Neal Wilson ✅ @neal@social.typica.us

Building Typica with make:

real: 0m30.067s
user: 0m29.518s
sys: 0m1.088s

with make -j 6:

real: 0m20.579s
user: 0m35.057s
sys: 0m1.404s

with make -j 12:

real: 0m20.260s
user: 0m39.467s
sys: 0m1.794s

I'd probably get bigger gains if my source files were smaller and more numerous.

I think the underlying problem with maths and veggies are the same: they're presented badly. If your exposure to peas are these awful overcooked mush spheres you're not going to want to eat peas, but if you present foods in a way that they taste good there's less resistance to eating it. Math instruction is similarly all too frequently awful, which is a shame because it can be fun and useful.

Yes, I put math in my roasting classes. Sure, the computer can do the math for you, but it's good for you to know how to calculate stuff without that. Eat your veggies.

Did a final run through on my slide deck, found a few things that needed tweaking. One of the slides explaining how to do a calculation was missing the example data points which meant the slide made a lot less sense (where did those numbers come from?)

Last night I picked up an HDMI➡️ VGA adapter just in case I get to the event and find that the AV setup only has VGA. Tested that it works and at least with the local setup I don't need to supply additional power to the adapter (it has a warning tag saying if an image doesn't show up, apply more power). I want to test things as best I can before leaving the extra emergency computers at home.

The airline is now recommending showing up 2 hours before *domestic* flights because TSA is that bad now

Today I noticed that some people send email in HTML with the text color explicitly set to black but without setting a background color (ensuring that it's basically unreadable to anybody using a dark theme). All of these emails would be better sent as plain text. The HTML adds nothing but more bytes to transfer and store.

Looking at the stats, it looks like that's the highest my channel has ever gotten for single day watch time when I wasn't actively trying to drive traffic there (the record is 4,136 in the run up to YPP purge)

Now that I have traffic source stats it looks like that massive spike in YT traffic came from Perfect Daily Grind, but I'm still a little confused because I didn't see anything new there. The day ended at 2,241 minutes watched (compared with an average of 598 for the month not counting that) and views were up about 400 over normal. Stats are still elevated, but I wish they were hitting my PeerTube instance instead. I'd like to see how it handles what is relatively high load for my stuff.

Noticed I was increasingly swiping to page 2 or 3 too often so I rearranged my home screen.

A good place to sit.

She's decided that the part that sticks out is the cat seat.

New sofa arrived. I think I want to move it a few inches. The cat hid under the bed while it was getting delivered but I think she'll start shedding on this soon enough.

When did Touhou become a musical genre unto itself?

@Taweret@octodon.social Some fascinating episodes could have come from letting Tuvix stay on the crew.

The cat likes to sit next to me so I moved a chair for her.

I feel like talking about your new twitter/facebook/instagram accounts increasingly sounds like telling people about your myspace.

TIL the cat will keep an eye on laser pointer dots but will not chase them.

These library chairs aren't normally back to back like this, but the cat seems to approve now that the sofa isn't at the window. In other #CatsOfMastodon news, I went to a different grocery store from usual and found half sized bags of cat food. I think she'd like if I switched to that.