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

emily, to random
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Bizarre week update, late Monday morning: had a weird stuck unkillable process on my work machine that showed up in /proc and htop but not ps, rebooted to get rid of it, machine claims to be rebooting any time now and will not even respond to holding the power button down

emily,
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The solution is apparently to hold the power button down longer than anyone would ever think to do so

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Today I woke up in a panic thinking a fold in my blanket was a furry snake. I don't live in a place where snakes find their way into my house. Also, snakes don't have fur.

Then I set a DNS override to help evade the literal Taliban.

This is going to be a weird week.

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I can never remember which of "bullish" and "bearish" is supposed to be the good one because they both just make me think of angry animal go rawr and that has no clear economic implications

emily,
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unrelated to that, I find it hard to type "bullish" because my muscle memory wants to autocomplete to "bullshit"

emily, to random
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Open invitation to anyone I even slightly know to DM me to talk about any of the Life Stuff I have experience with: being trans, neurodivergent, childfree, having a shitshow of a family, burnout, or anything else I've mentioned. I make a point of never taking offense to any question asked in good faith.

I'm not a real therapist, and I've found most of them frustratingly useless because they've lacked so much context for my life. To the extent I have any of my own shit figured out, it's all because patient friends with similar shit shared their experiences with me and/or listened patiently while I rambled at them for a while.

jacqueline, to random
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me responding to questions about post-campaign wholesale pricing

emily,
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@drdnar @jacqueline recently did this to someone who wasn't familiar with the project's naming history, confused the hell out of them, highly recommended

jacqueline, to random
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we're 2 for 2 now on audiophile-adjacent folks offering nonsense ideas about alternate op-amps.

what they think is important:

  • maximum output current
  • maximum output voltage
  • arbitrary resistance values they found on the datasheet

what is actually important:

  • output voltage swing
  • a power-on mute feature
  • quiescent current
emily,
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@jacqueline @jerry507 tiny weird shaped board that fits in the space for the existing dac+amp and solders onto the pads like a QFN

I shall name this cursed invention HFN, it's like QFN but has 6 rows of pads instead of 4

emily,
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@jacqueline @jerry507 like this

emily,
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@jacqueline @jerry507 hang on I forgot to put my signature bodge resistor on there

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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.

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environmental storytelling

A DisplayPort plug, with a little USB plug next to it, crossed out in red, "Not USB" written underneath it.

emily,
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@aburka @buzzyrobin you are now aware that a USB A plug fits perfectly into an ethernet port

it doesn't work, obviously, but it'll physically feel right and confuse the hell out of you for a moment

emily, to random
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"Friends, future Romans, countrymen: we're founding a new country, what should we call it?"

"idk how about boobland"

jacqueline, to random
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in far more important news, what the fuck is going on with ORIGINAL PRUSA honey. where does the honey come from. do i want to know.

emily,
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@jacqueline cool tech zone brand honey when

emily,
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@jacqueline cool honey zone

emily, to random
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tip: the command to refetch everyone's avatars after you botched a server migration is tootctl accounts refresh followed by pasting the complete list of your follows with the @ prefix removed from each one, and then rerun it several times removing all the users of whichever long-gone server it choked on from the list

emily,
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(more serious tip: turns out you can't just blow away the cache dir and expect it to refetch whatever it needs on its own)

jacqueline, to random
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i have some copy to finalise for the video, but apart from that i think i actually have nothing left on my plate for the campaign launch? feels weird!!

emily,
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@jacqueline do you have a specific date yet?

refreshes more

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I need to go to the bathroom but there are two cats sleeping on me and they don't usually snuggle together so I don't want to wake them up

emily, to random
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Many people are bad at cooking, but think they are very good at cooking. This is called the Dunning-Crockpot effect.

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

emily, to random
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Linguistics musing:

The pairs "here"/"there" and "this"/"that" parallel first-person vs second+third-person pronouns; i.e. first-person is "this here person", second- and third-person are different sorts of "that there person who is not me".

Some languages split "there" and "that" into two words each in the same way as second/third person pronouns differ: French has "là"/"là-bas", Japanese has parallel regular sets of words with ko-/so-/aso- prefixes.

Do any languages go the other way and merge second and third person pronouns? Is there a predictable order of splitting like the black/white/red/green/yellow thing?

jacqueline, to random
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i am working on the most exciting feature of all... showing license and copyright information

emily,
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@jacqueline I promise that when I get mine I will look at that screen once, just for you. Your hard work shall not be in vain.

emily, to random
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I have no way of actually turning this thing like this, but I had to know if I could physically get the lathe to spin it at all

(yes, with a terrifying amount of momentum when "stopping" the spindle)

Same setup, looking into the spindle side of it. The cylinder is hollow. There's a four-jaw chuck holding it from the inside.

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