jecxjo

@jecxjo@midwest.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the democrats executed the same fake electors scheme trump tried to execute, wouldn't Republican opposition be admission of trumps guilt?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  what do you think the results will be?

  They will point to all the laws they ignored and say they apply. When you point out “hey you did the same thing” they will change the subject or ignore you comment. They know they are hypocrits and don’t care. They will do whatever it takes to win including cheat. So again I ask you what do you think will happen? I think the answer is nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the democrats executed the same fake electors scheme trump tried to execute, wouldn't Republican opposition be admission of trumps guilt?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s the same Republicans who said Supreme Court nominations shouldn’t happen right before an election and also voted in nominations right before an election. They don’t give us shit about anything. Why would we go through a stunt when they wouldn’t think twice about how they are hypocritics. they know then are, they just don’t care.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The SNL skit started in 89

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the democrats executed the same fake electors scheme trump tried to execute, wouldn't Republican opposition be admission of trumps guilt?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the party that lies through their teeth. Why on earth would you think they would admit anything?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Did "Party time! Excellent!" come from Wayne's World or Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? Did one copy the other?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe both came out in '89

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Elon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ah, fake friends. yeah he only has fake friends.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comic by rusty_creates⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Those are all swears my 7 year old uses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh Elon⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You think he really had friends?!?

  He is the quintessential elitist who has never had real struggles, nor had any really meaningful life experiences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it was easier to interact with people who made poor decision due to being illiterate on the topic because they just did the shit to themselves and that was that. Don’t get the vaccine, that’s fine. But now we are dealing with a world where every single person feels the need to not only speak their mind but scream it as loud as fucking possible.

  What’s ridiculous is that we now have concepts like “canceling” someone for something they said. That the natural result of saying something stupid or bigoted. In the past people ignored you if you were an idiot or asshole. But now that people think that others should be compelled to listen we keep having platforms for obvious nonsense to be disseminated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Monkey Island⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think this was one of the first games on PC that I saw and really wanted and never ended up playing. I gradually lost track of it and now that i have ScummVM and an emulator system i should get back to playing it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: 8-bit Era Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Back then i only had a few games but among all my friends we had a pretty good collection. As an adult playing on a retro console I’ve started to go through a lot of the games i never tried or didn’t own and only played a few times.

  While I’d say the total NES library is a majority of garbage games (publishers just figuring out how to make games, not how to make good games) I think the big thing i noticed is that the good 8bit games look and feel drastically different than the garbage ones. When you learn the history of the games then it makes sense.

  The quality of the sprites, the extensive design of menus, transitions and other interactions, the storyline and dialogue. Even with only 8bits and crappy resolution the output for many of the good games actually looked and played well back then and even now. But I’d say about 90% of the NES catalog was garbage back then and still is now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: 8-bit Era Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the difference is that in the 8bit generation yhe majority of the game were bad relative to each other. The peak of the bell curve for 8bit was between mediocre to kinda bad games.

  While there are more games in later generations, it feels like the console manufacturers took more control and regulated what was published. Bad games happen now because of shitty business decisions and bad story writing. You dont see garbage being published just because you can.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of August 18th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Went through the ports available on my retro handheld and saw they have all three Descent games from back in the 90s so I’m playing through all of those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck happened to YouTube!?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What I’m amazed about is that ads even work at all. Especially when they are white noise. I’ve never once clicked on an ad to go see more about the content because I’m here to watch a video.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random question for today: Considering people who are not amateurs, if you wanted to create increased visibility and participation in amateur radio, what would you do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a guy come in for a test with his wife. She just studied the questions and he went the understanding route. She passed and he didn’t. It was the Tech level, they just wanted something better than CB in their vehicle so there really wasn’t a lot they needed to know, just pass the test and stay on frequency.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Etsy forcing arbitration starting Sep 15⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The idea is that if you wanted to fight a big company with lawyers you’ll either lose because they will delay till you’re broke, or you’ll win but the lawyers will get most of the money. If you have a legit issue they would honor resolving the issue without anyone having to spend time, money, and publicity in court. It means you might actually win one of these times. The joke part is we already have an unbiased arbitration system…our courts.

  This is legal, currently, because this is basically a non-disclosure. We will deal with our problems outside the legal system and no one will talk about it. We do this in other cases but its usually human to human, not human to massive corporate entity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random question for today: Considering people who are not amateurs, if you wanted to create increased visibility and participation in amateur radio, what would you do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That was the big thing I brought up when giving exams. You just need to pass and then you can start learning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random question for today: Considering people who are not amateurs, if you wanted to create increased visibility and participation in amateur radio, what would you do?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I studied all the legal questions for all three license levels through brute force using that site. Went through the questions so many times that I could tell you the answer within the first few words.

  Now is that a good thing? Meh, i think most of the learning occurs once you’re on the air. Then again, i do have a EE degree so the radio science part i already knew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your favourite and/or least favourite gaming hardware?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All of my gaming is super retro or low tech. I do have an XBoxOne but i rarely use it. Computer is old so games on there are mostly old old stuff from the 90s and early 2000s.

  Hardware wise i have an Anbernic 353V that I do a lot of retro gaming. Not a huge fan of the Gameboy style setup but its a good cheap machine.

  My kids have Switches and thats what kicked me from supporting Nintendo after they go obsolete. The Joycons on one suck and I’ve replaced the connector hardware twice now. The best version is the Lite but you cant connect it to a TV which is dumb. Their family sharing is broken (wife has digital game, i havs DLC, we are SOL).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How is former president of the US Donald Trump still free when a lot of the accomplices in things he has been indicted for are already in jail and or prison except him?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  State cases will definitely put him in jail. They don’t care about any of the political nonsense and honestly I’m not seeing the DoJ backing down either.

  Honestly if they dont put him away i think it will only embolden his group to make them feel they all are untouchable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Question for software developers: how do you organize your To Do list at work?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use todo.txt format, created my own cli github.com/jecxjo/todo.hs

  I set up tasks with priorities:

  • A: tasks i am doing now/today
  • B: tasks i am planning on soing this week
  • C: tasks that need to be done but aren’t high priority
  • D: tasks I delete if not done by the end of the month

  I make sure all my tasks have a +ProjectName and if i have to deal with a @SpecificService or @EmployeeName i note that. I will also add in things like jira:StoryNumber or other data.

  Due dates are rare, only when there is a hard stop. End of a sprint is not a hard stop. If i need to remind someone I’ll use due date and @Reminder

  100% of the time all tasks go in my list. Nothing is left for me to remember. It goes into my list before it ends up in a Jira ticket or Conflience page. Remind me first, everyone else second.

  First thing in the morning i process my list. Move tasks to A. End of the week at the end of the month I delete all the D tasks.

  As for notes, i use vimwiki with automation to compile into html when files are written. I’ve also setup coworkers with an automated process using pandoc to go from markdown to html. Then i have a little a bookmark on my browser to pull it all up nice and pretty. I’ll post the scripts later, not at my computer.

  Daily diary entry made every morning when i do my todo list prep, entry for each meeting. Add notes dueing meetings and links or other details when looking for solutions to problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did you get your job? Any advice?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve done a few things.

  I have a mailing list for all my recruiters. They all get added in whenever I get pings on LinkedIn or cold calls. When I am looking for work the mailing list all gets BCC’d a message saying I’m looking, here is my resume, what I’m looking for, etc. When I book an interview I BCC them all saying one of the recruiters has setup an interview, if you work on their behalf do not submit my name as I know there are issues with multiple recuiters doing that. They all get the info, and honestly all the recruiters I’ve worked with have loved this.

  Second is apply to everything. There have been places where their job description was my exact work history and yet I get no response. No one is hamed by you applying all over. They want candidates and if no one applied then the jobs would stay empty. I found a job in 4 months of looking but I applied to probably 70 jobs. Some were me trying to get a huge raise and position job, a few were worst case scenario. The job before my previous one took 9 months of looking and a few hundred applications. I did get a few offers along the way but not things I wanted to do.

  It is all a numbers game. I’ve been a developer for 25 years and it has never been a one and done task. I have all sorts of crap to toot my own horn and I’d say that in 90% of the jobs I apply for I’m overly qualified and yet many times I didn’t get a call because the person fielding my resume and application didn’t move it along. Was the role filled? Did they think I’d get bored or expect more pay? Did they not like the font I’m using? I will never know.

  Oh and your interview skills needs to be worked on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I kept hoping when they said that they meant more like VOY or TNG but now that we get half as many episodes it’s just a natural result that the arcs are more prevalent. Sadly that was not the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You are absolutely correct in it being personal preference. I agree I’d definitely watch a random SNW over some of the others. Honestly i think (and this probably goes for everyone else with my view) it’s more about just missing 90s TV. 30 episode seasons that you dont have to schedule your life around. There are TNG, TOS, VOY episodes i watch all the time and some it’s been years since i last saw. Same goes for pretty much anything from that time period that i rewatch now. I think that’s the underlying issue, no one makes episodic shows anymore unless it’s a reboot. Just wish this reboot was the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you’re missing that TOS and TNG were written as an episodic show and not typically as a serial. Aside from the faintest of arcs, that came via arc specific episodes, you could pick a random episode in syndication and it wouldn’t matter if you could name the previous or next episode as there wasn’t no need to connect them together. Many episodes were written by single episode writers who had the faintest notion of the show and that was all the was needed.

  I don’t agree about the payoff for arcs in shows like SNW because the arc is both too controlling of the episodes while also never really being the point of the episode. If you’re going to do an serial drama then do that. Picard was that, you must watch in order and not miss any.

  The arcs of TNG were sooooo faint you only knew about them if you chose to dig in deep to a handful of episodes in the season that specifically pushed the arc along. Otherwise you could take the middle 80% of episodes and scramble their order and absolutely nothing would change. Instead with SNW every other episode drops a new plot point for Pike’s dooms day, or Spok’s love life or what character died or went to another dimension, etc.

  Character development in TNG was more about us learning about them than it was about having the characters grow. Again, you don’t have to see all the episodes in order to understand the intricacies of a character to understand why they acted the way they didn’t in a TNG episode. At best the growth was seasonal but even then it wasn’t massive. In SNW the character development is probably the biggest tie back to previous episodes.

  The reason why I wanted another episodic ST was that I feel none of these shows have any rewatch abilities. We can binge the seasons before the next season starts but I don’t think it’s ever be sitting in a hotel room and turn on the TV and find an episode of SNW and care to watch it on its own. Though I guess that type of TV just doesn’t exist anymore. Maybe it’s just me who likes to flip on the TNG station on Pluto or turn on cable when I’m visiting my parents and watch a random episode and enjoy it without all the extra baggage. I need to finish the last season of Picard and I doubt I’ll ever watch it again. Same with Discovery.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Brought Its Delightful Musical Episode to Life: ‘You’re Like, Wait, Spock Is Singing Now?!’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh.

  I was hoping the ST revival with all these shows would produce just one Alien of the Week shows like TOS and TNG. No season long arcs, no dramas where the events in the episode are less important than the character development. One show out of all of them where it can be tossed into syndication and I can catch a random episode and not have to remember anything else in the series.

  SNW was supposed to be that and yet we get this kind of nonsense. /facepalm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bullshit! working from home increases productivity and life quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Back then I was doing work that required way more brain power than now and had extremely more ridiculous schedules than now. And I’m WFH on a team that has no desire to go back to the office.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bullshit! working from home increases productivity and life quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the huge misconception is that jobs that require specific tasks that don’t fit well in WFH means the entire job doesn’t fit. Collaborative tasks many times require in office interactions and whiteboarding. But I’d be willing to bet that out of a given week that isn’t your entire 40 hours.

  Honestly I think a lot of this push is that we are finding manager roles are unnecessary. With collaboration more difficult it has become more effective to go right to the source rather than the trickle down method we used to use.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bullshit! working from home increases productivity and life quality⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That was always an issue I ran into. In a given month I might have two of three days that my brain just didn’t work. I’d stills go into the office and be absolutely unproductive. But to my boss, being in the office was the important thing. As I only got ten days of PTO a year including medical leave and business holidays I was never going to waste it on a mental health day. Was far better to sit at my desk and pretend like I was productive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some independent creators/small projects still have crypto donation links?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They are being treated just like every other method to send someone money. They aren’t using them as investment products, just transaction tools. I’m sure most are pulling the money out of the cryptocurrency as soon as they receive it.