John Cholewa
@johncholewa.bsky.social
Judging by my profile pic, clearly bananas.
If you're going to be camping overnight with a bunch of gamers, it's a really good sign that they understand that "clean is better than dirty".
June 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
If you're going to be camping overnight with a bunch of gamers, it's a really good sign that they understand that "clean is better than dirty".
(that's not to say I disagree with your general conclusion)
May 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
(that's not to say I disagree with your general conclusion)
There's something odd with the data in this chart. I see similar #s for the others, but 5.7% is more like Biden's best year, not his average. I got a mean of 3.75% for him, high for this era but not matching Clinton. Still, he seems to have the best economy for a first term prez since Johnson.
May 16, 2025 at 2:25 PM
There's something odd with the data in this chart. I see similar #s for the others, but 5.7% is more like Biden's best year, not his average. I got a mean of 3.75% for him, high for this era but not matching Clinton. Still, he seems to have the best economy for a first term prez since Johnson.
This makes me more satisfied with my decision to preorder one of the new pebble watches.
May 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This makes me more satisfied with my decision to preorder one of the new pebble watches.
Alt-. (alt key and period) pastes the last argument in, and you can press it more to get the last argument of each command before that in your history, at least in the version of bash I'm using.
May 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Alt-. (alt key and period) pastes the last argument in, and you can press it more to get the last argument of each command before that in your history, at least in the version of bash I'm using.
The context is that today's input was international trade. For some reason, there was a shitload of international trade over the last month. Without the context of future input, that means higher economic activity. In context, it likely includes a lot of panic-buying ahead of tariffs.
May 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The context is that today's input was international trade. For some reason, there was a shitload of international trade over the last month. Without the context of future input, that means higher economic activity. In context, it likely includes a lot of panic-buying ahead of tariffs.
My RAV4 Prime has plenty of buttons, which makes me happy, but I would loved if it had a play/pause button. Somehow, you can seek back and forth, raise and lower volume, and change audio sources, all from the driving wheel, but you still have to go to the screen to start and stop your media!
May 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
My RAV4 Prime has plenty of buttons, which makes me happy, but I would loved if it had a play/pause button. Somehow, you can seek back and forth, raise and lower volume, and change audio sources, all from the driving wheel, but you still have to go to the screen to start and stop your media!
The tab islands look quite similar to Vivaldi's tab stacks. Not a bad implementation to follow. Otherwise, I'm interested in that list tab layout, if it's anything like I'm hoping. I've been trending towards more text and fewer dubious icons and tiny screenshots in my interfaces.
May 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The tab islands look quite similar to Vivaldi's tab stacks. Not a bad implementation to follow. Otherwise, I'm interested in that list tab layout, if it's anything like I'm hoping. I've been trending towards more text and fewer dubious icons and tiny screenshots in my interfaces.
Hah, my coworkers use this word all the time... because they're research scientists, and that's a setting where the word has a precise meaning.
Agreed on the general principle of not using words only because they sound fancy, though.
(btw, it's "cohort")
Agreed on the general principle of not using words only because they sound fancy, though.
(btw, it's "cohort")
May 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Hah, my coworkers use this word all the time... because they're research scientists, and that's a setting where the word has a precise meaning.
Agreed on the general principle of not using words only because they sound fancy, though.
(btw, it's "cohort")
Agreed on the general principle of not using words only because they sound fancy, though.
(btw, it's "cohort")
Heh. I went totally crazypants and started hoarding canned foods in early February. Never done that before, but now I can eat for a couple years in a now-less-remote scenario where the supply chain gets totally wrecked.
April 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Heh. I went totally crazypants and started hoarding canned foods in early February. Never done that before, but now I can eat for a couple years in a now-less-remote scenario where the supply chain gets totally wrecked.
"but math doesn't add up" should be attached to nearly every article title about the administration, or Congress for that matter.
April 29, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"but math doesn't add up" should be attached to nearly every article title about the administration, or Congress for that matter.
Distant future historians will confuse this US president with the rise in AI chatbots. It's almost the same kind of "these are definitely sentences made with real words, but they don't seem to completely connect in a conversational context" phenomenon.
April 25, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Distant future historians will confuse this US president with the rise in AI chatbots. It's almost the same kind of "these are definitely sentences made with real words, but they don't seem to completely connect in a conversational context" phenomenon.
It *was* sold out, but I played the "I don't believe you" card a dozen times, and now I'm in line!
April 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
It *was* sold out, but I played the "I don't believe you" card a dozen times, and now I'm in line!
I'm in. Ever since a random worker in the parking log randomly told me the day the week 2 shipments were coming in for the Wii, I've locked myself in to buying every new console I get from Best Buy. I'm not usually into customer loyalty, but they got me here.
April 24, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I'm in. Ever since a random worker in the parking log randomly told me the day the week 2 shipments were coming in for the Wii, I've locked myself in to buying every new console I get from Best Buy. I'm not usually into customer loyalty, but they got me here.
You know, I was actually joking all the times I suggested that they were just working their way up to infinity percent. Now I'm less certain. But they'll have to really hoof it to get up that asymptote!
April 22, 2025 at 2:34 PM
You know, I was actually joking all the times I suggested that they were just working their way up to infinity percent. Now I'm less certain. But they'll have to really hoof it to get up that asymptote!
It's OK, a lower number means it's more efficient.
April 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
It's OK, a lower number means it's more efficient.
For what it's worth, while I do think there's a decent enough chance that Q1 had a contraction (depends on how much pre-tarriff panic-buying offset downward pressures), I did look back on the GDPNow historical record. It didn't seem very predictive.
April 20, 2025 at 1:15 AM
For what it's worth, while I do think there's a decent enough chance that Q1 had a contraction (depends on how much pre-tarriff panic-buying offset downward pressures), I did look back on the GDPNow historical record. It didn't seem very predictive.
It's more like "the decision to carry around a bucket of radioactive waste wherever you go is a personal one". At least keeping it in your basement doesn't risk harm to others.
April 14, 2025 at 3:49 PM
It's more like "the decision to carry around a bucket of radioactive waste wherever you go is a personal one". At least keeping it in your basement doesn't risk harm to others.
Why does it have a ZL button if it can only be used for games that don't use a ZL button? I know that you can remap it, but that (and, to a lesser extent, the chat button) feels weird in light of this news.
April 9, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Why does it have a ZL button if it can only be used for games that don't use a ZL button? I know that you can remap it, but that (and, to a lesser extent, the chat button) feels weird in light of this news.
Oh great. Now I'm going to live in terror of the flusles for the rest of my life.
April 9, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Oh great. Now I'm going to live in terror of the flusles for the rest of my life.
Obviously just a minor nit, but at least in SMB it was red on brown -- they might not have been able to get the same blue across all the level palette swaps. Like maybe sky blue would've been the only blue option, which'd look real bad on 1-1.
April 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Obviously just a minor nit, but at least in SMB it was red on brown -- they might not have been able to get the same blue across all the level palette swaps. Like maybe sky blue would've been the only blue option, which'd look real bad on 1-1.
I think that in Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros, and the cover art for Super Mario Bros 2, Mario wore red suspenders. In Mario Bros, Luigi wore green suspenders (and white in others). None of this stuff was really super standardized back then since colors were limited by palette availability.
April 9, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I think that in Donkey Kong, Super Mario Bros, and the cover art for Super Mario Bros 2, Mario wore red suspenders. In Mario Bros, Luigi wore green suspenders (and white in others). None of this stuff was really super standardized back then since colors were limited by palette availability.
I've actually brought up on the facebook group the idea of extending an olive branch and having a bunch of us down here bus up to Vancouver for a hangout. It's not the same as being able to move the convention or whatever, but it'd be nice if we could do something with International fen informally.
April 9, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I've actually brought up on the facebook group the idea of extending an olive branch and having a bunch of us down here bus up to Vancouver for a hangout. It's not the same as being able to move the convention or whatever, but it'd be nice if we could do something with International fen informally.