#Shadowrun Shower Thought Questions: 1) Can a mage use FAB as an ink only visible with astral sight? 2) Does that mean I can put FAB in a printer and print things that spirits can read? 3) Does that mean I can print off top secret data and make a backup with an ally spirit?
One of the fascinating things about the mass migration to GMail is how giving your email address to a company and having them send you almost daily spam is considered *normal* and *good*.
@GordSpence So lots of people moved to GMail in order to get their antispam tools - but somehow, I get a *daily* email from LinkedIn telling me ALL THE JOBS, and I've not opened it in *years*. Yet somehow, Gmail finds that not to be spam
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@HippyWizard Sure, but how how many "execs" (you know the type), just read the subject/snippet and want to read that part only before deleting and would bitch and moan if gmail started filtering them out?
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@HippyWizard Who's we though? I don't get any of that stuff in my inbox - I don't subscribe to the nonsense in the first place and when I do accidentally it's unsubscribed with gmail's magic unsubscribe button
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@HippyWizard iirc, a prior customer relationship serves as a basis for exemption in Do Not Call list legislation, so email behaving the same is consistency with a standard explicitly adopted by society
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One of these weeks, I'm going to wake up the morning after dojo night without my body reminding me that it's been two and a half years since I've been getting more exercise than walking on a regular basis.
Babysitting a 4 year old has me convinced that what video games need is “little buddy mode,” where a kid can have a character that just jogs along with you and can help/get their own encouraging score but cannot be harmed
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Bought my son objectively too many train tracks and trains today, but they kept a 3 year old *entertained* and *happy* for over 8 hours on a rainy/gray day, so it was the right call
I went to my mum's outdoor 60th birthday party and she had invited her wheelchair bound friend to the party. It was in the back garden with a very narrow pathway to the party and they (my mum's friend and her mum, also my mum's friend) wanted to get past this awkward part that was too narrow because of the concrete stairs to the house.
So my brother and I stick around to help. He suggests he lift the very heavy wheelchair in which the person in the wheelchair and her mum both say that it's too heavy and they'd rather not try. To which my brother starts inspecting the wheelchair and goes to touch it multiple times, at which point I said, each time, "you can't touch it, you need to ask first" (he did actually touch it once, I think)
Which like should be common knowledge, I thought was common knowledge. Like, in the vein of, you wouldn't touch someone's purse without asking why would you touch their wheelchair (obviously this is an imperfect example because wheelchairs are not just like purses etc).
After they were past this tricky point, my brother, gives me this absolutely furious-with-me look and storms off to calm down. I hate it. But I feel incredibly strongly about consent, and it is actually an important thing... :(
It’s like touching someone’s leg, so the purse comparaison indeed doesn’t really work. This is also why the expression “wheelchair bound” doesn’t make much sense. A wheelchair is liberating rather than limiting or confining. Prefer “using a wheelchair”.
I recognize the irony of pointing this out as a comment to a story about someone who got upset to be pointed out their behavior regarding disability wasn’t welcome, but I felt it was important other people knew about this expression.
child goes to the doctor. says his suffering is unbearable. says all the world's miseries are on his head. doctor says, "You should go to Omelas. Remarkable place. It's the Festival of Summer, and almost everyone there lives in joy and peace." "but doctor," the child says--
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Working through trauma really makes you feel internally turbulent in a way that is really complicated to express
One day I'll feel internally stable again and I look forward to it... I feel lucky and thankful that I have some idea what it's supposed to look and feel like ❤️
I should do some art expression tonight 😊, and consider what audiobooks might be fun
People always tell me their systems with an arcane DSL are better and more maintainable than "a bash script", but then their jobs require 10 years with that DSL
My simple secret to "being good with computer" is using a mouse. This 12 EUR device allows me to reach every pixel on my screen with unparalleled precision while most other folks fumble around with a touchpad that requires them to set interface scaling to 200% so they can with at least some chance hit screen areas roughly the size of Liechtenstein #protip
Yesterday my 3yo saw a 2yo have a ball taken from them at the park, and start crying. (They had taken the ball from another kid, so it wasn't anything bad). But my 3yo went over a comforted the crying kid and gave them one of his toys.
1 investigator who is defined by the series this is an episode of 1 strong man 1 clown 1 acrobat "Bonus Roles" (sheriff, ringmaster, elephant trainer)
There is always a murder, players draw lots and spend the whole game inventing details
Each scene the next player (by turn order) can invent a clue, and then has to convince the investigator that their clue is true. At the end of the scene the investigator says if the clue is real or not.
Catch: The Murderer is always lying
At the end, the Investigator explains how the death happened, using only clues they accepted. Then the murderer shows which clues were false. Then if the Investigator can still rebuild their story with those clues being false (rest of table arbitrates) they solve the murder.
Each scene the next player (by turn order) can invent a clue, and then has to convince the investigator that their clue is true. At the end of the scene the investigator says if the clue is real or not.
I spent 3 weeks attempting to get granted ftp access for documentation on an LCD for an embedded project, and after hearing me yell that phrase to no one, my boss went to his office, called, reminded them how many of those little screens are on a boat making their way across the ocean, still unpaid for and lo and behold 15 mins later, I was in.
The loud invectives that then came from my office for the next few hours as I attempted to translate Japanese and Chinese pages and indices could not be resolved with a phone call but was eventually helped along with an oscilloscope and the blessing that all the numbers and PinIDs were in English characters.
I mean sure Sex is fun, but have you ever seen a perfect Tux come up on an lcd that you hand wired to the dev board on a distro you created kicked off by your own custom bootloader?
(after sooooooo many misaligned, scanlined, and garbled almost tuxes, it was a truly an otherworldly out of body experience.) Punched out.
Hardware is a necessary evil for Firmware or Embedded Software Engineer. You can get by without ever touching it, but I wouldn't recommend it. Feels to me like being a mechanic without ever having driven, which must exist I'd guess, but i wouldn't take them my car.
Yeah, one of my best friends, @Dave does that stuff, and uh, I'm glad I just need to make sure no one's private health data gets stolen by an increasingly fascist state rather than figure out what I2C means.
hehe, that project used a out of spec I2C bus that pulled down the line at zero cross, I had to rewrite a bit banged kernel driver software to handle it. The LCD used standard I2C, it was an interesting problem grateful to never have to solve again.
However these dudes were from the oldest of old schools, they used the zero cross of the power line to tick their clocks across multiple microchips/devices on the bus to literally keep the time, no rtc, no battery always on.
So when I added a couple of more than 8 bit cpus into the mix, they would not let me implement it standard, lest they (read I) would have to rewrite 20 yrs of hardware in the field.
Needless to say a modern 32bit arm chips do not like the i2c pin to be dragged to zero for no good reason 50 or 60 times a second depending on continent the device is plugged in on.
I love my job title because I can implement "Correct by Construction" principles I learned from those guys & all those Hot Tubs and Hot Tub accessories on any device no matter its function. Something I found nigh on impossible for just software products. Plus I enjoy watching the hardware guys face drain of blood when mid proj the reqs change.
I mean, I'm glad I only have to worry about making sure the right responses come out for the stimuli that went in and don't have to worry about things like policies about who gets access to what...
Trying to explain it to a developer: Version pinning is a great way to cause yourself problems with old code Not version pinning is a great way to cause yourself problems *in your dev environment*
Mail client that automatically fetches remote data in the email via a small cluster of proxies so that everyone gets the same locations for their tracking, but we don't need to tell people to not use features that are often necessary for them
Just finished dropping off one of Shæ's favourite toddler books (and my personal favourite), Little Blue Truck, to 9 different little free libraries in the area 😊❤️ #BuildingCommunity #LittleFreeLibrary
This is the logical explanation but it made little sense to me. Did you buy them specifically to drop them off or did you just have 9 copies lying around?
A few weeks ago we went around to these little free libraries and chose some books for Shæ to read, but most of them had few, if any, toddler books. So I chose my favourite toddler book that Shæ also loved and bought a bunch of copies for the sole purpose of putting in the little free libraries for other toddler parents
Today, they arrived and I brought the kids with me to deliver them
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