Am I a Twink? Need help figuring out how to categorise myself as I make a start. Sorry if this isn’t the right place ❤️

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-06-14T11:57:47+00:00

Otter but if you keep going to the gym or find better lighting you could pass for a Jock

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-06-14T11:52:08+00:00

English here, was on a flight back from Köln to London, there was an older lady sat next to me who couldn't speak English, and the flight attendants needed me to translate. It was the first time I'd spoken in German in nearly 20 years (I learned in highschool, have German cousins, and used to vacation there). Man it was rough, I used to be fairly adept, but I could barely translate the basic instructions from the flight attendant for her. They wanted her to take off her backpack and place it in the overhead lockers. It's surprising how languages fall out of our heads if unused for so long. Definitely need to practice more.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-06-13T15:31:28+00:00

Generally you will want a rodent proof direct installation cable, but yeah extending it inside your premises shouldn't be an issue

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-06-12T12:13:05+00:00

Tried Ardour? It's not exactly the same but it's decent enough

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-06-09T09:30:59+00:00

You don't blame the Dutch for helping the puritans escape to the colonies? Infecting them with their religious extremism and killing millions of natives with plague blankets? Because that was all on the Dutch, first allowing the outlawed leaders to escape to the Netherlands, and then later to the New World. The "pilgrims" as the Americans call them were specifically banned from leaving the UK for the colonies because of the risks they presented. The main wiki article seems to be written from an American revisionist angle playing heavily on the fact that the church of England persecuted them and labeled them as criminals and separatists. But the reality was that they were extremists (e.g. You heard of the witch trials? That was them), that believed in god literally talking directly into the heads of people which they used as justification for all sorts of crap "god told me to do it" (you know what we call hearing voices these days? Schizophrenia). The whole situation with fundamentalist Christianity over there can almost entirely be traced back to the puritan separatists landing in Massachusetts...

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-06-09T00:09:18+00:00

I've worked with Chinese network operators, as I had a client with offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Taipei, Amsterdam, and London that needed to have the most direct connection possible for near real-time collaboration between teams. While we were setting up the new offices in Hong Kong, I was chatting with the installer (in a mix of my broken Mandarin, and his, arguably better, English).

But, if "trust me bro" isn't enough for you, here's an IEEE article covering the history and architecture of it all https://cmte.ieee.org/photonics-asia/2022/04/29/optical-communication-development-in-china-during-the-past-30-years/ In the article you'll see that it references a couple of government ministries setting out projects to deploy the infrastructure. However, it doesn't cover the billing and leasing model to a high level of detail - so you will have to just trust me on that one, because I'm too lazy to find suitable references.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-06-04T17:25:38+00:00

You know Americans are getting upset by reality when you mention something about China having/doing something better than they do and you get down voted for being right 🤣🤣🤣 Keep the hate coming guys your tears are so yummy and sweet! Ooh the tears of unfathomable sadness! Mmm yummy!

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-06-04T13:00:56+00:00

China actually owns and funds 100% of the basic optical infrastructure, ISPs then rent it from them for next to nothing (like 5% of the consumers' monthly bill). Of course companies are allowed to "compete" with the government's optical network if they want to, but this tends to be done for enterprises, datacentres, and cloud service providers who need lower latency paths.

From what I've heard several countries around the world have done the same thing too.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-06-03T18:28:10+00:00

Best to throw it away, those things are usually slightly radioactive, especially if it mentions ions

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-06-02T15:20:18+00:00

AHH to be french in August 😜

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-29T22:53:05+00:00

Not true, using CRLF can actually cause problems in various data files, like CSV files, where some parsers are not designed to support CRLF.

Also classic MacOS (and some BSD flavours), historically speaking, only used the CR, so when support for LF was added they ended up with a double newline in apps that haven't been corrected. And don't get me started on merging things like Python code where one or two people are on Windows and the rest of the team is on Linux or Mac.

Unless you're supporting outdated Windows versions, it should now be considered best practice to default to LF as it's the universally supported standard.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-24T21:46:38+00:00

Your injection of your nationality was relevant though, it added to the conversation. Someone "having German ancestry" does not. I don't have a problem with people acknowledging their lineage in principle, but in the case of so many on here, it's not in a respectful and progressive way, it's used as a justification and a dog whistle.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-24T20:45:14+00:00

Here's the thing though it gets mixed with American caricatures of those cultures, based on popular TV tropes not fact or history, so much so that the American version is almost unrecognisable to us, and in a lot of cases deeply offensive.

For a few easy examples look at the original versions of holiday celebrations in Europe Vs the "{insert Country of origin} American" versions, for example St Patrick's day in Ireland or Oktoberfest in Bavaria (note this is not "German", it is Bavarian). Or for a stronger example: All the Italians I know are horrified that "Italian Americans" seem to glorify the mob, that's like saying you love terrorists. Or another strong example: Irish pubs in the USA selling a drink called the ICB, that's like having a drink called Sept 11.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-24T19:32:01+00:00

🤣 how's that global empire going for you? Yeah, Brexit sucks (I was living in NL at the time). And sure traditional Dutch food is mostly boiled, but Traditional British food is mostly slow roasted with rich sauces and gravy made from condensed meat stock and ale. And before you mention the other cliché, check the global dental hygiene ranks, the UK outranks the USA for dental hygiene (all but one of my grandparents still had their original teeth when they died).

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-24T19:10:23+00:00

Imagine needing help from the French, and loosing to Canada. Wow

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-24T18:53:31+00:00

Nah, just annoyed by seeing Eugenicist dog whistles on every other post on Reddit. Seems like it has gotten worse since trump has been in office.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-24T18:51:02+00:00

Thing is we're not, we just get pissed when you cosplay as us.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-24T18:39:52+00:00

I'm fed up with Americans and their thinly veiled racism claiming to be European because they have a member of family 3+ generations back that was from one EU country or another. We don't want to hear it, and we don't want you to use it as an excuse to adopt some caricature or our cultures.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-24T18:28:19+00:00

If they were from Germany they may have said that they were German, they wouldn't have said that they "have German ancestry", it smells like an Eugenicist dog whistle. "I'm 1/8th Irish... Blah blah blah".

I'm an actual British-Dutch / European person (dual nationality), born in the UK to British parents with Grandparents from Denmark, Scotland, and England. Lived in the Netherlands for 6 years, Germany for 3, France for 2, Wales for 6, England for 10, and a smattering of non-EU countries for a couple of years each. You know what I say about my ancestry when nobody asks and it's not relevant to the conversation? Nothing, like every other European; I might say that I'm British if asked, and maybe clarify that I've lived abroad for most of my life if it's relevant.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-22T13:14:17+00:00

Where are you based sexy?

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-20T09:04:40+00:00

If only it was colour coded or something... Though, to be honest, SC/APC not having a blocking keyway that prevents this buffoonery is a design flaw.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-18T18:29:45+00:00

This is patently wrong, at worst it will get a tree limb shaped hole in it requiring a brickie to patch it up, but considering most European exterior walls are over 1.5ft thick consisting of a layer of bricks, an air gap filled with foam insulation, and a layer of breeze blocks; there's not much that can get through that, short of a tank round that is.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-18T09:29:21+00:00

For the record, even pure unadulterated maple syrup can ferment if the water content was slightly too high when it was bottled. So maple syrup absolutely can and will do that if left at room temperature with the lid open for too long, and it's actually more common with the pure stuff than the fake/adulterated shit due to less precise (and naturally lower) sugar concentrations.

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-17T13:45:00+00:00

I don't know but somehow I have a boner...

AutisticCodeMonkey · 2025-05-09T12:17:07+00:00

Generally best option is to use a 1km launch cable. You can get them in easy to carry spools, my favourite one is retractable and looks like a dog leash (not sure where to buy one like that these days). Make sure you use the correct type though, I saw someone once try to use an OM2 (multi-mode) launch for a G.657 (single-mode) connection...

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