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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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RickiTarr, to random
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Well y'all, we did it, we got Taylor Swift to date Travis Kelce, and her magic vagina gave him the strength to win the Superbowl. Through our collective Socialism and Witchcraft, Biden will now win the election...somehow.

Liberal Conspiracy Highfives!

lkngrrr,
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@RickiTarr I honestly just didn’t want the Bay Area to have anything nice.

lkngrrr, to random
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Okay, “I like any TV where a hot person throws a glass of wine at another hot person” was a good line.

lkngrrr, to robotics
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Getting dragged to some networking bar thing tonight. Ew, people.

lkngrrr,
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@jimfl This is intensely funny and a little star is not enough

ai6yr, to random

I appear to have snagged the wrong emoji for "rock" and it is "low battery", need to fix that, LOL.

lkngrrr,
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@ai6yr A fallen rock and a low charge battery both have low potential energy, it kinda works

ai6yr, to random

Cmon, people, tie your stuff down!

lkngrrr,
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@ai6yr Free range refrigeration!

danderson, to random
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Also a random plug for a piece of commercial software, which I almost never do, and that's a testament to how good this one is.

MagicPlan is amazing. It's a contractor's mapping swiss army knife, but its huge party piece is the augmented reality mapping function. I mapped out three rooms in 5 minutes flat, with dimensions accurate within a couple inches (and 5 more minutes with a laser meter gets it to sub-inch).

lkngrrr,
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@danderson What’s precision levels look like?

I used to have to do room mapping for Alexa data collection back in the day and we had to do some janky shit, so I’m curious.

lkngrrr,
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@danderson Oh wow, that’s really good! Thanks for letting me know!

atomicpoet, to random
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I'm tired of the NHL refusing to grant a team license to a Canadian city but instead opting for yet another place in the American South.

Come on! Atlanta cares nothing about hockey, so why is Bettman trying to put a team there for the third time? Meanwhile, Quebec City isn't even being given an opportunity.

https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/bettman-list-six-nhl-expansion-cities

lkngrrr,
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@atomicpoet Canada and US Northern cities need to double down on .

universalhub, to Massachusetts
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consultant works on amicable solution to town's pickleball crisis
https://theswellesleyreport.com/2024/01/wellesley-pickleball-study-hearing-pops-with-concerns-survey-being-released

lkngrrr,
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@universalhub I want to see that business card.

godlessmom, to random
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Did you know that up here in Canada we have little mini trucker convoy/freedom rallies drive through town every few months? This a courtesy provided by the anti-vax QAnon brain squad so we never forget just how stupid they still are.

lkngrrr,
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@Gustodon @godlessmom Eggs are expensive. Recommend rotting vegetables and questionable leftovers instead.

BathysphereHat, to Cats
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I'm going to try to contact the vet about this, but does anyone know if it's bad for an underweight cat who's just had a subtotal colectomy to have too many treats? He's not eating very well, and he's willing to eat treats more than regular food. (please boost)

lkngrrr,
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@BathysphereHat Inaba makes some lickable treat stuff called Churu. Try mixing a tube into their wet food to see if it gets their interest.

pluralistic, to random
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Last week, William Young, an 82 year old federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan, blocked the merger of and . It was a seismic event:

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.254267/gov.uscourts.mad.254267.461.0_6.pdf

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/22/anything-that-cant-go-on-forever/#will-eventually-stop

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lkngrrr,
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@pluralistic Honestly that’s just a great graphic.

lkngrrr,
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@pluralistic I love it, it’s perfectly constructed and gets the entire idea across. Well worth the effort!

pjw, to TodayILearned
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What are the arguments for and against making one's lecture materials (hand outs, presentations) publicly available on one's website?

I've never met Jeff Speaks, but his philosophy of language and mind handouts posted online have helped me so many times with trying to understand something. Now that I have tenure I kind of want to pay it forward.
But this isn't done very often, so I worry there are downsides I am not taking into account. Thoughts?

@academicchatter

lkngrrr,
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@pjw @academicchatter As a student, having the course materials online and publicly searchable literally saved me during my masters.

lkngrrr, to history
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Hey , would love some reading recommendations about how , the least likely motherfucker out there, actually worked out how to make nuclear non-proliferation happen. Like, how did he actually implement the recommendations from the Gilpatric report diplomatically.

Please assume I don’t have research library access, as I am but a humble corporate whore.

lkngrrr, to tesla
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If you see this in someone’s house, you walk right back out and cut all contact immediately.

Especially if they own it “ironically”. Irony is dead and the billionaire slaver killed it.

https://uncrate.com/tesla-cyberbeer-cyberstein-limited-edition-set/

lkngrrr, to random
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I hope everyone who owns a brodozer road princess and anyone who has derided “globull warming” goes out and tries to drive in that ice storm visiting the South tomorrow.

thomasfuchs, to random
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The guy with the self-destructing rockets and exploding cars is having a racism and says other companies produce unsafe products because of DEI.

Sure, it's definitely woke bolts.

lkngrrr,
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@thomasfuchs Our gayest, brownest, girliest team is the one producing our first certified functionally safe autonomous mobile bot.

We don’t give a shit about the racist ketamine-addicted slaver.

fifonetworks, to random

Fear of being fired may indicate a toxic environment. Here’s an example.

Retail operations were stopped by a brief network misconfiguration about a week after I was hired. As the Director of Infrastructure, I called in my Senior Network Engineer and asked him what happened. The outage was caused by a person – that he wouldn’t name.

I asked, “Why on earth won’t you tell me who did it?”

He replied, “It was an innocent mistake. They didn’t know it would have that effect, and I don’t want them to get fired for it.”

Wow. This guy didn’t know me, but I now knew something about the culture I had inherited from my predecessor.

I said, “I have no intention of firing this person. I want to make sure they’re educated about what happened, and understand good procedure for next time so we can avoid a duplication. By talking with this person, I can also find out if this is a broader issue that other people need to learn about. And this gives them an opportunity to help me understand what training they might need to help them grow in their job.”

Mistakes will be made. Operations will be affected. But you don’t fire good people for honest mistakes.

Willful negligence? Bye. But not for honest mistakes.

When people make honest mistakes, the manager is more likely to be the point of failure, for not providing adequate training.

THE LESSON
If you’re in an environment where you’re afraid you might get fired for doing your best…
If you’re given responsibilities without adequate training, and you’ll be blamed for failure…
That place is toxic.
It won’t get better with time, unless new leadership is brought in.
To achieve contentment, you need to move on.

lkngrrr,
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@kfet @fifonetworks Friendly clarification: the “who” is important, but only useful inasmuch as it helps you establish the “why”.

mattblaze, to random
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Now, of course, I'm getting yelled at by the Ham Radio People, who are offended that I called high seas shortwave radiotelephones "obsolete", despite the fact that all the sites have literally been bulldozed.

lkngrrr,
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@mattblaze The HAM population is totally bimodal.

1: the set of HAMs that utterly fascinate you and make you kinda want to get a license and a Baofeng just for fun
2: the HAMs that make you want to outlaw electromagnetism

ai6yr, to random

Well, I guess I'm not going anywhere with this vehicle this morning, LOL. I guess I will bicycle over instead (brrrrr).

Nocona Genius charger on cement, reading "not charged" on battery

lkngrrr,
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@ai6yr Once you frostnip your fingers and toes the cold never stops hurting.

45Nrth has some great options in various temperature ranges.

I also have some Pearl Izumi Cyclones and Lobster Claws, both of which happen to also be great for driving.

lkngrrr, to random
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I told him to put his snow tires on first, I’d work from home today.

This afternoon he calls and says he’s taking Princess Monster Pants to the shop for a burning smell and a “weird noise”.

I kill my last meeting for the day and drive over to the shop to pick him up in Don Cooper and take him for nachos.

It’s only at 7:30pm that he realizes the impact driver’s on the passenger seat in the WRX. I’ll be on all-seasons for the duration.

Poor guy.

ai6yr, (edited ) to random

After a thorough inside and outside audit with my thermal camera (FLIR), things look pretty good for my thermal envelope. (did not check the attic, however). Interestingly enough, the most obvious heat loss (aside from a wall panel and roof area missing insulation) is along the bottom of the building slab.

lkngrrr,
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@ai6yr Wood floors leak like sieves. If you go after insulating it, be careful that you set up the vapor envelope right so that you don’t get condensation between your floor and the insulation that will rot your flooring.

lkngrrr, to boston
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Traffic was backed up way into Somerville in front of my apartment this morning in .

Turns out that the only backup was due to transit cops deciding they knew how to direct traffic better than the lights.

If you truly cared about the traffic due to the underpass, you don’t fuck with the light timing. You aggressively ticket anyone blocking the box and fuck down anyone turning left from the right lane. Boom, traffic unfucked.

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