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Nah, I love cursing. I love a good, rancid obscenity. I’m perfectly capable of expressing myself without swearing, but I think it makes life so much more fun.

I do try to be aware of my audience. I live in Utah where the Mormons continuously find new and exciting ways to swear without angering sky-daddy. “Oh my heck” is a great example, because “gosh” is potentially a nono outer-darkness word.

I don’t live to offend—I’m not an edge lord. I want to be inclusive of the people around me, so if I know that the person I’m speaking to doesn’t appreciate swearing then I’ll avoid it. Swears may slip out if the conversation is sufficiently casual, but I’ll just apologize and we’ll move on like adults.

It’s not a binary. You can swear in some contexts and not in others, provided you’re able to maintain some degree of mindfulness. That may not be possible if being around your family is like being captured in the Trauma Nexus.

Now that I’ve gone all this time without swearing, let me share my favorite obscenity. My partner once described a really horrible person (someone who committed physical and sexual abuse) as a shit-filled cunt, and god damn if that isn’t just breathtaking. Truly a beauty to behold, she’s such an artist with words.

I imagine it’s more complicated than that. For example, Pu-238 only emits alpha radiation. I doubt that reactor waste only emits alpha radiation, meaning you’d have to harden the electronics for a close and potentially extreme emitter of beta/gamma radiation. I also don’t know if random high grade reactor waste gets hot enough to provide meaningful amounts of energy via thermoelectric means. Alternatively, it may be that it gets too hot.

I doubt they could have simply slapped something together. The cost of developing a new RTG capable of using reactor waste would likely be a significant fraction of the budget to develop the probe itself. It might have been worth it, but I feel that it’s not clear-cut.

The biggest problem with RTGs is the extreme cost and lack of availability. Pu-238 is very expensive and at any moment, there’s only tens of KG of Pu-238 available for RTG use. They’re not really a reasonable choice for private industry at this time.

Curate and manage incredible museums! Explore to discover amazing artifacts. Design and refine the layout, keep staff happy, guests entertained, donations plentiful… and children off the exhibits

I had no idea what this game was, so here’s the blurb off of Steam.

Thou? I smell a machinist.

Hi!

There’s the magical term! God I fucking hate wage theft. OP, the company is trying to steal from you. Your time is money and if they’re not paying you for work then they’re, by definition, stealing from you.

I’ve had conversations like this before, and usually you only have to hint that it’s wage theft for dumbfuck managers to realize and back down, especially if you’re assertive but polite with them. If you’re not getting anywhere with the manager, then you should go to HR. HR’s job is to protect the company and the obviously correct move for an HR person is to keep the DoL out of the situation. If you go to HR and then get fired, then that may be even better evidence against the shitheads.

If you do go to HR, try to get your manager to admit to wage theft in a way that gives you evidence. If you can’t get the manager to admit to wage theft on paper or electronically (which you should immediately back up), you’re going to the DoL, and you live somewhere with one-party consent, then surreptitiously record your manager saying it. It may be against company policy to make this recording (and should be your last resort, don’t go to HR with audio recordings!), but it’s legal as long as your jurisdiction has one-party consent laws on the books.

Don’t let them steal from you, OP. The other magic words that have already been mentioned in this thread are “fuck you, pay me.”

They can context and predict contextually relevant symbols, but will they ever do so in a way that is consistently meaningful and accurate? I personally don’t think so because an LLM is not a machine capable of logical reasoning. LLMs hallucinating is just them making bad predictions, and I don’t think we’re going to fix that regardless of the amount of context we give them. LLMs generating useful code in this context is like asking for perfect meteorological reports with our current understanding of weather systems in my opinion. It feels like any system capable of doing what you suggest needs to be able to actually generate its own model that matches the task it’s performing.

Or not. I dunno, I’m just some idiot software dev on the internet who only has a small amount of domain knowledge and who shouldn’t be commenting on shit like this without having had any coffee.

Certainly looks like the Wasatch or maybe Oquirrh mountains. Kinda seems like it’s somewhere near Park City, which is just such a beautiful area my god.

My dryer broke like 6 years ago, and I just never cared enough to fix it. You can definitely still get permanent stains on line-dried clothes, but I’ll grant that it’s much harder without all the heat. I have one white cotton T-shirt that I’ve been going Ahab on for fucking months. It wasn’t even expensive, I just want to see if I can get the trifecta of mustard/ketchup/fucked up molybdenum disulfide grease stains out.

I have a machine shop that I use for making things out of metal that are normally not made of metal (like a yarn winder).

Ahhh, hell yeah time to dig for a SDS!

PDF warning: https://imgcdn.mckesson.com/CumulusWeb/Click_and_learn/SDS_ZIMMER_CEMENT_BONE_BIOMET_R_1X40_1_BX.pdf

looks like it’s the monomer of plexiglass with hydroquinone to prevent premature polymerization and N,N-dimethyl-p-toluidine which is like, an adhesive or something? The latter is probably the issue.

Yeah, seems like people working in medicine have a rough time of it. My sister works in a cath lab and I worry about her exposure levels sometimes. I know she wears a dosimeter but like, man, it’s a lot of X-rays.

Yeah, Pokemon had some nice 2D sprites. I yearn for a pokemon game that doesn’t hold your hand and is challenging with nice sprite work. It’ll never happen unless Game Freak lets the fans do something like Sonic Mania.

Huh, TIL about bone cement. I was curious so I looked it up, and for those who are also curious, it appears to typically be a mix of PMMA (i.e. plexiglass) and its monomer MMA (although some radically different materials have been developed). You mix the goo and it turns to dough and then eventually hardens into, well, plexiglass. The SDS for MMA doesn’t seem that bad, so there must be more to it than just that.

Thanks for sharing this! I never knew plexiglass was biocompatible-ish and was used in this way.

hhehehe get it because bepis get hard bepis touch bowl hhehehe bepis so huge it smash the bowl posieden’s kiss hhehehe

I think shit went down with h3h3 around that same time. I gave up on them after they started making irritating anti-feminist content. I’ve avoided them like the plague, but I think they had uh, a definite shift rightwards.

edit: all of the above is rampant speculation btw. Like I said, I’ve avoided them like the plague since then.

Same, I’m pretty bitter about him. Like, I figured we’d have different political views but he didn’t seem like a nutter beyond him being completely off his fucking rocker. He had interesting videos, he was quotable as hell, and some of his stuff was quite informative.

I’m quite sad that things turned out the way they did. I can’t watch his stuff anymore because I don’t want to get flashbanged by crazy.

God bless you auto MDI-X

Old Man’s War reference?

That’s the person 👉😎👉 Thanks, it was bugging me.

Yeah, I live in Utah and that shit has been going for years here. Thirsty people gonna thirst.