NBJack

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[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Rarely, TBH. Unless you're OK with being an absolute ass in some form or another.

[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 8 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Breath on your fingers like you're trying to fog up glass. Immediately open by running your fingers in opposite directions along the edge, using the additional friction you created.

[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

Zone of the Enders had a touching anime series about a widowed space truck driver whom stumbles upon a sentient orbital frame which he considers his surrogate daughter as he attempts to become a better father and reconnect with his grown kids, amidst an inter-system civil war.

And I'm kinda sure it's cannon.

No, I am not making this up.

[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Damn...what is this, r/seattle?

Don't forget the fact that despite it's just a cheeseburger, it's named "The Vonderbilt Wonder", "Halfsie Pattsies", or "Edmonton the Second". Ideally on a menu so scant on details it's hard to tell the french fries from the extra avocado.

[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Ever tried to read something in your dreams? Coding is basically 90% reading and 10% writing. Then you have to insure that shit compiles and runs.

I can't speak for you, but I don't think my brain has a valid edition of the Java Development Kit.

[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Just think: People having to get help because the job they quit three years ago keeps showing up in their dreams. What's worse is that they keep doing it, in control but unaware of the fact that they aren't getting paid, threatened by their in-dream former boss with being fired if the quota wasn't met.

Staying awake yet unemployed becomes one of their only escapes. They turn to stimulants to stay away from 'work' just a bit longer, just a little more peace.

But they then 'crash', falling asleep for almost a day, and starting a shift that feels like an eternity, Inception style.

[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 18 points 11 months ago

Can confirm. Had an oven that could 'do' convection. Didn't seem to make a difference.

Then I got an actual air fryer. Made a massive difference.

[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bombay is best bai.

Which is particularly ironic as the breed is known for its silky black coat, and bai can also mean "yellow mist".

[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which goes swell, until you realize that you are instead dealing with an ever complex and gnawing realization you can barely quantify as existential dread in light of the remarkably complex yet dangerous capabilities found in every human present and yet to be conceived on this suddenly constricting mortal plane, exceeded only by the sheer number of permutations which you generously call 'best case scenarios' that result in an irrevocable destructive spiral on the fragile biome only loosely labeled by you as "third rock from the sun".

[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 12 points 1 year ago

How broken are we talking here? Like, installation is kinda borked but technically works broken, or purge it with fire and salt the storage medium broken?

I have often busted my machine learning rig as it runs an ancient (but spacious VRAM) GPU. If I upgrade the drivers by accident, it takes an average of 1-2 days to make everything happy again.

I used to be more cavalier with my boot partitions; I am no stranger to a busy box for repairs. Best moments are when I used to try and adjust a live partition to make more room for the swap partition (or vice versa).

I have screwed up more Raspberry PI installations than I care to count. Usually by my own hand.

I have completely broken Xwindows multiple times due to drivers, trying to go between desktop environments, and most frequently trying to get video cards to work that aren't natively supported.

[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Want that cool image as a background? Whoops.

Want to use that image with that nifty ML tool you downloaded? Uh oh.

That random web service at least five years old with an upload field for an image? Roll the dice; win on snake eyes.

Want to use that picture as an avatar in a forum that isn't that popular? Hmmm.

How about that WordPress blog of yours? Hopefully on 5.8 or better; otherwise unsupported natively.

Would you like thumbnails on these downloads in your favorite Linix distro? Uh, maybe; Ubuntu didn't get it until 22.10.

How about Windows? Well, 11 is fine, but 10 needs an extension.

None of this can't be overcome with some effort, but it's kind of painful right now.

[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

I'd rather see the savings in the army of Javascript I apparently need today for the 'modern' web experience. Image files have gotten lots of love, but hey, here's a shitty 27 year old language designed for validating form input!

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