I’m able to fall asleep during an MRI scan.

You just reminded me. My dad used to say “Don’t take any wooden nickels!” Had to get him to explain this, the first time he said it to me.

You piqued my curiosity. Has to go check into these.

Shortest one is 22"?

Classic :D

In case there’s anyone on this planet who has yet to see this commercial:

https://youtu.be/7C-vYY3SBDE

Downloaded for future reference, thanks

OT, but I die a little inside when I see some writing in a book. I’m sure in this case it was probably a student wanting to highlight, but still.

TBH for many years it’s felt like most accounts (or at least the ones that bubbled up into my feed) were angry people venting about whatever. Like, the angrier they were, the more engagement they were hoping for. That was a surefire way for me to at least move on to someone else, or to just close the app. Don’t need anyone harshing my mellow. The shouty people can go find a wall to yell at.

I barely get on these days. And I don’t doubt that it’s gotten worse.

Posting this from S4L right now :)

Just noticed the notification about 15 mins ago.

As someone who has had to grind through heaps of logs over the years, from systems in various timezones, from products that disagreed on the ‘best’ datetime format, I’ve become a fan of adopting ISO 8601 as much as possible. For personal systems such as a laptop, that’s a different story. But if I’m spinning up an EC2 instance in us-west-2 or a VM in Central Europe, I avoid the whole “err, what TZ is this in, or should even be in?” decision-making process and just run with WHO CARES IT’S SET TO UTC NOW LET’S MOVE ON ALREADY 😀

And not that anyone here is likely to care, but here’s a quick shout out to lnav - The Logfile Navigator for grinding on system logs (for systems where something like Prometheus or whatever hasn’t been proactively set up).

Fwiw, it can be helpful to call out the date for such changes. Preferably in YYYY-MM-DD (ISO 8601).

While it’s helpful to link to an off-site timezone converter tool (thanks for that, btw), “today” can be a different date, depending on where in the world you are. For example, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand.

Reminds me of the X-windows logo