Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • That first happened to me at 18 and it was so weird. I was helping out at my old school for an interschool music festival—a week of all sorts of different workshops and rehearsals between different schools, culminating in a concert at the end. During a break I was tinkering around on the piano, and a student came up to me and said “excuse me, sir…[some question about the timetable or something, that I definitely didn’t have the level of authority to know the answer to]”. I have her the best answer I could and she went on her way, but I was just stuck there feeling way too old.




  • No, it’s not. The joke is that there is a correlation, but that actually correlation doesn’t mean causation. But here we have a situation where there is neither correlation nor causation.

    The problem is that the joke suggests that correlation is when A -> B (or at least it appears as such). Implication (in formal logic) is not the same as correlation.



  • I don’t know what it’s like over in Canada, but here in Australia it seems like the two biggest problems farmers face are the increasingly extreme climate and the vicehold the supermarket duopoly has over the market, giving them both monopoly and monopsony power, allowing them to completely screw over farmers.

    We have two main parties, one which has consistently been more in favour of action on climate change than the other, and which is also the less friendly one to corporate interests. We also have a third somewhat-major party that has extremely strong policies on climate change and monopolies. Guess which of these three parties farmers have consistently overwhelmingly voted for over the past 30+ years?

    So nah, fuck 'em. They’ve brought it on themselves. I’ve no interest in taxpayers subsidising them.

    But maybe circumstances in Canada are different.







  • You could avoid special handling for solid-color backgrounds by using the image-as-background setup plus a solid-color image. And that image might as well be 1x1 px, right? But if image tiling is a loop that goes “open image, draw to buffer, close image” then you’re waiting on the filesystem about a million times

    This makes sense to me. But unfortunately, according to a comment above, using a smaller image and tiling it is actually the solution to the slow loading.








  • I would love to containerise it. I worked with Docker in a previous job, but honestly I’ve forgotten most of how to work with it. Would be a nice refresher to try and relearn how to create Dockerfiles and docker-compose.yamls.

    Unfortunately I currently have two problems. First: I seem to be completely unable to test this on my desktop. When I open Docker on my PC, it complains that I need to run wsl --shutdown, but despite doing that many times, it still complains, before immediately closing.

    So I was going to try doing it entirely on the Synology. And then I ran into the issue that…I have no idea how to even start with that. When I search for Docker in the Package Manager the only thing that comes up is Synology’s own container manager, and I have no idea how to work with that.