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aphyr

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Switchy leatherman into bad puns, thick boys, and distributed systems. Purveyor of fine jockstrap selfies. Woof.group admin.

Jim Starkey: "Of interest only to third-rate academics a few papers short of a tenure package."

Reddit: "would never ever ever hire this degenerate holy shit"

Peter Watts: "The most innovative fanfic I've ever read."

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In the mirror timeline my trans girl counterpart is furiously pursuing her dream of living out the aesthetic splendor of a Heart music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE5GGMhmo-M#t=1m33s

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The problem with udm14* is that Google Calculator is legitimately one of my favorite pieces of software (the natural language unit conversion is so good), and I expect udm14 is going to kill Google Calculator because that's the point

Maybe I should just make my own js calculator with builtin unit conversion.

  • See https://mastodon.online/ ; it's great, although since similar "give me the old version" flags on YouTube have sometimes stopped working without warning, I wonder how long it will last
aphyr,
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@mcc You know I hadn't thought of that! I love and use wolfram alpha regularly, and actually one of the things that drives me nuts about it is that I seem to spend a lot of time fighting the NLP system--a query that works just fine in isolation is wildly reinterpreted when you start composing more complex questions, even with manual parens to aid parsing.

aphyr,
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@mcc maybe I should invest more time into learning alpha! I find I tend to hit a sort of... Complexity threshold where I just can't write the expression without the parser getting it wrong, so I open a dozen tabs for various subexpressions like "density of water" and copy-paste their results.

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tbqh I'd much rather bridgyfed were opt-out, rather than opt-in. Like I'm highly motivated to get this working, in control of both sides, and it's taken 3+ hours of futzing around to get any kind of bidirectional visibility working, in large part because of the opt-in mechanism.

aphyr,
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imagine an RSS reader but in order to subscribe to any feed you have to convince that feed's authors to go email the maintainers of the feed reader

aphyr, to random
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pre-malone traversal is this anything

aphyr,
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@gruff slow clap

aphyr, to random
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Built an @homeassistant button to cycle through fun color schemes in the living room and ooooh this was a good decision

I feel like every time I try something "simple" in HA like "make a button cycle through scenes" I wind up spending 3 hours in forums learning about templating and fifty kinds of nouns I didn't want to know about and screaming at YAML with completely unhelpful errors and untangling the mess with the help of 5 partially working forum posts, and then holy shit it's amazing

Purple to green
All reds

aphyr,
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@taber it's the ultimate in "accidentally backing your way into a terrible implementation of a lisp"

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Charli put up a pic of the note to the stylists that was taped to the mirrors in the dressing rooms for her new video

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aphyr,
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@taber honestly considering framing this above my mirror

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I firmly feel that you should be able to snap a photo of a car parked in a bike lane and receive a city permit to install a bike rack in the middle of their driveway

Schrockage, to Eurovision
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Late to the party here but the UK performance this year looks sponsored by Nasty Pig. I know it’s not but that performance was heavily inspired.

aphyr,
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@Schrockage @taber can we get a ruling here vis a vis the Icelandic death metal bondage twinks

aphyr, to random
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Remembered that balajis is still at it and hoo boy the early 2020s were definitely a time https://github.com/1729/content/issues/10

aphyr, to random
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I helped clean the clubhouse and now my back is tight and I don't want to clean my actual house 🫠

aphyr, to random
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Fun time to buy a Tesla, a car which is entirely dependent for long distance travel on Tesla's charging network, which was maintained by a five hundred person team Musk just fired in its entirety https://www.fastcompany.com/91116692/tesla-lay-offs-supercharger-team-evs-network-automakers-gm-ford

aphyr,
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Ah right you can get a CCS adapter for Teslas. I've never seen one at a CCS station, but maybe it's gonna be more of a thing going forward!

aphyr,
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@clawfire I don't care which standard we end up with but I would very much like for us all to pick one 🤣

aphyr, to random
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Made some progress on the sideboard assembly finally. Had this one on the back burner since the renovation started (laughs nervously) six months ago.

I was going to do a 2x2 frame because it's just half inch plywood, but I did some prototypes with GRK cabinet screws and found that I could actually get really strong joints with just direct screws alone. Trying them for the whole piece.

A countersunk GRK cabinet screw in plywood.
Plywood under assembly, using right angle clamps.
Completed front interior dividers.

aphyr,
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Speaker test (low frequency bass sweeps, listening for resonance) seems fine--some resonance of course but no rattling. Drilled the remaining holes, finished the undersides of the lids, and then spent three hours cursing while I tried to get them to line up again. Glued the front lid in place. This has to dry, then I can make the lid grooves, sand, clean, and finish the exterior.

Still gotta do the interior shelves... Sigh, I keep going back and forth on how those should work. Lips? No lips?

Painting glue on to the fixed lid segment
All assembled, with clamps

aphyr,
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No lips. Made little handles to lift the inner shelves--they won't support any real weight, so it's just a quick glue job with some scrap pine.

Gotta grind out little notches for charging cables at the edges of one shelf--think that's a job for a carefully held drill bit or Dremel. Then just a finishing pass on the shelves and exterior, being careful not to bleed over the edges, and then... done?

Glued and clamped

aphyr,
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The shelves look good!

Each shelf segment lifts up and out of the way to reveal deep storage for blankets and pillows
One shelf segment removed

aphyr,
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Sanded everything down, added notches to the lids with some careful ROS work, erased pencil marks, vacuumed, wiped with mineral spirits. Letting it dry now and taking a quick snooze break. Monocoat, then... I'm done? Tomorrow I should be putting little feet on this puppy and sliding it into place.

Using the ROS to make a thin notch in the edge of the lid
The notches, side by side, that let you lift up the lids
Wiping down the outside surfaces with mineral spirits to pick up dust before finishing

aphyr,
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Finishing work. Five hours of brushing Monocoat on and off. Using a tiny brush for the detail work, because there are a lot of two-tone panels. Then of course I fucked up by letting the lids close... Then trying to open them without touching the clean surfaces.... arrrgh.

Pine worked great. Birch plywood was... Irregular, even though I went over it with 120 grit. I had to let it sit for 30+ minutes rather than the usual 5-10 to get decent absorption.

Detail: the lid grooves are in a natural light finish, to suggest their interior
The whole wall side, finished in a mahogany monocoat
More detail work: carefully edging the lids without spilling

aphyr,
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In place. Inner shelves are still a tad tacky so I'm gonna give it a few days to dry before putting all the stuff in it.

Four of the five sections open to reveal 4.5" deep shallow storage. One (not shown) will have chargers for phones.
Three inner shelves lift to reveal deep storage and a hole which allows access to the wall socket.
Detail of the rearmost lid, with a speaker resting on it. The lid has a subtle notch hinting that you can raise it.

aphyr,
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I feel like it's rare that a piece gets to solve so many problems in a tight space, but wow this really came together nicely. This design:

  1. Fills the visual gap between sofa and wall
  2. Hides the recessed light strip along the wall
  3. Provides a place to set drinks and books
  4. Brings the surround speaker to the right height
  5. Storage for blankets and pillows
  6. Storage for trays and big books (the first spot in the house like this!)
  7. Storage for remotes etc.
  8. Offers phone charging!
aphyr,
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Did I mention it glows?

Detail of the glow, now in red
You can slide large flat objects, like serving trays, into the front
Oversized books on the right

aphyr, to random
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Put some wrapper CLI code around my little program I use to set my Hue lights to randomly generated color schemes. If you want to try it out, here!

https://github.com/aphyr/lights

aphyr,
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So I wrote this program for parties that generates color schemes and applies them to Philips Hue bulbs. I finally dug in and fixed all the color space transforms, added more sophisticated, colorful palette generation, and added support for gradient light strips. Results are pretty damn cool.

Yellows and purples
Greens, blues, reds
Yellow, blue, aqua

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