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Troy

@ troyunrau @lemmy.ca

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Centrist, progressive, radical optimist. Geophysicist, R&D, Planetary Scientist and general nerd in Winnipeg, Canada.

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lithogen.ca (business)

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  • Sodium walks into a bar, orders a drink and tips the bartender an electron. The bartender asks what it is for. Sodium says: "nothing. Just feeling positive today".

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  • Also, typically notoriously hard to fence, cause nobody knows what the fuck they're going to do with a gamma ray spectrometer or whatever.

  • sorry, I'm sick cough cough

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  • Meownir

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  • I work in scientific equipment. It helps to focus oneself to occasionally imagine the box as being full of $100k in $100 bills, when I debate whether to leave it in the car or take it inside overnight...

  • Does anyone know what's up with lemmy.zip?

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  • Maximum compression reached

  • Fudge waiting for cheese

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  • Important questions. Does Fudge ever eat fudge? Maybe the cat should be call Cheese!

  • And I'll do it again!

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  • I want to take him home and train him to hunt my fruit flies.

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  • What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

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  • There's quite a few nice apps for Lemmy. I'm using Connect for Lemmy on android and it's wonderful.

  • What is your unconventional art?

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  • It's actually just an odometer wheel that drags behind the unit. You need the antennas to be in contact with the ground for best data. So the instrument isn't exactly balanced on the wheel. But close enough to a wheel barrow for illustrative effect :)

  • What is your unconventional art?

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  • Tl:Dr; small business; pictures of shipment components from the lease pool.

    I run a very small scientific equipment company where our primary income stream is the lease pool. A lot of the equipment is modular, so before sending the equipment to the customer, we have to assemble and test in whatever configuration is appropriate for their study. We take photos and send them notes on how to use the device as configured. Then we disassemble and take a picture of all the components we're sending, then finally package for safe shipping. This picture is one of the steps in the process of making sure that we get all the components back when we get the equipment back.

    Because of the modulatity, it would take a lot of time to individually itemize each shipment, so the picture saves a lot of work. But only if the picture is actually useful and you can see and recognize every component. So there is an art to laying it all out. It feels like laying out Lego components, trying to optimize the view.

    I just set a subset of the photo above as my LinkedIn banner because it looks cool (to me). Thus, "art".

    We are very small. Aside from myself, I've got a business manager and an electronics technician. As we grow, more will be needed. But I suspect ~10 people is the max we can grow to before our market is saturated and we will always be a small business.

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  • Yes. ;)

  • What is your unconventional art?

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  • If interior decorators are artists, then so is posing things like parts for photos. Like real world exploded views of things. It's just part of my job to catalogue these things, but might as well make each one pleasing (to myself at least).

  • Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today

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  • Probably mostly AI written.

  • Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today

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  • Long article for one sentence of trivia and no info on the algo itself. The death of the internet is upon us.

  • Missouri Officials Seize Control of St. Louis Police, in Latest Bid to Shutter Local Reforms

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  • Basically local authority is devolved from regional authority. And they claimed it back. Constitution has nothing to say here really. What it is, though, is a shady as fuck political power play. And if you don't like this shit, stop electing fuckwads.

  • We weren't sure if our 2 cats would get along. Now they are besties

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  • She is on my lap right now being cuddly and awesome. I am now trapped here. Send food!

  • We weren't sure if our 2 cats would get along. Now they are besties

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  • Bordering on pornographic. ;)

    I wish I could get a kitty friend for my aging cat, but she freaks out and has a panic attack if she even sees a cat outside the window. I don't want to subject her to the stress of getting used to a new cat :/

  • It kept me up at night. Lol

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  • I saw this Documentary, The Princess Bride, where they went to the Fire Swamps. Was really oversold to me as a kid.

  • Yawn-stretch

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  • I come home. My cat mowls at me. I say: "oh, that's terrible. Tell me all about it."