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NanoRaptor

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Australian. Print and pixel wrangler. She/her.

Currently in my Medicated ADHD era. Extremely tall, 100% taken.

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I don't like to make a constant huge deal of it because the world concentrates too much on numbers and the baggage around them, and constant running totals are probably bad all up, but this morning I hit a 30kg weight loss.

Left, September 2023. Right, today. Also yes I am fifty something and my mother bought me a bun hoodie.

A photo of a nanoraptor looking a little bit more nano and a little less raptor too. Also I'm wearing a pink bun hoodie.

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And a bonus pic - vanillabean may be a mini lop but apparently i am a maximum lop.

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@huwr Yes! My first collected piece of old Mac gear - if you've ever seen this photo floating around, it's of that PowerBook.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_500_series#/media/File:540c_open.jpg

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@bobthomson70 Gods, yes. I think hitting 51and starting to hurt all over was what prompted me to start, and I immediately cut my food intake down. Barely dropped any weight for the next eighteen months, but getting older, hitting 52 and feeling way better than the year before helped me keep at it. Then it all began to pay off at the beginning of this year.

I move through space in a completely different way not hurting, and that's the biggie.

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@marksibly If it helps, I dropped 2kg to a plateau when I began in July 2022, and then sat there until Jan 2024. It took that long to just swan-dive down.

I felt better in general before then, but at the point the kgs came off my knees added to the feel-good bits :)

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@Unixbigot I am so angry at myself that I did not think of that myself. Thank you that is so good!

NanoRaptor, to random
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Most people on earth can’t remember anything before 1997.

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(Considering median age on earth is about 31 and most people don’t remember much at all before age 3)

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@ricci cos I’m doing it to myself as punishment. (And we’re probably about the same era)

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@joncruz ooooh yeah that’s a good one!

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@RL_Dane @joncruz I lament the constant erosion of true system-wide drag & drop. When you could drop almost any object from one app to another; lines of text to browser or image to chat window, or chart from a PDF into a spreadsheet - then the next generation comes along and sees drag and drop as nothing more than filesystem window to filesystem window.

It comes back, then goes away again, then back, and disappears. Always rediscovering why, with clumsy breaks in between.

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This Machine Kills AI

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Moon.

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Ceramics class! (The last day for wet clay)

I trimmed my Big Deep Porcelain Bowl and sent it for bisque firing

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@MLE_online There's something about the texture of all hand-made things that rests my eyes so comfortably, but this one so much more than most. The outer scrapes, and those ordered/disordered chaffs around the base... goodness it's nice.

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Has anyone written about how textual generative AI feels strangely close to toxic masculinity in some respects? The absolute confidence in everything stated, the lack of understanding of the consequences of getting that confidence wrong for important questions, the semi-gaslighty feeling when it “corrects” itself when you call it out on something. It so often feels like talking to someone one would despise and avoid in “real life.” I’m curious if anyone did some writing on this.

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@mwichary Gods yes! I was telling a friend only in the last month it sounds like a sales guy I used to know who would overconfidently state a wrong thing and I'd just have to bring in that one fact that showed it up "oh! of course of course yes, sorry about that, anyway <another wrong thing>"

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What are some numbers in your field that anyone else in the field would identify without even thinking about it, but folk outside may have no idea. Just the numbers, no explanations. Yet.

105 148 210 297 420 594 841 1189

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@siracusa those of us of an era :)

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@macgnys 605 610 630 650 660 700 800 840 900 950

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@kevinbhayes @macgnys I have owned many of those and still do and ... I had not realised how many.

May you recover well, and soon.

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Oh trout, why did I doubt you. Old reliable got me to work smoothly, effortlessly, without drama. I love you so and have something special planned at lunch.

I even played my break-up album, the one I can only play and enjoy when I've ended a relationship AND IT WAS GOOD.

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Charging my phone so I can go outside and take a video of the Ghia as I pour five litres of mower fuel into it and light it.

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@uliwitness Ford Fairmont Ghia - 1999. A bit more mundane than the other kind.

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@uliwitness Here, the Falcons & Fairmonts are about the same, spare parts EVERYWHERE - and they were easy to keep firing at it for a while - until they too kept failing in the same unique ways.

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@lusrangifer Gods yeah. This smells so bad from overheating transmission if it burnt nobody in the street would think it anything odd.

I suspect an electrical issue now, really. It did have mice in it when it was a farm car - its main issue is it pulls forward hard when stopped at lights, in drive. Still idles at the right RPM, but it's like the transmission is always fully in gear. despite multiple replacements, including torque converters.

Something electrical telling it it's moving, perhaps

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@Sonikku I had the chance when it broke down in a questionable area just a month ago! stupid me got someone to fix it again didn't I?

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