rudyharrelson

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Experimented a bit with my usual bread recipe. It's cooling off right now, so I'm hoping to have some fresh bread in an hour or so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I had the privilege to see them live about 8 years ago and it was an incredible show. Dickinson has incredible stage presence; really puts a lot of energy into the show to keep the crowd engaged.

The giant animatronic zombie freaked me out a bit. It was enormous and moved realistically enough to be unsettling since I wasn't that far away from it. Most metal shit I've ever seen in person.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Probably! He was a very smart guy (way more formal education in computer science than I), so I've always assumed there was some truth to what he said, but he didn't elaborate further and I didn't like bothering him with unnecessary questions, so I never followed up on the topic despite my confusion.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Not a teacher, per se, but the senior dev on my old team once said something that left me scratching my head. We were trying to troubleshoot an inconsistent bug in our software, and I said, "Maybe it's a race condition," to which he replied, "There's no such thing."

Still trying to figure out what he meant by that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Agreed. I've learned most of what I know about computers by fixing broken stuff. Like you, my first serious daily driver was Manjaro. And after dealing with broken systems time and time again, I'm tired, boss. My daily driver for the last 2 years has been Mint and I love it to death for how stable and functional it is. But the lessons I learned along the way with other distros have been invaluable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I'm a big fan of this one:

"Somebody that I used to Know" by Linkin Park

I'm sad to see that the original got taken down, but someone reuploaded it here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (4 children)

My friends and I started off playing D&D 3.5e in high school and college. We played it a lot over the years. Eventually we started playing 5e, and that's mainly what we play today (on the rare occasions we actually sit down and play).

I had a friend who enjoyed experimenting with other systems like "GURPS" and "Swords & Wizardry". We only ever played a few sessions with "Swords & Wizardry" but I enjoyed it a lot. It was an extremely lethal system where players were encouraged to be clever rather than solving problems through comat, since players weren't particularly powerful compared to your typical monster or NPC.

Most recently, another friend introduced us to "Apocalypse World", which we really enjoyed. We originally were just gonna play a one-shot, but wound up having a dozen or so sessions to keep the story going.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

You could try opening up the Resource Monitor and checking out the Network tab:

It might have the same issue (grouping everything under the VPN .exe), but it's worth a shot.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Based on your description, "pan" seems appropriate. I don't think ratios really matter when it comes to this kind of terminology. You appear to be, to varying degrees, attracted to people regardless of their sex or gender.

That said, I'm not sure what the distinction is between "pan" and "omni".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Much appreciated! I'll give it a read.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

When those memories come up, choose a different response. Laugh at yourself. Forgive yourself. Love yourself.

Any recommended reading on this topic? Choosing a different response when these memories come up is really difficult for me, personally. Even when I acknowledge that I've grown as a person since then, the memories themselves still just feel jarringly awful.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The "small issue" you described is a logistical one that remains unsolved by bureaucrats, lawmakers, judges, or anyone else. "Bad actors ruin it for those who really need it" is the same "small issue" people use to argue against many services people genuinely need in order to survive.

"Deport them all and let God sort 'em out" is the course America has chosen, and it is the immoral course, as far as I am concerned.

we need more people processing immigration paperwork

Agreed, but it won't happen, especially under this administration. They don't want more immigrants, even "legal" ones. They say they are only against "illegal" immigrants, but let's be real here. Lemme know when they sign into law some additional funding for hiring more bureaucrats to parse immigration paperwork. I won't hold my breath.

When immigrants know the legal pathway is unreasonably slow and will not be improved in any way, there's no incentive to do it the "legal" way.

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