averagedrunk

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averagedrunk,

xkcd.com/644/

averagedrunk,

Now that the idea is out there, there’s a decent chance that even if something did happen someone else will take up the torch.

averagedrunk,

In Texas? Eddie Cruz sounds like a guy who drives an El Camino and has a cousin named Cooter. He’d have been the presidential nominee in '16.

“Did you hear about Eddie and Cooter? They running for the big house! Get in the pickup, we’re gonna go vote!”

averagedrunk,

I’m approximately your age. I assumed the same thing. Hell, I thought crazy conspiracy theories were just people pretending “What if…” together.

In my younger days I would have been on a lot of bandwagons just to joke about the people who “didn’t get the joke”. It turns out I was the one that didn’t get it.

averagedrunk,

Which one of the Cenobites are you?

averagedrunk,

Fitz the Cat happened in '72.

averagedrunk,

Yeah, Infinity hates it. I’ve still got a Firefox browser app pinned that works fine though.

averagedrunk,

I loved Inbox. I hate everything that was supposed to replace it. Spark isn’t the worst thing in the world, but it’s not nearly as smart. Shortwave may be ok but my only IOS device isn’t set up to receive email and I haven’t bothered to try it since the Android app is new. Gmail is terrible. Outlook is Outlook.

Inbox worked in a way that my brain immediately understood and adapted to.

averagedrunk,

I have junk scissors that I buy for a couple of bucks and replace as necessary for all the things that I need to cut. I also have kitchen junk scissors for cutting open plastic that food gets packaged in. If I found someone using my poultry shears or kitchen knives for anything besides their intended use I would ask them to leave and never come back.

Don’t touch my tools. That includes the things in my garage, my kitchen tools (cookware, knives, shears, barbecue stuff, whatever), and my electronics tools. I can’t imagine someone using one of my instruments incorrectly, but don’t touch those either. If you want to touch anything, ask. Don’t be surprised if I try to make sure you know the right way to use it before I hand it over.

averagedrunk,

I’ll do to you what I do to other unwanted pests! I’ll yell “Go-on, getonouttahurr!” ineffectually while shooing you away with whatever I’ve got at hand.

averagedrunk,

I like to add bourbon to that mix to thin it out a little. That’s Christmas to me.

averagedrunk,

Oh me, oh my-oh

averagedrunk,

That must be depression era food because it sounds depressing as hell.

averagedrunk,

That’s why way back in the day they had GIMPshop and why there’s PhotoGIMP now.

averagedrunk,

Already exists. Merle Hazard, Dave’s Song

averagedrunk,

I can give them to my kids one day (when I’ll learn how to make them).

Are you trying to learn to make kids or watches?

averagedrunk,

It depends. If I’m doing something fitness related I put on a fitness band with smart watch features (I don’t let it alert me). If I’m dressing well I put on a watch and a tasteful men’s bracelet. If I’m dressed like a sack of crap and having lazy time (like right now) I’m not wearing either.

averagedrunk,

Aahhhh, well I wish you luck. May you get your 10,000 hours in practice and become a master of creating children!

averagedrunk,

With Framework, you’re also paying to be able to upgrade. I like the idea of getting a new GPU and just popping it in.

averagedrunk,

I was going to ask where the ad was, but I forgot that I turned off the launcher specifically because of that. I have no idea about PS but you can add the following on PC to skip the lau8


<span style="color:#323232;">--skip-launcher
</span>
averagedrunk,

You’re right, once. But adding that one time means I never have to see the launcher again. Clicking no means extra launch time and looking at it every time I launch the game.

But different strokes for different folks. If it’s not worth it to you then that’s cool. It was worth it for me and I thought I’d drop that for anyone else who may want it.

averagedrunk,

I’ve made it two decades in IT and related fields by searching for answers using Google. I accidentally took my laziness, love of automation, and ability to Google and became an SRE. Then I accidentally became a senior software engineer because the director on that side of the house liked my initiative and was sure my skills would translate. I protested but got a substantial bump to do it.

I’m failing upwards by abusing stack overflow and search engines.

averagedrunk,

Yep. I’ve got company access to GitHub Copilot, a personal subscription to ChatGPT, and I use Bing Copilot.

Bing and ChatGPT have a lot of utility overlap. Those things don’t do my job for me but they do generate initial ideas and double check my code. I also use GPT as my rubber duck that kind of talks back. I literally tell it to be a rubber duck and pretend to know nothing, then chat with it. It’s pretty great for that. Better than the bear that sits on my desk, but not as fun to look at.

Those are the newest tools in my arsenal of “Make computers do my job and rake in the paycheck”.

averagedrunk,

As a fat redneck, you’re mostly correct. You just forgot to add the word drunk in there somewhere.

Imma fry one up in about half an hour. I’m also gonna start drinking in just a minute. My fat drunk uncle who lost several of his fingers in a fireworks incident is smiling down on me from redneck heaven.

averagedrunk,

That has been my favorite hacker lore story since I first heard it decades ago.

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