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I looked into buying a solar charged battery bank. This product category is completely dominated by no-name 3rd party sellers. 🚩
Charge time is key. No listing had even a rough estimate for solar charge time. 🚩
An example unit claims max solar power 1.13 w, with enough battery power to charge an iPhone 14 Pro twice. Working from that, you'd need ~25 hours of full sun to fully charge. I'd roughly estimate that means at least 3 days in summer. Not quite worthless, but close…

"Bertrand Meyer is, hands down, the best writer in the computer field, because of a simple reason: his books have both great content and great prose. Not all authors of computer books (and certainly not the one you are reading now) can make the same claim."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/bertrand-meyer/

"Of course, not everything made with Python was successful. Suffice to mention the GadflyB5 SQL relational database, or Mercurial; excellent tools in their own right, but shadowed by much more popular options. reStructuredText also is generally dismissed, developers usually prefering Markdown or Asciidoc."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/the-state-of-python-in-2021/

"It is an interesting phrase, “the business”, especially when used by engineers to label the group of non-engineers in the organisation. It implies that everybody else is engaged in getting customers and making money, while engineering is a cost centre funded presumably through altruistic motives."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/enough-agile/

Looks like the USPS shut down the covidtests.gov at 8:00 PM EDT on 3/9/2025, per text on the website.
I'm feeling somewhat fortunate in that I got my order placed and received in the last couple weeks.
If they had too many tests stockpiled, better management and allowing people to order additional test kits seems like a better choice than destroying good tests. 
#CovidTests…

Noch 2 Stunden, dann gibt es #Fruhstuck ( #Intervallfasten ). Vermutlich möchte ich #Hummus und #Orangenmarmelade

Le stress au travail : 10'000 décès par année en Europe !
#santé #travail

氣溫終於回到二十度以上，又可以跑步了，好幾個月沒動了，跑著跑著碰到毛毛雨，風吹到浸濕的衣服還是有點冷，幸運的是回到家雨才開始轉大，很快又要進入清明雨季了，把握能跑的日子盡量跑，讓肥肉少一點。

It's the fact that you can tell from a mile away that it's even less defensible than a photoshop, it was a hackjob done in a fucking word processor, it's all so blatant and lazy that I can't not conclude that anyone who still champions this guy have a rotting bowl of porridge for a brain.

"To make a long story short, at some point during early 1996 I bought a cheap 14.4 kilobit per second modem, taking 10 minutes in average to download a single megabyte. Together with a monthly subscription to the new “Blue Window” service by Telecom PTT (soon to be renamed Swisscom), lo and behold, I was online."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/sniffing-packets/

"Jim Coplien ends his talk with a simple call to action: at every conference where new technology is introduced, software engineers should strive to be skeptical; to ask whether it improves the quality of life of society as a whole, and to take it home only to increase the human value of our products and services.
Focus on the people. Again and again. Because that is what Agile and OOP were all about, to begin with."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/james-coplien/

Publi Fluor - Affaires de Lettres Š Bruxelles
Le groupe de recherche Crickx a publié un travail remarquable et minutieusement documenté sur “Publi Fluor”, un magasin emblématique où Chrystel Crickx a exercé son talent pendant plus de quarante ans. Spécialisée dans le lettrage pour les devantures de magasins Š Bruxelles, elle a façonné un style unique...
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Ballpark de Tsukamaete!
(The Catcher in the Ballpark!) TV anime by EMT Squared begins in April 2025
#anime #ballpark #tsukamaete

臨時接到到醫院照顧叔叔的任務。

I have a relatively new #ASUS ProArt13 laptop where I still have a #Microsoft #Windows installation so I can keep upgrading its firmware (I planned removing it once I have a stable #Linux distro with kernel >= 6.14).
I'm surprised by how unstable it is. Just leaving it doing nothing for more than 10 minutes is enough to trigger a #BlueScreenOfDeath (I can reproduce the issue). If I keep doing stuff, it does not crash.
At this point I'm not sure if it's Microsoft's fault or ASUS'... but I suspect the blame falls on Windows side (nothing like that happens on my Linux installation).
#Windows11