So counting as of the end of Christmas day, I did not *beat* my personal best, but I did *tie* my personal best so we're gonna call that a mostly win

Like I guess, find a shape

Is it a triangle

Survey says, PROBABLY YES

Anyway, the whole process ended up being way, *way* smoother than I expected. Balena Etcher has a "clone drive" option, and it just... worked.

I plugged the freshly cloned SSD into the same port where I had the thumb drive. The Pi booted straight up and it's like it's the same device. Very pleased!

Well, the Pi has been acting weird lately—intermittently it starts complaining about the file system being read-only in the middle of use, which I expect means the USB drive is on its last leg and about to catastrophically fail.

So I decided to get around to the migration already, I guess 🙄

I suppose your frustration with this comes not from wanting elections to be any less trustworthy or secure than they could be, but from feeling like an existential clock is ticking re: climate change and other issues and so this will move the needle exactly none at all on issues that matter to you?

This phenomenon has a name: Narcissism of Small Differences

A perfectly named phenomenon if ever there was one

Hey there 👋 Friendly softball question from one of the 700: Would you say that dbt-core is awesome, and if so why?

When a publication gets relevant information, it should feel intense legal pressure to disclose it RIGHT THEN and not later when it is expedient to some ulterior objective like trying to sway the outcome of an election. Is what I'm getting at.

ESPECIALLY if the entity that sat on the information is even ostensibly in the business of informing the public

If it can be shown that a journal or newspaper learned of some detail six months before publishing it at a *critical juncture*, there should be swift and severe consequences

CSV is a programming language?

I would say we send Remote Procedure Calls to one another with it

There's a sort of stigma around "having a short attention span" that has pushed me to try to finish every thing I start (book, movie, podcast episode, article, blog post)

But if the issue is that I'm not enjoying or learning from the thing, that's not my attention span's fault

(Just in case it wasn't clear, the "bit of an empath" line here is very tongue-in-cheek, I'm making fun of myself for being too easily wound up by movies with awkward social situations)

One of the most charming aspects of the first movie is how interconnected the "inner" and "outer" worlds are. That dynamic is a little less clear in the second one—the inner characters encounter and overcome problems without always a clear cause/effect relationship in the outer world.

I would say the screenplay needed another couple months at the ideation stage—a number of concepts are under-explored, are referenced without follow-up, or aren't quite integrated into the themes of the story. Meanwhile, other themes dominate a little.

(Easy for an armchair quarterback to say.)

I found it uncomfortably intense on the vicarious emotional scale at more than one point (bit of an empath over here, IYKYK)

So we had to split it across two evening sessions so I could decompress before continuing 😅