emily

trixter, 2 months ago to animals

My foster cats getting ready to drop a new album. #CatsOfMastodon #FosterKittens #FosterCats

emily, 4 months ago to random

someone invent an inverse-crowdfunding site, where I can take money away from people with bad ideas

emily, 9 months ago to random

submitting very large grant proposals to effective altruists for "I do not plan to do anything that significantly affects your cause in any way, but by removing me from the workforce you drive up wages for everyone else due to the laws of supply and demand, which means effective altruists will be able to earn more money in the long run"

emily, 3 months ago to random

Neat thing I just invented/discovered:

<style id="if-js-style">.if-js { display: none; }</style>  
<script>document.getElementById('if-js-style').remove();</script>  

Now if you have elements that don't make sense to show with JS disabled (e.g. buttons that trigger js actions) you can put class="if-js" on them and they'll only show up when JS is enabled.

emily, 23 days ago to Electronics

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

#electronics

emily, 4 months ago to random

I occasionally see people asking about induction stovetops. Here is a brief guide to cooking with induction:

• holds up vegetable this is food
• if you increase the temperature of food by 1°C, it is still food
• therefore holds up cooked vegetable this is food

emily, 4 days ago to random

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.

emily, 7 months ago to random

I received a device today. It has an unnecessary password on its configuration.

The password is unchangeable. It is always 7. Just the number 7.

emily, 28 days ago to random

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, 1 month ago to random

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

emily, 29 days ago to random

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

emily, 2 months ago to random

suddenly acutely aware that "bemused", "beloved", "bedazzled", etc. suggest a nonzero level of amusement, love, or dazzling respectively, but "beheaded" suggests a significantly more zero number of heads

emily, 2 months ago to random

I'm playing with a RC receiver that has a feature where its firmware can be updated over wifi. They have an electron app for it. Okay, fine, saves me from having to deal with your probably terrible build system.

The app breaks if you don't have an internet connection, even if you've previously downloaded and built the same version of the firmware.

Someone did not think this through at all.

emily, 1 month ago to random

Blargh. Migraine after work, applied drugs and slept for four hours to make it mostly go away.

Had a dream about a tall building held together with three screws, and I found one of them on the ground nearby and was like "oh no, fixing this is my responsibility now". I don't believe in dream interpretation at all in the sense of getting any sort of new information out of them, but damn, the sleepy hallucination lobe accidentally spits out some fun metaphors once in a while.

emily, 1 month ago to random

it's time for my annual hardware review, in which I iterate through all the categories of devices I really want to give people money for, and see if anyone has made one yet that fulfills my fairly short requirements lists:

• non-Android non-iOS smartphone that can be bought with the expectation of using it as a handheld communication device and not an OS beta testing device
• non-cloud robot lawnmower that can handle a nontrivially-sized, US-typical lawn, and is not comically expensive
• stretch goal (I don't actively want them for any particular reason but I want them to exist and would play with one given the chance): AR/VR devices that are just displays and input devices and not a whole Ecosystem

you may notice I use "non" and "not" a lot in these descriptions. this is because my technology requirements really are largely gathered by looking at things and going "ugh, not that"

emily, 2 months ago to woodworking

I learned how to do splines today :D

#woodworking #theWorkshop

emily, 9 days ago to random

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

Qyriad, 1 month ago to random

I like the thing where starting a message with @example makes it ambiguous if you started the sentence with a capital letter or not

emily, 1 month ago to random

it has been 0 days since I had to drill out a tiny hex head screw that became a circle head screw

orders more torx

emily, 2 months ago to random

Asked my label maker to print out its symbol list for reference and instead I got a series of emoji that are, as far as I can tell, not available to select anywhere?

emily, 2 months ago to random

whenever someone abbreviates "capacitors" to "caps" I imagine capacitors wearing little hats

emily, 3 months ago to random

HTML is when you put pictures and words together, and it is not possible