Notices by 🇳🇴 Thor — backup account (thorthenorseman@octodon.social), page 97

@DayGloChainsaw That looks so unlike Musk that you'd think it was manipulated. If it's real, it's hilarious. He looks absolutely shit faced.

@skypage Mmm, I'm not sure they're frequent or severe enough to justify any medication. It sounds like they're a bit worse for you.

@skypage For me, they don't involve much actual pain. It's just weird. I don't know how to prevent them. My dad says he gets them from time to time too.

Just had a bit of an ocular migraine.

I tried to visualise it in this stock photo.

Imagine that the lines are strobing at about 50-60 Hz, flipping extremely quickly between two different but similar images superimposed on your peripheral vision. That's what it's like.

I ended up purchasing DipTrace. The PCB editor has a large footprint library and imports a number of netlist formats. The schematic editor can export schematics to SPICE for simulation. It seems like a well-made piece of software. I haven't been happy with any of the FLOSS alternatives I've tried. KiCad is actually worse about imports and exports than many of the commercial packages I've come across. I need interoperability to avoid vendor lock-in.

@mattskala Are you attempting to make me feel small?

@filkerdave It's a 5.1 summing box. It takes two analog 5.1 signals from two computers, each coming in on 3 mini-jacks, and combines them into one signal coming out on 3 mini-jacks, for plugging into something like a Logitech 5.1 surround PC speaker system. Its primary target audience would be gamers who have two computers and one 5.1 system.

Blargh. Apparently, my design will have more than 300 pins, which is the limit for the free version of DipTrace. To get a version that supports 500 pins, I will have to buy the Lite edition of DipTrace for $145. This is probably the closest I've gotten to designing a PCB with the complexity of a commercial product. The market is telling me that I should be making good money if I'm designing circuits at this level. I can't though. I don't even have a college degree.

https://weworkremotely.com/remote-jobs/sticker-mule-senior-software-engineer-c-1

This is such a good match for my skills. Unfortunately, I don't live close enough for them.

Despite my fluency in English, texts of the ornate kind are still easier to read in Norwegian. I didn't get very far into The Prince by Machiavelli in English before I gave up. It was considerably easier to get through it in Norwegian, perhaps because an official Norwegian written language distinct from the Danish one didn't really come into existence until 1907, so if you want to sound archaic in Norwegian, you have to write in Danish. Your language thus is either modern or it's not Norwegian.

Wee... 6 in the morning and I'm going to bed. I fell asleep in the afternoon again. I was up early to go to the dentist and I think the anesthetic made me tired. It's local anesthetic, but it has to go somewhere afterwards... I had 3 shots of it and was already short on sleep. Also, I was struck with a bit of hypoglycaemia at work. Not a good day in any shape or form. Hopefully, tomorrow will be better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4E3In6WwPE - Michael Mcintyre: British People on Holiday

This applies to basically all of northern Europe.

It's always the worst people from your own country you meet on a holiday too. It's always the drunk fat overly tan middle-aged person, or the family with obnoxious kids, and never never the young and friendly cosmopolitan couple.

If being in any kind of management position involves spending most of your day in meetings, I don't want to be a manager.

Listening to people talk all day is exhausting, because the signal-to-noise ratio is usually very low. A little bit of substance sprinkled on top of a mountain of bullshit.

This, I suppose, is the point where I have to put my foot down and complete what the contract says I'm supposed to complete and absolutely nothing else, just so I can get them out of my hair.

They complain to me that I'm working too slowly, yet they don't get how trying to delegate tasks to incompetent trainees who constantly need my help would cause my own work to get delayed.

They complain to me that their business plan has no details, yet they don't get that this is their job, and that their idea isn't worth jack shit before they figure that out. I'm there to create the technology once they've figured out what they want it to do.

I want out of this contract.

The startup I've been contracting for complained that "we" are not "innovating" and wants to have meetings with me where we figure out how the business end of their startup will work.

Basically, they have come up with a basic idea and they know they want an app, but they have no idea about what they want their order; payment and delivery flows to look like, and they say they can't figure it out without my help.

That's not how it works. That's not how any of this works.

@skypage I'm not convinced that the general problem solving skills necessarily result *from* programming. I suspect it sort of leads people *to* become programmers.

Knowing how to code doesn't help you as much as you'd think, because most of the time when coding would help you solve a problem, you're too lazy to put in the effort.