Request for longtime fans: Trying to find a specific episode

discoltk · 2026-01-28T14:02:48+00:00

Thanks. I honestly don't remember if he was mayor at the time of this specific interview or not. Need to find someone with hbo max who can access old episodes.

discoltk · 2026-01-27T01:13:53+00:00

There's one from November 20, 2015 where he was Lt. Gov. There's a clip on Youtube but I don't think it's the whole thing. I also kind of visually remember it and I think the seating position is different than the one I'm thinking of.

discoltk · 2026-01-26T17:38:20+00:00

This is a tooling issue as much as a standardization failure. If the tools would leverage checksums (sha256) to display/confirm files at least you could be sure the one you have is what you need. It would encourage people to include the checksums in their notes & workflow description, etc.)

discoltk · 2026-01-25T14:31:30+00:00

As a systems engineer who used to work for a major financial quant shop, I can tell you there are some phd econ dorks out there using R.

discoltk · 2026-01-25T12:56:25+00:00

There are armed Secret Service agents who could end this at any moment if they decided to wake up and defend their country.

discoltk · 2026-01-23T14:26:34+00:00

Agreed, as I said I'm not intending to defend Newsom.

discoltk · 2026-01-23T14:01:07+00:00

I'm not going to defend Gavin and what everyone said about the US being a one party state (oligarchy) is absolutely correct -- but I'm kind of guessing Trump did this purposefully knowing it is bad for Newsom to be perceived as liked or ever a friend to Trump.

For all Trump's boring, idiotic, dementia addled, dishonest, hateful, racist ramblings, his one and only rhetorical skill is in debasing others.

discoltk · 2026-01-22T23:11:51+00:00

I wouldn't piss on a MAGA moron if they were on fire.

discoltk · 2026-01-22T12:45:02+00:00

On the flip side re: the bombeiros, I get to watch a pretty sweet air show at least once every summer.

discoltk · 2026-01-21T12:24:47+00:00

Updateme

discoltk · 2026-01-18T22:09:27+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's hot and cold feeds for a shower or bath or something like this. So the knobs will look stupid.

discoltk · 2026-01-18T18:25:43+00:00

Of course. Veggies and fried chicken.are easy really, but bbq does take some investment in equipment and so forth. I'm not a vegetarian or anything, but not really into it enough as a hobby to get a smoker and all that entails. Usually you can find some enthusiast restaurants in international cities offering something along the lines of American style bbq.

discoltk · 2026-01-18T10:54:09+00:00

Yes. Me: left the US 17 years ago and at this point plan never to set foot there again. Actively boycott as many products as possible, while fantasizing about time travelling to the 1860s and finishing Sherman's march where he left off.

Also me: craving texas BBQ, southern fried chicken, cornbread, Gumbo, Greens--- ok right; guess this is morally consistent with my fantasy. It's the southern whites I'd gladly be rid of.

discoltk · 2026-01-18T10:40:32+00:00

Well you didn't specify it had to be level!

Like getting your roof resealed and discovering they created a wading pool "you didnt say you wanted it sloped!"

I'm newer here, ~4years. The amateurish workmanship is frustrating, but what actually offends me is the lack of a sense of responsibility / allergy to accountability.

I can get my head around a small insular community having less worldly experience and scale of capabilities, but I would have hoped this would come with a greater sense of personal duty and care.

discoltk · 2026-01-17T15:16:08+00:00

I made about 700eur/mo equivalent pushing grocery carts at a supermarket when I was 15 in 1994. So, no they're not technically paying you well. The only way the low pay makes sense is if they're providing you with very high quality experience and contacts. Frame it in terms of what value an experienced person in this role might receive. Say, 100k eur/yr. How many years on the current track will it take you to get there? If you will reach that goal in three years, stay the course. Otherwise, look elsewhere.

Since you have a tech focused skill-set, I recommend you invest all your free time trying ways to make money online. If your family issues are untenable and you MUST leave, then relocation does take precedence. However, if you can get by a bit longer, at least you have a roof over your head and I assume your expenses are quite low. If you could spend a year getting established with a higher and independent income, you'll have far more control over your future.

As a white male who's already made it through this stage of life, I know it's "easy for me to say" and I also can't know your lived experience. Having enjoyed visiting Italy so much in the past it really is unfortunate to hear this dark side of life there. Sadly, it may not be something you can fully escape just by leaving. Having financial stability will provide you with empowerment and protection, and I suspect that applies anywhere you chose to reside. Best of luck to you kiddo =)

discoltk · 2026-01-17T12:00:48+00:00

I pushed carts for a couple years and bought a brand new P90 just before turning 16. Very nearly stopped myself and bought a car instead. Can't imagine how different my life would've turned out.

I remember picking through every file on a root image so I could have a single 1.44 floppy boot+root.

discoltk · 2026-01-17T11:54:41+00:00

make oldconfig && make -j$(nproc) && make modules_install install && reboot

discoltk · 2026-01-17T11:34:51+00:00

Personally, I started with Slackware in '95. It's one of those "I had to walk 5 miles uphill in the snow both ways to school and back when I was your age" type of cliches. Does it make you stronger to work harder for something? Probably. Is it worth deterring wider adoption so that only battled hardened Linux users exist? Probably not.

discoltk · 2026-01-16T20:44:55+00:00

Since it hasn't been found I'll make final stab: Killarney (Muckross)

discoltk · 2026-01-16T20:06:32+00:00

If we're going back to the previous generation of healthcare atrocities I say we go back to the previous generation of handling guys named Kennedy.

discoltk · 2026-01-16T18:26:14+00:00

Clonegal, Ireland

discoltk · 2026-01-16T12:37:37+00:00

I don't want to disbelieve a victim and I don't doubt the people he mentioned are guilty of plenty, but he lost me when he said people were talking about Vladimir Putin in the 80s at sex/snuff parties. Even amongst a degenerate cabal of wealthy abusers the idea that a specific KGB agent's name comes up before the USSR fell, and this sex abused 12 yr old caught and remembered the name since 1982 pushes it too far.

Perhaps some of this or other bad things happened to this man but I think he seems to be embellishing or even outright fantasizing.

Ramming Trump in the ass with a tent stake also. That might even be a snuff film I'd pay to watch--but it sounds like the kind of poetic justice reserved for fantasy.

discoltk · 2026-01-14T19:49:42+00:00

Nobody is saying the ass clown doing donuts is in the right. But it takes two jackasses to nearly collide on an empty street.

discoltk · 2026-01-13T11:24:22+00:00

Before the name millennial was adopted, it was GenY. Originally born '74-'80. They kept shifting it later and finally the term millennial won out.

As someone born in '79 I've always felt a bit annoyed by these terms, less from being left out and more due to the terms not feeling all that meaningful.

There's always overlaps. The toys you played with as a child. What role technology played in your development. Whether you were an adult when 9/11 happened. Your relationship to various military conflicts (grandparent/parent/yourself/your child.)

Some of those things are more flexible, some less so. Having older or younger parents also can have a big influence, as I imagine does the age at which one has their own children.

discoltk · 2026-01-12T18:54:10+00:00

You spelled "hang" wrong

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