Wow, Mouser offered full refund and I can keep the order and at the end it will cost me more or less the same.
Nice!
Yay, got the parcel!
Fedex agent fee is just stupid. The duty on the parcel is 30€ , which is more or less reasonable for 126€ order.
But 50€ for a copy paste from their system to the customs system is just robbery. And you can’t get around that because if you don’t pay 50€ and go with other agent you’ll pay 40€ for “storage”. Fuckers
But anyway, goodies are here!
New chisel tips will arrive in a few days, so I’ll have a chance to see what’s all this fuss about!
At least now it’s in the open about what GitHub really is now
Their moot is that you can just fork, patch and push without having to create new accounts and stuff. Secondary moot is that GitHub is sorta-kinda single source of truth.
I wonder what’s @forgejo@floss.social end game on this front
Can ActivityPub give the same ease of collaboration across “federated repos”?
This thread hurts. Like I feel very real pain reading it.
There is a “seen and done enough shit” point somewhere along the way. When you don’t even need to smell it, you just feel it eons away.
At first, it’s a tool. Helpful. And when people actually listen to you, it’s… immensely rewarding. You help people not to step into the shit! What can beat saving someone’s ass?
“Risk-averse” becomes part of your identity. Cynicism on top as a bonus.
But it’s a definition of confirmation bias. Risk is not certainty: shit could or could not happen. If shit didn’t happen? Good! If it does happen? You were right, high five.
Then it’s addiction. It’s virtually impossible not think of risks in your line of work. Then it leaks to your everyday life.
Worst part: it’s an addiction that can earn you good money! It’s called consulting. That’s the value of a good consultant: they’ve seen all the shit and you’ve seen just yours.
And once you start selling this, and if you are mildly successful, you see even more shit. More shit, better prediction rates, better prediction rates, more work, more work, more shit.
At some point, you just don’t take chances anymore. Like, what’s the point of taking a chance if things can go south? Calculate, hedge, learn on mistakes. Rinse and repeat.
Fuck. I don’t know. I want to believe that if used right, it helps you to find that safe and easy path against all odds.
But now I think it’s a lie I’m telling myself. To beat the odds you have to at least try. As Homer Simpson’s said “Trying is a first step to failure”.
Am I trying? Am I failing?
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115004206142354987
@Daojoan@mastodon.social thank you for sharing this! You hit just the right nerve and I needed that hit for a long time
This thread hurts. Like I feel very real pain reading it.
There is a “seen and done enough shit” point somewhere along the way. When you don’t even need to smell it, you just feel it eons away.
At first, it’s a tool. Helpful. And when people actually listen to you, it’s… immensely rewarding. You help people not to step into the shit! What can beat saving someone’s ass?
“Risk-averse” becomes part of your identity. Cynicism on top as a bonus.
But it’s a definition of confirmation bias. Risk is not certainty: shit could or could not happen. If shit didn’t happen? Good! If it does happen? You were right, high five.
Then it’s addiction. It’s virtually impossible not think of risks in your line of work. Then it leaks to your everyday life.
Worst part: it’s an addiction that can earn you good money! It’s called consulting. That’s the value of a good consultant: they’ve seen all the shit and you’ve seen just yours.
And once you start selling this, and if you are mildly successful, you see even more shit. More shit, better prediction rates, better prediction rates, more work, more work, more shit.
At some point, you just don’t take chances anymore. Like, what’s the point of taking a chance if things can go south? Calculate, hedge, learn on mistakes. Rinse and repeat.
Fuck. I don’t know. I want to believe that if used right, it helps you to find that safe and easy path against all odds.
But now I think it’s a lie I’m telling myself. To beat the odds you have to at least try. As Homer Simpson’s said “Trying is a first step to failure”.
Am I trying? Am I failing?
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115004206142354987
I wonder what kind of fuckery I was saved from because of the annoying blinking of the MCU battery charger LED
It’s worth noting that the charger circuit was made so it annoyingly blinks when the battery is disconnected, and the LED is traced directly to the charger IC and can’t be turned off. The only way to make it stop is to plug in a battery.
Since single-use vapes provide a virtually endless supply of free LiPo batteries, I just cracked one open and voilà: no more blinking.
It lasted about a year or something? I wonder what went wrong: is it the charger IC, or are there more corners cut during battery manufacturing than I have in my flat?
I wonder what kind of fuckery I was saved from because of the annoying blinking of the MCU battery charger LED
Today in cursed converters: Fiber Optical SC-APC to Coax F-type RF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIN7DVGBbKM
One in the myriad of stupid things with Home Kit and Widgets in iOS is that you can’t fucking add an AIQ sensor to the widget, so actually see CO2 levels when it’s time to open windows.
Had to use Scriptable to fetch data from Node Red, which is completely nuts and because OH MY GOD ITS WIDGET NOT A LIVE ACTIVITY it refreshes data at some random interval, you have abso-fucking-lutely no control
What’s more infuriating is that any app can shit to “Background App Refresh” without my consent and I have to go and turn off things that absolutely have no reason to run in background.
“oh, no need to close applications! iOS knows better” while some random app is siphoning my data because I haven’t yet catches it running in background.
FFS
One in the myriad of stupid things with Home Kit and Widgets in iOS is that you can’t fucking add an AIQ sensor to the widget, so actually see CO2 levels when it’s time to open windows.
Had to use Scriptable to fetch data from Node Red, which is completely nuts and because OH MY GOD ITS WIDGET NOT A LIVE ACTIVITY it refreshes data at some random interval, you have abso-fucking-lutely no control
Ugh. Ordered lead-free solder and some fancy fluxes from mouser about 100€ in total. Triple checked that they are sending with DDP incoterms, because express delivery charges ridiculous monies for customs agent services.
Today got a call from FedEx, they asked documents for customs and told me I have to pay 70€ for their services or 40€ for 5 days of storage if I’m hiring another agent.
Checked the mouser website: DDP delivery option is gone, order confirmation got zero info about order itself, only link to order tracking. Only place where delivery terms are stated is shipping confirmation and it’s fucking FCA. I would never do this to myself, cmon. I’m 99.99% sure that it’s a glitch in their checkout system that they have fixed, but I have zero proof.
I have no intention to pay extra €100+ in duties and FedEx services.
Escalated this to mouser now I wonder what they will do. I have a feeling that nothing and either I will pay 100€ extra or I can fuck off and have refund that is equals to zero, because they will charge me with delivery and return expenses which of course will be close to the order price
sad noises
Wow, Mouser offered full refund and I can keep the order and at the end it will cost me more or less the same.
Nice!
yopp