the legit people here that still work for someone\something else... like you... always tend to reinforce my life decisions. thank you.
a few times, whilst consulting, it's been necessary to fix some bash... or batch... pile o' scripts, due to everything suddenly going SNAFU (generally also the reason i was there... not cheap for them).
the 1st 2x i tried to just find issues and tweek into a viable system-- horrible waste of time and a new black hole created next to any hopes i had for humanity.
i swear, it was akin to those og cartoon tropes where they find a hole in the boat so they plug it with their finger, then another hole opens... etc,@Root
time 2, i gave up\wrote new... asked 2 devs that worked there(w\crap scripts) awhile, apparently disliked each other, to each make a simple, complete, list (and flow) what the crap did. best list won.
wrote most of it b4 seeing any list. seeing the lists, i had them each format\comment\document what i wrote (high functioning, not pretty, code, esp then).
showed their work to their sups(lvls up too). i pointed out tons they didn't need me for; they needed like a school chart with gold stars, and the 2 working separately.
comical as it is, it's mind boggling for me. i get i think differently, on a phys\electrical lvl, but crap like that always seems so obvious to me, despite months+ of failed solutions.
that said... i pity the fool whod ever need update most of my scripts. think, the concept of CSS, ~5 world languages used, w\abbreviations, no\rare comments & some (nowadays) extreme methods of resource optimisations (like manually using binary for storage based per item\var),I ended up messaging the seller(not sure if i got a response cuz i havent been back to look for one)...
from the way it was written i just reeeeeaally wanted to know if he realised that no standard\marketed (basically anything not specifically made for some unimaginably ridiculous reason(s)) computer can ever boot to BIOS if it has no RAM.
so... did he mean that somehow BIOS, with working RAM is somehow non-functional?
... aside from someone directly opening it up and removing or, with much skill and precision, intentionally shorting out only the BIOS storage chip... id really want to buy it just to discover why\how.
or...
does he not know any OS, including BIOS requires RAM?
the only other thing i can think of is that, for some, likely nonsensical, reason, he really wanted to make sure that a potential buyer wasnt buying a gutted computer to play in BIOS (which tbh sounds nutty even to me... and on rare occasion i write code in winre),Well duh.
Think about it in middle school and beyond terms. When the teacher makes people work in groups for 1 grade. Teachers know damn well that the one who actually gives a shit is gonna end up doing all the work... anyone who knows that hard working kid then tries to get in their group.
But... if you're given an assignment, school, social, adult life/work, and you do it well and fast/efficiently... now it's your job forever, plus another job for the extra time they know you could have.
Same thing applies at blue collar (and below) jobs. You work at fast food, walmart, some random store... work well/better than others you get a fancy manager/team leader title... and a few cents an hr raise. You also get to deal with more bs, stay later, clean up coworker bs & get yelled at by strangers for sht u have no control in.
Why do u think so many people do the bare minimum to not get fired?,Dude... if you only knew...
Since i was a kid (7 or 8... so 25yrs ago) i started using basic regex for shit like filtering logs...
Then i started scripting the shit that annoyed me... like everything default set to run... updates, scans, sysrestore... and stuff like temp files, recycle bin, internet history... etc
Then i got annoyed going through log outputs, including ones i generated from manually scripting and automatically checking to make sure nothing broke... and keyloggers (several reasons and varieties)... malware thatd just change little shit about their files so it wouldnt match the lists, or sht that mimicked/deleted real files (a HUGE regex script so id know what exactly got changed in updafes or when file info had tiny mismatches)
So many scripts by middle school... too many macros to tolerate hotkeys... so i started making my own file extensions, regex to find/sort/relocate and the program to read
Ofc cli regex to generate/append custom files
All b4 16. Imagine now,I have a very low tolerance for envs that arent mine... so ofc, i also have scripts to do stuff like remap system variables... even to an external hard drive for several programs, drivers, their paths, the registry keys of shit that annoys me... regex to check for bad registry keys... and stuff that puts it back to normal when im done.
Me without regex and a tolerable env... historically, that's dangerous.,@Lensflare oh i know. But dont we all know that sydney is plenty neurotic enough that he's likely scrollimg through posts looking for his name ad nauseum multiple times a day?,@retoor
Yea... he tried that on me. He lost.
Something he clearly didn't know about me, but any childhood friend or close teen and beyond friend knows as basic fact, is that since i turned 5, I've had TONS of Indian friends... acquaintances, employees, relationships, business partners (which for me tends to also mean they are some of my best friends)...etc. I even have a 'sister' in india due to one of those programs where u adopt a needy child for some meager 20$ or whatever a mo... i picked her off a Christmas tree when i was 4, then by 8 got really annoyed that due to the program's rules i couldn't just send her half of my money (i was a rich 8yr old dev), so made a fund to send her gifts/money as soon as i was 18. But even before she knew any of that, joseline has called me her sister and we keep in contact (she's a nurse now).
Realistically, i probaly have more indian friends than him, not even counting temp employees etc.
Him calling me racist is honestly hysterical.,@retoor
Listen... he's not sexist... just sexually insecure. You gotta remember, even though most of the world is currently flooded with an array of increasing 'genders' and the attitude similar to parents telling toddlers that they can be whatever they want when they grow up, dont listen to or believe anythingelse-- applied to behavioural gender traits...
India isn't quite as inviting to people like syd who just wanna be a pretty pretty princess.
So, like any childhood bully, he attacks, using topics close to his internal strife, trying to believe his own lies.
@SidTheITGuy
Next time you wanna dress up like Cinderella or Belinda, you do it! Don't let the idea of society's negative views of you stop you!,@SidTheITGuy SID! You did it! Im so proud of you!
You finally admitted your proclivities to suck. That's a great first step!,@donkulator
But how soft is too soft?
I mean, i kinda think about it like this:
Whatever traits a colon, or anything, innately has or is expected to have due to being one specific entity within the group that is initially defined with sets of characteristics to identify the base traits of the individuals in it... thatd be the norm/expected start that wouldn't need any explicit declaration unless outside those values.
So like bread is normally soft, but if you ask someone what a bagel or baguette is theyd likely explicitly define that it's harder/denser/not as soft as something like mass produced sandwich bread.
...im now realising im defining the world by oop class structures... but w/ev.
So i think if youre specifically declaring a soft colon... it must be remarkably more soft than colons tend to be... which seems intriguing and dangerous.
Thinking about it... would the contents of a colon even be included in the traits of the colon itself? Genuinely curious now.,@Demolishun acc to syd's standards, im pretty sure jeff foxworthy is racist towards a large chunk of the US south.
I used to (sometimes still do if someone seems a bit too entranced) start talking about racism (just a few sentences) and how wrong it is... to someone who was boring me/looking for something beyond friendship... then directly tell them (changing tempo, volume and pitch just enough to signal extra importance) that I'm only at all racist, even just a little bit, to one group of people, blondes with blue eyes... especially the females. Then quickly cite some random traits i claimed justified this highly specific distaste.
Then id see how long i could keep it going for.
Anyone who hasn't seen a pic of me... clearly blonde with bright blue eyes.
The expressions when they'd finally realise i was directly depicting myself (if it took longer for them to catch on id add more details) was always amusing... esp the dumb ones who weren't sure if i realised i was describing myself,@retoor
Make a bunch of programs/scripts/networks/encryption methods/etc... but do it like the mentality of those apocalypse preppers that invest so much time/energy/money/etc into their supposed survival.
So going super overboard, but leaving out anything involving thought or learning outside of an overly simplified scope... like how most preppers learn about guns/knives/making pointy sticks... etc... yet dont consider packing a microscope and some basic knowledge/highly magnified pics of common protozoa or very easy to make, broad use, pharmaceuticals like penicillin (aka bread mold that's still one of the most widely used antibiotics in existence).
Those prepper people never learn about basic chemical reagents either...foolish imo,@retoor just read your bio...
If you like collabing on stuff and dont mind signing an nda or 2, between my company and the new(im literally writing up the legal stuff now) partnership company with a very experienced(impressive CV too) dev friend we have tons of space for people we can tolerate to collab... whether in actual code writing or some version of an advisory capacity.
Technically im also fluent in Dutch... super rusty in verbal communication and i assume my grammar/word choice has dropped quite a bit due to years of mainly just reading it ...but i do fully comprehend the vast majority of typed Dutch and most spoken ...if slow and clear enough (aka, would appreciate the practice)
Here's my info if interested (anyone else is welcome to use it... im not exactly hard to find... unless youre quite dense):
Tg- awesomeest
Discord- sara.awesomeest
Email- awesomeest@gmail.com,@retoor
I was very tempted just now to quickly hack your site and fix the typos/minor language issues.
Tbh, even as much as typos in good content annoy me... it was probably only 50% of my temptation. The other half was likely my urge to procrastinate since what im doing now is boring but i gotta do it...
Im gonna zone out/clear my head, then go back to hours of hyperfocus to get this boring administrative crap done.,so now i need to ask some friends to watch my eyes (when\if im off-guard and comparing images).
These things have always been easy to a level of boredom and wonder as to why others dont just know the answers like i do. seriously... since at least age 4\preschool.
I never heard about the eye crossing thing. I guess it could've been something i innately picked up so early that ive been oblivious to it... but im also ridiculously fast with all those image search things like where's waldo, find the X amount of *somethings* and those things in kids magazines (like Highlights) with the list of items to find... though comparatively, im much slower (for me) at the last ones.
i do have a near (dyslexia) eidetic\photographic\whatever it's currently called memory and some insane level of innate pattern recognition (well beyond my comprehension or full command of)... so now im super curious.
typing this... ironically, i don't think i know how to cross my eyes... at least intentionally.,@Lensflare actually, there was some less renowned methods too... im oddly knowledgeable at this specifically (had a, extremely blown out of logical proportion, intense debate(totally friendly) with an islamic scholar starting with the astrolabe).
my favourite outdated star-comparison method is the one where theyd make a small scale image of the night sky (there were several methods from essentially child labour to an array of magnifying lenses and chemical compounds reactive to lights and\or heat... im fond of the precise use of magnesium,... but i like fire)...
then, theyd use a form of old telescope-like thing and a mirror and a lense to account for any differences,@netikras
ask chatgpt something more fun.... like to interpret satirical, non-english, song lyrics... or explain async functions looping\priority patterns, while tossing in a param thats an immediate exception (like python, nesting async inside of sync) but u gotta mask it with other valid crap.
i once got chatgpt stuck in a failing logic loop by feeding it paul graham's "how to disagree" and asking it for debate practice, where their stance was disagreeing with those points.
tbh... if i thought to use a tech\computer solution to comparing seemingly identical images... id have totally just converted them to the non-compressed individual pixel data then ran a basic iteration loop to compare\flag non-identical pixels...
yea... im a dinosaur,@donkulator dude... that was fancy\rich and\or very late 90s...
i remember collecting all the AOL floppy disks they gave out for free to wipe and use them for storage.
my friend's mom's laptop had BSOD so was going to be thrown away.... the BSOD also included the phone number to microsoft tech support, answered by real people in the USA, and a machine-specific code that had to be given to a live rep with the serial number so they could get the code to give you, the professional, to go beyond the BSOD and fix whatever.
After successfully fixing it (and in hindsight still wondering why no one ever mentioned to me that i was a little (7\8) yr old girl bullying tech support) i did get AOL running... on the 4mb of total RAM.,@SidTheITGuy pretty sure u still have it. itd make so much sense, given your rapid irrational demeanor and persistent aggressive yet nonsensical ideas. tbh, it lines up perfectly.,@Lensflare not sure if you're being sarcastic... but it does totally seem like something youd do.
i built myself a laptop (saws and solder), taught myself basic binary... fortran and C... wrote the drivers for my frankenlaptop then made a little server to host websites i was building for small businesses. i never actually considered making a personal site til years later and that was for my arts and crafts business... i totally used to have the domain coolcrafts.com (i need to see wtf it is now),@cafecortado
duuude...(somewhat irrelevant) look up the music video for TLC no scrubs.
i was trying to explain old 'good'(shit) music videos to this girl that worked for me and randomly was searching and clicked on that. there's beyond a nip slip near the end. totally brought my point home though lol,technically gifs always work if they show an image... i think u mean animated gifs brah,@Demolishun
back in early middle school, on runescape (yea... i had my reasons), there was some kid who started to get some messed up form of a power trip via pretending to be a god cuz HE could make animated gifs...
this was back when commoners first started becoming aware... there was the ad spammed sites thatd compile them and the basic af gui tools (trojans) you could dl to make them.
i found this behaviour\the reactions fascinating (autistic af but unaware i was autistic)... he was picking on other kids over that nonsense. some kid i was slightly more fond of (and paid waaaay too much attention to things i did... but kept it to himself so.... meh) was really upset and assuming(rightfully ofc) i knew how to make them too, begged me to to make him stfu (pretty sure he was implying some version of time-exhaustive kiddie war).
5m later via mspaint i made this... then wrote a simple persistent batch script that kept tiling this as his desktop and screensaver. simple and effective,@awesomeest
it's literally just 6 colours rotating in a 4x4 grid... lines up perfectly if tiled... still will induce a headache if u tile it as someones desktop background... cuz if they try to focus on or read anything it literally hurts. could be legit basic terrorism lol,@Demolishun im only racist against white females... the type with blonde hair and blue eyes,i used textnow for basic context (under a dozen messages likely all to myself) ...for under a week, years ago.
today, for the first time, i had a use for it....
i had 1 short, totally legal, non-harassing, use of sending 1 txt to 1 number. open it >> says my acc was banned cuz their server 'detected' and therefore i was suspected of "unusual activity".
i ofc just quickly made a new acc..
...but i went back to their dumbass form... which they apparently cant write a basic, extremely minimal styling form and needed to pay for a 3rd party form provider. (like it actually couldve been written in only straight html from the 90s and a simple POST php script (didnt check but they probably used some framework bs))
god... i so loathe the fact that my disgust took nearly a half-second to kick in whilst typing "3rd party form provider"... cuz that's, unfortunately, now a valid, thriving and multiple sources of competition, field of business.,im fondly reminiscing to the days when web devs got assumed incompetent\made fun of for even a temporary use of "Form Tools"... if only i knew how much worse it'd become...
if Orwell was immortal, im sure he'd have seen this coming.,he'd find a way back but be a lot less active on social media... and die faster... space travel kills your bone's vitamin D and speeds up permanent thinning... so lots more dr appts and physical therapy... and, given his age, a very brief life expectancy.
tbh... now i kinda want him to... im curious if his tone\perspective would dramatically change... like when a stubborn grandfather has a stroke and totally changes in order to 'cherish' the suddenly (esp by psychosomatic belief) uncertain and short remaining time left.,@Demolishun wait... you think that, if there are beings(as in more than 1) that survive on(or near) the surface of mars... elon musk would be able to physically overpower them???
i considered that perhaps you meant via extensive weaponry or a personal army coming with him... but im pretty sure you realise how direly each kg tached on reduces the likelihood of potential feasibility of successful travel.,@antigermanist depends if myspace ever deleted profiles made and not used over 2 ½ decades ago.,@Lensflare hey at least u got the balls to admit it to randos on the internet... though ive found most modern 'devs' only understand that context on the same level as a history textbook.,@SidTheITGuy dude... if i gave the slightest genuine concern\attention\etc to you in any way you seem to believe, id have checked this thread before now... also wouldve read whatever i said (which apparently you view as very prominent and thoughtfully crafted) before typing and sending this response.
seriously, i have no clue, can't even make w strong guess at any aspect aside from 50\50 chance that i also referred to you as sydney ...or syd to save 3 chars of time\effort... and im pretty sure near all of devrant is fully aware that i type excessive blocks of max chars over the least important things... so that alone should clue you in on how much i give a sht about u.,@kiki of what exactly? i frankenstein hardware all the time... i even had to make personal rules like X real work i loathe doing = Y time to build\play with totally unnecessary tech
i also had to limit what i call my "tech graveyard" to only 1 big-ish box and 1 small-ish plastic clothes hamper... arduino boards, chips and components ive already stripped down and font have several of already, basic components like resistors, leds, small motors, etc... and shiny 'new' (sold\packaged as a specific component to build something with) dont count as the graveyard max... if i can't fit them in my organised space for soldering etc... i forcibly pare down.
now i got ~12 moisture sensors (specifically bought... few dollars) an old af fire tablet from the graveyard (i certainly didnt buy it) some usb 2 wifi (and some bt) dongles (sent to me via shipping error 6yrs ago), tiny shitty solar panels (broken 1$ halloween lights) and 2 nanos
gonna monitor my weed plants w\o walking to the garage.,@kiki oh... i also have a totally unopened (incl original plastic) DOS 5.0.2 ...top of my only display case. i got it 16yrs ago for 2$ from an ignorant thrift store.
the way i make applications, program servers\networks\etc, is the same way i am with hardware... if it annoys me i tear it apart and rebuild so it doesn't annoy me. applies heavily to Microsoft (i mod my registry and system variables, extensions, logs, ports... etc so much that i think there's a good chance id strip a system down to pure BIOS (including removing several binaries) and build my own if it was between that and the intended typical usage of MS... or apple.
few yrs ago i soldered a 24 port network switch from mostly ripped out ethernet ports that i metallically enhanced with some custom, way over 24k, gold, nearly got the specs of CAT6... tried buying one... only managed ones had the word "smart" somewhere, not showing if integral (or id have removed it, physically),TypeScript... and any other method/language allowing static typing <3,@lorentz yes/no
Even though i keep current with at least a few, mostly changing, online casinos (specifically ones with slots) because it let's my previous experience/skill continue to be a figurative, quick and easy to suddenly tap, gold mine... watching this one for any huge issues (most of a variety i cant specify) is essentially a personal favour.
That said, i do agree, especially in principle. Actually wagering anything significant, or spending significant time on the platform isnt at all necessary for my objectives here,@jestdotty oh ofc they didnt escalate then... they did later but probably dont actually realise it or how it may have happened... it's being dealt with, i just couldn't deal with it efficiently using only the abilities and general knowledge/acumen of a typical customer... which is the big issue.,@donkulator
Several issues with your response:
- it's not "softcolon" in a situation etc... it's the title of a business (the business has nothing to do with anything even remotely connected to biology/colons)
- colons(the biological kind) are not naturally soft. It's often confused as synonymous with the large intestine, because, in fact, it is the largest part of the large intestine. It's basically strechy layers of smooth muscle and thin, porous, tissue that acts as a filter to pull water and certain micronutrients/electrolytes/etc out of crap before it passes to the rectum.
Medically, if a colon was able to have "soft" as an attribute (of the colon itself, not the density of your shit) it would be extremely concerning... cuz itd be extremely swollen/inflamed or otherwise abnormally, not at all benignly, enlarged tissue
... i guess it's possible that softcolon was a ref of a puctuation type, : colon... but that's a whole different bag of mind-bogglement,@TeachMeCode umm... nearly the whole world of modern compsci anything is run/based in 3rd party code providers at some (tbh most) levels. Its literally the definition of every freelance/contracted dev(or dev team)... and its far from new,@kiki yea... but by what protocol(s)? How do u know the users to ban?,@donkulator technically u got me... cuz technically 24k is supposed to be 100% purity... but due to the extremely soft structure of gold and the natural, near inevitability of inclusions (most being unintentional) and molecular structural enhancements(however minor) from essentially waste products of heat-mediated purification and molecules naturally existing in air that get pulled in during cooling... unless in a sterile vacuum...
The standard usage of "24k" has grown futher away from actually pure/100%... especially as consumerism favours terminology and labels far more than lnowledge of scientific standards.
Basically:
The label 24k gold has quite a bit of allowed, lower, variance... whether in jewelry or ethernet.
Industrial gold plating for tech (aside from some specific high precision applications in a vacuum) is facetious because there's thin layers of componuds for binding and resilience.
I was just using an excess of highly purified gold directly, more functional purity.,@donkulator
Btw... not bs-ing, grandstanding or some version of facetious know-it-all type crap i cant think of...
I actually don't know all this relatively highly specific stuff about gold due to my tech nerd nature... it actually stems from another very prominent nature of mine... i like melting shit.
Seriously... even have a doctoral grasp of coefficients of expansion(rate of molecular expansion and spacing based on temperature/resulting state), esp relative to metals and glass, since 16.
some odd/possibly creepy prof at wayne state's library got obsessed w/me while returning books and printing papers for a mandated science fair.
He apparently had the habit of pulling face-down paper from the trash to read. I typed a 10pg paper before looking to see it was supposed to be ~2 pages... after explicitly denying several reqs of his i traded him my email address for ending that interaction. 2wks later he sent me a very detailed review, quotes from other profs and a (pointless)grade,@donkulator oh... forgot...
Somehow i am a "fine arts artist". I don't think ill ever actually comprehend why... but the products of me playing/experimenting with molten glass and metals is innately of some (imo) ridiculously high value to people at auctions... even when i literally dont know wtf the thing i made is/should be used for.
It's fascinating, gives tens of thousands usd to charities i think r valid (mostly children's) yearly and is one of 3 primary reasons the IRS hates me an continues to audit me/any entity connected to me, at least once a year on avg.
Trade-offs:
I've had to be flawless in rel tax code since 18 and a few times a year i need to dress up like a girl, well beyond my typical lvl of acceptable fancy bs, and hold my tongue for a few hrs at charity events that normal people greatly desire entry to.
These events being restricted to the Internet was a thoroughly enjoyed perk of Covid19,@Lensflare personally id prefer if we(society minus the intentional/wilfully ignorant causers of negative impact) could just convert some boring, not impactfully useful, land(s) into monitored colonies...
not like hitler-esq, think more like a protected nature preserve with the good intentions of senior citizen housing, that has the necessary measures to allow those with dementia and alzheimers.
Ofc it'd require hefty funding... but cameras, like wildlife reserves, would allow for security/safety with minimal disruption to their habitat... and the research to gain potentially valuable insights, while also allowing monetisation like a much more humane, realistic/true... and surely fascinating, zoo. Ofc unlike most zoo's it'd be totally remote viewing... possibly even some form of harmless, yet monetised, interaction options... nothing to mess with their budding ecosystems or culture.,@Lensflare @antigermgerm
Listen, size of storing data is totally my wheelhouse.
If something like this ever gets to the point of storage size or a data infrastructure suited for whatever, not existing... let me handle it.
Not only am i confident that id be one of a small pool of engineers that could potentially solve some seemingly impossible issue with data/math/etc X compsci... i literally cannot fathom anything more nirvana-esq, ultimate happy place, most ideal objective to exist for.
It's things like this that make me wish i was one of those overly abundant people that can mentally rewrite reality, typically subconsciously, based on intense desire... or ignore hard facts like 'doing this same thing without actual need/benefit is a severe waste of time and without merit'
