Botzo

joined 2 years ago
[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I can empathize. I went back to work a month ago now. It was/is hard to be unavailable.

Luckily, I work from home in a fairly independent role and my wife is still on leave, so we're still largely co-parenting. We could afford to have me stay at home, but we're saying that the extra I make above the truly wild cost of daycare will go to his education, financial security, and cultural enrichment.

We're also telling ourselves that daycare will be a positive/important social experience for him because we have a small friend group locally and family is halfway across the US.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hah, is fine. No I didn't feel "cool." I'm just the kind of weirdo that was obsessed with guns from a technical point of view as a kid. Think of me more as the kid just slightly on the spectrum who collected data on everything firearm related and then wrote mods for games like rogue spear that tried to adhere to the data. I didn't shoot more than a .22 rifle or 16 and 12 gauge shotguns until my 20s. This was one of the factoids I still have floating around up there.

Now in my 40s, I still haven't owned a gun personally, but have been to the range many times with friends (I buy more ammo than I shoot and drinks after). Heck, a few weeks ago I got to put a hundred rounds or so through a friend's suppressed FN P90 (a very surreal experience), a very nice .223, and pistols in 4 calibers (.22 and 9mm with suppressors, .45, and .357).

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (8 children)

.40 S&W and 10mm auto are both 10mm rounds!

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or her job!

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson

Nonetheless, I agree with the sentiment.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Have you tried the heroic launcher for your GOG games? It's trivial to connect your account and download/install the games (and select the compatibility layer of your choice). There an option to add the games to steam too.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago
[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That leopard print raised my eyebrow slightly. Although it does perfectly match the shoes, so I can look past it.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The answer, they found, is that working muscles effectively outcompete tumors for the glucose supply. Because muscle contraction increases glucose uptake, exercise shifts metabolism, causing tumors to receive less of the fuel they need to grow.

Nailed it. Down to the use of the word "fuel".

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of my first day of intro to programming my first semester of freshman year at a small Christian Reformed college.

It opened with prayer and then a lecture on how technology is inherently evil. Then we started writing a java applet.

I applied to a state school within 2 weeks of starting.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

+1 I finally finished my bachelor's at 31 so I could check a box on job applications. I wouldn't have my current position without it, useless and inapplicable though it is.

 

I don't really have anyone else to shout at about this, but it's an amazing way to host services in rootless containers entirely in user space using systemd (systemctl --user).

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-systemd.unit.5.html

 

I applied some paste wax to the table saw and was pleasantly surprised that it made a difference.

I think I'll have to use this on the wood runners on the old dresser I have too.

In case you're concerned, it's just a little DeWalt contractor's table saw. No sawstop or powermatic here. That's for the cool guys on youtube.

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