I’m really disappointed by June, April and August. Without these months, everything would be so neat and orderly

they did the same thing during the victorian era with the smoke stacks, to save on horizon rendering. Things were so much faster and elegant back then

LIMMEH

we’re talking extreme fluid dynamics are we not

Interestingly

• Aprch
• Maril

are the only two hallucinations, everything else is always a legit month

hierarchical letter clustering would be my guess, or graph-based clustering using ngrams of 2-4 as nodes and maximising for connections.

Or using an optimized Regex and printing out the DFA?

Edit: Quick N-gram analysis (min=3, max=num letters in that month)

library(ngram)

tmonths = c("january", "february", "march",
           "april", "may", "june", "july",
           "august", "september", "october",
           "november", "december")

zzz = lapply(tmonths, function(mon){
  ng = ngram::ngram_asweka(paste(unlist(strsplit(mon, split="")), collapse=" "), min=3, max=nchar(mon))
  return(gsub(" ", "", ng))
})
res = sort(table(unlist(zzz)))
res[res > 1]

This gives the following 9 ngram frequencies greater than 1:

  ary   uar  uary   emb  embe ember   mbe  mber   ber 
    2     2     2     3     3     3     3     3     4 

As you can see two longest most common motifs are “em-ber” and “uar-y”

Using this I propose the following graph

stateDiagram
    direction LR
    sept --> em
    nov --> em
    dec --> em
    em --> ber
    oc --> to
    to --> ber
    feb --> uar
    uar --> y
    jan --> uar
    ju --> ne
    ju --> l
    l --> y
    ma --> r
    ma --> y
    r --> ch
    
    a --> p 
    p --> r
    r --> il
    a --> u
    u --> gust

Removed by mod

Genuine Question:

if you could split the month names into 3, how would you split them to maximise their choice overlap?

• “em” is a good overlap for nov/sept/dec
• “uar” is good for jan/febr

wouldn’t it also be impossible to drink? The water would just seep out of any cup and find the path of least resistance to the floor

At least with oil you can just raw dog the nozzle and squeeze it directly in, guzzling down those calories by the gallon at least until the attendant starts to run over, but by then you pull out your lighter threateningly and shake your head until he backs off again

LEAVE ME ALONE I’M NOT A PISS BABY

Issue with Karma and Tagging, is that we all have 1 topic that we are all toxic about and we then carry that label everywhere, even on topics that we are completely rational about.

To quote an old joke:

So a man walks into a bar, and sits down. He starts a conversation with an old guy next to him. The old guy has obviously had a few. He says to the man:

“You see that dock out there? Built it myself, hand crafted each piece, and it’s the best dock in town! But do they call me “McGregor the dock builder”? No! And you see that bridge over there? I built that, took me two months, through rain, sleet and scoarching weather, but do they call me “McGregor the bridge builder”? No! And you see that pier over there, I built that, best pier in the county! But do they call me “McGregor the pier builder”? No!”

The old guy looks around, and makes sure that nobody is listening, and leans to the man, and he says: “but you fuck one sheep…”

nice, will check it out thanks!

If you develop gout, raise a glass of wine from me!

Same boat. I wish there were tech jobs in the UK. I miss working in my native timezone. I miss powering through projects using caffeine in the morning. Now I start work at 3pm and if I want to sleep that night then that means no caffeine whatsoever.

I’ve known for a few years that Jerk Chicken just isn’t my thing. I like the seasoning, and I like the chicken, but somehow together they just don’t mesh for me. Plus all the extras (Yam, Rice&Peas, Celebration) just don’t really taste that great.

On Sunday, I thought, “why the hell not” and ordered some Jerk, but this time I went for Jerk Pork. Just Jerk Pork by itself, no extras nothing. Costs about 7 quid, with delivery 9 quid.

My world has been torn wide open. I cannot go back to how things were. Everything pales in comparison.

Just chiming in to say that Octopus support DIY builds from non-MCS accredited installers. You can literally self-certify your build and feed it back into their grid.

https://www.pluginsolar.co.uk/?p=9895

In a similar vein: any good hybrid inverters out there that play nicely with HomeAssistant (e.g. via Modbus or other)?

Is it worth getting 40 year guarantee? Arent most of these businesses going to be out of business when I need them?

Doubt

Right. You want to give me the job? Hah. In the words of Karl Marx’s twin brother: “I don’t wanna belong to any club that would have me as a member!”

*sneeze into briefcase*
Please hand me back my rez-zooom, good day madam.

Huh. I don’t quite remember this Nasreddin Hoca story growing up, but I’m sure the snake says something really clever

“Door donot” - Yoda, talking fast