monsterpiece42 @ monsterpiece42 @reddthat.com

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I'm a new programming student and the single best thing I have done is just start trying to do projects. Sure I have VS Code or Eclipse in one window and maybe Stack Overflow or chatgpt in the other but I slog through it and it has been for more helpful than all the reading and tutorials.. I've learned far more. I wish I had started this years ago.

Yes, these exactly. There does seem to be a bias towards sites with multi-page articles (think Yahoo news, BuzzFeed type stuff), and what I'll call "disposable income listings" like boat and sports car-listing websites.

Give your balls a tug, titfucker!

It's true. I work in a computer shop and we see literally thousands and thousands of dollars lost from people clicking on ads that look like normal buttons (things like "Download", "Next", etc). And not just the elderly either. Everyone has a a combination of inputs to get scared and comply. Folks that are otherwise extremely competent and savvy can get scammed too.

The best security you can have online is adblockers, only beaten by using trusted websites.

Edit, fair points with sites being slimy these days. I meant using legitimate versions of websites rather than copy/fake websites designed to steal credentials.

Absolutely my choice as well. In addition to being all the things that OP has asked for, he's also a phenomenal player and his dedication to highly precise play is insane.

My wife and I have been through all of his Rimworld series, and watch it as we would a TV show when a new episode drops. We just got done watching biotech episode 5!

Uncanny Valley (2015) is an option. It's polarizing though. Might be worth a try of you get it real cheap.

Semantics, but OP never said the unit of measure. It could be radians for all you know.

If we're commiting to the bit, we should put "the other guy" instead of a name

Call of the O ring: Master Doody

This is the answer OP. Or similarly, I lined up a T14S Gen 1 for $299 with a 2 year warranty included on eBay. 10th gen i5, 16GB RAM, 512GN NVMe.

Here's a random one I found. Touchscreen too if you like that, but slightly over $300.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/335054071269

Yeah I was 13F. Even got through JFO school at one point. It was a cool job and other 13Fs were pretty legit just about across the board. The tricky bit they don't tell you is that you get attached to infantry and usually by yourself so you're the only guy in the room that can count higher than 4.

I went to Riley. Kansas sucks to drive through but it wasn't a bad place to live. Stayed there for about 3 years and went off to the next place.

What was your MOS? I'm guessing 13 series?

09-15. I had an A2 and an A4. As an owner of AKs, I may have been spoiled but I found the M16s to be truly awful in terms of the cleaning maintenance. To be fair my sloppy ass A2 was more forgiving than the A4. The A4 was nice and accurate in garrison but downrange I talked my armorer into getting me my A2 back. The dust was too much for the A4 to handle.

I was a Forward Observer but was put in an aviation unit for some reason so I spent a good amount of time RTOing adjacent to various helis. I can say without a doubt that we had helis down for maintenance every day, sometimes for multiple days at a time.

This all circles back around to "the older the better" theme from my previous comment. Chinooks are an ancient platform but they're super reliable and nearly never broke down outside of schedule. The M16A2 I had did have like 1/8" of play in it between upper and lower receiver but I did keep it working. God knows how many rounds went through that thing. But both of those things are what, like 'Nam era? All the truly durable stuff is old school. I'm just saying the new stuff is garbage.

This is definitely not an internet myth. I was also in the Army (US) and our gear is worthless trash that only survives because people put huge amounts of work into learning its quirks. Example, if you spit in an M16 it jams. We had rows and rows of Humvees and Bradleys that had under 10k miles on them broken down. Abrams maintenance is something like 4 hours per hour of usage or something absurd like that. I think the only decent vehicle we still have in service is the FMTV, and their whole drivetrain is civilian stuff (CAT motor, Alison transmission, Dana axles etc).

I'll meet you in the middle and say they used to make stuff that was indestructible. Old GP tents, e-tools, and cots are beasts. But the military-industrial complex has fully kicked in now and just like everything else, military stuff is built to maximize profit.

That's fair, I have a couple "enterprise"-type laptops and they're tanks that just refuse to die.

Absolutely enthusiast grade is higher. Business grade is just enough to do the job.

Bonus round:

Military grade is from the lowest bidder.

Industrial grade is durable with absolutely no extras (and also expensive).

Laboratory grade is usually extremely high end, high cost, and precise.

Oh, so because the state had a military people were allowed to have guns? That's shockingly similar to what I said.

Ok, I'm not saying you need to agree with the principle, but the grammar clearly states that the citizens get guns because the government has a military (which is the well-regulated militia).

Again, not starting a debate on if that's good or bad, just grammar.

Mint and Pop OS are fantastic. Both have great support out of the box and lots of help out there on the Internet.

If you're trying to game I would flatly say Pop OS. General computing, both are a tie for me. They just work (as far as Linux goes).

What I'm saying is that $500 is enough to get you a brand new e-scooter that will go similar-to-bike speeds with no deal hunting, no mods, and a warranty. They're also foldable, portable on to most public trans (inside) or into "the office", and have virtually no maintenance.

No hate on bikes. I have a couple of very nice bikes (not as nice as that Marinoni to be fair). But let's not act like you're reliability getting places for <$500. And even if you do, not everyone can. Solutions need to be repeatable.

Edit: also to be fair, I am talking $500 USD. But if you go with a used scooter here you could probably do around $500 CAD equivalent.

A small point but a legit one. I have two e-scooters and I like them a lot. One point on cost, the cheaper one was around $700 and is a phenomenal commuter. The other one is still a commuter, but with more powerful motors for my very hilly area. That one was around $1400. There are mid ranges bikes (in the total scale of bikes) that cost what both my scooters do together.

In this way, e-bikes and e-scooters should be seen very differently imo.