Botzo
@Botzo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Learn this one weird trick! 1 hour ago:
Battery powered impact driver plus a deep socket set = you can remove lug nuts or bolts (securing a wheel to a vehicle) in very quick fashion.
- Comment on These mugs are getting out of hand 3 days ago:
You joke, but we learned “tons” and “metric tons” in elementary school.
I assume it’s the reason “metric” is used as an adjective this way.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 1 week ago:
Cheddar Cheeseius.
- Comment on Fall Sale Days are here 2 weeks ago:
Oh man, I grew up with those intercoms on the top right.
So weird to see them again.
- Comment on Well, shit. 4 weeks ago:
Yep. Ran a config as code migration on prod instead of dev. We introduced new safeguards for running against prod after that. And changed the expectations for primary on call to do dev work with down time. Shifted to improving ops tooling or making pretty charts from all the metrics. Actually ended up reducing toil substantially over the next couple quarters.
10/10 will absolutely still do something dumb again.
- Comment on All I Want for Christmas Is You 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Name this minivan 4 weeks ago:
99 Honda Odyssey: Walmart Wasteland edition.
- Comment on Chirp in Fahrenheit 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on This was a real thing and it "makes smoking easy" 5 weeks ago:
Do you shave with a different kind of gas?!
- Comment on This was a real thing and it "makes smoking easy" 5 weeks ago:
Reminds me of the old gas shaver kit my grandpa gave me on my 13th birthday.
- Comment on Why are they even doing this, the grass wasn't even that tall 5 weeks ago:
That’s so much extra wear and tear on the astroturf.
Wild.
- Comment on Inspiring 1 month ago:
Sure is!
- Comment on Placebo meme 1 month ago:
- Comment on Inspiring 1 month ago:
- Comment on Florida ounces 1 month ago:
As always, we catalog the creativity at !anythingbutmetric@discuss.tchncs.de.
- Comment on 🐀🔥🔥🔥 1 month ago:
Beard beer! Yeah, rogue was definitely playing with things at the time (remember voodoo donut?). Gotta keep in mind this brewer had been brewing in a yeast laden environment for many years.
I feel like I remember reading white labs sampled it and found it was a combo of several of their strains.
- Comment on TIL there is a law called Marchetti's Constant. Humans only tolerate commutes of less than ~1 hour. Housing outside that limit will fail. 2 months ago:
Marchetti posits that although forms of urban planning and transport may change, and although some live in villages and others in cities, people gradually adjust their lives to their conditions (including location of their homes relative to their workplace) such that the average travel time stays approximately constant.
Yeah, that’s a strange conclusion.
- Comment on Defective, do not use 2 months ago:
- Comment on wheel mugs 2 months ago:
Motorsports use colors for easy identification of different types of tires.
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- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 2 months ago:
Yeah, I can still smell the place in my memory. Proustian.
I mostly worked on the “highway” line. 12 inch diameter by 10ft lengths, with drilled holes, wrapped with a fiberglass filter and packed in a bag. It was a 2 person task that has probably been more automated now. Those Vantage cigarettes man, they were really gross (and cheap) and he never took a step without one in his mouth. Lit one from the other, burning 2 at once, etc. You know, I’m probably the same age he was now.
The fun part was watching the 4ft diameter double-wall line go at the same time. That shit failed about 50% of the time so we were always cutting it up on the giant bandsaw to feed into the industrial grinder.
Ah, and that reminds me of working the coil lines. Giant bails of 3, 4, 6in. When we’d get bad runs, we’d splice them out, then feed the sometimes 50+ foot length into the grinder and run the fuck away because the other end would whip around. Workplace safety and all.
Can’t believe my parents thought that was a good way to spend my summers. I’m sure they thought it would pay for college like their summer jobs did. All for about $3/hr over minimum wage. At least I got overtime too. Lifers like Dale (or was it Dan) had worked themselves up to a bit over triple minimum wage, or $16/hr. Lol, what benefits? This was a Christian Reformed (Calvinist) run business.
- Comment on Silicon Valley AI Startups Are Embracing China’s Controversial ‘996’ Work Schedule 2 months ago:
In highschool, I did 12/5 noon-midnight for 2 summers at a corrugated plastic pipe factory.
It was grueling and hot and soul-crushingly monotonous. Have you ever listened to commercial top 40 radio for 12 hours next to >200F(100C) equipment? If I never hear Sting’s Desert Rose again, it will still be too soon. Or smell Dale’s chain-smoked vantage cigarettes (3.5 packs a shift, we made sure the fan was always in his direction).
The output was steady, so it was also punishing to human events like hunger or toilet breaks.
I can’t imagine doing it 6 days. As it was, I never saw friends, barely held a relationship, etc.
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 2 months ago:
Seems on brand. Like they want people deported so they can go on missionary trips to accost them in their home countries with the love of Jesus.
- Comment on wolf spiders 2 months ago:
Had a smoke detector going off randomly one night and I pulled it down only to have mama crawl all over my hand as the babies were running around like maniacs, some casting off. Mama still had a bunch on her when I got the smoke detector outside.
- Comment on The Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group 2 months ago:
- Comment on Casual wear 3 months ago:
Big parmesan cheese fan by chance?
- Comment on Shhhhh 3 months ago:
The mechanical dials bit makes me jealous. I have a fancy new one that has a drawer mechanism and is built in under the counter.
It has settings to disable the chime, the 30 second “omg your food is still in the microwave” reminder, and even all sounds.
But doing anything that isn’t just pushing a couple numbers and start is hopeless. Defrost or “melt”? Enter the food code (???) then the weight (just guess randomly at the units and start over if you’re wrong). I just run at 30% power to defrost the occasional thing now.
- Comment on Ask the crickets 3 months ago:
- Comment on The B2 saw its shadow which means another 20 years of war in the middle east 3 months ago:
- Comment on Neo 3 months ago:
Oh hey, I’ve seen this one before.
