hakirsch

@hakirsch@furries.club

Gay male furry erotica writer H. A. Kirsch
Probably NSFW in a crass way as well as "I make adult content" way

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lupomancer, to random
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Now that I no longer have the Ford Focus, I’ve allowed myself to read into just how bad the transmission issues are with that car and man… yeah I’m glad I got out of that car

https://reddit.com/r/FordFocus/comments/n8o17r/_/hrp3iop/?context=1

hakirsch,

@lupomancer the PowerShit transmission? yeah.

DCTs seem to be inherently fussy, although it's not like planetary/clutch band automatics aren’t if you think about it.

Plus some of the newer 'traditional automatics' are basically dual clutch transmissions anyway, and just have a torque converter.

Ford just blew it. they got something designed and built that had problems and just like, built a lot of them anyway and put them in cars instead of fixing the problems first.

the 3rd gen focus (2012 on in america) has tons of stupid problems.

shoq, to random
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WTF? Temu.com’s captcha asks me to slide puzzle pieces to the correct position. But there are none that fit no matter now many times I refresh. Is this some new version of “How to keep an idiot busy?” (It’s working.)

hakirsch,

@shoq I think you're supposed to fit the SHAPE and not the CONTENTS? maybe?

shoq, to random
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Meanwhile, just to distract me from my foot problems. I’m afraid my CPAP experiment is coming to an end. I just cannot find a solution. If I strap my chin down so my mouth doesn’t open, my TMJ joint aches for 2 days. And if I don’t, I’m awakened by air horns in my mouth. I cannot win.

hakirsch,

@shoq I have mild sleep apnea and some other ENT issues and I follow a british ENT on youtube. Based on stuff he's been posting about some new treatments using nerve stimulation, I have a feeling there could be some evolution away from CPAP.

it's quite literally a brute force solution to a problem that could be better solved in some other way.

hakirsch, to random

I feel like agile scrum software development is this kind of...

it works if a team wants it to work, and if teams they work with want to cooperate with them.

I think scrum as a PROCESS is pretty useful, however it relies on a lot of continuous intensive planning work that I think ‘a typical developer' just doesn't want to do.

you have to really do all these tricks to 'show them the value’.

I'm curious what other development processes people find actually work really well.

hakirsch,

@werewolf what would you suggest is a better methodology?

nyrath, to random
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The movie industry is going to go ballistic when they see this. The AI is capable of making movie clips in response to simple prompts.

In the sixth slide-show, the seventh clip done in tilt-shift mode was impressive

https://openai.com/sora

hakirsch,

@swope that's a dolly that can go up stairs!

okay I mean it's definitely SUPPOSED to be a dolly that can go up stairs.

shoq, to random
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Good morning. Have you ever asked yourself why MAGAs smugly say stuff like “Do your research. America is not a democracy. It’s a Republic!” Obviously, they think it’s just owning you, but in their heads, what do you think they are thinking the meaningful distinctions really are, and why do they want to seem so prideful about it? (Can you imagine Kristen Welker, Katy Tur, or Jake Tapper asking them this question? I can’t.)

hakirsch,

@shoq I'm curious about the difference since I didn't know off the top of my head - apparently, a republic has a constitution to protect inalienable rights, and a pure/direct democracy does not.

I'm guessing the idea of a republic in that case is that there's some sort of document that would 'protect' MAGAs in a republic whereas a pure democracy with a majority non-MAGA would remove control of the MAGA people.

kagan, to random
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I always wonder if the people who write job postings realize that "fast-paced, dynamic environment" sounds like code for "chaotic, messy workplace with loads of pressure". I feel like some of them think it sounds cool, and so they put it in, even when the workplace actually has things under control. But I see it and I think, "Do I even want to apply there?" — and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

hakirsch,

@kagan I’m looking at changing jobs and I see the same thing. “Oh this is a manager job and a tech contributor job together because you fired most of the team and still need someone to do important work, got it.”

See also: One company I looked at seemed to have bad reviews on Glassdoor where people were saying they were awful micromanagers - and yet one of my current employees has applied there as they emailed me directly to ref check him, so he must not have seen the review or knows something I don’t lol

TechConnectify, to random
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As the Dishwasher Man, but not necessarily known here for being the Dishwasher Man, here's a short thread to explain my whole thing about detergent pods:

Dishwashers are simple machines. They fill with a small quantity of water, use a pump to force that water through spray arms, and those arms spray your dishes with the water. That's really all that's happening at a very basic level.

Key to making this actually clean your dishes is chemical detergents to break down food stuff.

hakirsch,

@TechConnectify someone in the comments mentions it makes their cycle time shorter to use prewash. As someone with a Bosch dishwasher that is very nice and yet takes almost three hours to do a cycle…

hakirsch,

@jernej__s @TechConnectify it has a 60 minute quick cycle

Actually a bunch of cycle extension time is drying because the dry agent thing is empty and I didn’t program it via German button pushing to ignore it <.<

shoq, to random
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Link please?

Source: @hakirsch
https://mastodon.social/@hakirsch@furries.club/111631811375376070

hakirsch,

@shoq https://youtu.be/EdL85EP7s5M

hakirsch, to random

is there a way to get access to 'member only' articles on medium?

yes, I am asking how to pirate stuff from medium

I'm not gonna fucking subscribe to someone's medium thing just to find out how to urinate in a docker container

hakirsch, to random

So I’m looking at applying to a couple jobs and both of them look promising yet have done icky reviews on Glassdoor. So does my current employer, and in fact my original current employer got a “do not work there” statement from a former boss of mine yet it’s been the best career thing that’s happened to me.

So… idk.

foone, to random
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Bad idea: a modernized s-100 computer built around pci-e slots

hakirsch,

@foone do you mean card readers that connected via the FD interface or that fit into the drive like a disk similar to how a car stereo cassette line-in adapter works

hakirsch,

@foone are you for real???? I had no idea such things existed!

18+ tryst, to random

The average East Midlands Railway train carries over 630kg of human grot

A carpet so engrained with dirt that its surface is now smooth.

hakirsch,

@tryst @avon_deer it seems we have plenty of evidence that privatization doesn’t work, so why do people fall for it? Do they just believe what people tell them? Does ir trigger selfish tribal stuff when they hear “ahh you won’t have to pay for other people’s stuff anymore!”

hakirsch, to random

huh, Opeth's drummer refused to get vaccinated against COVID and so they fired him.

That's too bad. Anyway...

jk, to random
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there was that weird moment in the early-mid 2000s where like, almost everybody i knew, including me, had a 17" LCD computer monitor, but nobody had a flat screen TV yet since they were too expensive, and almost all current-generation console games were 480i, so if you wanted to play a video game for more than like 2 hours without getting a splitting headache you pretty much had to play it on PC

hakirsch,

@jk in 2006, I bought a 27" CRT because it was reasonably priced.

Two years later I had to buy a 720p LCD to play xbox 360 games. Also, you couldn't buy CRTs anymore, it was all LCDs (and a smattering of plasma and DLP rear projection). I've never seen a tech get dropped so fast. Commonplace to nothing in two years.

hakirsch, to random

me, wanting some pose examples for a commission: ok ai thing I want a wolf in a business suit holding his hands upturned with a smug expression

(this is what hawk looks like all the time, he's from brooklyn)

ai: “no that's unsafe you're naughty"

wtf it's a fucking wolf, you think there's something wrong with a regular fucking wolf? lemme tell you what I think about your 'unsafe' image policy </hawk>

hakirsch,

@awooo like sure if I tell it to have a bare furry chest (hawk doesn't wear shirts under his jackets unless he's trying to be excessively geared up) maybe I can sorta see

but I think what happens with bing's dall-e implementation is that it not only checks your prompt (so you can't ask it to draw boobies or pp) but it also converts the output image into a text description and if that is NSFW it doesn't show it to you.

so either it generated a naughty image without me asking (because furry art) or it thought the image was naughty when auto-describing it.

hakirsch,

@awooo maybe it's chatgpt's inclusion of dall-e 3 that goes through image to text at the end then? one of these generative systems does that. I've definitely had dall-e 3 through bing give me stuff that was like "hot furry in a harness and jockstrap with a BIG BIG BULGE" and like well I guess the spicy filter was asleep then.

I feel like sometimes when you violate some sort of NSFW content rule, the moderation policies don't tell you what you did to break it. My assumption there is that they want to discourage people trying to find out how close they can get to the line.

like if amazon pulls your book because it violates their content policy, they don't tell you what violated it. you have to figure it out yourself. this happened to me because of a suggestive cover image that I knew was going to be flaunting things.

hakirsch,

@awooo I'm fascinated by how these things work because they really do something that simultaneously can do shockingly good quality output, and it's also shockingly inflexible/probabilistic and random and not really suited for real use.

hakirsch, to random

do neurodivergent people have trouble understanding why "good luck; we're all counting on you" is funny in the movie "Airplane" ?

hakirsch, to random

Have any of you had VivAer nasal treatment? My ENT recommended it to me to fix my nasal valve issue and big turbinates.

hakirsch, to random

if I mute an account and someone reboosts it, will I not see the reboost?

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