I can't figure out if mastodon is a high context culture or not. People seem to be expected to give long introductions and do a lot of identity/positionality disclosure, but also an enormous reply guy culture which is defined by low context drive-by. Conversational turn-taking is extremely low compared to other platforms ime, but depth-seeking is high. What an interesting mix.
*obviously, these experiences are all situated within my own network effects, and I'm not well networked here.
I think part of it is that the context is expected around the person and not the post, for whatever reason, people want to know everything about you and what you stand for, what your opinions are, what led you to some decision or path, but within actual conversation that falls away.
Yes, python pulled a JavaScript and if you give it a <list> not in <list> it actually checks each item individually instead of treating it like a sublist.
@doskel this is why I like Ruff as my linter. It'll generate all sorts of warnings for Python language features that you'd never think to use unless you saw them, and once you use them you ask why Python even exists. 😆
This is, hands down, the most beautiful #fountainpen in my collection at the moment. It is a Ryan Krusac Studios Legend L-16 "Kraken" fitted with a Fountain Pen Revolution 14kt gold Ultra Flex nib with an ebonite feed and inked up with Namiki Blue. The scrimshaw body is naturally shed moose antler (not something I'd usually be into but it makes an amazing canvas and feels lovely), the cap is Bolivian rosewood, and the section is ebonite. I am madly in love with this pen and so happy I added it to my collection.
this is a super cool protocol and i really need to get into it but the naming alone is great https://cats.radio/
cats packets are composed of whiskers that are connected to the internet via the felinet
@doskel Unfortunately, like, it's cool but I think I see two main issues with it.
AFSK over FM is inefficient but it allows any commodity radio to be used for APRS. Direct FSK means you now need a USB capable transmitter or one with an exposed data port, something that's much more rare. You ever used APRSDroid, The Cable™️, and a Baofeng with VOX enabled?
It's going to end up causing a split-brain if it takes off. It'll never supplant APRS, so we'll have two separate, incompatible protocols to serve the same purpose in an endless struggle to find a decisively superior one. Just like echolink and all-star.
So for hopefully obvious reasons, I can't give too much specifics here.
I'm on the job site. IT contractor. Got a kiosk in a department store that needs a migration. New SIM card for the router and new hardware on the back end. I show up with my usual computer repair toolbox.
This thing is sitting half disassembled, stupidly precarious, nearly fall off the step stool every time I reach over because it's almost like this thing was set up in a location in a display stand, in such a way that it cannot be accessed
Time to replace PC. Get told by senior tech over call that you've just got to get a flathead and a hammer in there and literally chisel it loose. Uh... I don't carry those tools. Nowhere in a "kiosk replace media player PC" job do I expect to bring my crowbar, hammer, and paint can opener flathead.
I know this isn't the first one of these you've done. Next time, put that in the work order?
I literally have to use the entire extent of my arm, to reach it. The device is too close to the edge to get something in straight. And theomebt my full strength isn't pushing my prying implement in, it's forced back out.
Y'all could've told me??
On the plus side they're running stock Ubuntu Desktop on these things. Neat.
I work nights. I'm usually in bed by 10 or 11. It's currently 1:00 p.m. I'm being sent off-site to go grab the correct tools and come back, which is going to be an hour of commute. Plus disassembling everything that I put back together to get back to it. Because fuck my sleep schedule. At least I'm paid by the hour
Have you ever wondering what it sounds like to run htop over ssh over a LoRa connection? If so, you are in the right place. I can’t thank the developer of #reticulum enough. His/her code is awesome and now I’m going to see how far I can take this… literally. I’m hoping 15 km. https://unsigned.io
Tomorrow I get to do something fun: I get to lick the science!
My last bottle of DD-X developer expired (quite spectacularly, I had to get a hacksaw to open it and add it to the disposal container), but I've got ONE roll of film left to process.
Instant coffee
Ascorbic acid powder (vitamin C)
Washing soda (sodium carbonate)
Two of those, are lickable. That's the delta recipe for #caffenol, although I'm using it for HP5+ not Delta, it's still effective. I could've gone with Caffenol-C-H instead but that needs potassium bromide which can't be delivered as quickly and I'm not a patient person (hah!)
To elaborate: DD-X pulls a slight vacuum when it oxidizes. This was a nearly full bottle, and I had teflon on the threads. The end result was that the plastic cap got squeezed and deformed inwards and effectively fused to the bottle, at first from the vacuum, but then it was deformed enough that even with the bottle punctured, it wasn't coming off.
Ever seen someone on the timeline, went "hey this is neat, I should follow them!" and then you see that you're already following them and that's why you saw the thing to begin with?
I can't remember who it was that said that trains approaching crossings blow the CW for "Q" (dah dah dit dah), but I can confirm that you are mostly quite correct! Since I started paying attention a few days ago, I have found that they mostly do, but not always. Perhaps 20% of the time they just blow one long blast or something that seems random...
@croyle Generally, "OO-O" (that's long, long, short, long) is the whistle signal for Approaching a Grade Crossing, and it's supposed to be blown... I think about 20 seconds ahead of the crossing? But if you have a series of crossings all back to back, that can quickly become A Problem. It's easier to just lean on the horn for a few seconds.
You can look up the book of whistle signals, they're slightly different by railroad and they go all the way back to the beginning. But you have ones for grade crossing, stopping at next station, handing train control between locomotives, approaching station (signal the conductor to give a go/stop indication)
@croyle They could've also just forgotten and not had time to blow the correct sequence.
I don't know if PTC (Positive Train Control) can command an entire horn sequence, or if it can only command "a horn blow." I do know that PTC can (and will) blow the horn if the engineer forgot.
