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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
@jamesoff the book is
Has Anyone Seen Charlotte Salter?
by Nicci French
just in case anyone else was wondering what fine literature or pulp fiction was being consumed :)
@Dtl @JennyList @trans_rescue oooooh, a magic-smoke emitting one. like it!
maybe random value, but black stuffing crochet-hooked out in places for the smoke
@jamesoff reads an email, smashes the phone on the floor.
ding noise from his pocket.
pulls out phone, reads another email, smashes the phone on the floor.
@Dtl @JennyList @trans_rescue this, but probably an implausably high value.
/goes to check what the banding for 'open circuit' would look like
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@JennyList @trans_rescue I'd buy one if I can get a zero ohm version. Say £20?
@spv @JennyList @trans_rescue nice. my last was an X31. sadly the mobo went sizzle, so it is no more :'(
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@JennyList @spv @trans_rescue I see your ThinkPad remote keyboard and raise you a "stolen/repurposed kvm keyboard from a rack being decommed" ;)
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My wife told me to take the spider out instead of killing him.
Went out. Had a few drinks. Nice guy. He's a web designer.
Specialises in debugging.
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The new Starbucks CEO, Brian Niccol, is going to commute to the office 3 days a week by private jet.
Don't forget to take your reusable cup to the coffee shop!
#climate #ClimateCollapse #environment #EatTheRich
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/23/business/starbucks-ceo-brian-niccol-private-jet/index.html
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@MattMerk I have to admit it's a new word to me, but the concept made sense enough to be able to google-fu through it :)
My reading is more consume-consume-consume and analysing the contents rather than analyse the writer's methodology and structuring
@MattMerk multiperspectivity?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiperspectivity
maybe multivocal narration if different characters present their own perspectives?
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I mean in some ways being up there is safer than the ground, where Boeing assassins live.
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It surely can't be a coincidence that Alexander the Great and Kermit the Frog share the same middle name.
@fesshole especially if you do it the Joaquin Phoenix way in Gladiator.
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Friend: What do you play games on?
Me: I play games on a switch!
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Huh.
So, just now I learned that you can convert miles to kilometers with the Fibonacci sequence?
A mile is 1.609 kilometers.
The Golden Ratio, the ratio between Fibonacci numbers as they get large, is 1.618.
So, within about 1%. And large doesn't need to be that large, it's actually pretty accurate from about 8 onwards.
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34 55 89 etc etc
5 miles is 8 km.
21 miles is 34 km.
89 miles is 144 km.
etc etc.
Kinda neat IMO.
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Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.
Joined Nov 2022
