I took an Ancestry.com DNA to try to answer the question of: "what, in my ancestry, if anything, results in me not being able to tan well at all?" (compared to my mother/father). In doing so, I was also greeted with another surprise: my mother happened to do one of these tests herself! She showed up on my list of matches. This made it really easy to determine who all was on her side via the "shared matches" feature — you can see a list of names/usernames of people who have opted in to this feature and share some DNA with you.

This meant that it was very easy to distinguish who was on my (biological) fathers side.

I'm cool with it, though it's an itch I'm insatiably trying to scratch. Oddly enough, someone who I share a considerable amount of DNA with has an uncle who worked in the same town as my mother did the year I was conceived — otherwise, the entire family has no relation to the region my mom hung around in that year (or any prior year). However, for all my fruitful digging (and I'm usually very good at the finding-people-on-internet part), I cannot turn up any solid email address or phone number for the guy. Coincidentally, I can see his old law office from my patio, and he lives a few blocks away from my partner.

World is weird.

At any rate, how did your father take the news?

My old man was sort of "bah humbug" about it all. He wasn't necessarily "surprised" that my mom would do such a thing, but still "surprised" — eyes wide open, shaking-of-the-head.

My mom was notoriously sneaky, though her legend is prototypically more tame than this: "oh look at this cat I found on the sidewalk that was lost!", or "this dog was going to be put down if someone didn't take it."

My favorite story though is that when they (my mom/dad) went on a week-long canoe trip: your pack is usually heavy when you start and is supposed to get lighter as you go — you know, from the food you eat. Well, my dad noticed his was not getting any lighter as the trip went on. Fast-forward a few weeks, my mom is out working in the yard and my dad goes out to get something when he notices some really particular rocks that match at all with the existing rocks that were laid.

Little did he know he carried in his pack during their canoe trip.

The rest of the day (I broke the news to him shortly after lunch hour) we spent the day chuckling about "how 'Jeanine' it is [of a situation]" — Jeanine being my mother. We found common ground there if nothing else.

I had a short (fortunately) relationship with a woman who was diagnosed, and there's a certain 'flavor' to the lies that I noticed when reading about the rocks. Cheating is also common with BPD.

I'm glad it didn't work out, because I can see how the push-pull messes with your head. Something as insane as your wife, who ostensibly loves you, adding weight to your backpack and not revealing the 'joke' for a week is insanely malicious.

Last week was:

- Git refined diff output: https://www.codrut.pro/snippets/git-refined-diff-output/

- Test for Emacs compiler warnings: https://www.codrut.pro/snippets/test-for-emacs-compiler-warn...

Then referenced how to FIDO for more information: https://github.com/fido-alliance/how-to-fido/blob/master/How...

hope that helps

So basically learned to be ok with not seeing work as a purpose driver for me at the moment.

I'm not approaching it with any real goal other than to see how some other frameworks work but it feels very worthwhile.

C# and .NET have been pretty easy to develop in, but the documentation was very poor I thought. Maybe I just didn't find it, but it lacked a good example walkthrough like you get with Rails. Next up is a Swift backend using Perfect[0]!

[0] https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/PerfectDocs

Sometimes you flock to someone because you see them being kind, considerate, and overall a strong leader.

It turns out that some people know how to fake these qualities. They’ll use you, and while you look up to them, they see you as a pawn in a chess game.

Assuming that people make mistakes and everyone actually just means “well” or has good intentions, it’s extremely naive. People will sell you that shit and take advantage of you.

I got gaslighted enough times and finally saw what was happening.

This is the reverse of what I had expected because there seems to be vastly more people using cashtags but my theory is that 1) people still search for hashtags and 2) more volume means your tweet is visible for less time.

However, the best is obviously mixing them. I have a thread during premarket trading hours where I discuss stocks that the algorithm has decided is interesting and I'll print out the current score using hashtags, but use cashtags for quick discussion on stocks.

Example here: https://twitter.com/0xsmcn/status/1568155410191851521

For example, this site lets you create variations on an image that you upload: https://47725.gradio.app/

Feed it an image of text (type text in a paint program and save as PNG), and it seems to understand some words. https://i.imgur.com/aXELmHo.png

Seems pretty obvious in hindsight!!

On the flipside, I learned how not to paint walls, i.e. learned doing it the wrong way.

I learned a sump-pump advertised to pump 500 gal water per hour will take 3-4 days to pump the muck out of my swimming pool in 4-5 days, i,.e. not to trust those ratings.

The ones that either don’t return calls or emails or just don’t show, I’m never reaching out to them in the future and I’m never recommending them. But maybe it will never matter?

They just absolutely will not show up when they say they will. Late, sometimes no-show. I had a plumber take FOUR visits over FIVE days and still not solve the (relatively minor) issue.

I don't know if there's just that much work out there? I think anyone who shows up could make a killing in my area, for any kind of repair work. I've never shopped around on price, either.

It's a huge bummer. It took a while to find a good option!

Do you know why it's happening?

For the former, I don't know why it was happening -- guess I could ask -- but I suspect they're having trouble sourcing those ingredients at acceptable prices. For the latter... we'll, that's just laziness and inattention.

It's the algorithm(s) for how to compute a depth map when you have images from two cameras spaced some distance apart (for e.g., our eyes). It's gotten really good recently and it's fascinating on a technical level. Check out this YT video/playlist if interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hr6xpOU-uw

Also, great question! Should do it every week.

I finally found the time to get into that and wrote my first two scripts with TypeScript and the overall new system to do scripting.

Still struggling with the finer bits, but access to npm et al. really helps with getting done what needs to be done without reinventing the wheel.

even run through google translate it's better than some courses I've paid for. that 2x2 grid is a game changer alone.

Discussed with friends regarding economics.

Bookmarklets haha I didn't even know they existed(was always using tampermonkey and such), in addition adjusting html on the fly for our logging system

*13 days is a long week, next time you put your hand up for OT, specify that you meant either day, not both xD

https://algorithmica.org/en/eytzinger#the-eytzinger-layout

/foo/bar

Without /foo existing.

This can cause problems in certain circumstances. Beware.

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/66442643

which I detail at the end of the thread

The union

[1] : https://weeklyosm.eu

I think a lot of people use butternut squash because it's sweeter, more available, and has a nice texture.