This rubber fingertips for going through large stacks of paper would be awesome for makers who wanna hold down a loose wire with their finger directly to the battery
The thing that fucks me off about substack is that I wish I could just pay someone money and they send shit to my email. But instead I need to sign up for a thing.
Can't they just make a shopify store or a WooCommerce store and send emails to my email?
It's bizarre that someone in charge of marketing can be so unbelievably tone deaf and unaware of their customers. Either she, or someone, is intentionally trying to damage Raspberry Pi's brand (like Elon with Twitter?), or they just got a massive deal with a surveillance company and a requirement for the deal was to get rid of all their privacy-conscious customers.
@silverwizard It's not just about the cop. I can totally understand hiring him if he's got the skills they want. The issue is firstly how they present him ("look at all this cool privacy-invasive spyware you can make") and secondly how they respond to questions from the community ("bye bye" *block*).
And then claiming it's about pigs in a blanket without a content warning. It's a completely surreal level of denial. I don't understand how anyone can double down on a relatively minor mistake in such a totally destructive manner.
I don’t know how it's even possible but I keep oscillating between being okay talking to nobody, being completely fine with nobody being available to chat some days and then others being a complete wreck of loneliness that it hurts
Yeah - the is one of the cases where my ear damage is 100% holding me back - I need a lot more lyrics forward for good music - since musically just doesn't work for me, and Kent's lyrics (seem to me) to be more to merge into musical motifs, which just sound like soup to me
Come to think of it I did listen to "If You Were Here" and it immediately annoyed me that they had the line "If you were here, if I was there" when it should have been "If you were here, if I were there" to match the Swedish text's intention. Doesn't bode well for the translations overall.
Yeah - I think the sound is more important, and I'm very ok with that. But it's definitely a place where I'm gonna continue my Hedonistic Melancholy surge though
I can't really do that style of music, since, uh, ear damage.
I need strong beats and lyrics, because more complicated musically tracks just don't work for me. I can't distinguish notes because my ear drums are a mass of scar tissue and I've lost huge amounts of cilia to stuff.
For melancholy sounds and crisp lyrics I can recommend Hellsongs. They sing AC/DC, Iron Maiden and other metal covers in a melancholic and light melodic way, and for me it's usually been the first time I actually heard the lyrics. 🤣 They call it "Lounge Metal". Richard Cheese, Paul Anka and Dick Brave have done that genre too, but Hellsongs do it in that kind of Cardigans, Pomplamoose singer-singwriter way instead of a more Big Band Jazz direction.
It's been a while, I've been hiding out away from people because of covid, had mostly toddlers for company, and watched as abilify tanks my ability to read (and watch tv and anything that requires staying still) and it's really messing with me. I just want to be able to think and talk about interesting things again
Sorry - I'm currently in a "only scavenged and used computers, and my daily driver is an out of date Microsoft Surface running Linux because OpenBSD doesn't seem to be in support quite yet" kick, so 8GB of any RAM seems bonkers
A construction tribute to every framing crew that said screw it to using their level or laser and gave the other trades job security.
The Work of the Framers
D G D
We’ve all met together, the bluepr
Apparently Starbucks just puts caffeine in there drinks and today I learned a drink I thought was just juice that I sometimes give them in their sippy cups has caffeine in it.... like lots 😶😶😶😶
@Becky This reminds of Bullfrog's Theme Park (1994) in which you can control the amount of caffeine in the coffee sold to park visitors. I liked to crank it up to the max, which made the visitors who frequented the coffee shop zoom around the park much faster than the others.
@silverwizard There are absolute gems and few games have since managed to be both light-hearted and engaging economic simulations. Theme Park, Theme Hospital and Dungeon Keeper are a holy video game design trifecta in my book.
@silverwizard It’s technically Theme Hospital but not in spirit. Interestingly the open-source clone of Transport Tycoon Deluxe has maintained popularity, probably because there wasn’t much design magic to the original game, and a purely technical port could preserve the game’s interest.
@silverwizard I wouldn’t be able to fully describe it. The intro cutscene, the weird animated main menu, the thoughtful level progression. CorsixTH faithfully reproduces the core gameplay loop but the original game was much more than it.
@silverwizard I take that back, they have the original campaign, but not any of the cutscenes (intro, game board movements, main menu). It is a very neat port with modern screen resolutions, but if you have the original game handy, I'm not sure what more it brings to it, especially since the GOG version still runs on modern machines.
@Becky It can be anyone’s jam. It’s fun and straightforward during the first few levels, the PA jokes and the illness descriptions are still chuckleworthy.
Okay, not in the least bit relatable but when I was pregnant with a baby due June 1, I had morning sickness until February (I also had multiple Mallory Weiss tears)
Just talked to a friend due may 27th. I'm very excited for her!! But also somehow she's already over the morning sickness phase? Is that what pregnancy is just like sometimes? Where you don't vomit multiple times a day for what 5 months? 🤯
Thinking about boundaries and frens I gotta say nothing makes me less inclined to want to be around you or help you with problems than repeatedly asking me if I'll do something I've already said no to a dozen times. This has happened far too often this pandemic (why yes, I am talking about indoor activities with kiddos)
@Becky I have 0 confidence the list of the 7 films who impressed me the most would help anyone know me, let's see:
The Fifth Element (1997)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)
The Princess Bride (1987)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Antitrust (2001)
Swordfish (2001)
Let's throw Memento (2000) and Mission: Impossible (1996) and the only thing you can reliably know about me from this list is that I was a teenager in the late 1990s.
I didn't choose ones that impressed me as much as chose ones that represented different facets of my taste, but I think it's cool to see what people choose anyway 😊
Yeah - but commit messages are the thing that basically breaks all the flow of git. All the things that makes git *good* and ruined by the existence of commit messages
Yeah, but the problem is that people build workflows around commit messages. So you get a git log containing "Just committing this for the evening" and "FUck, I think this was right? Lemme send it to you" but then people want to take those events and process them. We need to have *merge* messages
Midterm 2 marks are posted. If I get a weighted average mark not less than -8.6% (yes, that's a negative minimum value) on the remaining coursework, I get to graduate on the Dean's Honour List.
(This update also includes reweighting the first two assignment marks, since assignment 4 did indeed happen. A3 marks are not out yet so not included here.)
We're mostly only meeting people outside rn because of covid but it often feels like we're one of the few left
In a few weeks tho, we're going to visit my sister, and she's taking all kinds of extra precautions to make sure it's safe for us to go and we're even doing a few too just to make extra sure
Anyway, I talked to another friend who lives in Ottawa for an outside playdate and it turns out that they're doing a lot of things similar to us and it just.... it doesn't feel like we're the only ones anymore (even though looking online I know we're not but it's different knowing someone irl).... and that's really comforting in a I-was-feeling-al9ne-in-this-but-now-I-feel-solidarity way
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And when I talk about money I also talk about sharing!
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in reply to Spencer • •Honestly, kids just get things, starting kids off bad is way worse for them.
So good luck on parenting, it's a lot
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