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emily

@emily@sparkly.uni.horse

I make electronics go beep boop and tools go spinny. Also, I pet cats sometimes.

Follow requests are enabled because bots; if you have literally anything to convince me you're a human and not a complete asshole I will probably accept.

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emily, to random
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Confused the fuck out of some consulting company today because they cold-emailed me at work asking if I'd talk to their clients about stuff. They clearly meant one of the other two Emilies at the same company, but I am emily@company.tld and so people email me a lot when they don't feel like looking up the right email address for the Emily in question and just take a wild guess.

So I stubbornly fill out their form to join their Network(tm), then fill out the other form for the specific client they want me to talk to, mostly with "I am not exposed enough to this side of the business to give useful information" pasted into every text box. Then at the end of this form they ask if I want to decline it, so I finally do.

Less than a minute later they called me, wondering why none of what I entered matches my LinkedIn account.

At this point I finally informed them that I don't have a LinkedIn account.

I hoped they learned a valuable lesson today. If not, I would be happy to charge them the $400/hour they offered me to read to them the entirety of Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names.

artemist, to random German
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they should make factorio but more annoying (power lines have a max current carrying capacity and resistive losses, you can create transformer substations for long-distance 250kV power lines, motors create reactive power)

emily,
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@artemist conveyor belts need power

emily, to random
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suddenly curious if flat earthers still use the word "global", or if they say "planar" or something

emily, to random
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no not like that

emily,
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@jacqueline that is one of the words the social networks filter looks for, yes

emily,
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@jacqueline I cannot filter that without too many false positives, but thankfully nobody ever calls twitter that so it doesn't matter

jacqueline, to random
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settling on part-db i think: https://docs.part-db.de/

another win for the php+sqlite community

emily,
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@jacqueline decided to try it after you mentioned it. install process review:

  • 5% of time spent copypasting a block of yaml into my compose.yaml and editing to fit my environment
  • 5% spent copypasting a block in my nginx config to make a new vhost
  • 30% spent utterly distracted because I saw some dumb hacking attempts in my nginx logs and wanted to see what they were doing (answer: trying to download an ARM botnet binary to my AMD64 server through a vulnerability in something it does not have installed; have updated my nginx config to reply to /cgi-bin/* with a gzip bomb)
  • 60% spent arguing with the db migration script over my database supposedly not existing; turns out it was treating sqlite:///path/to/file as a relative path, and in fact wanted four slashes. undecided whether to report this as a bug because it looks like it's probably upstream from part-db but I don't know shit about this ecosystem and don't care to debug it further

9/10, not the worst install process ever

emily, to random
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met a snake friend today

emily, to Electronics
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I had a cursed idea and had to see if I could make it work

jacqueline, to random
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why does find(1) have such weird-looking arguments. why is it different from everything else. what were they doing

emily,
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@jacqueline because they're not just arguments, they're a whole-ass DSL embedded in argv where all the keywords start with -

emily, to random
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I am begging fantasy authors to stop showing off their extensive vocabulary of Horse Words

If you have a character refer to a bay they had better be pointing at a concave beach and not a horse

emily, to random
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I stayed up too late reading wikipedia's list of garlic dishes and now it is nearly 3am and I want fried rice

emily, to random
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anyway I am https://lichess.org/@/blunderbolts if anyone wants to play chess against someone who used to be reasonably good at chess but then did not play for several years and forgot most of the things

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