DickCaramel

The C Word

This is essentially the Serenity prayer as used in 12-step programs:

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, and Wisdom to know the difference.

“All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustimed.”

Right now I’m just using it for an AirGradient dashboard, which is an open hardware / open software air quality monitor. I used claude to rewrite the firmware to send the data to prometheus instead if their own servers, and countless other frustrating changes because they make the whole operation dependent on a connection to their servers…anyway, I didn’t want to pay a subscription for something so simple. I’ve thought about using it for some other projects, but for a lot of stuff I just don’t see the need for a dedicated dash.

Dan Carlin did a mini episode of Hardcore History about torture and execution and the first like 20 minutes is him talking about the morality and psychology of consuming it as entertainment and hypothosizing how that could come to be in modern times. Aaannd we’re here.

The drives for my media server are recertified enterprise grade 16tb instead of brand new consumer 8tb. doubled the capacity for like only 20% above what consumer is selling for. RAM screwed me tho. Couldn’t find a way around that one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echoic_memory

They aren’t really dad shoes anymore, lots of young people wear them now. And socks damn near to their knees.

Cisco has a prompt engineering course that counts for CE credits. I know because it was one of two free courses available that I used to recert recently. Welcome to hell.

“All experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”

Can I take the over on diarrhea epidemics on Kalshi? This country went from Hope and Change to resembling a Paul Verhoeven movie so fast I have whiplash.

You’re getting in the way of how horny the 50+ crowd is to kill some people before they kick the bucket

“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”

“I pretended to be the person I wanted to be until I became that person, or he became me.” Attributed to Cary Grant. On the days I wake up feeling miles away from the person I want to be, I can pretend.