ook_the_librarian

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I live in the second one. On purpose. I'll never wear my debian tshirt.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Wow, you've tried nothing and are all out of ideas!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'll happily supply the hacksaw to keep you occupied.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I actually love that we have resourses like this.

My gripe is that they miss the mark by targeting new dads. The reason dad jokes are great is they are the first jokes your kid understands. So I would think dads of 4 to 9 year-olds would be a better target.

The high you feel when your kid cracks up at some offhand dumb joke can't be bottled.

But the reason I love this as a resourse is that explaining jokes to a curious child develops connections in their head in a way that only a parenting rolemodel can really do. So even if it's not laugh-out-loud funny to explain a joke, if your child tells you that they do not get a joke, first and foremost realize that is a vunerable admission. Buddies will rag on you for not getting it. Parents see a gap in their kids' world experience that they can fill.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Is this seriously your takeaway from a well-thought out post? This the smugness of reddit that I really don't miss.

edit: I am refering to the root comment, as that isn't clear.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

This can't help in the short term, I would consider learning steno. It used to cost thousands to rent specialized equipment to do it. Now with Plover (foss), the software component is free. You just need a keyboard with n-key rollover to do it.

I wouldn't actually recommend learning on a standard keyboard. I personally use an ortholinear for typing, and that's what got me into plover.

One way this would help one disabilities to make money is that with high-speed internet, you can caption internet broadcasts or remote company meetings. There are nonprofits that you would work for to find companies that need your service.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

How else would you know it was doing anything?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Who says the kid didn't scavenge for it?

I bet he gets fed frozen pizza. Lazy-ass guardians. You need to cook that shit.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Fun fact: 200-foot radio towers are free. You can take them home. I have 257 200-foot radio towers.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

As someone with protanomaly (colorblindness due to sucky red cones), this guy is a hero.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

You're correct in a lot of languages; Excel comes to mind. Just that's not how int rand() works in C.

Sorry, I don't why you're getting snark and even being accused of using the word "integer".

 

I thought I would knock some dust off my drafting skills after a small chat with @captain_[email protected]

Seeing this image on the tutorial made me realize, FreeCAD seems to be a Technical Geometry Super-Suite. It makes sense that CAD would grow to include all of these things. But I thought sharing the initial perspective of some one who hasn't looked at this stuff in about 18 years might be interesting.

Granted I'm not actually familiar with most of this stuff, and none of it from the POV of FreeCAD. If this can deliver 10% of what I'm looking at, I'm in for a treat.

 
 

For the sake of concreteness, let's take the Joe Biden registering to run in the 2024 Democratic Primary. He signs up and is asked for an election handle, aka username, screenname, whatever.

He tries "joe biden" but that is taken, as is "joebiden"... So yada yada yada, he settles on "joe4unions" or maybe something a professional would come with, but we'll go with "joe4unions".

Here's the Crazy Idea: New election rule. Candidates may never claim to be their handle; the handle cannot claim to be the candidates.

The handle can link data, post anonymized stump speeches, name-drop ("jack kennedy was a friend of mine. and user4164, you're no jack kennedy."), whatever.

joe4unions can insist he will run the country just like Joe Biden, but he can't say anything that, had joe4unions not really been Biden, could be considered fraud.

Chaos Online Primaries ensue to get the top 10 candidates. Remember, they actually had to register in person. There were eligibility checks . So it's not open-internet signups, but it's not far off. there could be admin-level policing (DNC) so all the Dean Brownings of PA can't be lying out there.

Now online voting doesn't exist (yet?) so I don't have some kinks worked out. I hope no one was here for something well-thought out.

Now top 10 candidates chosen by Jan 2024 can now run the "normal" process.

What do you think? have fun hating my idea!

 
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