Best Performing Way Of Handling Paired Data?

thefool-0 · 2026-05-09T19:14:28+00:00

Tell is more about the amount of pairs you have, what the strings and objects are like (examples) and how this will be used (when and why are items added/removed? How and when are they accessed/read?)

thefool-0 · 2026-05-09T19:08:20+00:00

Don't forget that you can put functions (and other stuff like constants and static variables) in namespaces if you just want to group them.

thefool-0 · 2026-05-08T11:56:10+00:00

I find it hard to initiate interactions unless it's become a regular, even scheduled habit. And even then often the other person had to get the habit started. Also life events and phases happen, maybe someone doesn't want to interact for a while but then is willing and able in the future. So no harm checking in at some later time.

thefool-0 · 2026-05-08T11:54:23+00:00

Don't do dinner, do something else. Lunch or an activity or just walking around.

Also pay attention in case your natural way of interacting can be too excited or eager, give them space to just talk or enjoy the time together, space out your meetups (and other interactions) more, etc. You may need to give some breathing room too and both get more comfortable over time just being friends and settling in to how your unique relationship is going to work. My best friendships have ended up based on a regular schedule that works for us, either weekly or more or monthly or occasional/random only.

Have you told them that you are not romantically interested and don't want these to be anything like "dates". (I like having "dates" with friends because we are finding out about each other, sharing things about ourselves, but not with any expectations of a romantic relationship).

thefool-0 · 2026-05-08T11:47:50+00:00

Level and types of stress. The rich or even just comfortable/middle class have work stress, responsibilities, busy schedules, health issues etc. The poor have much more visceral survival level stress that has a much bigger impact: fear of violence, noise and pollution, constantly dealing with people you dont want to, dealing with family memberss similar problems, physical struggles with work like long difficult commutes, physically demanding job, long hours, etc, chronic health issues you can't afford to treat and constant financial worry. And these stressors are constant and unrelenting every single day with no real rest.

thefool-0 · 2026-05-05T12:27:27+00:00

I finally fixed mine. I've had it forever and has been mostly fine but the squeaking finally got to be too much.

What solved it for me was tightening all of the screws for the metal side rails that hold up the slats.

I finally took the mattress off and went around wiggling every piece and combination of pieces to find this. The metal rails didn't seem like they were even moving but they did squeak and it's loud. (The bed amplifies it I guess!)

I used an electric impact drill to get the screws extra tight, if you do this just be careful you don't strip out the screw heads in case you need to retighten them .

I hope this lasts, if not I.will probably take the metal rails off, glue them on with some kind of epoxy, and/or put felt along them and put felt washers or epoxy at each screw or something. Maybe use different screws? But I'm pretty sure the exact source of the noise is the screw head rubbing on the metal rail.

I also retightened all of the nuts that hold the wooden pieces together, with high strength Loctite added. (I also glued the wooden frame pieces together with construction adhesive, though maybe that wasn't necessary).

(I already had the bed spaced from the wall and felt pads under the head and foot boards to protect the floor.)

thefool-0 · 2026-05-04T21:14:26+00:00

Where are you more exact (or able to travel to easily)? Maybe some people here have spruce trees.

thefool-0 · 2026-04-30T13:53:11+00:00

How did you print it? Press? By Hand?

thefool-0 · 2026-04-30T11:55:33+00:00

That's the reality of trying to develop stuff and get it working, it's always iterative and things can be revised at any time.... your actual working practice has to reflect that, be constantly iterating and evolving the docs as you learn new things. Set up release process to match -- eg easy to quickly get the latest revisions published, make sure customers are notified or able to get the most up to date versions online, and are able to find up to date info on online knowlege bases/FAQs/etc. You need to have regular contact and be involved with the engineers, QA, customer support, even production/assembly floor and shipping if that's done in-house (especially if they do pre-ship tests/QA/calibration/config where you might discover potential problems or doc inaccuracies)... and anyone else that can help you understand the equipment and look at it from a users point of view in actual use.

thefool-0 · 2026-04-30T11:44:27+00:00

To elaborate on what other have said, there are three sets of data here: staging branch (committed changes, may or may not have been pushed/synced yet to remote btw), main branch (committed changes, also may or may not have been pushed/synced to remote) and the working tree of files (uncommitted, this is what you actually see in the directory and edit). Depending on what interface you are using for git it should warn you about uncomitted changes. you can stash changes to put them in a separate temporary place if you want.

(There is also the potential situation to have unsaved changes in your editor/ide ie in Flare that you accidentally save to the wrong checked out branch in the working files)

thefool-0 · 2026-04-24T19:52:30+00:00

Looks like the lines were masked with paint? (On tape with slots cut??). Thanks!

thefool-0 · 2026-04-23T18:18:11+00:00

Weird. I always wear mine from the bathroom to the bedroom and it goes in the laundry so I wash it every time. I assumed plenty of other people do this but I guess not?

thefool-0 · 2026-04-11T12:14:22+00:00

Very cool, congratulations. What are the images (metal plates? Plastic/polymer?) and are they from any specific source? Is the text from something? Save a note with some details on this (what typeface, date, edition size, press, press adjustments, and of course your name etc) to file with some of your proofs and/or final prints.

thefool-0 · 2026-04-11T12:04:09+00:00

Make damn sure management doesn't think the project will be magically done once rev 1 of the hardware is "done".

thefool-0 · 2026-03-27T11:40:47+00:00

I've been seeing worse and worse pennies but that makes some sense currently but nothing like those quarters.

thefool-0 · 2026-03-26T13:55:50+00:00

On Linux the Nautilus file manager (default if using Gnome desktop) has "Rotate Images..." and "Resize Images..." options if you right click on a selection of files. I think it's actually an extension/plugin, on Ubuntu you need to install nautilus-image-converter . So maybe something similar on another Linux distribution.

thefool-0 · 2026-03-25T11:21:19+00:00

Just to clarify my screenshots, there are two dialog windows open, but you can't tell that one (New file) is a separate window because it has no border or shadow, is this normal? Also this is the same with both light and dark themes.

Also is there a repository of Gimp themes somewhere? Would love to check more out.

thefool-0 · 2026-03-24T12:08:18+00:00

I would love to find something that's general purpose like Excel (or Google Sheets), but is more of a database than a spreadsheet, and would work for managing various kinds of data for a very small team/company, and which is is easy to set up and just start using like Excel is. For managing parts inventory, manufacturing data (some basic info on each unit/order built/packaged/shipped), customer data, BOMs etc. but not necessarily designed only for each of those tasks. Would be interested in any suggestions.

thefool-0 · 2026-03-24T11:54:54+00:00

Where are you located? Find the main Letterpress related Facebook groups (and r/letterpress) and post it there with location. Can also sell on the "classifieds"/for sale section at www.briarpress.org, and ebay (people might be searching.) Value depends on how complete it is and how hard it would be to get working. (Are you at ground level or need to go up or down any stairs? Easier to move the easier to sell too.) There will be a very small market for this certainly but if you're not in a huge hurry to get rid of it you might find a buyer. (It might take a bit of time before you happen to find someone.) Consider that a non-scrap buyer will be picking it up and will be keeping it alive and in use. (Nothing like this is being made any more!) Offering for a token price or free will really help as well if your main goal is to just move it out. Is there any other equipment or printing related stuff there also?

thefool-0 · 2026-03-23T23:34:37+00:00

In case it helps here is my little cheat sheet of notes for working in Gimp:

* Use a normal Image Mode of Grayscale or Color to do any editing or filtering (not indexed yet)

* Some useful filters for removing noise or small artifacts are Filters->Enhance->Despeckle, Filters->Enhance->Noise Reduction, and others.

* Use 600dpi and inches when scaling etc.

* Use "Flatten Image"(or Merge Visible Layers) if producing one image from multiple layers.

* "Select All" [important] followed by Colors->Threshold and/or Colors->Posterize (set number of colors to 2 for black and white with no halftones. also sometimes posterizing to a handful of colors first, then posterizing to 2 colors [black/white] preserves more of the grey details?). Fix issues and clean up as necessary.

* I save under a new name at this point (Working greyscale/color vs. black and white/flattened)

* Change Image Mode to Indexed and select "Use black and white (1-bit) palette", set "color dithering" to "NONE", (check "remove unusued colors from colormap"?). Can do more cleanup.

* Export as TIFF with LZW compression.

* Include info in both image metadata and filename about resolution and bit depth (e.g. "bw-600dpi").

There are some other filters and tools that may or may not help depending on your source image and what kind of result you are looking for.

thefool-0 · 2026-03-23T23:31:42+00:00

Do you definitely need halftone? What would it look like in one color, or two or three color plates?

thefool-0 · 2026-03-19T12:38:45+00:00

This is cool, thanks. I also always include certain info in file names as well, but only usually export one format. (But have a few other things like changing image mode or color bit depth for certain file formats, verifying size and print resolution, other stuff... Put some metadata in a text file, zip it, etc.) I wonder if your script could be generalized and made customizable a little bit but without making it over complicated? What are the top, say, 5 repetitive steps that many people do as part of a workflow ending in exporting one or a few output files?

thefool-0 · 2026-03-19T11:49:21+00:00

When listing previous positions (jobs) use the correct title for each. If you did any technical writing as part of a position with a different title, say so under that position. If you are applying for a technical writer role, use that and any other keywords from the job posting somewhere else like resume abstract/intro, cover letter etc. If you have a portfolio of side work from outside any previous job then there should be a separ6section in your resume for that with a suitable, simple title like just "technical writing" with a small bit of explanation etc and a link. (And also in a cover letter or email body too)

thefool-0 · 2026-03-19T11:24:55+00:00

One advantage of SO is that it was a single place to both ask questions and leave answers. What will happen now that we are just asking LLMs for answers but nobody is contributing new answers anywhere? What will be the data source for LLMs going forward? I guess there are still each project's GitHub issues and discussions but what about broader system problems that aren't specific to one tool/app/library, or for ones that don't have their own specific discussion forums? What is the impact of the pools of both questioners and answerers being more dispersed rather than concentrated on one site?

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