hactar42

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hactar42 , to Comic Books in Who are your favorite Marvel Comics characters?

Gambit in the X-Men: The Animated Series from the 90s was by far my favorite character. I hate that he never got that level of respect in the movies.

hactar42 , to Cool Guides in Brand names that have become common words

Typical exchange in Texas:

Person A: Can I have a coke?

Person B: What kind?

Person A: Dr Pepper

hactar42 , to Asklemmy in What's your favorite song?

The Gits - Whirlwind

hactar42 , to memes in We all make mistakes

One of the favorite stories is about the first time I took my wife to England. She majored in British literature in college and is the type of person who reads Shakespeare for fun, and can even read and speaks middle English. I worked and traveled to England a few times a year and had lived there in my early 20s, before we met.

For our fifth anniversary I took her to England. It was her first time ever leaving the US. In fact the first time she left the southern US.

We're standing at the curb at Gatwick waiting for a cab and there are two guys behind us talking. My wife leans over and whispers, "what language are they speaking?"

I just started laughing, and explained they were speaking English, they are just Scottish. All that book learning and studying of the language couldn't prepare her for the Scottish accent.

hactar42 , to Asklemmy in What are your experiences with the Mandela Effect?

There is a theory that the Fruit of the Loom one is actually a viral marketing thing. Like the company scrubbed it on purpose and is playing into it to build brand recognition.

hactar42 , to Asklemmy in Am I the only software engineer greatly worried and disturbed by AI ?

So, I asked Chat GPT to write a quick PowerShell script to find the number of months between two dates. The first answer it gave me took the number of days between them and divided by 30. I told it, it needs to be more accurate than that, so it wrote a while loop to add 1 months to the first date until it was larger than the 2 second date. Not only is that obviously the most inefficient way to do it, but it had no checks to ensure the one in the loop was actually smaller so you could just end up with zero. The results I got from co-pilot were not much better.

From my experience, unless there is existing code to do exactly what you want, these AI are not to the level of an experienced dev. Not by a long shot. As they improve, they'll obviously get better, but like with anything you have to keep up and adapt in this industry or you'll get left behind.

hactar42 , to Comic Books in DC Comics - DC Universe Rebirth

This is what made me stop buying monthlies. I had been reading Superman since the 90s. New 52 was such a cluster of crossovers that I was getting annoyed trying to keep up with all the story lines. I read the first couple of issues of rebirth and just didn't feel like starting over again. Now I'll just pick up the graphics novels when there is a good enough arc to get turned into one.

hactar42 , to Comic Books in Hawkman being himself (Justice League of America #2, 2013)

You're right. Injustice ch 5.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d78ec412-eabf-45e6-9505-11eafeb07e82.jpeg

hactar42 , to Comic Books in Hawkman being himself (Justice League of America #2, 2013)

It seemed like Geoff Johns had a hand in nearly everything during the New 52 launch, so it's all a blur to me nowadays.

hactar42 , to Comic Books in Hawkman being himself (Justice League of America #2, 2013)

Sadly this is the only panel I remember from this run. Unless this is the same one where Harley told Green Arrow he should have named his hide out "The Quiver"

hactar42 , to Communism in Protestation

Sounds like a character from Hitchhikers Guide. Hell it could even be a B-plot: Slartibartfast is trying to stop Gutzon Borglum from carving Zaphod Beeblebrox into a mountain he created.

hactar42 , to Asklemmy in Are you ok (really, are you)?

I feel you on hating the holidays. I get so little time off of work that I just want to relax, but the expectations of the holidays make it near impossible. I have 4 siblings and they all have 2-3 kids and them and my mom always try to plan something for Christmas. The problem is we all live at least 4 hours away from each other. It is a logistical nightmare. This year I finally put my foot down and told my family I'm not doing that this year. I also told them not to get anything for my kids because honestly getting presents for 11 nieces and nephews is getting ridiculous. I even told my mom not to come visit because I just can't deal with her histrionic personality disorder right now. Of course, I couldn't put it that way, but to my surprise she actually listened for once.

I do still have to deal with my wife's family coming over, because apparently me saying I don't want to do anything for Christmas means I'm find with doing Christmas stuff on December 23rd. However, beside my wife stressing about making our house completely spotless, her family coming over isn't that bad. They will come over for like half a day and go home, and there is never any drama.

Stay strong, the 26th is only a few days away.

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