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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I can wiggle my ears independently.
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Paul Lalonde
@Flux@wandering.shop
mastodon 4.7.3Retired from retirement. Oops.
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Blacksmith, machinist, baker, construction habit
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@MrBirch@beige.party @blogdiva@mastodon.social Gravity's Rainbow. Three tries before deciding it's just not worth my time.
Getting some nails together for the straps I posted earlier. I've *hated* making nails. I always seem to get misshapen things with off-center heads and just not enough space for decorative work.
Today I broke the jynx: I just used *way* more material in the heads, and wouldn't you know it they came out much better. Started from 3/4" (18mm) square, and cut off a good 12mm (1/2") of bar to make up the heads. Suddenly they held heat and had enough mass to decorate.
#blacksmithing
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@DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange "I can't imagine they aren't doing this?! I mean, this is exactly what I'd do if I was king" --Republicans
@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange @briankrebs@infosec.exchange
Decorative. After the hinge straps on the door to Sam Yellin's office. Didn't have appropriate curved chisels or round punches, or straight chisel of appropriate bluntness, so I forged those up as well. A good morning.
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@davidho@mastodon.world If you're running an extortion racket you have to bust up a few shops to show you're serious. Those voters should have known what's good for them.
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@davidnjoku@mastodon.world And discover that people from the Philippines really like strawberries, much like most humans ;-)
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@dustin Ask and you shall receive. Plain little chisels out of a coil spring from a friend's VW Golf. Not much to look at but quick to put together and easy to heat treat.
Also hammered out this little collating vise for another project.
#blacksmithing
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@cstross@wandering.shop And they are *far* from profitable, even with their theft. @unixorn@hachyderm.io @fcbsd@hachyderm.io
Claude code agents aren't a clone of one "decent" engineer. They are a temp agency with little knowledge of your code base, little incentive to do the important gardening, and, frankly, 7 out of 10 are middling skilled, 2 often are good, and the last one is utter shite. Supervise appropriately.
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@heathen_cat About 10 years ago I chose to only read fiction by women writers for a year. Greatly expanded my view on the field, found some amazing writers, and *wow* there was so much less fasc. I used to think I was a balanced reader, but this experiment showed, and corrected, real gaps.
@MedeaVanamonde @mekkaokereke
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@cassolotl The physical knobs are harder to clean. The touch screens are a bit more annoying to manipulate. I have both, can't make up my mind.
Edit: I'll add I have the kind of touch controls that are a display & touchscreen - much better than touch with just a glowing light for feedback.
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@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us It's lovely how foreign nationals have more entry rights to the UK than citizens.
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@ClancyParliament@mastodon.online Cliché question, but what do you want to *do* with it?
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@ErikUden Nor do the Republicans run a rotating villian in the same circumstances. How odd.
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@dustin nothing particularly tricky. Clean up what will be the inside face then peen it into your anvil step or whatever. A bit of belt grinder action finishes it.
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@n_dimension@infosec.exchange Whistling 300baud carrier for tests ;-)
@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt
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@kenshirriff why not do it like seven? Multiply by four and subtract one? Or perhaps, why does 7 not suffer from the same problem as 3? Is 3 just used enough more frequently?
Edit: and answered down thread. Excellent work! Thanks.
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@chessert so how many school kids have been shot since? How many police murders? How many ICE murders in the last year?
It's important to remember these past betrayals. And it's even more important to note they are ongoing and normalized.
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@mcnado@mstdn.social The prohibition isn't to stop the mass shooters and other criminals. It's to stop violence escalation when armed people have an argument. Public carry of a firearm is an implicit threat. There's a reason it's not allowed in civilized places.
@Nonilex@masto.ai
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@mattblaze@federate.social The way effectively all of America's ruling class fell into a honey trap explains a lot about the last 25 years of US governance.
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@avi@cosocial.ca Go has generics now, and they've worked well enough for me, though I am by no means a power user there.
And yeah, the tools are potent there.
I'm finding the main painpoint is that they generate much too much code - there's no parsimony in their output.
Lately I've taken to pushing for a prototype in order to explor the space quickly, then coming back with a more careful, more manual re-implementation leaning on the behavior tests from the prototype, but with a much tighter implementation.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Dude, let me introduce you to the door handle. You can do it!
@mrsbeanbag The problem was the hideous installation and configuration. The LLM is just there with zero configuration overhead.