I wonder if there's a market for someone who can convert a schematic drawing (or rough sketch) to an STL file for #3DPrinting on a freelance basis. I'm getting to be pretty decent at it, and it's kinda fun.
I'm pretty sure there's probably already some AI garbage that purports to do so.
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Cleaning and re-inking my #FountainPens and I managed to spill one of my favourite Inkvent sample bottles. Fortunately, I somehow managed to save the majority of the ink. Don't ask me how.
I guess it's gonna be one of those days...
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I love marketing.
"We're committed to reduce our carbon footprint by shipping directly from the manufacturer to the consumer."
Sooo... drop shipping then? That's one way to spin it, I guess.
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I'm particular about my morning coffee. I always have 170g of coffee to 15g of flavouring syrup. (I used to drink double that, but I'm trying to keep the stimulants down.) The ratio is important.
Every now and again (like this morning) I accidentally overshoot on the syrup and have to adjust the amount of coffee to compensate.
This means, I get extra coffee (yay!) but I have to do semi-complicated math before my morning coffee, which is a little annoying.
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A slightly weird request: maybe someone among my mutuals is interested in staying at our place in South Wales for a few days to help us organise a hobbyist lab space at home? Vegetarian foods are on me, other than that, we can discuss 😁
An opportunity to touch many vintage computers, try some simple scientific experiments, and maybe design a PCB or two.
You'd think it's easy to find someone who would be happy to help, especially if you offer people money, but no 🙁
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The human brain did not evolve to handle a massive amount of misinformation.
It evolved to more or less believe what it’s told, because the community/tribe is focused on the survival of all together.
Social tools let it know who was the most trustworthy.
But overall if someone said
“that’s poisonous” or
“danger that way,” they meant it!
Not to oversimplify, but I really get why we’re struggling as a species with misinformation.
EVERYONE NEEDS ACCOMMODATIONS TO HANDLE MODERN LIFE
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@BoydStephenSmithJr even so, there’s (some, needs replicating iirc) evidence that the human brain immediately accepts/believes everything it hears, and THEN begins a process of critical thinking.
So for people who are busy, overwhelmed, distracted, stressed… that critical thinking mechanism may not have time or energy to function well.
It’s easy for me as someone with enormous capacity for data & internal processing to forget it’s really not easy!
I didn't mean to claim it was easy, or to really put any blame on someone that fails to think critically. It is an acquired skill, and yes, there is evidence that it runs counter to our instinct / reflexive behaviors.
I just wanted to emphasize that (a) you can't depend on Google, AI, your Bubble, or _anything_ external to do it for you, and (b) we *should* try to skill people up on it as a public good like society did at some points in the past.
It's especially important when you are spreading information to try to think critically about it first, because some of your audience/followers/community might not be in the best condition to engage their own critical thinking skills.
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@BoydStephenSmithJr Admittedly, not a given these days, but my daughter, who teaches 7th grade history, says this: “I don’t care ultimately if you know if Attila the Hun invaded Europe in 952 AD, as long as you’re able to exercise critical thinking skills.” That’s her number one goal.
I hope there’s thousands more like her.
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Capitalism didn't give us the internet.
Large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.
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The Internet was created by large-scale cooperation, open protocols, and free software. Capitalists stole that, called it The World Wide Web, and pretended they created it. The rest of us were on newsgroups, bulletin boards, and mailing lists, and never heard of Hypercard.
@cy I never had those. I was just making a point of the tech that led to the modern Web, browsers, and its advancements - it wasn't all work done by non-profits. There were corporations involved, and that work led to other innovation in the Internet industry.
I used Archie on UNIX to access content on the Internet before Mosaic existed. I don't think I participated in any online news / user groups at the time.
I believe capitalism can be positive if used properly, like a mom & pop restaurant.
Depends what you call "innovation." I certainly agree that we all got stuck using SSL because of capitalism. Mom & Pop Restaurants aren't capitalist though. They just own* a building and sell food.
* more likely they lease a building from a capitalist
I'm pretty sure capital is about owning people more than machines. You loan people money to buy a bunch of machines, and that money you loaned is capital. Investment capital, to be specific. Capital = leverage. It is true that capitalists use their leverage to control the means of production, but it's possible to control it without capitalism. i.e. NASA.
That's what I'm going on. I could very well be completely wrong.
Look into Tim Berners-Lee sometime. He did work at CERN when he proposed HTML and such. He's huge on microtransactions, getting people to pay for stuff over the net. Initially HTML was supposed to charge you for every link you followed, until someone pointed out that was utterly barking mad.
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Encountered my first mask ban in Canada. I had hoped we were smarter than this, but I suppose I'm not surprised. I guess they value their bottom line over public health, but it's a vape store, so I suppose that tracks.
Edit: autocorrect
Edit 2: It has been pointed out to me that there is an exemption for medical masks in the tiniest font imaginable at the bottom of the sign... almost as though they don't want you to read it.
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Little by little I've been going more and more analog. I still track every little thing I need to do in my #OrgMode system to help manage my #ADHD, but that list itself can get a little overwhelming. I've started combing over it in the morning, picking out the most critical things for that day and writing them down on a paper checklist in a small notebook I keep in my pocket. The notebook has the advantage of not distracting me with a thousand notifications every time I'm trying to do something productive.
Plus, I just really like having an excuse to put a nice #FountainPen and ink to paper.
Edit: slightly less clumsily worded
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Trying to design a custom phone holder for the dashboard of our car because it's a weird design that makes conventional ones unusable (I don't trust the suction cup ones).
Taking the measurements has made me painfully aware of just how... curved everything is on a dashboard. 🤬
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@Brian Sullivan We've got a similar one that suction cups to the windshield. I didn't want to permanently affix the plate to my phone (especially since we have two phones between the two of us).
Thought I could get around it by putting the plate inside of the case, but it holds much less securely that way (though the suction cup has still historically been the weakest link).
Our current solution involves a wooden block and a sock. It works, but my plan is a decided upgrade.
NOW FOUND! HUGE RELIEF. JUST BEFORE POTENTIALLY THE WORLDS BIGGEST BOLLOCKING EVER!
MANY THANKS TO ALL KIND TOOTERS WHO SWUNG IN TO ACTION TO SPREAD THE WORD.
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Just spent a good half hour pulling my hair out trying to figure out why one of the #elisp functions I had just written was always returning nil
when I tested it. Turns out, my test was mistakenly passing its inputs to the wrong (but similarly named) function (pivot-table-get-columns
instead of pivot-table-get-body
).
#Haskell's type system would've caught this. 🙃
C's type system would also have caught it, and it isn't worth a hill of beans.
By caught it what do we mean? This is not a case of some undetected error escaping your attention due to dynamic typing. You know you got a nil which is unexpected and wrong. It's in a test case which catches it.
The only thing a type system would change is that you would instead waste a half hour not understanding how your obviously correct function call can possibly have the wrong return type.
nil
is about the least useful failure state there is.
Okay, so this keeps happening. Up 'till now I've been able to fix it with a thorough cleaning, but no such luck this time.
Suggestions?
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GitHub - tbanel/orgaggregate: Aggregate tables in Org mode
Aggregate tables in Org mode. Contribute to tbanel/orgaggregate development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.youtube.com
We increasingly hear about China travellers who use #deltachat successfully where Whatsapp and Signal fail to work. Recently a family onboarded including a 85 old mother, to prepare for China travel. Everbody succeeded, no troubles!
#deltachat is all about resiliency and "just works" user experiences. Despite ongoing and prospective network blocking attempts, our apps manage to mitigate and remain working everywhere. Meanwhile we are preparing some next level resiliency/security features ;)
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So, keeping a #journal in #teeline has had some unexpected benefits for my #ADHD brain beyond my handwriting just being more able to keep up with the rate of my thoughts.
I might blog about this later, but the TL;DR is that the process of transcribing my entries requires me to think deliberately about the meaning of every word I've written.
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@Alessio Vanni Yeah, it's just very magic number-ey.
Ah well, such is the way it is with legacy code sometimes. No way to change it without breaking about a billion other things.
This is a black man that was murdered by memphis police and were acquitted by an ALL WHITE jury !
He lay on the ground asking for help from his momma while the cops kicked him to death.
If y'all ain't racist on this app shout out this injustice 🗣🗣
#blacklivesmatter #BlackMastodon
RIP Tyre ❤️
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A similar thing happened to me, except it wasn't cops and I was only officially dead for under 10 minutes
When i watched the videos of his murder i was screaming in pain for him... and when he cried to see his mom, that broke me. I have immense survivor's guilt and there iss no reason Tyre should not be alive today except for those cops
I pray for his family and fir all the others that have state violence inflicted on them undeserved
Salt Lake City unveils new flags to circumvent Utah's flag law
Mayor Erin Mendenhall unveiled a series of flags that appear to circumvent a new law that goes into effect banning "non-sanctioned" flags.Ben Winslow (FOX 13 News Utah (KSTU))
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I like using org tables with org-babel like so:
#+NAME: test
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 5 |
| 3 | 6 |
#+begin src emacs-lisp :var test=test
(mapcar
'(lambda (r)
(mapcar '(lambda (x) (* x x)) r)) test)
#+RESULTS:
| 1 | 16 |
| 4 | 25 |
| 9 | 36 |
With a whole bunch of folks leaving MS Word and similar as of late, seems like the right time to post this again, but I put together a little resource to help explain *why* it's so important to ditch Word and similar.
[edit: I'm aware of some readability issues on some systems, and am working to fix. See note below.]
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Thanks to everyone who's pointed out that the page is very difficult to read on some systems; I have not had that happen on any of the laptops and/or phones that I have access to, so I wasn't able to notice that earlier, and I apologize for the accessibility issues that creates.
I'm not, unfortunately, a professional webdev, and have found it a little challenging to make a plain HTML page that works everywhere.
Someone in DMs very kindly suggested a fix, and I'll look at applying that ASAP.
I *think* it should be fixed? On my laptop and phone, it looks identical to how it used to, but it now doesn't fix the zoom level in CSS, such that hopefully it should work well in more browsers and on more devices.
Thanks again to everyone who let me know about the problem, and for the kind person who suggested a fix in DMs.
Dane's law: There is not a hobby in existence that has any kind of an upper limit on how much money you can spend in it.
Fountain pens? Sure, there's the Platinum Preppy and Pilot Varsity, but also Momtblanc and Visconti!
Amateur Radio? Sure there's your $30 Baofeng, but also your $20,000 kilowatt at-home HF shack!
Drones? Sure, there's your $20 supermarket drone, but also tens of thousands of dollars super high performance FPV racing drones
Computing? $35 raspi vs at-home supercomputing cluster, just for giggles!
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@paradoxmo I'm currently using a TWSBI Diamond 580. As for the technique, I was basically just making a rookie mistake:
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@Kate McDonald It's a bit of a pain to work with because I only use it with a dip pen* and have to juggle that with a UV flashlight. That aside, it works really well. Completely invisible under normal lighting conditions and shows up really well under UV.
* Because I feel that cleaning it out of a regular pen would be a pain.
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Well, there's dip pens. 😉
It looks like I wasn't moving the pen enough. As I would keep writing, the shimmer would collect in the feed until it just straight-up clogged. I didn't realize I had to periodically roll the pen around even while I was actively using it. This should have been obvious by the fact that my writing kept getting more and more, well... shimmery before the ink stopped flowing.
I'll try this approach in the future.
Rookie mistake, but in my defense, I didn't even know that shimmer inks were even a thing until late last year.
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in reply to silverwizard • •@silverwizard @Janne Moren Fortunately, this machine will only be used for certain things that require Windows (which are few and far between). It's not an issue for me to regularly factory reset it as it will contain nothing sensitive or that needs requires persistence.
Anything important lives on a machine with a trustworthy OS.
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The only Windows computer I touch (ie. #SysAdmin) has only Windows Defender. It's essentially a public computer, used by many people with unknown computer hygiene.
So far, so good.
I think Windows Defender is at least as good at updating against (Defender-specific) attacks as any other anti-virus. I say that without having any evidence.
@me @jannem
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In the end, the best move seems to not add any additional liability to Windows Defender.
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Can you... elaborate on that one?
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