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valthonis

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Autumnus Dux. Second most popular peer of the Court of Seasons. Your favorite fake Duke of your favorite real season.

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I think I just unleashed Q upon my unsuspecting campaign setting.

Or, at least the edgy "in it for the lulz" TNG version of Q.

valthonis,
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@bitprophet OK, I know you'd appreciate this, Jeff: https://youtu.be/CKmGh6ifWdY

Spent most of Sunday learning After Effects for this one. GM hype is infectious! 😅

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Everything I know about myself and others who were categorized as "gifted" by their school systems as a child tells me that the gift is ANXIETY.

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Imagine the kind of change could you bring about in your life if the cost of your rent/mortgage and however much food you need to eat healthily were just... covered. With no questions asked.

Imagine if it worked that way for everyone, young and old, big and small. No "means-testing“ gatekeeping shenanigans. Like, we could just decide “we are willing to spend this on ourselves and each other so that none of us suffers needlessly.”

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visionOS still doesn't have a basic native RSS reader

valthonis,
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@HilliTech I feel like once Google pulled the plug on Reader, collective developer interest in making a polished RSS reader flipped over to negative values.

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    valthonis,
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    @Binder Haskellton: A Monadic Musical.

    StillIRise1963, to random
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    True story. A science teacher explained chromosomes to her students. She told them there were x chromosomes, y chromosomes and non-binary chromosomes. I’m not kidding.

    valthonis,
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    @StillIRise1963 That would be cool if it were true.

    rivetgeek, to Powershell
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    I guess my #PowerShell scripts for our #SQLServer migration might be something of a hit. We'll see how they fare with 50-ish failover clusters here in a bit, but the tests with 10 or so were smooth as silk twice earlier today. I know this doesn't sound complicated — it's just failovers amirite? — but there are stumbling blocks that have to be accounted for including network latency, SIOS mirroring, Windows pending reboots, AD, DNS...y'know all of the usual wrenches getting thrown in the gears.

    valthonis,
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    @rivetgeek …holy shit. 😬💪

    valthonis, to random
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    Oh gods... someone called running a computer homelab "suffering-as-a-service," and I may never recover from that body blow... 🤣

    valthonis, to random
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    "Whether we wanted it or not, we've stepped into the middle of a war with the groundhog in the backyard... So lets get to taking out their command, one by one.” - Me, this afternoon, in my best Zavala voice after the spouse showed me video of a groundhog ransacking the garden.

    jalcine, to random
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    Typescript is still the most annoying language I've worked with in the nine years I've written software. Not a long time perhaps but still consistently hair pulling.

    valthonis,
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    @jalcine Ngl, the friction of trying to move from JS to TS is what pushed me to take my plunge into Rust.

    I realize that's not an option for everyone, though. I'm mostly just pointing out that you're not alone in your TS resistance.

    atomicpoet, (edited ) to random
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    Also, what even is the purpose of a beard?

    From what I can tell, the benefit is that it gives me the option for another face. If I want to be mildly unrecognizable, I can just grow out my facial hair.

    But other than that, I have no idea why men grow beards.

    valthonis,
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    @atomicpoet I maintain a beard because I like the feel of having it. It is soft, it insulates my face from both cold and being directly touched (to a degree), and it hides skin imperfections that I'd otherwise spend a lot of grooming time to obfuscate.

    It's absolutely not for everyone, but I find it to be handy and worth the cost of maintenance. YMMV.

    valthonis,
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    @atomicpoet Ah, I see. I do wonder if it's less of an adaptation for modernity and more of a holdover in the genetic noise from our predecessors.

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    Writing a blog post! 😅

    valthonis,
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    @bitprophet We... we can still do that?

    valthonis, to random
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    How do speech impediments like lisps and such affect native speakers of tonal languages? My brain keeps insisting that using tonality to encode information is introducing a TON of ambiguity into a language, but I've also been wrong about stuff I know way more about, so…

    valthonis, to random
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    The amount of energy my parents' generation spent trying to scare us with the spectre of "flipping burgers for a living" really belied the degree to which they'd come to rely on the mere existence of “burger flippers" for all parts of their comfortable lifestyle.

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    Boomers be like “we didn't start the fire..." while acting like I didn’t spend my entire childhood and early adult years watching them gleefully pour lighter fluid onto it at every opportunity.

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    I am now an Uncle x10, which is a very strange feeling.

    Half of that is from one very prolific sibling-in-law, mind, but still.

    valthonis,
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    @bitprophet I feel like I need a coffee mug that reads "10x Uncle” now. 🤣

    valthonis, to random
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    I understand why currency bills have security features (to defeat counterfeiters.) What I don't get is why so many treasuries and national banks advertise their security features. It feels like they're just telling would-be counterfeiters what new hardware to buy to pull it off.

    Am I missing something?

    valthonis,
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    @rivetgeek @johnwsheldon So they're basically MFA, where M > 8 or something. That makes more sense.

    valthonis, to random
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    Never forget that a single Black president... just ONE... scared white America so much that they're wholeheartedly embracing fascism to reinforce their cultural and political hegemony.

    valthonis, to random
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    If I seem a little agitated tonight, allow me to illustrate:

    #ColumbiaUniversity

    jenniferplusplus, to random
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    Reminder not to eat the rich.

    The rich are apex predators, and they accumulate high concentrations of environmental toxins.

    Instead, you should compost the rich

    valthonis,
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    @jenniferplusplus @trabern Just half a litre of billionaire spread over your vegetable garden will make for a bountiful harvest!

    valthonis, to random
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    It is wild to compare the increasingly shrill news coverage of the college protests to the on-the-ground reports I get from my kid. Really drives home that media and politicians care about what something looks like, but not what it actually is.

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