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snacktraces

@snacktraces@hachyderm.io

I dig all things STEM and enjoy cool people. No drama here. Programming, electrical engineering, and astronomy are my interests.

Software Developer/Electrical Engineer/Technical Speaker

Highly fluent in Python, C/C++, and software dev tools. Always willing to help newbies to programming, especially those that may not have the opportunities to learn as I did.

Also, really into symphonic metal, blues, classical, and fantasy/space music. From Nightwish to Elmore James to Arina Domski.

He/him

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villares, (edited ) to saopaulo
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Back to after a magical week in Pittsburgh...

snacktraces,
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@villares
Obrigado visita Pittsburgh!!

Hope that PyCon in Pittsburgh was good for you.

snacktraces, to random
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I am bummed that I am going to miss (in person) this year, and even with it right here at home.

I can provide local info and recommendations if anyone needs or wants.

RickiTarr, to random
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If you're like me, and Mother's Day is a rough day for you. I'm thinking of you, and I hope it's a good day anyway.

snacktraces,
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@RickiTarr
Best to you as well. It was a bit rough here.

Thankful that you are out here on the fedi and know that you matter.

snacktraces, to boardgames
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Is it just me, or are there two cameo appearances in the board game Distilled?

Bob Harris from Lost In Translation

Large Marge from Pee Wee's Big Adventure

(reposting this now that I have pics of the cards)

dannotdaniel, (edited ) to random
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good morning to the fedi and only the fedi
🤘☕🤘


snacktraces,
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@dannotdaniel
🤘🤘🏽🤘🏾🤘🏼🤘🏻🤘🏿😎

bitprophet, (edited ) to random
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Minor smartwatch plus: ability to change up its face at will. Found one that includes a seconds hand /and/ which even has the quarter minute points numerically indicated.

What's odd is I didn't see any options for a seconds-capable digital display, outside of the usual stopwatch functionality. You'd think there'd be ONE of those.

snacktraces,
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@mpirnat
Early on in my hardware career I remember talking with a chip/display designer and they told me that seconds were costly to add to a display. Size and money wise. They said that just became such a norm that no one challenged or even cared to implement.

I wonder sometimes if that things like this are just such an embedded "stance".
@bitprophet

snacktraces,
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@mpirnat
Also, something interesting this made me remember... one of our engineers thought to flip the third-from-left 7 segment display to have its decimal point be part of the 'colon' between hours and minutes. We saved $ on using a more costly display setup. (Back in the discrete chip days.)
@bitprophet

flexghost, to random
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** IT’S HERE! FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC THREAD ON **

Tonight’s theme is:

🤲🎗️🆘 PLEDGE DRIVE 🫂🌍🎁

—
🎵 This SUNDAY April 7 is our Fediverse — make sure to stop by and help your local instance

Post any song with “Pledge” or “Drive” in the title along with what you’re drinking 🎶
—

You know when you're close you really turn me on
That's why I want you so bad when your gone...

🍷 You Drive Me Wild - The Runaways + Redbreast🍸

Post often • share • make some friends

Joan Jett looking all hot n shit - album cover of the Runaways to music

snacktraces,
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@flexghost
Drive by Halford

(That Rob Halford, Judas Priest)

and sipping a strawberry cheesecake flavored rooibos tea.

https://youtu.be/WMSEQ6STgCc?feature=shared

RickiTarr, to random
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Tell me a silly/funny childhood story!

I'll start:

One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.

snacktraces,
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@RickiTarr
You got kicked out of sunday school too?

snacktraces,
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@RickiTarr
At Halloween one year, my dad was handing out candy and I was taking a break sitting on the srairs...

Dave from up the street: trick or treat Mr LastName
Dad: I see you are wearing your baseball uniform
Dave: yes, this is my costume
Dad: I have seen you play Dave, good costume.

This is the level of snark that aspire to carry on.

Aaron, to random
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I FINISHED IT!!!!!!!!

It took me 343 days to read The Count of Monte Cristo, but I did it. And it’s a freaking amazing accomplishment.

My kindle showing the “before you go” screen that appears at the end of a book.

snacktraces,
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@Aaron
I had similar excitement when I finally finished Les Miserables (unabridged).

Took me forever and even with a stint at jury duty during.

snacktraces, to random
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I really do not need to remotely communicate with or control my electric toothbrush.

However, I really would like to remotely control my humidifier.

VeryBadLlama, to random
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once upon a midnight dreary
while I wandered, weak and weary
over to a quaint and curious icebox door
when I spotted what I had been craving
the plums that you were probably saving
for your breakfast, I am sure
forgive me please, I do implore
I ate those plums and nothing more

snacktraces,
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@VeryBadLlama
Tis your humor, I muttered, tapping at my masto-door

snacktraces, to random
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Just finished this book...

Children of Ruin
(2 of 3 in series)

Thoughts in a reply, may be spoilers.

snacktraces, to random
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We just agreed on this...

"The best Valentine's Day gift we can give each other is to NOT go out to eat on Valentine's Day."

snacktraces, to random
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New to programming? Interested in getting started?

I am offering 1:1 pairing sessions to introduce software development concepts such as programming languages (Python, C++, etc), source control (git), and more.

Newbies welcome. Free. Just giving back. DM me if interested. I am very serious about helping if I can.

Anyone welcome.

snacktraces, to RegEx
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Need a regex for a MAC address?

On a project a while back I needed one and created it. Thought I would share here with everyone.

https://snacktraces.com/blog/regex-for-mac-address.html

Saltssaltgirl, to random
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HS student 1: My back and ribs is killing me. I woke up so confused.

HS student 2: Me too. I had to sleep with my socks on last night.

HS student 1: You weird, Bro. Who sleeps with socks on?

HS student 2: You crazy not to. I'm afraid The Boogey Man gonna take my feet.

snacktraces,
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@Saltssaltgirl
I can't sleep if any of my blankets are touching the floor. So I am kind of there for the wearing socks thing.
@ShaunBurch

snacktraces, to random
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New to programming? Interested in getting started?

I am offering 1:1 pairing sessions to introduce software development concepts such as programming languages (Python, C++, etc), source control (git), and more.

Newbies welcome. Free. Just giving back.

Anyone welcome. Today especially.

snacktraces, to Metal
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My new (to me) music crush:

Elysion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysion_(band)

I would love to find out more about them and their tunes/albums... but they seem to have little web presence.

thomasfuchs, to random
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Snow! In the desert!

snacktraces,
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@thomasfuchs
Mt Lemmon? I loved my three visits to Tucson and two to Mt Lemmon.

Also enjoyed Kitt Peak.

snacktraces, to books
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Reading tip: index cards

I take a few index cards and place them in each non-fiction (and even in some fiction*) books.

As I read I take notes on the cards.

  • I draw a small checkbox next to items I want to follow up on
  • I copy items that might want to quote some day, exactly, word for word
  • If something I read has me asking a question, I write that so that I don't lose that if I read onward
  • and other such notations

The card(s) can even serve as a bookmark.

snacktraces, to random
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Folks who have learned English as an additional language, I have a question.

Have contractions been a source of difficulty understanding, speaking, or writing in English?

(e.g. can't [cannot], won't [will not], would've [would have], etc)

snacktraces, to random
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Math can be scary for kids. Math can be risky for kids too. Other kids might say math is for "nerds".

If we perpetuate that math is scary, if we let our kids bully other kids out of liking math, we do serious damage.

For every kid, especially girls, that dislikes or fears math, we limit their career choices. STEM careers are highly dependent upon the M. If we take away the M, STE are less of an option.

Don't make jokes about math being hard, help kids with math when they need it.

futurebird, to random
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Just got a card from a student who has been having a rough year. She was having a great deal of trouble until I started showing her how to really USE a calculator. (It's algebra and geometry not arithmetic, and she knows the algorithms just makes SO MANY little mistakes)

Since then she's really taken off. I find very few people who could benefit from calculators know how to use them effectively, and there is a lot of snootiness and stigma in the way of this happening.

1/

snacktraces,
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@futurebird
And bonus points (no one keeping score, but you deserve them anyway): teaching her to look at the answers and see if they make sense. This is priceless. Too many times I have let the calculator or program answer for me. Knowing how to "sense" if that answer is right, that is extra special.

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