I want a better distribution of walkable white collar work and more work-from-home jobs.

I used to live within easy walking distance to the light rail, and work was easy walking distance from the other stop. The stops were 20 miles apart through the center of the city.

I could drive there, around the beltway, around the whole damn west side in 30 minutes.

The train was over an hour on a good day.

I tried it:

Day one, there was some mid day stuff happening in town, the train was PACKED and spent 10m at every stop, that day was 2 hours.

Had a few decent days, then they hit a car. We were forced to stay on the train for an hour in summer heat, no AC.

Some days the train was every 10. Some days every 30, some days 2 in a row. It was supposed to change frequency with time, it changed rather randomly.

By the end of my first month, there was an outage, so they did a bus bridge. That trip home was 4 hours.

I know that the light rail here was just substandard. but that didn’t make it any easier.

Trains need a specific ecosystem and population density to thrive. In the US, we seem to have an issue that installing train stops connecting suburbs to significant cities brings crime to the suburbs and pushes out boutique shops from the stops. Is there any of that in other countries, or does the train increase commerce in an area?

To be perfectly honest, local isn’t any better as far as pests. There’s never been a rat free grain or corn silo. Presumably you could get pretty close to clean if you refined the sugar out of beets, But they grow in the ground in the dirt with all the insects and pests…

My kids screamed his head off two days ago. There’s ants in the house. I’m like yeah whatever. I go to check it out. There were thousands of ants in the house. They came in through a little spot near the garage went all the way down one wall along another wall straight through the kitchen under the fridge to a single crunchy snack thing that fell onto the floor.

I’m not too worried about this fly or two or an and or two and I leave spiders alone If they’ve picked a nice quiet corner. But I can’t have thousands of ants in my kitchen.

according to Patel, who says that a “surprising number” of readers were asking for this change.

Twist: The surprising number was two, still quite a surprised though

Well that escalated slowly and painfully.

My wife used to have a photography studio. The building was serviced by Comcast. She had a year-long lease and wasn’t sure that she was going to stay there. We called Comcast to get service minimum 3 year lease, No option but complete buyout on termination.

I asked her if there are any other options because it’s ludicrous to have a service with a 3-year minimum when leases in the building aren’t that long.

I shit you not the rep said there’s no other service available in this building, this building is only serviced by Comcast. This is the only option. I purchased an AT&T hotspot, and never gave it a second thought.

And this isn’t even my first run in with Comcast business. They’re just absolutely horrible to deal with.

Completely unrealistic. They’ve never have the word ice on their uniforms.

Yeah, it still can’t do it itself, not even close. And it doesn’t always make good decisions, But having it set up the calls to an API? That’s 10 minutes of research I don’t have to do.

If my doctor said it’s extremely common for industrial athletes to injure themselves after work when I pulled my back out getting a loaf of bread I might well have killed them even with my back out.

If you have a issue with your back that’s serious enough you can put it out getting a loaf of bread it’s not that you weren’t being careful enough, or didn’t stretch first. You probably injured it at work and just finished it off at the grocery store.

I was working at a office supply store. The inventory manager did an all hands they decided they were going to restructure the warehouse storage. We were moving a wall of filing cabinets in the back to a different wall. They weren’t incredibly heavy but they were very bulky and we were stacking them on top of each other. Essentially lifting a four-drawer filing cabinet and setting it across the room on top of another four-drawer filing cabinet. Like many times in my young life someone said “wow you’re really moving stuff above your class, I didn’t take you for being that strong” and that was all I needed to push myself way past the limit. I left there feeling great. I stoped by my old job to hang out with some friends went in the back to help him clean up, finished my back off just lightly sweeping, next thing I know I’m laying on the ground barely able to breathe. That was 33 years ago. I’ve been put out of commission by that same exact injury on my back probably a dozen times since then, once by sneezing while sitting. I learned about 15 years ago that if I fuck it up bad enough, the disc leaks and the fluid erodes nerves downstream which gives me radiating pain which puts me out of commission for a few days to a week.

Quick tip though, since COVID-19 it is possible to get a telehealth visit while your back is out. They’ll usually make you show them how you have to get up off the floor, and they’ll generally issue you something to at least alleviate enough of the pain to let you get up and down. They’re generally apprehensive to give you serious narcotics, but they’ll generally at least give you a reasonable muscle relaxer.

Yes.

Document that code I wrote 7 years ago, suggest any security or efficiency changes. It’s surprisingly adept at that.

Give me the changes to NixOS 25.05 configuration.nix to add wadroid. Fails with an error, paste the error back into prompt. Oh, you need these kernel modules that are no longer default as of 25.05 make this change. Different error paste it back, Make this one last change and then reboot. It works. I spent a total of 5 minutes on it. If I were just using Google and screwing around that might have been half a morning.

OBS is giving me a pixel resolution warning. AI: it’s one of your cameras or some media you’ve added in an unsupported format. Give me a quick shell script to run through all of my media directories in this tree and convert all the MP4 video that’s yuv720 to a supported format in new tree so I can swap them out in the end with no risk. 30 seconds later it’s there. Yes, I can write that but I’m not going to have it done in 30 seconds. And if one of the files errors I just shove the error right back in the AI. I don’t personally care why one in 50 images failed I just want them to be converted and I’m far enough along and Dunning Kruger scale that I honestly don’t really care about what I don’t know as long as I can learn a little more and still get the job done.

Give me a python script to go through a file full of URLs and verify the SSL key expiration dates. Have a variable for how far the future to alert and then slack me a message at 10:00 a.m. everyday which URLs and IPs are expiring earlier than that variable. Also a bunch of the IPs don’t resolve to external addresses so you’re going to have to fake the calls to check them. Here’s my slack token in the channel name.

3 minute project

It doesn’t do my job for me but it gets rid of a hell of a lot of tech debt that I’ll never get around to. I won’t give it monolithic complicated jobs because it’s not good at it. But I will absolutely tell it to make me a flask app with stubs for half a dozen features. Or give it the source for a shitty old admin web page and ask it to modernize the CSS and add session logins.

Sure, if I’m not watching it it might do something relatively stupid. But honestly it has about the same odds of catching something I did years ago that was relatively stupid and telling me to fix it.

and 99% of the US roadways are this or less.

But when a road connects three urban areas with multiple suburbs in every direction, weird things happen. Most traffic horror isn’t in road planning at all, it’s in urban and suburban planning.

Why do 3 million people need to get from one side of LA to the other on a regular basis?

I have Reddit acounts still so I can go back and delete my posts when they magically re-appear. The only time I see reddit is when a search leads me to them for problem solving. While I’m there, I check to make sure my deleted posts stay deleted.

I have IG and TT, but they’re only there so when my wife sends me a link I ‘need’ to watch I can do so, then I disable the app again.

The only things I consume regularly are Lemmy, Pifed and Pixelfed. Occasionally, I have to trudge into Facebook to communicate with my HOA.

Even if there was a list and you could narrow it down you still shouldn’t trust it. You’re just one update away from a slight IP or DNS change and you’d never know because you never come back to check it.

Never use your internal TVs apps. Go buy a $20 android TV stick and deebloat/degoogle it.

If a new feature comes out that you can’t live without, buy a different stick. It’s the one part of the equation you can actually upgrade

It’s photoshopped to look like this

Guy did a web comic about miscarriage, some people shortened it to a series of lines. Someone took that series of lines iand translated it to this pregnancy test.

Yeah, for many the leopard has to actually be eating their face directly at the moment for it to be a problem.

There has to be some serious level of being downtrodden that’s required to like empathy for everyone else in the world that’s not them.

Blah blah bc time is backward, 9,000 is older than 8,999, now that we have that out of the way I wonder how they calculate the invention of the bow. Like they just haven’t found one anywhere older then that. It’s just green sticks and ropes at some point. Wonder what the chances are there was something prior that we don’t know because it wasn’t built long enough to last.

Don’t mind them, they’re just speed running getting banned from every community.

How long will people

The Gestapo could be hauling them away in cuffs and putting them away in camps and some will just go “why is this happening to me? there must be some mistake”

Anyone who is still on the fence is either only tuned into propaganda or is incapable of reasoning.

One of my ex co-workers came home drunk with his wife They went to bed he got up and peed right in the laundry basket. Jay wtf are you doing? I’m going to the John, yawn, wait what the Fuckkk

I mean, it’s supposed to keep drones and real air traffic from mixing.

It did quite well for this.