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  • Some poor sod of a corporal who just wants to finish his contract so he can enroll into college without crippling debt just exhaled a Category 5 sigh once he realized he now has to paint thousands of vehicles tan again.

  • It's way too late at night for me to give an in-depth answer, but I just wanted to let you know that if you plan on adding drives over time, you might want to check out running the disks in JBOD instead of RAID and the use ZFS to create the storage volume. Redundancy supported, and you can add disks whenever you need more space. The disks don't even have to be the same size.

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  • Skill: probably

    Interest: Probably not

    Source: Around the turn of the millennium, I enjoyed remote snooping on other people's PCs for a short while. It was short because the contents of the PC of the average person turned out to be mindnumbingly boring.

  • Why: I case I want to show something unplanned to someone. Freak accident in a game, for example.
    Disk: It's only keeping the latest 30 minutes in a buffer. Saving basically means copying that buffer to a different file.

  • I mostly write utilities/tools like this. Some examples from my ~/bin/ folder:

    • A script that turns caps lock off and numlock on, and remaps caps lock to compose. I have this run by cron every minute.
    • A script that saves the current buffer of my continously running screen recorder to a file. Bound to the Lenovo coilot key.
    • A half-finished script that downloads and installs the latest version of discord, as Discord and ants me to manually upgrade it every time I start it.

    Edit: OH, and on my work laptop I have a script named Fnkeyfuckery. The keyboard layout is annoying in that I have to choose between Function keys or have Home+End.
    I want my function keys AND I want home+end. Luckily I don't need F11 and F12 very often, so I'swapped around those two with their alternate function. That way I have F1 through F10, Home and End by default, and if I hold Fn I can have F11 and F12 too. It runs on startup.

  • I'd go even further and say red card for taking a dive. Pretending to be struck/hit by another player in an attempt to get an advantage = cheating. Cheaters shouldn't be allowed to play.

    It got a little better after they started with video ref'ing, but 90's Italian football still left its disgusting mark on the sport.

  • And even "precise" would be understating it. Not only is a specific shape of the detonation required, but timing is crucial too. Otherwise you'll end up with a fizzle.

    But yes, the main concern is nuclear contamination in the target area.

  • None of the above, I think? I deal with boaty things. Computery stuff regarding survey boaty things, to be precise.

    If I absolutely had to choose, I'd say internal support for a trade, although I think a trade would involve trade school.

    Actually, on paper I'm considered office personnel, although my "office" is my bedroom, and 20% of the time I'm on the far side of the world.

  • A couple of times I've reoriented meetings and discussion by stating something akin to "We're getting away from the core of the issue here, let's take a few steps back to ensure we're evaluating this with the same objective facts in mind"

    I've found that this is pretty effective at aligning the conversation with the actual issue at hand. And by listing the relevant objective facts, I make sure that everyone in the room has the same foundation as I. If anyone wants to play office politics and/or have an agenda beyond what's in front of us, it's harder for them to maneuver around the objectivity I try to stick to. It also ensures that any misunderstandings about the underlying facts can be cleared up or otherwise addressed

  • In Norwegian, Grouse (Rype. Don't bother trying, you're definitely pronouncing it incorrectly) somehow became slang for an attractive woman. Not used that often anymore, though.

    Caged owl (Burugle) is slang for an unattractive woman.