Let's talk about how Diskette makes money and stays true to our values and our artists in this capitalist hellscape.

one fun thing I bought in Japan was an edo kiriko glass to add to my ever growing collection of cups at home

Spotted a bug today just chilling very low on a tree. I assume it's a cicada of some sort but honestly have no clue

I'm not an idol group fan or anything, so I had no idea what a group of fans outside the NMB48 theater were up to until I looked it up later. Interesting way to end my brief visit to Japan

Tokyo is great and all but the sheer chaos and nightlife in osaka are a sight to behold

I ate.. enough on this trip

The scientists in Japan never stop to ask whether they should.

I'm used to shit finance posts about how much an investment in a stock some X years ago would be worth now, it's low effort fluff.. but this is a new load of bullshit

The views were of course terrible but it was sorta interesting to take the hakone ropeway during a light rainstorm... At some points it was just clouds, our lines, and a sudden car going the other direction

I'm in a cheapass soba shop at a Japanese train station and the machine that takes orders using the EXACT chime sound that my brokerage trading software uses when an order fills and I am slowly losing my mind

Late at night and had the most quintessential Japanese food experience... Gyoza that had no redeeming quality at all except they were 280yen a plate

great sign, trip isn't officially starting for another 9 or so hours and already discovered I overlooked a giant issue and have to scramble to try to fix things... or very expensive plan changes

明日からちょっと日本に旅行してくる

y'know, they tell you that you'll pick up various scars as you go thru life but they don't really tell you that a ton of them are from really stupid things... like fumbling some needle nose pliers into your wrist, bumping the oven while taking out a pizza, kicking the floor of the pool swimming...

I don't know why I find it funny, but amongst all the other issues with LLM code generation, it's really amusing how they're completely incapable of providing sane estimates of effort and time and cost of doing a chunk of work. I just ignore it when it tries it's so useless

so bought a cheap patio table because we need one and apparently it's an aluminum frame and then plasticy-coated MDF or something boards screwed to the top... which in my mind is like "perfect, once the boards die in 1-2 years I can just replace all the board and keep the frame"

phew.. just barely got through CC 20 for endfield

Every time I see someone say "launch $person into the sun" a small part of my brain immediately jumps up and starts going "the delta v needed to go to the sun is more than just escaping the solar system" and I have to kick the reaction down... Every single time...

Now that I've got a cheap Claude subscription for a couple of months, I've noticed that at home my primary use of Claude code is to scratch the "wouldn't it be sorta fun if (niche software thing) exists?" itch. And it lets me explore the systems needed to make such a thing work

This makes me feel so much better than all cables I had to make last week

dude this is so cool @lumafield.bsky.social sent over scans of those random ethernet cable connectors that Mike & i tested a while back… look at the (lack of) twisting in there! more to come soon

I don't post means but when I do it's likely a cat

Today we celebrate removal of the last ancient light switch on the property that I know about.... Also delicious cloth insulation 🙃

Lol it only took about 20 years but I finally (mostly) used up one of those assorted wood screw packs

So the final tally is vps cost went down from about 15.5eur/mo to 6... Not too bad. Also got to retire a bunch of old sites and experimental projects

ok guys. this'll probably be my first documented ACTUAL ROI from using LLMs.... by taking 20 years of little VPS servers running various small projects and sites.. and migrating things into one slightly bigger VPS... to save like 3-5euro/mo in server costs <_<;

NEW Japanese to English translation competition!!! This is aimed at emerging literary translators who have never published a novel before. You must translate one of the short stories from 「#真相をお話しします」by the end of October. omusubi-agency.co.jp/competition1/

Ugh I have too many small VPS boxes now and it's probably time to consider moving things into a larger instance

if a second treaty of Versailles is gonna lead to an eventual ridiculous WW3 and our mutual nuclear annihilation, i'm gonna be pissed at the writers... i'd probably also be dead of fallout but i'd still be pissed

This week on Counting Stuff, somehow I go from thinking about CAT6 and ordered operations and wound up despairing at how to teach the skill of 'finding and examining assumptions" which is probably the most important one nowadays in my work #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/our-most-imp...

every day I must remind myself 'the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent'

My aged fingers are NOT liking having to finagle tiny copper strands into RJ45 connectors, especially on a ladder ( even if it's just 3 steps up)

Unexpected benefit of having my router report into a management interface on a server is that when the house Internet or power goes down, I get a report on exactly how long the outage lasts because the router will record up/down events

ATTENTION EVERYONE! I sewed Nova a bucket hat🥹🧵🪡

cleaning out some shelves and that means finishing the last dregs of a few liquor bottles from the move.... sipping at home while browsing the internet is a lot less fun than it was in my 20s

Why is it over 90f outside

ok I'm admiring how pretty the fatal frame 2 remake is.. while also admitting that I'm so bad at horror games that it'd be a complete waste if I bought it

silly me had put a 2-pack of bbq sauce in my amazon cart.. then saw the same 2pack at costco and bought it there.. but then forgot and bought everything on my amazon cart for errand stuff.. so now I have an extra 32oz worth of bbq sauce and maybe I should just use it up instead of returning

took a few missteps due to screwing up threading the sewing machine... but got around to making a bean bag wrist rest (and an outside cover for said bag) to replace my mostly dying fake-leather one. at some point I need to stop eyeballing dimensions

so my keyboard/mouse wrist rest was too hot because of the fake PU leather and so I had to take an hour or so to make a super long bean bag as a replacement wrist rest..the raw canvas is rough tho so I need to make a cover in nicer duck canvas

This week on Counting Stuff, setting metrics is straightforward, but we don't really talk about the dozens of little numerical properties that we worry about IN ADDITION to the big "what decision does this trigger?" stuff #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/the-art-part...

Annnd gacha done

In today's Complex Machinery: One AI tokenmaxxer in particular regrets their unchecked spending spree. (Also: newsletters by @randyau.com , @arnicas.bsky.social , and @wucker.bsky.social are on the summer reading list.) newsletter.complex-machinery.com/archive/063-... #AI #dataBS

unexpected benefit of upgrading the old DS1315+ to a DS1525+... the new NAS is significantly more quiet than the old one... they probably improved the fan curves and internal layout... not that the old one was super loud but it's still a noticeable difference

Finallllly cleaned up the lock pin mess I made... the last giant pile of green schlage pines were just too hard to quickly do by eye, so like the last hundred+ were all done by digital caliper.. one.. by. one...

This week on Counting Stuff, old war stories? Of how all man-made systems start from simple ideas that gain/lose complexity due to history and needs. And it's important to have some of that context in your head. #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/things-are-s...

doing a bigass rsync job to migrate the old NAS to a new one... first time I've actually maxed out the 1gbe port on the router for anything more than a burst

This week on Counting Stuff, old war stories? Of how all man-made systems start from simple ideas that gain/lose complexity due to history and needs. And it's important to have some of that context in your head. #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/things-are-s...

well, today I done fucked up when opening the box with lock pins in it...

Making food the slow way