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lkngrrr

@lkngrrr@hachyderm.io

#Boston-based middle-aged white af ciswoman who drives too fast and shouts too loudly about the #Chicago #WhiteSox.

Technical #Product lead for the largest mobile-#robotic fleet known to humankind. Professionally skeptical of:

  • L5 autonomy
  • #robotics pedalism
  • general purpose #robots
  • blockchain, “generative AI”, misc jerkoff motions

Opinions mine (p ≤ 0.05).

I was punk, once. And then I needed health insurance.

#LiberalArts #OP1 #OneMoreTurn #XCOM #NAFO

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lkngrrr, to robotics
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I look forward to the day when I am presented with an actual use case for humanoid beyond burning VC money.

lkngrrr, to random
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@ivory Say, I just emailed this as a feature request to your support inbox, but thought I’d put it here too to get it into your backlog.

Any chance in the future for increasing font sizes available? I may have to acknowledge that I’m getting old but I don’t want to bring my reading glasses everywhere with me.

Please and thank you, you’re all very wonderful :)

lkngrrr, to random
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is what you get when you properly fund software KTLO/CI.

lkngrrr, to random
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Rabbi: “And what do the bitter herbs represent?”
Me: “Jira tickets”
Rabbi: “NO”

lkngrrr, to random
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So, uh, when you’ve lost one of the feeties off of your wrist pad, don’t search for “silicone feet” without any other qualifiers on Amazon unless you want to learn a lot about other people’s inner lives.

I don’t mean to yuck anyone else’s yum, you do you and have fun while doing it, but I was just utterly unprepared and took 2 psychic damage.

ai6yr, to random

I've got that big pallet energy
Got that big pallet energy
Hey, daddy

Spiral nails, they could be your fantasy
I can tell you have that big pallet energy
Not too many crowbars can handle me...

(ps. Sorry...)

lkngrrr,
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@ai6yr Also, dried or heated woods tend to splinter and fragment more, so be careful. Wear work gloves while handling.

Seriously, I’ve picked up KD-HT shards suitable for staking vampires.

lkngrrr, to Massachusetts
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My fellow , we’re gonna need to implement biopassports at the / state border.
https://historians.social/@historleans/112310297607574612

atomicpoet, to random
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DEAL ALERT!!

XCOM 2 is currently -95% off on Steam.

At regular price, it is C$79.99. But today, it is C$3.99.

This is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown. It is a turn-based strategy game that not only has excellent reviews, many people regarded it as the best strategy game of 2016.

I just bought it!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/268500/XCOM_2/

lkngrrr,
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@atomicpoet YASSSSSSS

Play vanilla first, then consider getting the War of the Chosen add on.

lkngrrr, to random
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Friendly reminder: it’s Peak for food delivery drivers today. Be kind!

atomicpoet, to random
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I was feeling nostalgic for UFO: Aftermath.

Today, though, nostalgia kind of sucks. Actually, it’s excruciating like fingernails on a chalkboard.

I remember UFO as a tactical RPG that’s a hybrid between an turn-based and real-time strategy game. Instead of waiting for a turn or moving as things happen, you move according to a timer. On first experience, it seemed neat.

The problem is, every time I mean to do something, I get interrupted. Usually, it’s from an enemy appearing. This would be fine except, every time a new enemy appears, UFO decides to give me a 360 degree view of the enemy because they apparently want to impress me with their character models.

I guess for 2003, they’re impressive. But here in 2024, it takes me out of the flow of the game. It’s so annoying that if I had a physical copy of UFO: Aftermath, I’d take it out into my backyard and shoot it myself. That’s how frustrating that is.

The other annoyance is that when I’m at the mission screen, I keep being pinged about new missions when I’m on my way to my current one. And apparently, I can’t just accept a mission. No, I have to travel there. And as I’m travelling, I keep getting nagged and nagged again that there’s aliens that have popped up somewhere on Earth.

Back in 2016 – when I first bought it – I used to like this game. It was unique and quirky to me. Today, I think this is one of those games that I’d like to forget.

UFO: Aftermath screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)
UFO: Aftermath screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)
UFO: Aftermath screenshot (RTX 3080 Ti)

lkngrrr,
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@atomicpoet You’d be much happier if you just played real .

lkngrrr,
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@atomicpoet But the plot hook for XCOM 2 is really good…

ai6yr, (edited ) to Cybersecurity

Hmm, I probably should have cleared out this box a decade ago.

lkngrrr,
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@ai6yr I just don’t get it with all these rich white weirdos.

It seems like Tom from was really the only one who had his head screwed on straight.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Thread about how we had “3D printed” houses over a hundred years ago.

Unlike the ones today these actually existed and were very affordable (think $6,000 in today’s money for a complete 1-bedroom house).

Today’s tech industry is a bullshit layer cake.

https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal/112293051206867591

lkngrrr,
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@thomasfuchs @sidereal Though my former colleagues’ startup Reframe Systems gets closer to the original intent.

https://www.reframe.systems

lkngrrr,
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@thomasfuchs @sidereal Looks like they still want you to contact them to design the thing you want with them (yeah, this totally fits the old model, they have not deviated from our common heritage) but ground got broken in Arlington, MA for their first delivery. Should be a good one to watch.

https://housingcorparlington.org/affordablehousing/dorothyadu/

lkngrrr, to boston
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#Boston-area #aquarium and #homebrewing enthusiasts:

Is Boston (MWRA-supplied) water more prone to algae blooms?

My humidifier turned bright green this morning. I’m cleaning it with citric acid solution per manufacturer instructions, but if I need to peroxide or C-brute the thing I will.

My knowledge of water quality only goes as far as “#NewHampshire water has brain amoebas, pack in your own,” so I thought I’d ask.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to robotics
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    lkngrrr,
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    @GhostOnTheHalfShell

    They know how to make demo videos, but they can’t productize for shit.

    lkngrrr,
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    @GhostOnTheHalfShell They literally just want to consume money and make funny little tricks. When they were owned by GOOG they were begged to productize something, anything, and put it on the market.

    They are yet another capital dead end, soaking up talent and resources that could be focusing on delivering fully automated gay space communism. Instead they produce finicky, easily thwarted coptech and highly edited videos.

    lkngrrr,
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    @GhostOnTheHalfShell Sure they are, if you bother to spend a head or two on industrial design.

    Though I suppose I’m partial on this one… :)

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    lkngrrr,
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    @Binder This is an excellent song that I keep in rotation for driving to site visits. Works best at about 4am.

    atomicpoet, to random
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    When did social media go from being women with dog noses to women with cat ears?

    What was the event that triggered this change?

    lkngrrr,
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    @atomicpoet The catgirls have always been with us.

    danilo, to random
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    A dead-end tech company job was destroying my mental health. I HAD to bounce to prevent another round of long-term burnout setting in. I could already feel it nipping at the edges of my mind.

    Keeping my mental health AND insurance for the household costs roughly as much as the mortgage each year. It's quite a burden.

    Still, burnout is far more expensive by comparison.
    https://mastodon.social/@Elucidating/112244383621137601

    lkngrrr,
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    @danilo @Elucidating Good health insurance is basically the only reason I went into the corporate world.

    Just think of all of the shareholder value I’ve delivered because I’m bound by health care peonage.

    skinnylatte, to random
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    I don’t understand the immigrants who are like i had a hard time with immigration so no immigrants should be more welcome, let’s close all the borders and put everyone on the streets in the cold

    lkngrrr,
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    @skinnylatte Hazing mentality. It’s disgusting.

    lkngrrr, to random
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    I don’t know how to convince men to take care of themselves.

    kellogh, to random
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    The Attack Turkey

    this morning on the run i got to the top of the hill and was resting, bc i'm out of shape, and off in the distance i see a bird trotting my way

    as it gets closer i realize it's a turkey. it had a big red gobbler and its neck was iridescent. It was actually really pretty, so i just watched as it approached

    lkngrrr,
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    @kellogh FWIW, geese and peacocks are both used as guard animals for this sort of thing.

    lkngrrr,
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    @kellogh collapsible batons may be a good choice if you want to carry some defense.

    But they’re dinosaurs that understand social hierarchy. Establish dominance like you did by whacking it with a stick and he’ll learn.

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