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loving EYE CRYSTALS This is my omega pet peeve EYE CRYSTALS Get out of bed, my eyes feel like a loving pit quarry. I have to take a faceful of showerhead before I can even focus on my disappointing morning
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it's 2021 how haven't we invented WYSIWYG networking yet? I want to drag a line between two circles, maybe add some symbols, and have it create me a rule about what traffic can go between two subnets not write an iptables rule which are for the absolutely deranged
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Aug 28, 2021 20:18
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Brawnfire posted:loving EYE CRYSTALS
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Aug 28, 2021 22:14
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Killingyouguy! posted:it's 2021 how haven't we invented WYSIWYG networking yet? Uh, if we do that, the network consultants (from the switch company) wouldn't be needed to get a loving vlan working, and we can't have that can we?
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Aug 28, 2021 22:21
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Parasol Prophet posted:That's understandable-- I probably just have a bias against the military and get the feeling that they're trying to prove something (either that they were in the military, or that they went out of their way to learn it). I associate the NATO phonetic alphabet with aviation in general way more than the military, and I've been required to use it at completely non-government jobs. I definitely see how it could makes things way worse if someone is bad at it, though. Edit: it's also a thing in amateur radio. Dip Viscous has a new favorite as of 22:54 on Aug 28, 2021 |
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Aug 28, 2021 22:51
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I just memorized the nato letters for my family name bc people consistently get it wrong when i have to spell it over the phone
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Aug 28, 2021 23:02
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:It reminds me of another peeve: passwords being displayed hidden when you enter them. Like car alarms that poo poo is just theatre. Accounts aren't compromised by the hacker looming over your shoulder reading as you type the password in. Not everybody is as confident about that: shoulder surfing
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Aug 28, 2021 23:14
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Brawnfire posted:I did play with that for myself for a while (because of Stargate) but it became its own conversation, like "zed? wtf?" Zeddy was a teddy.  It's still a neat nickname. aardwolf posted:Not everybody is as confident about that: shoulder surfing EAH is a bit young to remember internet cafe's I guess, and that prior to that home computers were shared and it was pretty common for someone to have friends crowded real close.
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Aug 29, 2021 01:33
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There are a bunch of dumb antivax stickers in my neighbourhood. If my printer worked and/or I had a sticker machine I'd make rebuttal stickers that started with "Well first of all dumbass..." and put them wherever I found them. It's appropriate that they are on bins, because their opinions are trash.
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Aug 29, 2021 09:04
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Ugly In The Morning posted:A lot of the apartment noise I had when I lived in Brooklyn was the guy under my fire escape chanting racial slurs and conspiracy theories that heavily involved Timothy mcveigh. Also car alarms. And honking, can’t forget the honking. I’d much rather have weedwhackers and leafblowers over that. when i lived in my old apartment there was a very big black man who'd walk by on the same day at the same time every week like clockwork shouting about how all white women were whores and should suck his dick and how the netherlands should be burned to the ground and stuff like that, it was always on a saturday when it was quiet so i'd hear him coming from far away shouting, hear him pass under my window and walk away in the distance like an ambulance
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Aug 29, 2021 09:09
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The neighbourhood weirdo is part of the appeal of the city. Now that guy is a bit more hostile and misogynist than I would like but you take what you can get.
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Aug 29, 2021 11:22
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At least he was wearing pants and shoes.
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Aug 29, 2021 11:44
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korean restaurants that have a soul/seoul pun in their name
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Aug 29, 2021 14:04
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Shibawanko posted:when i lived in my old apartment there was a very big black man who'd walk by on the same day at the same time every week like clockwork shouting about how all white women were whores and should suck his dick and how the netherlands should be burned to the ground and stuff like that, it was always on a saturday when it was quiet so i'd hear him coming from far away shouting, hear him pass under my window and walk away in the distance like an ambulance We had that guy but he was a skinny Black man in nice business attire, strolling down the street about OPEC and Saudia Arabia and stuff, mostly things that would be kind of true if he weren't screaming them as he walked. Once I saw him repeatedly throwing an umbrella and kicking it and just getting very angry at it. He also came into my work one time and gave a co-worker of mine a note with a bunch of weird lines from the Bible. Anyhow, I hope he's doing okay, he seemed pretty put-together except for the yelling so I assumed he just slipped sometimes. Also, 85% humidity is apparently the humidity to set my smoke alarm off at 1, 1:15, and finally 1:30 am when I angrily disabled it. I got to hang out with a terrified baby though, that makes up for not sleeping!
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Aug 29, 2021 14:20
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Brawnfire posted:mostly things that would be kind of true if he weren't screaming them as he walked. Screamed so loud he altered reality, making false what had been true?
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Aug 29, 2021 14:24
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This hero is the reason women in Saudi can drive now
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Aug 29, 2021 14:26
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Brawnfire posted:Also, 85% humidity is apparently the humidity to set my smoke alarm off at 1, 1:15, and finally 1:30 am when I angrily disabled it. I got to hang out with a terrified baby though, that makes up for not sleeping!
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Aug 29, 2021 14:37
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Tiggum posted:Screamed so loud he altered reality, making false what had been true? The medium is the message. But I mean like, I could support a universal minimum wage but if I do it while screaming outside a cafe, reasonably it comes off as more unhinged than as a political action plan And yeah apparently the smoke detector brand I have is sensitive to the 85 and up humidity level, which we rarely get to here
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Aug 29, 2021 14:47
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Shibawanko posted:korean restaurants that have a soul/seoul pun in their name I'll never fault restaurants catering to simple people to get the numbers up. Especially when it's good food and a decent pun.
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Aug 29, 2021 14:59
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fizzymercury posted:Humidity like that can set off your fire alarm? If mine was that sensitive it would never stop going off out here in the jungle. drat. Yes. Usually it’ll hit in the middle of the night when the temperature starts going down and the sensor gets fogged. I worked at a building that was 85+ humidity and the fire alarm went off four times in 36 hours once.
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Aug 29, 2021 15:33
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Well that would be infuriating. Wouldn't it go off any time you took a hot shower? I'm all for fire safety but that seems pretty well past a good sensitivity range. You'll be disconnecting it or ignoring it pretty immediately.
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Aug 29, 2021 16:00
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fizzymercury posted:Well that would be infuriating. Wouldn't it go off any time you took a hot shower? I'm all for fire safety but that seems pretty well past a good sensitivity range. You'll be disconnecting it or ignoring it pretty immediately. Depends on the location but yeah, that is completely possible, there was a sensor in my dorm freshman year of college that would go off from showers. Depends on the type of sensor in your detectors, too, it’s more common on larger/commercial buildings.
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Aug 29, 2021 16:04
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Thankfully the airflow in our house usually prevents it, but last night nothing was moving at all and it felt wet just standing there. Which is a MASSIVE pet peeve of mine; when it's humid enough that cloth feels moist. Especially bedsheets. Nights like that I want to sleep on a slab of cold stone
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Aug 29, 2021 16:13
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:The neighbourhood weirdo is part of the appeal of the city. Now that guy is a bit more hostile and misogynist than I would like but you take what you can get. Also at noon I can see it as part of the appeal of the city, at 2am it’s just loving awful. I was always, always tired when I lived in Brooklyn.
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Aug 29, 2021 19:54
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Tiggum posted:It's not showing off; it's very easy to remember. And it's very useful if you're spelling out something that needs to be exact, like an email address - especially if it's over a bad phone line or in a noisy environment.
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Most of the people who call my work seem to do so on the worlds shittiest Bluetooth connection while driving with their windows down through a static filled tunnel so using the nato alphabet or some variant of it helps a lot Actually I just really hate talking on the phone whether the connection is good or not, it’s a lot harder than talking to people face to face for me 
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Aug 31, 2021 00:58
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Bluetooth in general is poo poo and it's astounding that it has somehow become the standard for wireless connection. Not that wireless isn't always inherently worse than wired but it doesn't need to be quite as bad as Bluetooth.
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Aug 31, 2021 01:33
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Text on roads and bike paths written bottom to top. 200m from visible must be lights? Do most people actually read this as intended? Am I the only one who reads it top-to-bottom like every other text?
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Sep 2, 2021 08:47
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I've never seen that but if I saw that while biking I'd probably think I was having a stroke and pull over.
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Sep 2, 2021 09:32
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Tiggum posted:Text on roads and bike paths written bottom to top. Yeah that's insane, wtf? My pet peeve cos I heard it today : radio DJs who think it's funny to interrupt the songs they're playing to sing deliberately poorly over the top of them. Oh, oh and another one. Any reference to 'Mama Nature', especially in advertising. We're in the loving UK, no one says 'mama'.
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Tiggum posted:Text on roads and bike paths written bottom to top. Yeah that's an awful example. It's written to be read by someone almost on top of it looking straight down so there's no need to do anything unusual. Something like this makes more sense because you can't easily read both lines at once  But it's still got a bunch of problems.
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Imagine this: You are a pedestrian standing at an intersection between two roads, and there are stoplights at each corner. You want to cross the street, and the stoplight in your intended direction is green. You stand at the corner and wait as the light turns yellow, then red. That's when you step into the road to cross the street. What is wrong with you, and how is it contagious?
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Sep 5, 2021 17:13
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Cross the road whenever you want to assert dominance over the carbound assholes. Never look before crossing. If you die you gently caress up their car and give them PTSD making your sacrifice worth it.
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Sep 5, 2021 19:50
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I play a pretty good casual solitaire app that gives you a new challenge deal every day. When you win, it tells you how you rate against the best players in the categories of score, time, and moves. There have been so many times that I've finished in the least number of moves, but several dozens of seconds slower than the fastest player. Like this poo poo, which is an old screenshot but one of the most egregious examples: How could anyone be that goddamn fast? Are bots playing this game, and why on earth would anyone bother? You can't get actual money out of it or anything. Just to gently caress with normies? 
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Sep 5, 2021 20:01
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That's either a bot or someone like my lunatic husband that does solitare speedruns and posts on a forum specifically devoted to them. I really hope it's a bot. e: I asked why he does them once and he just shrugged and said "same reason anyone does them". fizzymercury has a new favorite as of 20:23 on Sep 5, 2021 |
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I used to care about the duolingo leaderboards then I realized the boards (which i think were global at the time, not tied to your target language) were being dominated by people speedrunning 'English for Spanish Speakers', 'English for Portuguese Speakers', 'English for French Speakers' etc to inflate their points. Like... is that fun? Is it fun for you to cheat at duolingo?
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Hirayuki posted:I play a pretty good casual solitaire app that gives you a new challenge deal every day. When you win, it tells you how you rate against the best players in the categories of score, time, and moves. There have been so many times that I've finished in the least number of moves, but several dozens of seconds slower than the fastest player. Like this poo poo, which is an old screenshot but one of the most egregious examples: Do a practice run on one account and real run knowing all the moves on another?
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Duolingo was cool at first but the way they do it kind of ruined the concept of learning languages for me. The constant reminders to do your lesson today so you don't lose a streak etc just wore me down. I made it to like 250 days in a row and missed one day (after using up all my freezes) and haven't touched it in like 4 months. Plus there's the fact that it feels like the equivalent of memorizing a phrasebook than learning the language. I know how to say a lot of things in Norwegian now but I wouldn't be able to make it two sentences into a casual conversation with a native speaker.
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My favourite duolingo thing, is when it's like 'pick the word for 'three'!' but then the box to tap has a '3' on it and a tiiiiiiiny little '三' underneath thanks but yeah i can't really converse about anything useful but i sure can ask for Dr. Li's phone number for his beijing office, i guess Killingyouguy! has a new favorite as of 22:37 on Sep 5, 2021 |
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