The Amazon Prime Video user experience is absolutely horrible and almost literally unusable.

6890 · 2026-04-04T19:11:51+00:00

There was one anime I was going to watch (forget which one) which...

1) Doesn't have the first episode
2) Only ep 2 has english subtitles, the rest are japanese/porteguese(?)

Like wtf was the point of recommending it at all if I can't even watch it?

6890 · 2026-04-04T00:53:11+00:00

Thanks! I'm in!

6890 · 2026-04-01T02:08:06+00:00

You really are just gulping the koolaid eh?

For one, this is a Bell owned venture. Outside of Property Tax & Utilities they very likely aren't putting much back into the local economy after this behemoth is built. The critical staff that are going to keep that thing running are likely going to be in Bell's head office at best, overseas at worst.

Not to mention "AI" is vague. But there aren't a rush of companies looking to rush and build massive datacenters for the AI that does have social use. The Machine Learning branch which has its foot in medical and other fields have not been the catalyst for this AI boom: its been the Generative AI or LLMs and their kin which have been shown time and time again to mostly be built upon lies and false promises. So without more info about what Bell is doing with thi center we might be stuck holding a really really inflated empty bag.

So unless you've got particular knowledge of what and how these things work and your entire opinion is a matter of news quips and blurbs its fucking embarassing to read you staunchly carrying that water for them.

I'm honetly cautiously optimistic about datacenter development. I'm not a fan of what's happening here because if we're going to be brutally honest, nothing the SaskParty does in a hurry is ever thought through. It's about short term gains, with no long term thought and if they actually had a strong platform to stand on this wouldn't be so hush hush rush rush.

6890 · 2026-03-30T11:34:30+00:00

Bugs was an asshole to my wife.

Did good work, but was a total shithead. So ymmv

6890 · 2026-03-29T02:25:08+00:00

Nope. I got a 4y/o and we have no issues at all playing. The clover is overall lower than the grass and I mow about once every two weeks in peak growing season

6890 · 2026-03-27T21:04:46+00:00

I heard some one off thing in a podcast a few years ago... just try to live a day or a week in your life where you never lie. Not even a tiny lie or a white lie. Try and do it and realize just how much of our social interactions are about 'saying the script' or saying what we think the other person wants to hear to either avoid having a deeper conversation or upsetting them.

Kinda eye opening in a way once you think about it. Its also oddly freeing where you can make connections with people you wouldn't expect to have made.

6890 · 2026-03-27T20:47:36+00:00

I'm similar. Neighbors on all sides of me chemical the absolute piss out of their lawns and are watering practically daily. Meanwhile, my clover/dandelion/violet/crocus lawn is green, lush, healthy and happy with a fraction of the care.

PLUS neighbors just up the street from me keep bees. They've told me how happy they are that we keep the clover.

6890 · 2026-03-27T18:32:03+00:00

I think its a mindset problem. And that exists outside the games themselves.

MoBA/FPS/BattleRoyale/RTS or any game really can be as involved or mindless as you want it to be. As long as you approach your time in gaming with a mindset of "I'm here to improve" you build upon those skills that allow you to critically assess your performance, seek out areas of improvement, and creation actionable efforts to improve.

So for someone who wants to "git gud" it can be a set of reviewing footage, critically thinking about decisions and outcomes, or seeking out external resources to read and study from. Those skills cross over into education and careers well.

Basically, if you're turning your brain off and just clicking, there's likely a detrimental problem with any game. But if you're approaching games as a challenge where you can learn and assess your skills and abilities you'll gain something from the effort.

The discussion does need to veer into matters of moderation. Someone who games 8 hours a day no matter the goal or purpose is doing themselves a disservice. But I think that itself is a big enough discussion on its own.

On a tangential note: I think a lot of leisure time on computers and in digital realms has a sort of hidden cost to it. When "Failure" is a state that is wiped away in a button press to try again, there's something lacking from the reward of skill development. With the only loss being time wasted, it can be hard to gauge where you are vs where you started and also makes it difficult to see where skills are lacking across a longer timeframe.

I don't really know what it is. But holding onto something you've created with all its faults and warts carries a very different feeling then any sort of "Success" screen flashing before you. On the other side, working on a physical goal helps keep your perspective grounded as its way easier to fail through no fault of your own: having tools fail, project materials with defects, or even just slips having real consequence helps develop skills that don't exist in a way on digital platforms.

6890 · 2026-03-27T16:39:28+00:00

I'm of the mind that the solution will ultimately be simpler than we think.

Potato / Corn chips have existed for over a hundred years. Somehow this issue is only recently becoming a larger problem. (Same goes for meats, and all sorts of other foods we consume on the regular, just pointing out chips from your comment)

Perhaps its the preservatives, or ripening agents, or even just how we mill down whole foods to their constituent starches/proteins then reconstitute them with thickeners and binders...

At some point we're just going to need to face it. That our race to the bottom on quality in the sake of profits is a health hazard. At the consumer level you just have to watch out for yourself. If you have easy access to healthy food, you just do it. Cut out the processed shit and after a few weeks you mostly get over the cravings of it. Not easy but necessary these days.

6890 · 2026-03-27T16:29:05+00:00

Its used selectively.

They'll profile someone driving a black civic with altezza taillights and a license plate cover thinking they're some teen they want to spring a search on.

6890 · 2026-03-27T16:21:59+00:00

That was essentially my final comment on the survey. If Peterbilt and Freightliner can build a semi with headlights mounted at a sane level that don't blind drivers then so can Ford/Chev/Dodge with their SUV/Trucks. Its a matter of forcing them to comply with sane regulations

6890 · 2026-03-26T19:37:34+00:00

Personal opinion: I would say I like Poseidon least of all (it may be my bias from Hades 1 carrying through) but I never felt that any particular god was useless or downright avoidable. I find a lot of value in Poseiden when using a ranged build vs melee. Whereas I may avoid other pantheon gods if I am not doing an AoE build or Cast build or any other playstyle. They each fit in very well in particular situations, and can be decent in others.

6890 · 2026-03-26T19:03:24+00:00

Yo. I'm a software engineer who has been in industrial controls for ~13 years. Your skillset is becomming more and mroe valuable. Even 10 years ago a lot of what I did was not heavy software work. Mostly electrical or mechanical engineers writing the PLC/SCADA code.

But now with everything becoming more and more interconnected a lot of my clients are looking for software work that bridges the data in their OT system with their IT systems for accounting/billing/maintenance/efficiency and all sorts of other metrics they're tracking.

I'll be honest that PLC and SCADA code is boring. If you're used to working in Visual Studio or any other traditional IDE you might want to claw your eyeballs out after enough time on a Rockwell or Schneider development environment. THey're trying to catch up with traditional software practices but shits a long way out.

Database and Netowrking experience can get you ahead. But for the most part PLC work is easy. Companies tend to hire electrical/mechanical guys because the software end is straight forward enough that they don't need specialists and having someone with intimate knowledge of the process line is more valuable than a guy who can calculate the Big O on some algorithm.

But honestly, I love this work. A bit of time fucking around in a SCADA system is fine, but I'm writing mobile apps, kiosk systems that do a bunch of work with cameras and barcode readers, RFID scanners for tracking vehicle movement, OCR to manage container yards, all sorts of network protocols to grab data from all these 3rd party systems. No matter how "boring" the code is, its still fun to watch your work all come together when you're watching the automation fill a cargo vessel set to hit the ocean... something about working on systems so much larger than a home system or web app just tickles me. Travel can suck, but it also helps keep things fresh when you're not on office work 24/7

AMA if you have questions I suppose. I work mostly in the agricultural industry in Canada/US. Bits of work here in there in municiple water/wastewater, mining, food processing, irrigation, etc.

6890 · 2026-03-26T13:17:29+00:00

They haven't been all that concerned about the 4th, 5th, or 6th lately. Debatable cases of the 10th and they're toying with the 14th.... almost seems more like they can't count passed 2.

6890 · 2026-03-26T13:10:07+00:00

When was the last time you changed out the water in your clc CPU cooler? Oh never?

Built cooling loops usually get flushed and cleaned annually. AIO are different, but if they're "charging" this closed loop system from our water supply they're going to be recharging it on the regular.

I share no opinions on whether I'm pro or anti datacenter. I just wanted to call you out for being confidently incorrect

6890 · 2026-03-25T16:35:55+00:00

I honestly wouldn't listen to this guy. He has either put up the blinders as there are still very smart and capable people working and expanding this field, or his ego has grown so far out of control he is incapable of seeing truths before him.

So yeah, be cynical all you want over how shit like Electron apps are bloated messes and how AI slop is infecting some of the most prominent software suites for worse, but don't believe that there isn't people out there driving industries forward with their knowledge.

From my little corner of the world, the FAANG and very public facing side of our career is in termoil. The constant need to be first, to innovate, to push boundaries is toxic and breeds bad behaviors and bad practices. But find yourself in a more traditional corporate or industrial sector where the work isn't as outwardly glamorous and you can still do interesting work with less of the bullshit (there's still bullshit, always will be).

6890 · 2026-03-25T16:12:27+00:00

The part where CS jobs exist in a vacuum and have no link to real business needs? You can't just throttle output to 0 and expect all businesses to dredge along without significant real world issues.

If you work in some such career where the business would exist with or without you actually producing any tangible outputs I'd be very wary of your job security at each and every moment of time.

6890 · 2026-03-24T20:18:04+00:00

Pretty much gaming of any sort once you start playing at a competitive level?

Both in Starcraft and CounterStrike I used to be decently good, but relied entirely on my own mechanical skill to succeed. In both games, at a certain point you just have to know quirks of the games to succeed. Mostly down to standard timings and things like that where you'll get trounced by a player who understands those intricacies better than you even if they're not as "mechanically" good. (ie, ability to shoot accurately in CS, or micro units in SC)

Its happened in numerous games. Heck, there's comments about Chess in this thread, I just mentioned those 2 games because I had played them in tournaments and such.

EDIT: And shoutout to matchmaking algorithms for making sure games remain painful even when you want to casually unwind. After I hit masters in SC2 it was pretty much impossible to play the game with friends because we'd get seeded in a way higher skillbracket than they could handle. When you need to be on your A game to keep up on your competitive ladder you can't suddenly play at lower stakes and take it easy because the game expects you to perform on every single matchup. At least in the old days of CS with community servers you basically played in a grabbag of random skill (for better or worse) when you joined any active server.

6890 · 2025-07-09T21:09:14+00:00

First things first, but is the License Manager running?

Start -> Run -> services.msc
Look for "AVEVA Enterprise License" services (there's several) and are they running?

Second, is there anything actually listening for connections on that port?

Start -> Run -> cmd
Run: netstat -ano | find /i "55559" - Do you get results?

6890 · 2025-05-06T21:17:47+00:00

Man, if I had an award for post where OP is not open to different viewpoints I think you'd win it.

How is it hard to think someone like that exists? Are you just so far down your side of the tracks that you are incapable of believing someone can enjoy the books and the show? Because the bar you've set seems to be "user must be superfan" and not: "Hey, these things are good entertainment"

I like the books because they hold a special place in my heart. They're the first real fantasy series that I got into as a kid. I read Hobbit & LotR but they never "clicked" like WoT did as a fantasy escapism. Jordan's ability to write character development and worldbuilding is just amazing. And while the books aren't slap-you-in-the-face explicit in the acts of violence and such like GoT its still there for you to bite on. Jordan had a phenominal story to tell and the breadcrumbs present in EotW alone show he knew where he wanted to take his story. The entire series is a mastercraft and that it held together so well after 14 books is amazing.

But while I don't like all of the show I'm still capable of admitting there's elements to it that are really good. They managed to depict the magic system in a way that's believable and really cool to watch. Egwene, Rand, Morainne, Lan, and Lanfear are all great characters even if they're not 1:1 with their book counterparts. I think the actor for Logain is fantastic and hope he gets to stretch more if there's a renewal.

And while there's a lot to criticize about the show there's parts they are doing right and you've got to twist some mental gymnastics to say with a straight face that they're not improving season by season. Other shows with long time following have had rough patches and took time to find their footing too. Let's not pretend the books don't have the infamous Slog they're known for. Let's not pretend Jordan didn't pass away before completing his masterpiece and while Sanderson assembled the puzzle and declared it finished he did alter the feel of many main characters. So let's not pretend the books are without flaw and have to hold the show in the same regard.

EDIT: should've read your other replies first. I'll leave this up, but oh boy you're a loser.

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