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I was reading Dilbert from 2004 to 2009-ish. The content was more recycled than the paper it was printed on. I definitely stopped after Scott Adams did something stupid as well around that time, I don't know what it was anymore. Also he said some anti-vax stuff in regards to Covid-19 and was also favorable to Trump. The recent outburst of racism is barely surprising.
Monday, 27-Feb-23 11:18:03 UTC from web -
My search for a house is not going forward. As I thought I got one my banker told me the house ain't worth the asking price. The banker's estimate is too far off for getting a credit. He was right in hindsight as further investment would be needed to get it anywhere worthwile. It was a house from the 60s and not much has been done there. Also currently all houses on the market are overpriced as the interest rates jumped up and the houses on offer are needing a lot of TLC.
Monday, 20-Feb-23 18:23:07 UTC from web -
Red Dead Redemption 2 is my favorite game because I just robbed two trains and took hundreds of dollars of cash and valuables, and the game still considers me a decently honorable guy, but my friend killed a domesticated duck for its pelt and he is literally Satan.
Friday, 03-Feb-23 06:28:49 UTC from web-
@zeldatra In Yakuza the protagonist is accused of murder but didn't do it. On the other hand in the actual game he breaks spines left and right, shoots people, jams a broken bottle into the abdomen, piledrive a person head first into the concrete floor. It's ok because after the fight they are shown to be alive but bruised.
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@adiwan I’ve been playing through Yakuza Kiwami, haha. It’s my other favorite game right now.
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The house will require a lot of work, like new electric wiring, new windows, and a new heating system as it is required here to replace a gas heater every 30 years and it is a few years until retirement. I'll replace it with something 100% electric and a heat pump and install solar panels on the roof.
Thursday, 19-Jan-23 20:32:07 UTC from web-
@scribus Don't worry about that. Any ghost that decides to stay will get permanent spiritual damage by my presence alone. My awkward nerdyness and pony merch will ward them off.
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I'm gonna be a home owner soon. Crippling debt yeah!
Thursday, 19-Jan-23 17:40:07 UTC from web-
@scribus About half my income will be just for repaying the debt and the rest is for getting it to a proper shape and comics. I guess I'll starve.
It's not that bad but the next few years will be rough for sure. At least I will be able to sleep and have my peace and quiet.
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Got my tires yesterday and put them on my bike today. As it turns out, and as obvious it is in hindsight, the culprit for the puncture was a tiny rock. A rock as pointy as a needle and as black as the tire. I could only find it by guesstimating the location by the puncture location on the hose and then pushing really hard into the spot on the tire. The rock has dug into the rubber and I couldn't see it on my first inspection.
Sunday, 15-Jan-23 13:50:44 UTC from web-
@scribus In a way I was very lucky that the little piece of Potato Knishes was found in the first place and it didn't got me stranded far away from home. I was lucky that it happened close to home. I have a small set of stairs a few meters in front of my cellar. There I pull my bicycle down so it bounces on the edge of the steps. Just as I opened my cellar door my bike fell on its own (it was on its kickstand) and there I found the flat. Moments before I could cycle and didn't feel anything out of the ordinary, i.e. I had full pressure in the hose (between 4 and 5 bar).
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Barely a day has passed and I got a flat on the same tire.
Friday, 13-Jan-23 09:17:27 UTC from web -
fun fact of the year, sherlock holmes as in 01JAN23 has entered the public domain.
Sunday, 01-Jan-23 06:41:32 UTC from web-
@shadowboltmoon Finally everybody can sell their weirdly sexual Holmes/Watson fanfiction.
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Ah... Great... Forgot that the next days the air will smell horrible like farts and eggs and it will be a ordeal to breathe. I can forget to think about airing my apartment. I rather smell my own farts than the horribleness that will come from the outside.
Saturday, 31-Dec-22 19:06:33 UTC from web-
@adiwan I live in the barracks at Virginia, once spring comes along my window will be open 24/7 with a fan at max power.
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@shadowboltmoon I hope not near a farm and when manure gets sprinkled all over the field.
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after 6 years I've finally added a profile picture
Saturday, 31-Dec-22 17:00:40 UTC from web-
@shadowboltmoon Better late than never?
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My 15 year old monitor died yesterday. It "displays" something. Backlight works but the fault is somewhere on the mainboard between the actual screen and the end of image processing. The display cannot even show the OSD properly. As it appears it will be covered by black lines and then it turns into a bright pillar from top to bottom (where the text would be). I just won an auction on ebay for a cheap replacement monitor of the same model. Why? It's 16:10 IPS, has tons of inputs, and it was cheap. 45€ with shipping. Also I cannot afford a brand-spanking-new one.
Monday, 19-Dec-22 07:33:32 UTC from web -
I'm doing an anti-"No Shave November". Usually I shave myself every two weeks but this month I try to shave daily or every other day. My verdict so far: Daily shaving is not worth it as my beard grows so fast that I can feel the stubbles after an hour after the shave. Waxing my face is not an option.
Wednesday, 16-Nov-22 08:45:40 UTC from web-
@scribus Yeah. Even with an electric razor it's not very feasible to shave every day because of skin irritation. Honestly I rather prefer not to have a beard at all and would want a permanent hair follicle removal but the risk of scarring my skin on the face is too high.
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"Those lazy, lazy leaves"! I was taking the scenic route from shopping through the park and there I slid in a corner and fell. I lost all tyre grip because a brown and slimy moist pile of leaves in the curve acted like it's the best replacement for grease in that moment. Luckily there was not much damage. My pants got dirty, a scratch on my knee, and the side of my pedal was heavily scratched.
Saturday, 12-Nov-22 13:23:08 UTC from web -
Democrats are doing WHAT
Wednesday, 09-Nov-22 04:54:18 UTC from web -
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.
Monday, 31-Oct-22 15:25:27 UTC from web-
@adiwan I used some leftover PVC tarp, 3d printed a small decorative clamping piece that clamps the tarp flap to the mud guard, a M3 screw, two washers, a M3 locknut. I found some mud flaps similar in size online but mine was basically 1€ in costs, including the misprints.
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Always pleasantly surprised to see this place still kicking
Monday, 24-Oct-22 01:08:08 UTC from web-
@whomst sup
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@thelastgherkin Hey there. How's it goin
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your local console pleb bought yet another console. praise me http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876261
Sunday, 09-Oct-22 15:15:07 UTC from web-
@scribus yeah, it is the japanese pc engine, now i only need the disk drivers
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I-66 coming out of Washington had a bunch of construction being done on it tonight which meant I couldn’t get into any of the exits leading home. The result is that I had to drive through the dying rural part of Northern Virginia to get home. Two lanes, one in each direction, on a winding, narrow, wooded road in a “The Hills Have Eyes” looking area, critters everywhere, ominous glimpses of dilapidated ranch-style homes with pickups and Trump 2024 signage, and just when you thought it couldn’t get any spookier, a decapitated deer laying in a pool of its own blood that I had to avoid running over. Jordan Peele couldn’t have depicted a more uncomfortable drive.
Thursday, 29-Sep-22 07:26:11 UTC from web-
@zeldatra this sounds like a genuinely exciting roadtrip, it needs spoopy music
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Sometimes I wonder if I am insane or the world is insane.
Sunday, 25-Sep-22 19:55:12 UTC from web-
@adiwan We're currently going through the once-a-century social hysteria so at least one of them is true, the other requires more study.
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If anybody needs a unicorn cartoon fix https://www.cbr.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn-nickelodeon-wins-screen-rights/ The comic is cute, I look forward to this
Saturday, 17-Sep-22 01:37:35 UTC from web -
Ooof... Robert Zemeckis can't do it right somehow. The Live-action Pinocchio is borderline bad.
Monday, 12-Sep-22 16:12:34 UTC from web -
starting the week to something cursed http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876230
Monday, 12-Sep-22 13:39:17 UTC from web -
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.
Monday, 12-Sep-22 06:43:02 UTC from web-
@adiwan There are GANs for that. Wouldn't work for CAPTCHA
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@oracle I think you can make a GAN practically for everything in the realm of captchas. I think that it'll going the way I predict in order to enhance the generating models with A-B-testing (or other similar tests) by actual humans. The same as it is done now with captchas that ask humans to recognize traffic lights, cars, busses, zebra stripe crossings, bikes...
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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?
Friday, 09-Sep-22 10:40:06 UTC from web-
@adiwan JOINS are inexpensive, but when you need do trillions of them, they become an obstacle. This problem was why Amazon created DynamoDB
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@oracle Well... It's not an environment with a ton of activity. A lot but not Amazon-a-lot. The database is an older Oracle installation because legacy software running needs exactly that old version. It stems from a time where entity frameworks were the rage and thus all objects were stored in a database. That same database is misused as a semi-persistent storage for message queues. In the recent past it was a few times as the culprit for some major downtime, as it is the biggest single point of failure without redundancy. I'm pretty soured by that.
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Re-upped all of my animation programs with an old email account I had from community college that I never lost access to, therefore qualifying for the much cheaper student pricing. Don’t be a snitch, ‘kay?
Saturday, 20-Aug-22 06:10:41 UTC from web-
@zeldatra My old school and university were very quick disabling my accounts. I had a month to backup everything. In that time I could snatch the last time a student discount on the Amazon Prime membership. For all the other stuff (except for cinema) the student discounts were for products that are too expensive to begin with, even with a meager discount of 5% to 10% like laptops. The only discount that I abused was getting Windows licenses for 10€ over the MSDN program my university was part of. I got licenses for the family and a hand full for me.
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@adiwan my state’s community college system oversees all forms of adult education so once you’re enrolled you’re never “unenrolled” in the sense that you’ll always be a student because they offer courses that don’t contribute to a degree, and you need the student email to enroll for it, therefore, for as long as I live in this state, I am a student and don’t have to pay $70 a month for ToonBoom
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I drive past the NRA headquarters every day on my way to work (yes, they are a DC company…) and, like, not that I think anyone should do it, but how funny would it be if that place got shot up? Like that’d at least be a little funny, right?
Monday, 15-Aug-22 13:19:17 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Giving guns to fetuses might be funnier. They probably have a right to bear arms and form a well-organized militia in some states (by their respective child-bearing mothers).
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I am so Potato Knishesing glad Trump supporters are so goddamn dumb. Guy attacks an FBI field office in Ohio, and his grand master plan to get through the bullet proof glass is to use… a nail gun. I mean hey, it says “bullet proof”, not “nail proof”.
Friday, 12-Aug-22 15:42:46 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Hahaha. Oh wow. The same logic can be applied to this: A bullet-proof vest is not knife-proof. Good old chain mail is https://i.redd.it/wniq0txjswg91.jpg
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@zeldatra I'm quite fond of the supporters who rile up the internet and call for violence, and then denounce it as "no true Trump supporter" when it happens
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@scribus nothing better than a guy calling for actual violence in the streets, then when someone goes and does it he’s like “that’s an FBI plant bro”
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All those MTV cartoons in the late 90s/early 2000s had the right idea, animating with thick outlines is way easier than thin ones. Daria should be the gold standard.
Wednesday, 03-Aug-22 15:19:39 UTC from web-
@scribus I’m sure it’s eyeroll-inducing when I talk about how I think The Simpsons looked better before the switch to HD but this is basically exactly why. The new studio is better about it than Film Roman was but the crispness of the art drew a lot of attention to the crudeness of the character designs and made the whole product look a lot worse. The brighter colors are headache inducing. The improved readability of small movements means characters aren’t moving much at all. And now that things are going into 4K that’s all probably gonna get a lot worse. There are gonna be a thousand individually animated objects in a single frame just to prove it can be done. It’s gonna be visual overstimulation like you wouldn’t believe.
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@zeldatra Overstimulation... That's what I sometimes feel watching anime. Some try to fill a frame with so much detail and end up distracting at best and unreadable at worst.
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@adiwan Kind of how I felt with Bless the Harts. It's like amateur movies, where they used cheap cameras and full-focus lenses, and everything is clear but nothing clearly stands out. Sort of a soap opera effect.
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I’ve been transferred to a new store closer to DC for my new promotion starting on Sunday and I gotta say: now that I have to deal with the traffic repercussions, I firmly believe that all construction on the metro line should immediately be halted as not having to stop for construction workers would shave ten minutes off my drive easily.
Friday, 29-Jul-22 17:11:24 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Promotion! Yeah! Hopefully construction won't take forever. When I had to commute about 30km to work I had often construction work on the Autobahn, which made the traffic so bad at rush hour that it added 30 to 45 minutes to the commute and forced me to start work at 6 AM to get around all of this. Even then the construction added 10 minutes to a 15 minute drive (under good circumstances and at about 140km/h and traffic signals.)
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@adiwan I’m hoping they’ll be done soon but also they’ve been working on this metro expansion since I was 12 so I’m starting to think it’s a mob front and they’ll never be done.
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Wow didnt think this place was still around
Sunday, 17-Jul-22 00:05:08 UTC from web-
@adiwan I always pictured us as the divey little dockside pub that's only still standing because the proprietor owns the building and doesn't need to pay rent so they can get by with the couple regulars just hanging out and playing pool
