Facebook: lying liars. Water: wet.

8 years ago
Hey, remember when I said:

Hey, remember when Facebook's hateful "real names" policy got a lot of press because they went nuclear on a bunch of queens? And then they put out a contentless, fawning press release with a fauxpology in it?

And remember when they then they got a ton of shamefully credulous press from people saying, "Well, that's all better then"?

And remember when people like me said, "You know, maybe you should save your applause for after they've changed either their official policy or their demonstrated behavior, or both, because they haven't", and nobody listened?

Well guess what, it took seven months, but said drag queens have finally noticed that Facebook's bullshit was bullshit. Now they have a petition to ban Facebook from the SF and NY Pride parades. Which you should probably sign, because why the hell not. Anything that causes discomfort to their PR flacks can't be bad.

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Teacher Week: Honest stickers for underachievers.

8 years ago



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Unicode character 'REVERSED HAND WITH MIDDLE FINGER EXTENDED' (U+1F595)

8 years ago
Windows 10 gives users the finger with new emojis

Unicode 7.0, standardized last June, added 2,834 new symbols to its lexicon. Around 250 of these were emoji, and operating systems have been updated in the months since to include support for many of these new pictograms.

However, one of the Unicode 7.0 emoji has gone unimplemented: the catchily named "Reversed Hand With Middle Finger Extended," codepoint U+1F595. Or as it's known in common parlance, the finger.

iOS, OS X, and Android all omit this important and expressive gesture. The emoji obsessives of Emojipedia, however, noticed that Windows 10 bucks the trend and includes support for the one finger salute. As with other emojis representing humans and their body parts, the flip the bird emoji supports Unicode skin color. By default, it uses a non-human tone -- Windows 10 uses grey for this, in contrast to iOS's Simpsonesque yellow -- but it can also be shown with a variety of roughly humanoid skin tones.

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100 Years of Cocktails in under 2 Minutes

8 years ago

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Star Wars: The Binks Awakens

8 years ago

[ beeps despondently ]

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DNA Lounge: Wherein the Empire expands again.

8 years ago
Oops, I accidentally bought another nightclub.

We just signed a lease on 917 Folsom, formerly known as Covered Wagon Saloon (1989?-2002), Cherry Bar (2002-2005), Annie's Social Club (2006-2010), and most recently Qi Ultra Lounge (2012).

We're going to sort-of divide the space into two businesses: one of them will be a second location for DNA Pizza, and the the other will be a new nightclub that we're calling Codeword. (It's initials are CW, see what I did there?)

I say we're "sort of" dividing them because they will have separate storefronts but still be connected internally, just like we do at DNA Lounge and DNA Pizza on 11th Street.

That means we're converting it from a 21+ bar to an all-ages restaurant! This is getting to be a habit.

So, step one, build a kitchen. There's not one in there right now. We get the keys on June 1. I would not be so foolish as to predict an opening date, because there is just so much bureaucracy between now and then. It depends on how many people write nasty letters and how many times we hear sentences like, "Well, why don't we just push this back to next month's hearing".

See, we're directly across the street from a brand new, massive condo development. And there's a massive condo development about to go in right next door. Not to mention the three stories of the SRO directly upstairs, the CW Hotel.

Anyway, a second location for DNA Pizza means that when one location is busy, we can stage deliveries out of the other. Right now on busy nights we have to choose between serving slices in-house and making pies for delivery, and it slows down both. Also, the new location is a much better spot for lunch business than 11th Street is, and it's two blocks from Moscone Center.

The tentative plan is for the nightclub side of the business to be primarily a dance club, somewhere around 200 capacity. We may end up doing live music there too, but it's roughly the same size as Above DNA, so at least initially, we're going to focus on live music here, and dance parties over there. It'll act as an incubator for smaller dance parties that can eventually graduate to the big room at DNA.

We need someone to design us a logo for for Codeword. Is that you?

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git and backups

8 years ago
Dear Lazyweb, how can I tune git to make it be more amenable to rsync-based backups?

I do my backups with rsync from the root directory, as is right and proper. One of my machines has a dozen git repositories scattered around its file system in various places. This machine's backup target is at the other end of a not-fast connection.

And, git's data model seems to be "I'm going to continuously make 100% changes to multiple 50+ MB files, to ensure that there's nothing incremental about your incremental backups."

Is there any way to tune git's file usage to be less egregious? Do "git gc" and "git repack" make this worse, or better?

You're about to suggest that I not back up my git repositories, but just do a dozen different git checkouts on the backup-target machine instead. No. Let's just leave it at "no" so that I don't have to explain the several different ways in which that suggestion is stupid.

Kinda missing CVS right now.


Update: Unless I missed something, there have been 3½ suggestions here:

  1. Turn off pack files and gc entirely, which will cause small files to accumulate for every future change, and will eventually make things get slow. gc.auto 0, gc.autopacklimit 0.

  2. Set the maximum pack size to a smaller number, so that no pack file gets too large, and subsequent layers of diffs get bundled into smaller pack files. pack.packSizeLimit.

  3. Dissenting opinion on #2: That doesn't do what you think it does, it just slices a single large pack file into N different files with the same bits in them, so you haven't saved anything.

  4. If you already have one gigantic pack file, create a .keep file next to it. New pack files will appear but they will be diffs against that saved one, and thus smaller.

I guess option #4 is the only practical one?


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