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Flux

@Flux@wandering.shop

Retired electron pusher. Whole atom mover now.

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hankg, to Humor

If you want proof that how people act on the internet is pretty much the same as it's ever been, back to ARPANET in 1984 no less... #humor #computer #RetroComputing

bradford-delong.com/2013/07/ho…

Flux,
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@hankg blowhards blow harder.

cstross, to random
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Wrt. Trump, all I can say is:

FOUR MORE YEARS! (In Prison!)

Flux,
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@cstross LOCK HIM UP!

Flux, to random
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I mean, what's the point of being a corrupt judge if you recuse yourself from the cases where you're using your corruption? Duh.

aral, to random
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That’s so weird… I know so many people who know so many good people who work there.

https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112525685484114107

#PeopleFarmers #BigTech #surveillance #capitalism

Flux,
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@aral it's highly likely that the tracking and use of the data is so fully automated that no person ever even thought "we should collect data on disabilities through the DMV site".
That doesn't excuse the ill-use, but can explain it. Automation leads to all sorts of perverse effects.

Flux, to woodworking
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I am undeterred. Last of three frames for the awning to go over the front of my timber-framed office/shed.#woodworking

A small cabin in the woods.

Flux, to woodworking
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Chopped this nice angled mortice in the wrong face(-palm).

mcdanlj, to random
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Had my first commit to FreeCAD merged today. Removing one stray character in a tooltip. 😀 About as trivial as possible...

Flux,
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@mcdanlj braver than I've been lately.

Flux, to random
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I really want physicians to stop claiming a description of the symptom is a diagnosis. I mean "arthritis". Yeah, we already know that.

Flux, to random
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Someone needs to remind me that this work is easier in bigger stock. This 1/4" fussiness is no good. But it's a collar and this little test grille is getting there.

Four scrolls in a frame. Many collars left to make.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Garrison Keillor is really strange to me career wise. He wrote exactly one outstanding novel - his first. Then ever after he wrote the same novel, only worse, and with more weird sex stuff. He also wrote very good (really!) poems early on, and then over time what he counts as poems is just aw-shucks Minnesota stuff. It's like he noped out of a lasting literary career for kitsch.

Flux,
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@ZachWeinersmith kitsch and a dependable income.

johnefrancis, (edited ) to random
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A fine Graham MacKay from Saturday...

I'm thinking PP's going to stick with the strategy:

  • blame vulnerable minorities for everything
  • say little to nothing in campaigns. Offer no solutions.
  • after the election, pivot to a Doug Ford style kleptocracy.

The "working class" supporters get nothing. They got nothing from Harper. They got nothing from Ford. They got not much from Trudeau.

Flux,
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@johnefrancis nothing? Pharmacare? Child care?
It's popular in the press to downplay these successes. Don't do PP's work for him!

scalzi, to random
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To be fair, it's easy to forget something that costs more than you were ever going to spend for it, to do things that your phone and/or laptop already do better

https://gizmodo.com/apple-vision-pro-already-forgotten-about-1851426564

Flux,
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@scalzi the social costs of wearing a blindfold remain too high.

Flux, to random
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Cut the tapers on this part, and just reached for it to test fit the pins that will go through the holes (to spin the part on the rotary table) and poof it has vanished into thin air. The shop isn't even a disaster area. I'm reduced to looking instead of remembering.
Vexed.
#machining #frustrated

Flux,
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Found. In the dumbest place (in the drawer of measurement tools).
Next setup done, radii cut.

Flux,
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@GustavinoBevilacqua mi fa piacere leggere le tue spiegazioni del mio lavoro. Riesco spesso a capire l'italiano scritto, ma è molto più difficile scrivere! soprattutto in ambito tecnico.

GottaLaff, to random
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Should I be posting dopey countdown posts to my move to BC?

Your choice.

Flux,
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@GottaLaff I'm here for it!

Flux, to random
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publishes the Fraser institute's "but the wealthy already pay almost all of the taxes!"
Of course the wealthy pay most of the taxes. When you have low income the tax bite cuts deeply into your ability to pay rent and feed your family. When you have high income you can pay much more without threat of homelessness or starvation.
That's the basis of progressive taxation.
If the FI wants the poor to pay a higher share they should back a flatter income distribution.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/wealthy-canadians-fair-share-taxes-1.7179031

RickiTarr, to random
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Chocolate Mousse is really just Chocolate Mayonnaise.

Flux,
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@RickiTarr and your point? Yum.

Flux, to Canada
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Raising capital gains taxes on the portion over 250k: A very nice move in the new budget. It's unreasonable that large incomes from capital gains have been taxed at half of the income from the sweat of the brow.

Flux,
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@johnefrancis I'd have to see some numbers there - this will only affect investments held outside of RSP and TFSA. How much of our working class has investments with $250k+ gains (not base value)? Planning these scales moves over a couple of years doesn't seem like a particular hardship.

GustavinoBevilacqua, to random Italian
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Come si rimettono a posto le superfici di macchine utensili costruite prima degli anni ’70, quando il corpo macchina doveva essere in ghisa molto pesante e duratura?

Con mooolta pazienza!

Questa operazione in italiano si chiama "raschiettatura", e credo che le persone che qui sanno ancora farla siano decisamente poche (io NON sono tra quelle).

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=REeGn4hN1Bg

Flux,
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@GustavinoBevilacqua la conoscenza è facile. La pazienza è molto difficile.
Ne ho fatto un po', qualche centimitri quadratti. Non ho la pazienza.

TomF, to random
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Ugh. I don't need glasses to see my desktop monitor, or anything further away, but I do need a set of glasses for reading books or my phone.

But I have discovered that trying to use a laptop, I either have to use it further away than I'd like so I have to use big text, or I have to wear my glasses and hunch over it to get my face closer. Both suck.

So instead I have bought a second set of weaker glasses, specifically for using the laptop.

Getting old is a pain in the arse.

Flux,
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@TomF I'm up to three sets now. Distance (for the woods), progressive, for the city, and progressive tuned for reading, monitors, and out to ~3 meters.
"Luxury" that I can afford them all.

davespice, to retrocomputing
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Dear friends, can you help me identify this bodge wire on IC4 that I found in this M5 PAL VA4 SEGA MegaDrive? Is it a factory-made mod or has someone been in here before me? Thanks in advance!

A close view of the SEGA motherboard showing a bodge wire added to the IC4 chip, a capacitor is connected inline with the bodge wire

Flux,
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@davespice looks for all the world like a decoupling capacitor. 51pf is tiny, so I'm guessing the factory discovered some power noise (from the crystal?) And fixed it. It's a tidy job.

snarkysteff, to random
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Was Easter Nietzsche’s favourite holiday, because God is dead?

Flux,
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@snarkysteff ouch.

Flux,
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@snarkysteff perhaps the more considered response would have been "groan". But yes :-)

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