Tito Swineflu

slum dweller, bridge troll and punk rock viking

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2026-03-01 17:07:00 GMT

I have one circuit in my house that runs 3 overhead lights and a wall outlet. Yesterday, it suddenly threw the breaker, nothing weird was happening, I was just sitting there.
After a bit, I managed to narrow it down to one hanging light fixture, which was installed a year ago. You can see in the video - I first check that the light bulbs are good in a different fixture, then I try to screw them into different sockets in the chandelier while it's energized. When I do that, an arc happens and the circuit breaker is thrown. Happens in all the sockets.
Again, NOTHING has changed in this circuit, this chandelier has been sitting there like this for a year, and all of a sudden, this. Why?
#electrician
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2026-02-22 06:09:31 GMT

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I've felt the same thing as an owner of a mercedes. All of a sudden this upstart car company is getting all the attention for being fascist? Don't they think that the OG fascist wagons feel a little put out?

2025-12-05 02:35:06 GMT

I really need a job. I've been looking for 5 years. I make about $60k/yr building the occasional web app for one company and a non-profit, but it isn't cutting it.
I am hard to classify. I've been a CTO or chief architect of small startups and small companies. I have a agile, plastic mind, and I can figure out pretty much any problem thrown at me. I've designed pci cards, I've tuned dye lasers, I'm a reasonably good audio engineer, I can make furniture and frame a room, I can do nearly anything. Most of the things I've done well I've done without prior specific expertise. I'm good when I'm in over my head.
I've led small teams, sure, but that's nothing compared to having led punk bands on tour across the country, bringing everyone home alive and having no-one spend more than a few hours in police custody. I have a wildly diverse set of experiences, which I can apply in useful ways.
Most of all, I want useful work, to not be tossed into the trash because I'm over 50.
#getfedihired
PS: I live in SF

2025-05-05 02:09:10 GMT

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This is an all-time great.

2024-12-23 04:51:06 GMT

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SNFU in 1988

2024-09-03 00:40:33 GMT

I am desperate to find a job.
I may not know how to use whatever software your company fancies right now, but I do know how to figure things out par excellence.
I didn't know how credit card processing worked when I built a fleet of 100 600-baud modems to process cards.
I didn't know how relational databases worked when I built a load balanced cluster serving a top-500 website from a single rack of machines.
I didn't know how rabbitmq or sphinx worked when I included them in a pipeline I designed for ingesting the twitter firehose.
I didn't know how circuit board drill instructions worked when I designed my first IDE board.
I didn't know how skidata interfaced with their API when I needed to design a voice-activated parking garage app in German.
The point is, I figure things out. Pretty much anything. If you can use someone like that, hire me.
#getfedihired