Notices by Brian (brian@fosstodon.org), page 2

@mooshoe This looks great!

@rbe_expert I'm pretty sure the captioning expectation is that the message is clearly represented, but not required to be verbatim. Many news shows simply roll the promoter feed into the captions. Ad libbed material isn't always transcribed directly in real time.

Let's bring the Harlem Shake back.

In today's, 😱file:

Grandmother attacked by rabid bobcat, kills it with her bare hands.

http://wsbt.com/news/offbeat/georgia-grandmother-wins-life-and-death-battle-with-rabid-bobcat-kills-it-with-bare-hands

"I thought, ‘Not today.’ There was no way I was going to die.”

What DNS lookup IP addresses should I use? I know about Google and Cloudflare. Others?

@ajroach42 I used to play two hands against myself. Rule was to play the best card available.

@g Yeah, I've rebooted several times. Our DL/UL top are 3Mbps/1Mbps, so it's not lightning fast to begin with. But, last night, I was only showing 1/0.5ish.

Several years ago, there was some damaged hardware on the pole outside the house that had similar symptoms. I might do a service call to have them check there next.

That was the longest debug I've ever done.

independent speed tests show my download speed at 1.5 MBPS, up at 0.5 MBPS.

Loggin into my xfinity account and checking there show 6.6 down and 14.4 up.

um.

"Your extra time on homework really paid off. That will help you get into the college you want."

😶

@zigg Wait...what?

"Have fifth graders pick colleges they want to attend to research tuition, majors, and grade requirements. Then present to second graders."

What if we let the fifth graders play outside instead?

Trying to do a reading synthesis about a book I /really/ disliked is hard.

So, I poured some coffee and grabbed a pen and paper.

Time to outline a coherent argument against the premise of the advice in the book before I work myself up by writing too soon.

I don't think I've said it recently, but thanks to @kev and @mike for admin-ing @fosstodon.

It's pretty great.

@brandon @codesections Isn't "human understandable" a core component of source code? Being able to read the commands a programmer is using as part of a program is essential to understanding the source of the software and the manifestations of the code on the machine.

Obfuscated code works directly against that by making the code non-understandable by an unaided human.

So, I read the wrong book for this week's grad discussion.

Power skimming...

@phessler It was also my first trip to Europe, so there's a non-negligible component of sentiment involved 😃