5-month plane ride

Is the meeting on Mars?

I was about to down vote you until I remembered the meme format. I commented elsewhere, but here’s Shaun’s video on harry potter

Shaun made a good video about how poorly the harry potter books actually aged.

even Logitech peripherals will not “just work” on Linux

I’m sorry, I did IT for years and still do it for friends if they make it worth the trouble. So, I have to ask, what the hell are you talking about?

Pretty much every logitech paripheral has worked perfectly for me on both windows or linux. It’s a mouse and keyboard, generic drivers work perfectly fine. Hell, I use a trackball mouse and that works plig and play on linux. Hell, open up a new windows computer run through the setup then disconnect it from the internet then plug in a logitech keyboard. Look at the driver for it in windows, it will probably be “generic keyboard driver”. It’s a keyboard.

We rescued an abandoned bunny, he is an absolutly cute, friendly, and happy little guy. But when he wants you to move he bites, and yea those chompers can hurt. We’ve been training him to not bite by withholding treats when he bites and hes been learning bites means no treat.

I mean bunnies have mean teeth (ask me how I know) and some strong back legs.

It takes less delta V to launch him out of the solar system. I vote we efficently launch him into space to test your hypothosis.

I don’t know why, one laptop I tried years ago to use linux on had issues with so many distros. Mint the touch pad didn’t work, debian the wifi, manjaro the screen was funky. But one worked pergectly fine, Parrot, another debian distro which was weird because debian and mint didn’t work. And all the isos were current builds

A poly sci class I took in college. Prof is talking about PACs and super PACs and how much money they can just dump into an election. That was it, I was calling myself a socialist within a few days.

At my last job I was part IT. I never took their word for it when they said they restarted it. I always opened task manager to check. Believe it or not they weren’t lying there, they did know to restart, at least before the aquisition.

Years ago in college my mom tried to dump her old CRT TV on me with a roku.

“we’re leaving this tv with you”

“I don’t want it, if you leave it here I am throwing it out”

“Oh son you could use it to watch netflix”

“or mom i could watch netflix on my phone, my smart tv, my xbox one, my xbox 360, my ps3, my computer, my other computer, my other other computer all of which would be in high resolution. If you leave that here I am putting it where it belongs, in the trash”

This is a shortened version of the conversation that went on far too long with me getting more and more annoyed with being given garbage.

I was about to ask, did he just admit to taking a 3rd (known) MoCA? Dude’s declining fast.

As someone else pointed out, there’s a shit ton of different phones. In 2012 alone, how many different “Samsung Galaxy …” did samsung release? Wikipedia lists 6

That’s 1 company, with 1 brand name in 1 year. Each with different hardware and as of late those phones have been harder and harder to even open. However, there’s a handful of models of “PS5” standard, slim, pro. They are also very easy to open requiring regular tools your average joe is likely to have, in fact sony encourages this in case you want to upgrade your SSD. It’s a lot harder to keep a system secure if the user can poke and prod the hardware, i mean the Wii’s security was literally beaten by tweezers

I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned this guy before in comments. He was a wild character with 0 redeeming qualities that I know of. He was also painfully combative on any concessions or requirements that his team had to do and at times actively drove the project into reverse due to his active ignorance of the machine our team made and his team controlled.

I started this job like 3 weeks earlier, I was still on the honeymoon period for working there.

As someone who has had 2 all day meetings, it can be hell.

Day 1, one dude talked THE ENTIRE FUCKING DAY. He did not stop to have a drink, he didn’t eat when lunch showed up, never went to the bathroom. Just one 8 hour long, uninterupted monolog. We had 3 bullet points to discuss that day, three. He went from 1 to 2 to 1 back to 2 on to 3 back to 1 now to 3 over to 2… Fucking painful.

Yup, gut me for parts and throw whats left of me into a forest. If I get eaten by a wolf or mold you have disposed of my body correctly.

I don’t feel like looking it up or giving them traffic. What else have they said?

Hot take, I like the old God of War games better. It was a fun power fantasy series where you rampage through all of greek mythology as a man litterally far too angry to die. Yatzee from zero punctuation (now at secomd wind) said something like “Kratos ripped a dudes head off because he needed a torch”

As a software dev, theres a lot of stuff thats just bloat now. Electron apps are really easy to make pretty and write for web devs and are super portable, but each one is literally an instance of a chrome browser. Theres still a lot of devs that care (to some degree) about performance and are willing to trim fat or take small shortcuts where viable.

However theres also the issue of management. I once was tasked with a problem at work dealing with the traveling salesman problem. I managed to make a very quick solution that worked fairly well and was fast but always left 1 point for last that probably should have been like point 3. Anyway, it was quick and mostly accurate, but my boss told me to “fix it” and in spite of my explaination that hes asking me to solve an unsolved math problem he persisted. I am now ashamed of how slow that operation is now since instead of just finding the nearest point it now needs to look ahead a few steps to see what path is shorter.