“Handjobs not handouts!”

Set up a job to write the file names of everything in your file system to a text file and make sure that text file gets backed up. I did that on my Unraid server for years in lieu of fully backing up the whole array.

Was this the one that spent the first half trying to explain that all religions were based on Egyptian mythology before awkwardly jumping to 9-11 stuff?

I think I remember burning this on DVD back in the day before watching it and being confused and disappointed.

They might have reserved most of them for promotional giveaway type shit. “Win $5000 Kid Rock tickets!”

The only way I see this working is if there using the sticker price for another purpose. Those are like Olympic Finals ticket prices, not hillbilly rock in the middle of nowhere prices.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/583550

IRC is pretty good. There are bots that serve up e-books but many also have audiobooks. It’s direct download with a few extra steps.

You see she lost $33 and wasted 3 hours of time. What did she see?

She may very well think she spent $35 to get 3 hours to chat with people about crafts.

If she doesn’t need to sell crafts to survive, she might just be treating everything she’s doing as a social hobby.

If she’s actually looking to improve her income, it would probably be better to dig into it with her. What exactly is she making and what is she charging for it? Are some crafts of no interest to customers and should be dropped? Is there another craft that sells well and could do with a few other colour/size/whatever options?

There’s always room to tweak the table, but she’s probably the only person who could really point at what things are ideal for her to focus on. And if that’s not why she’s doing all this in the first place, you might not get anywhere with your intentions.

Case in point: there’s an old lady in my area that goes out at 5am most mornings and collects refundable cans from people’s recycling bins. She eventually takes them to the return depot to cash in. She’s not hurting for money. She donates all the money to animal shelters to help with surgeries or purchasing supplies.

You’d think a 92 year old woman digging through trash would be a sad state of affairs, but if her case you’d be dead wrong about her intentions. Your mom could be on a similar vibe.

I can’t stand Taylor Swift.

I don’t like her music and it always annoys me.

I won’t stand Taylor swift.

I am now on several watch lists and my online orders are being heavily scrutinized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_the_shark

The phrase was coined in 1985 by radio personality Jon Hein in response to a 1977 episode from the fifth season of the American sitcom “Happy Days”, in which the character of “Fonzie”(Henry Winkler) jumps over a live shark while on water-skis.

Basically any time a show goes on too long and tries to introduce a stupid, attention-getting gimmick to try to stay relevant.

I’ve had decent success with a deadpan stare and asking them to explain what they mean. Adjust your level of feigned stupidity or lack of sense of humour as needed.

“You’ve never heard me speak before? But you said the same thing to me last week when you heard me speak. Don’t you remember that? Is everything ok?”

Either they bypassed the alarm (there’s various hacks for various vehicles, but usually this is rare for petty thieves), or your alarm didn’t go off properly.

Either way, it doesn’t matter. Thieves are in and out in seconds and nobody except the owner gives a shit about a car alarm going off. You’re better off treating it like your car doesn’t even have an alarm.

The best way to avoid your car getting broken into is to make it less attractive than the cars around it. That’s not always easy, though, so it’s kind of useless advice.

I knew people once who always left their car empty. Privacy screen over the trunk/hatch was always open. Glove box was wide open. Ashtray and any places you could store spare change - wide open and obviously empty. They even left the fucking doors unlocked.

They never got broken into, but it must have been a pain to live like that.

…again

Big “Pokémon Go to the polls” energy there

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High col area means buildings are disappearing and being redeveloped as condos around me.

Gas stations are slowly dying as the land gets too expensive to justify a low traffic gas station, and increasing EV popularity is further shrinking their appeal.

Banks seem to be infiltrating stupid places now, like fucking indoor shopping malls.

There’s nothing like seeing a fucking BANK to make you not interested in visiting an area. If I don’t bank there I will never walk in. If I do bank there I will walk in once or twice a year. Such a shitty use of high visibility retail space.

One wing of my dying mall is entirely banks, dentists, and cell phone stores. Why would anyone want to stroll through that?

“What matters is not release of some subset of the Epstein files, but rather the prosecution of those who committed heinous crimes with Epstein,“ he wrote in an X post Saturday morning.  “When there is at least one arrest, some justice will have been done. If not, this is all performative. Nothing but a distraction,” he added.

A broken clock and all that…

I’m sure this is a big, professional, intelligence operation, but I still can’t help but think it’s just a LAN party.

I’d add on: depends if it’s emotional.

Sometimes people gotta process things and telling their story is what they actually needed.

Sometimes they’re giving me directions to the post office, and I can happily cut that shit short without anyone getting offended.

I found code that calculated a single column in an HTML table. It was “last record created on”.

The algorithm was basically:

foreach account group
  foreach account in each account group
    foreach record in account.records
      if record.date > maxdate
        max = maxdate

It basically loaded every database record (the basic unit of record in this DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM) to find the newest one.

Customers couldn’t understand why the page took a minute to load.

It was easily replaced with a SQL query to get the max and it dropped down to a few ms.

The code was so hilariously stupid I left it commented out in the code so future developers could understand who built what they are maintaining.

“So what was the problem in the end?”

“Man, I don’t fucking know.”

• me, every goddamn time

I wonder what they spent paying people to implement and communicate this change.

At 600k for a company that size this cost them more money than just paying the extra 4 cents.