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@IBaxterSoundArt @hackaday The left side there (white connector) is just usb A without the metal (grounding?) shroud. Common to omit in “trendy” portable cables, doesn’t make it any easier to land insertion on the first try, but sure makes it easier to mess up your ports coming in at angles…

Today's challenge: what's the weirdest, most obscure cable or connector in "that drawer" we all have at home?

@JosephRyanRies M&A - you setup a bidirectional trust but can’t actually cross embed objects, so you have to make stub contacts for manager/distributions, that are disconnected from the users, and later when you use the trust to merge directories you need to sew everything back together somehow

@deadspatulainc @DisplacedGenius @ZoeSchiffer Also, this is the USA - so it preserves their healthcare coverage… the real thing you can’t afford any gap in

Lol: Twitter sent an HR email to every laid off employee acknowledging it's late getting people their separation agreements and release of claims. But the company messed up the BCC and it has become a reply-all catastrophe.

@cutajar86 @levelsio How often he’s saving/writing changes to his code into the GitHub repository - darker green is more frequent in a given day - but really the notable part isn’t so much the green box (the “heatmap”) - it’s the 30,000 contributions in a year

@levelsio What is the pixelated green box? I plan to make something, for now just gathering bits of information that I will expand to more knowledge. No techy words, like none, it would be like talking to me in Chinese. I don’t know Chinese

"You're just lucky"

@dezign999 I mean, it costs as much as two Apple watches - so technically you had the same solution available all these years?

Welp, Apple may have just brute forced their way into resolving all my smartwatch issues that aren’t a Pebble. 36 hours of battery life, 90 if you nasty.

@EmilyKager A revocable living trust technically has your names at the end of its “name” - we updated our deed w/ govt and they just appended “ Trust” to the existing record in our names instead of using the trusts name 😔

has anyone bought a home and had concerns about privacy? I know trusts/LLCs are an option but is it possible to buy with your name on the deed/loan and still not have your address show up in a search of your name?

@Moftan @ThePocketReport “That was when the mob was involved” - had to listen a second time for sure

@ThePocketReport "...it turns out it was..." What did you say at the end of that? I can't make it out unfortunately. ☹️

Democrats 🤌🏼🤌🏼

@RickGladwin @destructivore @TunaSADwich @poltergeist_od ^This - I have a set of indoor slip ons that have a nice fat foam sole and my foot health drastically improved, without anything else. Still do occasional massage and soaks, but the indoor shoes/slippers (with actual padding, not just a slip on sock) - magic.

@destructivore @TunaSADwich @poltergeist_od Insoles that cushion the heel help as well. I started wearing indoor shoes or slippers during recovery to keep from walking on hard floors. Bless this post for being a beacon to those of a certain age where we can gather for health tips 😄

If you recognize this, how's your bad knee today?

@toms3dp For me it was kaleidoscope vision, it was a sort of jagged blind spot (how you might cartoon a lightning bolt) that shimmered various white/black, it was constantly active/changing and was impossible to ignore (and, of course, persisted eyes open or not).

@toms3dp Had this happen to me earlier this year - for me it was probably a combination of stress levels, and ingesting real licorice (not anise). The experience was disturbing enough that I’m just swearing off licorice to not take any chances. Stay healthy out there!

Okay, I'm out! This has been pretty much the scariest experience of my life: what started as a small visual glitch with a single crystal-like glistening spot in my vision quickly grew until it blinded out the entire right half of my vision. Then the headache started to set in.

@josecastillo I’ve long thought about this as a way to ruin someone, but - evil aside - I feel like making such a tool for one use is too much effort, and if you release it for others then it’s handing loaded guns out - the only winning move is not to play.

wow. Someone seems to have plugged my email address into a script or something that’s subscribing me to dozens of mailing lists. Three dozen in ten minutes. Is this like an attack, is there a name for this sort of thing? And am I just going to have to burn this email address?

@DavidSven Glad all is well - now that you’re sans thyroid, you get to experiment with medicines and figure out what works for you. You may want to look into taking both T3 and T4, feel free to reach out in DMs if you want to chat any!

Been on a bit of a health journey.

@carsondial @therufs How long are ya in for?

@therufs Thanks! :)

Ah, on friendly ground again.

@danlowlows I love that your example is Tracer from OW because OW also uses these funky weird stretchy/elastic animations constantly that would further exacerbate how bad a bad mapping could look/get. I have no idea what it’s called, but it’s just one more huge reason it’d fail.

Even if the mapping could be automated; you then run into problem number 2: Different skeletons have different proportions. E.g. A soldier in COD has pretty normal human proportions, but Tracer from Overwatch is like 70% legs.

For all the folks who don’t believe game devs when they say sharing objects between games doesn’t work, here’s a technical explanation: Let’s use Mike Shinoda’s example: port a skin from Valorant to Fortnite…

@talldarknweirdo Not what you asked, but without knowing the precise use case - would NFC tags work? Only offer it up because they’re cheap small and require no battery, the obvious drawback being you need to carry a phone or other device around to use them.

@ULazdinsCodes @MojoJosho @hackaday If you just coated the rim/edge, it would cause liquids to pool in the center from surface tension and reduce spills - at least for soups, not so much stews and things. Coat the bottom and no more drips, either!

@MojoJosho @hackaday Ha, great way of thinking! I'm afraid that the liquid attracting surface is actually an upside as you can't spill the contents as easy

The humble spoon, design largely unchanged over the centuries. How would you hack the spoon for ever-greater performance?

@ElyKreimendahl Strong xkcd.com/674/ vibes

i can’t believe it’s 2022 and I’m sequestered at home exactly like I was in 2020 except now I have TWO kids because I’m an idiot

@pauls_3d_things That’s huge - is the battery being reduced in size as part of that?

@MalwareJake @munin You climb in the bag with the cat, naturally.

@munin The questions weren't about the cat. Moreso the physics of trimming nails while the 😺 is in the bag...

I have... questions.

@LaserMistress Can only speak from my own experiences, but my friends technical or not react much the same, except for the few who do similar hardware building/tinkering, so I’ve always chocked it up to them considering it “beyond them” when, like all things, it 100% isn’t

You know what I love? Talking about *any* aspect of hardware I'm passionate about and nearly always being met with silence, switching to smalltalk, or them moving away to talk to someone else. I have absolutely no way to know how gendered this is and that gets to me.