Aaron Parecki

Mike Merrill http://www.kmikeym.com/ • Jul 22
I made watermelon!

I don't know why I cracked up so much when I saw this

Chicago, Illinois • 71°F

Mon, Jul 23, 2018 11:19pm -05:00
snarfed https://github.com/snarfed • Jul 23
hrm, i'm not sure. sounds like this would have most of the problems we've documented in https://indieweb.org/sidefile-antipattern . i imagine you'll end up with different content in this special theme, and that will diverge from the user-visible theme even more over time. not to mention you then have twice the maintenance work since there are two themes instead of one.

Sounds kind of like doing content negotiation to return a different document for a specific request. I'm not a huge fan of requiring content negotiation but it seems that would be a better approach than this theme switching, since at least there are existing defined behaviors for it. Theme switching seems like it'd be full of problems like if there is a cache plugin or if it's behind a caching cdn...

Chicago, Illinois • 74°F

Mon, Jul 23, 2018 7:59pm -05:00
Jul 21
Watching @chuckjoiner at #macstock2018.

I’m so curious about this talk!

Portland, Oregon • 66°F

Sat, Jul 21, 2018 11:42pm -07:00
amit https://micro.blog/amit • Jul 22
@smokey @aaronpk @eli must be some feed then? I think as long as the timezone is taken care of in the feeds, it should not be an issue for the reader, especially if the responses originated at Micro.blog?

My replies are all sent via webmention from my website, not created in micro.blog. I’m guessing that’s where the discrepancy is.

Portland, Oregon • 72°F

Sat, Jul 21, 2018 9:08pm -07:00
amit https://micro.blog/amit • Jul 22
@aaronpk why should this conversation be all broken? I see Aaron’s replies first and @eli’s questions. 🤔 cc @manton

Looks like it got confused about the timezone?

Portland, Oregon • 75°F

Sat, Jul 21, 2018 8:10pm -07:00
eli https://micro.blog/eli • Jul 22
@aaronpk is ther 12" MacBook your everyday driver?

Yeah that’s my main machine. I also have a 13” pro that I use for video editing and audio work. It handles final cut better than the 12” tho I can do video on the 12” in a pinch. It’s also nice to have a computer without all my normal distractions.

Portland, Oregon • 82°F

Sat, Jul 21, 2018 6:49pm -07:00
eli https://micro.blog/eli • Jul 22
@aaronpk do you need to do anything special to push that many pixels?

It’s actually only half the pixels of a 4K display, so my 12” MacBook can drive it fine. It’s 3440x1440.

Portland, Oregon • 82°F

Sat, Jul 21, 2018 6:37pm -07:00
eli https://micro.blog/eli • Jul 22
@aaronpk that monitor is bananas

Why have two monitors when you could just have one really really wide one instead!

Portland, Oregon • 82°F

Sat, Jul 21, 2018 6:32pm -07:00
Eddie Hinkle https://eddiehinkle.com/ • permalink
Hmm odd! I see it as “activity: rsvp” in the webmention.io mentions endpoint. I’m not sure how to link to that, though.

I think that's a webmention.io bug where it sees the post is an rsvp but doesn't take in to account that its an rsvp to something that isn't on your site

Portland, Oregon • 59°F

Sat, Jul 21, 2018 8:56am -07:00
EdwardHinkle https://github.com/EdwardHinkle • Jul 21

#74 invite/mention showed up as an RSVP to me

Turns out XRay does handle the invitee property already: https://xray.p3k.io/parse?pretty=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fboffosocko.com%2F2018%2F07%2F20%2Frsvp-to-virtual-homebrew-website-club-meetup-on-july-25-2018%2F

There's a different problem with XRay tho which is that it's using the lastest microformats parser which somehow doesn't see the "rsvp" or "in-reply-to" properties on this post.

Where do you see that this was interpreted as an rsvp to you? There could be something wrong with how webmention.io is interpreting this XRay object.

Portland, Oregon • 55°F

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Sat, Jul 21, 2018 7:53am -07:00
Amit Gawande https://www.amitgawande.com/ • Jul 21
Interesting way to catch tip modifications by waiters. However, I am always surprised that in this age of digital everything, where even currency has gone digital, we are still forced to depend on scam-prone manual tip checking.

It's really just the US's insistence on sticking to the existing model where you get your bill and then they take your card and bring you back the receipt. The much more sensible way to do it is to bring the credit card reader to the table which solves the problem, since in that case you get to see the final amount rung up on the machine.

Portland, Oregon • 58°F

Sat, Jul 21, 2018 7:24am -07:00
Daniel Goldsmith https://ascraeus.org/ • Jul 20
is there some good reason why recursive cp takes -R whereas recursive scp takes -r?

drives me crazy every time.

Omaha, Nebraska • 78°F

Fri, Jul 20, 2018 11:18am -05:00
Eddie Hinkle https://eddiehinkle.com/ • permalink
So I guess the question is, if the checksum fails, how do you fight it? Contact the bank? The restaurant?

If you want to be nice, you call the restaurant. If you want to just get your money back you file a dispute with the credit card and they usually resolve it without much hassle.

I called the restaurant about my $5 tip that turned into $15 and they happily refunded the $10, and also sounded unsurprised about the whole situation. I'm guessing it was not the first time that happened.

Omaha, Nebraska • 79°F

Thu, Jul 19, 2018 11:49pm -05:00
Chris Aldrich http://stream.boffosocko.com/profile/chrisaldrich • Jul 20
@aaronpk I always thought I was the only one to do something like this...

this is the last time someone is gonna change my $5 tip to a $15 tip

Omaha, Nebraska • 84°F

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Thu, Jul 19, 2018 9:09pm -05:00
Not Fake Adam Kalsey http://kalsey.com/ • Jul 20
Servers hate tips that aren’t round numbers because it makes it REALLY hard to cash out at the end of the night.

I thought the credit card machines make you enter the final total of the receipt when you cash out the stack of paper receipts at the end of the night. It's been a while since I've done that myself tho...

Omaha, Nebraska • 88°F

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Thu, Jul 19, 2018 7:49pm -05:00
Torgie Madison https://twitter.com/torgie • Jul 20
This gets tricky when prices are either large or end in strange decimals (sales tax):

Pre-tip bill: $81.12
Rough tip: $16
Pre-checksum total: $97.12
9 + 7 = 16 (?)
Final: $97.16 (last digit of sum = 6)

Adjust up to $16.04 or down to $15.94? The mental math could trip people up.

you write the tip amount on the receipt? I just always write the total amount.

Omaha, Nebraska • 88°F

Thu, Jul 19, 2018 7:47pm -05:00
Kelly Clowers http://www.clowersnet.net/~krc/ • Jul 19
why? Unless they change it to like 100% or something wild, let em have it. Likely they need it if they go to the trouble

That was a bad example. Last time this happened, my $5 tip was changed to a $15 tip.

Omaha, Nebraska • 90°F

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Thu, Jul 19, 2018 6:53pm -05:00
Aaron Parecki https://aaronparecki.com/ • Jul 19
Started using the last digit of my restaurant bill as a checksum, cause I've had the tip amount changed on me too many times now

Decide your rough desired tip, calculate your tentative total, then add up the digits before the decimal point and use that as the number of cents

Total pre-tip bill: $15.90
Rough tip: $3.00
Pre-checksum total: $18.90
1+8 = 9
Final total: $18.99

Now if someone changes the tip to $4 or $5, the checksum fails.

Omaha, Nebraska, USA • 91°F

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Thu, Jul 19, 2018 6:12pm -05:00
nitinthewiz https://github.com/nitinthewiz • Jul 9

#3 How to get correct version for composer?

I'm confused about the exact problem you're having.

If Compass' composer.lock is referencing 0.1.1, try running composer update p3k/quartz-db to get it to update that version, or change your composer.json to reference >=1.1.4.

It sounds like that's the root of the problem, as that fix was in version 1.1.3.

Omaha, Nebraska, USA • 91°F

Thu, Jul 19, 2018 5:09pm -05:00
nitinthewiz https://github.com/nitinthewiz • Jul 9

#4 Does QuartzDB respect date_default_timezone_set?

QuartzDB explicitly stores everything in UTC, in order to have control over the date-based sharding and retrieval. If you're reading the files directly you'll need to account for this. The API it provides will take timezones into account, so for example you can use the query method and pass in a local timestamp that includes a timezone offset and you'll get back the right results. I strongly recommend not reading the storage files directly and instead using the API that QuartzDB provides.

Omaha, Nebraska, USA • 91°F

Thu, Jul 19, 2018 5:04pm -05:00

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#74 invite/mention showed up as an RSVP to me

#3 How to get correct version for composer?

#4 Does QuartzDB respect date_default_timezone_set?