Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 40

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Disney's Pepper Ann still rocks.

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Made myself a mudflap for my bicycle. I could buy one but all the ones for purchase are way too small for what I think I need. Mine reaches further down and is wider in the hopes it will catch more dirt and preventing all that dirt flinging on my shoes and pants.

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Spammers assume we have enough dough to own land and therefore trees that have to be maintained. In this economy? Sheesh.

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After so much time on the Internet I'm still triggered by the simple mistakes in sentences when words like its and it's, you're and your, their and there... are written with the incorrect meaning. its and it's is the most reasonable mistake to make but my 5th grade me, learning English for the first time properly, could get it straight right away. (I had English in 3rd and 4th grade but the teacher was an imbecile)

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Tech sites are quite lacking serious content when they publish articles about the Raspberry Pi doing quirky things. In my head this always read as "PC does PC things".

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Oh boy... I have a completely full short box of Free Comic Book Day comics and it's HEAVY.

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I enjoyed reading Cullen Bunn's "The Sixth Gun" but the recent "The Last Book You'll Ever Read" started interestingly but became kiwi after issue 4 until the end.

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I think Rings of Power was good. It's not a people pleaser by any means but I enjoyed many of the actors, the production design, the visual effects, and the music. The story was fine. The standout characters were Elrond and Durin. Best bros.

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Daily I ponder about why soap dishes on the market are soo damn big and deep, as if they expected that the soap will be dripping off a bucket of water. I 3D-printed a very shallow one and it's fine for me. I wet my hands, use the piece of soap, the piece of soap is wet but not dripping, almost nothing drips off and collects in the dish.

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Today I was cycling behind someone with an e-bike and could keep up pretty easily at 30 - 35 km/h (18 - 22 mph). My legs are the superior motor!

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Halloween: Teaching children how to extort people for their own benefit.

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The app says: "Expect rain starting at 4PM"
Actual: It rains 2:45 PM

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I really like the open source wireless router/access point firmware DD-WRT. I really like it because it can make a $10 cheap router usable. Most built-in firmwares are so cut down or limited that make me furious. My go-to router for the cheapest possible deploy is a D-Link DIR 615. It is not the best and it is not the worst but most wireless devices are compatible with it (B/G/N) and costs usually about $5 used and new.

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I'm laughing really hard right now. Google is shutting down Stadia. Before the pandemic I had an intense discussion with a colleague about cloud gaming and the colleague was a huge fan of Stadia, and I was mostly against it. Who has won now?

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Sometimes I wonder if I am insane or the world is insane.

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I found my old 3DFX Voodoo Typhoon 3D Max in the attic. So many good memories.

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Ooof... Robert Zemeckis can't do it right somehow. The Live-action Pinocchio is borderline bad.

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I think captchas will evolve in the next few years using A.I.-generated images. I expect that there is a prompt and the user has to decide which of the pictures were generated with that prompt.

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They think: "Why don't we store everything flat, use compound foreign keys, and make relations as cumbersome to find out and create views that are less helpful as they do rarely use JOIN and use a BAZILLION of WHERE clauses. WHO NEEDS READABILITY AND PERFORMANCE?

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SQL is fine but it's insufferable because of the way people mistreat and abuse databases and create insane database schemas designed by idiots.

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It's so weird that the British people complain so much about their royals gobbling up so much of the tax money and practically doing nothing in their respective government roles that they still have a constitutional monarchy and somewhat still like the royals in a way. The difference to elected politicians must be very small.