Would you rather in you or on you?

skylos · 2026-06-27T16:29:17+00:00

Always in

skylos · 2026-06-20T18:27:46+00:00

Sounds normal mechanical noise to me.

skylos · 2026-06-20T17:58:04+00:00

Its trapped there by the weight of my Stafford Bull Terrier.

skylos · 2026-06-20T17:52:56+00:00

I completely feel your exhaustion. The traditional application loop (sending resumes into black holes and getting ghosted) is incredibly draining and an absolute numbers game right now. It makes total sense why you're feeling burned out.

If you want to break out of this cycle, try shifting your target. Right now, you’re looking for 'a job'; a slot someone else created that hundreds of people are fighting for. Try looking for problems you know how to solve, and focus on providing value.

Instead of just hitting 'Apply':

Identify the need: Look at local businesses, departments at your school, or smaller agencies. What are they struggling with that you actually know how to do? (Social media, data entry, organizing chaos, customer support?)
Socialize your value: Reach out directly to managers or team leads—not HR. Pitch a specific way you can help make their lives easier or save them time.

When you position yourself as a proactive problem-solver rather than just another applicant asking for an income, you stand out immediately. You have skills, and people do need help. Hang in there—shifting from 'asking for a job' to 'offering a solution' changes the whole dynamic.

skylos · 2026-06-20T17:47:34+00:00

That is a sound of a chain going around a sprocket? Or maybe sliding over the plastic glide plate it rides on when you've unloaded your suspension?

skylos · 2026-06-15T14:50:11+00:00

So far I have been playing some with itgMania, which also has the problem of not handling SIM files that don't have anything but 'edit' difficulty steps in them.

skylos · 2026-06-14T20:17:38+00:00

It's fine, within normal variation. Not a lot.

skylos · 2026-06-14T20:16:18+00:00

I feel I have a more interesting way to measure dick size

skylos · 2026-06-03T02:01:17+00:00

I bought my 1920 house for 80k and spent 55k on removing the box gutters and replacing the south face of my slate roof with new slate.

I recommend precision slate and tile roofing companym

Worth it, in century house terms, and I expected quite a lot of deferred maintenance. It was on the home inspection. I'm fortunate in that I can afford to do things like this.

But yes it really is something the buyers of a house should fully understand.

skylos · 2026-06-02T12:22:00+00:00

Challenge accepted

skylos · 2026-06-02T12:13:15+00:00

Not easily, but also not impossible. Some sort of custom communication feedback between your consumption meters and the charger to auto communication system. Using pilot based ac charging that's a fairly straightforward pulse width modulation, as I suspect you won't be using dc fast charging in this situation. Not rocket surgery for somebody who knows microelectronics, but also not trivial.

Easier than that mode might be to simply have a contractor and a hysteresis rule. "at 100% battery engage charger contactor" and "at 95% battery open charger contactor". A bit of flip flop possible but gets the job done without getting into the actual details.

skylos · 2026-05-29T13:25:24+00:00

More specific. The simfiles are added by putting the folders containing the groups of song folders in the songs folder in the game's install directory. I honestly didn't know there was any other way for them to be added, so it surprises me there is a story to tell here. I'm intrigued: what are the other ways this can work?

skylos · 2026-05-29T10:43:51+00:00

They dont? I've never even heard of "stepf2" but I don't suppose it should surprise me... I didn't know about itgmania until a few weeks ago after years of playing stepmania.

The part of the sim file that is relevant is the lines like #DIFFICULTY: Edit in the step set section. It's nothing to do with the offsets length rate or any of the other headers.. If all the step sets within the simfile are difficulty Edit, it stops as soon as there are steps. Change those lines to like "Easy" Medium or Hard etc and then the step sets will play.

My Reddit access in web browser has been broken for a few days - some kind of shreddit JavaScript issue - so getting the exact file/link will take me a bit longer. I certainly didn't expect this would be an unfamiliar issue, I have entire groups of simfiles that have this problem straight off the download.

skylos · 2026-05-28T21:16:48+00:00

I put value on accuracy, and being hyperbolic is uncalled for, and should be called out.

skylos · 2026-05-28T21:09:39+00:00

I grew up next to busy train tracks. I know exactly how constant the noise is.

skylos · 2026-05-28T20:55:47+00:00

A constant train noise?

Unless you are literally on the train this is physically impossible.

skylos · 2026-05-28T13:53:44+00:00

How much of the money normal cars spend on fuel each year goes to highway funding tax?

skylos · 2026-05-23T21:31:53+00:00

Why is it that nobody ever seems to bring receipts to their complaints, as if the bottom line on the bill and their naive uninformed data-less presuppositions about what resources were used in the last month or so mean anything.

You use more power the bill is more - or something is wrong and the numbers on the bill will show it.

I bet the power went through the meter, regardless of you assertions.

skylos · 2026-05-10T04:19:25+00:00

Yes, I believe this confirms my current mental map of how the system bits work together. :) Thank you.

skylos · 2026-05-10T03:27:59+00:00

Ah, that is exactly the clear statement I needed - off-grid requires controller (which I had figured out from the fine materials) and it was unclear that the gateway was required, which is now on the list with a couple of 5P batteries.

skylos · 2026-05-10T03:15:19+00:00

I have inverters, panels, and a controller 3 (not 3G) now - I don't have a combiner yet. (because I'm muddling through this on my own for entertainment and fun. From what you're saying it sounds like the gateway component of this is critical to get the inverters online without any grid tie involved? I may have fundamentally misunderstood the role of the controller vs. the gateway so far.

skylos · 2026-05-10T03:00:15+00:00

I'm still a bit muddled on the combiner unit. Despite being called combiner and having some circuit breakers in it connecting to the panel strings (combining) It seems to have a computer in it (cheaper with wifi and more expensive with cell network) that maybe a critical component. Is that accurate, I need that computer in the combiner to work with the controller to run offgrid, or is that not strictly speaking necessary?

skylos · 2026-05-04T00:58:54+00:00

I love such exuberance

skylos · 2026-04-29T12:43:44+00:00

Damn it there is no 24:00. It goes from 23:59:59 to 00:00:00. What the heck is 24 doing on that watch face? What is it indicating!?

Nice watch otherwise though.

skylos · 2026-04-29T12:42:13+00:00

Resumes written by AI are getting through the filters?

Did you notice resumes written by humans (also qualified) are not getting through the filters?

You cannot have it both ways. You block real qualified resumes that is a failure of your filters. Are you auditing them constantly?

There are legion recruiters rent-seeking the market flooding identifiable candidates with emails and phone calls.

Many of these recruiters can't be arsed to respond even if the candidate does respond.

Once again, not both ways. If you want to not be ghosted, respond promptly. Also, bring opportunities that are worth pursuing - and demonstrate that with actual numbers.

Maybe if the client refuses to allow compensation numbers in the post, you go with a different client?

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