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- Comment on On new installations, Android rebinds the power button to open up Google Assistant 2 days 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] 2 days 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? 4 days ago:
Instead of kisses, you get kicked.
- Comment on Nothing’s new bloatware includes Facebook services that can’t be uninstalled 6 days ago:
So, the Nothing 3a, AKA The Something.
- Comment on How do I finally get a long term career and become financially independent? 6 days 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? 6 days 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? 6 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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.
- Comment on How to separate self-worth from Achievements and External Validation? 1 week ago:
In the example, you’re comparing yourself to others, by matter of outcome. And getting upset in the process.
Instead let’s say you stick to the process. You investigate why you failed. Parallel parking? Okay, fuck that. I’m gonna parallel park my mom’s van 10x a day when I get home from school and not fuck that up next time.
Now you’ve learned to humbly overcome failure rather than get emotional about comparing your outcome to that of others.
- Comment on How to separate self-worth from Achievements and External Validation? 1 week ago:
I mean the need becomes immediately necessary if you’ve ever accomplished anything.
Holy shit I sound like an asshole.
Okay, what I mean is, everyone you look up to is just as empty as you. Well, maybe. Sort of.
The only people who feel sated by an achievement end up has-beens. That never were. And in this esoteric sense, even those that “are”, arent.
All that mumbo jumbo, I mean, no one is their achievements. And if they are, they’re hollow.
Okay, so I’m coming off anesthesia and sounding like a guy at burning man. But I’m serious. The bottom line is this
Your self worth is defined by the process. Not the outcome. And if the process is at a halt due to an outcome, just trust the process. Try again.
The trying again will give you self worth. Not the outcome.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 weeks ago:
As a security engineer, I implore anyone to have an LLM walk you through standing up an SIEM.
Like don’t get me wrong. They’re phenomenal. But they just aren’t capable of complex tasks yet.
- Comment on The Texas law requiring age verification for app downloads is a govt program to improve computer literacy 2 weeks ago:
All this work to make people give their IDs online is just going to result in immaculate digital fake IDs.
- Comment on What are the demands of the No Kings protests? What's the plan if they win? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t speak for anyone but myself.
My demands are accountability first and foremost. Anyone who has played any part in enabling trump must face consequences. They need to be severe, if it happens again.
Every ICE agent, every GOP house and Senate member, all the cabinet, etc. I am not okay with playing politics over this. It’s black and white. You followed orders that enabled treason, you are treasonous. The least guilty among them should have a minimum of 5 years to serve.
Beyond that it’s a tax strategy that completely disables the possibility of any person having 100,000,000x the wealth of another person in the country. Like if you have $100M, literally all of the rest of your money can go to those worth less than $1.
Idk how bout some real antitrust?
Oh I know, no owning more than 1 parcel of land per county per person.
No corporate ownership of land.
C suite liability for corporate personhood or eliminate it.
Universal healthcare
Laws against predatory loan practices.
I’d say that’s about the bare minimum.
- Comment on Hide modal for 2 weeks 2 weeks ago:
Check to see how it’s handling that 2 weeks maybe you can change it to 2000000 weeks
- Comment on Amazon advertises DRM-free ebooks that have restrictive DRM 🤦 3 weeks ago:
Buy them all. Screen grab every page.
Charge back for not getting what you paid for.
Keep the copied books.
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah the product was fine, it just didn’t do well. The windows phones, however… 😬
- Comment on For a while Microsoft was the King of PC stuff. How come they didn't just cozy up to the PC but had to do the XBOX and pretty much lose their ass with all the cash grabs? 3 weeks ago:
This is a very complicated question. Many Microsoft employees would have a very heated debate over the answer to this question. It was the cause of a ton of internal conflict. Many Windows developers saw the Xbox ecosystem as a cannibalization of their existing product.
The move was political. Microsoft wanted to get some of that PlayStation money. They were afraid of losing the living room to Sony. Sony had TVs, VCRs, DVD players, and now this other thing, PlayStation, that also plugged into the TV, that all the kids were essentially demanding have equal place among the DVD player.
Microsoft already had PCs in homes. Well, operating systems. And many developers would have agreed it makes more sense to blow open the emerging market they were already champions of/adjacent to.
But it paid off. They were able to secure a fight over the living room rather than allow a competitor to take it on wholly. Pivoting to PC gaming would t have solved this threat.
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 3 weeks ago:
ACAB, and these twats are proper buffoon.
- Comment on Chicago fighting ICE 3 weeks ago:
Was thinking the same.
Where are the 13 year old troublemakers at? We used to throw bike locks on the bike cops wheels when we were kids. And they weren’t fucking terrorizing our neighborhood.
Get the kid with the crackhead parents whose been through the system a dozen times before puberty to do the dirty work, he’s in and out of the precinct in a couple hours.
- Comment on Can a person who is a convicted felon/ rapist even get nominated for the Nobel Peace Price? Extra points if you can ELI5 that. 3 weeks ago:
Yes
It’s not very different from John bonomassa being named best guitarist by rolling stone
Who?
Exactly.
- Comment on Cirque Du Soleil Drummer Hears The Smashing Pumpkins For The First Time | Drumeo [16:12] 3 weeks ago:
I mean they do some that are believable and they put out quality videos. It’s just a schtick with limits that theyve ignored to the point where parody becoming is a necessary jab.
- Comment on Cirque Du Soleil Drummer Hears The Smashing Pumpkins For The First Time | Drumeo [16:12] 3 weeks ago:
I love drumeos videos.
But like…
Someone please do a parody?
“Dave Grohl hears The Beatles for the first time.”
Ain’t no way every one of the drummers in these videos is hearing these songs for the first time. Some are huge hits.
Love drumeos. But… Come on guys.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Hey sorry everyone’s being a twat. There’s nothing wrong with using the available tools at your disposal to try to learn about things that interest you. Just make sure it’s still a learning process and not a hand holding process. Leverage AI, don’t make it support your full weight.
I can tell you this problem is out of your hands. The web app you’re using is causing it’s own error here.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If you have decent hand eye coordination and a reasonably quick on your feet, you’ll likely be an average beginner. Dont expect to pick up how to serve well in a day.
- Comment on Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state? 4 weeks ago:
They operate under the exact same roof. Usually labeled as two separate addresses for tax purposes. It is exactly true.
- Comment on I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone 4 weeks ago:
Hey look, the kind of person I don’t want to interact with!
Let’s add you to the block list 🤠
- Comment on Could a minority in US Senate essentially disolve the federal state? 4 weeks ago:
Just for context, almost every federal court is a branch of a state court. State courts are still functioning. This is how a lot (not all) of the govt is.
So yeah lots of workers furloughed but barely a single building unoccupied due to the shutdown.
This is equally true of cybersecurity. For example, a non federal sysadmin may have privs to install, remove, maintain security software. That software is a private company and 24/7 SOC.
Source: im a apart of your 24/7 SOC with lots of govt clients, many clients with both federal and state workers, etc.
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 4 weeks ago:
🙄
The context is companies.
Most companies are orivAte equity.
Stop making shit up to suit your narrative.