banneryear1868
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- Comment on Bub-bups bounce 9 months ago:
This is what I do I sit on you, sit on you, sit on you
- Comment on Today is the 21st Anniversary of Trogdor the Burninator. 9 months ago:
I remember opening that sbemail not knowing what I was in for.
- Comment on Anon's uncle watches Andrew Tate 9 months ago:
Kind of love it though
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
A solid 6" soft 3.5" and contact with the rim is a problem, it really shouldn’t be at this size I feel. Also I often sit to pee at home cause I got my comfy seat and classy toilet space (Crohn’s things). It’s those super flat restaurant toilets where my balls might come close to the water but I don’t think they’ve ever touched thank god.
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 9 months ago:
I guess with my knowledge of energy markets, a situation like that would result in higher prices just by the way the market functions, responding to supply and demand. The graph here appears to be a market clearing price rather than a price after adjustments, where a lot of incentives would be brought in like an intentional price hike.
We were in the opposite situation though where we were running into surplus overnight during a period of energy transition. You’d see these stupid misinformed articles being like, “the government is giving away YOUR electricity to the US!” Was like during the 2003 blackout where we needed to bring large loads online carefully alongside generation, people were freaking out how casinos and industry got power before them. The need for dispatchable loads connected to the high voltage transmission grid in that situation wasn’t as headline worthy.
- Comment on It's a vibe 9 months ago:
Why are they wearing programming socks when they aren’t programming?
- Comment on Price of electricity in Finland peaks at 2.35€/kWh today. Keeping my tiny granny cottage warm costs me over 50 euros for a single day. It's negative 25C (77F) outside. 9 months ago:
Wouldn’t there be a price cap in events that the wholesale market has anomalies like this? That’s standard in most jurisdictions. The wholesale price is still “real” because there’s some system or market condition reflected in this spike, it’s just not normal for ratepayers at the distribution level to not have a price cap protection. It’s like the opposite scenario if the price isn’t high enough to cover the cost in actually delivering the energy and running the grid, so a Global Adjustment would come in to effect to cover the difference. There’s can even be surplus conditions with price is in the negative.
- Comment on Air quality in there isn't too good 9 months ago:
That was one thing I could never do when I was an “urban explorer” (fancy term for trespassing in to municipal water infrastructure), manholes always freaked me out so much my friends couldn’t even peer pressure me.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 9 months ago:
I doubt anyone who used the site would use “love” and “4chan” in the same sentence lol. The point is if you used it during this time you witnessed something that people who didn’t can only morally condemn at a distance, they can’t talk about the real experience of using the site and meaningfully criticize it. Likewise being there for the true 00s internet wild west and seeing it turn from that into what it became was a blessing for understanding on a visceral level what we all witnessed in the 2010s with incels and maga etc.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 9 months ago:
Popular internet humor as we know it was basically all forged between the slur-stained walls of 4chan anons cursed basements, and people posted way worse things than slurs on there. You wouldn’t pick me out as a former /b/slur in real life cause you’d probably be envisioning a straight white male. Ironically there was something very accepting about the site I didn’t have in real life which is a sentiment shared by many users of the site from this era.
One of the mistakes I see otherwise accurate depictions of 4chan making, talking about the very good “Kill All Normies” book and some others, which really focus on 4chan from 2010-onward, is they gloss over the site before this decade and interpret it as a single userbase. I’m sure there’s some constant users between these decades but I don’t know anyone who used 4chan when I did who continued to use it even into the MLP era. I would point to Project Chanology as the turning point, the infamous 4chan protest against the Church of Scientology, which popularized the idea of “Anonymous,” often referred to as “teh cancer killing b” both genuinely and ironically.
I would argue this is also when the site began succumbing to irony poisioning as people began to sincerely post things the site became infamous for in the 2010s. The “lulz” of baiting corporate media with exploding vans and “Anonymous” had played out and the site now began to adopt an “identity,” whereas before these abhorrent things sort of just happened there and the userbase wasn’t considered this singular entity. This would have been about when I graduated HS, and when I met former 4chan users in college we mostly all derided the site for being garbage.
In recent years the nostalgia for what the internet was in this era has to include 4chan, but I don’t think anyone who was on the site then would say they were good people for using the site and likely the opposite, nor would we probably have assumed the site from this era would have become so influential.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 9 months ago:
Yeah it’s super weird how these internet cultures developed their own idiosyncrasies that show up in real life. Nerd culture kawaii humor around the turn of the decade is super recognizable as well, waffles being a meme (not the blue ones), and lolcats (debatably appropriated from 4chan), Natalie Dee comics. As these things were commodified during the 2010s into pop culture it all sort of washed away subculture connection. There’s a kids book series now called Narwhal and Jelly where the dialogue is basically all internet-speak from this era and I’m guessing most parents have no idea and just think its a quirky kids book.
- Comment on After ten years, it's time to stop making videos. 9 months ago:
Him and Reviewbrah
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 9 months ago:
Him, berries, and the rubber guy are probably all buds.
The early to late 2000s was definitely a special time on the internet. I logged on in the early-mid 90s but I think it peaked in the late 00s. Consolidation of services/monopolies and saturation of smartphones I think killed it. Internet used to be something you did actively, now it’s a thing in your pocket you distract yourself from shitting with that beeps at you all day.
I met a friend’s partner for the first time and she said something funny that had this unique quality I instantly recognized. She was in fact another woman /b/tard. We can crack each other up at any moment and our professional colleagues haven’t a clue about this weird online subculture with its twisted sense of humor. It’s not even just repeating memes its like a whole mindset you get infected with for life.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 9 months ago:
The only ones are really use are site: and -notthisstring and find they work. With granularity I mean adding things to the search string.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 9 months ago:
Google was really valuable before web services were so monopolized and consolidated like they are now. It’s almost more useful to use the specific websites search function for many things now. Before this, you could run searches and it would have all these personal and small websites indexed. Oh look, here’s a guy who lives his whole life as Peter Pan and has a website about it, cool… now it’s just a profile on some social media site same as anyone else.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 9 months ago:
I’ve found it still works for oddly specific requests, if you make your search string more granular. Generic searches are garbage now, especially images.
- Comment on And I will die on this hill. 10 months ago:
Yeah they were all students at Humber, in the Toronto area. Obviously all skilled musicians, but there’s a drummer Larnell Lewis who’s a student mentor there, my brother was lucky enough to have him, and while lesser known he’s a drummer’s drummer and insanely skilled. A “Mozart” of drums you could say. While he’s successful and tours with Snarky Puppy and the like, it’s not like he’s a household name or anything. There’s so much talent out there.
- Comment on And I will die on this hill. 10 months ago:
There are well over thousands who have skills beyond Mozart today. The few who become well known are determined by very different things, having skills like Mozart is almost irrelevant. He’s also just sort of the token “music talent” example for people who don’t listen to music, often goes with the idea “classical music” is when music peaked.
The “gifted piano prodigy” I grew up with is a burnout in his 30s. There’s an unassuming data analyst I work with who likely exceeds his skill and just teaches on the side. My local symphony had to cancel this season due to lack of sales. A band at the jazz school my brother attended (BBNG) got sampled by a rapper and were a breakthrough success. This is sorta what it looks like for the Mozarts of today.
- Comment on It's just not the same without him. 10 months ago:
Credit to Catmin for the maymay
- Comment on Yaaaaaaa-hoo-hoo-huey 10 months ago:
Gawrsh
- Comment on Her pussy 10 months ago:
Jokes on her I got a vasectomy.
- Comment on Fun 10 months ago:
Generally the larger someone is the funnier it is when they are launched in the air.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 10 months ago:
rofl that’s kind of amazing then. I’m used to legacy stuff that nobody wants to touch because it’s functioning how it’s supposed to.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 10 months ago:
That’s true and I’ve seen this thing a lot to the point people were buying assorted spare parts for a refrigerator sized server circa 1998 almost 20 years later while the entire business was complaining about how slow it was for a majority of those years. Our data center dates back to the 80s so there’s some great artifacts still lurking around.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 10 months ago:
We have a document repository managed by corporate governance and to file documents in it they need to go through a workflow which enforces naming convention/category and establishes approval chain, version control, and review intervals. Anything that is actively used for things should be captured in this system, there’s some that aren’t of course but it’s the standard and you’re laughed at if you reference documentation outside of this system basically. We do this to comply with audit requirements but it’s also just good practice and everyone basically sees the value in it, despite the mild annoyance of dragging your document in to a webpage and filling out some fields.
That’s why I don’t care about my personal document organization too much, because anything of value is getting liberated into a controlled doc template meant for it’s specific purpose and put into the system where it lives it’s life.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 10 months ago:
I just sort by date modified on my work folder and purge stuff older than a year. Anything of value was moved to its permanent home and properly document controlled.
It’s a river of trash yes but anything of value floats to the surface.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 10 months ago:
I routinely scan file shares to find the top oldest modified dates on files.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 10 months ago:
To me its amazing they’ve been able to use the same system for that long, it must cost almost nothing to run vs a “proper” system. Kind of assuming it wasn’t a constant headache cause then it would be stupid to keep it around.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 10 months ago:
Basically what I’m doing right now with someone else’s tools. Coming from IT I’m actually surprised how solid these tools are from a pure availability point of view, and how the company gets value out of something with basically the smallest amount of infrastructure required to support it. I’m producing a bunch of scheduled and ad-hoc reports as a data analyst and improving the tools used in the process, “automating” is the buzzword used although that has a very different definition to me from a sysadmin background.
- Comment on it always interesting when multi billion dollar company's costing system is a 63 tab excel 97 spreadsheet at it's core... 10 months ago:
I’ve been on both sides of this as a sysadmin for almost 15 years then as a data analyst. IT has so many requirements and barriers and any end user tool you have free access to will possibly be an easier route than procuring a boutique solution through IT. Yes of course IT will do it proper but that takes longer, just build a tool in excel and use an access database on the file server cause its something you can just immediately do. Yeah its not “right” by IT standards and causes headaches for IT but sometimes it’s whatever gets the job done next week is what’s going to be in the businesses best interest.
Also a lot of these tools are used how they were designed to be used. If a couple people have a function they need fulfilled and some excel tool with macros can provide that in less than a month and save those people a ton of time then I don’t see a problem with it. Just make sure SLA is very clear make it clear they can’t blame IT if there’s problems, offer the best advice for risk management.