thing!

Saw an ad for a prostate cancer medication, that warned it could have effects on pregnancy. Um wat?

One of my tractor tires was leaking through the valve stem. I didn't have a core removal tool, and the only places that did were a fair drive away. So I just made one.

These advertisers really want me to open their mail. The die cut extension made to look like a post-it note is a little over the top.

I got a spam email claiming a payment problem with Disney. It had a link that redirected to an AWS site that redirected again. I tried to report it to Amazon, but their form has a box for "Complete email header and body", but then rejects it "We have identified that your submission may contain potentially malicious content." It's a waste of time anyway, as Amazon doesn't care if their money comes from scammers, as long as it keeps coming in.

I went to a Star Trek convention where they misspelled Michael Dorn's character name as "Wolf". Eventually he noticed it and pointed it out, so they changed it to one of his non-Star Trek rôles of I. M. Weasel!

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I propose: pw;dr to mean “paywall, didn’t read”

If a credit card reader is unable to read a chip, it defaults to reading the mag stripe. But when it sends the transaction to the payment processor, the processor checks the card number and the fact that it has a chip reader, and denies the transaction because it should have been a chip. At this point, the card reader should say "chip read failed" instead of "see cashier".

I'm used to a few vultures showing up when a deer gets hit, but the yard is full of them, as well as more on the fence, shed, and local trees. Probably a few dozen in all.

A bug in Apple Music displays the wrong album artwork for some tracks, and one intrigued me: "Thumper: No one left the Disco alive". So I looked it up. The first track is entitled "Peptide Influences The Folding And Intracellular Transport Of MHC Class 1 Free Heavy Chains" and consists of ten seconds of screaming. The other tracks are some solid punk.

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