ITGuyLevi
@ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 2 hours ago:
Is powershell blocked?
- Comment on Microsoft Teams status 2 hours ago:
Super simple to write a script that prevents it.
- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
Oh crap, has the side part came back too? I used to hate my mom brushing my hair like that when it looked too messy for her… That being said I do miss my mom and would probably wear my hair like that if it would bring her back.
- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
Some would argue that is still a wallet, just a wallet with a magnet to attach to stuff.
- Comment on Valid point 2 days ago:
My thought exactly. A decade or so ago my back was hurting and I decided to try a different style of wallet. Upgraded to a better one when I realized it works for me.
Even if all I have in it are cards, id, and a single dollar bill, it’s still a wallet, just doesn’t leave me sitting at an angle. Yeah I had a Costanza wallet going on.
- Comment on How come Rugby never caught on in the states? I played in college and it's basically like football without pads. Isn't it? 1 week ago:
I feel like rugby is what football claims to be. It’s way more fun to watch (personal opinion).
- Comment on Is it true that airport customs can legally demand access to your unlocked phone? 1 week ago:
Also, some phones have a duress PIN that wipes them.
- Comment on What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe? 1 week ago:
Other forms of AC exist my friend, geothermal is a great one that would work everywhere in Europe I’ve been.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
I do… Usually I bond them with a deadly gas first though (salt).
- Comment on Newsflash pal 1 week ago:
What’s weird about titanium dioxide?
- Comment on If I went to a mechanic for my car and told them I had a problem with the aft starboard tire would they think I'm a dork? 2 weeks ago:
87 Oldsmobile Toronado, even the gear selector was like a boat… Best $200 car I ever had and I’d love to find and fix another.
- Comment on How come Nurses are not bound by the same rule is a lawyer is to a defendant or a wife to a husband or a priest? If someone says something on their death bed why are we suppose to report? 2 weeks ago:
Meanwhile as an IT guy I’m not saying shit about anything because I am not aware of any duty to report, obviously I would report a human trafficking operation if I saw it outside my window, but they keep us in the basement for a reason I think.
- Comment on magic 2 weeks ago:
They don’t make boots like they used too. My boots from back then (just over 20 years old now) are still in great shape, Bates made some rock solid boots back then (either that or all the polishing in basic made them invincible).
- Comment on is it spelled "grey" or "gray"? 3 weeks ago:
Nah, I think that was part of the terms of Brexit, given more people in the EU speak it than in Briton they get to claim the weird spellings… At least they let the Brits keep there combined use of metric and imperial.
/s if it wasn’t obvious
- Comment on Do cops and soldiers go thru training to not freak out or get sick the first time they see an adult body? What about a kid or something? Or does it depend on the situation theie walking into? 3 weeks ago:
In my experience we saw lots of bodies in basic, the Drill Sargent’s seemed to love showing us videos of people being hit by 50 cals at range. That could have just been a Fort Benning thing though.
After basic I only saw dead people on the drone feeds.
- Comment on "If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out" 3 weeks ago:
They do make a really low base but are required by law to recieve at least minimum wage after tips. Some wait staff lie on their tips in order to avoid paying taxes on them, others lie because if their employer thinks they aren’t getting enough tips to cover their pay, that they must be a bad employee.
- Comment on "If you can't afford to tip 40%, then don't eat out" 3 weeks ago:
0% means something was wrong where I live (rude service or completely bad service does not make me want to pay an extra amount in gratuity), 10% has been standard as long as I can remember though (it was even part of the “real American heroes” bit from decades ago).
- Comment on How can I earn 100$ (before tax) in 24 hours? 4 weeks ago:
Paying them off before interest hits is paramount.
- Comment on There are basically 4 types of files : text, image, audio and audio visual, right ? 5 weeks ago:
I’d venture to say there is one data type, a record. At its more basic level every filesystem is a database, every file stored on the drive is a record in the database.
I’m with you though, docx is not a text file… Much more like an xml file.
- Comment on They just made the winning bid 5 weeks ago:
Its only good for one trip at a time and costs a jet to use, but hell yeah!
- Comment on Is MMA and UFC "somewhat" rigged like boxing was in the Don King era? 5 weeks ago:
If the players aren’t being paid to play, I don’t think we can really be upset at them throwing a game every now and then. The people that can get mad are the ones profiting, but the players aren’t employees, they are more like vetted volunteers, so either profit share with them, or remember they are playing a game, not going to work.
- Comment on Why have we as a society just accepted the increasingly blinding bright lights of cars? 5 weeks ago:
I know they have gotten brighter over the years but that’s not what’s been the biggest issue for me. To me it’s the fact these trucks keep getting taller, 3 feet ago it wasn’t as bad because the lights were closer to the road, now the headlights on these trucks are damn near eye-level.
- Comment on Are not all UAP/UFO sightings fake or a trick of the eye? 1 month ago:
My mom used to keep an old photo she took back in '65 or '67 (she said she was a little girl at the time but took the picture so I assume around 10-ish). It was a photo of my grandmothers back yard and clear as day there was a classic disc shaped craft.
The story she told about it was that it came in over Tampa bay and got really close to the water, she said the water was churning under it like it was boiling and there were tons of dead fish floating on the water after it passed. My grandfather was an arial photographer at the time and had a darkroom at home and they had copies drying when the government showed up to talk to residents. They confiscated all the negatives and pictures save the one she had with her to show her friend, and gave the explanation that swamp gas had killed the fish and was the reason for the churning water.
I don’t know how I feel about it, but having lost my mother 25+ years ago and the look in her eyes when she talked about it, I’ll keep on believing it was real.
- Comment on SBA #119 maths 1 month ago:
2x would be the multiplication, as we go left to right you would do the multiplication, then go back and do the addition. In what world would 2x not mean 2 multiplied by the value of x?
Its the cleanest thing ever when people understand the basics of math (like what symbol, or lack there of, means what).
- Comment on iHave a Lovesick Teacher 1 month ago:
Really depends on which way the dude is going. It said that he is due North and running at 5 feet per second, is he running east? If so they would be like 4 feet apart, unless he started 4 feet further West than she did.
Really need some more info for this dumb word problem.
- Comment on Is there an optimal angle when using a urinal? 1 month ago:
Try a 22.5 degree downward impact about 45 degrees to the left or right. Pissing straight at the urinal always creates some backsplash.
- Comment on Is time ~25% faster now? 2 months ago:
I think that as we get older words have more meaning, so we say them correctly by default. Mississippi or one-thousand both take longer to say and they’ve never kept the correct time for me, so I learned as a child to use ‘and’ instead. Most of the kids I knew would try to say it so quickly it was never the full word (Mississippi was the most common and would sound to me like they were saying missip), but for whatever reason my brain has always wanted to use the full word and my timing would constantly be off.
It’s just a thought though.
- Comment on Your Truck is Stupid Big 2 months ago:
I’d personally hate to use one of these for any of those jobs, I’d need a ladder to get the fucking ladder out of the bed. Ignore me, I’m just getting old and confused as to why the truck keeps getting bigger, but the bed keeps getting smaller. Even a shitbox from 1995 has a full 8 foot bed but for some damn reason, now they are almost impossible to find.
- Comment on 3.9% APR 2 months ago:
It would be tight, but not as impossible as it feels now; 680 seems a little low, my math had it closer to 730-ish. My mom got 40+ hours every week at a convenience store around that time, granted we didn’t have a new car (ever), but comparing it to now it seems impossible.
Maybe I’m misremembering but rent was cheap not very long ago, in early 2004-ish I was paying $250/mo for a very small 2 bed house and the lady I ended up marrying had just moved out of a single-wide trailer that she was paying $100/mo for. At that point I was working at one of the same stores my mother had worked at except I was getting $5.15/hr (minimum wage at the time).
Now it seems like cheap rent is 5x that much and minimum wage here is still just $7.15.
- Comment on 3.9% APR 2 months ago:
They did, that particular model was under 12k though so you were looking at 200-ish a month (5 year loan at 8%-ish) which was totally possible on the minimum wage of the day ($4.25/hr).