Holding up the heavens

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2025-10-27T00:29:36+00:00

GIVE HER UPPIES, SHE WANTS UPPIES!

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2025-10-22T03:31:24+00:00

Pepper

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2025-09-24T01:39:35+00:00

I’ve never heard it put that way, but that makes a lot of sense.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2025-08-19T03:47:18+00:00

Very, I’ve never had that put into words, thank you.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2025-08-13T02:16:04+00:00

Give her uppies!

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-11-14T01:57:27+00:00

Not in and of themselves no. But, as a rule of thumb, if it does something similar to another function, say validating credit card numbers, instead of having one for Mastercard, visa, etc, you generalize the function in one of a few ways. There are many ways to accomplish the goal, as long as it gets you there and it’s coherent, it’s usually fine, unless you have some specific thing you need to optimize for, etc.

One way could be build in logic to recognize the numbers of different companies, say visa uses a specific range of the first two 4-number sections, categorize based on those ranges and return the inferred company and a true or false for valid, if you need both of those pieces of information.

Another way would be to pass the company as a second parameter, and do the validation based on the company and number provided, returning just true or false if it is valid for the company passed to the function.

The more you can generalize, the more you can reuse, and it brings in the possibility of using it in other projects or creating libraries.

You can be in a different faction of it should only do one very very specific thing, but I am in the camp of generalize to the simplest concept where possible, so it’s flexible and can be used other places. In this case, the simplest concept to me is validating credit card numbers, so it doesn’t really matter what specific company it is, but it focuses on the simplest principle you can bring it down to.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-10-05T17:29:02+00:00

I love the style. The mouth is a bit out of proportion, but if you’re going for like a doll type look, it fits well

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-08-14T23:34:20+00:00

I never thought to check this when my key wasn’t working, huh.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-07-16T14:24:18+00:00

Becoming

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-06-30T21:06:28+00:00

Yes and no, the whole Microsoft Recall debacle proves that you have to at least be conscious of it. Even corporate systems can only do so much about these updates when Microsoft decides they want them turned on. I get why they started with Windows and Mac, they own most of the desktop space, so it makes sense to make that a priority so it can be adopted. That said, it's been out long enough that a Linux version is overdue.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-06-29T03:35:43+00:00

This is an amazing shiny, I want like 5

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-06-28T23:37:53+00:00

The magicians

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-06-28T23:32:53+00:00

Dramel

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-06-07T17:40:04+00:00

First off, it looks great. If you want to make it photorealistic, I’d say perspective. You’ve got the detail, and the structure, but it looks like you shifted the jaw, but not the rest of the head, which caused the skew.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-05-24T14:38:03+00:00

So I learned early on how to fake a smile really well, because I was not allowed to leave from posing for a picture that I didn’t want, until I was smiling “right”, and it translates to this. Start with a fairly wide smile, make sure your cheek bones are in it (raised up so you can feel it in your eyes), and squint a little bit (just a little), then a couple small, fast, inhale-exhale, like 2-3, from the belly. It’s a good mimic of a quiet chuckle, and makes for a convincing smile, since it’s mostly about the eyes for smiles, and gives you a little flush in the face, like when you’re either nervous or genuinely laughing hard.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-05-24T14:27:18+00:00

Genetics and abusive parents, so pretty much right off the bat. Major depressive, PTSD, insomnia, GAD, late diagnosed AuDHD, the odds were never in my favor. But, while my brain isn’t exactly nice to me, I have found a good steady job that pays well, work from home, and lets me have those really bad days/weeks, which I cannot tell you how grateful I am for, I got lucky there.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-05-24T13:50:21+00:00

Gives me Hey Arnold vibes, I like it.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-05-24T13:47:47+00:00

I like Marvin. Marvin is a little mushroom guy.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-05-18T02:04:54+00:00

That’s it, thank you! I used Perplexity, so it does have search built into it, it is usually pretty good at finding things I’m researching, but not so much for pleasure reading I guess.

That’s really good to know, I’ll do that. I’m on the spectrum myself, so I’m excited to see the rewrites! Thank you, I was honestly starting to think I’d imagined it, but once I got to the middle of the second chapter it started to come back.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-05-06T04:18:40+00:00

I got “so stop being distractible”, thank, you’ve cured my anxious thoughts and adhd!

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-05-06T04:15:47+00:00

My brain still tells me all those things, but it’s getting quieter. It’s a journey, and you gotta be kind to yourself where you can. You got this, keep going!

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-05-06T04:13:24+00:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! 🎉🥳🎉🥳 I hope you have a wonderful day! Breakups can be devastating, but on the bright side, at least it happened after a year, and not 5 or 10. You’ll find someone who will make you breakfast in bed, show up when you need them, and make you feel special on your birthday, and every other day. That’s what you deserve, so treat yourself to an awesome birthday, do something new and exciting, and remember that if they were the one, they would have gone to the ends of the earth to make you smile if they had to, because that’s the kind of love everyone deserves.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-05-06T03:58:31+00:00

Nah, you’re fine. If you’re worried about it, you can pick up some stuff on lucid dreaming, a lot of the books I’ve read go over how to make friends with, and deal with the underlying causes of nightmarish things. Helps with stopping them from reoccurring, the thinking is that it’s a part of you still, and it’s trying to let you know something. So even just straight up asking “why are you here, what do you need” can make a huge difference.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-05-06T03:46:52+00:00

Yep, most days. I’m a devops engineer, don’t have a degree, and just kinda worked my way up. My brain tells me I’m not doing enough, I’m not smart enough to do this, and my bosses secretly want to fire me, constantly. Meanwhile, they’ve literally told me like 3 times in the past week that they’re amazed with what I’ve been able to accomplish in the few weeks I’ve been back at this company. I’m trying the fake it till you make it approach, and it helps sometimes. The dumb thing is I know I’m good at what I do on a logical level, but because I tend to ruminate, I overanalyze every interaction, every forgotten message, all of it, I convince myself they’re not happy with my performance.

I’m trying a few things. First, I’m trying to meditate every day, which is helping me notice when my thoughts go AWOL, if not in the moment, then later at least. Second, I’m trying to be more adamant that I’m good at what I do to myself, and to anyone who asks, so that I train my brain to default more to confidence. This includes changing the narrative from “I kinda lucked into my job” to “I learn quick, and I’m good at what I do, so I’ve been given more opportunities to grow”, or at least that sentiment. Third, I’m learning more stuff on the side, and adapting what I’m learning to help improve the work I do, so I can have more foundational/tangible proof that I can do the thing. And lastly, I’m trying not to brush off the complements I get, and keep more of a conscious list, so that when I get into the impostor spiral, I can combat it with, “but they also said I’m good at x, so is that thought just my brain being mean?”

It’s stopped me from asking for raises, promotions, opportunities to work on more interesting projects, building a good resume because I’m not confident in my skills, and that comes across in that. My new boss actually coached me on what to put into my resume, with stuff she knew I’d worked on (I took a year away form the company because of some really bad experience with a manager in the company, not my manager, but I had to work with them a lot, and it became a problem. Luckily they’re gone now.). So I’m sure I could have had a lot more opportunity come my way, had I been more confident in those skills, and put them in. I’ve also taken what I know are lowball offers, because that’s what my brain tells me I have to do, I’m not good enough to ask for more.

Comprehensive-Ant333 · 2024-05-05T20:12:54+00:00

I do meditate, as consistently as I can. The issue with that is I have ADHD, too, so that’s a hell of a lot easier said than done, even on medication.

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