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Today's Grand Mal Facepalm: That R Code happily accepts negative masses of radioactive materials. Good news: It does not calculate negative doses. Bad news: It quietly ignores them leaving you none the wiser that your problem is not well-specified and that the results are most definitely garbage. Looks like I have to hack on the code again to defend against this problem plus report it upstream to the vendor. I hate finding these sorts of problems but it's my job now and better I find this now rather than someone else find it later. That would make me the fourth person in this whole assurance process who missed this blatantly obvious problem. Actually I'm probably number 7 because three people on the vendor side should have found this before it ever got to us. (Statler & Waldorf: "We're all doomed! Hahahahahaha!")
Has anyone laid out a set of best case consumer device sustainability and privacy standards? I'm thinking more like Consumer Reports than EFF - can batteries be replaced without destroying the device, can it perform its core functions without access to the public internet or a phone/tablet application, can firmware be uodated or reverted by the user, etc? I'm not interested in device specific rankings (e.g. iFixit repairability scores) but a detailed set of expectations or objective criteria that any device can be compared against.
Smol Gray Kitteh has been hanging out with us all night as we've been handing out treats. This is one friendly and good-tempered cat. We need to arrange a vet visit before we let them inside to see how they get along with Donut and Gracie. #CatsOfMastodon image
I'm 1.5 for two on weekend conputer projects. Successfully installed Linux Mint on the ThinkPad and am now going through the irritating process of setting up the browser, typing overly long passwords, logging into various services, digging up Yubikeys, etc. I haven't gotten to setting up zsh and sorting out the terminal and expected applications. aptitude works mostly as expected but for some reason keeps trying to install i386 versions of packages instead of the expected x86_64 versions. I can defer solving that until getting the laptop backing up to the Synology. I mostly need LaTeX, VSCode, and a few dev tools. Even that may be building from source or third-party imports like VSCode and Beyond Compare. The network KVM is on the network. I'm not sure it's KVMing but it's alive so I'll take that as a win.