What is your name? (вхат ис ёур намэ?)

sheep, goats, dogs

Yes, very effective. I worked in commercial construction for a few years.

We didn’t use paint, but the gist is the same. A black EPDM roof may reflect about 5% of incident irradiance and a white TPO roof reflects about 80% which means that a white TPO roof reflects 16x more light than a black EPDM roof and the black roof absorbs 4.75x more than the white.

This means white is easier to cool in the summer and black is may be easier to heat in the winter, but the amount of sun in the winter is less so its not like 1:1.

I’ve been using this for years, love it

Holla!

and there’s people at home

Quitting drinking

Post programming questions online and you’ll inevitably get someone saying, “don’t reinvent the wheel.” Why is it so bad to step outside the box?

Am I reinventing the wheel when I use ext4 as a key value store instead of Redis? Or a sorted fixed-width binary file to lookup a relation instead of Sqlite?

I think for answering programming questions, the default answers are like a one-size fits all t-shirt. Yeah, they will always cover you up… but usually not “optimal.” Why is that? I think its because these are common solutions that everyone understands even though there are many ways to skin a cat.

It definitely leads to cargo culting.

Add stuff and flavor. When it comes to ramen, more is more.

I usually use some combination of these:

Stuff:

• Softboiled egg
• Onion, Carrot, Veg
• Pork/Chicken/White meat
• Sardines/Fish

Flavor:

• Lemon joose
• Honey
• Worchestershire
• Fish sauce

Really anything that’s fresh from the grocery store can be cooked and added.

It’s also examining one’s own personal consumption patterns. The more one engages with it, the more exposure he or she has.

Yeah, great question. This was something I deliberated about a lot. In the end, the decision to require a $0 payment to access the free plan came down to two things: 1) mitigating exposure to Sybil attacks and 2) minimizing operational burden on me. I think it could be revisited in the future and with my current budget, this is what I came up with.

Regardless, thank you for taking a look and providing feedback. I really appreciate the comment and it’ll help me navigate the path forward for that project.

I had one the other day, first in like 25 years. It was terrible! : )

• Desktop: qutebrowser/qutebrowser
• Mobile: uazo/cromite

It makes me mad how people refuse to even consider alternatives and open their mind a bit. What do you think?

I’ve experienced this. For me, it was important to be able to communicate w people AND to not give all my data to Facebook apple or google. Since I can’t make ppl care about privacy, the best I could do was stick w SMS/MMS.

Obv, messages I send to ppl who use and android or apple device still get sent up to the mother ship by the receiving device… but I can’t control that.

There are a lot of great apps out there and Signal is one of em. I think if Signal still sent SMS/MMS to ppl without it… I’d reinstall. But without that, I’d be using it all alone.

Im getting rambly… what do I think? I think it would be healthy to move on

This was completely obvious.

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Not quite S-tier, and definitely better than F-tier, cut out the middleman and search/download job posting data directly with my pipeline: Trace Jobs. Trace ingests ~50k new unique job postings per day and are queryable via REST api at https://kaleh.net/trace. There are currently exactly 2,366,671 job postings on the disk.

This fella pedals

I quit smoking July 19, 2026 and drinking Feb 14, 2017. My opinion is addictive habits aren’t going anywhere. That the struggles over addiction of past generations will mirror the struggles of future generations.

With that said, I think some things are changing:

• smoking is pretty stigmatized in more cultures
• drunkenness is unglamorous and may be posted to social media
• MH occupies more space in the public consciousness

Most importantly, it’s profitable to sell addiction. As long as that’s not changing, and it doesn’t seem to be, we we always bear this burden.

I try to maintain a habit of starting. Finishing a task is obv a noble goal and building the habiting of starting helps me get there.

Spam is as old as the internet. I think a public service with zero moderation is going to have spam without moderation.