isbjorn16

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by isbjorn16 3y ago
With respect, you don't think it's substantive to point out that the new CEO has a rather tall job in order, using colloquial language? I think we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.
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by isbjorn16 3y ago
> She knows all the advertisers and can placate them. I hope she has an infinite supply of lipstick because this pig will need it :|
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by isbjorn16 3y ago
It sure is great that this industry doesn't have a larger than normal population of neurodivergent folks, or this might be a real problem for a lot of us!
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
or, conversely, turn them off before it starts and try to figure out what he's doing and why. then when it's done, turn the captions on and watch it again! our living room turns into bedlam when we do this. everyone shouting wha
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
I had a 2001 Audi and it was by far the best vehicle I've ever owned. I bought a 2016 Audi trying to replicate that and I was dumbfounded by how little it had changed in 15 years, but what _had_ changed seemed to be distinctly for the
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
someone should let toyota know, because their software sucks 5 kinds of taint on my 2020 taco
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
You can have a channel, of sorts. You add people to a giant group message and change the title. Voila. Channel. You need to know someone in the channel to add you to the channel, but suddenly you can avoid that threaded bullshit. God I
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
If you figure out how to make use of the hardware, please let us know. Getting a unit I couldn't even install another skill on made it functionally useless to me. I don't need a robot to tell me what time it is, I need someone t
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
well, you should have, and that's on you.
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
Me either, but that's because I type `:wq!` every single time instead. I'm not one of those who is afraid of typing more than a single character so I don't care if it's actually 3 I'm hitting. I am someone whose
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
I think their point is sometimes their left pinky is a bit lazy and won't get off the fucking shift key
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
Accept the job, never show up. It's petty, but when the system is rigged sometimes petty is the only viable "fuck you" left
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Mellon He's been dead for almost a century, so I don't think he's vetting much of anything at the moment
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
Oh, no, I guess they'll just have to do everything as slowly and by the book as possible. Darn.
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
my other pithy statement that I stand behind is my poorly routed sign that says "Glasses and Mask, Jackass" and sits right in front of the door entry to my workshop. haste makes waste, but even worse, it can make for blind people
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
Woodworking has probably been one of the most important things to add during my career. I went from being and feeling like I knew how to do most everything to being forced into confronting the fact that just because I'm experienced, I
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
I think you mean the delivery food
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
bit like seeing someone jump into an active volcano, really
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
> The US has had a president who largely communicated with his constituents through Twitter (one-way as that communication may have been)... I know what you're trying to say here, but I just want to note for the record that all pres
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by isbjorn16 4y ago
it's kind of insane to me that this is seen as insane, if I'm honest
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by isbjorn16 5y ago
What were the compelling reasons for you to switch? Was it something Opnsense did better, or did Netgate just piss you off? I'm running pfsense now because I'm nothing if not lazy, but if opnsense makes things nicer in some way, I
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by isbjorn16 5y ago
Three things specifically (though one is a two-parter) 1. Nanch micro screwdriver / bit kit. I had one previous and I rather liked it but I gifted it to my brother who was just starting out with DIY maker stuff, so I replaced my old ma
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by isbjorn16 5y ago
> > - You have facilities to shower and dress at work > I commuted by bike for years in hot, humid climate without showering at work. Consider all of the remarkable achievements of humanity. You could figure out something that coul
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by isbjorn16 6y ago
MSFT employee here: I don't know of an internal service that I use that doesn't have MFA. I am not going to make a broad statement saying they don't exist, I'm just saying I haven't found one yet. It's really a
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by isbjorn16 6y ago
I don't off hand, but I didn't want to leave you hanging too long without saying anything either. The main two things that get me all bent out of shape is having a purposefully disjoint types passed in as the same variable with a
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by isbjorn16 6y ago
Some languages force you into better practices. The extra overhead that you may not want to deal with - and that learning curve - are the exact sorts of things you want to do if you want to write code that is of less questionable quality.
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by isbjorn16 6y ago
I always love coming into these Python threads. It's extremely cathartic to know there are enough people who hate the language as much as I do, even if we are stuck with it for any number of good reasons. All of the reasons we're
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by isbjorn16 6y ago
That's okay, you spurred me to donate.
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by isbjorn16 6y ago
I don't know that I agree that you're doing an apples to apples comparison though. There's nothing to stop you from doing: let x = doRiskyThing(); match x { Ok(x) => x.doThing(), Err(e) => ... } x.get
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by isbjorn16 6y ago
Is that not identical to an empty catch block? I fail to see how this is materially different

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