skulkingaround

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[–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 hours ago

I'd happily pay $20-40ish for a quality textbook. I have many times before. It's when they want to charge $300 and give almost nothing to the authors that I have a problem with. Extra scummy when they make a new edition that's just barely different enough you can't use it for class because the practice problems don't match or give you one time use online codes that render it worthless for resale.

In a similar vein, look at a graph of global poverty levels. We've done an astounding job of improving that metric over the last several decades, even if it feels like we're stagnating or moving slightly backwards in many developed nations.

There's also lots of things that would've been a death sentence 50 years ago that we've either completely eliminated or found such effective treatments that they are mere inconveniences now.

[–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

With just a web browser, teams, and visual studio open my work machine sits at 95% usage of 16gb. Half the time my compiles can't even finish without getting axed by the oom killer. SSMS is a hog too, I often have to close half my stuff to get to work right.

Supposed to be getting an upgrade but my company is taking their sweet time.

[–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

I've been waiting for HDR and color management for like 5 years now and it feels like progress is dead in the water and now we've ended up with two custom implementations between KDE and gamescope. Heck, Kodi has supported HDR for ages when running direct to FB.

I know it's tricky but geez, by the time they release an actual protocol extension we'll already have half a dozen implementations that will have to be retooled to the standard, or worse yet we'll have a standard plus a bunch of fiddly incompatible implementations.

[–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Counterargument, secondary sources are often a good filter for bogus primary sources. This is the primary reason Wikipedia does not allow primary source references.

[–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They let us use them for all my college math classes.

They really don't help much at all if you don't understand the math, and if you do understand, you don't need the calculator most of the time.

[–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 weeks ago

I just use brown kraft paper and some basic ribbon in a color appropriate for the occasion. I think maybe $15 in materials has given me a solid decade of gift wrapping and I haven't even gone through half of it yet. Costs basically nothing on a per gift basis, and I get way more compliments on my wrap jobs than I did before I switched to using brown paper.

[–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Keepass and syncthing are great combined. Functions fully locally even when I have no access to my home network, and changes get synced between my desktop, laptop, and phone whenever I have WAN access.

Also it's specifically named as a reference to the gimp from pulp fiction as it originally came out around the same.

It's fine for a hobby project but GIMP is well past that now and it's a really bad look in a professional environment.

[–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I swear it's like people memory holed just how fucked Trump and the right wing's response to covid was, and it's a symptom of even deeper issues.

I lost quite literally 50% of my immediate family members to covid. They were conservative, and bought into all the anti mask and anti vax conspiracies, hook, line and sinker. Literally as my unvaccinated father was dying in the hospital, he would text me messages about how the vaccine was going to fry my brain or kill me, and I needed to do my own research and stop listening to the lying liberal media.

Don't get me wrong, I had no love for conservative ideology before Trump, but I could at least have well reasoned debates and find common ground on some policies with my conservative family members. Most importantly though, we didn't even really talk about politics that much. Now, I can't even make a chicken salad sandwich in their presence without somehow triggering an insane rant about the woke liberal agenda.

My other side of the family isn't even very liberal but they aren't trump supporters, and they're way better to interact with. The extent of our political discussions usually chalks up to "everything's pretty fucked, wanna smoke a bowl instead of harping about it?"

[–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

You could probably ding them for fraud, but as others have said, this is fake.

[–] skulkingaround@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

I prefer it over unconfigured vim on remote/new systems. If I can bring my vimrc though, vim wins.

 

Gallon Ziplocs with folded over cardstock sheets for labels, also keeps them rigid so bags of cables that aren't full don't get buried. I have two bins, one with common stuff in my office and the other stays in the basement with all the weird cables.

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