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lePetomaneAncien

@lePetomaneAncien@fosstodon.org

Elder geek living in upper Midwest USA (Mni Sóta Makoce). Inept maker and STEM enthusiast. I'm best at burning my fingers with a soldering iron. Can also cut fingers with a variety of hand and power tools. OK coder but way out of practice.
I sometimes blog at https://crowswood.com

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deshipu, (edited ) to random
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Potato?

lePetomaneAncien,
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@deshipu Let's call the whole thing off.

grueproof, to random
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I swear to f'ing god, Firefox. Stop re-enabling Pocket stories every time you update. I don;t CARE what other people are reading. /cc @mozilla

lePetomaneAncien,
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@grueproof @mozilla I eventually found the setting that turns Pocket off and my life has been sunnier ever since.

slothrop, to random
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Seeing this, it just struck me that SAFe is probably the last method you’d want to use for building safety critical software.

(I’m happy to be corrected though)

https://techhub.social/@FakeScrumStats/112444451805895627

lePetomaneAncien,
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@slothrop you had me at last method.

My last job was with a megaCorp that used agile sort of ok with some of the dev teams. The suits spent years crafting a SAFe approach. It was finally publicly released as version 4.0. it didn't pass the giggle test, even with its creators and was roundly ignored.

geekmomprojects, to random
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Sadly, I wasn't able to fix all of the flaws (a tendency to explode being the primary one) in my robot, "Footloose", so we won't be competing. However, I'm here at UIUC to cheer on my son Justin and my bouncing 1-lb grand-bot, "Singularity," (pictures below) as well as his team's 30 lb bot "Collosal Avian." The tournament is livestreamed ("Live" link at the "Robobrawl UIUC" YouTube channel) if you want to check it out.

lePetomaneAncien,
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@geekmomprojects Bummer you won't be able to compete. It was fun last year following your "completely out of my element" posts. Best of luck to your son and "grandbot"

rasterweb, to random
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They should do a version of the show "The Price Is Right" but have all boomers as contestants and have them try to guess the prices of the basics needed to survive in the modern age.

lePetomaneAncien,
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@pattykimura @rasterweb As a comedy writer friend of mine once said, "Don't worry, the more you explain it, the funnier it gets."

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    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @slothrop It's all fun and games until someone loses an eye...
    Then it's still fun and games but with poorer depth perception.

    ratkins, to random
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    I beg of you please to take just a minute to watch the wider context of that “bloodbath” quote. He’s talking about trade and tariffs. Don’t just uncritically freak out over media that was made to manipulate you into freaking out, even if, especially if, it was done by your “side”. It makes you look like a rube.

    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @ratkins I think there is freaking out and then there is hearing the dog whistle not blown for you. I think Trump no longer knows when he's blowing the dog whistle. No matter the context for what he says, he habitually says it in the most inflammatory way possible.

    Sadly, the man has no substance. All we do is respond to his style. We need more people willing to say that this would-be emperor has no clothes.

    press_rouch, to random
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    Nice to see Brian Eno reading @pluralistic 's Red Team Blues at the start of his new video:
    https://youtu.be/U9D2BJ5tv8o

    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @junkman @press_rouch @pluralistic I have great respect and admiration for and enjoyed RTB, but to this 71-year old, Martin Hench reads like he could be 50 or there abouts. He should at least be plagued with an enlarged prostate, geriatric presbyopia, or the need for a daily nap.

    grueproof, to random
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    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @grueproof Well done, you!

    Back in the day I was sole dev on a few web apps using a LAMP stack and later some stand alone flash applications but "full stack web developer" was rapidly on its way to being oxymoronic and flash lasted far too long after its use-by date.

    kev, to random
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    One of the hardest decisions I have to make as a middle-aged man is “shall I go for a wee before I go to sleep, or run the gauntlet and hope I don’t have to get up in the night…”

    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @kev Flomax. Lots of Flomax.

    MLE_online, to random
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    A friend isn't talking to me right now because I told him the other day that the average person can no more experience evidence for quarks than they can evidence for the afterlife. He got mad and called it reductive bullshit.

    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @MLE_online

    1. Quantum physics is hard to understand.
    2. God is hard to understand.

    Therefore quantum physics=God.
    Q.E.D.

    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @MLE_online I have limited faith in either quantum physics or God but I have unwavering faith in Richard Feynman; “If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics.”

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    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @slothrop Thanks for this. I used to listen to In Our Time a lot, then stopped for reasons I can't remember. Hope you get better sleep soon.

    ratkins, to random
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    My god python is a fucking awful language.

    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @ratkins Needs more semicolons.

    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @ratkins I find VSCode to be a pretty useful IDE in that regard. I'm a Python noob so of course all my errors are pretty obvious. YMMV.

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    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @dgar I haven't been RickRolled in years. Truth to tell, it made me a bit nostalgic for those days of more fun, more innocent interwebs.

    lePetomaneAncien, to random
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    The ginger cat in the middle is the social glue that binds these three friends.

    rasterweb, to random
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    Install and use an RSS aggregator / feed reader / whatever the fuck you call it.

    It's the best thing in between email and a web browser.

    And with the way browsers and so many sites are going nowadays, we could use an improvement to the web.

    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @rasterweb Any recommendations? I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.
    Thx

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    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @grueproof I haven't watched it in many years but it's still a favorite. Cuts from the soundtrack album are in heavy rotation in my home office.

    mjausson, to acab
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    "Do you know why I pulled you over?" will be illegal in California from January 1, 2024. Now police have to tell you why they pulled you over.

    The idea is to stop pre-textual traffic stops, in which an officer pulls over a driver, usually Latino or African-American, intending to find a reason to search their vehicle for contraband.

    Research shows that pre-textual traffic stops are a racist practice that nets very little contraband. #acab

    #GiftLink 🎁 https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/12/20/california-police-must-tell-drivers-why-theyre-being-stopped-starting-next-year-under-new-law/?share=heoa0onwixn2ncrcriun

    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @samhainnight @jimfl @mjausson
    If you're a young Black or Latino man that translates to, "Just shoot me now and get this over with."

    lePetomaneAncien, to random
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    The new heated beds seem to be a real hit for a long nap on a chilly afternoon.

    lePetomaneAncien, to random
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    Well it took the whole ding dong day but I got as far as the first ⭐ for using Python for pretty much the first time ever. I think I'm going to give the second ⭐ a miss and go read something out of the anthology. I'm starting to get Monitor Burn.

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    We also have a "programming" club and I was asked to be the advisor. The students mostly run the club themselves doing competitions and other projects. Recently we did a survey and many students in the club (who tend to have less programming experience) want to "learn how to make a web page"

    I'm a little flummoxed by this. And that might seem odd given I used to make web pages for a living. But, the landscape now is so confusing.

    Maybe teach them wordpress?
    Any thoughts?

    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @slothrop @futurebird I like the notion of separate business and technical tracks for this. One group states the requirements, a second group implements them. Somewhere in the Venn diagram a third group refines and interprets the requirements so they actually can be implemented.

    Full disclosure, I worked in that third group for much of my career. It was often, but not always, a rewarding experience.

    lePetomaneAncien, to random
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    So much for Squirrelly McSquirrelface being stymied by a greased pole. Time to up my game.

    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @slothrop Of course I have. When I lived in the rural south hunting squirrels with a .22 rifle, aka squirrel gun, was a favorite pastime. Unfortunately the People's Republic of Minnesota has restraints on certain exercises of one's 2A rights. I am, however, considering other less-than-lethal active counter measures. .

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    This is good to know.
    https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

    lePetomaneAncien,
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    @lowqualityfacts But for electrical engineering, it's AC⚡DC all the way.

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