ITGuyLevi
@ITGuyLevi@programming.dev
- Comment on Is MMA and UFC "somewhat" rigged like boxing was in the Don King era? 22 hours 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? 23 hours 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? 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 5 weeks 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).
- Comment on how things become science 1 month ago:
Some people, when they see an acronym, will replace it with the words it stands for in their head. A subset of that group of people get annoyed when the sentence gets all muddled up by repeated words; in this particular case, you said ‘CSAM material’, which their brain read as ‘child sexual abuse material material’.
It isn’t a big deal, but as one of those people, I totally get the urge to point it out (I’ve gotten pretty good at looking past it but it’s still a bit of a compulsion).
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 1 month ago:
I don’t remember it from Seinfeld, but it totally tracks with the feel of their jokes. Sadly I haven’t seen Curb Your Enthusiasm or It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (figured that one was similar), they are on my list for if the wife ever gets into shows like that (I was able to get her into The Office and Parks and Rec which really weren’t in her wheelhouse).
- Comment on 🫤🤬🥴 1 month ago:
When they are late, I tell the front desk to re-schedule and leave. I’ve had the dentist complain once or twice over the years but when two entities decide on a time for a meeting, that’s the time it needs to happen. Unlike the office, I’m having to cancel stuff I would normally be doing to be there, they are not.
Eventually I’ll be old and grumpy enough to start sending them bills for late cancellation (probably joking).
- Comment on Save me from going down a dark path 1 month ago:
I’m in the camp that I’ll bite a little, they just have to let me know who the “higher power” is. Require me to make up a floaty ghost that is responsible for everything and all the good stuff is a miracle, but all the bad stuff is from a weaker being that the higher power just ignores… Well that seems a bit like a cop-out.
If that really is who they want me to follow, will they keep PETA off my back, I’ve had a few rough crops and I think I remember a passage that will help… I just gotta find some find some “clean animals”.
- Comment on Save me from going down a dark path 1 month ago:
I’m in the camp that I’ll bite a little, they just have to let me know who the “higher power” is. Require me to make up a floaty ghost that is responsible for everything and all the good stuff is a miracle, but all the bad stuff is from a weaker being that the higher power just ignores… Well that seems a bit like a cop-out.
If that really is who they want me to follow, will they keep PETA off my back, I’ve had a few rough crops and I think I remember a passage that will help… I just gotta find some find some “clean animals”.
- Comment on oh and it's also a crime 1 month ago:
What about before app stores were a thing?
- Comment on oh and it's also a crime 1 month ago:
If I have to install an app store I don’t consider it to be the ‘official’ method. By default my phone doesn’t have it, a lot of android forks don’t, but if I have to break the law to add it, I guess I’ll stick with manually installing packages.
- Comment on Dwarf Planets are people too 2 months ago:
Pluto ain’t gonna quit, impact craters level out after a while, and that mofo has more geologically interesting shit going on than most people realize.
- Comment on who would win 2 months ago:
I’m a fan of scroll lock, not too useful but powershell is more than happy to turn it on and then back off 200ms later at random intervals… All while showing me a countdown to quitting time and a day counter until I’m out the door.
- Comment on Why Everyone’s Picking Up a PSP Again in 2026 (my article!) 2 months ago:
I picked up a 2 pack with a USB charger from amazon for like 10 bucks last year, then when I dug out my old PSP the battery was fine. I love my old PSP.
- Comment on It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology 2 months ago:
I agree for the most part, but if we are all walking around in jumpsuits and helmets (Daft Punk style) and repeating the digital beacons of everyone else it seems like false positives are a skill issue for AI. Not too long ago I was watching a video about a guy that was a 100% match in the eyes of AI as someone that was trespassed by the casino. When the cops showed up and he presented his documents, the cops brought him to the station as they thought he must have given false ID when he was originally trespassed. He was eventually able to prove his innocence but the fact he was taken into custody because AI messed up makes me have no issue with people doing stuff to intentionally poison the data.
None of this matters in the present context though because just by wearing that you would be easily identifiable.
- Comment on It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology 2 months ago:
The clothing they wear solves most of those. For the physical side (gait, height, etc) it’s a little harder but shoe’s have an effect on most of those (i.e. the round bottom shoes meant to help people work out just by walking wildly change a normal gait and posture).
For the devices though it could get fun. You could have a device mounted in the helmet that will pretend to be people you’ve passed, essentially just replaying the beacons (SSID broadcasts, etc) for the sake of a digital camouflage.
- Comment on Consumerism ahhhhh moment 3 months ago:
Personally when I need something and have seen an ad for a profit that fits the need, I’ll buy it. If I’ve seen the ad so much that it’s seared into my brain, I search for the product and buy the ripoff version of it (when possible), or I DIY it.
- Comment on Follow the rules! 3 months ago:
As a current one I concur.
- Comment on This is crazy. Why don't you just take their car ? 3 months ago:
I suppose the older I get the more I can get behind this, similar to interlock devices for people that can’t control their drinking, I would imagine the offender would have to pay for it or lose their license. I know it seems crazy to force people to stay within the speed limit, but fining and tickets don’t work for some people.
- Comment on Is there a word or phrase in your language to describe the situation when you wanted to fart but shit yourself? 3 months ago:
Yeah, some of us never forget and fondly remember every embarrassing moment we’ve witnessed, thankfully most of us know to not bring it up and just enjoy it to ourselves.
- Comment on Brand new bag 4 months ago:
As a 40-something dude, I need a new backpack. Its got holes in it near the zippers and has seen about a decade of daily use. Backpacks are awesome.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I was wondering how far down I would have to scroll for someone to mention that one… That one was pretty damn rough to watch.
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 4 months ago:
Growing up, pretty much all our hick schools had were encyclopedias; when wikipedia showed up it felt like they were just against the ease of it’s use. Smarter kids would still use the sources cited in Wikipedia, but teachers hated when you referenced a research paper because they couldn’t find it.
- Comment on Millions and millions and… 4 months ago:
I’m debating scrapping my homelab and hoping to retire, one of my servers has 768 GB, most of which isn’t assigned to any VMs…