HaywardT

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HaywardT ,

Look at the Akron and Macon. Big advanced helium filled. Zeppelins don't handle weather well.

Have you ever tried silkscreen printing?

I've wanted to try it for a long time, but never got around to it. I'm curious about any techniques that are more grass roots outside of the commercialized space, like what are the absolute minimum things needed when repeatability, convenience, and time are not important factors, but money and access to rare markets is extremely...

HaywardT ,

Ive done it just for fun. It was some time ago. Bought a screen in a frame, a squeegee, tried a couple mask methods but was most pleased with the photosensitive stuff. It is quite fun and results were impressive for the short time I spent on it.

HaywardT ,

Check out Las Vegas just south of Chicago

HaywardT ,

Isn't Blackstone Blackrock?

HaywardT ,

Interesting. Thanks.

Why doesn't Blackrock appear here?

HaywardT ,

I don't believe this is ad-libbed. I think this was planned. It looks just like some of Ronald Reagan's clever quips.

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I absolutely love milkshakes. I just wish they loved me more.

Is this what god feels like?

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HaywardT ,

It's a cleanse

HaywardT ,

I give them credit for not rushing this.

Im not saying I would ever ride on it.

HaywardT ,

It would be awesome if US police departments donated all their heavy tactical vehicles to your cause.

HaywardT ,

They haven't read it. They have just heard what is in it from their leaders. Just like the banned books or the Bible.

HaywardT , (edited )

I had too, but apparently that is not the case.

HaywardT ,

Operating rooms are about to become interesting.

Obscure screw added so appliance cannot be disassembled ( lemmy.world )

Basic blender went bad (motor ran but spindle wasn't rotating). I wanted to disassemble to see if it could be repaired. Three of the four screws were Phillips head. I had to cut the casing open in order to discover why I couldn't unscrew the fourth. It was a slotted spanner.

HaywardT ,

Harbor freight has sets of tamper resistant bits. They are also handy for regular Allen and torx heads.

HaywardT ,

Yes capitalism is failing us but their belief that forcing everyone into their "ism" will lead to utopia is a disingenuous lie.

HaywardT ,

If you have two resistors in parallel the current doesn't just flow through one resistor. You will get shocked. That's why you yell "clear" before juicing them.

HaywardT ,

I have been talking to a friend who lives in a mobile home near Albuquerque. He is thinking about installing a roof above the home to keep it a little cooler in the summer. To that end I am recommending he use decommissioned panels as the roof and connecting them through a transfer switch to a mini split ac. This has the advantage of using cheap panels from Santan solar (which cannot be grid tied) for free cooling during the hotest hours of the day, while retaining the ability to run the ac at night.

HaywardT ,

Forth. Not forth compilers like gforth but the whole environment. Esp32Forth is a great implementation.

HaywardT ,

Why is that a weird take? Seems to me the price should be the price across the board.

HaywardT ,

Seems especially true where you tip before being served.

HaywardT ,

I'm for transparency in pricing.

Something on my mind… ((read body section)) ( www.youtube.com )

((No I'm not supporting the genocide of the Palestinian people. What I am trying to do is, start a conversation about how we as a country (the US), sure seem to be getting pushed and pulled into debates about just about everything under the sun. Perhaps I'm not informed as well as others might be. Maybe I've overlooked...

HaywardT ,

The news requires we be upset. That's where the money is.

Good things are happening around me all the time. I try to stay in the present (though sometimes I do dwell on my future too much.)

Trump told oil executives and lobbyists that he would undo Biden’s climate policies ( www.carbonbrief.org )

Donald Trump offered to weaken climate regulations in exchange for a $1bn contribution from oil company bosses to support his return to the White House later this year. During a dinner for senior oil executives at his Mar-a-Lago club last month, Trump “vowed to immediately reverse dozens of president [Joe] Biden’s...

HaywardT ,

Even if they were both the same, a loss for trump means a $1bn loss for the oil companies.

HaywardT ,

Voyager - it was on f droid and it works.

Can somebody explain why game makers don't start their own companies together?

It seems like every other week a game studio is massively laying off employees; sometimes after years of development. What I'm reading is that it's a quick way to lower expenses and pad the investors' pockets, flooding the market with developers and reducing their value, to then hire them back a few months later at lower...

HaywardT ,

Beyond just game studios, why aren't there more employee owned companies?

When Starbucks was unionizing I made the comment that if I were the corporation I would just get out and let the employees run it. I got flamed for this attitude. What is so terrible about employee owned companies?

HaywardT ,

So you are saying employees in employee owned companies are rent seeking social parasites?

HaywardT ,

You are the hero we need

HaywardT ,

So what I am now hearing is it is hard for them to get seed money.

HaywardT ,

This might be tangentially relevant https://fed.dyne.org/post/146187

HaywardT ,

What can be done to change this?

I think a lot of people need someone to blame for their own unhappiness, too. I would like to see this change, but I am not sure how it can be done.

HaywardT ,

I'm a better bookkeeper than I am a coder. I would join.

So many roles can be fractionalized that it seems doable.

Strategic leadership and consensus might be difficult. Design by committee could be the biggest enemy.

HaywardT ,

That's a much higher percentage than I expected.

Benevolent capital is out there, especially in the startup phase. I find it arrogant and ignorant, but available. It does require risk-sharing which I find doesn't fit the vision of the borrower.

HaywardT ,

To me the opposite appears true. Beyond economy -of-scale can you give me some examples?

HaywardT ,

This is kinda off the subject but do you live this life? Would you like to code something for no money that would help people?

HaywardT ,

I don't know where you are located. I am in the US and a co-op is just a corporation so all the things that apply to a private corporation apply to a co-op. When applying for grants there are no differentiators that I can think of. One advantage for a co-op here is that there are no passive investors.

HaywardT ,

That is great! Thanks for all you do for others.

HaywardT ,

Can you tell me what city this is? For me this would be reason enough to move.

When you get a call from a middle-aged male coworker who had tried to coerce you (younger female) into letting him drop you off at home on a Saturday night: do you call back, text, email, or ignore?

Please read post for full context; any help or input is appreciated! I disclosed sensitive info to a close female coworker (let's say Ann), who is best friends with the male coworker mentioned (Ned). I'm sure she told him, but then they both seemed to want me to still tell him directly. I did because I believe in doing the right...

HaywardT ,

And the rest of you are COBOL programmers.

HaywardT ,

I believe Intel is on track to do it again.

HaywardT ,

I read an article recently that talked about enabling and disabling cores on the fly.

I think chip binning is perfectly reasonable.

HaywardT , (edited )

When IBM did this with mainframes it launched Amdahl into existence. His machines were basically the same machine except they were unharnessed.

HaywardT ,

So that big pharma can get a piece of the action.

How do people actually dumpster dive to get free food? Are there any other cheap/free ways like this to get food?

My local food bank can only provide 8 packages with referrals every time before you run out, and I have, but my situation hasn't improved financially due to various set backs and I'm struggling to feed myself. I've heard that supermarkets throw out massive amounts, but have never been in a position where dumpster diving seemed...

HaywardT ,

I had a friend that was very good at it.

Get in and get out. Dont hang around. Don't hesitate.

He said he thought it was like fishing in that you just didn't know what you were going to get.

Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs ( phys.org )

"You've got a chemical cocktail in these tires that no one really understands and is kept highly confidential by the tire manufacturers," said Nick Molden, CEO of Emissions Analytics. "We struggle to think of another consumer product that is so prevalent in the world and used by virtually everyone, where there is so little known...

HaywardT ,

I think it is intentional to get the focus off the problem. "It's not that one industry, it's all the little things. Give up your plastic straw. Give up your plastic bag. It's your fault and in your control. We are just over here turning oil into tires for your convenience."

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