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Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Soylent Pudding posted:

AITA for not interviewing someone because they had road rage at me? And asking office security to escort them out?

I'm sure he would have revealed himself to be an rear end in a top hat in the interview too.

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Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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value-brand cereal posted:

Why is there even a limit on comments? What the hell is karma? Wtf.

Karma is a scoring system, you can upvote or downvote a post and individual comments. "Reached a karma limit" is code for "this is getting downvoted to poo poo so we're going to take it down to curb the inevitable drama". Same thing for number of comments. Reddit is a massive website, so if people from outside of a subreddit catch wind of a popular post you can get a huge torrent of comments that the mods might be unable or unwilling to deal with.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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My forum [22P] won't get over Pick [??F], AITA?

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Something tells me that she hasn't exactly been helpful to James.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Some other people are getting confused and really really dumb about gizmos too

I (23f) was fostering my niece's (10f) interest in hacking, when I babysit. Her mom is mad.

quote:

Ok so the people involved are:

Me - 23f Jeff - 32m, my brother Anna - 31m, Jeff's wife Elle - 10f, my niece

I moved back to my hometown recently to be with family, and Jeff and Anna started asking me to babysit their daughter, Elle.

I asked her what she wanted to be when she grew up, and she said she wanted to be a hacker. Which I thought was cute as anything, I'm a software engineer. She asked me if I knew anything about hacking, her dad had said I know things about computers.

I told her about how, if you study enough, you can get paid by companies to try and hack them, because they want a helpful person to tell them about their vulnerabilities before someone uses them to do something bad.

And I also said that it is important to know a lot about what you're hacking; if you understand something enough to have created it, you understand how it can be hacked. So the biggest part of being a good hacker is knowing programming.

I asked her if she wanted to try some stuff, I'd write programs and she'd see how I wrote them and try and hack them. She did.

I started out real simple, with a "Hello World" style program, that would run in the terminal. Then I changed it to accept a name as input and print out "Hello (Name)".

We tried putting in all sorts of things, and had a laugh about printing out "Hello Butt" That was the first lesson, that if someone doesn't protect their program to only accept the things they want, you can make it do things the person who wrote it doesn't want.

We moved on to more stuff like me explaining binary data representation. Data types and how big of a number they can hold, and if a number that is too big is put in, overflow will happen and it will roll to a very negative number. And we experimented with that.

We got to more stuff like loops, and the "hack" was to set up input conditions to make the loop go on infinitely.

So yeah, the lessons were really a CS fundamentals intro with a bit of super simple "hacking" thrown in.

For the first couple times, Jeff and Anna came home very late after Elle had gone to bed, they asked if she'd behaved well, but not much else. I didn't think to mention our "hacking".

Then, last weekend, Anna called me and she was really mad. She said Elle told her that I'd been giving her hacker lessons, that wasn't OK, I wasn't allowed over again because I'd encouraged her interest in something illegal.

I tried to explain that we weren't doing anything illegal, we were seriously just talking about computer science fundamentals and doing little projects on the computer that don't affect anything else. I could show her, if she liked.

She said no, Elle had already shown her how to run programs I'd written, and she was not OK with me having put "hacker code" on the family computer without asking.

I didn't know what else to say. I want to explain stuff but I don't know how.

What do I do to smooth stuff over with my brother and sister in law?

TLDR - I was giving me niece hacking lessons, her parents are upset with me.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Midnight Voyager posted:

CONTENT:

AITA for making my boyfriend eat meat at my family gathering even though he's vegetarian?

gently caress kind of meal is this? "Snacks" and "sauces" and then just a turkey, fuckin eat.

Life imitates art.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um2p4GlEbKg

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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mind the walrus posted:

Either they both give enough of a gently caress to talk it out and find compromises/fixes, or they don't. Unfortunately a big paternalistic "teachable moment about consequences" is gonna make it that much harder both to solve the issue, and exit the relationship with a clean conscience of "Well, I did everything reasonable on my end." Then again for all I know these are 19 year-old pseudochildren so :shrug: .

There is a time and a place to talk out these problems, and that time is not when there's a car outside waiting for you.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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I happened to hit it off with a coworker who interviewed me (who was also a goon) in my first week at a job and we're still friends years later. It's not impossible to make a friend.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Brawnfire posted:

If someone war-models BUT has every faction and not just Nazis, breathe a sigh of relief. You can't fathom the bullet you never had to dodge.

After engaging with the scale model community for a few years I stopped buying German models altogether and paint the ones I already have as destroyed or captured ones specifically because of these people.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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keep punching joe posted:

AITA for not liking Indian food?

What a dipshit.

I don't think this person knows that spice and spicy aren't the same thing.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Soylent Pudding posted:

AITA for telling my son that if he doesn't break up with his girlfriends, I'll disinherit him?

Thirty entire minutes away? Might as well be on the moon.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Pomme de Terror posted:

AITA for going to IKEA with my girlfriend and then refusing to pay half?

Woah there, I'm not paying for such decadent excess as a *checks list* soap dispenser!

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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SYSV Fanfic posted:

I live in an urban area with no yard. Is the sidewalk OK, or do I need to go all the way to the street?

How far is your nearest sewer drain? The trick is to have the route fully mapped out in your mind when the urge strikes.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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run on sentience posted:

It's Salisbury steak. But regardless of the quality of the meal, he's an rear end in a top hat for taking a bite and spitting it out onto the remaining food then expecting her to eat it.

Not only expecting her to eat it, but berating her over it until she burst into tears with his excuse being that she should have resisted his onslaught for longer before crying.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Biplane posted:

That dude has sunk cost syndrome and I am afraid for him

quote:

Girlfriend (28F) and I (24F) have moved in together february.

Not a dude

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Soylent Pudding posted:

AITA for telling my ex that he’s an idiot if he thinks our kid will be monolingual.

I grew up bilingual and it rules, lmao if you don't use your prime language learning years to pick up some languages effortlessly as long as the opportunity exists.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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The Butcher posted:



(reddit guy, not you)

It's even the right shape for a gang tag and everything.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Funktastic posted:

AITA for asking my son Steve to loan his classic car to my son Henry for his wedding photos and the bride and grooms car?

It's possible that his jurisdiction has different rules for historical vehicle registrations. I know that in my province you're exempt from a lot of modern requirements when you register a historical vehicle, but then there are also limitations on where you can drive it.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Baronjutter posted:

It sounds like this thread needs some sort of Hoe Union.

My [1? Witch] thread [0-99 Porpoise] has unionized

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Woodchip posted:

I am a 36 [M] dating a 34 [F]. How long before we start discussing how to combine our lives and start a family?

I am sort of a modern aristocrat. I come from a well-off family and I have many privileges.

I'm kind of a fail son though.


If you were a real aristocratic failson then your parents would have bought you a cavalry regiment to play with, you're just a dick.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Mx. posted:

AITA for getting angry at my(m29) girl friend (f28) for hiding that she speaks Spanish?

I accused her of sneakily making her way into my family instead of having them warm up gradually

My family likes you, we can never be together.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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r/relationships: edit: I'm not a stalker

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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quantumwell posted:

What do you mean you don't like being in a group Hoe-A-Dex ? We're just trying to impress you so you'll sleep with us !

My "I don't use the gently caress-a-dex for sex" t-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Foo Diddley posted:

i always wonder how these people would like it if it was their partners constantly insulting and belittling them, instead of mom or whoever insulting their partners. somehow i don't think they'd handle it well

Unless a behaviour affects me (the main character of life), it shouldn't count.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Pillbug
Oh you're still parenting a vanilla child? Let me send you a few links to ModDB for a more hardcore experience.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Dr. Stab posted:

It's a tale as old as time:

1.violate a boundary
2.have a discussion where you agree that what you did was wrong and you promise not to repeat your behaviour.
3.immediately forget 2 happened and goto 1

repeat until you don't have any friends or family anymore. Worked for my mom.

I thought step 2 was to demand an apology from the person whose boundary you violated.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Plucky Brit posted:

During a bullying and harassment seminar at work, one person from HR repeatedly mentioned that being ginger was not a protective characteristic. I think his point was that they were fair game.

I believe in a precedent setting case it was ruled that you were not allowed to replace their staff photo with a photo of a sweet potato.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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The Bramble posted:

No words ending in philia

Am I [13M] the rear end in a top hat for being concerned that my mom [46F] hired a holy man [47M] to treat my hemo[removed]

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Lemniscate Blue posted:

I can't loving believe I find out about this post on a podcast my girlfriend listens to.

I wonder if MIL had a new son-bearing girlfriend lined up along with the papers.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Bruceski posted:

I knew someone in high school trying to learn Spanish and French ad the same time and she had a hard time keeping her brain from flipping between them.

I learned French because my mother had Asterix comics in the attic.

I learned French for five years because Canada and then one semester of German absolutely destroyed it all in my brain.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Mx. posted:

i have a twin and my family life is neverending drama and i loving wish it would stop

Same, my family was a whirlwind of drama until the people responsible for most of it died and everyone else moved to a different country.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Captain Hygiene posted:

AITA for "banning" my wife from putting up a TV in our living room? TL;DR: it would destroy the vibe I'm going for in the room.

Can't you understand, I'm trying to improve your life by dedicating this room to the stupidest looking decade! It's just good science!

The wife should find a horrible vintage CRT TV to put in there if he likes the 70s so much.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Cowslips Warren posted:

AITA my husband thinks I'm making too much out of our situation

I wonder if this guy is going to go out and chase 20 year olds again when he's 80.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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kdrudy posted:

That question sounds like a trap, I wouldn't expect anyone to have an easy time answering it.

"I referred to a more senior colleague as Du instead of Sie" is a freebie.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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IOwnCalculus posted:

I'm aghast at the principle of "schoolwork that has to be turned in before the school year begins", that alone would be enough for me to tell the teacher to gently caress off.

I got some kind of remedial English language assignments to do during the summer and then didn't do them. Joke's on me though, now I speak the stupid language fluently.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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HR said I can't carry a stake anymore, how else do you expect me to keep the vampires away?

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Gadzuko posted:

I think the fear of a 12 year old kid full on breaking an entire ps5 is a little over the top. What's he going to do, pick it up and chuck it out the window? He might break a controller, sure, but that's easy to replace. A 12 year old is probably old enough to be trusted not to completely destroy a computer sitting on a shelf that he barely, if ever, has to touch. And now on the subject of sharing...

Opinion on your partner eating your leftovers after you said not to?

Considering in this very thread we had an example of someone smashing their sibling's phone against the wall as a "prank", he very well might.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Soylent Pudding posted:

AITA for “exploiting” my daughter?

I wish I had the foresight as a teenager to get ripped mowing the lawn.

Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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misguided rage posted:

Yeah I worked for a place with a food allowance, but required me to submit receipts for everything and would reimburse me for what was spent rather than just giving me X$*Ydays. It was pretty annoying.

I had to do this too, plus just a receipt wasn't enough, I had to put in an itemized list of food and who I was with (presumably if I was with a client I would be able to get away with more?) which seemed like a lot of hoops to jump through. Still, at that point I was committed to get my money back for "One (1) frozen pizza, eaten alone".

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Ensign Expendable
Nov 11, 2008

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Love to spray people with bodily fluids as a joke.

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