Notices by Paul Reinheimer (preinheimer@phpc.social)

This morning my eldest child challenged me to say “I love you” to him a thousand times. I readily agreed. Then my youngest jumped on the bandwagon and requested the same. I agreed once more.

I’ve succeeded on both counts.

@evan I donate so they can buy more ads.

I don't put effort into "joining" because I'm not sure what value I'd get out of it.

That all said, I might be a member of the NDP just because of donations. I think I have a "leadership circle" pin somewhere.

@evan I've never taken a deliberate act to join a party.

But I've given several of them money.

If I worked at google I would absolutely change my friend's default search engine to Bing if they left their laptop unlocked.

Has anyone done research on the best place within a pull request to hide stuff?

I'm thinking it's 80% through a good sized PR. At that point the reviewer is probably tired, but you're past the end where they might scroll to and perk back up.

@sean @evan @maj

I feel like that train could be absolutely amazing (and maybe reduce air travel) with just tiny investments.

@evan I almost picked “by party” since I generally think more about that than the individual. But I’m selecting the party based on their position on multiple issues. So I’ve gone with the “mix” options.

Related: I believe political parties are bad for democracy. Their badness can be diluted by having lots of functioning parties.

@evan I’m concerned that we wouldn’t be able to feed that much of a displaced population. We’re also abandoning a lot of fertile soil.

@evan I don’t think 300km from the border and keep the economy running is possible. That’s the entire Montreal to Windsor corridor, and half the country’s population.

Never sacrifice your goals for your plans.

In order to say "X is really important to achieve Y" you need to try things other than X.

So if you write a blog post about how hiring engineers who are a great fit is the most important thing. And one of the 'tests' you give them is to see if they select grapes or candy as a snack, then only hire people who eat the candy. You don't actually know that eating candy is important, it's the only thing you've done. You need to hire some grape eaters and see if anything changes.

Posts that say "We tried A, B, and C, and things really took off when we tried C" are just so much more useful (and believable) than posts who just say "We've always done D and it's amazing"

The fact that companies are rolling out AI and refusing to give people ways to turn it off... shows me they're not so sure this is a killer feature either.

When you develop a killer feature you charge more for it.

I can't fully express how bad Adobe Acrobat Pro is.

After losing all my work on a health form once already, I've realized that I missed something. For some reason I can't actually edit any of the data, it's entered some alternate edit mode.

I am now printing it out to add the last thing with a pen, then scan it.

I attended my first programming class almost 20 years ago, and I am printing something out to scan it again.

@Mastodon Y'all will ship to France but not Canada?

The more I learn about cryptography, the more I think Alice and Bob should probably just talk in person.

Before we can leave the house on a date night, our children demand concessions. The negotiations over these concessions are detailed and wide ranging.

This evening we were told we needed to wear the “fun hats” if we wanted to leave.

So putting an air purifier in a day care cuts kids sick days by a third.

https://yle.fi/a/74-20062381

Man, someone from Waterloo public health should just grab their credit card, order 220 air purifiers, and give two to every child care center in the city.

@evan I have no idea what the logo is.

We accidentally left a large container of dehydrated apricots on the kitchen table. Our quite large dog walked by and ate the entire container.

Apparently they didn’t do great under her system, but they did partially rehydrate. She puked them all up on the carpet and they look much more like apricots now than they did in the container.