Gustephan

joined 2 years ago
[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I think thats just called crying alone in your room

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

I think they might be contrapositives. To me, redneck engineering roughly means "surprisingly good and durable solution made in spite of limited materials and or knowledge" where kludge roughly means "surprisingly shit solution barely good enough to work 1 or 2 times despite having the money/ability to produce a much better solution."

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Blud sequestering themselves from men is literally the stated goal of that kind of community. So... yeah? If people want to be sequestered that does involve sequestering themselves somewhere. Maybe if you feel like those kind of places are hard to find you should engage in some praxis and spread the word about them rather than crying at me because I feel othered by a "no men allowed" sign planted in a public forum. Wanting a safe space is valid. Trying to force people you dont like out of an open space to create that safe space is not valid.

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

"Anarchy calzone" is the only thing that comes to mind when I look at your sandwich and try to figure out what to call it

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Well, I had a grocery list before I looked at lemmy today. Now I have a grocery list with "French fries and poblanos" hastily scribbled at the bottom of it

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I dont have a ton of respect for people making or enforcing exclusionary spaces on public message boards like that. If they really wanted a separate safe space they'd have something like beehaw with moderated sign-ups and a closed door policy to people who dont go through the verification. I dont care about it enough to argue and I go with a "block and let live" strategy regarding those kind of places, but im also not about to spend time or energy policing myself beyond the aforementioned "on topic, dont be a dick" because a bunch of people intentionally chose the wrong hosting tool for an exclusionary community so they can (in my opinion) performatively other people they dont like in a public space.

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Bro I'd be losing my shit if my water bottle stared into my soul every time I took a drink

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

If I'm making a post I make sure it's relevant to the community I'm posting to, but just commenting on posts that show up in my feed I dont bother most of the time. Most message board rules boil down to "stay roughly on topic and dont be a dick to the other people here" anyway; you probably dont need to know most message board rules if youre adhering to that.

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah turns out two years of above inflation pay rises dont make up for 40 or 50 years of wage stagnation. Fucking wankers

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

I just block that community. Not like out of malice or anything but it prevents me from commenting on a post without looking at the comm name. I try to make a habit of not spending time in places where I am not welcome

[–] Gustephan@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago

Whenever the cats that have been in my life are doing dangerous stuff like that I hiss at them and chase them off. It's very effective at getting them to stop trying to kill themselves and it doesn't seem to upset them longterm

 

I can only claim partial credit for this one, but it holds a lot of meaning for me. Part of an old engineering notebook of mine that has since been repurposed into a sketchbook

 

Not sure if this comm was made specifically for the person who made it to post their work or for any post with the same general style. If its the former feel free to remove this post or I can take it down.

These are my unclassified test notes from a radar test event I ran a long time ago, along with 8 hours worth of doodling that happened while the event ran

 

This is my inventory after killing goo. XPD-HJC-HGR if anybody wants to play this amazing seed on a class where +1 strength ring and uncursed greataxe by floor 3 aren't wasted. The mimic tooth was a random trinket choice and I don't know if that is tied to the seed, but everything else is in visible rooms in the first 4 floors

 

Meme of two women fighting while a man smokes from a pipe in the background.

The women fighting are labeled "mathematicians defining pi" and "engineers just using 3 because it's within tolerance"

The man smoking is labeled "astrophysicists" and the pipe is labeled "pi = 1"

 

The Blister Exists, by slipknot. In case the link doesn't work properly. The drum part that starts at ~2:12 is imprinted on my psyche for the rest of my life. I smack my thighs hard enough to bruise air-drumming along to this song

 

Spirit bow has blooming and speed augment. Spawn grass and burn everything at range with the blazing crossbow buffed darts and sniper's mark ability, artifacts and haste armor ability to get away or run through the fire. This build did monstrous aoe damage, spawning massive blazes nearly every fight

The real star of this run was the parchment scrap. Since the update where energizing potions and scrolls identifies them, it feels very viable to identify all of the extra scrolls and potions from the first 4 floors by energizing them and pumping that into the parchment scrap. 10x enchantment/glyph find and 0x curse find on armor and weapons is a wild effect to have before floor 5. In the posted run I got a lucky weapon early with this strategy which snowballed into RoW drops, making a build that felt very strong starting on floor 4 and continuing for the rest of the game

 

I'm currently working on a PhD, and I had a meeting that felt like an intervention with my advisor where she encouraged me to take a few months away from the program to take care of myself. For context, I used to work for the airforce, and apparently I picked up some pretty severe mental health problems that have lead to not sleeping and panic attacks when I read papers about military hardware (not ideal when my current interest is hardware side cybersecurity).

What the fuck does "take care of yourself" mean? Like, I don't know what to do with my hands. I've spent my entire life with a fast paced schedule, either with school work or some other crisis I've needed to attend to. Now I'm like... trying to accept going to therapy and I'm doing yoga with some people in my research group a few times a week, but i don't know what to do with my time otherwise. I feel like smoking all of the weed in this state playing video games and rotting in bed isn't the answer, but that's where I'm at. I'd love any advice or to hear from anybody who's been in that position of being told to take a few months off for mental health

view more: next ›