CaptPretentious

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I personally prefer Azure over AWS.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I remember when MTV had music. At a young age, I bought a NES with saved up birthday/Christmas money because it was way cooler than my moms Atarti 2600. Playing outside around the neighborhood was the normal. Roaming the mall as a teenager was standard. Hell I remember when malls regularly had lots of people. I watched the adoption of technology from a fringe thing to mainstream.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I really wanted a wife and kids. Once puberty hit, I had one goal, be the best father\husband I could be.

Put myself through college, got a good job, bought a house (specifically close to schools so they could just walk to school)... One problem... I'm clearly not attractive because everyone I dated in my 20s cheated on me. So I gave up. I've spent the last 10+ years having to constantly remind myself this. I hate it every day.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Is hard to pick one.

Altruism is the default instead of selfishness

Cancer doesn't exist

No harm could come to children. No one would have wicked thoughts towards them. They'd fully recover from any non-lethal injury. They could get sick.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hard to rate.

When I was a kid, I once feel out of a tree and feel on my lower back strait onto a small stump (maybe 3-4 inches across). Also, as a kid, I was jumping back and forth over a hole. We were installing basement egress windows I was jumping over the hole that was dug. This particular hole had like a water connection or something, a white pipe with a white cap. Anywho fell directly on my lower back of that too.

Some years ago I was doing an obstacle course 5K and I severely rolled my ankle, but I kept going and even did the vertical wall. It didn't hurt so much that day but it hurt like a son of a gun the next few months.

Of course one can't forget migraines. Sound hurts, light hurts, the pain that you have also hurts and there's not much you can do about it.

In high school, some girl thought it was okay and funny to repeatedly punch me in the nuts. She only stopped because her brother came out and stopped her.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Well that's fucked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Are they providing support for the things?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Gives the user far too much control of their machine and you can accomplish a task far to easily.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

It being that realistic made it a terrible choice for me.

So I did all of the medical training that had on there, which I did learn stuff from but also found out that I should never actually work in the medical field.

But because it didn't easily identify friend from foe, I kept killing my own team. Not on purpose I was just really bad at identifying friend from foe and if I saw it moved I killed it.

Otherwise it was a solid game. All the issues I had with it were with me.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

If AI could replace anyone... it's those dingbats. I mean, what would you say, in this given example, the CEO does... exactly? Make up random bullshit? AI does that. Write a speech? AI does that. I love how these overpaid people think they can replace the talent but they... they are absolutely required and couldn't possibly be replaced! Talent and AI can't buy and enjoy the extra big yacht, or private jets, or over priced cars, or a giant over sized mansion... no you need people for that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yep. Having to have requirements that doesn't flow with people very well and requiring constant updates, people WILL find shortcuts. In the office, I've seen sheets of paper with the password written down, I've seen sticky notes, I've seen people put them in notepad/word so they could just copy paste.

This is made worse, because you have to go out of your way for a password manager, which means you need to know what that is. And you need a good one because there has been (and I'm going to generalize here) problems with some password managers in the past. And for work, they have to allow a password manager for that to even be an option. Which you then end up with this security theater.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My car insurance has doubled in less than 8 years. But don't worry, it has less coverage too! Oh, but I'll get a teeny tiny discount if I let them install a lowjack!

 

This might not be the best place for this question but I honestly can't think of another place, but if you know of one please let me know. But I figured someone here might have the experience I'm looking for.

I own the discs for various Star Trek series and everything Stargate. What I'm trying to do is use handbrake to encode them to put them on Plex. But everything I try, it just looks worse. Is there a repository of like recommended settings for various media?

view more: next ›