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benetherington

@benetherington@spacey.space

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vwbusguy, to random
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In the line to Rise of the Resistance with my son now and I'm not sure which of us is more excited to go on it.

benetherington,
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@vwbusguy it’s sooo good! Enjoy!

LoneLocust, to cycling
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I am now officially the owner of an old man’s bike seat. #BikeTooter #SpongyWonder

benetherington,
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@LoneLocust repurposing platform flip-flops again, I see?

Binder, to random
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Okay, yea, I can see the resemblance, now that you say it.

benetherington,
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@Binder but fr those are amazing. Easy to peel, sweet and tangy.

futurebird, to random
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I'm getting really in to the idea of deepening student's understanding of mathematical algorithms through programing.

Just did a lesson where we wrote a program in python on their calculators to simplify square roots. Here is how I broke it down.

They made:

  • program to list divisors of a number
  • program to list prime factors of a number
  • program to simplify roots

When you teach about control structures like while loops young it comes to them so easily!

benetherington,
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@futurebird my big learning hurdle was learning how to read documentation, and learning how important and powerful documentation can be. Out of curiosity, do you include those skills? If not, how early do you think you could reasonably introduce those skills?

acdha, to random
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    benetherington,
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    @acdha I don’t think this is as stealthy as it sounds. I think it’s a clever way to image/process reflections, and that the camera isn’t invisible, just not near the screen. One red flag that this article is off base is that this is a camera technology by a lens company, but the article is filled with depictions of transparent display technologies instead.

    futurebird, to animals
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    Pica taps me on my shoulder to remind me of my responsibilities (to feed her)

    benetherington,
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    @futurebird That's a nice sweater you got. Shame if anything happened to it...

    cats are essential study material for gangster roles.

    chiefgyk3d, to random
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    I’m going to try and hunt down an Apple Watch Series 9 today before they get pulled from shelves. I really want the blood oxygen and EKG sensors and I’m coming from an Apple Watch Series 3 with no issues just a pure upgrade.

    benetherington,
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    @chiefgyk3d if you don’t manage, the series 8 also has a blood ox sensor and EKG. They work well, and I don’t think they changed going up to Series 9.

    65dBnoise, (edited ) to space
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    As noted earlier, 's announcements of 's flights are not something to be proud of.

    Now even "Airfield: Same" seems to be void of meaning, unless the whole of Neretva Vallis is considered to be one big airfield.

    C'mon , you can do a better job with the quality of your announcements. The world is watching.

    Some hints:
    • Give timezones along with dates
    • Give Sol of flight. Finding it is not trivial
    • Remove decimal digits from distances and durations

    benetherington,
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    @65dBnoise the sols are actually really easy to find, unless you’re talking about future flights. https://mars.nasa.gov/technology/helicopter/#Flight-Log

    mcc, to random
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    So I run this Node program on Windows 10. It every so often prints console.logs so I can keep up on its progress.
    At a certain point, it just exits. It doesn't print an error or an exception or anything. The node process just terminates.

    Under what circumstances might this happen?

    Could this happen if it runs out of RAM?

    benetherington,
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    @mcc @jcoglan off topic, but Promise.allSettled() might save you a headache with that many promises.

    moira, (edited ) to 3DPrinting
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    i decided to try a vacuum hose attachment on the sander

    this kind of design is kind of hard in tinkercad but i think it’s okay

    eta: nobody will ever need this but here it is if you have a ... who even knows how old electric palm sander - https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6355952

    benetherington,
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    @moira it’s hard in “real” CAD software too. Looks great!

    benetherington,
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    @moira I should dig out my printed palm sander adapter. It looks pretty similar. Gotta go chunky, especially with PLA. The #1 issue is the contact surfaces wearing and becoming too smooth for a friction fit, but that’s better than it cracking.

    Smootasaurus, to random
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    Definitely not bragging, but I think I found an error in my tissue engineering textbook.

    In the image are 2 pages from the book where the oxygen solubility constant is assigned the variable K, and I get that the number can change based on environmental conditions. But I don't think the unit of measure is supposed to change like this. Only found it cuz my math is wrong using the units on the right and it's taken me 2 days to catch this.

    benetherington,
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    @Smootasaurus poorly written, but not an error. Those units are equivalent. The M in M/mm Hg is a molarity unit, equal to umol/L. Its bad to use equivalent units interchangeably without explanation or reason, as you just found out.

    benetherington,
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    @Smootasaurus you can go from umol/L to mMol/mL if it makes things clearer, sure. Just remember that you’re multiplying by 10/10 = 0.1/0.1 = 1. 🙂

    futurebird, to random
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    My transit app has a silly competition where you compete for bus and train points by riding various lines. And maybe it isn’t so silly because I’m obsessed with it. I’m in 4th place! I’m taking all these losers down!!

    I wish there was a way to “reserve” a ride and let the drivers know how many people might be at each stop. But that would mean investing more in the public app. (a reserve system could use reliable riders to amplify system delay notifications— and have fun games)

    benetherington,
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    @futurebird this is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen. I love municipal (transit) joy!

    Ninji, to random
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    I want to commend BRGR (local burger place) for their continued commitment to crimes against food which I am still inexplicably supporting with my money

    After School BRGR - “Smashed beef patty, American cheese, golden crispy potato waffle and Heinz beanz with ketchup on a brioche bun”, £8.00
    Loaded Curly Fries - “Seasoned curly fries topped with Kraft red box cheesey pasta”, £4.50

    benetherington,
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    @Ninji bizarre. Here’s a place in my small town, URBN, with the same energy, only even more American. Yes, that’s a milkshake with a doughnut on top.

    foone, to random
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    I'm really happy with the unity update. No, it's not what they should have done, but the "new fees don't kick in until you update past 2023 versions" part means that hopefully we're not going to see a bunch of existing games get unpublished

    benetherington,
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    @foone that is good news, thank you!

    anathema_device, to random
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    Wait, what?

    Why don’t Americans put butter on their sandwiches? | Food | The Guardian

    https://www.theguardian.com/food/commentisfree/2023/sep/20/why-dont-americans-put-butter-on-their-sandwiches

    benetherington,
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    @anathema_device yall, we put butter on everything and catch flack for it so maybe calling us out for one place we don’t use it isn’t the best friendship behavior. For real though a cucumber sandwich is 😙👌

    benetherington,
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    @anathema_device haha to be fair, mayo is a sometimes food. It is never a substitute, and neither is American butter. With that said, if you like grilled cheese sandwiches, try spreading mayo on the outside instead of grilling it in butter.

    futurebird, to random
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    Thinking about judges wigs and other trappings of power.

    Apparently in Poland when they have legal court everyone wears robes: different colors for attorneys and the judge etc.

    Of course in the UK judges still wear wigs which US judges are free to wear too, but simply don't.

    On the US Supreme court it's just black robes-- Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, and Stephen Breyer have all tried to make skull caps happen but no one else cared.

    US Supreme Court justices only some of them bother with the skull cap.

    benetherington,
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    @futurebird I’m steeling myself for the disappointment that you uploaded the wrong photo, but which judges wore Edwardian ridicu-dresses?!

    Meyerweb, to random
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    You know how you have that thing you hang onto because you never know, you might need it some day, so it just sits around cluttering up the house and uselessly getting in the way for years and years? I finally threw mine away a few months ago.

    Guess what I need right now.

    benetherington,
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    @Meyerweb haha I love this joke. “That thing,” “it,” “get rid of!” Brilliant.

    bkardell, to random
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    Out of curiosity: Is there anyone using shadow dom on plain divs or something? That is, using it on something besides a custom element?

    benetherington,
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    @bkardell I heavily rely on document fragments for on-the-page templating. I’d use a shadow dom to avoid css collisions, but I need enough control that I’d more or less have to go into the custom element business, and my work is much more lightweight than that.

    paulrickards, to random
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    Anyone have experience with JLCPCB? I ordered this Lisa motherboard expansion card board and they want to charge me more because it's 3 different boards, even though they're all connected. Does this seem right?

    benetherington,
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    @paulrickards it’s a pretty common policy for low volume board houses. AllPCB at least used to do one free board a month if that helps!

    slothrop, to random
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    @slothrop FreeCAD is pretty good! I switched to onshape as it has better support for assemblies and importing parts from other projects.

    futurebird, to random
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    "Centipede! How do you survive?"
    "I run swiftly on many legs! I am grace! Behold my venomous bite!"

    "Fruit fly! How do you survive?"
    "I fly through the air! I'm small & hard to catch!"

    "Ant! How do you survive?"
    "I am a part of a vast network! My sisters back me up!"

    "Dubia roach! How do you survive?"
    "..."
    "..."
    "Oh hai!"
    "Survival?"

    1/2

    benetherington,
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    @futurebird More like dubious roach amirightoramiright 😎😎😎

    cloudguy, to random

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    @cloudguy okay, ten minutes of googling hasn’t found the answer. What in the world are the cubic toppings on the far right?

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