sidawson

sidawson, 20 days ago to random

I'm starting to suspect I'm a Small Language Model.

sidawson, 2 months ago to random

Is it friday? It feels like friday. I just wasted 20 minutes looking at @oaram and not reading that it was supposed to say @param.

(and yes, I have a very carefully chosen programming font, specifically designed to strongly differentiate between eg i1l|I etc etc)

<sigh><headdesk><headdesk><headdesk>

sidawson, 4 months ago to random

Super fit relatively young friend of a friend just dropped dead of a heart attack while playing hockey. I wonder what might have caused that?

#covid

sidawson, 4 months ago to random

It might be just my imagination, but the sun feels noticeably harsher this year. Like, there’s a real sting in it, within a few seconds of it hitting you.

sidawson, 5 months ago to random

Pink sea!

sidawson, 5 months ago to random

Partner’s kid got fucked over by disorganised flatmates. So today I’m driving into wellington (an hour each way) to help him move house. Then tomorrow I’m hiring a truck and doing the same thing again. Then New Year’s Day I’m getting up early to take the truck back.

Great end to a very average year. Great start to 2024 /s

<sigh>

sidawson, 5 months ago to random

I’ve gotta say, “Pho Mo” is a truly genius name for a Vietnamese restaurant

(It exists; I didn’t think of it)

sidawson, 5 months ago to random

the toilet paper I buy has changed dimensions and its weirding me out send toot

sidawson, 5 months ago to random

You know, my brain - numbers? omfg, I'm amazing. But words? Not so much. I try to learn languages and it just leaks out my ears (and believe me, I've TRIED).

So, I want to learn/use Måori, out of respect, and hello, it's their country more than (white english ancestry) mine.

So, I try to learn words, phrases, but my leaky brain <sigh>

It makes me sad.

BUT, you know what? I can say kia ora to people. That's some small thing I can do. Plus, it'll piss off racists

So, I'm gonna do that

#måori

sidawson, 6 months ago to random

Rice really is easy mode for waste disposal units

sidawson, 7 months ago to random

I just can't.

My heart is breaking.

The non-white. The poor. The renters. So much unnecessary, cruel suffering is on its way.

I just can't.

sidawson, 8 months ago to Games

Dredge now crashes every time I dock my boat. Ie, it’s unplayable. Ugh ugh ugh. Have left support req with team17 (publishers), & sent a slew of crash reports. (+ obv, tried every poss fix I could find).

Another guy I know had it crash and kill his save file, losing everything.

I would have ranked it super high, for its genre. Now? 1/5? The first couple of hours are fun. If you’re ok with paying for something you KNOW will burn you.

What’s the opposite of gg?

#games #dredge #DredgeGame

sidawson, 8 months ago to Ukraine

Well, it’s some small way I can show/give support. I got two, one like this with small sunflowers, and one with a large sunflower overlapping the band.

Beautiful work, I love them both. By the very talented Olga Patlyuk, https://www.etsy.com/shop/HappyJewelryHelga

#Ukraine #ArtsAndCrafts #jewellery

sidawson, 8 months ago to random

Partner's away for the weekend. So, I've got up early to... work some super intense sql queries.

Coz that's just the kind of guy I am!

Yes, yes, I know.

sidawson, 8 months ago to random

This is a long, but very worth reading piece on The Atlas Network - a group of 500+ right wing "think tanks" who have sought, with funding from big oil (etc), to demonise & criminalise climate change activism. Why? Higher profits, of course.

They're VERY well funded, and indirectly, killing us all: https://www.desmog.com/2023/09/12/atlas-network-vilifying-climate-protestors/

(thanks to @jeremy_pm for the link)

sidawson, 8 months ago to random

Slept on the couch last night. Partner might be coming down with something. Statistically unlikely to be covid (lack of recent social activity), but tests are not reliable until day 3/4 with new variants. So, waiting to find out if it’s just a sore throat that’ll pass with sleep, or something much, much worse.

And in the mean time, being cautious. Aka not a complete fucking moron.

(Sorry, that covid denier that was here the other week really triggered me)

sidawson, 8 months ago to random

Friend of a friend's partner is here for dinner, and they're aggressively anti-vax.

God, give me patience. fccckkkkkk

sidawson, 8 months ago to random

I think I've figured out what's wrong with Mastodon.

Well, communities in general.

They're full of people.

sidawson, 8 months ago to random

Think I might have seen my lil seal friend again this morning. Sneaky minx though, just the odd flipper here, an unexpected flipper there.

sidawson, 8 months ago to random

Ugh. What a week, amirite?

Time for a debatably earned beer & some StarCraft (Remastered is oddly pretty)

sidawson, 8 months ago to random

Wind gusts up to 93km/h here, apparently. But this house is VERY exposed. I’ve been in 160km/h winds before and it wasn’t as concerning as this.

The whole house is shaking, from the floor up, and it sounds like roofing iron is flexing and bending.

Not Relaxing At All.

(I’ve been up on the roof recently and checked everything & all looks ok, but still)

sidawson, 9 months ago to random

Pie chart

sidawson, 9 months ago to random

There’s something quietly lovely about watching someone walk their dog along the beach, then stop, and give their dog a pat, for absolutely no reason at all.

It’s ok to be loving, just coz.

sidawson, 9 months ago to random

Ever accidentally stand on a spider that’s so big it feels like you stepped on someone’s jandal?

Yeah. That.

(Currently finding a happier home for the not-so-lil dude than the middle of my kitchen floor)

sidawson, 9 months ago to random

Running late coz I spent an hour lying in bed watching the sun slowly rise, unable to drum up the motivation to get up (unlike the sun, which did an excellent job). Monday is going well so far :/