drail

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[–] drail@fedia.io 18 points 3 months ago

I am very happy that 75% of my PhD in particle physics was hands-on lab work doing detector R&D. Sure, creating simulations and doing data analysis are immensely important, and skills I had to develop, but I think that many scientists are being done a disservice by not getting the opportunity to see how their work will interface in the real world.

[–] drail@fedia.io 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It is the only scent that gives me a headache, and I think its overrated on top of that. Give me a minty, give me pine-y, give me fruity, literally any other scent profile.

[–] drail@fedia.io 3 points 6 months ago

Every time the LHC fires a collision, we continue to descend into increasingly less likely realities where the world doesn't blow up.

[–] drail@fedia.io 1 points 7 months ago

Only if you bring your own TP. I have a bidet, so you'll leave clean, but soggy.

[–] drail@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago

The former owner in this instnce was my Fianceé's grandmother, and I know for a fact that she was a draino fiend. Sweet sweet lady, but I definitely had some not-so-nice mutterings about her after the 3rd pipe crumbled under my channel-lock pliers during repair. And whoever welded a dwv fitting onto the wall stub (which I know wasn't her) has a special layer of hell waiting for them.

[–] drail@fedia.io 3 points 7 months ago

I really enjoy the design of this house. It was my Fianceé's grandmother's untile she recently passed, and by and large, things were done correctly. The only glaring issues so far have been the plumbing and the fact that the upstairs loft addition was never insulated.

I layed ethernet through the attic to add a WAP to the loft and found that there is enough room up there to put in a secret room. There is already a bookshelf on the adjoining wall that I can convert into a Scooby-Doo style secret bookshelf passageway.

[–] drail@fedia.io 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Too true. Snaking a drain every once in a blue moon is so much easier than dealing with draino damage.

[–] drail@fedia.io 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It lies somewhere between pride, relief, and satisfaction. I understand the feeling all too well, my last house was also a 50's build, but someone did a budget flip on it and I spent all of my 9 years there fixing their mistakes one by one. Then I moved just in time for someone else to enjoy my repairs haha.

[–] drail@fedia.io 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That's not quite fair, a cardboard box has multiple uses, both built and deconstructed. The Brian Thompsons of the world are only useful to society in their deconstructed form.

[–] drail@fedia.io 24 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The assignment was to infodump, so I will take that as a compliment. I was aiming for detailed and hyperspecific.

[–] drail@fedia.io 14 points 8 months ago

I've seen things. Things you'd never understand. All I can say is that the best dissertation defense is a good dissertation offense. So much blood on my hands...

[–] drail@fedia.io 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I am now Dr. Drail, so it went well! This was back in August, so I am still in recovery mode while I job search.

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