Ashyr

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Ashyr ,

A honing rod and whetstone fulfill different functions. You should ideally be using both for knife maintenance.

Ashyr ,

So the fine edge of the blade can warp as you use it. The honing rod helps straighten that back out to improve cutting. The whetstone actually removes bits of steel in order to create a new edge. Honing should be done regularly, but using a whetstone to sharpen the blade is periodic.

Ashyr ,

I've never heard of it, but it seems well liked by fans of puzzle games. No reason not to check it out if you enjoy a good puzzle.

Ashyr ,

It's literally just a portmanteau of June Nineteenth.

Portmanteaus are super common and lots of fun. I have no idea why you'd take issue with this particular one.

Ashyr ,

It’s not like the day was chosen randomly. June 19th is when the emancipation proclamation was read in Texas, the last state to hear it.

Ashyr ,

And a Supreme Court eager to throw its political weight around.

Ashyr ,

Very neat. I haven’t used Reddit in a year, but I wanted to check out your app out of curiosity. I think I feel much healthier without it being a regular part of my life, but this is an interesting window I could glance through from time to time.

The comment collapse feature seems to work very inconsistently. Where should you be tapping or how in order to collapse a comment thread?

Ashyr ,

This genuinely felt like a weird scam to me. I had no idea it existed, but apparently there's a whole host of childhood conditions that can cause childhood dementia.

That's very upsetting.

Ashyr ,

No idea about this particular girl, but there's plenty of authentic disorders that can cause childhood dementia:

  • Batten Disease (Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinoses, NCL)
  • Sanfilippo Syndrome (Mucopolysaccharidosis Type III, MPS III)
  • Niemann-Pick Disease Type C, GM1 and GM2 Gangliosidosis (Tay-Sachs and Sandhoff Disease)
  • Leukodystrophies (such as Metachromatic Leukodystrophy and Krabbe Disease)
  • Mitochondrial Disorders (such as Leigh syndrome)
  • Rett Syndrome

With the recent issues of transgender people in sports, why don’t we move some sports over to a weight-class system?

Obviously this won’t work for all sports, but things like football, track, soccer, it would allow for de-gendered team, even allowing athletes with the skills but not the genetically-endowed physical attributes to have a place to play....

Ashyr ,

I think because guys are pound for pound stronger than girls. I've read stories on Reddit years ago by girls who are wrestlers or fighters and get into a playful tussle with some random guy and they describe it as terrifying.

Ashyr ,

It’s baffling to me that someone in Ukraine could watch Russia for the last 15 years and think, “Yeah, I want to help them.”

Ashyr ,

I know this is just a joke, but I’ve recently become a project manager for the first time. I’m open to tips and suggestions.

I’ve really enjoyed it and have worked hard to give my developers everything they need as soon as possible. Otherwise I try to stay out of the way and do my best to shield them from the pressure that’s being applied on me to achieve deadlines.

I’d agree that anyone can ask for project updates, but I really do work hard to balance client demands with c-suite expectations and the realistic outcomes described by my developers.

Ashyr ,

Really helpful. Yeah, it’s already invaded my vacations and time off, but I’m working to create better boundaries moving forward. The problem is that there’s literally no one else who can answer certain questions or resolve certain problems and everything will grind to a halt if I don’t deal with it in a timely manner.

Ashyr ,

Really good advice, thank you.

Ashyr ,

Yes and no? My team is scattered around the US, so if my east coasters hit a snag early, I genuinely don't want them in a holding pattern until I get around to it. Same for my coworkers on the west coast.

Some of the intensity of it has been that I assumed control of a team that was already severely mismanaged and had missed it's initial deadlines by a month.

Of course that manager got promoted to an area that better suited his skills and I was asked to step in and try to right the ship. Our final deadline is today and we only have minor and cosmetic bugs left (that we know of).

We have plenty of new features to add moving forward, but with the project back on track and the foundation established, I'll be able to set better deadlines for everyone's work life balance.

I will probably always have some temptation to pull long hours for my team scattered around the country, but it becomes much less urgent now that we're past our insane crunch.

Maybe it's hopelessly naive of me and the next deadline will also become a crunch, but I have some control over those future dates, so I hope it will be less of an issue.

Ashyr ,

That's a fair point.

Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices ( www.theverge.com )

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU....

Ashyr ,

They almost certainly will. That blue is a prestige feature for a lot of people.

I don’t really care, so long as I can easily send texts and pictures back and forth, I’ll be happy.

Ashyr ,

This is a far more nuanced problem than I expected. The biggest hurdle seems to be that the best locations that have willing participants are already taken.

Ashyr ,

When can I get one of these voices to read an epub on my phone? I'd love to have something like that

Ashyr ,

One of many amazing shots from Arkansas

Ashyr ,

Says the person who has sworn to never have babies.

Ashyr ,

I'm a huge RimWorld fan, I'm curious, did you use the fast forward button? If you stay on regular speed, it can really drag. I believe many players just leave it on 3x speed and pause when an emergency arrives.

Your opinion is valid regardless, I just find significant overlap in our preferences, so this surprises me.

Ashyr ,

Animals and a few other things are now multithreaded, so it is something they're working on.

Ashyr ,

I wanted to finish Wheel of Time, but couldn't slog my way through all the books again, so I listened to the Dragon Re-Read. A ton of fun conversation and saved me so much time and reading.

Ashyr ,

He looks like a baby ent.

Ashyr ,

I don’t know any relevant Lebowski quotes, but happy birthday!

Ashyr ,

Do you mean politics as in the details of elections and minutia of governance?

Or do you mean the discussion for how we ought to live together?

The answer is not really to both.

I do try to avoid authoritarian idiots spouting fruitless nonsense, but they seem to be a tragedy of the commons for public discourse.

Ashyr ,

I’m not a huge fan of dogs in general. They’re capable of unsettling amounts of violence and you have no idea if/how they’ve been trained.

Ashyr ,

I’d give anything to design my own tanks for Hell Let Loose and then crew it with my buddies.

Ashyr ,

Brenda Maldonado is a brave and courageous person. Not only did she put herself in harm’s way, but now she’s speaking out about it.

Ashyr ,

It has its moments. The opportunity to figure out a tough problem or create an innovative solution can be very rewarding.

What busy work there is I can work at my own pace, so long as I meet deadlines.

I work from home, have a fair amount of autonomy and responsibility and have no one looking over my shoulder.

I recognize I’m very fortunate.

Ashyr ,

Incredible! So the memory chip holding a lot of core programming was damaged or failed, so they figured out which chip it was, but then there was no single place large enough to store this vital code, so they divided it up and distributed it throughout the remaining memory and now it works.

These people are brilliant.

Ashyr ,

This made me tear up. It's been a really hard year and just minutes before reading this I got some pretty good news that makes me think things might actually be okay.

Ashyr ,

Nothing so smart should live such a short time. I’d love to have them as pets, but saying goodbye every few years would be too much.

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