TootSweet

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 34 minutes ago

I took it more as a (very common among coders) joke about how writing code is actually just googling and copying code from Stackoverflow. (Of course it's exaggerated, which is part of why it's, while not completely true, funny.)

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

...yes?

A (human) coder should definitely be able to think about a novel problem and come up with an algorithm to solve it without copying the algorithm from someone else. Particularly for those circumstances where there isn't any option but to come up with a novel solution.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 15 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (4 children)

The way I've embedded magnets in prints in the past was to:

  • Design a magnet-shaped (plus like 0.2mm of clearance) cavity into the print, but leave it completely "closed off" to where it's "inside" the print.
  • But only "closed off" by like 2 or 3 layers (I was printing at 0.2mm layer height for this particular print).
  • Use "pause at layer" functionality in my slicer (I used Cura at the time) to pause just before the first layer that would "close off" that cavity.
  • Start the print and when it pauses, drop the magnet into the cavity.

Yes, I was a bit nervous about the magnet potentially jumping up and sticking to some ferromagnetic metal that's part of the print head, but that didn't happen in my case. YMMV, I guess.

I guess theoretically it could also be the case that the heat from printing could weaken the magnet, but again, that wasn't an issue in my case.

Just to elaborate on what my project was, I had a freely-spinning part that I wanted to be able to fix in place or unfix. I fashioned a "stop" that when engaged would fix the freely-spinning part in place. The way it works is that the stop can move freely up and down. Putting it in the "down" position fixes the freely-spinning part in place and gravity keeps it engaged. But to disengage it, you slide it straight up. At the top of the "track" in which it slides is where I put the magnet. I used the same technique as described above to embed a little stack of about four staples into the stop itself. So, by sliding the stop to the top of the track, the magnet attracts the staples, keeping the stop disengaged until you pull it back down again to where gravity will keep it engaged until you move it back up.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 26 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Does your ISP charge per sentence or something?

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

The whole "Be Prepared" song sequence but with Elon, Vance, and Rubio as the hyenas and Trump doing the jerking-two-dudes-off dance the whole time.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Also, I'd really like to know who made the art.

I choose to believe the person on the other end of that text conversation fired up Gimp and made the image when they got the request for "funny shit".

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Then make the "one true frontpage" for Lemmy or whatever (implement ActivityPub, maybe borrowing some code from the Lemmy codebase itself, or kindof making a fork of Lemmy), and if it's good, it'll be used. If not, it won't.

But then, it might well fall victim to this phenomenon:

XKCD #927: Standards

Lemmy has lots of competing "front pages." How will one more change anything? A more generic domain name or something?

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

And with Klarna holding all that uncollateralized debt, I'm not sure how they can afford to lose so much and not collapse entirely.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 70 points 1 day ago (36 children)

as it gets better

Bold assumption.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I hadn't heard about the second one yet.

 

Just a 3D-printable reproduction of a video game asset that I made myself and am unreasonably proud of. (Yes, AntiMS is me, I promise.)

 

Khía uá síkheén óno síkheén khin!

 

I've run across more than a few discussions about personality disorders here on Lemmy. There are already communities on Lemmy for two specific PDs (SzPD and BPD) but this community is for anyone who wants to engage on the broader topic of personality disorders in general, or wants to connect with and learn from those who live with different personality disorders or who have knowledge of personality disorders.

 

Do you suffer from a personality disorder, suspect you might, know someone who does, or simply wish to engage on the topic with others?

That's what !personalitydisorders@lemmy.world is for.

 

I learned just recently that dbzer0 has a great piracy community that is blocked by lemmy.world . I'm not saying I'm looking to switch instances or anything, but it did get me wondering what else might be blocked by my instance that I wasn't previously aware of.

While we're at it, I'm curious what communities might notably be blocked on other instances as well. So we might as well just make this a question about what might be blocked by any particular instance, not just my instance.

So, what's blocked on some instances that folks might not have realized is blocked?

 

Coworker. I told him to fuck off with his conspiracy bullshit. But back when I patronized him, one thing he said was that he didn't consider belief a binary as in that you either believe something or don't. He viewed all beliefs as a continuum. You can believe one thing 10% and another thing 90%, but he wouldn't let me pin him down as to whether he "believed" any particular thing or not.

All while trying to convince me "tall white aliens" run the U.S. government and Sandy Hook was faked by a bunch of actors and the U.S. military had invisibility technology and planes that aren't dumping weather-controlling chemicals don't leave trails in the sky. Pretty standard QAnon-level bullshit. But if I asked him if he believed any of those things, he wouldn't answer. Honestly, it makes sense as a dishonest rhetorical tactic.

Dude also literally drinks borax in his juice cleanse drink.

 

Just as examples:

  • I've never played a Pokemon game despite being just the right age where my peers were really into gen 1 as a kid.
  • I have yet to watch any of the Alien or Predator franchise movies (except Prometheus, which I didn't realize was in the Alien franchise when I watched it long ago) but am planning on rectifying that when I can get a chance.
  • Oh, and I've never seen the "hawk tuah" video.
 

I think I like the flakes better, actually. I microwave-bake bread with onion in it daily and the flakes are nicer.

Minced? Pure madness. Let alone powder.

 

Another source: https://isdown.app/status/hulu

I was logged out of Hulu on my streaming box and can't log back in on any device. I don't know if this is all of Hulu or just in certain regions or what.

 

And it bugs me a little, but apparently not enough that I've actually done something about it.

 

I.

Hate.

Country.

Music.

Or at least that's something I'd've said, say, maybe 5 or 6 years ago. And it was true! I hadn't heard a single song I could identify as "country" that I could stand, let alone "like".

But it all started with Lil' Nas X and "Old Town Road". I think the first time I heard it, I dismissed it without really "getting" it. But when I started hearing and liking other things by Lil' Nas X, and when one of my favorite YouTube content creators said good things about "Old Town Road" on a stream, I listened again. More out of curiosity than anything. But with more context, I understood "Old Town Road" better. And, dare I say, liked it.

"It's ironic country music", I told myself. "It's ok for me to like that. It's got the affectations of country music, but it's not country music in its bones. It's actually pop if you really think about it."

I.

Hate.

Country.

Music.

(Except "Old Town Road" because it's only "ironically" country.)

See? It's so simple. The world still made sense. And I could listen to it and like it, and admit to myself that I liked it.

And then came Jelly Roll.

It was New Year's Eve (I don't remember what year it was), and I was watching New Year's Rockin' Eve as I do every year (and plan to this year). And on comes a country artist. I groaned and reached for the mute button. But my friend wanted to hear it. So...

He sang "Need A Favor." And, it was... good. I liked it.

Try as I might, I couldn't think of an excuse why I was allowed to like it. And I didn't listen to anything else by him for a good while, gut when I did, I liked it too.

I.

Hate.

Country.

Music.

(Except that one song by Nas X. And I guess I like that one song by Jelly Roll. But that's it.)

And I did listen to a little more Jelly Roll and it was surprisingly enjoyable as well. And I still hadn't resolved the cognitive dissonance when...

Bam! The most recent episode of SNL came on. And the musical guest was Shaboozey.

And since then I have not been able to stop listening to "A Bar Song (Tipsy)" practically on repeat.

And it was a few days before I let the ~~intrusive thoughts~~YouTube algorithm win and play me another Shaboozey song. It was "Highway." And holy shit, it was... if anything better than "Tipsy".

And I've listened to a bunch of Shaboozey since, and his stuff ranges from "actually really good" to "I can't stop playing it."

I...

guess I...

kinda... maybe...

like...

country music...

actually?

It's really surreal. But it's clearly impossible to continue to believe that "I don't like country music".

The jury's still out on Post Malone's "I Had Some Help" featuring Morgan Wallen. But honestly, I'm listening to it as I write this to try to form a more solid opinion on it and I can feel it growing on me a bit.

I'm not sure whether I'm changing or country music is. This is all still very new to me.

Maybe I've just been racist against country music until I started seeing some less "traditional" country musicians. A part of me is worried the country music I've been enjoying lately is going to end up being a gateway drug to the harder stuff like Kenny Chesney's "She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy" and Toby Keith's "As Good As I Once Was". But doing research for this Lemmy post, I just listened to a (small) part of each of those two, and I can report I'm at no risk of developing a habit of either of those.

...for now.

 

He's a convicted felon, right? And that means he isn't eligible to vote, right? So he didn't/couldn't vote, right?

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