lol you're so old you're griping about the post office
Captain
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RE: USPS Informed Delivery
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Made up names in Notifications
What are these funny names I'm seeig in my Notifications? Is our database getting polluted by upstream or something?
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RE: Lime scooters
@pie_flavor We had "commie bikes" at my college. One of the clubs would go to the city's thrift stores and buy up 50 or so kids bikes every year. They'd leave them all over campus for everybody to share. It was awesome.
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RE: In other news today...
Haha. When I was getting out of middle school and going into high school, one of our teachers had us write "notes" or "letters" to our class. I don't remeber what all I wrote, but it was basically this
F ...
U ...
C ...
K ...You all!
Some of the idiots tried SO HARD to get me in trouble over it. The teacher was like "Nah I don't see it :-}"
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Proposed NYD. She said yes. Start new job on 1/21/2019.
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Vacation pics and nothing else
As I said in the status thread, I just got married and I promised I'd post pics of the venue.
So, in the interest of reuse, this thread. Post vacation pics, descriptions, locations, etc and nothing else. Obviously, don't post anything you wouldn't feel comfortable being semi-public.
Have fun!
This is the Steamboat Inn, in Idleyd State Park, about 40 miles outside Roseburg, OR.
Really cool place, and now I'm kicking myself for not taking more pictures of the scenery. We got married under this tree:
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RE: Apparently, charging an electric car is measured in Miles per Hour
@El_Heffe Um, makes a lot of sense. Charge for 5 minutes and then go (1000 / 12) miles.
Latest posts made by Captain
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Goddamn, it took like an hour of manually extracting and rejiggering the JSON to get Jinja to accept it. Kind of defeats the point of automating this shit.
And it's only like 450 rows (partial) rows out of the DB. 100KB.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
It used to be that when I ran a SQL query in Visual Studio (2017), and the query had a
for json path
clause in it, I'd get a single result contained in a "grid". That single result was a fragment of the JSON, and I could click it to see the whole thing.Recently, Visual Studio 2017 started throwing OUT OF MEMORY errors for no good reason. And now the magic link to my full JSON is missing. I mean, the link is "there" but clicking it does nothing. Literally nothing but waste my finger tendons.
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RE: When your actions influence the outcome in a videogame it's always meh. And when there are multiple endings they are all meh too
@Arantor mentioned the incredible machine. That game was kind of fun when I tried it a few months ago. But, at the time, I was actually looking for a different game with the same premise I had played in like 2003. It was a Mac game, with somewhat realistic physics. I think Ambrosia Software made it but I can't find any mention of it on their old website (on the Wayback Machine, now).
That is a sad ending.
Edit: it was Enigmo (or Enigmo 2). Hurrah!
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RE: When your actions influence the outcome in a videogame it's always meh. And when there are multiple endings they are all meh too
I started playing Cities Skylines a few weeks ago. It's not really story driven, but the multiple endings I've seen have been pretty good.
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RE: Are brand name flashlights worth the price?
@sockpuppet7 I have a general goal of keeping at least one small flashlight per drawer near where people sit or are. (So one in the bathroom near the toilet, a couple in the kitchen, a couple in the living room, etc) I used to get like a 5 pack of "Kootek" mini led flashlights for that but they got a little expensive and I ended up spending more per unit for a two pack of Eveready tactical leds. I figured it would be an upgrade for not much more.
They are bigger and have more battery capacity and are brighter. Otherwise the build quality is approximately the same.
I know this probably isn't exactly what you mean by brand name, but unless you have some pretty specific needs I think a 2 for $8 pack of Eveready flashlights does a great job.
Also, depending on what you want them for, it might makes sense to get a few different form factors, like a "lantern" or two to "fill a room" with weak light (as opposed to having a spotlight in your hand).
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RE: Suggestions for new controller
XBox Wireless Controller arrived today. I got the "Core" model, I think, in Carbon black. Build quality is nice enough -- there's probably better out there but this is pretty premium feeling. Turned it on and it wanted to sync to my laptop. Everything just worked right.
I guess I'm a little surprised it came with two double AA batteries. I thought it was a rechargeable thing, since I see charging stations for sale. But I guess they all come with their own battery packs and battery covers. Hm, okay then.
So far so good, happy I got it.
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RE: Suggestions for new controller
Seems like the consensus is to go with Microsoft. Makes sense, I put one in my cart.
Out of curiosity, what is the experience like with a name brand PS4 or PS5 controller, or Nintendo a controller?
One of the things I really liked about the Steelseries POS is the layout, which had PS style control sticks and XBox style buttons. "Theoretically" it would have been great for, for example, Katamari, which I bought recently.
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Suggestions for new controller
A few years ago, I wanted to set up a cheap little PC to use for old schoolish gaming. Games from 2000 to 2010, more or less. Civ, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Rayman. Maybe some indie games.
I read some reviews and ended up picking up a pair of Steel Series Stratus XL bluetooth controllers for my little rig, and a sweet German keyboard with built in trackpad, etc.
My rig never actually worked right. I would get these "phantom inputs", mostly going "up", which made it impossible to control any application with a scrollbar (or most games). I did some light troubleshooting and thought it was the keyboard (since, "obviously", it couldn't be BOTH controllers)
I tried using my much newer laptop for some light gaming the other day, and I connected the Steel Series controller and mother fucker it did it again. So clearly the problem is the controllers. That pair of controllers was a birthday present from my wife like four years ago, which I used barely for 4 furiously frustrating hours. $60 each. I did some light reading about the symptom and there is no conclusion except that Steel Series sucks and I should never buy that shit again.
OK, so fuck that.
What should I buy today to replace those pieces of shit. Help me figure out what to buy.
So far, I am looking at official Xbox controllers; the Amazon Luna controller; and maybe like a Logitech thing. Kind of interested in 8bitdo brand. Are there any good generic controllers? What are pros/cons of these choices? Talk to me about controllers today.
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RE: From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot
@BernieTheBernie said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot:
apt install mono ... E: Unable to locate package mono
And now?
Did you do an
apt update
?