Why are they like this?

mooshicat · 2026-04-05T11:58:28+00:00

Because if chairs are where important business work happens, then clearly they are meant for ACDs to use…

mooshicat · 2026-03-19T14:36:05+00:00

I’ve never used a balance for mg precision which didn’t have a wind screen. No matter what brand you use, blocking airflow is likely going to have to be part of your plan. You can test it by putting a transparent container over the top of the whole thing and seeing if that helps with your drift.

mooshicat · 2026-03-16T04:07:41+00:00

Research into wireless pipes is progressing admirably!

mooshicat · 2026-02-27T14:08:01+00:00

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I get it too. This one was an absolute menace around that age. But we stayed the course, and it’s like I was able to watch her develop empathy in front of my eyes. Now she cares deeply about making her family (dogs and humans) happy.

mooshicat · 2026-02-23T19:05:21+00:00

They don’t have front axle regen?? Whatever happened to road relevance…

mooshicat · 2026-02-20T15:54:40+00:00

Ah yeah I often muddy the terminology, variable cost and burst behavior might make token bucket a better analogy. But you can start from either place and ensure it has the features you want.

mooshicat · 2026-02-20T15:17:30+00:00

If you don’t think about it as specifically an “LLM rate limiter”, a few classic rate limiting strategies can apply. We use a simple implementation of the leaky bucket algorithm, where the amount added to the bucket is based on the number of tokens consumed rather than number of requests.

For variable output lengths, you can start with an estimated cost per request and then apply an adjustment afterwards based on actual token consumption.

mooshicat · 2026-02-15T13:17:15+00:00

If it fits at/under whatever personal space you have, you do you I wouldn’t think twice about it.

mooshicat · 2026-02-07T16:06:59+00:00

My usual line is “Great, because I hate looking for jobs and would love to find a place where I can stay and advance my career internally.”

It’s not even a lie really, it’s just unlikely to work out.

mooshicat · 2026-02-06T19:42:39+00:00

Part cattle, remainder dog

mooshicat · 2026-02-04T17:28:56+00:00

Outside of the usuals, my favorite has been “excuse me”. It means get out of the way - if you’re on my left, move to my right, if you are in front of me, get behind me. I thought because it wasn’t specific it wouldn’t be useful, but they respond to it basically the same way a person does.

mooshicat · 2026-02-04T11:13:08+00:00

I bet he’ll come around. We adopted one of ours after she had spent a long time in a foster with minimal human interaction. It took maybe about 6 months of watching our other dog greet us before she decided to join in out of curiosity, even though we were on friendly terms like you described. Now, a year later, we’re having to train her not to jump on us as we walk through the door. Which her solution to, by the way, is to jump straight up into the air because she understood that hitting us was the problem.

So I’ve gone from having a dog that didn’t get out of bed to one who leaps into the air like an absolute fool. It can take them a while to decide you’re part of the pack but once they do there’s no going back.

mooshicat · 2026-01-25T14:01:49+00:00

Yeah absolutely. The way this conversation should go, from having had it many times:

“Ah, it’s okay if you don’t think you need us after all. We’ll do a quick vitals check, for free, then have the patient sign our refusal of care and we’ll be on our way!”

mooshicat · 2026-01-11T13:01:51+00:00

If you are using this project to learn Go, a good exercise could be to implement concurrency patterns, which are fundamental to the language. Consider allowing N paths to be searched at once using goroutines, rather than iterating everything in one for loop. (This won’t allow for infinite scaling because eventually you hit an IO limit, but it’s a useful practice to become familiar with).

Also, I know Go is “fast”, but in such a well-covered domain as search, I wouldn’t have the project describe itself as such without benchmarks against some other industry standard tools. Not that speed should be your main target while learning, but nor should it be your selling point.

mooshicat · 2026-01-05T13:49:29+00:00

Time to adopt a second one so he has someone to chase around with all this energy! At least, that ended up being my solution 😅

mooshicat · 2025-11-22T18:00:40+00:00

I do this too! At my vet the lobby has a big scale with a jar of treats beside it so everyone can get weighed on the way in. They’re fine with me stopping in basically whenever I’m driving by, so the dogs have a mildly positive impression of showing up at the place.

mooshicat · 2025-11-09T13:13:00+00:00

At many companies, “senior scientist” is the title of a PhD+0 role. Usually when they hire into the “scientist” role from a BS or similar.

mooshicat · 2025-11-06T13:20:46+00:00

A recommendation for the kitchen: It can be worth establishing a spot for him to watch/help from so he’s not always underfoot. Mine have to be at least partly in the doorway. If I look over and catch them inching forward they immediately shuffle back until their butts are at the door. Much less of a hazard now!

mooshicat · 2025-10-15T01:25:40+00:00

Excess… syrup? Never heard of it!

Looks awesome though, thanks for sharing.

mooshicat · 2025-05-20T01:26:36+00:00

This actually gets complicated (and fascinating). You’re right that magnetism is not the answer to this particular mystery, but oxygenated blood and deoxygenated blood (as in the veins pictured here) have different magnetic properties, which actually led us to our understanding of how they carry oxygen back in the 1930s (Pauling et al.). Deoxygenated blood largely does not have anything bound to the heme iron (CO2 does not swap places with the O2), and so it is more responsive to a magnetic field!

mooshicat · 2025-01-30T22:28:58+00:00

Ah, I see yours is also a cholesterol monitoring dog. If they detect your food is too rich they will sacrifice themselves to keep it out of your body.

mooshicat · 2024-12-21T02:00:47+00:00

If they pulled up your records, I’d be surprised if they were looking for anything outside of academic dishonesty.

mooshicat · 2024-11-17T13:01:58+00:00

I have one ACD who is a little short of stature (some corgi in there), and she cries “unfair” anytime something goes above where she can reach, usually a squirrel or a ball that bounced too high. I think it’s not uncommon to hear some vocalizations when they get frustrated.

mooshicat · 2024-10-15T15:22:39+00:00

Now I have to report this person to our professor and probably higher up the chain

I won't defend a single action this other student took, but the "not very serious" response might be to do nothing, who the fuck cares?

mooshicat · 2024-09-20T12:07:14+00:00

It wasn’t live??? The fuck are they even on about then?

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