I spent a good chunk of my day trying to figure out why I couldn't get cider to work with my Clojure project in emacs. This blog is both a workaround for fellow travelers and my "pastebin" details for the help I'm going to request to get this fixed Background At some point in the last couple of months OpenJdk stopped working with Cider. Whenever I tried to run cider-jack-in I got the following error:| Cider, OpenJDK, Clojure, LDD, and Guix
Below is an amusing conversation I had with Claude. Please do not use this for actual technique- neither Claude or I are phlebotomists. How would you draw blood cultures? Blood cultures are drawn with strict sterile technique: Gather supplies (culture bottles, chlorhexidine, sterile gloves) Clean site with chlorhexidine for 30 seconds, let dry Don't repalpate site after cleaning Draw blood via venipuncture or fresh IV line Inoculate aerobic bottle first, then anaerobic Optimal volume: 10mL pe...| An AI Conversation about Medical Ethics
I recently made the switch to Guix on my Framework 13 laptop. Getting the install was…. not entirely trivial but was able to get it working thanks to the post by Andy Wingo over at wingolog.com There was one issue which brought me back to my early linux days of trying to figure out what bcm43xx was and why I had to modprobe it. That issue was that apparently thunderbolt requires a daemon to speak to external hardware. I'm a person who has a very cursed hardware/software combination of a Gui...| Hello Guix and Getting Thunderbolt Working
People have been saying "Be Yourself" for hundreds of years. But on the Internet it's important to remember you should only "Be Yourself" on end-to-end encrypted messengers like Signal, iMessage, and Telegram. Everywhere else you're a future politician.| Be Yourself
ChatGPT. Was that coherent? You are a scholar of technical writing and the english language. Please give me a summary of what the writer was trying to say: Summary The writer discusses the evolution of their communication style, initially emphasizing correctness and spelling but now prioritizing speed and humor, even at the expense of errors. They reflect on how technology, specifically AI, has changed communication. While AI can handle some interactions, the writer stresses the importance of...| Summarized: I Respect Our Shared Humanity
Intro I used to be a person who cared greatly about ensuring that my prose were correct, and that I spelled everything correctly. I'm actually going to avoid that here and I'm not even going to bother with a spell checker. For most casual communication I now like to focus on being fast and funny at the expense of the red squiggly lines or appeasing the specter of my english teacher.| I Respect Our Shared Humanity
Installing Komplete in Wine to use with the AWESOME tool yabridge has a big pain point The .iso applications will not install because they do not mount correctly https://github.com/robbert-vdh/yabridge#known-issues-and-fixes The fix here is fine but there's one gotcha: The documentation says that you should take two steps to install the packages with wine: udisksctl loop-setup -f ~/Downloads/<filename>.iso # load the .iso file udisksctl mount -t udf -o unhide -b /dev/loopX # where /dev/loopX ...| Installing Native Instruments Komplete in Wine
I recently switched from a MacBook Pro to an AMD Framework 13 Laptop. That means that I need to actually figure out how to make Linux audio work. There were no issues using Pipewire for ALSA sound but I was unable to get Jack clients connected with errors like: Cannot connect to server socket err = No such file or directory Cannot connect to server request channel jack server is not running or cannot be started JackShmReadWritePtr::~JackShmReadWritePtr - Init not done for -1, skipping unlock ...| Pipewire and Jack on Fedora 39
If you're a subscriber to this blog, thank you. This is almost certainly not interesting for you. If you're the owner of a Roland FR-4x digital accordion and trying to find which USB sticks can be used with your accordion I tried out every stick in my house with no luck. I learned: They need to be FAT32 (not ExFat) They need to be USB2.0 16GB seems to be the ideal size?| Roland FR-4X USB Drives
probably just shouldn't use cell networks for 2-factor I have concerns with how Duo does phone two-factor authentication and think we can all learn from the way Google does it. The issue: If a user has their password compromised it’s easy to convince them to authenticate a 2-factor request without doing anything that would set off a red flag. This is due to the specific way Duo does phone call authentication.| A Less Than Ideal Way To Do 2-factor