@jejb We actually got a generator last time. Not the whole house kind. I used it for one day, and decided “never again”. The noise is not worth it.

I think I might buy a bigger battery, though. And I definitely will make the gas furnace have a switch between hardwired and “look, here’s a plug for a battery”.

@arisu I’m definitely starting to feel like trees are overrated.

It’s raining possibly subfreezing water, the trees (and ground) is cold, and it’s just at or below freezing. End result: trees with lots of ice on them. It’s actually very pretty.

But the branches suddenly weigh a lot more, and probably also catch more wind without being as flexible, so gravity and wind will do their thing.

Parking lots are pretty in their own way too.

I bet that when Joni Mitchell wrote Big Yellow Taxi, she hadn’t been through an ice storm.

@brauner Yup. Back on my laptop and the big battery pack.

Well that didn’t last long.

Do I reset my staycation counter to day one, or do I keep this at day six?

@axboe probably just regular Sunday release. I already merged half the pull requests I still had pending yesterday on battery power.

Of course, some people then started sending late pull requests, but that’s on them.

.. and ten minutes after posting that, power and internet are back up.

RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/ff709e97-12f1-49d3-9d3c-c57e914f3e52

Staycation: day six.

To nobody’s surprise, power didn’t come back yesterday, but neighbors report that the tree across the power lines has been cut up. So hopefully the electrical crew can come in and fix the power line.

Of course, there may be other issues lurking. We lost power at 5am Saturday morning, and apparently the tree fell a few hours after that. So now there are conflicting theories about where our power is actually fed from.

Presumably somebody at PGE knows, but they aren’t telling.

Once again - there is a pattern emerging - PGE reports that our otage will surely be fixed by 10pm today. And there are now sufficiently few outstanding outages reported that our little area with only 174 customers affected might actually merit some attention.

In the meantime, while temperatures might dip just below freezing again, it won’t be bad enough to freeze any pipes again, so while the kitchen is at a balmy 8°C, I don’t feel worried about the house freezing.

So I’ll continue the merge window on battery power.

@tommythorn Well insulated? I wish. Old leaky house. “It has character”

Staycation: day five.

Power still off, but outside is warming up. So now it’s a big ice rink outside with people playing bumper cars with the real things.

Not interested in partaking in that particular contact sport, and as a result I’m still not leaving the house even if the worry about frozen pipes is fading.

Instead trying to see how far I can get on the remaining merge window pulls on just battery power. Not very far I bet, but at least something.

PGE claims power back tonight. Of course, they did that yesterday too…

@Vincent392 that tree is in the middle of a road that isn’t very central. There were hundreds of trees down on much more important roads, I’m afraid.

Even in our immediate neighborhood, you could just drive the other way and get out. So the road being blocked is a relatively minor inconvenience.

The electricity being out and our house being rather cold is the bigger inconvenience. But there were 150k PGE customers without electricity, and sadly me being inconvenienced was apparently not the priority to PGE that it clearly should have been.

When I’m elected Grand Poobah, there will be some changes around here.

@wolf480pl in our immediate neighborhood the power lines are all underground. But the power comes through these feeder lines that are all above ground.

We used to have fairly regular short outages every winter as smaller branches fell on lines and shorted things out. The lines have gotten replaced and are all “branch safe” these days, and our power is actually very reliable now.

But “branch safe” is not “huge #$!?& tree safe”. So now we have these big outages when things really go south.

The reason why it’s taking so long is mostly that we’re in a fairly sparsely populated area on the outskirts of town. So not only do we have a lot of these big trees around, PGE also always ends up prioritizing the areas with many more customers affected.

But it doesn’t help that this really is a pretty massive tree, and it has also fallen in a way that makes it hard to remove, with the middle unsupported.

One of our neighbors has a brother that is a logger, and he apparently thought you might want two trucks to get it out: one to support the tree while the other cuts it from above.

Me not being a logger just nodded wisely.

RE: https://social.kernel.org/objects/98d5c1fa-1f94-452d-868c-f49b6f250579

Day four of no power and no Internet. This big tree is the reason. One among hundreds in the area, but this is the one that took out *our* power and Internet.

PGE (Portland General Electric) claims we should get power back by 10pm today, but the ice storm arrives today, so we'll see.

Edit: well, it looks like PGE fixed the outage by just removing me from the outage database, not by actually reconnecting power. That was the second time that happened, so I re-re-reported the outage. Not that I was hugely optimistic about the 10pm timeframe, but it looks even less likely now.

@tommythorn or, you know, just make the architecture two-operand for integer instructions where the destructive write isn’t a big deal. That’s several bits for everything right there, not just immediates.

The same people who hate on two-operand architectures (“oh, no, destructive source”) often then think FORTH is cool. Strange.

(And yes, FORTH is cool. I’m just saying that there is a mental disconnect with the whole destructive source thing. The occasional “mov” instruction is no worse than a “dup” or “over”)

@retros a white and pasty one

We have some kind of super-mole infestation in our front yard.

The mole people have been here weekly for the last two months, and have caught at least two moles (“they are solitary creatures, and territorial, so you probably only have one”), but today they apparently admitted defeat.

I think I can hear the mole giggling.

You win, mole. You win.

@llvm Note that you can also just use “git apply -R” instead.

The “git show -R” form is useful if you want to look at what the patch looks like reversed before applying it, which is why I tend to do it that way. I’m just more used to seeing patches as “this is what I will do” rather than “this is what I will now reverse”.

@x0 It comes from a commit that was top-of-tree for a while:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c192ac7357683f78c2e6d6e75adfcc29deb8c4ae