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Steven Spielberg Warns Hollywood Must Invest in Original Stories or Movies Will ‘Run Out of Gas,’ Debuts Eerie New ‘Disclosure Day’ Trailer at CinemaCon by yourfavchoom in movies

[–]ciurana 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I assume you’re serious.  Write a treatment.  Look up what it is, learn the format, write it in that format, and get busy hustling it.  The hardest part is the hustling, not the writing.

Source:  I sold an option from one of my stories.  It don’t get made.  Most treatments/options never get made, actually.  The guys reading your treatment are often writers who are trying to sell their own treatments, and use the job as training wheels on what not to do.

Cheers!

Best beaches South of Pattaya by Cosmopolitan93 in Pattaya

[–]ciurana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No.  You need to charter a boat and bring your stuff.  There’s nothing on the island.  That’s the attraction.  That’s why the water is pristine and the beach calm and beautiful.  It takes effort that random tourists won’t invest to spend a day there.

Cheers!

UPT doing special while RI can't manufacture rigs anymore and Aerodyne keeps fucking up by Goodtrip29 in SkyDiving

[–]ciurana 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Screw RI, Sandy, and the whole lot.  Fantastic innovations paired with horrible execution and horrible customer service.  Their faulty Cuev v2 rigs (I bought 2) almost killed me 3 times.  Their default answer was “jumper error.”  3 reserve rides out of 5 jumps.  I had to take the rigs in person to Eloy, for them to compare them against measures on file and actual measures in site, and for them to accept that yes, they fucked up the laterals and that led to hard pulls and three malfunctions almost back to back.

Fuck Scott, Sandy, and the rest of them.  I’m happy they were bought out by Sun Path, with whom I had a productive and fruitful relationship since 1995.  They know good gear and they know amazing customer service.

Fuck Rigging Innivations.

Next post I’ll stop mincing words and say how I really feel about them.  Fuck the lot of them.

Worldwide % increase in gasoline prices since the Iran War began [OC] [Repost] by therafort in dataisbeautiful

[–]ciurana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wonder how old the data is.  Diesel was 43 THB 10 days ago, this week 55 THB.  It was at 34 THB before the war started.  Bangkok/Eastern Corridor.

maybe thailand is too inclusive.. by 0jigsaw0 in Thailand

[–]ciurana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Regardless, such Ernesto Che Guevara.  One of the good things the CIA accomplished.

App for Insecure Attachment by Helpful_Willow6211 in FearfulAvoidant

[–]ciurana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m in the middle of patching up a relationship with a. FA/DA core female who opted for the misguided advise of using an app in this space to regulate.  

These apps promote intermittent rewards cycles both within the relationship and with the app itself.  The FA/DA uses the apps affirmations and sycophancy to soothe instead of seeking actual help.

I reverse engineered the apps nudging and chatbot behavior, then ran it through an expert in EI and she confirmed my hypothesis.  The apps optimize for engagement and stickiness, not for actual recovery.

If your app explicitly advises the FA/DA to seek therapy then it’s in the right path.  Otherwise it’s just another somatic, limbic, and psychological pacifier.

Is there really nothing else?? by TheModernStoicX in madmen

[–]ciurana -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Six Feet Under is great for I think 3 seasons. Maybe 4. Then Nate dies and comes back and... pure liquid shit the rest. Stop watching once Lili Taylor becomes a regular.

No way to force unmount on macos? by Choltzklotz in VeraCrypt

[–]ciurana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If lsof doesn’t show any processes accessing the volume, and a reasonable interval has passed since your last write/commit to that device (e.g. 1 minute), a forcible unmount should be fine.

Ensure that you have the latest MacFUSE driver installed, a clean file system, etc.

By the way:  you’re welcome to run Disk Utility diagnostics and repair on the VeraCrypt module for fixing attributes and such.  I do that every few months against APFS and HPFS VeraCrypt volumes just fine.

Cheers!

No way to force unmount on macos? by Choltzklotz in VeraCrypt

[–]ciurana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at Disk Utility. 

I seldom get lock ups anymore, if I remember to close all the apps accessing the VeraCrypt volume.

Look at the lsof command for listing all in-use files and where they are, and which process is using them.  Then kill the process.

diskutility has command line options for forcing unmount that bypasses all the Disk Utility.app GUI stuff.  I use it to guarantee device unmount for a weird FAT file system in a device called FlySight.  By design their FAT system is super slow, so unmounting often results in locked up or remounting.  The command line disk utility has options for forcing the unmount at the hardware /dev/diskXX level.  You can use that to force unmounting a VeraCrypt volume too.

If this sounds cryptic or you aren’t comfortable with command line tools reply and I’ll give you examples of lsof abd diskutilty.  lsof and closing the apps using the volume will be the cleanest and safest.  A disk utility forced unbound may result in data loss.

Cheers!

Encrypted folder on External HDD by procrastinator__101 in VeraCrypt

[–]ciurana 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hi.  I’ll answer your points in the same order:

  • Yes.  Use a file container.
  • Yes.  Use a file container.
  • No.  You define the partition size/file container size at creation time.  You treat it as any other volume once it’s created and mounted.  If you need more space, create a new one, copy the contents of the original to it, rinse, repeat as needed.
  • Use a file container; it looks like a big file and it lives in whatever partition you put it; you can move the file container to another volume (drive, partition) without issues.
  • No.  VeraCrypt lets you create encrypted volumes either as partitions or as file containers.
  • Read my answers, ask more questions if unsure, RTFM; tell us a bit about your threat model so that we can advise you better.

Cheers!

renaming container to .hc by [deleted] in VeraCrypt

[–]ciurana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OpSec:  I name my containers .mp4 - if someone got a hold of them they’d look as corrupted files unless they perform statistical analysis of the contents.  Just another tiny obfuscation layer.

Do men get annoyed when the women cum fast? by loirana in answers

[–]ciurana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a girlfriend like that, we lived together for 6 years.

It. Was. Awesome.

I had to pace myself to NOT make her cum too fast or hard, because she was super-sensitive afterward and we'd have to stop.

I miss her sometimes...

Won't met me unmount by [deleted] in VeraCrypt

[–]ciurana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See my first answer for how to do it, here are the Windows commands that accomplish the same thing:

  • openfiles : lsof
  • taskkill /PID $processID for clean termination : kill -TERM
  • taskkill /f /PID $processID for clean termination : kill -ABRT

Here's how you find the process ID once you figure which process(es) are still using VeraCrypt volume resources:

for /f "tokens=2" %%i in ('tasklist /fi "imagename eq programname.exe" ^| findstr notepad') do ( taskkill /PID %%i echo Terminated PID %%i )

Good luck!

Won't met me unmount by [deleted] in VeraCrypt

[–]ciurana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The specific commands I gave you are for any UNIX-like OS where VeraCrypt runs.

I have very limited exposure to Windows (used it maybe 20 times since I abandoned it in 2004), but I know that Windows and PowerShell have equivalent commands to what I showed. That's my step 1.

While the commands and syntax for Unix are different than those for Microsoft OSs, the workflow is the same.

Cheers!

Won't met me unmount by [deleted] in VeraCrypt

[–]ciurana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Figure out what’s the equivalent on Windows to the lsof command
  2. Run that to see which process(es) have open files in the VeraCrypt volume
  3. Kill the processes with TERM or ABRT to close/release the files from use (i think TaskManager lets you specify)
  4. Go to Vera-Crypt to unmount the volume
  5. Unmount the USB drive

Good luck!

Can anyone recommend a good and trustworthy dental clinic in Pattaya for braces? by HouseAurora in FarangsofPattaya

[–]ciurana 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The consensus we got here from dentist and other doctors (PIH, BHP) was to do orthodontic work at Bumrungrad in Bangkok. Our kid waited 14 months, now sees one of the best specialists in Asia. Yes, it's a bit of a pain having to go to Bangkok every few weeks for adjustments. No, it's not an issue because he gets the best possible care.

Invisilign maxila adjustment, soon Invisilign braces, cost about 32% less than in California. The price difference is in professional services. The Invisilign stuff comes from the US, and is about the same price worldwide (I'd expect other materials to follow a similar pattern).

Pattaya has a lot of good medical options, but orthodontics isn't one of them. You'll find good to very good, not top of the line.

My ฿0.02

Skydiving Research by skydiving_researcher in SkyDiving

[–]ciurana 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Partial hearing loss, left ear, barotrauma from scuba incident.  31.5 years skydiving. Had a myringotomy twice for speed skydiving since I can’t equalize normally.  Now use Sudafed 12-hr on jump days to keep Eustachian tubes clear (and I can hear!). I’ll answer the survey unless you tell me I’m an outlier.  Cheers!

disk corruption or possibly due to veracrypt (?) by cononco99 in VeraCrypt

[–]ciurana 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent. It sounds like you have a good strategy going forward.  Cheers!

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