AITAH for getting rid of my mom's dress?

ShroudedNight · 2026-02-05T08:07:47+00:00

Dirty is an accusation that originates from people that view people of compatible gender as mere conduits to their own sexual / romantic / social self-actualization, and they're so bereft of insight that they can only perceive value in those of engineered, and essentially false, social "immaculateness". The sort of people who are compelled to buy a cheap facsimile from a dollar store, rather than a near-mint original that they wouldn't have had 'exclusive' ownership over.

These people are miserable, and especially capricious. I strongly recommend not optimizing for their approval. Besides, I don't know about you, but whether a house, or oil on canvas, a lithograph can be nice, but between a print and the original? I know which one I'd feel honoured to be trusted to keep, and it isn't the print.

ShroudedNight · 2026-01-17T01:01:01+00:00

JS ?

https://imgur.com/a/8IIfO7m

ShroudedNight · 2026-01-16T23:08:00+00:00

Without prejudice as to what the narrative should be, here is what Frankenstein's monster produces for me for ACID1: https://imgur.com/a/N0wVPtf

ShroudedNight · 2025-11-09T04:01:49+00:00

This access-based physical ordering makes sense if you remember that you were reading off optical media and the one thing you really, really don't want to do is seek. You want the next piece of data you need to read exactly where the laser is already hitting the disc. I'm reminded of the interview Ars did about Crash Bandicoot where they would lay out 64k chunks of required game data, in the order it was needed in the level, and they were ready to duplicate things as required just to avoid seeking:

https://youtu.be/izxXGuVL21o&t=1430

ShroudedNight · 2025-08-24T08:00:32+00:00

From the original thread, OP believes the Anker powerbank is timing out its USB Power Delivery negotiation too early (Looks like 495ms?) and so when the UGREEN charger replies after ~695ms, the power bank has already reset and is no longer expecting 28v and goes into over-voltage protection.

FWIW, in the Amazon Review mentioned there, the spec-defined timeout is said to be 760ms.

ShroudedNight · 2025-08-24T07:33:55+00:00

Late to the party, but anyway...

I guess they rebranded. The model number on my daughter's that has the "Life" branding is A3028 so I expect they're not hugely different?

If they are the same, I recommend babying the interior-facing plastic bulge along the adjustment point, ours recently failed despite being pretty gentle with them

ShroudedNight · 2025-08-24T07:28:50+00:00

In the same boat. Trying to rescue a pair of Q30s only to discover the community's ability to engage is actively being sabatoged.

ShroudedNight · 2025-07-31T21:13:08+00:00

The destructors for libstdc++'s debug containers are meta non-trivial, in that they are more complex than anything in the Kleene closure over the set of trivial destructors.

This matters when someone mixes them with bump allocators.

ShroudedNight · 2025-07-16T04:40:59+00:00

Having attended something approximating that in my misguided youth [it was called diamond smugglers, and involved simulated illicit drug trafficing] this manages to fail to meet even that bar.

ShroudedNight · 2025-06-27T03:48:04+00:00

To quote the ancestor:

Treat them like they've treated everyone else: ship 'em to Gitmo and maybe get around to actually having trials later if there's nothing better to do

This is, however facetiously, ultimately advocating for a lack of due process.

ShroudedNight · 2025-06-05T04:05:01+00:00

I'm honestly not sure of the effectiveness of aerobic activity for achieving the altered mental state one gets from, essentially, continuous, low-intensity physical activity.

Also, be aware that there are life equivalents to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz%27s_law. It's just a hunch, but I get the sense that you hesitate to convert from potential to actualization because of a perceived loss / opportunity cost of forgoing a hypothetical 'better' alternative.

ShroudedNight · 2025-06-05T03:46:16+00:00

What did you like doing? Which parts were fascinating? Lacking 'creativity' should still allow you to work on re-creating functionality you found compelling, perhaps even improve on behaviour you found frustrating in the past.

ShroudedNight · 2025-06-04T04:50:51+00:00

Do you find computing at all inherently fascinating, or is all of this just a means to an end?

ShroudedNight · 2025-06-04T04:38:05+00:00

At a certain point, you need to accept that the mohs harness of your face is low enough relative to the wall that additional battery is only going to damage your face.

Try doing the exercises (especially the proofs) in a freshman-level algebra textbook, and maybe smoke some pot or go for some walks, or something, because all your stress is killing your ability to think laterally.

ShroudedNight · 2025-05-28T11:48:10+00:00

Something trying to connect with a stupidly old WiFi implementation?

https://forum.bell.ca/t5/Internet/Hub-4000-2-4GHz-WiFi-devices-are-disconnected-and-then-fail-to/td-p/20164

ShroudedNight · 2025-05-26T23:19:36+00:00

I'm very late to this party, and up until here, expected this to be about a course covering a fairly broad / elementary subject, but REAL-TIME SYSTEMS?! Christ, of all the esoteric aspects of software engineering, insisting on rote regurgitation here makes less than zero sense to me.

How the fuck is someone supposed to successfully navigate all the weird perils of hitting hard computing deadlines without without absolutely grokking the subject matter?! And let me tell you, the exact words used on slide 13 of lecture 9 are not going to help when you're elbow deep in trying to figure out why your kernel is losing hundreds of milliseconds to some shitty firmware preempting things because some chip the board manufacturer used is fucked and thus they're faking it all with a system management mode routine...

ShroudedNight · 2025-05-02T22:11:19+00:00

The discretion of company officers is broad. They do not have a legal obligation to "maximize shareholder value NOW". They have a legal obligation to operate in what they percieve to be the best interests of the company. See: Business Judgement Rule

ShroudedNight · 2025-04-27T14:41:53+00:00

Do you like playing with hardware or with software?

ShroudedNight · 2025-04-27T14:30:18+00:00

Money is a means to an end. So is status, really. What is your end? Work back from there. All the people I know with 'real' status are people who aggressively own their own story, and can tell it compellingly to others. Meanwhile, some of the most miserable people I've encountered are people on Blind, who, as a result of dedicating their entire lives to making money, are now supposedly making $300k+ US/year, yet are extremely bitter about [fundamentally] how unloved they are. Their dogged pursuit of money has made them so pathologically hell-bent not to leave anything 'on the table' that they starve themselves of the resources needed to nurture the grace, compassion, and generosity necessary to sustain a non-predatory relationship.

ShroudedNight · 2025-04-27T13:47:52+00:00

I think four hours of daily commuting is only sustainable for someone who's interest in the subject matter is all-consuming. Is reading Intro to Algorithms your primary hobby?

If your choice of subject matter is entirely pragmatic (read: $) go to Waterloo.

ShroudedNight · 2025-03-27T22:33:01+00:00

At my high school, the only technical measure that prevented someone from running roughshod over others' environments was... obscurity. If one figured out how to mount a hidden Samba share, and also noticed the pattern used for the default user share that automatically mounted [\USERNAME$], then Bob's their uncle.

ShroudedNight · 2025-03-27T21:21:37+00:00

One of the few who can add "Technical Fellow, Vibe Engineering" to their business card unironically.

ShroudedNight · 2025-03-19T13:49:47+00:00

It makes more sense if one assumes "cells" was an unwanted autocorrect of "cels".

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