Time to bring out the planesona.

Die machen das wohl überall so, die Rotmilane in und um Zürich sehe ich auch öfter mit einer rabiaten Krähe im Schlepptau fliegen.

Not a scientist, but invitations to random sketchy conferences have been a recurring form of spam for probably decades for me. (Haven't checked it there's been a recent uptick.)

I'm not certain about the angle either, but I figured it might be to get off season business to not so great hotels.

This week I finally wrote the beginner's security guide I wanted to see in the world. Here's 8 tasks you can do right now, with plenty of vetted resources and the "Cliffsnotes" style summary on why you should do things, risks and limitations, and even what NOT to do. Enjoy! hashman.ca/security-101/

parents told me that watching dumb 80s cartoons wouldn't prepare me for the real world, but the president is attacking europe because they didn't give him the peace price

I've completed "Reactor" - Day 11 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/11

Catching up now, doing days out of order. For this one I had a slow solution (20 or 30 minutes or so), but a relatively simple optimization finally gives me the solution in ~65 ms.

I've completed "Playground" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/8

Now it's picking up a bit. Run time for my part 2 solution is around 101 ms, more than 1000x yesterday's solution.

#Ada #Adalanguage

That's after enabling -O2 optimization, which I didn't notice wasn't enabled before.

My benchmarking runs the solutions in a loop until at least 2 seconds of run time accumulates and shows the average of all runs.

Finally implemented some benchmarking into my #AdventOfCode runner to see how well my Ada implementations are doing.

Longest (part 2) solution this year has been day 4 with about 1850 μs. Current day 7 comes in around 85 μs. (Depending on CPU temperature...)

I've completed "Laboratories" - Day 7 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/7

Another one that's not computationally expensive, but really neatly to implement thanks to not having a dozen special cases to take care of.

Back around day 2 of #AdventOfCoding and before I got around to solving it myself, I saw people talking something about using regular expressions for solving this, and I don't get how? As in, seriously counting through every possible number, converting to text and test with a regex?

I haven't yet built a performance measurement into my runner. Using the shell's time command with a loop starting my runner for all six day's solutions so far comes out as 0.02 or 0.03 seconds, a bit to small to be meaningful.

So far there hasn't really been any day that required any obscure algorithm or where the solution has any appreciable runtime.

And it's so refreshing to solve these in #AdaLanguage again (which I currently don't program in otherwise), and also to try out those neat Ada 2022 improvements.

I haven't been doing #AdventOfCode the last two years because it felt like too much work just for puzzle solving. Now there's fewer days so it seems more feasible to reach the end while still in December!

I've completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6

All caught up now with 2 stars.

When asked by journalists who tracked them down if they feel in any way bad about squeezing the last retirement savings out of some lonely dude with their damsel in distress scam and possibly pushing them into homelessness, that was pretty much their justification.

So many different names and professions, still the first 26 are all the same guy. Artist wasn't feeling like being creative I guess...

Heinrich appears to be setting Pflastersteine (paving stones) into a road, which is what a Pflasterer would do.

(I don't think plasterer existed as a German term.)

Photo of the announcement flyer for VCFe 25.0, May 1st to May 3rd in Munich, Germany.

Mark your calendar! Next Vintage Computer Festival in Munich takes place from May 1st to May 3rd, 2026. Yes, its one of those rare three day VCFe, because of public holiday on May 1st. Website updates will start early 2026 as usual. #VCFe #VCFe25.0 #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing

Back to the roots? "Katholik, der bedauerlicherweise nicht von der Sünde der Homosexualität abkommt" war doch die Masche, mit der er durch erzkonservativ-religiöse Podcasts tingelte bevor er bei Gamergate aufgesprungen ist, wenn ich mich richtig erinnere.

I had to become MORE American to play this game! YouTube video by Limealicious

youtu.be/sHoPBzObxDs?...

You could get an optional auxiliary fuel heater for some higher class cars that would provide heating separate from the engine (and might even have a remote control).
Great thing about EVs is that that's unnecessary and the spoils of a luxury car are basically standard issue.

ITYM publication ban on all reviewers who got caught out by these prompts.

Half of them are variations on "we put live voltage on the exposed parts of appliances and you better make sure you're not grounded before touching them" and I guess we should be thankful for modern regulations.

And stay away from the people who use 3 contact grounded to 2 contact plug converters.

Was it actually her hips that filed those taxes? No? Then this outrageous hip slander is entirely uncalled for.

The IBM 1401 is a vintage computer about the size of two refrigerators. It has dark gray panels with blue and chrome trim. In the upper left, a control panel has numerous lights and buttons. The large line printer is visible in the foreground. A tape drive with two reels of tape is in the background.

Last week, the vintage IBM 1401 computer at the Computer History Museum started behaving strangely: it wouldn't halt. More specifically, if you had two HALT instructions in a row, it would halt for the first, but when you continued, it crashed mysteriously. Here's how we fixed it.... 1/N

A photo looking up through a chainlink fence at piles and transmission equipment in an electrical substation. There is a sign on the fence stating DANGER LIVE LAUGH LOVE

I remember there was a whole account dedicated to creating and posting these regularly, but I can't seem to find it here or on mastodon. Unless I misremember and I only followed it on Twitter.