#general-chat

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blissful roost
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Ohh

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You watched Speed Racer.

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Sorry.

dusk oracle
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i did along with every other movie lana ever made all in 2:30 hours

blissful roost
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Shame... You should watch the new Matrix film.

sterile junco
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So I have this midi controller, and I have no experience with anything electronic or coding. How easy would it be to use something like a raspberry pi to turn my midi controller into a portable synth?

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blissful roost
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It's actually good.

dusk oracle
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you know why?

blissful roost
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I'm sure it's doable

dusk oracle
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Cuz i am talking about it right now

blissful roost
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Might need a microcontroller.

silver shale
blissful roost
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Suppose the real question is how you connect the two.

sterile junco
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It has a USB type B plug

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I lost it while moving so I haven’t been able to use it for a long while, but I want to make a project out of being able to make it portable when I want

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It being the plug

silver shale
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Oh, USB? Would mainly be software then.

sterile junco
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Yeah

blissful roost
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That makes things a lot easier...

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Ohh! I need to watch Hawkeye!

lusty fossil
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it's pretty good so far

blissful roost
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No spoilers

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I just need to watch the last episode. 👍

dusk oracle
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Spoiler warning: When the matrix ends you look for a refund.

blissful roost
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I might go watch Ghostbusters Afterlife again soon.

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I'll definitely watch Matrix Resurrections again.

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I'll watch 1-3 first, before a second viewing. 😁

sterile junco
silver shale
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Is the controller supported by ARM Linux?

blissful roost
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Definitely an option... I can't say if it's the "best" option.

dusk oracle
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i honestly dont mean to sound mean, i'm glad you liked it but it was not a matrix movie

blissful roost
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I'M A GATEKEEPER!

dusk oracle
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it was everything we already had just repacked, they left behind alot

blissful roost
dusk oracle
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what we go was a movie that was hyped and so hyped that it hardly hit on the 2nd or 3rd movie

blissful roost
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Hummm... I wonder if it's set up as a HID... ?

sterile junco
dusk oracle
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it was literally all 3 movies + transformers + ghost busters and all her other films i never enjoyed rolled into one

sterile junco
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Keep in mind I’m poor

blissful roost
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Yeah... I'm looking for a reason to buy one myself. 😂

blissful roost
silver shale
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Thought about getting one just to have it in stock before they are all sold out again

sterile junco
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It’s in stock now

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The regular pi zero w is out of stock

dusk oracle
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Woke garbage, made by a woman who is so dumb she thinks we want to see references from her old movies.

blissful roost
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I'll look for a Zero 2 later...

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Can't be bothered right now. Lol

sterile junco
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Lol

blissful roost
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My little boy is throwing his toys around... Clearly doesn't appreciate my tidying efforts. 😂

silver shale
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I have limited use cases for Raspberry Pi's due to the SoCs they use

blissful roost
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Why?? It's just a tiny A64FX... /s

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Lol

sterile junco
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SoCs?

blissful roost
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System-on-Chip

silver shale
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In real though, they were mainly intended for television set top boxes

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They handle video good

blissful roost
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Ohh! Idea...

dusk oracle
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the pi was made to give people a chip that's more powerful than arduino but not the foot print of a PC

blissful roost
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Star Wars 1-9 Marathon on Xmas day! 😁

silver shale
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it is inexpensive and has solid support so it is a good solution for many things

dusk oracle
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i'm sorry i cant stop getting the image out of my head, i keep thinking about that episode of south park and indiana jones

blissful roost
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I still want to get my hands on the A64FX.

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But .... They won't let me play with $40k hardware. Lol

silver shale
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A64FX, RK3568, Ampere all show what can be done with the ARM arch

blissful roost
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Indeed.

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That was the main design ethos... Adaptable.

silver shale
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Excited about the 3568 because of its 32 + 8 (ECC) memory bus

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making it great for low power servers

blissful roost
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Interesting

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The A64FX is just pure stonk though. 😎

sterile junco
silver shale
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Should be much more than powerful for that

sterile junco
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Dang

silver shale
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especially the 4B

sterile junco
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A YouTuber used it to power SunVox

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Like they used the pi zero w to run SunVox which is a daw

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And shouldn’t the pi zero 2 be more powerful?

blissful roost
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Yarp. It is

dusk oracle
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@sterile junco it's a pi3 on a pizero board

blissful roost
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Next 4 days;

Live streaming games
Or
Playing around with CoreOS and Rancher/Kubernetes?

dusk oracle
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Option 3:
regret watching the matrix

blissful roost
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But then... Eternals is still showing.

lusty fossil
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I thought eternals was just OK. It was too busy of a movie IMO. Too much going on for a coherent story. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't great

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I liked Kumail's character

dusk oracle
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honestly dont care the matrix was the highlight of my freaking year

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2021 you have proven everything gets worse

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i have been waiting for a shoulder operation for since covid started

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due to the load on hospitals it's been a entire year of me just waiting for "ok were ready for you"

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Meanwhile other people get to go on with their lives, making a future for them self while i can't get a job due something as stupid as a shoulder accident

lusty fossil
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yeah hospitals are not in great shape right now. "elective" (in your case it doesn't really sound that elective) surgeries are mostly delayed semi-indefinitely.

dusk oracle
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been waiting since last year on this very day the 23rd

lusty fossil
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Fortunately I haven't needed anything serious looked at recently, but my PA is pretty overwhelmed.

dusk oracle
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i think i need to say this out loud and proud, Warner brothers... keep doing what you are doing.
You truly have fallen to a level .. so low sharks wont even try eat you and at this rate i doubt anyone will see them as anything until they wake up and remember how to just make movies and leave the meta politics to reddit and twitter monkeys.
we watch movies to be entertained, not to have your agenda or need for affirmation shoved down our necks.

hasty wedge
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Bus 003 Device 036: ID 2e8a:0004 Raspberry Pi Picoprobe
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I am wondering why linux can only display picoprobe's name when plugged directly to the computer

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when plugged via a usb hub, it will only show as

Bus 003 Device 035: ID 2e8a:0004
harsh goblet
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Sorry for the late reply and ping. I'm just looking for pretty much any solid programming or entry level software development position. Not yet though because I have one more class to take for my degree. But the current place I'm at uses a garbage proprietary language and hardly does any development so I can't stay here.

late fulcrum
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Not particularly, it's just slightly radioactive. It would probably be a bad idea to break it and breathe the dust.

lusty fossil
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ahh ok

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Good to know. Thanks. I'll keep it in a regular glass and wood cabinet. Gotta figure out that having more money thing first though

sterile junco
quartz wren
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Um

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Is that a bad word? My message just disappeared

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Either way got a good gift for Christmas in the form of extended features on discord

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And I'm just like Pepe23 Froog Froog Froog

lusty fossil
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The server is generally meant to be family friendly, as a result a number of words and topics are banned

dusk oracle
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O_O

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ok i think that has to be a mistaken entry in the bot

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i the word N!tro a bad word?

lusty fossil
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Ah

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Yrs

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Special case

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Spam attacks happen regularly related to that word.

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Or at least spam attacks happen regularly and enough of them are related to that feature to make it a banned word is my understanding

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You can discuss the element and the fuel additive but not the short version of the word

dusk oracle
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cool so your saying i need to spam the word lana and matrix

lusty fossil
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Given LED matrices I doubt the second word would ever get banned
You might though

dusk oracle
quartz wren
lusty fossil
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Congrats on the gift

quartz wren
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Managed to mint a rare animated NFT in an exclusive community so a friend wanted me to be able to show it off in its full glory

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And now I have all the benefits that entails which is amazing

spice moss
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air cleaners and air purifiers to help as i have small what helps for me keeps air quality better i hope

spice moss
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something what helps air wise is helpful as having allergies so minimize getting sick is cool

blissful roost
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Never used one myself.
No allergies is good. 👍

hasty wedge
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oh really

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Yeah

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That's true

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N1tro will get deleted

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How about now

blissful roost
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Lol

hasty wedge
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Gonna delete that

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That looks stupid

silver shale
crude folio
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Check out my dope NFT

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(nice festive tshirt)

tardy badger
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I realized that NFT can also stand for Notable Female Technologists

real falcon
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NOT FUN TOYS

tardy badger
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Notoriously Fun Toys

lusty fossil
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Not Fun Transgressions

wanton thistle
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So I need baking help

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but its very crumbly

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We dont have castor sugar, so I used granular sugar

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IIRC even the contestants had issues with this lol

hasty wedge
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added record to external flash(not sd card and without a file system) capability

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sounds like a speak and spell for some reason

vernal yoke
hasty wedge
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I overclocked the rp2040 to 240mhz

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But still can not achieve the speed I need

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Then I tried to optimize my algorithm

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Now the code can run smoothly even when I underclock the CPU to 72Mhz just like a STM32F103

lusty fossil
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I think the first person to build a wearable machine that cracks your back, but doesn't break your spine, is gonna get the Nobel prize

crystal ore
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Hahaha, maybe it'll be a third-party hack for future VR haptic suits to do that.

lusty fossil
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lolol

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for now we'll just have to stick to knowing tall people

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have them do the cracking.

wooden schooner
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I will never get chiropractic from a robot.

fading hare
# wanton thistle but its very crumbly

if I remember correctly, that dough is sensitive to how much you kneed it, too much/little will mess it up, and I think that's why they used it in the bake show, because it's deceptively hard

wanton thistle
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I dont know if that was correct

fading hare
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hey, if it worked...

wanton thistle
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lol Its not like I have Paul and Prue judging me

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or mary berry

wooden schooner
late fulcrum
lusty fossil
wooden schooner
late fulcrum
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I have nothing against a good orthopedist or massage therapist, as I'm a big fan of evidence-based medicine. However, some stuff that someone just made up in the late 19th century doesn't qualify.

real falcon
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it can be helpful, but it doesnt cure cancer, etc etc

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it helps realign your back, and get rid of tension. thats it.

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if they try say otherwise, its all bull brown matter

wooden schooner
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Sure. Sounds like you are holding it to standards that I don't (possibly due to my ignorance). I have no need for it to be considered a science.

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I personally am pretty allergic to the phrase "evidence-based" because of its political connotations in the psychotherapy world. CBT works for some people for some things, but in general is very reductive and the fact that insurance companies (as well as psychology research funding) favor it for being "more scientific" is in my opinion a pathology of the system.

vernal yoke
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How is it not the best?

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Or is scientism just disregarding logic, math, and statistics?

lusty fossil
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what would you call someone who practices scientism? Certainly not a scientist

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scientismo/a?

wooden schooner
vernal yoke
lusty fossil
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I have suggestions but they are rude

wooden schooner
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@vernal yoke science is a social process, and has the pitfalls of social processes.

vernal yoke
vernal yoke
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Or...

wooden schooner
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have you heard the term "paradigm shift"?

vernal yoke
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Not really

wooden schooner
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Thomas Kuhn wrote a ground-breaking book called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. One of its central points is that science is a social process. He further elaborates a particular theory of the social mechanisms through which scientific revolutions ("paradigm shifts") occur.

vernal yoke
dusk oracle
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@wooden schooner IE people are dumb and still believe in magic

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🤣

wooden schooner
vernal yoke
vernal yoke
vernal yoke
wooden schooner
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science, pretty much no matter how it's construed, is not completely objective. For example, studies never "say" things -- those are interpretations. The social processes by which those interpretations are accepted into or rejected from the mainstream, and by which social groups form around sets of views, are just that -- social processes.

wooden schooner
# vernal yoke Whatever this means by "science"

I interpret that line to mean that the scientific method is just one of many ways that people attempt to learn about the world, and as such, should be viewed with an appropriately critical eye.

vernal yoke
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Well, inductive reasoning doesn't prove anything either

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But the scientific method is based on it

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We can be almost certain that the results we get are true

wooden schooner
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I don't have the philosophical background to be able to give a good explanation of the several terms in that sentence that have a lot to unpack, but one question to consider is, are there truths that cannot be verified by scientific means? If so, what makes them true?

vernal yoke
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Then again, you did say:

If so, what makes them true?

crystal ore
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Historical facts might fall into the "true things that science cannot verify" category, perhaps.

vernal yoke
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Hm

vernal yoke
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But that's a very stupid definition

wooden schooner
vernal yoke
wooden schooner
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yes. Limitations of logic.

vernal yoke
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The sun rises every day

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We don't really use logic there

wooden schooner
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(I mean, I don't actually consider this a limitation of logic, but I suspect others might call it that)

vernal yoke
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We use observation

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Evidence-based reasoning

wooden schooner
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sure - as you said, inductive reasoning

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is that science?

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did you use science to establish that the sun rises?

vernal yoke
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But a huge part of science is based on observation

wooden schooner
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indeed

vernal yoke
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And the sun doesn't actually move...

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(in fact, all the planets revolve around the moon, which revolves around the Sun!)

wooden schooner
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see, that's actually probably the canonical example!

vernal yoke
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¯_(ツ)_/¯

wooden schooner
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the astronomy of Ptolemy, then Copernicus / Kepler and also Brahe

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shoot I messed up that chronology 🤣

real falcon
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science isnt about being right. its about getting close to how reality actually works

lusty fossil
vernal yoke
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Me stupid

vernal yoke
wooden schooner
vernal yoke
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It throws a wrench into that

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Doesn't it?

wooden schooner
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depends on your interpretation of quantum mechanics, as well as how you assess whether a prediction is correct, as well as your broader views on science and epistemology

tardy badger
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Except quantum physics

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We discovered time travel in the quantum scales

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It would just be impossible to scale

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In quantum mechanics/physics we say something has traveled back in time by which a particle moves from an advanced state to a simpler previous state.

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We’ve achieved this many times with quantum particles

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I terms of how accurate movie time travel is, Avengers End Game is pretty accurate to what researchers see in quantum simulations.

lusty fossil
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Maaaaann it's been raining for 3 days and it stopped for like 2 hours but now it's raining again and will be for my walk to my car.

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Sad times at Memont high

tardy badger
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Yikes

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It was supposed to snow but it’s raining

lusty fossil
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We have 10 days of rain on the forecast

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I hate winter so much

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Spring/summer uber alles

tardy badger
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I love winter when it snows

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I don’t like southern winters

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Too hot

lusty fossil
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I don't like snow, I don't like cold wind, I don't like rain (cold or warm). I'm a dry heat person

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Much like a lizard

fading hare
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I love summer because it's gorgeous and green. I hate summer in NC because every tree (all 400+ species of them) tries to kill me. And it's too hot. That's why I still love winter more. Everything has finally had the decency to die. But, I miss the snow. It makes the dark bearable. With snow, all you need to see to walk where it would otherwise be pitch black is a little sliver of moon. I also miss the Swedish climate and the awesome countryside.

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In other news, I'm in an ER on Christmas Eve. And this guy five seats over is hacking up a lung. Merry Christmas!

real falcon
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hope you get better on whatever reason you're there, or working?

vernal yoke
fading hare
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I'm here for my heart. I have AFib. But I think it might have been a false alarm. I'm wearing a mask. Everyone else is as well, but people coughing like that still weird me out.

fading hare
vernal yoke
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I don't think I looked outside and saw the Earth's curvature though

lusty fossil
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I think you have to be higher to see the curvature, but it's been a while since I was on a plane.

fading hare
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Nope. You only need to see about 200 miles to see the curvature.

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Or less.

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Which you can do on a clear day.

lusty fossil
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I should probably travel more.

slim shard
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I guess I'll have to be on the lookout in the future

fading hare
lusty fossil
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but my PTO schedule/accrual rate is a joke so I guess I can work 3 years in order to have enough time to really see a place.

fading hare
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That sucks.

lusty fossil
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My state has no minimum requirement. In an otherwise worker friendly environment (as much as any American state is worker friendly, that is), it's a glaring oversight

fading hare
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Which state?

lusty fossil
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CA

fading hare
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California?

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Yeah.

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I remember that from the company I worked at out of CA. I was like, what?

lusty fossil
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idk if it's just the norm for the industry but the amount I get is paltry

fading hare
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I think in NC the minimum for full-time employment is 2 weeks. But, I don't know if the same applies if you're part-time. That's probably how a lot of companies here abuse the system same as in CA.

lusty fossil
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yeah after the ACA a lot of people started getting schedules that were like 29.5 hours a week

fading hare
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That's horrible.

wooden schooner
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I recall once being told someone would respond "within 48 business hours"

fading hare
lusty fossil
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lol I'm saving that for when the HR woman bothers me

wooden schooner
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Idk, an email

lusty fossil
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she doesn't know it yet, but we don't get along

wooden schooner
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I waited 6 business days

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Turns out the intention had been 2

lusty fossil
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I don't know if a general disregard for human decency is really bred into HR people, but I've found it in every one I've ever met

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also a general "fakeness"

fading hare
lusty fossil
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Mine likes to go to my boss' boss to resolve minor payroll blips

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and have him contact me

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Like...I'm right here, you have my phone number, just call me and we'll sort it

fading hare
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I hope he steps on a really sharp space LEGO at the top of his stairs at some point.

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Wow.

wooden schooner
lusty fossil
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I'm hoping she just doesn't realize how deeply insulting that is

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but she does it to everyone

fading hare
lusty fossil
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it's just a mess around here

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I like to hope that there exists an HR person who got into because they like people and want to help, not because they are petty and that's the only path to "power" available to them

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but it's a faint hope at this point

wooden schooner
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The job of HR is to prevent the company from being sued

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I kind of consider my boss's delusional optimism about the realities of HR to be a moral failing

fading hare
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People in a lot of different roles like to exercise their "power" over others, but yeah, HR people doing it is the worst.

lusty fossil
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I'm fortunate that my boss is both too busy for that and not inclined

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she's really great

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Doesn't have any idea what I do but great

fading hare
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Ha

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Being a good boss has little to do with knowing exactly what everyone does.

lusty fossil
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I agree

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It's the only downside really and it's not the worst downside

wooden schooner
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However, if you don't know what they do, then you can't also be the one who decides what goes on their plate.

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The boss being absentee from a proper delegation process can be a real set of headaches.

lusty fossil
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yeah they want me to do a lot next year. I'm willing to put in the extra hours but we're just starting the conversation about how much time it takes me to do my work and what's reasonable to expect

blissful roost
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My team lead asked if I wanted to apply for her role, as she's moving on..

fading hare
blissful roost
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Several colourful words came out before "no..."

wooden schooner
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Some bosses don't do this.

fading hare
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Yeah, but you don't need to understand what they do, necessarily.

wooden schooner
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Oh, sure

fading hare
blissful roost
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We don't really have much call for people to put in extra, except OT to cover holiday or sick.

lusty fossil
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In CA it's 1.5x pay for every hour past 8 each day. I don't know how that compares to elsewhere but it's pretty attractive

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So I could be making a lot more

blissful roost
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Ours is 1.5x minimum on OT.

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.. and you can't really do less than a whole shift, so it's 10.5 hours paid.

fading hare
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I've been full time for so long. I forgot what it's like to some days just make double what you'd normally make...

lusty fossil
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I'm full time but hourly

blissful roost
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In nearly 2 years with the company, I've not done any OT. 😛

fading hare
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Salary I meant. Working in tech usually also means that nobody respects your standard 8-hour work day.

lusty fossil
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Yeah that's a major downside to salary

fading hare
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At least not in startups.

lusty fossil
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My friend has the best of both worlds. Salary + 1.5x what he'd make hourly if he works more than 40

fading hare
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But. I've loved most of it. Now I've moved to a more stable and regular type of work so it's all good.

blissful roost
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I still have no idea what my hourly rate is. 😛

lusty fossil
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Yeah I definitely don't want to work at a startup

blissful roost
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I only care what lands in my bank account each month.

wooden schooner
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My boss once ducked out and asked me to text him if there was an emergency on such and such project. There was one. I texted him saying: "Pinging as requested. This is a one way message, do not reply as I don't use my personal phone for work messages. See you on Slack."

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Tone was slightly softer than that but not much

blissful roost
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Ohh.. that's nothing.
My former manager refused to help me with a service-affecting issue, on a Saturday.
Told me to "Google it".

fading hare
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LOL

wooden schooner
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Did you?

fading hare
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I would have immediately cc'd his manager.

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That's how I solve that kind of bull.

blissful roost
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fffffffff

fading hare
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Email. For posterity.

blissful roost
fading hare
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Depending on your company's retention policy that could be years.

blissful roost
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Yuh huh

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Wasn't worth reporting it, tbh.

fading hare
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And then go to sysops.

blissful roost
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He lost 5 staff... and they paid me to leave.

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So, they didn't take anything seriously.

fading hare
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You're not "reporting" anything. Just subtly reminding them that they're being douche canoes.

blissful roost
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Again, pointless.

wooden schooner
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When the hr rep took longer than a day to acknowledge receipt of my resignation email, I pinged cc'ing their boss. Instant response

fading hare
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

blissful roost
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I'd rather just leave and let people dig their own graves.

wooden schooner
fading hare
blissful roost
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I always got the impression that GoDaddy really doesn't give a .... about the grunts.

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You're just a body, there to do a job.

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At least now I get paid enough to not care what management does.. and you literally never have an issue getting help with anything.

fading hare
blissful roost
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You don't seem to get it.....

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They didn't care.

fading hare
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Oh, I do.

blissful roost
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I'm not inclined to waste my energies on fruitless venture.

fading hare
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I get it. But why did you care?

blissful roost
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I didn't, I left.

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lol

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At least... it got to the point where I didn't care any more.

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I should clear my desk today, so I can put down my mousemat. 😄

fading hare
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I had to clean up my workbench to put my new desk mat down.

blissful roost
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I have a 90x40CM.. colleague gave it to me the other day.

fading hare
blissful roost
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lol

dusk oracle
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awesome mouse pad

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does it come in black?

lusty fossil
silver shale
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is it me or does the combine button 2 sound effect from HL2 sound like a cat

fading hare
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Update: Christmas morning. Still in the hospital. No detectable damage to my heart, but some weird readings. They may refuse to do the stress test because I said my chest hurts so they're treating me like I have COVID-19. This is still not the worst Christmas of all time. Hope everyone's having a nice, quiet time away from hospitals! 🎄✨❄️

tardy badger
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Hopefully whatever you have ends up being more mild

fading hare
fading hare
# tardy badger Hopefully whatever you have ends up being more mild

I've got AFib, but they're thinking this was a low-grade heart attack. But now there's a new doctor wanting to just send me home. Without knowing anything. Or keep me until Monday. I'm like. Those options are awesome! So I asked if he could help, so they called and checked and did a rapid COVID test. If that doesn't come back negative I'll basically have to go home. That sounds a bit... Weird. But, I guess if anything goes wrong, my wife will at least be a wealthy woman from the malpractice lawsuit.

tardy badger
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Hahaha, well.. best of luck

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Hospitals are not expensive

fading hare
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Super cheap! Can't be more than like a Motel 8!

wanton thistle
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I had AFIB before. It went away on its own. I think mine was stress induced because as soon as they were going to give me meds via IV it went away. They couldnt figure out what caused it. 🤷

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Its not a fun feeling. Good luck

stoic mesa
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@fading hareget well! hope it will be OK.

fading hare
# wanton thistle I had AFIB before. It went away on its own. I think mine was stress induced beca...

I've had it since 2018. Mine is a bit more serious, but still manageable with medication, thus far. Almost died in 2018. Medic misdiagnosed me in the ambulance, thought I was in V-Tach because my heart was beating at 260 beats a minute. She administered the drug that chemically shuts off your heart. I think she had to bring me back with the defib because I have no memory of like 40% of that ambulance ride. That shot did nothing. Heart came back on, still doing 260 bpm. So she does the drug one more time... No effect. At this point we're at the hospital and they determine I'm in AFib, not V-Tach. Medic is freaked out, I could tell. She waited with me in the trauma room until they brought my pulse back to around 140. Once I was stable, she left. I am pretty sure I saw her cry. I'm just really glad she got me there alive. AFib converted to a stable sinus rhythm about 14 hours later.

fading hare
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I felt so bad for that medic. I never got her name so I couldn't thank her once I got home.

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I'm wondering if they can still track down who brought me so I can tell her I'm really grateful that she got me to the hospital.

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It was kind of hilarious when I was leaving... Fire shows up first because they're literally two blocks over, I'm already on my way out the door, checked on the cats, got my keys and they're trying to triage me. Ambulance shows up and I'm walking over there telling the fire fighters that I gotta go, I get in, and that's when my adrenaline wears off and the rest of the story you know!

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Can someone please take SHIBA INU to the moon for Christmas?

tardy badger
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Lol I wish

wooden schooner
fading hare
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I'll be alright! Can't miss Christmas!

vast badge
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anyone ever consider humans are kinda like a blockchain ?

blissful roost
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Which came first... ?

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🧐

fading hare
blissful roost
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Indeed

fading hare
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In other news, friends, I am back home. I was discharged in a haste because they had me housed in the COVID wing because my throat hurt and I had chest pain (from my heart), but I don't have COVID. So, anyway. I got a full heart checkup and still don't have all the answers, but it was most likely a medication issue so I have to follow up with my primary.

blissful roost
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Plus side: Not covid.

fading hare
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Good news, no heart damage, nothing permanent. Still some weird stuff with my heart, but we'll figure it out. 🙏

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Thanks for letting me hang out last night while I was in the ER. I used some non-family-oriented words, and I apologize for that.

wooden schooner
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Did they acknowledge that yes, it probably was the condition you already knew about, but because of the covid situation, they had to assume you might additionally have covid? Or did they just ignore you and act like covid was the only thing?

fading hare
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I've had my first two shots, though, so hopefully...

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It was crazy though. A bunch of people laying down on beds and coughing. One lady was in this giant oxygen cocoon.

fading hare
wooden schooner
# fading hare Oh no, they acknowledged it, and knew very well. So, if I get COVID, guess who I...

Good. My blood boiled years ago when I read about people who came to the doctor with medical conditions they already knew about and were dismissed with a diagnosis of "fat" and instructions to lose weight. In one case the person would have had a significant chance of dying if she had listened to those instructions and not taken steps for her (known to her but doctor would not test for) anemia.

fading hare
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Oh, they did something similar to me here because I have a history with GERD, but I know what's up, so I can follow up, and what I've got isn't life-threatening, so I will get to the bottom of it. I have some choice words about the US medical system, but let's just say that they're basically plague doctors with really expensive Minolta cameras. 😉

umbral phoenix
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ugh, ordered from Adafruit Tuesday, under the "Orders are currently shipping on a 1-2 day delay" advisement, wasn't really expecting it until next week, now kicking myself for not checking... it got delivered to the post office this morning and now I can't get it until Monday 😦

lusty fossil
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Oof

tardy badger
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Big oof

fading hare
blissful roost
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I ordered two gifts for my wife yesterday.. they arrived today. 😅

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But that was Amazon.

hasty wedge
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Christmas gift from my friend

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Kinda weird to see a figure surrounded by adafruit products instead of more figures

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I gave my friend an Adafruit MacroPad kit

hasty wedge
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add sound effects to your figure with a RP2040

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It's probably way less works for me to just use the CircuitPython mp3 library, but It feels special to use my own C implementation (also, circuitpython probably can not play MP3 from an other external SPI flash)

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now I just need to embed everything into the base

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custom PCB from JLC coming soon

nimble knoll
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looks like it's going to be a covid christmas for me. at least I can finally play around with the kb2040

slim shard
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tack on a few shift registers and you can read a planet full of keys!!!

spice moss
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james webb telescope launch what is happening

slim shard
slim shard
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half hour to launch

dusty citrus
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.oO(They probably have a TLE for Santa and his sleigh and had to move the launch window, sometime last week.)

spice moss
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Santa knows this launch

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Santa have informed

slim shard
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took a break to watch some peeps launch a christmas tree.

ocean sigil
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Now everyone at the controls has to remember to breath 😉 Very exciting....

spice moss
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ESA Nasa and Canadian space agency work together

ocean sigil
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Go Ariane!

slim shard
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This launch brought to you by nvidia

spice moss
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digital twins are cool right?

ocean sigil
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Amazing -- Congratulations to Arianespace for an incredible launch!

spice moss
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go james webb

ocean sigil
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it's on it's own

spice moss
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ariane5 camera feed so amazing

ocean sigil
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yes it is!

slim shard
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might see it again if we decide to refuel it

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#jubilationinthefishbowl

ocean sigil
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Very cool to see the solar array deploying

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It's alive!!!

spice moss
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its alive its allive

ocean sigil
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Now the fun begins....

spice moss
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now the science begins

slim shard
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Jubilation intensifies.

ocean sigil
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A few more critical steps to go 😉

spice moss
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fianlly it launched too

dusty citrus
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I would have watched the rest of it, but they blinded me with SCIENCE! /rimshot

slim shard
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better than 10 hours of rendered coasting

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and the repeating interstitial blurbs that would be shoved in there

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hmm, actually, if the slowly make them more simulated each round, towards the end max headroom is annoucing for it

silver shale
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got my first mech keyboard today

velvet ledge
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nice

wise wyvern
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Happy holidays!:)

silver shale
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Got MX Clears since they had a similar feel to the old (2009) ThinkPad keyboard.

wise wyvern
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I have an 8bitdo gamepad laying around. It has rumble, and looks like an old nintendo controller. Finally have time to play with it after 3 years.. 😄 Can you recommend a game for it?

silver shale
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workflow of Windows on Linux

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hasty wedge
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Ah

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The original thinkpad keyboard

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I still have a X201T

silver shale
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Liked how the X200 Tablet keeb felt and was already used to it

hasty wedge
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It feels fantastic

dusty citrus
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I had a nice old ThinkPad - don't remember much about it other than it had a real RS232C 9 pin port.

hasty wedge
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Current days thinkpad keyboards are pretty crappy

late fulcrum
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Yeah, IBM spun off their nice keyboards to Lenovo, who then spun them off to Unicomp (but kept making the Thinkpads, but with lesser keybards)

silver shale
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ThinkPads do not last that long anymore. Even a Lenovo ad showed it.

hasty wedge
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Yeah

silver shale
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X200 still acts like its new after installing Debian on it

hasty wedge
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Same

dusty citrus
hasty wedge
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x201t with ubuntu runs super smooth

dusty citrus
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9front pays a lot of attention to ThinkPads.

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So there's code available to make it do stuff esp. the video.

late fulcrum
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For long lasting laptops these days, I look to Apple, Toshiba, and Acer.

hasty wedge
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Apple

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Are you positive about that

late fulcrum
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Yes, I'm still using my 2009 white plastic Macbook, it's solid

silver shale
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The HP ZBooks seem solid

hasty wedge
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Oh, old days apple

silver shale
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the original 2006 Mac Pro was built like a space shuttle

late fulcrum
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The titanium one?

hasty wedge
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I am currently using a Framework

dusty citrus
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I had the GRiD Compass 1101 which flew on a Shuttle (not the very one I had, though).

hasty wedge
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Best laptop ever had

late fulcrum
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I lost all respect for HP hardware after the Compaq merger

silver shale
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ah

late fulcrum
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I liked the GRiD machines, I wish their roller mouse had become more popular, but it was about the most expensive option to manufacture, so it got replaced by cheaper (but less satisfying) pointing devices.

silver shale
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Consumer HP hardware is painful to use. Enterprise stuff still holds up.

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Prefer Supermicro for desktop boards.

dusty citrus
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I couldn't access its floppy diskette system (came with it) so I typed in a Tiny C compiler (into just what I don't remember now)>

late fulcrum
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That has not been my experience. I used to manage racks of HP blade servers, they were nothing but trouble (even worse than the Dell stuff, which is saying something)

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Then again, the "Proliant" name gave away their Compaq origins

silver shale
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Have not touched the BMC, maybe it would be different then...

late fulcrum
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Even though we didn't run servers for 20 years at a time, I quickly came to respect a 20 year hardware design life over a 4 year hardware design life.

silver shale
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Same

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Have you worked with SMI equipment?

late fulcrum
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No, haven't worked with SMI

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Unless you mean Sun (now Oracle)

silver shale
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Supermicro

wise wyvern
blissful roost
silver shale
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seems the quality decrease started around 2011-2012

blissful roost
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It's the chiclet keyboards... Ruin everything, they do.

fading hare
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Y'all. My father in law is the best. Got an Adafruit gift card for Christmas! My stepson also got me a bunch of cool Adafruit stuff. My haul has been good so far!

honest jolt
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Also happy holidays 🙂

late fulcrum
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The ability to assign pins on an HT16K33 in the order I want is what made this routing possible.

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wooden schooner
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I've had a good experience with the Lenovo X1 Carbon (3rd gen and 6th gen)

wooden schooner
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If you want to be Silicon Valley Sassy with me, please have a clean API first. You should be apologizing for this mess, not telling me to "check myself before I wreck myself."

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manic tide
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What a waste of package (that's a print, the product is inside)

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dusty citrus
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I think Bill Gates invented buying empty boxes.

subtle fable
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My uncle got like 70 raspberry PI 3s from a hospital because they scrapped a program they were doing, said i can have some

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blissful roost
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Very nice.. do want. Lol

late fulcrum
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Cool, I just built a project out of a Pi 3!

subtle fable
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I now have 15 Pi 3s

blissful roost
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😄

dusty citrus
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I wish more software ran on Linux. There, I finally said it in public.

blissful roost
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What.. like.. Adobe?

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fnaar

dusty citrus
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Specifically, Reason Studios DAW. I have Renoise, though

late fulcrum
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Huh, I was just talking to a friend who's running the same thing.

dusty citrus
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It's like half of what I want to use is supported by Windows and Linux, and the other half is supported by Windows and mac.

fading hare
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VirtualBox.

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All day. Was just in my VM to use my stupid Brother QL-700 to print more labels for my component drawers.

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Printers are the perfect example of why we should have open source, everywhere. All the time. Since the beginning.

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And generic GPU drivers.

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Sure, maybe I don't get ray-tracing extravaganza super feature bonanza, but at least I would be able to boot my OS using your dumb graphics card.

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[laughs in Radeon]

late fulcrum
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I didn't realize Brother made proprietary driver printers, that's sad. I have a Canon I can't use, because their claimed "Mac compatibility" is only partial, and it's hard to find printers that will print metallic foil.

fading hare
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You can run Windows for free, perpetually, basically. Just won't let you customize it. I use it all the time (I have proper Windows licenses for the machines that DO run Windows) in VMs like where I am sorting through old Windows stuff that might have viruses, or to print something like a label.

late fulcrum
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Nah, didn't work. The driver is so fragile it refused to play ball. I was hoping to monitor the USB traffic, figure out the signalling, and submit the updates to Project Gutenprint so there would be open source support for it.

silver shale
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MFC8460N apparently had drivers under GPL which I found suprising

fading hare
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I'm mainly looking for:

  • did you install the VirtualBox Extension Pack?
  • did you enable the USB 3.0 xHCI controller?
  • did you enable I/O APIC and chipset PIIX3?
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otherwise you won't get USB to work, you may also want to make sure that your user has access to USB devices without sudo

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For whatever reason the bot wouldn't let me post that command line.

late fulcrum
fading hare
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Maybe try it again?

late fulcrum
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I did have the extensions installed (in both cases)

fading hare
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Were you able to access and assign other USB devices to the guest, you remember?

late fulcrum
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I never tried, as I have little interest in talking to devices from windoze

fading hare
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OK. Well, I think you should try again. 🙂

late fulcrum
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I probably won't.

wooden schooner
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It seems like Ubuntu 18.04 might not ever get the maintenance necessary to make VirtualBox perform correctly. IIRC, there was some kind of bug in release 5.3.something of the linux kernel that dramatically decreased the performance of virtualbox and in my case made it usually unusable, and that bug was supposedly fixed somewhere around 5.10 or so. But the pre-built kernel deb packages for Ubuntu 18.04 seem to have stopped coming out. I guess I could go back to compiling my own kernel but meh. And I ain't going anywhere near Ubuntu 20.04, not with its insistence on Snap.

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I do appreciate that VirtualBox, with the guest additions, treats window resizes as if you had plugged in a monitor that happened to have dimensions 1429x946 (or whatever). I didn't realize Windows could even handle that.

slim shard
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sneaky Windows

fading hare
blissful roost
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Did you just assume that he pays tax... ?

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😛

fading hare
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Yes, I assume he pays some form of tax. Sales tax counts.

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Just trying to help. I know that more recent versions of VirtualBox and Windows 10 will work with a lot more USB devices than in the past. I used to have issues with this label printer in some cases, but, it works like a charm now.

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I shaved my mustache off a while back and kept the goatee, and just looked in the mirror and realized that my resting... Swede-face... is pretty severe. Maybe I should smile more? Nah. GET OFF MY LAWN! 😉

blissful roost
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I might shave tomorrow.
I look like an old boot-brush. 😛

fading hare
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I love how he played a super-racist white dude that just needed to talk to his neighbors to understand they were actually super-cool. I wish that happened more in this country. (from the movie Gran Torino)

blissful roost
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I love how it was Clint Eastwood, as Clint Eastwood.

fading hare
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He's just the same old grumpy man as he's been since he exited his 30s. 😉

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Did you ever see The Mule? Also Clint Eastwood playing Clint Eastwood with nothing to lose.

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First test-print of the top part of my Square Pimoroni HyperPixel 4.0 non-touch display. Hoping this one lines up so I can work on the other parts.

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blissful roost
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I'd rather listen to Jason Statham try an American accent again...... lol

fading hare
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In... what's the thing... Homeland or something... No. Homefront?

blissful roost
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I was thinking The One, with Jet Li.

fading hare
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Oh, I was thinking Jason as a redneck.

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blissful roost
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Fnaar!

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Yeah, that was pretty bad.

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But, still... It's not an American trying a British accent.. 😩

fading hare
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Ha! I love dumb movies like that. Anything WWE also rocks heavy with me.

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Or anybody not from East End trying to affect a Cockney accent.

blissful roost
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lol

fading hare
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OK. So, realtalk. Do I really need two FeatherWing Tripler Mini Kits or should I spend those $17.00 on something else?

blissful roost
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shrugs

fading hare
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I am reconfiguring my cart.

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I hope everyone has a wonderful Boxing Day. /me says in a super-fake Cockney accent

fading hare
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Boom! That's one of the best gift cards I've ever received!

fading hare
blissful roost
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I wanted to order a Pi Zero 2, but... Le sigh.

fading hare
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If you Xbox/Windows... You've now got 3 months free Ultimate.
C6T23-72F9V-K7CCX-PC7R6-YFD9Z
Merry Christmas! One-time use. First come, first serve.

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(ping me when you redeem so I can remove these messages)

late fulcrum
wooden schooner
# late fulcrum

Love the second one. Speaking as an American who goes to Chinese restaurants (and doesn't do this), it's like "can I see the menu you give to Chinese people."

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second-to-last one is hypocritical, and also probably won't work because most doctors are not trained for that kind of sensitivity (though this is improving)

blissful roost
wooden schooner
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I'm fortunate to have not (to my memory) had a doctor avoid addressing my presenting issue by focusing only on something else.

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though every time I go to a PT, they treat my posture as more important than my presenting issue 😆 (which they also address)

tardy badger
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All my wife’s doctors have focused on weight with the exception of the older gentleman that delivered my daughter

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The problem tends to be a lot worse for women since physical looks tend to be more societally important to the perception of women

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Old fat men get to be Santa Clause for Christmas

blissful roost
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I have no problems controlling my weight, so I've never encountered that.

My wife was advised to lose weight before a surgery.. she exceeded their target and they were surprised.

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Apparently, it doesn't happen often.

wooden schooner
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it is so sad that this would influence a doctor's medical judgment, but there's no doubt it does

blissful roost
tardy badger
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They really are

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To be a mall Santa, you have to go to Santa school

blissful roost
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I ain't down for that show. Lol

wooden schooner
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what's a typical class size at santa school?

blissful roost
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... sorry

wooden schooner
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so I was just attempting to navigate to the #general-chat channel and I mistyped it as #ooftopic

silver shale
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Switched my site over to Debian on AMD EPYC last night to prepare me to revamp the site.

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wanton thistle
# wooden schooner Good. My blood boiled years ago when I read about people who came to the doctor...

This is my doctors go to response for anything. "Its because your obese." Cant we at least look? These things are quite common if you read around the loseit subreddit. Women in particular get dismissed more than men. I mean, I get it. Being obese is hard on the body. But, if someone who was of normal weight came in saying they were in pain, the doctor would probably look more in depth.

(reader's note: I have lost weight, and try to continue to do so, but Ive found out that the more you try, the more your body resists by adapting with hormones. One of the options is surgery-which I wont do and have personal qualms about. One of them being a critique of the system we participate in)

crystal ore
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Quite true, the "starvation mode" response of the body is definitely a thing. Despite having some success with weight loss, my metabolism still hasn't recovered from it... 😰

wanton thistle
blissful roost
fading hare
fading hare
real falcon
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so that is over-generalizing things

fading hare
fading hare
real falcon
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yeah.

crystal ore
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The way I like to describe it is that to keep your weight stable to plus or minus 10 pounds over the course of a year, you have to eat within 100 calories/day of your true metabolism, which is about 5% accuracy for an average 2000 cal/day diet. Nobody can hit that sort of precision just eyeballing what they eat (even if you know what your metabolism is, which you don't). Instead you have to rely on your body telling you how hungry you are, etc. And if those hormonal / brain / gut / blood-sugar signals are screwed up by more than 5% for whatever reason... woops, now you're fat.

blissful roost
lusty fossil
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Anyone have a preferred way to mix the powers of git and LaTeX? I'm hoping to store my TeX files in Github but have some sort of GUI for LaTeX that shows me my work as I'm working on it, similar to Overleaf.

crystal ore
lusty fossil
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ooh ok thanks. Does it have a particular flavor of TeX?

crystal ore
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Not sure offhand, it's been a few years since I used it.

lusty fossil
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no worries, I'll look into it

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Thanks

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If something is offered in tar form, it's just for linux, correct?

crystal ore
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Generally, yes, or it's source code that you would compile on your platform of choice.

lusty fossil
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Looks like they have binaries/windows installers, just not listed on the page I landed at.

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I have to install a tex distribution, anyone have a preference?

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LyX is recommending TexLive

tardy badger
lusty fossil
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I guess I'm just going to use the built in version control in overleaf

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although I'd really prefer something robust like git

dusty citrus
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My doctors (yeah more than one) kept suggesting a program - I finally entered that program, got all the reading materials shipped to me, implemented a few of them, and got some on-telephone counseling. Lost weight and stayed there; eventually gained ten lb (which is much less than I lost).
6'1" and currently 205 lb. back quiet.

silver shale
lusty fossil
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ah oik

silver shale
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happened with Ungoogled Chromium

lusty fossil
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Wonder why they don't have a sig

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I think I'm just going to use overleaf since it's already online and I can just share it with my bosses really easily.

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Thanks though

silver shale
lusty fossil
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ahh ok

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Makes sense

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Just realized I might be served by looking for a LaTeX discord.

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Ah, I forgot about the other word that is spelled the same. Did not find what I was looking for. At. All.

silver shale
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I think Gummi can be used on Windows, but not guaranteed.

lusty fossil
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I'm basically relearning LaTeX from scratch, but I have some foundation there, so I think I'll stick with it. Thanks for the rec though

fading hare
silver shale
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having to pay something may still keep some away from it

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but it has improved

fading hare
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Three years for $300 isn't any worse than iOS developer program, which a ton of people use, and pay for...

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All I'm saying is that if you want to develop native apps for Windows with installers and whatnot, then you should get a certificate. Or, stick to some other OS.

silver shale
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Enterprise is not willing to switch over to Linux and/or FreeBSD any time soon so it is a price that may have to be paid.

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Just spent the last 20 min straightening out a bracket on a networking card. Now to see if I can use it in the router. brb

silver shale
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That was quick, PFSense had the BCM drivers built in.

lusty fossil
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I have to say, if it weren't for the truly awful side effects, I would call Chantix a miracle drug.

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Side effects are mitigatable to some extent, but they are rough.

wooden schooner
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I have colleagues who do though.

lusty fossil
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I thought that was a paid feature?

wooden schooner
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oh maybe it is. These colleagues would have the paid overleaf

lusty fossil
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yeah I'm trying to have as few "we gotta spend money" conversations as possible

wooden schooner
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well, as someone who doesn't think it's a good product even if it were free, I support you not wasting political capital trying to buy it

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my workflow is just to have the PDF open in a viewer that automatically refreshes upon file write.

lusty fossil
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It's my favorite of the ways to write and compile TeX I've found but curious to hear why you don't like it.

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You can do that with overleaf though? Just CTRL+S saves and compiles

wooden schooner
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sure, if you're ok with using an in-browser text editor that's all fine

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it's not overleaf in general that I think is a bad product -- it's that I don't think an overleaf github integration is likely to be very usable. Overleaf is supposed to be realtime editing (afaik), but git follows a work-then-commit model.

lusty fossil
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yeah they seem different

wooden schooner
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so if you have one author working in the overleaf editor and one author working in the linked github repo, then at best, I'd expect it to behave the same as if they were both working locally and pushing to github. If there are merge conflicts, I don't know if overleaf has a good interface for resolving them.

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basically, if at least one author is using github, then it doesn't seem like a good experience.

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if everyone is using overleaf, wants to edit in real time, and attribution / merge conflict resolution / rollbackability are all not important, then overleaf seems like a good tool for the job

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working in vim with a pdf viewer side by side, I get everything except the mob editing, which I also don't want

lusty fossil
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everyone is just me, for now at least. But it would be good to have a solution that scales to team

wooden schooner
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I expect that that scaling path would depend very heavily on which specific people you are hoping will become the first adopters

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overleaf is a good tool for collaborating with people who aren't all comfortable with git and github (/ gitlab, etc.) and don't want to invest the energy learning it

lusty fossil
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Yeah. I don't expect anyone to come in with TeX knowledge. They'd have to learn on the job the way I am. I used to be decent at it but I let myself get rusty

wooden schooner
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and also for cases where you want to give the high-status person a quick way to give quick comments and maybe a quick edit, but they're too important to actually clone a repo or get their hands dirty

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this happens very frequently in academia

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though I am in a field where everyone who would write or edit a document that contains math symbols knows latex

lusty fossil
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yeah I'm hoping to get good at it. I don't need much in the way of math symbols atm but I am using this as a learning opportunity

wooden schooner
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as a math major in college, getting good(-enough) at latex was the clear first step. Fewer writer's cramps, and much easier to go back and revise.

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this may sound dorky but, if you're interested in trying some interesting math problems and learning latex, you could check out USAMTS https://www.usamts.org/

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it's a high school math contest, but I don't think they actually verify the participants are high schoolers. You get about a month for each round IIRC, and the rounds have five problems. Latex is encouraged but not required. And they have volunteer graders give you feedback on your solutions (though it might not be very detailed feedback; they also post solutions)

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most of the problems require proofs though, so if you aren't interested in trying proof writing then it's probably not a great fit

lusty fossil
wooden schooner
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oh, yeah, if Word is your baseline...

lusty fossil
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Any idea why

\include{MyOutsidePDF}

or

\include{MyOutsidePDF.pdf}

would not be working

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?

wooden schooner
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yes, that line is attempting to inline the binary contents of a PDF and interpret it as latex code

lusty fossil
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both of them are?

wooden schooner
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that is what \include does

lusty fossil
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Hmmm

wooden schooner
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if MyOutsidePDF.pdf is a text file that contains Latex markup, then it should work

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you are probably looking for something like \includegraphics

lusty fossil
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I don't think it is? I'm not sure

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I didn't write it

wooden schooner
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hah yeah, my guess than is that they meant includegraphics

lusty fossil
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so just use include graphics?

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I'll try that

wooden schooner
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(it probably comes with whatever tex distribution you're using)

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whoops wrong link [fixed now]

lusty fossil
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it does. I'm using TeX Live

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hmmm that "worked" but it just included part of the first page of the PDF

wooden schooner
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if the PDF is a graphic, then graphicx is probably a good choice. If it's supposed to be whole pages to inline into the document, then check out pdfpages https://www.ctan.org/pkg/pdfpages

lusty fossil
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It's not graphic, I'd like to include whole pages inline. Essentially as an addendum

wooden schooner
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yeah, I'd then recommend either pdfpages or just concatenating the two PDFs with something like pdftk

lusty fossil
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weird. \includepdf centers the first page properly but it still only includes the first page

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ah I see, that's normal

fading hare
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Lots of talk about LaTeX here. What does one use it for?

lusty fossil
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typesetting

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Basically it gives you all the control over your document

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which has its downsides

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It's not super dissimilar from markdown but it's not exactly the same thing

fading hare
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Aha. Sounds tedious. 😆

lusty fossil
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it is but it's a nice skill to develop, for me at least.

fading hare
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But, I want to take a look at it again. It's been two decades since I looked at it. @lusty fossil where do I begin? Like, what's the most modern way of writing LaTeX?

lusty fossil
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Most modern? Couldn't say. Easiest? Overleaf

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I'm use documentclass{report}, why does it start numbering at 0 and can I make it number differently? I'd like it to be 1.0/1.1/etc for the intro and 2.0/2.1/etc for the next sections. Instead it's 0.1 for Intro and 0.2 for next section, etc

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silver shale
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got a 3D printer connected to a Win10 VM

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lusty fossil
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ah I found a stackexchange post about it

wooden schooner
lusty fossil
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looks like the command \renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}} fixes it. Just gotta figure out what that's doing

fading hare
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Ok, thanks y'all! I'll take a look at Overleaf.

wooden schooner
wooden schooner
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there is a global counter for the section, and yes you can manipulate it manually

lusty fossil
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nope, my code only has one subsection and it's a ways down.

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\renewcommand{\thesection}{\arabic{section}} worked fine, I'm just googling around to see what I'm actually doing here instead of cargo cult programming

wooden schooner
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and I'm sure there are packages that do various kinds of section/subsection counter manipulation

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yeah I don't quite understand what's going on there. \section{My Section Title} should increment the section counter and then make the section heading. And I think \thesection evaluates to the value of the section counter. I'm guessing \arabic{section} formats the value of the section counter as an arabic numeral?

lusty fossil
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Let me get the stack post

wooden schooner
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yeah, looks like the above things are correct. I don't see why that \renewcommand would change the counter behavior.

lusty fossil
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I'm afk for a moment

wooden schooner
fading hare
silver shale
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appears there is no quality control with these Ender printers

lusty fossil
# wooden schooner yeah, looks like the above things are correct. I don't see why that `\renewcomm...

Here you go. Explains a bit about the report class https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26957751/how-to-get-rid-of-zeros-in-the-section-numbering-in-latex-report-document-class

Stack Overflow
How to get rid of zeros in the section numbering in LATEX report do...

So I'm writing a report using Latex and the document class I am using is report:
\documentclass[a4paper]{report}
But for some reason the section numbering is written so that it is preceded with &qu...

silver shale
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Started to destroy the nozzel and ignore any commands to stop it

wooden schooner
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if that does indeed get the intended result, then the explanation there looks solid to me.

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I usually use the article document class, which doesn't have chapters (by default)

lusty fossil
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Do you know off the top of your head what the @ symbol does in commands? I'm googling the wrong stuff apparently and am only getting how to display the @ symbol

wooden schooner
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oh god

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something low-level that I hope to never need

lusty fossil
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Ah OK, I'll pause this line of inquiry then

wooden schooner
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ah here we go: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/31777

TeX - LaTeX Stack Exchange
LaTeX @ (at) symbol

Possible Duplicate:
Why do LaTeX internal commands have an @ in them?
What does the @ symbol mean in LaTeX? I'm looking at the source of apa.cls, and there's a declaration:

\newsavebox\gr@box...

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looks like hoping to never need it is a good choice in my case 🙂

lusty fossil
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Yeah, my eyes are crossing

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thx

lusty fossil
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I'm seeing: "[sec:MySectionLabel]My Section"

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oh

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I see

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misspelled "hyperref"

stoic mesa
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that happens a lot

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I am late to the discussion, but LaTeX is the typesetting package used by virtually all mathematicians and physicists n9wadays

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Another thing I really like is how Donald Knuth numbers versions of TeX - the foundation on which LaTeX is built on

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and how he offered bug bounty

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which doubles with each new bug found

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just imagine if Microsoft did that

crystal ore
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Heh heh, although people rarely cash his bounty checks, since they're such collector's items.

subtle fable
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Made a little mini console before going on a trip to the mountains, just so i have something to do in the camper when it rains

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stoic mesa
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actually I was not quite right
bounty doubles every year, not with every bug

lusty fossil
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me writing documentation

wooden schooner
lusty fossil
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lol

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Fortunately the code part is simple to document as the code is dead simple

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Like it doesn't even have any methods, and is like 200 lines

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Almost self documenting

wooden schooner
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Like I'm not dogmatic about it, there is a judgment call about how much documentation should be included, that takes into account the time and energy cost of writing it

wooden schooner
# lusty fossil Almost self documenting

Self documenting code is a real thing, but careful about which audience it's self documenting to, and whether all the necessary future readers of the code will be in that audience

lusty fossil
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Yeah

wooden schooner
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For me, including "my future self" in that audience usually brings the doc up to a level that other programmers are not expecting

lusty fossil
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hmm what's a good way to include a PDF of my schematic into a LaTeX document? I want the header/section title to be on the same page as the PDF.

wooden schooner
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Probably a combination of reasons for that, but I do think one of them is that some people might not have a nuanced understanding of how a few minutes of writing an incomplete but good-enough docstring can prevent a lot of problems later, and can also catch bugs in the code now when you realize that the code doesn't do what the docstring says because the code is doing the wrong thing

wooden schooner
lusty fossil
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Oh sorry should have mentioned it's a pdf

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1 page

wooden schooner
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why does your schematic have a notion of "page"?

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I'd expect it to be just an image, which could then become a figure in your latex document

lusty fossil
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I scaled it to .93 so it would fit on one page. I'm not sure I get what you mean though

wooden schooner
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the question I'm asking is, who determines what counts as "a page"?

lusty fossil
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the PDF output from Fusion360.

wooden schooner
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if your schematic editor is mandating that something be one page, then it is kind of acting like a document processing system

lusty fossil
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It was going to put it on 4 separate pages, until I scaled it down a scoche.

wooden schooner
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do you agree that, if e.g. you were drawing the schematic by hand, there would not be an inherent notion of page?

lusty fossil
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Depends on what I'm drawing it on lol. If I'm drawing on printer paper then yes, if I'm drawing on a tablet, then only maybe

crystal ore
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It's fairly typical for schematic editors to have a page-oriented design language, rather than just give you a single infinite blank canvas to draw on.

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Though each page can be arbitrarily sized, generally.

lusty fossil
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I think it harkens from the days when you had to print everything out and PDF wasn't a thing? IDK though. It's kinda old school compared to other methods.

wooden schooner
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ah ok. well then I'd say, make the fusion360 page whatever the heck size you want, and include the exported PDF as a figure (\includegraphics) 🙂

lusty fossil
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Let me try \includegraphics again, it was weird last time. Rather than include the first page underneath the heading as I wanted, it skipped down to the next page and started there.

wooden schooner
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fwiw, in e.g. math papers, it is common to make figures in a tool that outputs postscript or pdf, and those ps/pdf files are whatever size the figure is, not necessarily letter

wooden schooner
lusty fossil
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thanks for your assistance getting back up and running in LaTeX.

wooden schooner
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sure thing

lusty fossil
wooden schooner
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your schematic is 200 pages?

lusty fossil
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I could always have taken out the first page and scaled it down but it's whatever

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Ah no, I'm adding another group's work as an addendum to mine.

fading hare
lusty fossil
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I'm not seeing an obvious way to set the anchor point of an \includegraphics[]{} call. When I do `includegraphics[]{myimg.pdf} it's out of the page, and I have to scale it down to .79 for it to be all inside. Here's what it looks like, redacted. The orange border is the border of my schematic

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you can see it's off to the right a whole bunch

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@fading hare Maybe my forays back into LaTeX will discourage you but I hope not lol

fading hare
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hahaha, might, but, I might have fun... Gotta figure out what to write in it.

lusty fossil
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you could write a book!

fading hare
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Question from a non-native English speaker... What do you call the overlapping edge(s) on a box, like the one raised inside, and the other raised outside to make it fit together? I dunno how to express this. I am a potato.

lusty fossil
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flaps is what I would say

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Tabs is also acceptable but I think of tabs a bit differently. Like tabs are smallish flaps

fading hare
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no no, I mean it goes around the entire edge of the box body and lid

lusty fossil
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got a picture?

fading hare
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one sec

lusty fossil
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I may know what you mean, just guessing, let me find a pic

fading hare
lusty fossil
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I'd call that the Lip, but it's not the best word I don't think

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Hm

fading hare
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so, lid has the outer part of it, body has inner part

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like a difference between half the thickness of the shell

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does that make sense?

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I am going insane trying to think of what it is called, haha

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(trying to name the function/variables in OpenSCAD)

lusty fossil
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I'd go with Lip. It's the closest I can come

fading hare
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Maybe a combo of words? Inner lip and outer lip?

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I think that's what I'll go with. Thanks, @lusty fossil!

lusty fossil
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np!

fading hare
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this code is going to be spaghetti hahahah

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maybe someone can take a look at it when I've pushed it up and suggest some refactors, I am sure I could math way better, and there's probably a lot of simplifications I could have done

fading hare
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@lusty fossil what do you think?

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lusty fossil
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Is that a groove for a grommet/seal?

fading hare
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I was mostly thinking I was going to put some snap joints in there

lusty fossil
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ah nice. Looks good

fading hare
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Maybe top needs to be outside, though, lemme fix

wooden schooner
# lusty fossil I'm not seeing an obvious way to set the anchor point of an `\includegraphics[]{...

If you want to have the graphic take up the full available text width, you can supply the option width=\textwidth. If you want to center it, there are a bunch of ways to do so. As a first thing to poke around, I'd suggest looking up the \begin{figure} ... \end{figure} environment. (The figure placement heuristics can get confusing; I'm guessing you'll want to supply the [h] ("here") or [h!] (guess what that means) option)

lusty fossil
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hmmm when I used begin/end figure nothing showed up at all. That came up in my googling

fading hare
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that looks better, I think

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lusty fossil
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\begin{center} / \end{center} shows up but it doesn't center the image

fading hare
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obviously need to be slightly taller so I can fit the snap fit joint parts properly

wooden schooner
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how about \begin{figure} \centering ... \end{figure}?

fading hare
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or it will be all dumb when I print it

lusty fossil
wooden schooner
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and you don't want to modify the margins of your page?

lusty fossil
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I don't particularly care about that for one page. I just want to move the top left corner of the image over a bit so I can have it at scale = 1

wooden schooner
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btw, "not showing up at all" sounds fishy to me -- I bet there is some fundamental issue that when fixed would result in at least a misaligned but still visible image

lusty fossil
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let me try again then

wooden schooner
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also, latex packages generally have wonderfully detailed pdf documentation on CTAN

lusty fossil
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Here's my code

begin{figure}
    \centering
    \includegraphics[angle = 270,scale = .79]{myfig.pdf}
    \caption{Caption}
    \label{fig:my_label}
\end{figure}
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no image appears

wooden schooner
lusty fossil
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nice yeah, I've been on CTAN but it was like 5% too complicated for me to understand

wooden schooner
wooden schooner
wooden schooner
lusty fossil
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let me check

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yes, copy paste error

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that would have thrown a compilation error for sure

wooden schooner
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does the "caption" show up?

lusty fossil
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nope

wooden schooner
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ok so uh

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have you looked in the couple pages before and after where you think the figure should show up?

lusty fossil
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I do get this warning Float too large for page by 102.96387pt on input line 52.

wooden schooner
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remember what I said about figure placement

lusty fossil
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I checked those, I've been rekt by that in the past, there's no hint of the image or its caption

wooden schooner
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yeah and I wouldn't expect that to happen in \begin{center} ... \end{center}

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and when you just \includegraphics within the document body, you do get the image?

lusty fossil
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yup! It's v strange

wooden schooner
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welp that does sound strange

lusty fossil
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but it also appears off and to the right, partially off the page

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what I'd love is a way to set the absolute position of the image's origin

wooden schooner
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... is it a very wide PDF that has whitespace in its leftmost portion?

lusty fossil
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It's whatever size "blank project" is in overleaf. Let me see if I can figure that out

wooden schooner
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experiment: set the scale of the image to 0.05 and see what shows up

lusty fossil
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nope

wooden schooner
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well this seems like quite a conundrum

lusty fossil
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yeah it's quite odd

wooden schooner
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gotta go though. good luck!

lusty fossil
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night

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thx

lusty fossil
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If anyone searches the discord for LaTeX and has this issue, here's my workaround: Since I'm working with a PDF I just used \includepdf[]{}. Worked a treat

manic tide
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Hi there, I seem can't find the project page for this beautiful waste of digit indicators

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Here's the page at Arduino blog, where every image I reverse search refers to: https://blog.arduino.cc/2020/01/29/this-delightful-digital-clock-consists-of-144-7-segment-displays/

Arduino Blog
Arduino Team
144 7-segment displays make up this delightful digital clock | Ardu...

Using 7-segment displays to make a clock is nothing new, but what if you combined 144 of them together to create an epic LED timepiece? That’s exactly how this project was made, allowing it to show surprisingly smooth mega-numbers and a colon set at an angle. The build itself is controlled by an Arduino Nano, […]

subtle fable
manic tide
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I had too much of nixie

subtle fable
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Ah

late fulcrum
subtle fable
compact fjord
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I spend SO MUCH EFFING MONEY on products from companies I know nothing about. Our $$$s are the only real vote we have in this life. Why can't we find the info we need to be responsible voters?

wooden schooner
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Along similar lines, I've found that the volunteer-run organizations I actually want to support often don't have the resources to do things like maintain their status as a 501(c)3 nonprofit. So I eat the tax.

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"Similar" in the sense that having the resources to present a public face that looks like a good cause is not the same as actually being a good cause.

blissful roost
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*Hi, I'm Greg.. Actor-spokesperson for Corporation X.
I'd like to take a few minutes to tell you about Cause 5738855739.

We're really keen on Cause 5738855739, because PR and marketing told us it would be great for the Corporate image.

Have a nice day.*

stoic mesa
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🤣

wooden schooner
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all Greg needs is a stethoscope draped casually around his neck. Universal signal of qualification

blissful roost
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Or.... holding a soldering iron by the hot end.

late fulcrum
silver shale
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Had a (dangerous; do not recommend trying it at home) idea of using natural gas from plumbing and turning it into plastics by using it as a feedstock. Got to strip out the ethane from the other gases and odorant mixture.

silver shale
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Maybe find a way to make polyethylene terepthalate, then actual DIY clothing?

lusty fossil
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saw a cool reddit post from a person who made cloth towels truly from scratch. As in they planted the seeds the fibers came from

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Did the spinning, etc

lusty fossil
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Living in CA, we get some (minor) data privacy protections so websites have to get our consent to use certain kinds of cookies. Nearly every website tries to trick you into agreeing to all cookies. This is the worst offender so far. Everyone's instinct is "slider on the bottom = the least of whatever thing". But here it means the most.

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wooden schooner
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Green tho

lusty fossil
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we need a proposition who's sole text is "decisions about websites must not be made by people who are hot garbage"

wooden schooner
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Is suggest amending that to "systems that are hot garbage"

lusty fossil
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I doubt whatever fellow code monkey who implemented this was happy with it. It was their boss or boss' boss who wants to trick people

wooden schooner
lusty fossil
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what's that meme of the guy who can't decide which button to press called?

wooden schooner
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Immoral decisions are often made by a process of no one sticking their neck out. Each person turns a fraction of a blind eye and eventually it adds up to a whole blind eye

wooden schooner
lusty fossil
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no it's a superhero looking guy holding his head and sweating and can't decide which button to press. The meme is in the labelling of the buttons. It's unrelated to our discussion I just wanted to make a meme

wooden schooner
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Oh good. Simple idk then

lusty fossil
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no worries

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I'll see if I can find it

late fulcrum
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What about "hence"? Or the shorthand version: ∴

lusty fossil
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lol

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I think what I'm dreading the most is the BOM. Things are scattered all over the place and I have to join it all back up again. Sigh

wooden schooner
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Whence?

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Whus?

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Whus did you do that?

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(= how)

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I wish they didn't teach the symbols ∧ and ∨ for "and" and "or" in american high schools. So many people use them in places that make things harder to read

lusty fossil
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I've never seen them used ever, where do you encounter them most? Maybe it's regional?

wooden schooner
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idk. I assume some curriculum designer said "ok, we gotta teach the kids logic." Wrote down a few classical greek syllogisms. Then added a bunch of notation that comes from a very niche area of modern mathematics

lusty fossil
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interesting

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Unrelated but is there an easy way to get a Google Sheet into LaTeX? I know you can make tables in LaTeX but I'm hoping to avoid a situation where I have one google sheet table and a separate LaTeX table that I constantly have to update

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also making tables in LaTeX is tedious

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ah there's a plugin for that!

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Let me try it and see

wooden schooner
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like in math-adjacent academia I've seen people say things like {(x, y) | x is even ∧ y > 5}. It annoys me

late fulcrum
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Then I suggest you not attempt to learn to program in APL.

wooden schooner
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I don't plan to, but it seems like APL is one of those cases where boolean algebra symbols are actually appropriate

lusty fossil
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Hmm, what's a good way, in a spreadsheet, to represent that an item has a volume discount? E.g. the item below, say I needed 15 of them. I was planning on having
price per unit | number of units but that doesn't show that there's a price break happening when I buy >9

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also how do taxes work when you buy something online? Does the store collect my state's tax rate and pay it to them or their own state's tax rate and pay at home? I recall a kerfuffle about this 15 years ago involving Amazon but I don't remember the details

silver shale
lusty fossil
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nice

fading hare
lusty fossil
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mk I'll just assume it's state and local taxes that are collected, then. Thanks

fading hare
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yup

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If you're ordering as a business, keep the receipts and invoices for when you do taxes.

lusty fossil
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oh that's over my level of responsibility.

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Thank god

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I just do this

wooden schooner
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at some level, that's all anyone is ever doing

lusty fossil
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We need a version of this where she's wearing an Uncle Sam hat and we can use it for tax time.

wooden schooner
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or anyone in a job interview

lusty fossil
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yeah that's me next year

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My commute is 35 miles so this gas increase is killing me

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should have gotten a hybrid but I neeeeeeeeded to drive a manual.

wooden schooner
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I like the idea of just asking for money and letting them add in the condition that I also work

crystal ore
lusty fossil
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haha

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My friend had a similar idea for electric motorcycles. Basically make it perform worse, in order to more closely match the feel of an ICE cycle. We all thought it was dumb.

wooden schooner
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does it simulate stalling and transmission damage too?