hydra neck, if properly prepared, is one of the few vegetarian cuts of meat as harvesting it doesn’t kill the hydra

LARBS preparing for release ⌘ https://larbs.xyz

Not-Quite-Livestream in preparation ⌘

New Forum Up and Under Preparation ⌘

Posted to Entropy Arbitrage: Database Basics https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2020/04/05/database.html #database #intro #education #preparation

Periodic reminder: nothing has prepared us for The Strange Times

The workflow app on iOS is magic. I now have a button that asks me to select a picture, then converts it to png, resizes it, strips the metadata, scps it to my jumphost, scps it further to my gopher jail and into my paste directory, constructs the http proxy URL and opens it in safari. All without user-interaction. Now I can share my mobile life with you guys! Prepare for cat pictures!

Hot take: the whole ‘you need to code in your free time’ is partially justified by the way a 4 year CS degree doesn’t remotely prepare you for an entry-level code-crunching position.

As the year draws to a close it becomes ever more clear: nothing has prepared us for the Strange Times.

She lets the motorbike fall left and you already prepare for a crash, but it rotates smoothly through the ground and you’re driving on the underside of the street

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Yeah, but yet a lot of sites are preparing the jump to http/2.0 with its inbelievable complexity. And even http/1.1 is probably a little bit over engineered.

@tx@0x1A4.1337.cx But be prepared that you terminal is b0rked! In what language are you writing your client?

A timetraveller has arrived but got the direction wrong. We watch his corpse reassemble itself, prepare to pull out the knife to unkill him.

The mountains hear the challenge and prepare for battle, to meet civilizations worth of architecture, led by the renegade demimountain

Morale
Last week I wrote about Kent’s Spelling Bee, and how preparing for it was hard for him and I.

Well, the Bee came and went, and I forgot to come back to post the results. He misspelled “ _morale_” (he spelled it as “ moral”) and finished in 4th place—for me, it doesn’t make sense, as I have always considered first, second and third place relevant, but fourth?—, which still qualified him to go to the State competition. That, of course, means more pract … ⌘ Read more

Mi vieja

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She created me, all my flaws and gifts unintended. She nurtured and guided me through life the best she could, suffering for my mistakes—but always hopeful—and rejoicing on my victories. Always supportive she gave herself to me (and my siblings), selflessly.

After a lifetime mission, her time around here has expired. We knew it would come, but never fully prepared for it. And so we wept, sadness seeping throu … ⌘ Read more

Upcoming presidential elections
I really need to get into politics—as much as I hate it—to prepare for the upcoming presidential elections. I have the feeling that it’s going to be nasty… as always. ⌘ Read more

Prepare to pay more
It seems that within four years –if nothing is done to prevent it (and nobody really knows what to do)– we [americans] will be paying $7 for a gallon of gasoline.

A very interesting post over Wired explains some of the reasons. A brief summary of them:

1. Oil companies getting tax breaks, and not passing those savings down, butpocketing them.
   
2. Theeconomic development in China and India, which increases the dema … ⌘ Read more

But Death and Taxes
“In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes” wrote Benjamin Franklin, 200 plus years ago and that truth remains unabated. It should be easy to figure out that we were involved on preparing our taxes. Being part of the decadent american middle class it is not hard to imagine that we treat taxes as what they are: a serious matter.

Years ago I used to get great refunds. Then they started to diminish and one lucky year I ended up paying $200. When Kent was born we got a sweet … ⌘ Read more