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  1. 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.

      Monday, 31-Oct-22 17:05:00 UTC in context
  2. she is even marking her territory already xD http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876271

    Monday, 24-Oct-22 20:43:45 UTC from web
  3. so, anyway, i basically got a GF now. bet you didnt expect that

    Sunday, 23-Oct-22 03:21:33 UTC from web
  4. also, i've finished the NES version of Gradius because for some reason i got hyped for shumps

    Monday, 24-Oct-22 20:52:01 UTC from web
  5. Always pleasantly surprised to see this place still kicking

    Monday, 24-Oct-22 01:08:08 UTC from web
  6. Photoshop has a new “export to NFT” function which, if you’re an online artist, is kind of like having a “please end my career” button

    Saturday, 22-Oct-22 15:01:30 UTC from web
  7. 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.

    Tuesday, 18-Oct-22 06:57:19 UTC from web
  8. going on two and a half months without seeing my stalker, just kinda waiting for her to show up

    Friday, 14-Oct-22 03:52:38 UTC from web
  9. >Ukranian ambassador to the USA tells Elon Musk to papaya off
    >Ol' Musky says he'll cease giving Ukraine access to Starlink for free as a result
    >He doesn't actually go through with it the next day
    I am very disappointed, I thought he had a better sense of humor

    Monday, 17-Oct-22 02:06:57 UTC from web
  10. 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
  11. me: I think kanye west is misunderstood, he's mentally ill and he needs some help, and he's right about some things sometimes.
    kanye literally the next day: i'm going to go joker mode on some Jews

    Tuesday, 11-Oct-22 02:02:44 UTC from web
  12. Theoretically the work rules and environment at highschools nowadays is downright nightmarish, but since in practice what you can and can't do comes down to how you frame it and how good you are at talking your way through the hierarchy, it's not stressful at all for me and so long as I get results the administration doesn't get in the way.
    I do often see other teachers that aren't good at the workplace politics losing hair and sleep over it though.

    Monday, 10-Oct-22 19:11:36 UTC from web
    • @nerthos Ha, "other teachers" / "the District" has been one of the biggest stumbling blocks in my deciding to actually goto school and get teacher-certified up, I do not politick worth a crap

      Monday, 10-Oct-22 19:51:35 UTC in context
    • @scribus For me "other teachers" hasn't been too big a hurdle, because even though some are antagonistic (particularly the ideologues) they also tend to be massive cowards, so my usual strategy of just talking with full honesty to whoever's in charge is not something they know how to deal with.
      The district and the ministry are another issue altogether, they seem to be on some sort of one-sided competition to prove the limits of insanity and incompetence when it comes to regulations and counterproductive ideas can yet be pushed further. The latest great ideas they had was a proposal to remove the attendance requirements so that students can't fail a class by not attending; and to demand tech schools be more lax with dress code (the dress code for tech school is just no hats, no piercings or jewelry in the workshop, pants without holes and knee-length blue or white overall/duster, all of which are basic safety requirements in a workshop)

      Monday, 10-Oct-22 21:03:43 UTC in context
  13. 11 years so far, who's still alive?

    Thursday, 06-Oct-22 18:34:15 UTC from web
  14. @ceruleanspark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGfROOMYhik Saw this the other day, seems up your alley

    Thursday, 06-Oct-22 18:39:46 UTC from web
    • Sometimes I wonder if I am insane or the world is insane.

      Sunday, 25-Sep-22 19:55:12 UTC from web
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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

        Friday, 09-Sep-22 23:19:50 UTC in context
      • @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.

        Saturday, 10-Sep-22 07:32:45 UTC in context
    • 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.

        Saturday, 20-Aug-22 09:19:29 UTC in context
      • @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

        Saturday, 20-Aug-22 17:30:10 UTC in context
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
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      • @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.

        Thursday, 04-Aug-22 06:24:06 UTC in context
      • @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.

        Thursday, 04-Aug-22 13:33:37 UTC in context
      • @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.

        Thursday, 04-Aug-22 18:48:31 UTC in context
    • 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
    • Wow didnt think this place was still around

      Sunday, 17-Jul-22 00:05:08 UTC from web
    • the best way to enact change in the world, as we all know, is to tweet a poorly doctored image of Donald Trump in a diaper at somebody who disagrees with you. This is how we solve our problems in America now.

      Sunday, 03-Jul-22 06:28:02 UTC from web
    • I spoiled myself with a game treat and bought the game Tunic. It's a fine game. It is a cross between Zelda and Dark Souls. I had quite some fun but oh boy it is hard. Thankfully there is an accessibility option to make it easy. I used it only two times because my thumbs were already hurting enough and I didn't want to start a boss fight 100 times over. It is best to get into the game blind. I do admit that I looked up stuff at the end of the game because the puzzles to get the true ending are hard as heck and I have a life beyond that game.

      Monday, 27-Jun-22 20:04:49 UTC from web
    • Finished watching "Dead End Paranormal Park". It was mostly harmless. Not groundbreaking but it is "just a cartoon". LGBTQ representation aside it the show is unfocused and the episodes themselves are lacking the energy to stand on their own. The pace accelerated towards the end but didn't manage to fully have any lasting impact as a whole.

      Wednesday, 22-Jun-22 07:22:11 UTC from web
      • @adiwan That's sounding sadly par for Netflix, post-BoJack. They coulda had another with Tuca and Bertie, but nnoooo, they had to fall asleep at the wheel.... Disenchantment is disenchanting me as of late, feels like every season is bookended by interesting big-P Plot moments, and filled with trivial slice-of-life misadventures. A whole season of not exploring themes and character, ending with some sudden developments and cliffhangers, only to be semi-resolved in the first 2 of the next season and shunted aside until the final 2 or 3....

        Wednesday, 22-Jun-22 19:23:54 UTC in context
      • @scribus Centaurworld was good. Not my jam but good. Carmen Sandiego was good. Glitch Techs is also very fun. Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts too. Kid Cosmic is a definitive recommendation. Dogs in Space is a good "nothing to see else"-watch.

        Wednesday, 22-Jun-22 19:46:54 UTC in context
      • @adiwan Yeah, Carmen Sandiego was good, even if they did whitewash the history of the Samurai caste.... Lol

        Wednesday, 22-Jun-22 21:13:34 UTC in context