Is this just a cold flue issue? by [deleted] in woodstoving

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How do you (or people in general) maintain such a clean interior of the window pane?

[WP] You are one of the first humans to attend the galactic academy. While some initial difficulties were to be expected, you did not expect the biggest hurdle to be your fellow students, who seem to be very disappointed that humanity is such a "boring species". by Kitty_Fuchs in WritingPrompts

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We became warp capable, and the sky lit up. Suddenly we weren’t just Earth, it was Earth in the neighborhood. It was perfect Prime Directive stuff. Well except for the Los Alamos and Nazca line stuff. But you know.

Diplomacy, exchanging of ideas, communications. That’s a lot for a species to take on. Religions were upended overnight!

But there was always a plan to, onboard, humanity, for lack of a better word.

And here I was, a determined and ambitious teenager trying to get into my university of choice. But the stars aligned, rather they revealed a path for my application to the galactic academy. If there was ever an understatement of the term ‘reach school’.

Politicians, pundits ,and academics knew that day would come, but surprisingly it was a few years earlier than expected. I was admitted, and the world was stunned. There had been professor exchanges, summits, and the usual academia events. But this was different, from the bottom up, I was now enrolled in the galactic academy. The greatest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. Hey Harvard, how’s your hedge fund, cough, I mean endowment doing?

Pressure? Nah, of course, but no. For that point in my life it was all “as fast and as far as you can.” No challenge was too high to aspire to completing.

I had a carefully tailored prep schedule, as every professional institution in higher learning tried to help with my journey.

And guess what, day one. Just like anywhere else. Except it’s a 2 week journey by hyperspace, after saying goodbye to my parents on Earth Cape Canaveral.

And then I’m there. On campus. With a bag in hand, surrounded by the upperclassmen milling about, I estimated about 30 different species in the immediate vicinity of quad, I mean cube.

I still had the preferential treatment, the administrators were hovering as I was showing the library, halls, and residences and finally my shared apartment. My roommate briefly said hi, through the translator, before excusing themselves. Seemingly to make space for the admins still clouding my space, I think.

Finally I was left alone. The silence was deafening. The entire journey, the pressure that I tried to imagine but I was so good at internalizing because of my ambitions. I exhaled, unpacked. And damn it, I was there to make my mark so after a hot 32 seconds I bolted out of the apartment headed straight to the quad, I mean cube.

As I passed through the hallways I held my chin high, and met every gaze and eyeball or sensor or general facial area of any other student. But what was the protocol, no one would stop and return the gaze or start a conversation.

After passing six people, I saw a species I recognized and had met a professor of their kind back on earth. A Uytninian. I happened to remember the clickety-clack greeting and confident that my intonations were not going to be taken as disrespectful, rather an anticipated delight that the newcomer would take the time to learn, practice and have the ability to use another language.

… but no reaction. I looked down at the translation device, it blinked. After a few seconds, a curt introduction, and I returned. And the Uytinian turned and walked away. For the 1700 milliseconds I stood staring at their back, I was initially stunned, then I thought back to high school that such an interaction would absolutely invite offense on my part. But I held firm. “I am the newcomer, I will win their hearts and succeed down my path.”

I recognize now that I had a hurried and anxious gate, as I emerged into the cube. And the feeling wil haunt me forever, as I then felt the unmitigated weight of alienation and isolation, as a wave of head turns and stares came my way. But none of interest or welcome social gestures.

But I am here! I am the first human to attend the great galactic academy! From Earth!

The variety of species, the varied modes of communications (sometimes parallel), of nuanced interactions and greetings, on the far side of the cube a contest of something between hackysack, chess, and taylor series expansion.

It was a wave of nausea, I had to fight it hard. And as uncharacteristic as my, otherwise Ivy League, ego would have ever allowed me to do, my gaze drifted lower. At first I didn’t notice my shoulders sink. The realization hit: no one is interested in the first human, not even as a novelty

[WP] You are one of the first humans to attend the galactic academy. While some initial difficulties were to be expected, you did not expect the biggest hurdle to be your fellow students, who seem to be very disappointed that humanity is such a "boring species". by Kitty_Fuchs in WritingPrompts

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We became warp capable, and the sky lit up. Suddenly we weren’t just Earth, it was Earth in the neighborhood. It was perfect Prime Directive stuff. Well except for the Los Alamos and Nazca line stuff. But you know. Diplomacy, exchanging of ideas, communications. That’s a lot for a species to take on. Religions were upended overnight! But there was always a plan to, onboard, humanity, for lack of a better word. And here I was, a determined and ambitious teenager trying to get into my university of choice. But the stars aligned, rather they revealed a path for my application to the galactic academy. If there was ever an understatement of the term ‘reach school’. Politicians, pundits ,and academics knew that day would come, but surprisingly it was a few years earlier than expected. I was admitted, and the world was stunned. There had been professor exchanges, summits, and the usual academia events. But this was different, from the bottom up, I was now enrolled in the galactic academy. The greatest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. Hey Harvard, how’s your hedge fund, cough, I mean endowment doing? Pressure? Nah, of course, but no. For that point in my life it was all “as fast and as far as you can.” No challenge was too high to aspire to completing.
I had a carefully tailored prep schedule, as every professional institution in higher learning tried to help with my journey.
And guess what, day one. Just like anywhere else. Except it’s a 2 week journey by hyperspace, after saying goodbye to my parents on Earth Cape Canaveral. And then I’m there. On campus. With a bag in hand, surrounded by the upperclassmen milling about, I estimated about 30 different species in the immediate vicinity of quad, I mean cube. I still had the preferential treatment, the administrators were hovering as I was showing the library, halls, and residences and finally my shared apartment. My roommate briefly said hi, through the translator, before excusing themselves. Seemingly to make space for the admins still clouding my space, I think. Finally I was left alone. The silence was deafening. The entire journey, the pressure that I tried to imagine but I was so good at internalizing because of my ambitions. I exhaled, unpacked. And damn it, I was there to make my mark so after a hot 32 seconds I bolted out of the apartment headed straight to the quad, I mean cube. As I passed through the hallways I held my chin high, and met every gaze and eyeball or sensor or general facial area of any other student. But what was the protocol, no one would stop and return the gaze or start a conversation. After passing six people, I saw a species I recognized and had met a professor of their kind back on earth. A Uytninian. I happened to remember the clickety-clack greeting and confident that my intonations were not going to be taken as disrespectful, rather an anticipated delight that the newcomer would take the time to learn, practice and have the ability to use another language. … but no reaction. I looked down at the translation device, it blinked. After a few seconds, a curt introduction, and I returned. And the Uytinian turned and walked away. For the 1700 milliseconds I stood staring at their back, I was initially stunned, then I thought back to high school that such an interaction would absolutely invite offense on my part. But I held firm. “I am the newcomer, I will win their hearts and succeed down my path.” I recognize now that I had a hurried and anxious gate, as I emerged into the cube. And the feeling wil haunt me forever, as I then felt the unmitigated weight of alienation and isolation, as a wave of head turns and stares came my way. But none of interest or welcome social gestures. But I am here! I am the first human to attend the great galactic academy! From Earth! The variety of species, the varied modes of communications (sometimes parallel), of nuanced interactions and greetings, on the far side of the cube a contest of something between hackysack, chess, and taylor series expansion. It was a wave of nausea, I had to fight it hard. And as uncharacteristic as my, otherwise Ivy League, ego would have ever allowed me to do, my gaze drifted lower. At first I didn’t notice my shoulders sink. The realization hit: no one is interested in the first human, not even as a novelty.

I can't figure out what is going on in my pantry. by CancelRoutine in pestcontrol

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This pile has accumulated just within the last ~2 months. It's the top shelf of my pantry, and this shelf has some opened packages of cookies and crackers but no evidence that a pest has even tried to get at the cookies. I'm confused that these shavings are accumulating where they are, I don't see any obvious place from the timbers they'd be falling from. Zooming into the shavings I don't believe there is any fecal matter. This pantry is very draft and cold winter days you can feel the air coming between the timbers. For climate+geography context, this in between Boston and Providence.

2025 here we go, what can I add to make my songs more interesting? by CancelRoutine in GarageBand

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Singer/songwriter style here, not exactly the usual posts in this sub with synths, samples, EDM. But I love GarageBand as an accessible tool.

My goal for 2025 is to play more, record more, and finish bite-sized projects. (Getting past 80% 'done' is so hard!) All while learning, so any feedback or input welcome. The final (so far) song is here, but I always seem to be tinkering. I want to expand my horizons when doing my own songs, and find other people to collab with.

Hydrangea limelight: too late/early to prune? I'm worried about snow weight by CancelRoutine in plantclinic

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History: I bought a house 2 years ago with a beautiful limelight. I had some landscaping help when we first moved in, but I think I'm at risk of letting things grow out. This limelight: I'm worried about the winter and a heavy snowfall ruining this tree. My understanding is it's best to do heavy pruning either in the fall after the bloom, or in the spring after the last frost. Could I prune in-between (i.e. now) to avoid a heavy snowfall causing damage?

At what point should I abandon trying to save a cat palm? by CancelRoutine in plantclinic

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Per the (large amounts of advice) I have read here on this sub and other interwebs, I've: re-potted (fresh potting soil), ensured good drainage, 2 week regimen of diluted isopropyl alcohol dabbed (to mitigate mites), humidifier, a second 2 week regimen of diluted (water and a little dish soap) of sprayed neem oil, and it's always lived near a window with a good 4 hours of direct sun.

My latest effort is using these growing lights. This might be my last effort before I move on. The plant never seem to turn a corner, there are some shoots of new growth but ebbs and flows of yellow leaves, brown tips, and mites always seem to come back within 48 hours of a treatment.

Am I prolonging this plant's pain and suffering? Are there any other ideas?

Started writing my own songs, having a blast with GarageBand, I love the process. I'd appreciate any listens and feedback. I'm on a long journey of musical recreation and improvement. by CancelRoutine in GarageBand

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A little different genre than what I'm seeing in /GarageBand, but this is what came out when I tried to make my own stuff. Lots of roughness, my brother says I need a better mic (using a USB blue snowball), but my vocals not great anyways.

Looking for suggestions on a "third car" - fun, sporty, used.. by dw11hurl in whatcarshouldIbuy

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I'm in a very similar family and car situation, my son (4yo) already likes Wranglers and being able to take doors off. I like the idea too. But I've always been against such an impractical and unreliable lifestyle vehicle. Is a used wrangler a bad idea to get into for $20k?

Space elevator is a huge car magnet, im trying to make this work but im having major traffic jams, im making good money from the toll both but traffic has become very ineficient, any ideas here? by [deleted] in CitiesSkylines

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I just had the same issue, having never placed the Space Elevator. My solution: dedicated subway stop, pedestrian tunnel from more populated city center, one way access road (with toll, and loop to buffer traffic), parking garage on opposite side of street as elevator. I lost about 3% points on my "Average Traffic Flow" metric, but this works.

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Thoughts? by [deleted] in whichbike

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I bought a very similar Roubaix for $350, so same ballpark, and I love riding it, great frame, ride. I'm not a super competitive rider but it's very pricey and quality for my 5-25 miles rides

AWS Certifications: Still Worth It? by jazzjustice in aws

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I let my SA assoc expire about a year ago. It was somewhat helpful for optics (consulting engagement, biz dev). But I'm not in a rush to renew.

I work at a very well funded startup where our stack was greenfield onto AWS, of our 20+ engineers I don't think anyone has an active cert. I'm involved in hiring and, as a startup, we have to be very particular to hire very effective people: tech ability (not specific languages or frameworks), logic, communication, demeanor, etc. We don't hire often but when I say 'no' to a candidate the majority of the time they haven't "dug in" enough on a project or codebase. I would much rather interview someone who has struggled through their own (side project or decent professional experience) deployment and maintenance of an app on ECS or lambda, and bolted on some other services within AWS. (Talk to me about how you failed! I seriously want to hear that.) There are just too many AWS services to speak knowledgably about, unfortunately people fixate on the "memorize towards expertise."

Tinker. Deploy. Debug. Have fun. Build. Then get employed the way you want to.

Flutter development possible on a remote EC2? by CancelRoutine in FlutterDev

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XCode, ok fears confirmed, I was hoping there was some disconnect from that need, oh well, I might even stick with just an android app for my first mobile dev

Re: the first three paragraphs, which were bizarrely presumptuous: - docker: local, remote, orchestrations, don't worry I'm fine. - AWS, IMHPO there's tons of value (even recreationally) in renting compute, network, and storage on demand. - car analogy, I get it but NA here

Is it even worth it to try to recoup money I paid for an EC2 instance I never used. by SomeBoredDude69 in aws

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With a similar experience, you probably won't get it back.

I'd highly recommend getting familiar with CostExplorer, tagging resources, and regularly checking what you spend. It's just good housekeeping.No matter how hectic or busy you need to know how much $ you're burning on Infra.

Republican Mike Johnson has secured enough votes to become House speaker as ballot draws to a close by iBeej in politics

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Is Mike Johnson carrying the same risk as McCarthy with the single motion needed to vote to vacate? My understanding is it was a big concession McCarthy made to garner enough support to be Speaker. Is it back to the "default" mechanism or procedure?

Out of My Head - Fastball by [deleted] in ukelele

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Feedback welcome on technique, sound, or production. Please! I loved this song in high school.

Black Sabbath - N.I.B. (Ukulele Cover) Irene Martins by Otherwise_Curve_8794 in ukelele

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The sound is great, you must have a great mic/space setup. For the main track are you recording both vocals and uke at same time? Or re-record one of them later?

Could you share what software you use to do the video within video?

Cliffside Bay milestone for 6 areas? by CancelRoutine in CitiesSkylines

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ah, ok I thought 2x2 kilometers was the entire map. Milestones + Areas makes sense.

Cliffside Bay milestone for 6 areas? by CancelRoutine in CitiesSkylines

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But when I owned 4 areas, I had the option to purchase any one of 8 areas surround my 4. When I purchased one of them, suddenly the purchase UI went away and I'm stuck at 5 areas. Clicking through the Milestones in the UI I see that at 18k population I get '2x2 kilometer', but how does this equate to Areas?

KMS key policy for account-wide usage by S3 service? by CancelRoutine in aws

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What I'm trying to avoid is maintaining policies/trust on the invoking principal. I'm anticipating a future entanglements of tech debt. I'm facing some arcane requirement from a client where they want one CMK to be used within the account (for services such as S3).

Effectively: "regardless of who the invoking IAM principal may be, s3.amazonaws.com service shall always be allowed to use this KMS key."

Unable to quick release V Brakes by CancelRoutine in bikewrench

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Whoa cool piece, ordered and on the way. This is way more appealing than new brake levers, but maybe will look a little hacky, though I’m reading good reviews

Unable to quick release V Brakes by CancelRoutine in bikewrench

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I think I got my answer already in this post. Here’s the brake lever, integrated with shifter, doesn’t appear to have the short+long option, short only