I remembered this old sign generator site from years back, and saw they have a slew of new ones. This is my latest creation!
Well, that was less inspired than I expected. I’ll try again.
That doesn’t even make sense. Sleep probably would have been more productive an activity for this time of night.
As for the plane itself—the Aeroline du Plane as it were—you can tell it’s a Boeing 757 on account of the fuselage looking like a 757.
I haven’t done a Punwatch in six years. This cannot stand. Or sit, or whatever.
Speaking of locations I mispronounce, Angela Monaghan reported for The Guardian:
Oil giant Aramco’s $2tn flotation is still on, says Saudi Arabia. Energy minister in Riyadh denies reports that world’s largest ever IPO has been cancelled
Coal companies are reportedly on solid footing. Glaven.
Earlier this week my colleague clued me into a potential Postgres pitfall I’d yet to be bitten by, but it could happen.
Say you’re doing a once-off query like this. Yes, it’s a contrived, simplified example.
SELECT book, isbn
FROM inventory
WHERE isbn NOT IN (
SELECT isbn FROM orders
)
This superficially works, but Postgres will not match NULL values in this subquery when using NOT IN. Ouch!
So the only way to be safe is to check the field is also NOT NULL:
SELECT book, isbn
FROM inventory
WHERE isbn NOT IN (
SELECT isbn FROM orders
WHERE isbn IS NOT NULL
)
Or the more robust alternative, short of doing a proper join, is to strategically deploy NOT EXISTS:
SELECT book, isbn
FROM inventory
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
SELECT isbn FROM orders
WHERE inventory.isbn = orders.isbn
)
I did some digging, and also found this interesting article on Explain Extended on the performance implicaitons of using these different queries.
The photo above is from some night Shinjuku wanderings back in March. It’s not in any of below places, so therefore its inclusion is entirely pointless.
I like argument and option mnemonics. I can see why standard usage documentation prefers to sort arguments l15y, but this way makes them much easier to remember.
For example, my standard directory listings:
$ ls -cola
From the FreeBSD ls(1) manpage:
Or for sorting by ascending time modified, using the name of those Singaporean and Malaysian train systems:
$ ls -lrt
From that same manpage:
And the classic, audio-sounding aux:
$ ps aux
From the FreeBSD ps(1) manpage:
And finally, a somewhat lowbrow insult to give to a folder that may be using way too much of your drive space:
$ du -sh
From the FreeBSD du(1) manpage:
Unfortunately, tar and related tools will never have mnemonic arguments, unless cjvf becomes an overpriced clothing line or something.
This answer on by Upper_Case appeared in the Hot Network Questions sidebar on StackExchange:
Communicating well is not a matter of stating true facts (though that is important). It is about expressing things that are accurate in a way that the other party will understand. It is common, in my personal experience, for technically-minded people (like engineers) to only focus on the accuracy of their statements.
I call this the not seeing the forest for the trees problem, and is one of the reasons I originally disabled blog comments.
Clara and I each got Kindle Paperwhites, on recommendation from @sashin9000. How artful and fabulous does it look with the fake plant? Don’t answer that.
Camera aside, the main reason I bought a dinner-tray iPhone 7+ was for reading books and manga. I always have my phone with me, so it seemed to make sense. I’d resigned myself to the fact we’ll all be using fuzzy OLEDs eventually, but in the meantime what its LCD lacks in saturation it makes up for with crisp lines.
Surprising nobody, the big issues reading on a phone like this were:
Expanding on that last point, I had half a dozen apps on my home screen for reading from disparate places. This is the sad reality of DRM of which Kindle’s are a part, but I’ve also resigned myself to it if I want to buy digital books from authors and manga artists I want to support.
So the end result was I read fewer books, less often. Or would that be fewer books, more often? I read less, is what I mean. Not consciously, but it slipped from my daily routine. Which concurrently sucks and blows.
I can’t comment, I haven’t done in a while. And even if I were to comment, I feel it’s enough of a minefield littered with those who like the smell of glue and the feeling of physical paper — and aren’t afraid to tell you so — to be worth defending!
What I can say from recent experience is that it’s wonderful, wonderful, to have all the books I care about in one discrete unit I can carry around. It’s like my own portable library, that also dovetails nicely with my desire to live with less physical stuff.
There are many different readers on the market. Likely the best ones are in the Kobo line; they have more storage, bigger screens, and are lighter to boot. Or glove, because you hold them with your hands. Glaven.
But for once in my life I thought I’d get the most popular device and make things simpler. Amazon’s book store has everything I’ve searched for so far, and my Humble Bundles have mobi format files.
Books look great on the 300 DPI E-Ink display, and I love the feel of the official case. My last Kindle from 2011 was destroyed by an impact to its screen, so having a flippy protector is a good idea. It also turns the device on/off when you open/close, and makes it feel like a book to hold.
I watched and read reviews saying reading manga on it is so-so, but I’ve found pages crisp and perfectly legible, if marginally on the small side.
It’s been a week, but I’m already halfway through a Steven Pinker, and the second volume of Kenta Shinohara’s Astra Lost in Space. It’s fun to read this stuff again!
Happy Monday! My grandfather delighted in regaling facts to add to your vast store of useless information. I endeavour to continue this fine tradition.
The following scalars are greater than 210:
Sincerely,
Ruben
As if the original Blues Brothers wasn’t the best movie of all time, and as if Aretha Franklin doesn’t rock!
I’ve spent most of my time here talking about jazz, but with my sister as my witness, I was obsessed with the blues as a teenager. And Aretha and Matt played a huge part in that.
People will likely remember Aretha best for commanding R.E.S.P.E.C.T! But for me it’ll always be that legendary scene in that Blues Brothers soul food restaurant when she’s musically sparring with Matt “Guitar” Murphy to the tune of THINK!
I legit shed a tear this weekend. What lives and talent. Thank you ♡
Clara and I are watching three series this season; a first for us in a while on account of work and other commitments. But there’s some quality right now, despite what the sniveling hipsters may say :).
A young artefact appraiser and his new assistant engage in adventures and investigations that sometimes even have something to do with appraisals! I know deductive reasoning doesn’t work in the real world, but that doesn’t detract from the Hyouka-esque stories and likeable characters.
Kyoto is my new favourite place, so naturally with that in the title we had no choice!
What happens when your superficially sweet and carefree grandfather secretly set you up as collateral for a loan? Do you marry the ogre as you’re contractually obligated, or do you run your own business to pay the loan back on your terms? I admire Aoi’s fierce independence and cuteness cough.
The universe reminds me a little of Rinne, though with a male protagonist who’s confusing but somewhat less irritating! The art, colour, and settings are breathtaking.
I feel Clara and I only just finished watching a series based around a restaurant with a door to a parallel universe! But it was one of our favourites, so we’re happy to see the premise get used elsewhere. It’s the ultimate chill show.
But the other reason you watch this is for the followup Nobu Plus with real people! Each episode alternates between an unreasonably cute chef who shows us how he cooks food from that episode, and a delightful folk musician and food critic wandering around Japan trying various restaurants.
Time for another whatsontap!