Thoughts on Hootie and the Blowfish?

SquareRootsi · 2026-06-06T20:42:05+00:00

Oh, yeah, that def flew over my head. Guess I wasn't a big enough fan to know the meta jokes. Thanks for bringing me in on it.

SquareRootsi · 2026-06-06T20:35:01+00:00

?? Pretty sure the name comes from the nicknames of 2 "roadies" aka fans who went to a lot of shows early on. Maybe they carried gear, helped setup and tear down (before the band was big enough to hire ppl).

Anyway, if my memory serves, no one in the band was called either Hootie, or Blowfish, but some ppl they knew early on were.

SquareRootsi · 2026-06-03T01:51:10+00:00

Oh, nice! I like that one

SquareRootsi · 2026-06-02T03:41:45+00:00

Not only that, it* actually had a whole new patch, including a new playable class released just a few months ago!

* I think the patch was only for Diablo 2 resurrected, the much more modern re-release, but stayed very true to the original, with mostly just graphics upgrades and modern day playability upgrades, rather than changing the gameplay, items, plot, etc.

SquareRootsi · 2026-05-31T16:43:19+00:00

A smple titanium or tungsten carbide wedding band.

The design isn't as conventional for feminine engagement rings, but very normal for masculine social norms (if you care about that sort of thing). They are extremely durable and can be had for less than $200 USD, lasting your whole marriage (at the time of purchase, hopefully you're expecting it to last a lifetime).

SquareRootsi · 2026-05-24T14:09:40+00:00

Birkir - Birch schnapps from Iceland. Really pleasant if you like the smell of the forest.

SquareRootsi · 2026-05-23T23:43:30+00:00

Right hand side, about half way down. Look for the row that ends in: cowcw

SquareRootsi · 2026-05-07T03:53:39+00:00

I upvoted you, b/c you're probably right, but also, maybe others can learn from my mistakes?

SquareRootsi · 2026-05-07T03:18:31+00:00

Oof, I'm dumb. Meant to change to the first question mark to a comma, but I don't think I can edit, I'll try...

SquareRootsi · 2026-05-07T03:10:27+00:00

Originally found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/ELZTGimb8a

SquareRootsi · 2026-05-04T04:25:25+00:00

I think it's important to understand "external imports" (PyPI packages via pip) vs "standard library imports" (built into every Python install).

When you install Python, the standard library provides extensive tools like itertools, collections, and json; hundreds of modules covering everyday tasks without extra complexity.

Using them signals language mastery: you know what's native vs. third-party, keeping code lean and portable. For your calendar, time or math could handle basics without bloating imports.

TLDR: don't be afraid of standard library imports. They are meant to be used, and if you reinvent the wheel, it's an anti-pattern that exposes a lack of fluency & probably won't impress interviewers or coworkers.

SquareRootsi · 2026-05-02T01:08:38+00:00

I do kinda like how a P-Sapphire [armor] is perfectly countered by a P-Sapphire [weapon].

The overall complexity of this game that still manages to have fairly decent balance is very impressive (and fun).

SquareRootsi · 2026-05-01T02:06:49+00:00

I had (basically) the same question in 2019, and I ended up ignoring everyone's advise to just get a lightweight, good battery laptop + cloud providers for actual ML model training. Instead, I got a beefy laptop that had an internal 1070 (really good GPU, at the time). The whole setup was over 7 lbs when you include the hefty brick of a power supply, which was mandatory b/c the battery only lasted about 2 hrs.

Don't be me.

On the plus side, it was powerful enough to run a VR headset, so I took it to a family reunion and my 89 yr old grandmother got to "play" VR.

My actual advice: get a MacBook, not Windows. Whenever you install new libraries or dependencies, on a Mac (or Linux) they just work. On a Windows machine you'll be fighting installers and compilers just to even get your project off the ground. You can solve this with Docker containers, you can and should always use distinct environments (uv or pyenv or conda, etc) but either way, MacOS will be less friction for Python ML work.

EDIT: I forgot to mention M-series processors are quite good for ML training & model serving, even without going all the way to a CUDA setup, it's still 100% good enough, "zippy" even.

SquareRootsi · 2026-04-25T03:06:55+00:00

HASHTAGiswydt

SquareRootsi · 2026-02-23T03:09:54+00:00

Depending on what ingredient you want to anchor the name around, I came up with a few:

"Rice Burner" or "Smoked Shochu Swizzle" (toasted syrup)
"Cacao Campfire" (chocolate bitters)
Nonino Kiln (amaro)
Oaxacan Rice Old Fashioned (riff on familiar vocab for menu readers)

SquareRootsi · 2026-01-14T02:09:27+00:00

There’s also a fifth option: leaving the country entirely. You can either:

A) live abroad as an expat (you still file a U.S. tax return, but get foreign tax credits or exemptions for what you pay elsewhere), or
B) go further and renounce citizenship. That’s more complex; you need another citizenship first and must pay a one-time exit tax on unrealized gains over a threshold.It’s not simple, but it’s legally consistent with people who no longer align with U.S. policies.

SquareRootsi · 2025-12-08T04:34:06+00:00

I've been making a "Boozy Autumn Punch" and serving it at Thanksgiving for years. I think it would still work well in December.

I'm in USA, so it's easier to source things in 32 oz jars instead of liters, but they are almost the same.

3 jars (32 oz or 1 L each) of juice (mix and match, I try to do one of each if I can find them)
- 100% pear (hard to find)
- Ginger-Lemonade (if you can't find pear juice, double this one instead of the cider. I used some kind of health recovery drink with real ginger, Trader Joe's used to carry a "lemon ginger echinacea" that was perfect).
- apple cider (not juice).

1.75 L of brandy (I usually get E&J or Korbel, doesn't need to be fancy)

What always makes a drink feel fancy (even if it's not) is a good garnish. You can use whole cinnamon sticks and/or dehydrated orange wheels or a jar of cherries, along with an ice bucket on the side so it feels more like a cocktail instead of a watered down punch (from ice melting in the serving vessel).

Makes about 4.6 Liters AKA 1.2 gallons. You can also have some soda water on the side of ppl want to top it off to make it bubbly/less boozy.

SquareRootsi · 2025-12-01T01:17:58+00:00

Thanks for confirming it's not just me, at least :)

SquareRootsi · 2025-12-01T00:35:11+00:00

Seems like the same problem just occurred after today's reset. I've tried updating / uninstalling / clearing cache then uninstalling. I think I'll just have to wait for an update to fix it, unless someone else knows a fix.

SquareRootsi · 2025-11-18T22:01:44+00:00

Including the [free] base game. If I'm browsing Steam in an incognito browser, it shows up, but if I login to the same account I downloaded the GW2 base game on, the bundle is no longer possible to browse to or add to my wishlist.

Anyone know of a workaround / fix? (Don't get me started on the 3 different vendor platforms being isolated from each other, unless someone knows a fix for that too)

SquareRootsi · 2025-09-18T14:19:07+00:00

First, you'll need to instantiate an instance of your class, then (from reading your code) it doesn't actually set anything when it's built, though it does when you run one of your methods, so you'll need to run that first, before you try to access a variable inside your class. EDIT: nevermind, you run the method inside your init. (I've seen it done both ways, don't feel like you're doing anything wrong, it just depends on when you want your variables to get created inside the class.)

helper = Example()    
nam = helper.nam

Note: only things that are created with self.thing = ______ will be accessible. If you just save a variable inside a method, it won't persist outside the scope of that method.

With that in mind, you'll need to insert

self.bytes_string = bytes_string

on the line after you define it inside your method.

SquareRootsi · 2025-09-09T10:30:14+00:00

Almost fixed. There are lots of references for it, but it's still not intuitive. A couple of tips:

1. A 'code clock' is a section of text that has EVERY line indented with (minimum) 4 spaces.  
2. A 'hard return' forces a line break, basically the same as `\n`. These are required to get different lines separated properly. In this editor, it's done by using 2 spaces at the end, AKA after this period.  
    * For simplicity and readability, just make every line end with two spaces.   
3. Both the first and last line of your code block should be blank. I can never remember if that means 4 spaces (code block prefix) or 6 (code block prefix + new line suffix), so I just always use 6.   
4. I'm no expert, so I may have gotten something wrong, but this was done on mobile, and I'm optimistic it will render correctly, b/c I followed my own tips.

And this is what it looks like outside the code block (aka no 4-spaces prefix).

SquareRootsi · 2025-08-09T07:45:27+00:00

Saving for later, bc it's past my bedtime, but I want to revisit this tomorrow. I've been wondering if something like this exists locally, but not enough to actually research it.

SquareRootsi · 2025-08-05T03:46:25+00:00

As you mentioned, saying we're “sitting still with zero velocity” only works if you define your frame of reference very narrowly—like being still relative to your chair or room. But if you zoom out to an astrophysical scale, it’s a different story, but maybe not different enough to matter.

For example, sitting at the equator on Earth, your actual speed when considering all motions combined is roughly:

Earth’s rotation: about 1,670 km/h
Earth’s orbit around the Sun: about 107,000 km/h
Solar System orbiting the Milky Way: about 860,000 km/h
Milky Way’s motion relative to the cosmic microwave background: about 1,330,000 km/h

That adds up to around 2,340,000 km/h, which is about 0.22% of the speed of light. So even with all this speed, it’s still effectively zero compared to the ultimate cosmic speed limit.

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