Applied Mathematician, Julia programmer, father of two amazing boys, official coonhound mix mutt-walker.
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Last Notes npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…z6hp npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nmr0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…wfat npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…wfat npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…wfat npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland My #guix friends, in Debian if I log in to a gnome session it runs the ssh-agent program and I only ever have to unlock my ssh key once... npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…8d0p npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…h3es npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland There is a long thread here on fedi about how provincial the american system of units is and embarrassing that they dont use SI for NASA broadcasts. It then goes on to discuss all the various issues with conversions and whatever. First, let me be the first to say that as metrology goes, the SI system is brilliantly well done... npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nmr0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nmr0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…44dh @nprofile…fns8 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…zejv npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland I took the plunge and installed #guix on my Debian laptop, I can't guix install things because I need a proxy. On a guix system I would "herd set-http-proxy guix-daemon <myproxy>" npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…2c6z npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Speaking of PhysicsGirl y'all Dianna just posted her FIRST SCIENCE VIDEO IN 3 YEARS this morning, ever since she got Long COVID. npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…7cp4 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Hey #guix peeps. I sent a message to help-guix list but didn't get a reply, maybe someone here knows. npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…vqu4 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…sftd npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Are there more cookies? npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland #plumbing people. I've got a toilet where after replacing the flush valve, it's now a flapper, and so the weight of the mechanism is less, and the handle doesn't return up after pushing down. I remember to pull it up, but my wife often forgets. There's no reason she should have to remember, a simple weight would provide the torque to right the handle... surely such a weight is a thing already commonly available and you can just buy them right? What are they called so I can find it at the store? npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Mastodons ... I've been invited to do a short paper on why some Nobel Prize winning economists are full of it... so I wrote it in quarto, and then discovered they accept submissions in LaTeX or Word docx... So far I output to docx and literally copy and pasted things into their template... but does anyone know of a way to take a quarto document and output it as a LaTeX document I could add their template headers to? I want to spend like zero time on this whole thing. npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nmr0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Bitlocker is a Microsoft product that encrypts your laptop hard drive etc. Apparently, Microsoft exfiltrates a recovery key for your Bitlocker encryption and stores it in their cloud, they give it out to law enforcement at request. And of course, they give it out to whoever compromises their system and steals that info. Bitlocker is completely worthless trash. Do not rely on it for information security. npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nmr0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nmr0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nmr0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nmr0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nmr0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nmr0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…pfuj npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…pfuj npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland You know how every time an anarchist who may have studied anarchist theory for say a few months to decades talks to a middle class Liberal/conservative institutionalist centrist person the first thing they say is that "if we didnt have cops who would protect you from roving gangs of thugs dragging you out of your car or snatching your kids?" npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nmr0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Everyone in the country whose paying attention understands that ICE is literal Gestapo, that they've been hired to ramp up terrorist tactics and smash any sense that anyone has any constitutional rights that mean anything, plus they are bait for eventually some citizens to protect their community with countervailing violence which will trigger a mobilization of the military at large scale to do all the shit the generals were told at that fucking Hegseth meeting. npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland well if I gotta be sick in bed I might as well watch murder she wrote, plenty of episodes, they're free, and from an era when people respected writing instead of just action. npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nmr0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…n7x3 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…8eua npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…8eua npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…8eua npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…n7x3 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland https://finance.yahoo.com/news/average-american-net-worth-620-121500111.html npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…e4ry npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…n7x3 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…exm7 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland I feel like a good explanation for much of the modern world is the concept from George Akerlof... The market for lemons. npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…exm7 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…exm7 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…exm7 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…exm7 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…exm7 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…n7x3 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland I'm watching the Minecraft movie. It is shameless. But if you are actually sick its mildly entertaining which is all I ask. npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Have you ever noticed that if you actually know some electronics principles, that HVAC wiring guides are really annoying and unhelpful because they just tell you what labels to connect what wires to, not HOW the circuits work? Well be confused no more. here's an actual electrical engineering worthy wiring guide (PDF available at the site too for offline reference) npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland As a society America is absolutely obsessed with companies like OpenAI, and Oracle and Facebook. But as a society our actually productive companies are like Lodge cast iron, Levis, and Kitchenaid. That is, companies that produce a reliable quality product that most people can afford. We fetishize money, when we should be reveling in the fact you can buy a cast iron pan for like $30 that will cook for you for the rest of your life. npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…exm7 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…n7x3 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…n7x3 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…d9d3 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…d9d3 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…d9d3 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…8eua npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Another amazing set with Jimmy Branly and 3 musicians he booked at 1881 in #pasadena (will look up names tomorrow) npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…mfuv npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Does anyone else see occasionally this kind of spike in volatile organic compounds in your house? #homeassistant npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…e4ry npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…55j2 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…n7x3 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…n7x3 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…8eua npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…8eua npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…8eua npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…8eua npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…8eua npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…nks4 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Charging up my rayhunter to bring to #NoKings #Pasadena, I dont think theres much chance they'll target Pasadena for cell site simulators, but I'll send the data to the EFF either way. Thats what they asked for. npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…e4ry npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Learned the term "Alter-Globalization" today and it perfectly describes my view on globalization. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alter-globalization npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…args npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…vrl0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…vrl0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…vrl0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…args @nprofile…dv7t npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…args[email protected] npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…args npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland An annoying issue with error handling in #guile #scheme #guix npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…vrl0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…jrff npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…jrff npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…vrl0 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland I gotta say ever since I've started using #guix I feel a lot more clenched up about doing Debian upgrades... Look Debian does a fantastic job, but if shit goes wrong... there's no rollback. Yes, for VMs I can just restore from a backup but ... npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Discussing the history of radio plays with my boys. I'm thinking of doing a movie night except we'd just listen to radio dramas like The Shadow and Buck Rogers. My kids say they'd be kicked out of the friends group if they asked their friends to come to something so nerdy... Which makes me want to do it even more. npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…ps99 npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…03hd npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…jrff npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland @nprofile…jrff npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland Guys, guys... #guix pull is really really slow. Even after switching channels to codeberg... been running for like an hour now, at 95% so far. (indexing objects, it'll do even more once it's finished with that). npub1pdwkvgp0z4da0nml778n8qce6vh0p374af7zvvmh6gtclzt647tshml9tc Daniel Lakeland A friend started asking me this morning about work we did in 2013 and I was able to pull a tar file containing the raw data and some old code out of my email archives. The literal paper that they published about the analysis in a journal didn't have the data. My friend was onboard with publishing the data, but it just wasn't standard procedure at the time. If your academic paper doesn't include the data in 2025 and it's not for some kind of patient privacy reason, you are doing it very wrong.
