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davidr

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Heinlein is problematic for a lot of reasons, but I've always been inspired by this:

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."

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b0rk, to random
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what helps people get comfortable on the command line? https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/08/what-helps-people-get-comfortable-on-the-command-line-/

Would love more stories of things that helped you in the last ~5 years!

(as usual, no need to reply if you don’t remember, or if you’ve been using the command line comfortably for 15 years — this question isn’t for you :) )

davidr,
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@b0rk I've had so little luck with "please, I am B E G G I N G you not to just google this for me" warnings.

davidr,
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@b0rk Would love a Pocket Guide To Squashing Reply Guys...

nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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Question: Do you think search engines such as @duckduckgo, @google, @Bing, @brave and others should filter out spam generated by LLM that pollutes search results? Please boost for reach. TIA.

davidr,
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@nixCraft @duckduckgo @google @Bing @brave Search engines should only return results where the source material has a citation attached (and the citation exists).

Change my mind.

thor, to ADHD
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has anyone with had any luck whatsoever finding hobbies - solitary or sociable - that they never seem to grow tired of and can spend endless hours on?

davidr,
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@thor The magic is not the particular job or hobby. The magic is understanding that you have to be interested to function....and that's OK.

Why would you need a hobby that you never grow tired of? I actively enjoy the process of starting a new one and understanding the field.

hl, to haskell
@hl@social.lol avatar

but programming language names:
Ghost in the
Is For Heros
In The Name Of The
Schindler's
Star Wars: The Awakens
Manchester By the #C
The Truman
Bringing Up
Anyone get any other good ideas?

davidr,
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@hl Max and ( and Max)

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davidr,
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@Kellyshenanigans @actuallyautistic These things can be expensive, so I went to Consumer Reports.

All the top-rated ones are $250-$500 except one that was $60(!!). ("Soundcore Anker Life Q20")

I've only used them a few hours, but I love them so far.

davidr, to castiron
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Is there, like, peer-reviewed seasoning instructions out there? Science-based?

I'm sick of "this is what my grandfather taught me" or "I've always found that" info. I want F A C T S.

This is "making clear ice", "guaranteed peelable hardboiled eggs" or "how to stop hiccups" all over again.

(In all seriousness, if you @ me with anecdata, I will block you.)

davidr,
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car battery charger (on manual mode) shows that setup is pulling 7.7 amps at almost 13 volts.

video of electrolysis in action, showing bubbles rising from submerged skillet

davidr,
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sacrificial positive electrode is a piece of steel with a wire that will extend up out of the water for an electrical connection
skillet hanging in empty rubbermaid bin ready to be electrocuted

davidr,
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Absent a scientific consensus on seasoning, I sampled a whole bunch of sources and picked out the common themes

  1. clean surface
  2. very thin layer of oil
  3. heat
  4. goto 2 at least once

The thin layer was surprisingly stressed (directly or indirectly ["upside down to let any extra run out", etc]) by a lot of sources.

The temperature was surprisingly unstressed.

So I'm assembling an tank to 100% strip a pan and boot one up to a good state as an experiment.

davidr,
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Much of the precipitate(?) ends up on the electrodes (including the skillet). At 4h, I pulled it out to take a look and brush these clean for renewed efficiency.

mfw seasoning instructions are under the crust

The inside is noticeably less stripped. I'm guessing the anode on that side is less efficient + the distance is farther due to the concave shape. I rotated the pan for round 2.

backside of the cast iron pan has been cleaned about 90%

Lifting a cast iron skillet from an electrolysis tank to reveal ancient ick congealed on it

davidr,
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@hl Oh Right I've Been Meaning To Get Back To That

davidr,
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20 minutes later. Also, now pulling around 6.5 amps at 7 volts. It's working!

rusty, bubbling water where there used to be a skillet visible

inherentlee, to random

I CAN HEAR TINY PEEPS COMING FROM THE BIRDHOUSE

davidr,
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@inherentlee A couple years ago we looked out the window and saw baby raccoons. Living in a hollow tree. 20 feet off the ground.

This stuff only happens in Disney movies.

futurebird, to random
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Enter a bank.
Put a golf shirt in the money tray.
Walk out of the bank with the money tray!

Free money! No crime! Amazing!

davidr,
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@futurebird And then the bank asked you for the money back for 1.5 years but you just didn't get around to it.

hypolite, (edited ) to ADHD

Yesterday my partner told me I should use the day to rest, and I realized I’m physically unable to rest unless I actually lie down and sleep, which I ended up doing twice during the day. Otherwise my mind is racing and I have stuff to do or an obsession to chase. I assume it may be related to my suspected .

davidr,
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@hypolite Yep, this was a big clue to me as well. And not just always having to be doing something. Also a continuous feeling of u r g e n c y that also manifested as speeding and passing cars even when I was going to be early anyway.

On meds, that feeling went away. I literally drive slower. And I can just sit in a chair and look out the window if I want.

Axonite, to webcomics

A terrible simulation of reality, or...? http://www.stationv3.com/d3/20230629.html

davidr,
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@Axonite

petealexharris, to random
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Everything I hear about that tourist submarine convinces me more of two things:

  1. The sea is always ready to kill you and definitely will if you get careless.

  2. Having a lot of money is not a reliable indicator of intelligence.

davidr,
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@petealexharris 3. Every techno-libertarian who says that we should thin the gene pool by removing safety regulations should be allowed to do so but only for themselves.

davidr, to PetBirds
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I installed a feeder. I thought these things were unhealthy, but the gods of say go ahead

https://www.audubon.org/news/how-make-hummingbird-nectar

Anyway, we've had 4-5 sightings from two different people, so I think it's working.

davidr,
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got eem

video/mp4

JaniceOCG, to random
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A profound statment from "History instead is going to ask, how did America get to the point where such a person could be elected to the presidency of the United States?"
Indeed.
@GOPTraitorstoDemocracy

davidr,
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@JaniceOCG Failing to indict Nixon, Reagan and Bush were probably not unrelated.

davidr, to random
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I've got two recent grads in my group under my de facto...mentorship? Command?

They are both very smart. One is very confident he can do things but is less effective, one is less confident and more effective.

I'm very unused to constructive criticism and other skills so I'm not sure how to turn down the confidence and turn up the effectiveness.

I mean, I know what to do. "Test. Be skeptical of your own work/ideas."

I don't know how to say that.

davidr,
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I think the confident/ineffective one is more theoretically trained and I'm more practically focused. Maybe he'd do better in a research setting

(Or maybe not, since he already doesn't really check his work)

This code he's written is too slow by at least two orders of magnitude and I personally would aim for 10^3 faster. Do I make him fix it? Just use it as-is anyway? Fix it myself?

davidr,
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Welp. Got my 100x back at least.

By fixing a bug in his code where he used the wrong variable name in a timestep.

Sure, anyone can have a bug. But this bug would be wasting him ~30m per test (vs ~10s) and should have been found first thing.

Is there an emoji for "more disappointed/exasperated than angry"?

kusuriya, to ADHD

I wish everyone would normalize 5 minute notifications on their meeting invites. 15 minutes is far too long, it busts me out of what I was working on, and leaves me with too much time to refocus and not enough time to do pre-work if that was your aim. so I basically lose 10 minutes every meeting that uses a 15 minute alert.
Outlook seems to have no great way to let me forcibly rewrite the alert windows. Its a real struggle to get any work done honestly because of it, and the fact I have 100,000 meetings a day being the only hard AppSec person on the team.

Suggestions welcome if someone happens to know how to make outlook or web outlook do it.

davidr,
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@kusuriya One of my meeting organizers puts the reminder at 8 hours. No clue why he thinks that's useful.

davidr, to Engineering
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Been aiming towards a technical accomplishment for months that isn't on any statement-of-work. Getting mostly polite nods and agreements from coworkers.

Yesterday I got it working. Nodders were suddenly excited. "Hey, this is giving me ideas!"

No kidding.

Even in an R&D context, too many are project-focused instead of tool-focused. It isn't about delivering a result, it's about ending up with a capability!

#engineering #software #space #radar

davidr,
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Given the motto of the university I work for, it's very frustrating that the and the operators barely talk to each other.

The engs don't know what problems need solving, even when working on something adjacent. The ops don't know what the engs are on about and don't have time to learn.

Success here is mostly just showing up to meetings on both sides and being a conduit. A catalyst.

"I think they are building a tool like this. Let me see if I can make it work for you" == a 10% raise

davidr, to random
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Flying "business class" (i.e. American first class) on and this is my first time in a lounge.

wtf, over.

Why can rich people have all-you-can-eat buffet and custom catering for FREE and poor kids can't have school lunches?

davidr, to random
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If Putin and divorce, who gets custody of the kids (Trump, Carlson, Jones, Vance, etc)?

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