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Cake day: August 26th, 2022

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  • I’m not a rabbit expert, so I don’t have any more advice for you, sorry.

    I was heading to work one morning and found a rabbiy crouched under the car. We took her to the vet, who told us that with rabbits, they can go from “fine” to “dead” in a day, if they get an intestinal blockage or something like that. He said they just aren’t very robust, and when they get sick you should jump on it.

    Our girl must have been semi-domestic; we kept her for a few months as she recovered and found her a forever home (we had 3 cats at the time). Her issue was an impaction; he said it’s a fairly common cause of rabbit vet visits, and yeah, you don’t get much time to clear them out. He said it was good we brought her in immediately, and that’s what stuck with me.












  • Yeah, I’ve been dealing with the fallout of doing a firmware upgrade suggested by zwave2js which - I don’t know - changed the IDs on every single one of my 60 z-wave devices. I’ve been going through fixing dashboards, and automations, and scripts. It’s been a major PITA. It is, however, the first time a breakage of this magnitude has happened to me in a decade.

    It wasn’t just that devices changed; some stayed the same but the entity value IDs of their functions changed. It was so random.

    I’m going to think twice about doing that, next time.



  • So, first: I’m not the person you originally started arguing with; I have no objection to AI art, except vaguely in that is the worst kind of commercial plagiarism designed to steal other people’s work and turn it into profits. It’s like pirating music, but then selling CDs of the copy. Obviously much worse.

    But that’s only a vague objection because I’m no kind of artist. I support them and their fight, but abstractly as it doesn’t affect me.

    I like a lot of the AI gen stuff. Very pretty, visuals catered to your whims, on demand. Turn that mind’s eye vision of the Dark Tower into a real image, despite having no artistic skill! But I don’t respect it. I don’t think it’s “Art”, anymore than a random Mandelbrot is “Art.” Take that Mandelbrot and paint it using pointillism, and that would be Art.

    When AGI comes along, and has an inner world and an imagination, then I’ll start thinking of it as Art.


  • Wait… vfat supports Unicode? The filesystem that craps out if the file path length is longer than a couple hundred characters; that is an extension of a filesystem that couldn’t handle file names longer than 8.3 characters; that doesn’t have any concept of file permissions, much less ACLs; the one that partitioned filenames in 13 character hunks in directories to support filenames longer than 12 characters… that isn’t case sensitive, except in all the wrong ways - this filesystem can handle Unicode?

    I greatly doubt that. FAT doesn’t even support 8-bit ASCII, does it? 7-bit only. Unless you mean FAT32, which can optionally have UTF-16 support enabled. And it’s far easier to manage case changes in UTF-16 than UTF-8, using case mapping as MS does. The API handles all of this for you; it keeps track of what the the user calls them, but uses it’s own internal name for the file. And na’er the two shall meet, lest there be trouble.

    I do think it’s sloppy and lazy; it’s very easy to avoid doing actual work thinking about the problem and to bang out some hack solution. In the end, far more work is done, but for the wrong reasons.

    I don’t know what Apple’s excuse is, except maybe DNA. Apple ][ were not only case insensitive, they didn’t even have lower case characters at all. There was only one case, and maybe those engineers brought that mind set forward with the Lisa, and then the Mac. How it got into Darwin… is Darwin really case insensitive? I’m pretty sure on the company line - at the filesystem level, it is.