Some middle-aged guy on the Internet. Seen a lot of it, occasionally regurgitating it, trying to be amusing and informative.

Lurked Digg until v4. Commented on Reddit (same username) until it went full Musk.

Was on kbin.social (dying/dead) and kbin.run (mysteriously vanished). Now here on fedia.io.

Really hoping he hasn’t brought the jinx with him.

Other Adjectives: Neurodivergent; Nerd; Broken; British; Ally; Leftish

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Cake day: August 13th, 2024

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  • Edit: I may have got a hold of the wrong end of the stick on this one. Leaving it for posterity.

    eBay lets you search previous sales of items so in theory, if you search for things you already have, you could get some idea of their worth. Other sites may have similar features.

    As for where to post them, it’s pretty common here in the UK to parcel things up and take them to the nearest Post Office. I’m sure I’ve heard people on YouTube talk about doing the same sort of thing in (parts of?) the US, so it might be a common thing wherever you are too.

    Some delivery services will pick up from your premises but I’m not 100% sure of the process there. i.e. where the delivery labels come from, whether you’re supposed to print them yourself or whether the driver turns up with something to slap on a parcel, etc. I presume their websites outline the steps.






  • Probably lots of times that I wasn’t aware of.

    Once I got a disciplinary and six month “probation” for taking a day off that hadn’t been approved. I’m not sure what I expected to happen, but I did it anyway because the a-hole who denied it took such pleasure in the denial that I absolutely had to take the day off anyway just to spite him. Frankly, he’s lucky he was 1) bigger than me and 2) I’m not predisposed to violence. That smirk was an open invitation.

    There was also the time I remember the boss of the company I was working for at the time coming into the room I was working in, standing there for a bit and then walking out. I’d thought it was weird at the time, but later heard that he’d been planning to fire me but saw me hard at work and chickened out. He later made me redundant, which I don’t think was a surprise to anyone but me. He’s a millionaire running a large US company now. Funny to think about really.

    Sometimes you think you’re introspective until you realise there’s a whole bunch of things you’ve totally been missing or not facing. In my case, mental health. Looking back at the way I worked in all the jobs I had before I had to quit, I can see what I was doing in order to continue to function totally rubbed people the wrong way, even when it wasn’t the overt, angry nonsense I started doing towards the end.




  • Pedantry time!

    When they talk about this stuff they really need to specify which “day” they’re talking about, or else for places that do so, the day the clocks go forward is the shortest day in a year with no others being close.

    From another viewpoint, all rotations relative to the non-Sun stars - aka sidereal days - are still shorter. The daily movement along our orbit around the Sun contributes an extra four minutes to make up the full 24 hours.

    And so, they must be talking about the solar day. They do say 24 hours after all. Or must they? The discrepancy in the nearest sidereal day will be almost exactly the same, and that rounds to 24. So for which day was the lacking one-and-a-bit milliseconds calculated for?



  • Well, in order to avoid JavaScript, it’s having to encode all seven possible block states for all possible cells of the 10×8×8 world, and they’ve chosen to use HTML “radio” buttons - a single element - to achieve this. Each radio option has its own label, which, rather than text, is a heavily stylised set of six objects that represent the sides of the cube, which only show up when their respective radio option is set.

    7×10×8×8×(1+6) = 40320. The remainder of the lines are basically everything else.

    In theory you could have JavaScript generate this on the fly directly into the DOM, and the “game” would still work without needing JavaScript to actually handle any of it, but since they’ve opted to avoid JavaScript altogether, they’ve obviously pre-generated the majority of it with some other language.