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Badabinski

@ Badabinski @kbin.earth

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Just a sweaty nerd interested in software, home automation, emotional issues, and polite discourse about all of the above.

  • Screwdriver logic

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  • Screwdriver logic

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  • It's such a godsend. I wish people would teach both methods. It's great that the "righty-tighty" thing works for so many people because it's probably much faster than using your hand, but I spent so many years thinking I was shit at mechanical stuff because I couldn't figure which way to turn a screw. I probably wouldn't have a fucking obnoxious complex about it nowadays if I had learned this when I was five.

  • Screwdriver logic

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  • Not everyone has this instinct. There are many people who are unable to differentiate left from right. For those people, this doesn't really work. I'm in my thirties and I still give shitass directions because I suck at telling left from right. I can do cardinal directions pretty well as long as I have a reference like some mountains, but like, I still have to think about left versus right.

    I posted this elsewhere in this thread, but the only thing that's ever worked for me was the right hand rule, where you use your right hand to physically demonstrate to yourself which way a screw needs to go.

    Also, TIL that there's a specific term for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-right_confusion

  • Screwdriver logic

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  • Reposting this as a direct response to you in case it's helpful:

    Try using your right hand directly to figure out which way to turn a screw. Make a loose thumbs up. Point your thumb in the direction you want the screw to go. The way your fingers are curling is the way you turn your screwdriver. If it helps, try to imagine there are arrows pointing out of your fingertips. Works just like the right hand rule in physics.

    EDIT: here's a picture of what I mean:

  • Screwdriver logic

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  • Or just use your right hand directly, just like some forms of the right hand rule. Make a loose thumbs up. Point your thumb in the direction you want the screw to go. The way your fingers are curling is the way you turn your screwdriver. If it helps, try to imagine there are arrows pointing out of your fingertips.

    A few years ago, I learned that there are people who can distinguish left and right as easily as they can distinguish up and down. Righty-tighty lefty-loosey as a mnemonic device works for those people. I have never had, nor will I likely ever have, an intuitive understanding of which way to turn a screw. If one part of the screw is moving left, another part is moving right. My brain simply cannot keep it consistently straight. I have to use my right hand in the manner I described every so often. It's not a hindrance to me (I build stuff all the time and have a little hobby machine shop), and I sure as shit wish I had been taught this method as a child.

  • 18 April 1989

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  • The latter was always doable with breeder reactors and spent fuel reprocessing. France recycles their nuclear waste. They end up with extremely radioactive waste that becomes safe within decades instead of centuries or millenia.

    The approach is not without its problems, but there are solutions.

  • Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)

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  • set -e: Exit on error. Very useful, but notoriously weird with edge cases (especially inside conditionals like if statements, while loops, and pipelines). Don’t rely on it blindly as it can create false confidence. (Pro-tip: consider set -euo pipefail for a more robust safety net, but learn its caveats first.)

    while I appreciate that the author mentions how weird this is, nobody is going to learn all the caveats correctly. Don't use set -e. Don't use set -e. Don't use set -e. It's a shit ass broken ass fucked feature that half of nobody understands well. Here's a great wiki page explaining why it's trash: https://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/105

    People like Go, and Go requires you to manually and stupidly handle every possible error case. Why not do the same for shell? It's really quite easy:

     
        
#!/usr/bin/env bash
echoerr() { echo "$@" 1>&2; }

die() {
  message="$1"; shift
  exit_code="${1:-1}"
  echoerr "$message"
  exit "$exit_code"
}

temp_dir="$HOME/tmp"
mkdir -p "$temp_dir" || die "Failed to make persistent temporary dir $temp_dir"
lc_dir="$(mktemp -d -p "$temp_dir")" || die "Failed to make target dir in $temp_dir"

    Look at that, descriptive error messages! And it doesn't depend on a shell feature that is inconsistent between versions with no good documentation about all of the fucked up caveats.

  • Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)

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  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? March 31

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  • A book which resembles my favorite series ever, and which is endorsed by one of my other favorite authors? That's a hell of an endorsement. Final Architecture was a DNF for me, but I've enjoyed basically all of Adrian Tchaikovsky's other books.

  • What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? March 31

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  • This book made me feel so much dread that I couldn't even finish it.

  • The US bans all new foreign-made network routers

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  • So uh, OPNSense?

  • World-first as Rathlin Island is declared ferret free

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  • I'm here for it.

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    When do you think that AI chatbot/image generator/etc use will significantly decrease?

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  • Ed Zitron seemed to estimate that it was probably 4-5x the current going rate, so a $20 ChatGPT subscriber likely costs OpenAI $80-100.

  • three what??????????????????

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  • "sucundus dick" oh my god I love it

  • Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers

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  • Sounds like a perfect use-case for some subsonic .300 Blackout rounds.

  • Harmony - Yet Another Discord Alternative

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  • These other responses are annoying. This looks really cool, and I hope that it works well for you and your friends! We definitely need good discord alternatives ASAP, and more options are better imo.

    One cool feature would be some sort of official support for interop/bridging to other services. That might help to boost adoption and would make the "why not just contribute to Y" people be quiet.

  • Btw

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  • You like that? I'm a fan of it.

  • Btw

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  • I mean, just use any stable distro and you can live that life. Arch is good for its own reasons precisely because it's this way.

  • Causes of death, or track list for latest black metal album?

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  • According to Wikipedia, it's known in modern times as mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis.

    The disease mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis, also known historically as scrofula and the king's evil, involves a lymphadenitis of the cervical (neck) lymph nodes associated with tuberculosis as well as nontuberculous (atypical) mycobacteria such as Mycobacterium marinum.

    As for what lymphadenitis is?

    Lymphadenopathy or adenopathy is a disease of the lymph nodes, in which they are abnormal in size or consistency. Lymphadenopathy of an inflammatory type (the most common type) is lymphadenitis.

    The Wikipedia article for king's disease has a picture if you're curious, although it's a bit gross.