Notices by Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE (timwardcam@c.im), page 3

@steter @sibrosan @DerekL @kibcol1049 Ah, yes, I discovered the "might not be services for 150 miles" aspect of North American motoring on Vancouver Island.

The hire car got a puncture. It didn't come with a real spare wheel - it came with some sort of "lite" "get-you-home" half-arsed tyre.

Which was rated for fifty miles.

We were more than fifty miles from the nearest garage.

@sibrosan @DerekL @kibcol1049 I remain puzzled as to what's the point of a hybrid. You're carrying around two drive trains and two power sources, so it costs fuel to move the extra weight - where is the saving that makes up for that?

@frenck It happens in loos in offices.

And often enough the sensor can't see you in the stall.

So you have to open the door to wave at it.

But at least you know (... well, in theory ...) that there's nobody else in the room.

@steter Not just Nvidia. If *you* have any of your pension invested an S&P 500 index fund you've got a fair amount of *your* money in the AI bubble.

@HarriettMB @Infoseepage Round here it's £95 or thereabouts in a pharmacy. I tend to choose one which won't require me to wait for a long time in a crowded tiny shop, as the process of getting the vaccine is probably my single biggest covid exposure risk.

@WestLawns My preference for hard was formed back when chickens were fed on fish meal to the extent that the eggs tasted of fish. Somehow this fish taste was far more disgusting in runny yolks than hard yolks.

@hellomiakoda All of which is great until your neighbours change their wifi band in response, a few days or weeks later or whenever they notice.

@hellomiakoda I haven't worked out how to make Zigbee reliable at all. OK, since my last change to the hardware I haven't lost the whole lot for days at a time, but I'm still not happy.

#HomeAssistant

@bmacDonald94 So ... basically Pratchett was agreeing with my grandfather, who said that "if a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly".

@bmacDonald94 I just so luuurve "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing", it's such a perfect recursive joke.

(For anyone to whom this is new: Pope actually said "a little *learning* is a dangerous thing". I'm sure Pratchett knew this.)

@felix @jcoglan @whitequark @david_chisnall What ... a security fix to a standard protocol was patented?

@bmacDonald94 As in the classic:

Headmaster: I'm making you a prefect.

Boy: But I don't want to be a prefect.

Headmaster: You don't think I'd make you a prefect if you *did* want to be one, do you?

@dalias If I gave up reading software documentation I wouldn't be able to do my job ...

@Nickiquote Nasty beasts, cassowaries. Just a slightly updated form of velociraptor. Not what you want your child encountering by the side of the swimming pool, not when the child is smaller than the dinosaur.

@Opfoss Jury nullification is indeed a thing, but it's hardly something that can be relied on.

@broadwaybabyto The only place we've caught covid was a health care setting.

The "No King!" battle cry finishes, of course, with "We willnae be fooled again!"

Um ... too late, Americans: you've already voted for him a second time.

@bullivant "But the economy!"

(Which, just like covid denial, fails to explain what use "the economy" is to a dead person.)

@64kb @jackscottau Rewriting crap database queries was one of my party tricks.

A client called me in because his daily update was taking around twenty hours and he was worried that it would soon be over 24 hours.

After a couple of days' fiddling I'd got it down to three minutes or so.

"I can make it go twice as fast as that," I said, "but that will involve a schema change, so about another week's work. My guess is that three minutes is good enough for you and you won't want to pay me more to make it go faster than that?"

@jackscottau IME you always make far more taking over a failed project and fixing it than you ever could have done had your original bid been accepted in the first place.

But hey, your original bid was higher than that of the failed bunch of cowboys, so of course you didn't get the contract the first time around.