I've been messing around with an AI art generator. I present, horror corn 😂

*Thunk, thunk, thunk*

I opened my eyes to a dark room, with an alarm clock reading 2:37 in bright red. It takes a second to remember I’m in my apartment, and that’s my alarm clock.

*Thunk, thunk, thunk*

The damn roommate’s cat is trying to get in the laundry closet again. The doors are a set of ball catch double doors that the cat discovered he can get his paw under and pull open. This started about a week after they moved in, when the cat realized his food was kept in there.

Ah, great, game 5 between Toronto and Boston, and I literally can't find a legal way to watch it.

Huh. So I got curious about all the flat earth anti-science comments on every single space flight related video on Facebook.

Like 90% of the comments appear to be from sock accounts. They either have no other real activity, or they spam anti-mask and other divisive memes 24/7.

A relative of my gfs lost her 17 y/o niece recently, to murder. The news absolutely didn't bother getting half the facts correct. Said she was found naked, which wasn't even close to the truth.

The only real facts known are that she was found under a bridge, strangled. Probably attempted to SA her but may have been spooked.

No witnesses, one person of interest, and a profound lack of physical evidence. Unless something changes, it looks like her murder is going to go unsolved.

My current workweek:
Monday: Meetings
Tuesday: Meetings and trying to accomplish stuff.
Wednesday: Being left alone long enough to accomplish stuff.
Thursday: Mild burnout and doing the bare minimum.
Friday: "Market research" AKA playing games during work hours to stay familiar with what other people are doing with game engines.

I feel like younger liberals have an impulse to support any cause that is an underdog. They seem to have this belief that any use of force, when the force is superior, is just morally wrong.

I dunno. I'm about to see if NASA will give me a room on the planned moon base. Ideally, a good distance from the nearest human.

Anyone have any thoughts on Vivint? Our insurance is offering a discount for getting a security system, but it has to be from one of like 4 companies.

Dude, are all loan processors jackasses? Or are we just lucky?

They request that paperwork be submitted ASAP but won't respond to confirm receipt or pick up the phone when you call them. Then they'll ignore explicit directions on who to call.

-.- I had this brilliant idea of working from one of my favorite restaurants for a bit. Thought I'd just fire up my hotspot and have at it.

Problem is, I'm working on something that needs to connect to our cloud dev database. It doesn't support ipv6. I can't find a way to turn ipv6 off on my hotspot.

I learned something crazy today.

I'd never really thought of the spin rate of bullets in terms of RPM. It's always in terms of twist rate and relative stuff. In more absolute terms? 9mm apparently rotates about 60,000 RPM. Something like .223 is in the neighborhood of 250,000 RPM.

This months power outage brought to you by: old transformers! Again.

This time it failed while they were working nearby. Started a fire too. No injuries, nothing but the transformer burned.

They hauled the new transformer over there like an hour and a half ago, but we're still waiting on an update for when power will be restored.

Guess it's time for our ~monthly power outage.

Scheduling meetings with a large number of people is largely just sending out the invite and forcing people to make decisions about it.

Corporations, nearly across the board: Record breaking profits.

Also corporations, nearly across the board: Layoffs! Layoffs for everyone!

Neighbors dog got out and went for a stroll around the neighborhood. His name is Bear.

I was about to put him in the backyard for the night when the neighbor came around trying to find him.

*grumble* Stupid Unreal Engine.

Application works fine until we use a certain technology. Works locally, but not on the server.

On the server, moving around the world will eventually result in a hard lock. The faster you move, the faster it locks up. It's not any kind of apparent resource exhaustion.

The render thread just locks up. GPU shows a sudden, massive spike in 3D processing, for about 2 seconds. Then it drops to 0.

*sigh*

Day 1 result of going back on ADD meds: I'm procrastinating more energetically than usual.

Ugh... One of our clients requires emails to be encrypted. No problem, right?

Nope. We're on Google Workspace. I have no idea what I'm going to cook up for this, but it's going to cause pain.

Python things:
def someFunc(x, y = [0]):
----y.append(y[len(y) - 1] + 1)
----return x + y[len(y) - 1]

It's a function, right? You put input, you get output, and something that simple should always give you the same output for the same input, right? No real trickery, just an unusual way of adding two numbers, with some extra steps.

If you call someFunc(1) repeatedly, you'll get a higher number every time. 2, 3, 4, 5, etc.