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... damn it. decent tape measures are surprisingly not cheap, and I think i've already lost 2 in this crazy construction life

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couple years ago I got a cordless drain auger for less than ~100(?) and last night used it to pull a giant hairball out of a drain with a lot less effort than a drill powered auger. super recommend getting one (there's a couple of brands, all probably decent)

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The one thing I can promise about my class is that we're gonna start from scratch, work our way up, and bounce around fields so that it's not just about big tech. Also I hope it'll be entertaining too

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This week on Counting Stuff, lights are sold with lumen ratings and I didn't know what that meant, how it was measured. So I went down the rabbit hole on how light is measured. #dataBS www.counting-stuff.com/how-much-lig...

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Ive started to leave a small travel sized tube of toothpaste in the kitchen, mostly because the wife left it lying around after a dental appointment or something, but also to randomly polish out scratches from the counter and cooktop

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Had so much going on this week and weekend that I might've stress researched another metrology related post for the newsletter.

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I think that our Panasonic microwave's turntable is specifically geared so that if you use the 30sec heating option your dish winds up very roughly in the same position that you put it in ...

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Every time I go to empty the tiny shop vac, it's like barely empty but the filter has a pound or more of super fine dust in the filter... So when I hang out that dust into the bin to clear it, I need to wear my respirator

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Can't help but feel that when I shop vac up drywall dust, my vacuum is just doing a really really huge line of coke

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So apparently I learned that humans are capable of thinking about other stuff in a conversation to keep things going and don't have to spend a ton of cycles processing what the other person is saying and figuring out an acceptable response that isn't weird? 🫨

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I don't know how the past few weeks at work went from "fairly quiet" to "3x3-alarm stacked fires" all of a sudden (we are ignoring the >20x5-alarm fires outside )

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>< I did not expect to skin my knee in my 40s... by slipping on some snow and ice on the driveway and coming to a sudden kneel holding trash bags

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huh the old furnace filter was MERV 11. whelp, we're using MERV 8 for a while 'cos we're gonna have wood dust in the vents for the next 6 months

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Hello #databs. My data science team wants to query some IoT data to train their models, but they're finding reading in from long format and pivoting to be slow and expensive. Is it common / best practice to store this data in wide format (re: some 7-10k columns)?

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Lol the furnace air filter was so clogged with dust from construction

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Wow I knew intellectually that circuits get warm when passing current and I've seen photos before, but it's super cool to see it on my own electrical panel!

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So, um, what's the "shit hits the fan" place to shift 401k funds when a recession is coming but the full faith and credit of the US Treasury is rather... suspect... Asking for a friend

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Ugh, had to next day this tool because the mounting threads to a light box in the ceiling got damaged and wouldn't accept the screw I took out of it.. a Klein threader tool for electricians to cut or fix machine screw threads for common electrical sizes

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So apparently, this is doable even w/ giant 88key kbs w/ some heavy duty drawer slides and brackets... The problem is one of finding a keyboard I want, figuring out clearances, finding strong enough brackets, and making sure all of it fits under the standing desk frame

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Just putting out there that raising a kid, and having to make lots of decisions with super long time horizons and unknown payoffs was hard enough without... all this frickin' BS going on at large that brings me close to throwing up my hands because maybe I should just plan for food riots instead

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<_< I'm not sure what kind of madness afflicts me, but was looking at keyboard trays for the desk... except I always hated how flimsy they are, so they bounce if I use them which would drive me nuts... So I got to thinking, what if, board + drawer slides. WHAT IF, FULL SIZE 88KEY MIDI KEYBOARD TRAY

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Rule of thumb: If the tracking telemetry plan for a user's journey is so complex it's causing your researchers to headscratch on how to make sense of how to measure it, you don't need the telemetry plan 'coz no one's gonna get to the end

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Oh, phew? looks like the shipment with my heavy wood desktop is not arriving tomorrow, so I don't have tofigure out where the hell to put it while they're sanding the 2nd floor

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... and of course the giant slab of heavy wood is going to get delivered on the day the floor guys are sanding the second floor

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Actively wondering if I should outfit my soon to arrive desk with... a kotatsu heating element and blanket

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This is super cool! So I taught the 6yo how to use the petty knife to cut green onions about a week ago and today they sliced some garlic cloves and sliced a tomato for me while I was prepping dinner. All without me having to watch them do it.

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I'm seriously wondering how the hell i'm going to lug a 5ft x 2.5ft slab of wood up the stairs and into the office without damaging something on the stairs (the stairs, the wood will be fine)... especially with my puny arms.... I guess straps will be in order

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