EssentialNPC
@EssentialNPC@lemmy.world
- Comment on Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source 4 weeks ago:
Good documentation should, in part, tell people where to click. I have designed software documentation for high performing individuals at leading global companies, and I have designed software and hardware documentation for minimum wage fast food workers with limited English proficiency. In both extremes, I showed them exactly where to click on the screen at each step.
You might not need that level of help, but many people do. Others do not strictly need it, but they prefer the simple instruction set. “Click here then here,” instructions ease the transition into a new system one needs to learn, or it removes the need entirely to learn a system one uses infrequently.
The problem is that making good documentation is difficult and time consuming. It relies on a fundamentally different skill set than coding or even UI design.
- Comment on There are songs we've gone our whole lives without hearing and our favorite song might still be out there. 6 months ago:
That is interesting. I loved the original in my youth, but now that I am older, a cancer survivor, and with a lifetime of challenge and too many dead lived ones, Cash’s version speaks to me on a different level.
I’m not yucking your yum one bit. I am happy that you have a song that speaks to you.
- Comment on I'm happy to be able to live in this world, we all came here somehow. Not sex, before that, you we're nothing, and now you're something! Yay! Oh wait, it's not forever? Fuck. 7 months ago:
Yeah, it is. The injections suck, and the hormone shifts are awful. One of my friends is a general practitioner in the Navy, and every time he prescribes any fertility hormone, he also gives a referral for couples counseling. “I know you believe you won’t need it, and you might be right, but in my experience by the time you realize you need it, you need it RIGHT NOW.” The IVF hormones are around then the ones he can prescribe, and it was a wild ride.
Of course I don’t know your SIL, but please extend my best to her and her family at some point. As one stranger on the Internet who knows roughly the path she walked, I am very happy it went well for her in the end.
Also, real talk, you sound like a great in-law to her for being so aware of everything. Kudos to you.
- Comment on I'm happy to be able to live in this world, we all came here somehow. Not sex, before that, you we're nothing, and now you're something! Yay! Oh wait, it's not forever? Fuck. 7 months ago:
We happened to live in the U.S. state with the best reproductive rights laws and have the best health insurer for IVF in that state. It did cost thousands of dollars, but it was still 4 digits overall. We were getting by on a single income at the time, but it was really the health insurance and state laws that made it doable.
We needed two cycles because the first failed completely, but the second cycle (ICSI for those who care) produced multiple embryos. They only implanted one at a time, so my second kid is a freezer baby.
But yeah, my wife has a true, diagnosed needle phobia and did it anyway. She is a God damn trooper.
- Comment on I'm happy to be able to live in this world, we all came here somehow. Not sex, before that, you we're nothing, and now you're something! Yay! Oh wait, it's not forever? Fuck. 7 months ago:
Nope! My wife was enjoying a chemically-induced nap in one room when my kids were conceived. I was in another room with broken DVDs and suspiciously easy to clean chairs. The kids were conceived in a third room by a lab worker and incredibly complex equipment.
The traditional way is much more fun. Try that first.
- Comment on Completed mountain feature wall for son's bedroom 8 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Completed mountain feature wall for son's bedroom 8 months ago:
Thank you! This is indeed those Whits. The design is very roughly inspired by the view of Lafayette from across Franconia Notch.
- Comment on Weight Lifting: How are you supposed to know the weights of unlabled things? 8 months ago:
I would mildly disagree. Knowing your numbers for a lift can help you estimate where you should be on related lifts. It can also help you very roughly gauge your progress compared to others. The mechanical advantage, friction, and other physical aspects of any given machine play a huge role for sure, but one can broadly make comparisons.
- Comment on Completed mountain feature wall for son's bedroom 8 months ago:
A couple friends have asked me if I would do this for money. I had to politely explain that they can’t afford me. It’s not that I am that good - I am just that slow! I can fake a lot with enough time and trips back to the garage to fix things.
- Comment on Completed mountain feature wall for son's bedroom 8 months ago:
Thank you kindly! Funny enough, that is also how I feel after the big push to get it done this weekend and daylight savings combined.
- Comment on Weight Lifting: How are you supposed to know the weights of unlabled things? 8 months ago:
That is some ingenuity! Smart move.
I am lucky that I have been working with a trainer for a couple years, and she knows this info for every piece of equipment in my gym. It will get harder as I taper off working with her.
- Comment on Weight Lifting: How are you supposed to know the weights of unlabled things? 8 months ago:
First, I am sorry for everyone just finding this question. There are many valid reasons for wanting to know the unloaded weight of machines, including just being curious. If you want to change up your routine or compare results between machines, you absolutely want this info.
Some machines will have this information in fine print on the main instruction panel or some small label on the machine. You have to search for it.
The most reliable way to know would be to ask the staff at your gym. A gym-employed trainer would be a great resource if they are off without a client. At my gym, I just put in a request that they level all of the machines with this info. It seems like a big quality of life increase for the cost of some printer paper and packing tape.
Keep lifting heavy and pushing for the details you want. I know on my leg press sled, I absolutely want credit for the 105 lb. sled in addition to the plates I put on it.
- Comment on Completed mountain feature wall for son's bedroom 8 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Completed mountain feature wall for son's bedroom 8 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Completed mountain feature wall for son's bedroom 8 months ago:
Those are kind words - thank you. He is a good big brother who puts up with a lot. The kid deserves and needs a space that is just his, where he can get away from the chaos of life (and his younger brother).
- Comment on Completed mountain feature wall for son's bedroom 8 months ago:
Seriously, so am I. My room is very nice, but it doesn’t have mountains!
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- Comment on What to do with an old cellar bulkhead are? 8 months ago:
I think this is a case where getting someone to look at it would be wise. Depending on your foundation, those stairs could be part of the structure of the foundation. Even if they were not pissy or the structure, removing them could damage the surrounding foundation.
- Comment on Mountain feature wall in child's bedroom 8 months ago:
Oh, and thank you! I should have led with that.
- Comment on Mountain feature wall in child's bedroom 8 months ago:
I will share more once the whole build is done. If you look back a month or so in this sub, you can see the notes page there I planned my layout for the mountains. I think the room will be finished in a week or so, and there will be plenty of pictures then.
- Comment on Mountain feature wall in child's bedroom 8 months ago:
It’s not black, but instead a mildly dark blue-green. The lighting is awful today, and my phone is struggling to pick up the actual color. I’ll see if I can upload a photo that better grabs the color.
- Comment on Mountain feature wall in child's bedroom 8 months ago:
Hah! I love it. If it helps at all, the color fidelity in this photo isn’t great. The mountains are actually a non-vibrant shade of blue-green that gets turned much darker by my phone’s camera. The natural lighting today also doesn’t help with it raining outside. We specifically chose the color of the White Mountains of New Hampshire through the haze of a warm summer day.
I have found photographing this project to be especially challenging. Between the changing light throughout the day and the limits of my phone camera, it is hard to get both accurate colors and a proper impression of the texture of the wall.
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- Comment on What is the best way to fix cracks before repainting 10 months ago:
Thank you for that tip!
- Comment on What is the best way to fix cracks before repainting 10 months ago:
I grabbed some tape and will do that repair. Thankfully, I have taped drywall before so this is not new. I don’t think my wife will be thrilled that this is going to add a day or two until we can paint, but she will agree that it is better to do it right than fast.
- Comment on What is the best way to fix cracks before repainting 10 months ago:
Can I do mesh tape over the cracks as they are (with some initial sanding to remove high points), or do I need to strip it down to drywall first? Getting down to drywall would be tricky without damaging the drywall
Any settling should be long finished. The bedroom is on the second floor, and the additions that border these walls were completed ~30 years ago. The drywall in this room predates that addition, but these cracks are through layers of paint that came after the additions. Upon further inspection, I think the weak drywall is limited to a much smaller area than I first anticipated. That area has no cracks and will be trimmed with a cover out in for better plumbing access anyway.
- Submitted 10 months ago to [deleted] | 21 comments
- Comment on Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests 1 year ago:
Thank you! I was going to make this exact point. Autocatalytic reactions are assumed with good reason to be a necessary step on the way from non-life chemicals to life, but they are only one step. Carbon is the only element that can form the basis of the huge variety of chemicals needed for the simplest of life to evolve.
When I was an undergrad, I had professors who made completing arguments that live on other planets would not only be carbon-based, but that it likely would closely resemble life on Earth on molecular, microscopic, and macroscopic levels. Survival of the fit certainly depends upon the environment, but it also must comply with chemistry and physics. I am no expert in theoretical xenobiology, but it provides a strong and fact-based counter to the idea that alien life would by default be wildly different from life on Earth.
