foggy
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- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 days ago:
I was studying classical guitar. I was practicing piece and literally YouTube video results for learning the piece before searching for it.
Only network traffic to indicate was downloading a .PDF on my chrome browser. This was in like 2012.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 3 days ago:
Yep. Amazon knew my gf and I were moving in together.
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 3 days ago:
People need to realize that Amazon has them locked in.
I needed a tall mini fridge for a garage. Cheapest I could find was fucking $700.
I went into a nearby home appliance store and got the same one for fucking ~$200. Granted I had to pay for an $80 delivery, but it still beats the shit out of every option for a 7 cu ft fridge on Amazon.
- Comment on A bear, exhausted from abuse, attacks its trainer— Hangzhou Safari Park, China 1 week ago:
One of my favorite comedians, Doug Stanhope, has an amazing bit about how anyone who attended the event at SeaWorld where the killer whale killed it’s trainer have been spoiled for live entertainment forever; that nothing will ever top seeing that.
Goes on to explain that the incident is everything he wants to bring to a comedy special.
Read the transcript here, it’s too long to paste. The bit I’m talking about is the last block of text, “I just wanna close strong…”
Anyways this reminds me of that bit.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it 1 week ago:
Here’s a very simple example.
What’s 3^3?
Or,
Well it’s 3x3x3
Which is 3+3+3, 3 times.
Which is 3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3+3, which is 27.
Which solution do we prefer?
3^3 = 27?
Or
3+3+3
+3+3+3
+3+3+3
=27?
Which one uses more lines?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on a ridiculous job performance metric at tech companies and the prominent figure responsible for it 1 week ago:
Linus from LTT asks Linus if he’d ever heard of software developers being terminated based on how many lines of code they’d written .
Linus Torvalds responds “Anyone who thinks that’s a valid metric is too stupid to work at a tech company…”
It’s clear Torvalds doesn’t know who this is about when questioned.
Linus hints to him it’s about Musk.
“Apparently I was spot on [about Elon Musk being such and individual who is too stupid to work at a tech company].”
- Comment on Understanding Kratom’s Effects, Risks, and Withdrawal Through Personal Experience 3 weeks ago:
I can just think of this
Glad you’re ok.
- Comment on Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward? 3 weeks ago:
Most obvious reason that comes to mind is cooling. All the HVAC in the world isnt going to be able to stop 50 floors of server rack heat from spilling onto the 51st floor, etc.
This is also a nightmare for fire suppression systems.
- Comment on Laptop Suggestion - highest “Quality × Performance / Price” - 2025-11 3 weeks ago:
In many Linux users opinion, yes. The Lenovo Thinkpad is goated. I’d share that opinion. Very happy with mine and it’s 6 years old.
- Comment on Laptop Suggestion - highest “Quality × Performance / Price” - 2025-11 3 weeks ago:
If you need AI, you need a minimum of 4gb VRAM in your GPU. But really… 8gb…
Get a Lenovo Thinkpad new with 8gb VRAM and 32gb ram.
- Comment on Laptop Suggestion - highest “Quality × Performance / Price” - 2025-11 3 weeks ago:
Now is the time to scope out used Lenovo thinkbooks if you’re good installing Linux on it.
Businesses everywhere tossing them out now that win10 support is dead.
- Comment on When you wake up, how long does it take for your brain's "OS" to "resume from hibernation"? 3 weeks ago:
Depends. Startle response is pretty beast.
In general pretty quick. Anywhere from instant to about 1 hour.
- Comment on Female tourist takes down phone-snatcher in Argentina 4 weeks ago:
“whatever happened to catching a good old fashioned passionate ass whoopin and getting your shoes coat and your hat tooken?”
It’s not often violence warms my heart. Seeing people pull over so they could kick this piece of shit makes me feel like people aren’t all that bad.
- Comment on What is an efficient workflow to separate and organize bulk scanned PDF documents? (At work; software is limited.) 4 weeks ago:
Am I understanding this that you have some number of .pdf files that are 40-60 pages each and within them, there exist documents varying from 2 to 10 pages, and your task is to parse them?
If so, how many .PDFs are we talking here? You said on paper it’s like 8cm high? So like 1000 pages ish?
So like 20 .PDFs?
Just… Do it, dawg. The amount of time you spent on this post you coulda finished 1 of those PDFs. That’s 5% of the task. Do that 19 more times.
If you’re asking “can Adobe Acrobat break a 60 page .pdf into some number of .PDFs based on page numbers I tell it to,” the answer is yes.
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
Yep, while I have enough service. If I’m good and load a playlist before I leave it usually makes it through the dead zones.
- Comment on pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned" 4 weeks ago:
It is pronounced like pony; pown.
This isn’t even a debate. It’s canon.
- Comment on How hard would it be to trap gated communities by crashing dozens of cars into the front of their gates blocking them from leaving ? 4 weeks ago:
You think any given gated community lacks the cash to towe a pile-up?
- Comment on People who don't wear earphones outside - why, and what do you do instead? 4 weeks ago:
I genuinely have never paired Bluetooth headphones to my phone. So I haven’t worn headphones for a phone since the 3.8mm jack was taken from us.
I listen to music when I drive and I wear headphones on my PC.
Walking? 99% of the time that’s exercise like hiking, and I raw dog that shit. Listen to nature and and my surroundings.
- Comment on Whatever happened to pickup artists? Did they evolve into alpha males or ascend to a higher plane? 5 weeks ago:
I was just gonna say “they became incels, who then bought alpha male culture”
- Comment on Are you friends with any AI bots? 5 weeks ago:
F… friends?
Go outside. What the fuck is wrong with you?
- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 1 month ago:
I heard Google sent out emails to outlook customers suggesting they switch to Gmail when azure went down last week. A tongue in cheek response to edge asking folks to leave chrome.
This timeline blows.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Oh they try. It just isn’t generally funny.
Here’s a glimpse into a time (the 90s) before it got so heinously bad that it could still kinda happen on TV. But, was still so embarrassingly bad that it was the death rattle of conservative comedy.
Greg Giraldo (RIP) was the 90s era Roast Master like Jeff Ross in the 00s and 10s. The guy conservative unfunny Tony Hinchcliffe wants to be so bad for the 20s but has instead visibly marred the comedy scene to the point of self-roast.
There was a show called Tough Crowd (with host, comedian Colin Quin), where comedians would discuss politics, face to face (God we need this to come back). Watching Giraldo sound off against the way more famous Dennis Leary is a masterclass in why conservative comedians still fail the scene today. Even with rogans billions invested in Austin.
- Comment on When kids come trick-or-treating, what happens if I choose trick? 1 month ago:
Instead of kisses, you get kicked.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 1 month ago:
So, the Nothing 3a, AKA The Something.
- Comment on How do I finally get a long term career and become financially independent? 1 month ago:
If it’s menial job, it ain’t paying enough to tell you what to do if the shit you need to do is getting done.
Get the shit done. Don’t ignore your duties. And from there, literally ignore them. Let them fire you for improving the place. Be a great story to politely explain in a future interview at a menial job. Jobs that menial aren’t in short supply. They just blow and the pay sucks. So, don’t let it have any power over you beyond those facts.
- Comment on Where is modern Punk? 1 month ago:
Jesse Welles would be the modern cycle.
Distorted guitars peaked with prog metal in the late 00s. We’re snapping straight back to the 70s protest songs and doing it all over again.
Venezuela slapped.
War isn’t Murder the hit that got him known
- Comment on How do I finally get a long term career and become financially independent? 1 month ago:
You’re 21, and I didn’t realize this until I was like 32, but you don’t need a career yet. You need a job. The career will come from… Doing the jobs you want to do instead of your actual jobs.
when I worked at a liquor store like a decade ago, I stayed away from the registers unless it was necessary and no other work had to be done. I organized the entire overstock room and opened up another 300 sqft of storage in the process. I commented on processes that seemed inefficient and suggested improvements.
When I worked in breweries, I stayed out of the front of house. I started scrubbing tanks and finished an operations manager.
When I worked in IT support, I pointed out insecure practices and suggested secure practices. I’m now in cybersecurity.
I didn’t wanna work in a liquor store. I didn’t wanna scrub tanks. I didn’t wanna answer phones. So I… Didn’t. Unless I had to.
Just go get a job and find something there no one is doing that has value. Then lie on by changing your title to match your duties.
- Comment on How to separate self-worth from Achievements and External Validation? 1 month ago:
Ok perfect we have a concrete example.ear I g language. Your peers learning faster, it’s a bummer.
Some immediate thoughts: how are they learning? How do you learn? If you’re doing what they’re doing and not getting the same results, Is there something that can help you get where they’re getting that meets you with your strengths rather than whatever might be holding you back? You’re on an international message board. I’m not bilingual so no chance I can help you but there is almost definitely someone reading this post that fluently speaks the language you’re struggling with and also speaks English.
What has worked for you kearning-wise? And if you don’t know, what are you knowledgeable about? What made you knowledgeable?
I am needing to pass a very hard exam that I’ve missed twice on already. My normal study methods ain’t working. I gotta adapt and go in discord and chat with folks. Not excited, but it’s what’s gonna fill the gaps.
You got this. Oh, shit, you know what. I’m not a John Mayer fan really but his teacher from berkley? Tomo fujita? Here. Here’s his mantra. He posts a similar video every fucking day. Literally.
- Comment on I got out easy, I'm assuming 1 month ago:
When I was 23, Obamacare had recently passed and it allowed me to remain on my father’s insurance as a recent college grad.
I broke my talus (ankle sit-bone) into 3 pieces. Xray showed nothing. Cat scan showed nothing.
Dads insurance covered the MRI. Broke in 3 pieces. I otherwise would’ve been told it was a sprain. I’d have suffered life long consequences (worse than what I’ve got).
It didn’t cost me a dime. It cost my dad like $300. It would have literally cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars without Obamacare.
- Comment on How to separate self-worth from Achievements and External Validation? 1 month ago:
I don’t mean this condescendingly. Have you ever worked hard for something and accomplished what you worked hard towards?
If so, what felt better, “winning” or the process of elevating yourself?
For example when I was 15 my team won a baseball championship. Tbh the final games were well fought. We swept the post season. I reflect very positively on that post season. I don’t reflect much on the season itself. But more than the win, I reflect on being on a losing team for all of little league. I went from worst in the league to best in the league. Nothing to show for it. On to the bigger league. Back to being worst in the league. Slowly my team grew, year 3 we dominated. I reflect on 5 years of failure, hours spent in batting cages, being the best and still failing, not that final season, sure that final post season a bit, but not that final strikeout that clinched the league.
In fact, if it weren’t for all that failure, I’d barely reflect on it. I’m sure we had teammates who were in their first year of the big leagues, barely recall anything of that experience. It meant more because I had been tempered in failure.