“This might be a contender for one of the most obscure bugs I’ve seen. Not only does it depend on the fact that your last name begins with ‘egg’ but it also depends on the fact that the egg-prefixed name appears in the last segment of the pathname, and it depends on the fact that you’re on Windows, which provides compatibility with the decades-old 8.3 convention.”
— Unusual failure mode for Python applicationsWeaponized Crazy
"Our employees were all crying," she said. "And the question that they're asking, especially those who are not white, 'Are we safe?' Women are asking, 'Are we safe?' LGBT people are asking, 'Are we safe?' I never thought I would have to answer those questions."
--- Indra Nooyi, CEO of PepsiCo
In other news, PepsiCo plans to triple their mental-health plan, and supply all employees with diversity crayons and people-of-coloring books.
Mac Bash-ing
If you drag URLs around on a Mac, you get .webloc files. If you drag text around (successfully…), you get .textClipping files. Getting data back out of them can be annoying; some applications treat them as attachments, and most insist on grabbing the rich-text version of a clipping rather than the plain text.
webloc () {
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'print URL' "$1"
}
clipping () {
DeRez -noResolve -only utf8 "$1" |
perl -e 'while (<>) {
chomp;
next unless s/^\s+\$"([0-9A-F ]+)".*$/$1/;
tr/ //d;
$x.= $_;
}
print pack("H*",$x),"\n"'
}
Can I get this painted on black velvet?
(via)
[Update: More than half of the anti-Trump protesters arrested in Portland didn’t vote in Oregon]
It's amazing...
…how much faster home Internet gets when you replace a flaky switch. It’s annoying that I had to drive to three different stores to find one (Office Max even had PoE-capable and 24-port switches, but I only needed a basic 8-port today).
I went from 1.4 Mbps down/0.88 up to 58/12; one of the nice things about having an OpenBSD router is that I can run iperf3 on it and verify that it’s not Comcast’s fault before opening a ticket.
Cheesecake: 'original'
The ‘original’ tag at Gelbooru is often, but not exclusively, used for “original character”. Then again, the second picture, a fully-dressed girl surrounded by autumn leaves, is tagged “hentai”, “porn”, and “sex” for no reason. At least the “rubber_duck” tag is being used correctly…
Liberals shitting where they eat
“Peaceful” anti-Trump demonstrators vandalizing storefronts in Portland.
I’m guessing that they’re rioting in Democrat strongholds for the same reason anti-fur/leather activists go after little old ladies and not Hell’s Angels.
Cheesecake: cowboy shot
When I went back and extracted the tags from my previous cheesecake post, I found a popular and baffling one: cowboy_shot. I was surprised to discover that it wasn’t a fetish, but a cinematographic term: getting everything from head to mid-thigh in the picture, from Westerns that needed to show the characters’ six-guns. Gelbooru taggers seem to be a bit unclear on the concept, since many of the matching pictures include the knees or even feet, but it narrowed things down a bit.
Since this is all scripted now, the mouseover comment includes the matching tags for each image.
Rock the Wake
With widespread reports of violence, vandalism, and vast despair, it’s important for those of us not currently going through the five stages of grief to help the devastated deal with defeat.
As they act out on Twitter, Facebook, and CNN, remember this important truth about wrist-slitting:
Across is for attention, Down is for death.
99% of what we’re seeing right now is Across. They’re not going to leave the US or follow through on their death threats, they’re just going to have a two-year tantrum and then try to retake the House and Senate.
