Chuck Martel: “One could learn a lot from the beaver. As ‘nature’s engineers’ they don’t bother attempting to build high-rise beaver lodges, instead constructing semi-subterranean homes that are sturdy, virtually impenetrable, and energy efficient, something current humans have yet to figure out.”
The Centrist: "I don’t wish to live underwater in a dark cave. It’s not good for my shiny pelt."
Alistair: "So in a Green Utopia we live in the dark and eat raw fish?"
— Beaver badgering in the comments on Marginal Revolution
Dear Amazon,
Are you sure you’re allowed to advertise to kids this way?
Update
Grrr, I hate EXIF image-rotation and applications that don’t convert it to actual rotation on save.
Reminder for the next time I need this…
mogrify -auto-orient foo.jpg
(lossy, but quick for images I intend to resize down for the blog anyway)
Dear Reason Magazine,
Politics Should Be More Like a Starbucks Menu
You mean overpriced, pretentious, anti-competitive, and burned? I think we’re there already.
Dear Gitlab,
After some unknown action on your server has silently deleted most
repo/wiki directories for a group
(~git/git-data/repositories/$group/$project.git), how do I tell it
that I have restored the data from my hourly backups?
Currently it shows “The repository for this project does not exist”.
Honestly, it looks like something tried to delete the entire group and aborted 2/3 of the way through.
Update
Ah, the answer is gitlab-rake cache:clear; now, about how they were
deleted in the first place…
Harry Dresden Christmas story
Missed this when it came out.
"Call Kris Kringle a liar on Christmas Eve one more time."
"L—"
Learn to CODEC...
I think journalists are offended by “learn to code” because they’re too busy showing off their mastery of CODEC: Crying Over Dead-End Careers.
Dear Apple,
On an iPad Mini 4 under iOS 12.1.3, Mobile Safari crashes every few minutes. I really hope you already know this…
Update
Oh, I see, it’s the same old “crash after iCloud history is cleared” problem, being triggered more often because desktop Safari is now obeying the “Remove history items” preference more reliably.
