jubilationtcornpone

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jubilationtcornpone ,

🎶Life is like a hurricane, here in catburg.🎶

jubilationtcornpone ,

I guess I am kind of a lazy entitled bastard. Wanting to tuck my kids in at bedtime and whatnot.

jubilationtcornpone ,

OP jacking up the price of good girls and blaming it on inflation.

jubilationtcornpone , (edited )

Yeah, well some days, when I go to get my two year old out of bed she's like, "No! I want mommy. Get out!"
Sometimes you just gotta roll with the punches.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Apparently offshoring basically all of your manufacturing while not giving a shit about the loss of engineering capability and institutional knowledge has significant downsides. Who knew? Who could possibly have seen this coming?? I'm serious. I would ask the people in engineering but they all got fired like twenty years ago.

jubilationtcornpone ,

https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/bcc60c19-7805-4bb3-a281-f1be49e2d71a.jpeg

jubilationtcornpone ,

Same argument, different scenario.

"Why would he help them out of the polar bear enclosure? We haven't fixed the hole in the fence up top yet."

jubilationtcornpone ,

"He went and got himself Dick Cheneyed."

jubilationtcornpone OP ,

Our house was built by idiots so it doesn't have any foundation drainage that I know of and the grading is all wrong. Well, lots of things are wrong, but most of them don't flood the basement when it rains.🤷‍♂️

jubilationtcornpone ,

"The Vanderbilt's are job creators! Look how many people Mr. Vanderbilt employed while using his vast inheritance to checks notes build a 138,000 sqft mansion for himself. If the Irish don't feel like they're being paid fairly, then maybe they just need to go back where they came from." -Sean Hannity if he were alive in 1885, probably

jubilationtcornpone ,

Data Rule Numero Uno:

Garbage in, garbage out.

Have fun training your LLM on a big steaming pile of hot garbage. That's 80% of Stack Overflows content.

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jubilationtcornpone ,

Now you can have a computer tell you that you're an idiot and your question is stupid rather than actual person.

jubilationtcornpone ,

GLOBOHOMO INDUSTRIES
Conspiring to make the world a more 🦄FABULOUS🌈 place. Muahahaha!!

jubilationtcornpone ,

I used to know this guy who refused to register his car. He wasn't quite full blown "sovereign citizen" but he was on his way there. This went on for a few months. Then his wife got a ticket for failing to register. He gave in after that.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Nuclear spear.

Pro: Kills all of your enemies.

Con: Also kills you and everyone you know.

jubilationtcornpone ,

"I have witnessed men suffer less being mauled by a bear than by having their entire argument destroyed one pointed question at a time." --Xenophon, Probably

jubilationtcornpone ,

Lots of video cameras and analog (eg. Composite video) to digital video converters had FireWire interfaces. At the time Apple (Final Cut Pro) and Sony (Vegas) also dominated the video editing software market.

jubilationtcornpone ,

This just reminded me that parallel port switches were a thing. You could change the dial or push a button to switch peripherals on port A or B.

jubilationtcornpone ,

No, it's not. You can drill holes through the center of a joist or rafter but the permitted diameter of the hole depends on the overall width of the board. Notching the edge (or in this case cutting most of the way through it) dramatically weakens the board since the edges bear most of the tension from the load.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Then there isn't a damn thing you're going to do about it.

jubilationtcornpone ,

One time I decided to take a day trip to the Valley of Fire, not far from there. It was August and 116 degrees. I had it all planned out. Figured out which stops along the way were short enough for me to walk safely in the heat. Brought lots of water and was never to far from the air conditioned car.

I'll be damned if I didn't run into people wearing polo shirts and khakis. Carrying no water or anything at all to drink.

It's like they were writing an instruction manual on how to get heat stroke.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Interested to see what you come up with. I manage our personal finances along with my wife's consulting business. I switched to Quicken about a year ago. I don't regret switching because it's does the job better than anything else I've used. But I'm not 100% satisfied either and if I found a better solution, I would seriously consider it.

jubilationtcornpone ,

I've done worse. Walled in an unneeded doorway. The seam on one side is clearly visible. But I was trying to get it done in time to host Christmas and it was done very hastily. I'll fix it one of these days. ...probably.

jubilationtcornpone , (edited )

"Jill, I'm afraid we have a problem. Your quality of work is very high, as always. But you don't look enough like your job isn't soul crushing. I'm not saying you look like you're bored out of your mind or that I think working here is depriving you of your will to live. I'm just saying that there are times when you're not smiling like a completely unhinged person and that makes me question whether you really want to be here."

Door hinge pin keeps coming up. How to solve?

Looking for help in solving a problem where the lower door hinge pin on my entry door keeps creeping up and causing the deadbolt to become slightly misaligned making it more difficult to lock. Reading online, I keep coming across suggestions of tightening a screw that’s supposed to lock the pin in place but my hinges don’t...

jubilationtcornpone ,

Do the hinges actually line up correctly? If one of them is crooked, on the door or jamb, that could probably cause the pin to work it's way out.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Shit bags.

jubilationtcornpone , (edited )

It's probably part of an ongoing trend. There's been sort of a renewed interest in legacy branding in some parts of the brewing world. I would say Miller kind of kicked it off 10 years ago when they rebranded Miller Lite using an updated version of their 1973 can. It was very successful. I actually did a marketing study on it for a project at work around that time.

Since then, several old beer brands have been resurrected. Hamm's, Heileman's Old Style, PBR, just to name a few. If you start seeing Fallstaff at your local liquor store, you'll know we've come full circle.

jubilationtcornpone ,

I moved from primarily ASP.Net Core backends, which is a hell of a great backend framework btw, to NestJS. Not my choice. I do what the people who sign my paychecks ask for.

I cannot begin to fathom why anyone would willingly choose JavaScript for backend. TypeScript helps a lot but there are still so many drawbacks and poor design decisions that make the developer experience incredibly frustrating. Features that are standard in ASP.Net Core, Django, or other common backend frameworks just don't exist.

Also, don't get me started on GraphQL. Sure, it has performance advantages for websites of a certain size and scale. But 99% of the websites out there don't have the challenges that Facebook has. The added complexity and development cost over REST is just not worth it.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Here's a brief snapshot of US history between 1962-1974, when my parents were school age.

  • Soviet submarine B-59 comes terrifyingly close to starting a nuclear war with the United States (1962). This event was unknown at the time but the threat of nuclear war was very real.
  • The Vietnam War begins (1962).
  • President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas(1963).
  • Alabama governor George Wallace makes the now famous declaration in his innaugeral address, "...segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever." (1963).
  • The Harlem [race] riot marks the first of numerous violent race riots across the country (1964).
  • Malcolm X is assassinated in New York City (1965).
  • Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee (1968).
  • Bobby Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles, California after winning the California democratic presidential primary (1968).
  • 4 College students are killed and 9 more wounded after being fired upon by the Ohio National Guard at Kent State University.
  • Richard Nixon becomes the first and only US President to resign after the Watergate scandal (1974).

And those are just some of the major highlights. Things have been plenty shitty in the past.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Wait, wait, wait. Just hold up a minute! Are you seriously trying to tell me that spending 10+ hours a week and thousands of dollars a year sitting in a car just so you can "work" in an open room where you can't hear yourself think, much less get any actual work done, is bad for your mental health?

Your ungrateful little shit. Not only are you getting paid, you're saving a ton of money by not having any recreational time and you have a convenient excuse for avoiding your SO and missing your kids stupid sports games. You should be paying your employer for the privilege of commuting to work.

/s

jubilationtcornpone ,

Drive by management

I like this. I'm going to steal it.

jubilationtcornpone ,

I have met way too many of those people. It's a sad way to live your life.

jubilationtcornpone ,

"Crying is not permitted in company restrooms. Please schedule all mental breakdowns either during your lunch hour or other personal time."

jubilationtcornpone ,

I had a boss that was a constant micromanager. I started compiling lists of questions I had or things I actually needed for him and whenever he would come around I would just hit him with the list. I would even chase him down every time I knew he was in the vicinity. Eventually it got to the point where he would try to avoid me because he didn't want to do any actual work. He just wanted to "supervise" and I was ruining that for him.

Talk about irony, the same guy like to brag about not taking vacation time. I told him that people don't usually brag about their poor life choices.
Fuck him. One of us was lazy and it definitely wasn't me.

jubilationtcornpone ,

I would think the "child" part would rule that out.

jubilationtcornpone ,

So many questions. How does one go about milking a whale? How do you make cheese from milk with a thickness similar to No. 4 Fuel Oil? Who was the first person to attempt to milk a whale? Who is buying up all these whale dairy products? Is there such a thing as a whale milk cheesecake?

jubilationtcornpone ,

People who have never owned any equipment larger than a riding mower.

jubilationtcornpone ,

"I just want to be able to shit all over people with certain racial or sexual characteristics without anyone pointing out my bigotry, telling me to 'go fuck myself', or punching me in my stupid face. You're not allowed to say anything anymore!"

jubilationtcornpone ,

"We need more 'water cooler conversations'."

The only "work" getting talked about around the water cooler is how much we hate working here and how we're going to quit and get a job someplace that sucks less.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Ou local coffee chains coffee is way better then Starbucks. Unfortunately, I doubt the same can be said for their labor conditions.

jubilationtcornpone ,

It turns out that the village idiot(s) are a larger percentage of our population than previously anticipated.

Possibly due to widespread chronic lead poisoning but the verdict is still out there.

jubilationtcornpone ,

initial 6 month contract

No.

jubilationtcornpone ,

One way or another, the interest on the technical debt always comes due. When you hear phrases like "we can't do that without a major refactor" with increasing frequency, you'll know that day is not far off.

...And I just realized that it might be time for me to start looking for a new job cause the credit line on my current project is about maxed out.

jubilationtcornpone ,

Reddit is niche when it comes to social media. It caters to a particular group of people and has its own style of both content and engagement, just like Facebook or Tiktok have their own styles. I would argue reddit is, in some ways, more like an old school forum with a fresh coat of paint. It requires more effort from the user to engage with than some other social media platforms. The content can be a lot "heavier" and it's not centered around people and/or personalities. To be clear thats something I liked about Reddit but I don't think it really resonates as much with the average user.

Site visits are just one metric and, while it's an interesting metric, it doesn't say much without a lot more context. OK, so a lot of people end up visiting Reddit. Why? Is it intentional? Is it because every third Google result is a reddit post? If so, is it driving further engagement? If not, then that benchmark is worth little. If it is driving further engagement, then something else is wrong.

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