I've always wondered this. Does anyone know what makes the sound in electric motors, like the low whirring sound of a fan when you turn it on? As I understand it the electricity goes through the coiled wires and creates electromagnetism, which causes the motion. So does the sound come from the electricity moving through the wires, or by the vibration of the magnets or something? Can someone good with electronics jump in and let me know?
I think i'm on the cusp of re-building my website. The look will be the same and it will still use #11ty, however I've duct-taped so many things on top of each other it's hard to expand on.
Is there a good start with all the modern goodness (webmentions, SEO, social images etc) built in?
Does the human body lose "immunity" to germs/etc without exposure to them? E.g. if you've been more isolated (as we have been during the pandemic), are you more likely to get sick from being exposed to other peoples "germs"?
(I suppose I should probably do some lookup on my own first before asking 😅 #lazyWeb )
I need some software for creating diagrams where I can have nice arrows like in this image. Something that runs on Ubuntu, open source. Do I just need to get better at Inkscape? Thanks #lazyweb
So, #lazyWeb - I have some work travel next week, and realized I likely would like to protect myself from hotel wifi. Recommendations for a reputable VPN? Willing to set something up on a cloud VM if needed.
Having a #lazyweb moment, does anyone have any examples of artists showing their work off side by side with AI ripoffs of their stuff that looks eerily familiar?
Does anyone know of a tool that will go through all of the accounts you follow and discover their RSS feeds from sites linked in their bios? I remember there being something like that for Twitter, waaayy-back-when (so, like, 2017 or something) #lazyweb
#rstats#lazyweb I want to tell my students to convert human-friendly column names ("Weekly Rate") into computer-friendly names (weekly_rate), but think they should also maintain the human-friendly names as attributes. I know there's Hmisc::label(); does anyone have other suggestions for R packages/frameworks supporting this kind of functionality? (I've also occasionally found that Hmisc::labels() attributes will cause odd errors, although of course I don't have a reprex right now ...)
Man, Postman is really obnoxious these days. Any recommendations for which of the many alternatives are any good? Ideally open source, no cloud bollocks, and if it could import an existing Postman collection that would be a bonus. Going to give Bruno a go. #lazyweb#api
OK, I am going to pull a #lazyweb move and ask everyone: What is your favorite side with a salmon dish? My partner picked up some really fancy butter and I am going to cook a Dijon herb butter baked salmon, probably with a salad using Parmesan and lemon dressing. I feel like it needs a starch or something though.
@bkardell does #igalia do any training or have/know any good resources to support people/teams contributing to browser implementations for the first time?
@bkardell In true #lazyWeb form, I have not spent that much time investigating this, but I did just find this resource (that it looks like you were interviewed for 🤯) from #bocoup that I need to dig into: https://wpc.guide/
#LazyWeb: I'm trying to find a white paper? from 1-2 years ago that was arguing for a third classification in Australian universities - to add a specific research software engineering category, because professional/general and academic pathways don't account for specialist software engineering skills.
It's not the #ARDC survey report, but is possibly in a similar space?
#lazyweb does anyone know how to get the list of logged in users and which terminals they're using in Go? Basically looking for the output of w or who, on MacOS specifically.
my VPS provider #domainfactory shuts down its #JiffyBox product end of May, so the machine I have since 2007 will be gone soon and I have to look for an alternative. Any recommendations?
My priorities are these:
chances of the new provider shutting down my machine in the next years is extremely low
I can install Arch GNU/Linux because I'm used to it and low maintenance time is key
enough CPU power & RAM that compiling normal-sized projects is feasible (i.e., compiling #emacs is a must but compiling #firefox is not)
What's the easiest way of drawing pixels on the screen interactively using rust? A quick search reveals a lot of different crates and not knowing almost anything about the language it's very hard for me to judge the relative merits of each one.
I am still looking to buy "simple" #NFC cards that support at least 32 kB (that's kilobyte, not kilobit) as NDEF. So a simple NFC Forum Type 4 chip on a card. The only source I can find ATM is https://identbase.de/rfid-karte-nxp-mifare-desfire-ev2-32k-idb-tech-card-08594.html?pn=24 So dear #lazyweb — anyone know of other sources where I can buy, say, 10 of them and get them ideally in the next few days? And maybe even with something else than a NXP chip? Thx!