MelodiousFunk
@MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Christ the Redeemer vs. Christ the Knock Off Brand 1 week ago:
I cannot articulate how perfect this synopsis is.
- Comment on Christ the Redeemer vs. Christ the Knock Off Brand 1 week ago:
- Comment on Converting numbers is easy 1 week ago:
I’ve done some seriously stupid shit in excel, mostly due to it being the only tool I had. By the time I handed the project off to someone else for maintenance/feature creep, there were VLOOKUP ranges spanning dozens of columns. VLOOKUP doesn’t care what column the target is named, only the offset from the beginning of the range. So being able to calculate CA minus W is pretty handy.
Yes, the project should have been a database. But these things happen when skinflint company meets annoyed amateur: you get a sprawling VBA abomination that, despite making actual developers want to choke a bitch, still works orders of magnitude better than the previous system.
- Comment on A slow and painful death 1 week ago:
If you have a hatchback, it’s even easier. Lean in, start the car, roll down the windows, walk around to the hatch. I don’t even bother doing more than one open and close anymore.
- Comment on Update to last week's BestBuy Shenanigan. They refused to refund me after not delivering me the stuff I ordered after a so-called "investigation". 2 weeks ago:
The police do not care about porch pirates.
- Comment on Knight Rider (4K) - 22nd July. 2 weeks ago:
Part of me is like YYEEESSSSSS!!! And part of me is like, if you watch more than 5 episodes ever it’ll be a minor miracle.
- Comment on Science has gone too far 2 weeks ago:
Thanks. Just imagine if someone had dropped their phone on the train.
- Comment on Crikey 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Crikey 2 weeks ago:
Buy baggy sweatpants. Some of them will go up to your moobs.
- Comment on Day 341 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Lamp. 2 weeks ago:
Username checks out.
- Comment on The Elder God 2 weeks ago:
For the non-believers:
- Comment on North Korean hackers deepfake execs in Zoom call to spread Mac malware 3 weeks ago:
!brandnewsentence@lemmy.world
- Comment on :-) 3 weeks ago:
I don’t think I’ve thought about this episode in like 30 years. Yet I can hear the line like it was yesterday.
- Comment on How would I pop a bag of popcorn on the microwave? 3 weeks ago:
Has anyone seen Frank Bennedetto? He might be able to help with the popcorn sitch. Also, he still owes me five bucks.
- Comment on "Sad thing to be, nonsensical thing to want to be" 💔🥀💔🥀 3 weeks ago:
Irish people were among the most oppressed white minorities back in the day.
Most of the Irish Americans I know are just keen on dishing it back out to whatever Other they can target. I’m also related to most of the Irish Americans I know, so take that as you will.
- Comment on *pat pat pat* 4 weeks ago:
What flavor is it?
- Comment on Me too. 4 weeks ago:
I’m near neither of those places, but both birds are regulars in my neighborhood. It’s kinda cool. Sure bears boring old robins and sparrows.
- Comment on DAN DA DAN Season 1 Was America's Most Watched Anime Series For 18 to 49 Year Olds, Says Nielsen Data 5 weeks ago:
This show was absolutely ridiculous and over the top. Loved it.
- Comment on minor tomfoolery 🛻💨🎶 1 month ago:
Even the undercarriage looks like it hasn’t fully loaded into the environment.
- Comment on How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet 1 month ago:
I love the fact that the channel evolved from dunking on the uninformed public to full blown documentaries.
- Comment on Diagrams 1 month ago:
Huh, have only ever seen the final form of this one. Didn’t realize there was a progression.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 1 month ago:
except for the AC compressor, which the generator actually would have had enough power to run, but not to kick-start.
This sentence triggered my PTSD. Imagine, if you will, a world where executives insist that datacenter AC be put on UPS battery. A world where those same executives declare that a different datacenter is just fine running at 95% power capacity because “it’s not 100%.” A world where inrush current does not exist. Except it does exist, but all professional advice is ignored until there are consequences. And even after such consequences are realized, one of those same executives still tries to run his home sump pump off of a desktop UPS during a power outage, pops it immediately, then goes and gets another from the office, which also pops immediately.
The sign in OP’s post will always be relevant somewhere.
- Comment on Yes 1 month ago:
I hate Windows. I will always fondly remember XP and Win 7. Windows 7 should’ve been the last Windows.
Windows 7 was the first and last version that I didn’t immediately (and lastingly) despise. Something something stopped clocks etc.
- Comment on Warner Bros. misses the days when we bought DVDs and Blu-Rays, and says streaming is just not the same 1 month ago:
I also miss the days where I bought physical media. These days, it’s hard to find something new that interests me, is actually available for purchase, and/or isn’t a super limited collectors set with steelbook etc that needlessly inflates the price. Good thing I have decades of physical media to, um… sit on a shelf unwatched, mostly. >_>
- Comment on I'll go first 1 month ago:
Road trip! To Altoona!
- Comment on Oof 1 month ago:
If it makes you feel any better, this all happened 20+ years ago.
- Comment on What's the worst spelling you've seen? 1 month ago:
Anferny.
- Comment on Oof 1 month ago:
What happens if your school loses accreditation
Ooo ooo I know this one! That’s when you get a letter in the mail saying the feds have taken over your loan, the month payments start being due, and literally no other information. And then you call them and ask where to send payments and they say to send it wherever you had been sending it, seemingly missing the part where they just took over the loan. And then life happens and you realize you haven’t made payments. So you call and get the same runaround. And then you call later and give them an address update when you move, ask them about paying, and get treated like you have three heads. And then a few years later you get a very angry letter that the loan is in default. So you call and explain, and the person on the other end treats you like human filth, barely stopping short of using obscenities. So you hang up to let your anger simmer down, call back, and speak with “a manager.” Explain the whole thing top to bottom. That’s when you find out that when they took over your loan seven years ago, they immediately put it into the delinquent bin even though it was quite fresh at the time. And everyone you’ve talked to since just assumed you were a deadbeat.
Then you pay off the loan total using a credit card (because it’s thousands of dollars and you’re broke) and pay the interest again.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 1 month ago:
Look at you with your fancy PowerPC model. We had to make do with a 68040 and we liked it!
goes outside to yell at the clouds to get off of his lawn
