Phone right front. Wallet right back.

Keys left front. You can’t keep a phone and keys in the same pocket. Especially not with the size of modern phones.

Consistency means I always know if I’ve forgotten my phone keys/wallet. There’s never searching or wondering where they’ve gone.

Yep,

I’ve got a part of the house which needs new render and new capping on a pallisade wall. Cannot for the life of me find anyone that wants to do it. Whole house render, no problem. Turn up and just render every wall in site, no problem.

I had a long discussion with a builder who suggested I remove any lead flashing from the pallisade wall so he could render that. After going and investigating what I could, the lead is what’s keeping water out of the house. No, no thankyou do I want to remove that.

As it goes, I might just have to learn how to render myself as it might be easier than learning how to find a reasonable handyman.

I wonder if all the bot activity on reddit makes it look so busy that people are confused when they come somewhere with far fewer bots around?

I notice significantly more positive interaction with (at least what I believe to be) real humans here than I did on reddit in my last couple of years there.

At this point … what stops the CVE foundation moving on as a foundation and working to find an alternative funding model?

Yep… And damn I put so much effort into working that out and still got it wrong

Mid-day should be the middle of the day. Mid-night should be the middle of the night.

If you like more light in the evening morning go to bed late and wake up late. If you like light in the morning evening, go to bed early and wake up early.

Stop fucking with the clocks and making nonsensible decisions

Take a look at runalyze . The analysis features are imo second to none. Once you get over the learning curve

I don’t have a straight answer … but what about Strava do you like?

The line you see on Strava (or any fitness tracker) is just a trace (log) of where and when you went. That can be exported into many formats and moved between many different viewers. There is nothing special about Strava’s GPS trace.

Recording that trace can be done with different things, software or devices. Then importing that trace into different places can be done.

If it’s the social features you like, then that would be a different focus and might influence what apps you might want to consider. Komoot is a germany based company that does this really well.

Fitness tracking? Again, that can be a focus. Runalyze seems to be winning out in this space and is based out of Germany.

Where are you based? Some apps are more focussed on one country than another.

OSMaps

So… Let me check I get this right on the timeline.

America Europe Ukraine meet, agree to a 30 day ceasefire. Agree this tests if Russia is serious about ending the war. Putin gobbs off, surrender or die.

Categorical that Russia is not serious about ending the war.

Next steps boys

Something I noticed recently

The same people who quickly bemoan “everyone wants a label now” seen to be the same people who say “all kids do this like that”.

I live in the valleys of south Wales. Walk through old coal mining areas and you’ll occasionally find lumps of it on the ground.

Depends on the “they”…

But generally, back in the day data storage, memory and processing power were expensive. Multiple factors more expensive than they are now. Storing a year with two digits instead of four was a saving worth making. Over time, some people just kept doing what they had been doing. Some people just learned from mentors to do it that way, and kept doing it.

It was somewhat expected that systems would improve and over time that saving wouldn’t be needed. Which was true. By the year 2000 “modern” systems didn’t need to make that saving. But there was a lot of old code and systems that were still running just fine, that hadn’t been updated to modern code/hardware. it became a bit of a rush job at the end to make the same upgrade.

There is a similar issue coming up in the year 2038. A lot of computing platforms store dates as the number of seconds since the beginning of 1970-01-01 UTC. As I type this comment there have been 1,710,757,161 seconds since that date. It’s a simple way to store time/date in a way that can be converted back to a human readable format quite easily. I’ve written a lot of code which does exactly this. I’ve also written lot of code and data storage systems that store this number as a 32bit integer. Without drilling down into what that means, the limit of that data storage type will be a count of 4,294,967,296. That means at 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC, some of my old code will break, because it wont be able to properly store the dates.

I no longer work for that employer, I no longer maintain that code. Back when I wrote that code, a 32bit integer made sense. If I wrote new code now, I would use a different data type that would last longer. If my old code is still in use then someone is going to have to update it. Because of the way business, software and humans work. I don’t expect anyone will patch that code until sometime around the year 2037.