waz
@waz@lemmy.world
- Comment on What has gradually vanished from society over the past 20 years without many people noticing? 4 weeks ago:
Approximate time.
At some point the time on my cellphone was a little off from the TV which was a little different from my car which was a little slower than my school which was a little different classroom to classroom and approximate time was good enough. Now if I’m 30 seconds late for a meeting, it gets commented on.
- Comment on The 42 year old new hire at your job confesses to you that he has had 48 different jobs in his life. What is your opinion on that? 1 month ago:
Make friends with the guy. He’s got some some stories. True or not, he’s got some stories.
- Comment on What are you brewing? 2 months ago:
I’ve plans to brew a wheat wine. It’s just so much malt that I find it hard to justify, but I really want to try. 20 years ago it was a fairly uncommon offering at a local brewery that I loved, and I’ve wanted to try and recreate it ever since.
- Comment on Kids 3 months ago:
Technically only one Judy Bloom book, but your point still stands and I agree. It’s pretty bizarre.
- Comment on Kids 3 months ago:
I assumed age appropriate was regarding content not difficulty. It is still a weird thing to emphasize though.
- Comment on An airport is an air-port. A port via the air. 4 months ago:
After years of learning Spanish my brother pointed out that the word for umbrella, paraguas, is simply “for water”. Similar to how parasol is “for sun”.
So obvious, but somehow my brain missed it.
- Comment on Is 0.3 quarts extra too mich oil in a car? 4 months ago:
Having once upon a time overfilled my oil by almost a quart, I think you are mostly right.
Engine oil should stay in the crankcase. During normal operation, some of it is pumped elsewhere to lubricate the crankshaft, cams, and other mechanical components. The rest of the oil sloshes and splashes around the crankcase keeping everything slippery. If there is too much excess in the crankcase, components moving can push the oil somewhere it shouldn’t be.
In my case, when turning left, the excess oil was pushed passed the piston rings and burned in a huge cloud of blue smoke. It wasn’t a proud moment, but stopping in a random service station and having Bruce try to drain a quart of oil out of the engine, because I couldn’t afford a full oil change was awkward.
… Anyway: all of that to say this:
If you have too little, your oil pressure light will probably come on. If you have too much, you’ll notice it somewhere else.
- Comment on Choose wisely 4 months ago:
There is a shoe store where I used to live named Red’s Shoe Barn. I was always hoping the correct lights would fail to make their sign read “ed’s hoe Bar”. To my knowledge it never happened, but I don’t know.
- Comment on is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital? 4 months ago:
What about phrasing it so the effort isn’t on you, but them?
“I’ve never really felt comfortable around [describe group]”. This way, the failure isn’t yours to get comfortable, but on them to mwake you comfortable.
- Comment on Phone calls still assume the people on the receiving end are attached to a desk. 4 months ago:
For me an email is when I don’t need a quick response. A text is when I want a faster response but I don’t want to interrupt what the other person is doing. A call is when I want a quick response and I think it’s worth interrupting the person.
I very rarely call.
- Comment on Is it generally safe to walk through a field of cows? 4 months ago:
Wow. Just wow.
- Comment on xkcd #2932: Driving PSA 6 months ago:
I try to never use “the finger” when another driver is being an ass. In that case I always just give them a thumbs down and a sad face.
I save the middke finger for people who are being “nice”, especially when it is making things dangerous. I find it is the quickest way get them to just go.
I try to be coniderate while driving, but I believe being predictable is safe. Deviating from the rules is dangerous.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 6 months ago:
My personal experience: Trying to find a restaurant that has vegan friendly options isn’t always easy, and used to be much harder. That would make trying to find somewhere to eat as a group much more tedious if someone was vegan. I don’t think anyone had issue with the person being a vegan, I think they just didn’t like eating at the same two restaurants over and over.
- Comment on How often do you use the small pocket inside your jeans pocket (if you have it) ? and what for ? 6 months ago:
I put my key in there.
- Comment on In search of software for managing like a helpdesk but in a lite format 7 months ago:
I use youtrack. It’s a project management tool. It’s not open source, but does have a self hostable option.
- Comment on I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is 7 months ago:
I’m a little sad I had to scroll so long to even find a reference to the old “pogs”. Damn what a weird fad.
- Comment on Most stuff you touch was super hot while being made 8 months ago:
Reading this after hugging my wife made me wonder if the encounter that made her was super hot or not. Honestly I don’t feel comfortable enough to ask.
- Comment on What would be a good glue to repair this spatula with that wont he toxic or come undone in a dishwasher? 8 months ago:
My grandmother used to say the annoying part of forgetting things is that you still remember that you used to know something. Once you forget that you ever remembered, you’re home free.
- Comment on Why Software Engineers like Woodworking 9 months ago:
Since my last comment, I learned that my local library has a few machines and a serger that you can reserve time on. I think that is going to be how I avoid buying my own for a while, and possibly a social setting I may learn from others.
- Comment on Why Software Engineers like Woodworking 9 months ago:
Curiously, what sort of fights do you have with your sewing machine? I just started getting into sewing a couple months ago. I’m currently using a borrowed machine and haven’t had any major issues yet. I was hoping to buy my own soon and wanted to know if there were specific features that commonly cause problems.
- Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk? 9 months ago:
I like puting my prototype code in namespaces like “garbage” “trash” “throwaway” etc to emphasize how unfit for production. I’ve no concrete evidence of it’s success, but I like to think it dissuades other team members from using it where they shouldn’t.
- Comment on His true endgame 10 months ago:
Am I the only person who was confused because I read penises instead of pennies the first time?
I wonder what Freud would say about this.
- Comment on People who dont particularly care for or celebrate Christmas, Whats your favorite Christmas song? 10 months ago:
Glad to see Fairytale of New York here. I was going to make the comment if I didn’t find it.
With lyrics like this, what’s not to like:
You scumbag, you maggot, you cheap, lousy removed. Happy Christmas, your arse, I pray God it’s our last.
- Comment on Single-use e-cigarettes contain batteries that last hundreds of cycles despite being discarded 11 months ago:
What if they just put a deposit on them like we do with cans to promote recycling.
I’m not in favor of banning things, but depending how it is structured I could support structured discouraging.
- Comment on how much backing up would you do of a media server? 11 months ago:
My brother also has his own NAS at his house. We sync our media between both of our servers to both share it and to serve as an off-site backup.
Everything else on my nas gets backed up to a cloud provider.
Like you said, it could be replaced it’d just be inconvenient, and media is kinda bulky so cloud storage for all of it would get a little pricy.
- Comment on I hate that I am become this person but: are delivery drivers just allowed to call and say 'please come and meet me' now? 11 months ago:
I’ve given up on food delivery. With the all the fees and tips and shit to wait who the hell knows how long for food to show up colder than a penguin fart.
It’s just not worth it to me anymore. Why would I want to pay for that experience? I can make less disappointing food quicker for less money.
- Comment on Things to say when you're losing a technical argument 11 months ago:
As a started reading I thought “Hmm, some of these remind me of [coworker x]”. As I continued I realized all of these remind me of [coworker x].
I might have to turn some of these into bingo cards.
- Comment on What is this connector called? 11 months ago:
Yes, 2 pins.
- Comment on What is this connector called? 11 months ago:
That was one of the two I found in my search. The other was Molex PicoBlade. None of the pictures I saw of gave me confidence either way.
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