otacon239

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otacon239 ,

If someone says their favorite tv show/movie is any of the ones pictured here, the next question should always be “Why?”

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otacon239 ,

You hit the nail in the head. It’s not that these can’t be your favorite pieces of media. Just that it’s key to make sure you’re dealing with a person that doesn’t think these people are role models. Protagonist ≠ hero. But if someone says they loved Taxi Driver because they want to be like Travis or that Rorschach was wronged, they’re probably not the type of person you want to keep as company.

otacon239 ,

“You cannot love someone else until you love yourself.”

My dad raised me on this. If don’t see yourself worthy of love from even yourself, you’ll never be able to accept it from someone else. Healthy love is mutual. Also, this ties back into the idea that if you don’t see yourself worthy of love, it means you need to work on yourself until you do rather than trying to fill that gap with someone else.

otacon239 ,

It took me over 6 years after my first serious relationship to really start figuring myself out and getting in tune with who I really was. I’m definitely still on the path and I realize more and more why my last relationship ended. It really was the best thing for me at the time.

otacon239 ,

I have a vague memory from around 3 or 4 where a large dog was pushing me over while I was playing on one of those road carpets. Next memory was our second house when I was 5. Don’t really remember much before that.

otacon239 ,

Just make sure to transition gradually if your device to go back to being bald

otacon239 ,

They’re just so appealing

otacon239 ,

If you somehow haven’t come across it, Distance is a spiritual successor; wings, stunts and all.

otacon239 ,

As a 31-year-old, I thankfully missed the window and have had it super easy this whole time.

otacon239 ,

Same here. Knew a guy who conceal carried with a license for like 4 years before I ever found out. People who truly do it for defense rarely want people to know they have it.

otacon239 ,

arming it with features including access to “real-time” information and views undeterred by “politically correct” norms.

Oh cool. Another Nazi bot in the making.

otacon239 ,

I’ve got 3 options currently:

  • Sennheiser HD450s for on the go and at work
  • Sennheiser HD6XX for my desktop setup
  • PC/AppleTV/Turntable > HiFi Berry running Alpine Linux > Yamaha HS8s for the entertainment center

I’m not crazy picky about my digital source as 95% of the audio quality comes from the hardware to my ears. It’s rare I notice a poor quality encode.

otacon239 ,

I’ll be in the angry dome

otacon239 ,

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otacon239 ,

Nah. CMM go beep, beep, beep, beep… beep, beep….

otacon239 ,

Aw man. They were so close, too!

otacon239 OP ,

There were some folders that were 50+GB that had like 3 txt files and a song worth saving in them. In some ways, I was impressed.

otacon239 OP ,

I had a bad habit whenever I would go to reinstall an OS to just copy the entire user folder into one of many places on my largest hard drive. I had at least 4 or 5 of these. So tons of it was cache files.

otacon239 OP ,

I’ve always been one for moderation. Plus, the big issue was just being able to find all of it. Everything was so scattered and in some cases I had half my Steam library downloaded onto two or three of the hard drives, all outdated.

Now I know where it all is and can easily back it up, where before I only had one copy of a lot of my most important files.

otacon239 OP ,

This was done by hand on my end. If I had needed to do it procedurally, I’m not sure what my approach would have been, but the direction I’d probably head in would be to look into finding duplicate MD5 hashes.

otacon239 ,

A fun watch: https://youtu.be/vunESk53r5U?si=D_capAX5nr9ccQGZ

otacon239 ,

Recently ran into this with an old phone Bill that was hanging around on my credit report. I didn’t know the number anymore and that automated system only would bounce me back and forth between “new customer” and “what’s your number” modes. No option for “I don’t know my number. Had to contact the new customer agent before I could get to customer service to clear it up.

God forbid you deviate even slightly from how they expect every call to go.

otacon239 ,

ChatGPT provided a pretty good response to this, so MS likely added some clauses to avoid anything negative regarding themselves.

https://chat.openai.com/share/67d28f94-7788-4044-ab40-73f8e46a32c7

otacon239 ,

I’d not heard of this before, but this explains a lot of why my call center jobs were such BS.

We were expected to resolve networking, MS Exchange and VoIP issues in 20 minutes or less on average, which just resulted in a lot more customers having to call back because all the agents had to try and rush to a solution without time to test.

otacon239 ,

I would give anything to get back the I’m Feeling Lucky button for music. It generated so many fantastic spontaneous playlists.

otacon239 ,

At the time it came out, not really. There wasn’t really anything else to compete with it. If I’m not mistaken, it was the first handheld FPGA console.

otacon239 ,

Was just emulating this last night. Thank heavens for PCSX2 at 4k60. The art is so well done in this game it still looks awesome at high res.

I still get flashbacks to the Tropical Drive Westbound time trial with the F1 car. Took me years before I got good enough to beat it. Also one of the first games that I got 100% on.

otacon239 ,

Where’s the turtle and elephants?

otacon239 ,

This is one of my favorite stories to listen to.

otacon239 ,

I’ve had the most luck with using ChatGPT for troubleshooting my existing code. I typically tend to lean more towards creative coding, and can provide it with my source code and a casual explanation of the issue and it can often explain how to manipulate things in a way I want.

I’ve relied on it a lot less for code generation and found it to be much more useful as a tutor for concepts that I can rework myself. I haven’t spent much time with Copilot since most of my projects are aiming for an uncommon goal.

Where I’ve found it to be less than useful in code generation is I’ll get caught in a loop where it’s trying an approach I’m not familiar with, so I feed it back the errors I’m getting and hoping it can solve it on its own, but it rarely is able to.

I don’t code professionally, but I’d probably hesitate to use it for anything used in production just based on what I’ve experienced.

otacon239 ,

It’s a series, but The Woman In The House Across The Street From The Girl In The Window was a pretty fun watch.

otacon239 ,

16:20 heh

otacon239 ,

I do this! Lately I’ve been using DALL-E to create two vector art pieces and I flatten the colors using iPhones built-in filters. Works really well. Also apologies to those who will wince at my busy home screen.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene claims ‘bullshit’ as expert says Covid vaccine saved 14m lives ( www.theguardian.com )

Responding to an expert’s statement that “about 3.2 million” American lives have been saved by vaccines against Covid, with “over 14 million lives” saved globally, the far-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene said: “I’m not a doctor, but I have a PhD in recognising bullshit when I hear it.”...

otacon239 ,

HICKORY-SMOKED HORSE BUTTHOLES

otacon239 ,

Typical morning commute

[Game] Cyberpunk demos during Steam Next Fest ( lemmy.zip )

Steam Next Fest is going on right now and I thought "I should make a list of fun cyberpunk demos to try!" And then I looked at what cyberpunk demos were available. It's weird. I still decided to make a list of at least... interesting games I found....

otacon239 ,

Been having a blast with Mullet Mad Jack. Stock an intense game.

Stick shift drivers - would you get an electric vehicle?

I'm stuck on this personally. I love my manual, I have a tiny little Mazda 2 and I have driven that thing absolutely everywhere because I can control it better than any automatic I've ever driven. But I've been casually looking for a new car and I'd love to have an electric, but I don't want to lose that level of control and...

otacon239 ,

I daily drive a stick and I’m honestly going to be sad the day I can no longer find a stick shift. It’s just so much more engaging to feel all of the mechanics react. I’ve ridden in a couple electrics, and while in almost every technical way, it’s better on paper, I prefer the vibration, noise, extra hand/footwork and so on of ICE and a manual transmission.

otacon239 ,

I learned regex in a data entry job when receiving spreadsheets of user info they entered themselves. The number of times I went from a 40-minute by-hand solution to a 30-second one was astounding.

Need to clean up capitalization? Regex.

Need to fix all the phone numbers with dashes in them? Regex.

Need to make sure all the emails are valid? Regex.

So many hours of tedium saved. It really is one of the most powerful tools to have in your back pocket.

otacon239 ,

What am I missing? I typically used it as a sanity check and would vet the changes. Never as a one-click modify. Or is there something else I should know about?

otacon239 ,

Ah, yeah. It was never meant to be a be all and all. Just something to clean up the complete trash before I started proofreading. Besides, these were emails the customer provided and could easily be changed afterwords. Their fault if we get bad emails in the list ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

otacon239 ,

I’ve heard a stand up routine that was basically this and I’ve been trying to find it again ever since. I find this concept hilarious.

otacon239 ,

I remember back in high school, this was the browser to have on your flash drive. So many built-in tools that were normally entire separate programs. It had an email client, BitTorrent, download manager, FTP client… all sorts of tools so you didn’t have to keep them all updated and portable separately.

It was a sad day when all of that started getting stripped out just to end up like every other Chromium copy on the market.

Been on Firefox ever since they took away my grid home screen.

Goodbye, my once good friend.🫡

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