Notices by Don Romano (alt) (thor@noagendasocial.com), page 30

Workdays: Walk 4-5 km per day, exemplary diet.

Weekends: I'm Pizza the Hut.

Do these quizzes work for you?

[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] I'm a teapot

Pasta with tomato sauce is the least Italian dish. Noodles came from Asia via the Arabs and tomatoes come from America via the Spanish.

Various countries: *tosses leftovers in a pan and calls it hash* *nothing special happens*

Italy: *tosses leftovers on bread and calls it pizza* *scores international culinary hit*

This has been a fairly dark and overcast day. The brightest time of day in the Oslo area today, at least according to my light sensor, was at 09:51 this morning.

One time when I fried up a hash, I managed to fry it so it was slightly crisp. I have yet to manage to recreate this. I suspect the trick might be to fry it at lower heat for a longer time, to give the potatoes time to form a crust.

Keeping a business afloat is about working your way around constraints, usually ones of people and money. You can't do anything unless there is a paying customer.

The same is true of government, except the customers are tax payers. If you can't explain how it will benefit the taxpayers, you can't do it.

It's all so constrained. There is little room for experimentation or tinkering.

My cat is perfectly normal.

The best account on Mastodon is still @kattalogen. Account name is a pun. Content is wholesome and relevant to my interests. Can it get better?

@jarlavgrenland Finnmark.

The fundamental problem of information technology is that complexity is needed in order to do interesting things, and human brains are not good at handling that. Even if you boil down your program to the minimum, your compiler/interpreter, operating system and hardware are still nightmarishly complex beasts, so all you've done is hide the complexity. The ugly complex bit has to be somewhere, and the only thing you can do is sweep it under the rug.

@thatbrickster I really wish Mastodon had an edit button. I tapped Delete and Redraft on the post you were replying to, and was about to do it a second time when I saw your reply. I always discover mistakes after posting.

The fundamental problem of information technology is that complexity is needed in order to do interesting things, and human brains are not good at handling that. Even if you boil down your program to the minimum, your compiler/interpreter, operating system and hardware are still nightmarishly complex beasts, so all you've done is hide the complexity. The ugly complex bit has to be somewhere, and the only thing you can do is sweep it under the carpet.

The fundamental problem of information technology is that complexity is needed in order to do interesting things, and human brains are not good at handling that. Even if you boil down your program to the minimum, your compiler/interpreter, operating system and hardware are still nightmarishly complex beasts, so all you've done is hide the complexity. The ugly complex bit has to be somewhere, and the only thing you can do is brush it under the carpet.

@grufwub I now badly want a pitch black cat with yellow eyes...

@Wookhash I don't get it...

Literally every thought a human has exists within a frame of mind. Being aware of which frame of mind you're in can help you discover your own biases.

Wavelength response of the human eye versus the CIE 1931 XYZ colour space (best imitation of human eye possible at the time) versus TCS34303 XYZ sensor.

That sensor is hard to get hold of if you're not a major manufacturer. Much harder than a generic RGB sensor, which is a shame, because those have no colour accuracy. An XYZ colour sensor is literally the most colour-accurate sensor you can get, because XYZ is "RGB for humans" and every other colour space has a mapping to it.

XYZ colour sensors are damned hard to find. Digikey and Mouser list a few, but none are in stock. I found the TCS34303 on some other site, but the minimum purchase was 10000 sensors, so that was out of the question.

Male driving teacher: Turn left.

Female driving teacher: *gesticulates* And then you need to look left now and watch those pedestrians and hit the brake gently now yes turn there and keep your eyes to the right now and, yes, that's it, now ease gently out ouf the roundabout.