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ianburnette

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https://toot.community/@ianburnette on the bird-site. 🇺🇸➡️🇳🇱 He/him. Woodworker, pole dancer, python developer, and I can bake a pretty mean cookie too. DFTBA!

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mcfly, to woodworking German
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in germany:

Use local timber, don't use wood from tropical countries.

woodworking in the Netherlands:
We have oak and then these 12 different types of tropical wood.

City of Rotterdam: We're developing a new bench - beterbank - and we're testing 6 different types of tropical wood to find the best one.

https://www.rotterdam.nl/rotterdam-test-de-beterbank

ianburnette,
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@mcfly ... and one of them might cause a Poison-Ivy-like skin reaction when you try to sand it!

MnemosyneSinger, to random

Reject modernity, embrace tradition.

ianburnette,
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@Bel_tamtu @gregly @MnemosyneSinger what's the dog whistle?

h_thoreson, to random
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seeing so many posts on here from 50-something men complaining that younger software engineers can't do as much

i would really like to settle in somewhere and just truly master 1-2 things instead of having to constantly pick up random pieces of garbage and try and use them to reinvent the wheel, but unfortunately the economy has basically incentivized software engineering to become a trade centered around picking up garbage and jamming it in random holes.

if you're old be a leader and fix this

ianburnette,
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@mjgardner @h_thoreson

Yeah, I'm at a point where I'm the architect of 30-40% of our entire codebase. If technical debt needs to be paid down in one of the areas of the code where I'm the only SME, then I'll just do it.

But that's just me using one bad practice (low bus factor) against another (lack of maintenance time). I advocate for maintainability and knowledge transfer constantly, but Product just wants the junior/mid Devs to keep churning out spaghetti code.

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Evolved
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/evolved-4 (click for full comic)

ianburnette,
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@ZachWeinersmith this comic brought to you by Duolingo

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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One thing all this space research ruined for me is the phrase "Moonshot" to mean research initiative. I recently read the phrase "fusion moonshot" and all I could think of was "spend a huge amount of money on fusion to find a way to technically make it work with no regard to whether it's economically viable." Like, the fusion equivalent of a Saturn V would be a gigantic 200B$ tokamak that works for about a week.

ianburnette,
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@ZachWeinersmith this is an amazing insight and I'm totally stealing this point next time I'm in a room of tech/start-up bros.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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I do this for a living

ianburnette,
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@ZachWeinersmith the only problem with this is that now I have to wait for the actual comic before I can share it with my linguist friends

ianburnette, to woodworking
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Just saw my first fractal burning post on the hashtag.

DO NOT DO IT

DO NOT SHARE IT

DO NOT POST IT

DO NOT BOOST IT

Yes, it looks cool, but more and more woodworkers (hobbyist and professional) are dying or being maimed for life because of one instant of inattention or bad luck.

There is a reason most woodworking organizations have banned any mention of the practice!

https://www.woodturner.org/Woodturner/Woodturner/Resources/Safety-Materials/Safety-Fractal-Burning-Lichtenburg-Burning.aspx

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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http://smbc-comics.com/comic/challenge

After posting this I found out there was actually a youtube guy trying to live off beans for a long time.

ianburnette,
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@ZachWeinersmith I just assumed it was a reference to @Hbomberguy eating a bunch of soy

futurebird, (edited ) to random
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"That's the last straw, Computer." I said. My computer had long known this day would come and was much more nimble that I'd anticipated when I lunged at her with the hot poker from the fire.

"It wasn't even me!" She wailed.
"It was someone like you!"
"But shouldn't you go after the lawmakers?"
"I can't get away with skewering them!"

https://www.popsci.com/technology/iowa-chatgpt-book-ban/

ianburnette,
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@futurebird It's literally the automation of a middle-aged white man whose podcast habit has made him confidently wrong at parties.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Amused with self

ianburnette,
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@ZachWeinersmith To some of us, you'll always be the guy who created single-use monocles

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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For about 20 years I've been "the SMBC guy," but during the last week I've had 2 different people online shocked to realize "the bea wolf guy" is also "the smbc guy" - something I've never had with any other project.

ianburnette,
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@MrF @ZachWeinersmith Oh thanks for reminding me of those, I should do a rewatch.

Ending date night ideas with the "aaaaand touch him on the penis" from the Cosmo sketch has an inside joke with my wife of 11 years since before we were engaged, and I had actually forgotten where it even came from.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Epic
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/epic-2

ianburnette,
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@ZachWeinersmith

Question-- when your naming scheme hits a conflict, do you go checkout what the old comic was, or do you just bump the number by one and move on with your day?

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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God, I don't know. I've always believed artists have to go where the audience is, but I never felt like a trained sealed as much as I have this last year. I guess we're just going to leap into the artist-shaped hole Threads opened up, make ironic jokes as we do so, and then just keep getting smaller and smaller and smaller.

Thank God there are still people who buy books.

ianburnette,
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@oblomov @ZachWeinersmith personal sites require a lot more work/expertise, and are much worse for going viral and growing your audience (i.e. if your website gets hugged to death you're losing a ton of audience impressions).

It makes sense to organize the internet into platforms, because large groups of specialists can just get more stuff done.

The open question is just how to keep the platform's interests aligned with the users and society as a whole

ianburnette, to random
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@jorijn @mijndert Is there a toot.community kbin server? I've been enjoying my time here, so I thought I'd ask before selecting randomly from some instance listing.

ianburnette, to random
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Sometimes it feels like Economics is the science of using graphs to tell rich people whatever they already wanted to hear.

ianburnette, to random
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Hi new followers... there are a lot of you. Just to be clear-- I didn't write the alt-text guide I linked, and I'm not at all involved in the VI community. There are a lot of people in that thread who are more knowledgeable, and you should probably follow them for that type of content. I feel a bit weird that I've more than tripled my audience using someone else's content to advocate for a community I'm not a part of.

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