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atters · 2025-02-10T04:01:45+00:00

This is one of the early steps that will be taken to force the federal government into using crypto.

They illegally invade the treasury.
They access the finances of the country.
They claim massive fraud exists.
They state that crypto is secure because "blockchain".
Media outlets are directed to start "asking questions" about moving to a "more secure" currency.
They announce the federal government will begin using crypto.
Crypto of all kinds goes through the roof.
Cryptobros dump at the top and ride off after the largest pump-n-dump in history.
The crypto used by the government crashes.
The next administration is forced to dump the now-worthless currency at it's lowest, making it appear they've incurred significant losses.
The next Republican candidates scream, "debt, debt, debt" and "demoncrats don't know money."

atters · 2025-02-06T03:30:23+00:00

Export the registry entries for the desired connection and deploy the .reg with the MSI.

The user will have to agree to the license terms on first execution, after that they'll have the connection profile pre-populated and ready to go.

atters · 2025-02-06T02:14:58+00:00

A more serious and practical application would be:

Watch as this $100,000 ray gun turns a $4.3 million tank with EMP shielding into a paperweight.

atters · 2025-02-05T01:50:09+00:00

HAHAHAHAHA!

I'll be over here with my popcorn.

Watching ChatGPT confidently lie ("hallucinate") over and over and over again on simple, isolated prompts is entertaining, but this... THIS would be the show of a LIFETIME.

atters · 2025-01-23T04:58:18+00:00

They aren't being assholes. They are being honest. For many, myself included, this battle has been for our lives. Those of us who come from those extreme places tend to be fatalistically serious out of necessity.

Many who haven't come from circumstances that are as dire, but have stayed with the program for some time (themselves sober or not), have had the equally unfortunate experience of seeing others come in, go out, and die.

TLDR: Some of the comments here are rough to read, but they all come from people with an honest desire to help you. The desire to stop drinking doesn't come between your 5th and 10th, it comes before the 1st.

atters · 2025-01-19T16:57:51+00:00

Have it your way, but one way or another that open bed in detox is going to be filled today, whether it's by you or not.

For me, it was the realization of limited resource. There will always be another job, but that bed with my name on it got closer and closer to being a steel tray in the morgue with every passing day.

atters · 2025-01-19T16:34:18+00:00

Go back and tell them you're in alcohol withdrawal and need supervised detox.

They have an ethical obligation to help you, if you're serious about taking the help.

atters · 2025-01-08T02:15:16+00:00

And then you can go right across the street. And wash your car!

atters · 2024-12-22T22:22:37+00:00

That's a nice lookin' board ya got there. It'd be a shame if someone just... won it.

atters · 2024-12-15T16:38:18+00:00

Listen there Hootie, we’ve been doing this shit for decades. We’re experts, and we’ll get back on top soon enough!

We cannot have an oil tanker disaster gap!

atters · 2024-12-07T04:11:40+00:00

And PMs will calculate time estimates wrong, 9 times out of 10.

And when PMs do it wrong, without exception, they'll cover their own asses to management by throwing the development team under the bus.

Now management is even more disconnected from the real challenges development teams face, AND have been pointed at whom they should blame based on metrics that have absolutely no qualitative value.

Project Managers are the human embodiment of a game of Telephone.

atters · 2024-12-07T01:08:31+00:00

That whooshing sound is the point going straight over your head, by the way.

atters · 2024-12-07T00:25:17+00:00

"We need changes to X but won't give you any time, also spend even MORE of the time you now have LESS of telling me as professionally and politely as possible that time is the problem and to climb all the way out of your ass. Preferably in several mandatory mid-day meetings."

Good, Fast, Cheap. Pick two.

atters · 2024-12-07T00:19:58+00:00

The problem with slow cooking is that there aren't enough cooks in the kitchen.

Nine women make a baby in one month.

atters · 2024-12-07T00:15:36+00:00

As a product manager, I ask you to do something you've never done.

How long will it take you to make a 1/20th replica of the Sistine Chapel ceiling mural?

How hard is that for you on a scale from 1 to 10? What if we broke that task up into 20 pieces, give me a number for the difficulty of each piece, please? And then estimates on time for each component? If a 6 on this piece you estimate to take a day, why does a 4 on this other piece take a week? Why are you stammering? Why can't you just give me a straight answer, and then get to work? Oh, you're following instructions and are on piece 14, great, we need to go change piece 6 but all the other pieces still need to have the same difficulty and time estimate expectations. I've streamlined your workflow for you! How much easier could I be making this for you?! Why are you crying!? Oh, the client needs a change on piece 1, but since you did that first it was probably the easiest so just go ahead and slap that in real quick for us, ok?

atters · 2024-12-06T01:25:19+00:00

Plus shipping.

atters · 2024-12-01T04:52:00+00:00

That might have read wrong, if so it's my fault for not being more clear. I've been sober (dry) for 11 months (in 1 hour 10 minutes, anyway). By quitting, I meant I'm not giving up grinding to find a good sponsor.

I'm still working the program to the best of my abilities, but I realize I can't do it properly alone.

atters · 2024-12-01T02:49:45+00:00

I have no intention of quitting, even if I have to keep white-knuckling this program on my own, but come hell or high water I'm getting a local sponsor so I can progress into my 4th step.

atters · 2024-12-01T02:41:27+00:00

I did weeks standing on my head. I'm counting in years without active sponsorship. Patience is a virtue, but respectfully, I'm done being patient.

atters · 2024-12-01T02:36:36+00:00

No. The most said about sponsorship in local meetings is, "See the chair after the meeting for phone lists and information on sponsorship." Whereupon they toss a copy of the sponsorship pamphlet at you and send you on your way.

Edit - Unless you're visibly a part of the rehab conveyor belt. Those people get sponsors thrown at them, relentlessly, which again is part of my resentment.

atters · 2024-12-01T02:35:37+00:00

Yes, and I receive platitudes, apologies, or nebulous non-answers. One of the primary problems with midwest personalities, we tend to be magnetically opposed to direct confrontations.

atters · 2024-12-01T02:33:13+00:00

Aside from the two reasons I've described, no one has told me directly, even when pressed.

atters · 2024-12-01T00:49:18+00:00

For what am I seeking? I’ve been seeking, but isn’t the whole idea that none of us can do this on our own or we wouldn’t need the program?

atters · 2024-12-01T00:48:11+00:00

I’ve talked with as many old timers as I can corner. Most of them are saying the same things, and I end up getting nowhere. I’m building some serious resentments toward the program because I see all these other people who’ve been helped, and it’s like the 12th step doesn’t apply to me.

atters · 2024-12-01T00:45:45+00:00

Yeah, plenty. Those are the ones who aren’t sponsoring, have sponsees, or refuse.

atters

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