averagedrunk @ averagedrunk @lemmy.ml

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I'll do to you what I do to other unwanted pests! I'll yell "Go-on, getonouttahurr!" ineffectually while shooing you away with whatever I've got at hand.

I have junk scissors that I buy for a couple of bucks and replace as necessary for all the things that I need to cut. I also have kitchen junk scissors for cutting open plastic that food gets packaged in. If I found someone using my poultry shears or kitchen knives for anything besides their intended use I would ask them to leave and never come back.

Don't touch my tools. That includes the things in my garage, my kitchen tools (cookware, knives, shears, barbecue stuff, whatever), and my electronics tools. I can't imagine someone using one of my instruments incorrectly, but don't touch those either. If you want to touch anything, ask. Don't be surprised if I try to make sure you know the right way to use it before I hand it over.

I like to add bourbon to that mix to thin it out a little. That's Christmas to me.

That's why way back in the day they had GIMPshop and why there's PhotoGIMP now.

Aahhhh, well I wish you luck. May you get your 10,000 hours in practice and become a master of creating children!

It depends. If I'm doing something fitness related I put on a fitness band with smart watch features (I don't let it alert me). If I'm dressing well I put on a watch and a tasteful men's bracelet. If I'm dressed like a sack of crap and having lazy time (like right now) I'm not wearing either.

I can give them to my kids one day (when I'll learn how to make them).

Are you trying to learn to make kids or watches?

I was hoping to click on that and just see a picture of someone's grandma.

With Framework, you're also paying to be able to upgrade. I like the idea of getting a new GPU and just popping it in.

Already exists. Merle Hazard, Dave's Song

You're right, once. But adding that one time means I never have to see the launcher again. Clicking no means extra launch time and looking at it every time I launch the game.

But different strokes for different folks. If it's not worth it to you then that's cool. It was worth it for me and I thought I'd drop that for anyone else who may want it.

I was going to ask where the ad was, but I forgot that I turned off the launcher specifically because of that. I have no idea about PS but you can add the following on PC to skip the lau8

    
--skip-launcher


  

Yep. I've got company access to GitHub Copilot, a personal subscription to ChatGPT, and I use Bing Copilot.

Bing and ChatGPT have a lot of utility overlap. Those things don't do my job for me but they do generate initial ideas and double check my code. I also use GPT as my rubber duck that kind of talks back. I literally tell it to be a rubber duck and pretend to know nothing, then chat with it. It's pretty great for that. Better than the bear that sits on my desk, but not as fun to look at.

Those are the newest tools in my arsenal of "Make computers do my job and rake in the paycheck".

I've made it two decades in IT and related fields by searching for answers using Google. I accidentally took my laziness, love of automation, and ability to Google and became an SRE. Then I accidentally became a senior software engineer because the director on that side of the house liked my initiative and was sure my skills would translate. I protested but got a substantial bump to do it.

I'm failing upwards by abusing stack overflow and search engines.

That has been my favorite hacker lore story since I first heard it decades ago.

As a fat redneck, you're mostly correct. You just forgot to add the word drunk in there somewhere.

Imma fry one up in about half an hour. I'm also gonna start drinking in just a minute. My fat drunk uncle who lost several of his fingers in a fireworks incident is smiling down on me from redneck heaven.

Agreed.

Theoretically they could still be using it, but it's pretty doubtful. It was just a GUI to run a set of scripts for an old set of programs that should have been retired before XP came out.

I was at an MSP at the time. One of our customers had stuff that wouldn't install on anything after Win98, was looking for a bunch of hardware that no longer exists, and all the associated DLLs had to be registered manually. I created it because I was tired of doing it all by hand.

My assumption would be the guys who were there at the same time as me used it (I know they did actually), but a year after I left the whole bullpen turned over and I doubt they used it after that. They lost a pile of clients. Even if that hadn't happened, if they're still supporting 25 year old software with 15 year old scripts run by a 12 year old and poorly hacked together front end by a guy who was definitely not a programmer at the time (and barely is now) then they get whatever they deserve.

Absolutely not. I left that job not long after. It officially became someone else's problem.

I assume they're not using it anymore. The company was purchased last year so I have to think that they have problems with other code that makes no sense.

The following code does nothing, but if removed the whole program crashes

-Me, circa 2011

God wouldn't let you get malware on his chosen OS.