Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Cat wants lots of hugs tonight.

Pro tip: Amazon is not going to contact you about refunding money with a text message sent from Tunisia. There's no way that isn't a scam. Don't click the link, just report spam and block.

Production test batches both turned out nicely.

The first time I built a pyro Qiqi I was only able to get her to deal a bit over 305K damage (but hitting 3 enemies at once so if you want to add those up and call it over 900K I won't object). Years later she's doing more than 8 times the damage with today's hit for 2,511,657. The boss can provide another 5 buff stacks if the curse doesn't kill off the team so there's still room for improvement but I'm happy with the 2.5M for now.

@Taweret@octodon.social I still think Nog should have gotten his own spin off show.

The cat is jealous of my pizza.

One of today's spam emails has a subject in Arabic and a message in Chinese. I don't read enough of either language to tell what they're trying to sell me.

Today's meeting went well. Wasn't expecting to get an order out of it today but they were ready to go on that.

Did a PDF export from LibreOffice on my laptop and for some reason it decided to replace all of the non-bold 0 with fi. Doing the same export on a different computer didn't replicate the problem. This is why I generally make my PDFs with xetex instead.

@gnomon I don't know what you're using, but if it's any consolation, most home machines are a lot harder to use for that compared with commercial machines. Generally underpowered and then a lot of them also have an attachment that adds another tube going back up that I honestly wish they'd cost optimize out because I've never seen a machine that doesn't work better if you take that off and pretend it doesn't exist.

Today's physical mail included a data breach notification for my father who has been dead for years and hasn't lived at this address for even more years. Needless to say, I'm not signing him up for credit monitoring.

@jamey I don't know about brownies specifically but I've eaten chocolate pizza and it was delicious. Not as good as banana pizza, but still fine.

Why did the raccoon cross the road? I don't know, I'm just glad I didn't run it over.

@jamey Ah yes, books that say, "this will teach you standard C++" then immediately start throwing in totally non-standard stuff that's only in the DOS libraries. I remember those.

@Taweret@octodon.social And Guinan calls him out on it.

Had to fire a supplier. I was expecting a couple shipments from them, but after I'd already paid for the first one the owner of the company informed me of a change in payment terms which is really the sort of thing that needs to be disclosed either before sending out contracts or in the contract. Their new terms are unacceptable to me and they weren't willing to make an exception to honor the original deal so I'm not getting the other shipment. A shame as the coffee would have been excellent.

Cat is snoring,

@Taweret@octodon.social https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY1KdQNodN0

Was doing some post-holiday roaster maintenance and I found shockingly little chaff in the cyclone of the lab roaster (I use this for product development and sometimes as a sample roaster if I want to do that myself instead of just pushing a button on the automated machine). It could just be that someone else cleaned that out and didn't mention it but I'll have to find some time to look into that.

Very festive.