What I enjoyed doing on The Other Place was going to a random community and seeing its top posts, its hot posts. It gave a sense of how vibrant or interesting it was.
Today I found out I have a rating on FREE NOW as a passenger (I’m not a driver at all, I use it on the rare occassions I need to move something or I’m too sick to make it via public transport, i.e. after a surgery - I have an upcoming one so I redownloaded it). Checking my settings to make sure I had payment in, I saw I had...
As someone who’s spent a lot of time working in a lab, the ability to control static electricity would be a godsend! There’s really nothing like spending weeks preparing a new material as a fine powder, carrying it over to the weighing scales, placing a glass sample vial onto the scales, taring it, then a scooping up some of your powder with a spatula, careful not to lose a single particle, then carefully, CAREFULLY carrying the scoop of power to the sample vial – then seeing the static blast your powder out of the spatula to coat the OUTSIDE of the sample vial, plus the scales, plus your nitrile glove…
Ooh! Does this include, when you want to join a road but can’t get out because nobody gives you way, the ability to telekinetically push the button on a nearby pedestrian crossing?
Thanks! I’m actually not that happy with it to be honest. The windows don’t line up, the balcony isn’t really anywhere… the more I look at it the more it annoys me. Still, it took a good few hours to draw, so it’s staying up!
Hi all! Data scientist here, trying professionalise a group of hobby programmers who’ve somehow found ourselves doing it for a living. The programming we know; it’s the infrastructure we’re lacking. None of us knows how to organise a programming team, myself very much included....
Not exactly managing a team – it’s more a question of best practices around pull requests, version control, testing, code reviews, pair programming etc. I’m not interested in management, but I do I want to know what a well managed team ought to be doing!
Don’t really know how to explain this. I like sci fi and would love to dig deeper into it. Am avid reader and enjoyed Project Hail Mary (though set in space, this book is just amazing), Dune, short stories by Ray Bradbury and TV shows like Raised by the Wolves, Westworld, From (love From!). But e.g. Foundation I really...
Check out Ted Chiang as well – his two short story collections (Story of Your Life and Others; Exhalation) are some of the best I’ve ever read. He wrote the story upon which the film Arrival was based. Lots of things about time, consciousness, free will, humanity, all beautifully done.
I've got a couple of days off, 2 kg of sculpting clay, and zero previous experience of sculpting. What should I make?
Lay it on me, people!
Just played my first game of Escape the Dark Sector (feddit.uk)
A lot to remember when doing the combat sequences, but a really fun co-op game! Anyone played it?
Two Women at a Window - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1655-6) oil on canvas (upload.wikimedia.org)
What are you looking forward to in 2024?
Is there a way of browsing random communities?
It would be a good way of seeing what else is out there.
Cycling in the rain. Technical pen, November 2023. (feddit.uk)
The Venus of Willendorf, 25000-30000 years old. (feddit.uk)
From the Natural History Museum, Vienna. I love her. She’s perfect.
Science Fiction titles from Banned Books Week Spotlight List: The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood (literature.cafe)
cross-posted from: literature.cafe/post/2164461...
Do you have a rating? What is your rating?
Today I found out I have a rating on FREE NOW as a passenger (I’m not a driver at all, I use it on the rare occassions I need to move something or I’m too sick to make it via public transport, i.e. after a surgery - I have an upcoming one so I redownloaded it). Checking my settings to make sure I had payment in, I saw I had...
You can have any B-tier superpower you like. What do you choose?
I’d be Cables Don’t Tangle Man.
Which software do you mostly use for programming, and why? (suppo.fi)
Spider. Technical pen, September 2023. (feddit.uk)
From !drawing
Street in Brussels. Technical pen, 2023. (feddit.uk)
From feddit.uk/c/drawing
Puddle. Technical pen, 2023. (feddit.uk)
From !drawing
Software engineering for data scientists
Hi all! Data scientist here, trying professionalise a group of hobby programmers who’ve somehow found ourselves doing it for a living. The programming we know; it’s the infrastructure we’re lacking. None of us knows how to organise a programming team, myself very much included....
Sci-fi books which don't involve too much space travels and massive world builds?
Don’t really know how to explain this. I like sci fi and would love to dig deeper into it. Am avid reader and enjoyed Project Hail Mary (though set in space, this book is just amazing), Dune, short stories by Ray Bradbury and TV shows like Raised by the Wolves, Westworld, From (love From!). But e.g. Foundation I really...
Work in progress: Cowley Road, Oxford. (feddit.uk)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/1259220...
Bought a copy of Stratego in a charity shop today, and guess what: you can even play it on your phone! (feddit.uk)
The marvels of modern technology…
Daddy longlegs (feddit.uk)
By me, technical pen, 2023. Cross-posted from https://feddit.uk/c/drawing