BearOfaTime
@BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 3 days ago:
Wow, that’s pretty out there.
- Comment on I ordered my daughter a pizza, something I don't usually do. I got Domino's smallest size with two toppings. I got her cheese sticks and two sauces and tipped the driver 20%. $31.07. 3 days ago:
Yea, pizza places have gotten out of hand in recent years.
Adding a delivery fee (which doesn’t go to the driver) from locations that only do delivery.
How about fuck you and your delivery fee. Which is why I refuse to have pizza delivered any more. Plus they invariably get lost, though we’re a few hundred yards from their store.
Little Seizures sells the same pizza for half the price, or less, than Papa John’s, before those fees are tacked on.
- Comment on try fingers but hole 3 days ago:
Hence the quotes around finger
- Comment on ShotSpotter does not reduce gun violence or increase clearance rates 4 days ago:
Of course not, how could it?
Its just a wealth transfer from the state (our tax dollars) to a private firm. Same as speed cameras, where typically 80% of the “civil fees” go to the camera operating company.
- Comment on Donald Sutherland, Versatile Star of ‘M*A*S*H,’ ‘Ordinary People’ and ‘The Hunger Games,’ Dies at 88 1 week ago:
Don’t forget Kelly’s Heroes!
- Comment on How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs? 1 week ago:
because Mike, I swear to god, you keep clicking that pen and I’m gonna find a new home for it
Hahahahah, oh man, I hear ya!
Seriously, I’m as anti-social asbthey come, but I’ve learned the value of people being in the same space. It’s the way we’re wired, and no, calls/video/virtual stuff is no replacement.
And I’ve had a million random conversations between calls/meetings that have solved many issues, or provided opportunity for improving relationships, etc. These conversations just don’t happen when you’re remote - I say this as someone who’s worked hybrid since the 90’s - there’s no replacement for being in the same space. Again, I’m someone that finds being in the office exhausting - I’d rather be remote.
- Comment on Elsevier 1 week ago:
As if peer review weren’t massive fucking joke.
- Comment on Disable windows updates 1 week ago:
After 30 years of running windows boxes, I’ve never been hacked.
But I’ve lost thousands of hours to update fucking my shit up.
- Comment on Disable windows updates 1 week ago:
O & O Shutup on a thumbdrive
- Comment on How many people actually want fully on-site IT jobs? 1 week ago:
There’s also a huge value to people working in the same space.
Random conversations solve a lot of problems.
And I’m someone that finds being in an office around people constantly to be exhausting. I just recognize the value.
- Comment on The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC 1 week ago:
Yawn.
A mini/micro is 20x the volume of a Pi.
Use-case matters, I use an SFF as a file server and media player, and a Pi for PiHole, Tailscale, etc.
I’ve also setup a Pi as a dash cam with wifi so it auto uploads when I get home. Can’t see using an SFF/Mini/Micro the same way.
Yes, the Pi costs more per MFLOP or whatever performance metric you want to use, but it excels in compactness.
Stop trying to use a hammer as a shovel.
- Comment on Sony Pictures Buys Alamo Drafthouse 2 weeks ago:
Welp… That’s that.
- Comment on Is a peanut butter sandwich a balanced meal? 3 weeks ago:
Define “balanced meal”.
My general answer would be no. Bread is a pretty simple carb, and you’re looking at 200+ calories from 2 slices of bread, all simple carbs. The glycemic response from that would be: not good.
At least the fat in peanut butter will reduce the glycemic load.
And then most peanut butter has added sugars unless you specifically buy peanut butter without sugar.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
Yea, that “low frequencies” is rather ambiguous.
I could see over-the-ear headphones being better at “lower” frequencies than in-ear, both from material absorption and speaker size. Every ANC pair I’ve had, of any style, was pretty good at nearly eliminating the higher frequency noise while flying (engines, airflow noise, etc), and almost eliminated voices.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
Active noise canceling is good but only for lower frequencies,
Can you define lower here?
In my experience, they’re most effective for higher frequencies (voices and higher), as lower frequencies are hard to attentuate (why we can hear/feel subwoofers from cars a fair distance away).
For example, a couple pairs I have are ineffective against the bass from the gym idiots running the aerobics room (wtf does it have to be loud outside the room - those women must be getting hearing damage), but it’s great for all the people talking, and some of the tvs.
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
Except that’s exactly how nose canceling ear phones work. It’s not like that have an external speaker projecting sound 🤦🏼♂️
- Comment on What is the absolute max level of ear protection you can get? 3 weeks ago:
*ceases, FYI (not being snarky, maybe autoincorrect got you on voice to text)
- Comment on No one should have to “grow a thicker skin”: Valorant studio commit to harsh penalties for harassment 4 weeks ago:
You’re a dick. Ban.
See the problem?
- Comment on San Francisco had been flying the "Appeal To Heaven" flag for decades and has only now just removed it 4 weeks ago:
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“Insurrection”? Nope, even DOJ says no.
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It’s been flying since 1964, a flag flown by George Washington. Just because someone today says it means something else… I’m going with prior usage has precedence here.
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- Comment on This automatic faucet that need the hands to be between the wall and the water to turn on. 4 weeks ago:
Which is exactly what I see all the time.
- Comment on Recently increased prevalence of the human median artery of the forearm: A microevolutionary change 4 weeks ago:
Wow, pretty fascinating stuff.
- Comment on Why does being tall make your belly more vulnerable in case of an attack? 5 weeks ago:
I would ask the person making the claim to explain why they think so.
Who knows why she thinks this?
Asking here is begging the question.
- Comment on Fossil fuels could have been left in the dust 25 years ago 5 weeks ago:
Hahahahshs
OK, right.
- Comment on Making healthier choices 5 weeks ago:
And this is another reason why avoiding packaged food is best.
- Comment on Justice 5 weeks ago:
Please let me be on his jury.
I said, not guilty!
- Comment on New filings reveal FBI authorized use of DEADLY FORCE when they raided Mar-a-Lago 5 weeks ago:
But hey, those records Joe never had the authority for were sitting in his Vette.
Ffs the hypocrisy and lies.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 5 weeks ago:
Dammit, why have I never thought to use AHK for this? I already use the custom context menu script someone developed about 15 years ago (Favorite Folders? It’s on the AHK/AutoIT forum) , I can just add it to that.
AHK/AutoIT are game changers. I feel naked on a machine without it, I’m so used to Ctrl-Middle -click to get to all sorts of things… Folders, scripts, tools, automations (like your date idea), etc.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 5 weeks ago:
Well, if you can’t be bothered to ensure file names mean something, then you get to enjoy the results.
In the Real World®, sometimes files get shared and traded around, and conversations happen about them, and you need to be able to quickly verify you’re looking at the same doc.
We can’t all be connected to the same version control system.
- Comment on LPT Do it. 5 weeks ago:
Use date/time in your file name,using GMT:
Metrics of Sales 2024-05-22_14-29.docx
Very unlikely to have 2 docs with the same down-to-the-minute time stamp in the name.
- Comment on It's a molé 5 weeks ago:
And the damn title is is “molé”, with zero molé in the diagram!!!