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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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davidr, to IBM
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Big anniversary! What should I get her?

I know! Nobody ever got divorced for buying

davidr, to guitar
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Having a heck of a time figuring out what chord is playing here. The intro is G Em Am D. "although she will concede" looks like a C. "the cold rather gets to her knees" is ???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPRxSi79scA

Ultimate Guitar thinks the C is Am (by ear maybe, by eye no way) but worse thinks the unknown chord is a D7. That's definitely wrong both by ear and eye.

CatherineFlick, to random
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Look I’d love to get a new - I love playing with this sort of tech. I have a few older ones kicking around still too! But I won’t be buying one because I don’t like to support a company that belittles people for taking an ethical stance against hiring known surveillance police to help support that particular market. It was dismissive, exclusionary, and pushing minority groups out of making spaces. And they still don’t think they’ve done anything wrong.

davidr,
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@jsbilsbrough @CatherineFlick I'm definitely not torn--I'm no longer buying There are lots of alternatives that can do the same thing for cheaper anyway. This issue just forced me to search for them.

preslavrachev, to programming
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They: Our business requirements have grown so much that we needed to move from a monolith to microservices.

Me: OK, at least, you didn’t overkill it right from the start.

They: Cool, right? It’s called iterative development.

Me: Just one question, have you considered not growing the business instead?

They: ?!?

Me: I mean it - keeping a sustainable business, so that your team and your customers get the maximum value and satisfaction without feeling stressed or undervalued.

davidr,
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@preslavrachev Growth being the only success metric is literally a cancer.

christianp, to random
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Can anyone help with this error I've been getting since upgrading mathstodon.xyz to 4.2?
In Firefox, I get an error "downloadable font: rejected by sanitizer" when downloading https://mathstodon.xyz/packs/media/fonts/Sans/cmunss-0745961ddcecad8aa4fd00b9e39cce11.woff.
The Network tab says only 948B were transferred; the file is 77KB on disk. Because it's a font, Firefox won't show me the received raw data in the Response tab.
When I redo the request as a curl command, I get the whole file. I didn't change the nginx config when upgrading, and other woff fonts have loaded.
The font loads OK in Chrome.
I'm at a loss!

davidr,
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@christianp I feel like some tags might help you find help

mathowie, to random
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me in my head while reading job descriptions over the years

2015: please don't say fintech anywhere please no fintech
2017: please don't say crypto anywhere please no crypto
2019: please don't say chatbot anywhere please no chatbot
2021: please don't say nft please no nft
2023: please don't say ai anywhere please no ai

davidr,
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@lewiscowles1986 @MrMattFree @mathowie I honestly can't tell if you think you are defending or dissing fintech right now.

davidr, to ADHD
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takes on

** input works great! **

I like saying "set a 10 minute timer", "remind me at noon on Tuesday" or "play Song X" because I can do it NOW without have to fumble through my phone or clean my hands if I'm cooking

** output does not work well **

Alexa, what's the weather?

Today's forecast is already stopped listening

Ugh. ALEXA. What's the weather?

Today's foregone

A L E X A what is the high temperature today?

67

That's all I need!

davidr,
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@cytokine_storm I've actually been banned from setting reminders. Because I set the reminder and then forget all about it so I'm not even in the room, or even the house, when it goes off. So then the wife/kids have to shut it down and contact me.

renice, to random
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every once in a while I get asked if I like, take a lot of classes or something. and the answer is something like, I'm so busy solving so many problems at once, that I have become an embodied information nexus entwined with the system and usually at that point they ghost

davidr,
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@recursive @renice After typing and retyping in this box I find I am overflowing with more thoughts and feelings about this (and corollaries) that I am not able to express them in any linear way.

In short: ^This.

davidr, to music
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So....first of all, they still sell Official Sheet of popular songs. I bet it's a huge business for tribute and cover and school jazz bands, etc, but it's still funny to me

And second of all the "official" sheet music is in at least one case in a different key than the release itself.

why. why would you do that.

Ride by Twenty One Pilots (yes, I'm going to attempt to make and play my own lead sheet based on this) is F# on the radio but F on paper.

davidr,
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@eyesquash I'm 100% guessing here, but I bet F# fits their vocal range better. And I bet they have their instruments tuned up a semitone. (Watching the live performances, he seems to be playing an F fingering.) So maybe the sheet music is what they practiced to, but they didn't write the alternate tuning on there (or did and I missed it).

daria, to python

Folks, if you could suggest improvements to the documentation, what would it be? Improved ToC? More examples? Different structure?

davidr,
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@daria Simply better explanations.

I only ever use the to look up specific facts, like constants or string format codes. If I need to understand something I look for a tutorial elsewhere.

The docs, like a lot of technical articles, value accuracy and precision over clarity and understanding.

First make me understand the mental model. Then tweak the specifics. Don't start with the details.

davidr,
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@diazona @daria Yes, 100% agree. In fact, I'm not sure I'd change the python docs--references need to exist.

I've already made the change on my end. When I have a use-case-based question, I look for a stack overflow post.

But if the question is "how can docs be better" maybe add one of the other three types: https://www.writethedocs.org/videos/eu/2017/the-four-kinds-of-documentation-and-why-you-need-to-understand-what-they-are-daniele-procida/

catsalad, to hacking

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    davidr,
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    @catsalad it's certainly what hacking feels like

    boozyANDsour, to cocktails

    Tonight's is the great

    22,5ml gin Aiteal
    22,5ml lemon juice
    22,5ml Cointreau
    22,5ml Cap Corse grande reserve quinquina blanc

    Shake&Strain in a chilled coupe with a generous rinse of absinthe François Guy from Pontarlier, lemon twist (discarded), and sip with utmost satisfaction.

    A perfectly balanced cocktail!
    I love it!

    @drinkstodon

    Mecojoni

    davidr,
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    @boozyANDsour @drinkstodon The Corpse Reviver 2 is what got me into ! Love it!

    I thought you were missing the absinthe, but I see it now.

    I use Cointreau, but no fancy gin or anything else.

    davidr, to guitar
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    Make my own lead sheet(s) instead of the stupid chord sheets/tabs available everywhere.

    seems really great for this.

    The only problem is that while I know about than a chord sheet assumes I know less than I probably need to, for instance, line the lyrics up with the beat.

    But it's all a process! It's OK to be terrible! Everyone starts somewhere! (he snarled through gritted teeth)

    davidr,
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    We seem to be getting somewhere!

    This is compiled from multiple sources. The chords come from an amalgamation of play-along videos (where the chord is the open fingering played with a capo on the first fret) modified by me to things I can reasonably play

    The part is only there because needs to attach lyrics to something. So I'm transposing an existing piano arrangement to this (apparent) key

    can play . Playing along (w/o capo) sounds great!

    davidr,
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    If someone knows a way to make put fretboard diagrams off to the side or at the top/bottom of the page, I'd love that.

    I can probably remember how to finger Dsus4, D7 and Am7 but G/B will likely escape me down the road.

    ZachWeinersmith, to random
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    Interesting - was just flipping through this (https://www.kansascityfed.org/Jackson%20Hole/documents/9744/Jones-handout.pdf) And he noted that as society gets less sexist/racist, talent gets better allocated. I wonder how much total factor productivity gain over the last century came from just... not actively damaging the lives of talented people? That's nice but suggests future gains will be harder, right?

    davidr,
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    @ZachWeinersmith I mean, it doesn't matter where it came from. Future gains will be harder regardless, unless we assume an infinite Prime Resource

    davidr, to microsoft
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    Dear

    Please fuck completely off.

    Love
    Every Unfortunate Person Forced
    To Use This Sorry Excuse For An Operating System

    davidr, to windows
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    10 virtual desktop. Most apps are behaving, but keeps popping up on other desktops.

    Googling this gives me solutions for putting it on all desktops. I want to pin it to a single desktop.

    I know I did this before on another machine.

    davidr, to cocktails
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    Recent have been

    ⭐Cuba Libre
    ⭐Long Island Ice Tea
    ⭐White Russian
    ⭐Kamikaze
    ⭐Sidecar

    ✅Between the Sheets
    ✅El Presidente
    ✅Gin Rickey

    ❌Bacardi Cocktail
    ❌Blue Lagoon

    What I've learned so far is that I like a long, strong cocktail, probably with fruity flavors, especially citrus.

    (I suspect the Blue Lagoon was a misfire. I like Cointreau and Triple Sec, so I should like Blue Curacao. But I felt yucky afterwards.)

    davidr,
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    A few more I've had since the above (or forgot to list before), with my personal ratings

    ⭐ Baby Guinness
    ⭐ Black Russian
    ⭐ Corpse Reviver 2
    ⭐ Margarita
    ⭐ Rocket Fuel

    ✅ John Collins
    ✅ Woo Woo
    ✅ Basil Smash
    ✅ Brave Bull

    The Baby ( with carefully poured on top) was not just good, it's also adorable

    @drinkstodon

    davidr,
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    @drinkstodon

    more this week

    ⭐Chocolate Espresso Martini
    ⭐Cosmopolitan
    ⭐Culto a la Vida
    ⭐Gin Sour
    ✅Hairy Navel

    I bought cranberry juice just to make more cocktails and boy is the internet not clear if they want plain cranberry or "mixed fruit cocktail".

    The Culto a la Vida was even better than I expected based on the ingredients. Lime and cranberry is :chef_logo:😗

    I think a Fuzzy/Hairy Navel would be better with lemonade. Orange juice is boring.

    davidr,
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    @drinkstodon Had some stuff going on this week so didn't try a lot of

    ⭐Bee's Knees
    ⭐Caipirinha
    ❌ Sex on the Beach
    ❌ Swimming Pool

    The Swimming Pool I only made because it looked fun. I hate pineapple. I hate curdled cream(?!) And I might be allergic to blue curacao[1]. This is the first cocktail I genuinely just poured down the sink. Ugh.

    [1]Is that even possible? No problem with Cointreau or Triple Sec. This is the second or maybe third Blue C drink that's made me physically ill.

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