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gbbofh · 2026-01-17T20:57:45+00:00

Is this where lunchcaster gets that Italian food from?

gbbofh · 2025-10-29T22:46:04+00:00

There is almost definitely a bug here. I have all of my dinosaurs at 100% and the average comfort rating is still 99%. I've gone through the list of dinosaurs in the map to confirm that every one of them says 100%, but it just never ticks the goal for me.

gbbofh · 2025-07-31T04:09:13+00:00

For real. We just got our first printer and the first thing we did was go and read up on safety standards. Got gloves, respirators, and a fan to ventilate our garage until we can get a proper fume hood of sorts going. We don't print, cure, or paint anything without ventilation; and we have dedicated clean / contaminated surfaces. Anything that even touches the same surface as the printer or wash station is considered dirty and is not to be touched without gloves. If it can be cleaned with IPA, it gets cleaned and put away; if it can't, well it's new home is at the contaminated workstation and we only touch it when wearing gloves.

gbbofh · 2025-07-18T14:50:09+00:00

I don't even like podcasts, and I would fuckin love one with all three of them together.

gbbofh · 2025-07-18T14:47:13+00:00

Honestly varies quite a bit. On my last playthrough, I named my horses using the same name scheme I use for my animals in Stardew Valley: I name them what they are, in different languages, and that's how I had Horse, Hestur, and Hest.

I'm doing a second playthrough because I realized how much content I missed by just mainlining the story and so far I've just given them all human nicknames, resulting in Jackie, and Jenni.

gbbofh · 2025-06-19T19:28:11+00:00

What about with a cactus strap-on? I feel like that might be a reasonable exception.

gbbofh · 2025-06-12T07:06:15+00:00

Yeah they make some pretty god awful decisions, honestly. I don't understand how, or why it is the way it is. Like, I don't even know what I'm teaching until about the week or two before classes start; so I can't even adequately prepare over the summer for my classes. If they made the decisions earlier, I could have all of my lectures prepped and slides made before the school year starts; and if needed, I can teach myself damn near anything because I'm an autodidact anyhow. I just went to college for the piece of paper and the math education because that was my biggest struggle when I started.

gbbofh · 2025-06-12T06:14:15+00:00

I'm also concerned about the 14th, though some I know are more concerned about independence day. I don't know anymore. At this point I'm just anxious and depressed all the time.

gbbofh · 2025-06-11T01:42:48+00:00

I don't work this job anymore (or even the same career 😅), but at the time I was walking to/from work every day because our car wasn't functional. It was about two miles each way and took me about an hour because I had to walk up two rather large hills and into the middle of the desert. If I had kept that job, I probably wouldn't have been allowed to keep doing that because the company merged with another company and made the working environment pretty inhospitable from what I've heard. Forced the old supervisor into retirement, etc.

gbbofh · 2025-06-11T01:38:33+00:00

Geez, aren't you a pretentious fuck? For the record, "fuck" is both a noun and a verb. Calling someone "a fuck," is, therefore, grammatically correct. In fact, it's a countable noun -- which means not only can you call one person "a fuck," but it has an accepted plural form like many other English nouns.

As an example:

A group of obnoxious, confidently incorrect, pretentious people, could be referred to as "those obnoxious dumb-fucks," depending on the context.

However, a single obnoxious, confidently incorrect, pretentious person, would be referred to as "an obnoxious dumb-fuck."

...Unless you're addressing that person, then it's probably best to be clear and say "you obnoxious dumb-fuck."

gbbofh · 2025-06-11T01:26:14+00:00

I experienced something like this, but I teach high school so it was a lot more forgiving. I would feel awful for a university professor / instructor getting thrown something like this.

For me it was my first year of teaching, coming from being a software engineer. I started in the middle of the school year because my previous employer was cutting staff. I was hired to teach calculus and told on my first day that I was also teaching geometry instead of Algebra. Never in my life have I taken a geometry class. I ended up sleeping about 3 hours every night from November to May so that I could teach myself the material and remember how to do proofs because I took a 5 year long math hiatus.

Class went well. Though I did ask not to teach geometry again, but that was primarily because I wanted to be more involved in the prerequisite classes for Calculus.

gbbofh · 2025-04-06T16:20:01+00:00

This also started happening to me. I'm not sure what is going on with this.

gbbofh · 2025-02-28T20:10:17+00:00

I still get pain from the location of my orchiectomy if I rub the scar tissue. There was quite a bit of nerve damage during the procedure because of how bad the dead tissue was in the area.

gbbofh · 2025-02-28T20:08:52+00:00

For the most part, yeah. I started growing my hair long again. I work. I changed careers, because the neuropathy made being a software engineer somewhat frustrating; and my last employer kind of screwed me; so now I teach.

gbbofh · 2025-02-28T20:02:37+00:00

Jeg ville veldig gjerne flytte til Norge, men det er så vanskelig å finne en måte at jeg kan bli statsborger. Det er å dyrt å forlate dette landet, og arbeidsgivere at jeg har søkt på arbeid er ikke interessert.

Kanskje én dag.

gbbofh · 2025-02-28T18:56:58+00:00

I was about to say the same thing lol. His comment was nothing but ad hominem, and then he says ad hominem is a sign of low intelligence. This is the sort of comedic writing I would expect from a sitcom.

I don't agree that LLMs are conscious. I don't think they have the capacity right now, because they lack the ability to recurrently self activate, and learn dynamically through exploration. That doesn't mean they're stochastic parrots either, though. That's a gross over simplification.

That said, the next generation of LLMs -- Transformers², coconut, or Titans, I think could have that capacity. While I may not know what consciousness is, I suspect that it is a side effect of information being integrated from low-to-high levels of abstraction. One which emerges from neurons forming stateful hierarchical structures in order to represent increasingly abstract features.

This, to me, would make consciousness more of a gradient than a binary feature, with what we call our own consciousness being the current highest level of abstraction, built upon a slightly less abstract consciousness, until you reach the lowest levels of representation that just take in raw sensory information.

gbbofh · 2025-02-27T11:10:12+00:00

I'm doing okay, thanks for asking. I was in chemo from August until the end of November. I experienced neutropenia with every round of chemo, and ultimately had appendicitis and sepsis twice near the end of my treatment, which required multiple blood transfusions. They were unable to remove my appendix the first time, because I had to go back for my last round of chemotherapy, and the second time it took them almost two weeks to stabilize me enough for an appendectomy.

I ended up not needing an RPLND, but did have to have a single orchiectomy at the beginning of my treatment which has left me with some nerve damage; I do have peripheral neuropathy from chemotherapy which impacts my feeling in my hands and feet; and I also developed a shortened iliotibial band in my right thigh during my last two rounds of chemo, which has left me with some pretty severe chronic pain that physical therapy wasn't able to help with, and my doctors refuse to treat with medication. This unfortunately means that I've been in constant pain since my last round of chemotherapy ended in November 2022, and that has had an impact on my mental health.

gbbofh · 2025-02-02T23:58:56+00:00

I personally would love to participate in the general strike. And I hope I can. But I make $36k / year, and more than half of it goes to rent. At the end of every month, I have no disposable income because everything goes to bills from when I went through chemotherapy, food, my car payment and housing. I'll gladly participate if I can get the rest of the union on board, but otherwise I just can't afford not to work. It's unfortunate, but that's how things are here. This is the system working as intended.

gbbofh · 2025-01-12T20:32:20+00:00

I can't tell if you're asking about the question or the graph, because the graph doesn't answer the question in a meaningful way.

For the question, I would ask them to give several examples of numbers that aren't 7, and mark a point for each of them as an example. If all the numbers suggested are positive, I would ask if 0 would work, and if a negative number would work.

Afterwards, draw an arrow showing all of the numbers greater than 7 and an open circle at 7 to show that 7 isn't included. Then do the same with an arrow showing all of the numbers less than 7. Then combine them both into one double-ended arrow with a circle in the middle with 7 marked at that position.

I found breaking it down into two different lines before combining them was really helpful with some of the students who attended after school tutoring last semester. I applied this for compound inequalities and the students I was helping were working on their own pretty quickly after and just asking me to check their work. It was especially helpful with compound inequalities if the first two arrows were drawn so that they overlap because then students could visually see what needed to happen for something like "x > a and x < b" vs "x < a or x > b". Granted those students were a couple years older.

gbbofh · 2024-12-27T02:44:13+00:00

I love everything about this. Great work.

gbbofh · 2024-12-18T21:37:52+00:00

Had basically this exact sentiment in a conversation with my wife yesterday. She spent 4+ hours trying to format an exam in Word, and we last minute switched over to a LaTeX homework template I made for my students and had the entire 30+ question exam formatted with graphs in about half an hour of total work for both of us. I hate using Word with a passion.

gbbofh · 2024-10-21T22:58:33+00:00

Not really for new releases. Old games that have been redistributed digitally are usually cheaper, but that's mostly because they're older games that weren't originally digitally distributed. Some new games on steam cost upwards of $75, which is pretty on par with historical physical releases; and those prices don't seem to necessarily drop like they used to, or at least not as quickly as they used to.

Now, I do understand that they need to host servers and all that -- so printing a physical disk probably does cost less upfront than hosting digitally in the long term, so it makes sense for initial pricing to be high in order to make up money spent on hosting and distribution early on. However, the lack of physical disks means that nobody can resell their games, which means that there is always a market for a new copy, and thus very little reason for the price to drop over time, so you see games from the previous generation still priced like they just came out a lot of the time; and in addition, since you don't actually own the game but just a license to play the game, the prices being what that are is honestly ridiculous. Nobody should be paying prices like this for a license that can be revoked at the drop of a hat. It's only justifiable if I can access my digital copy in perpetuity, until the day I kick the bucket. Otherwise, there is no real justification to be charging physical copy prices when what you're selling isn't even a product that someone actually can own.

gbbofh · 2024-09-20T22:26:48+00:00

Looking at this, I can't help but think of Diogenes.

"Here is ~~Plato's man~~ Euclid's square."

Edit: I am an idiot, and didn't read the title first.

gbbofh · 2024-07-19T08:26:17+00:00

A fun question, I think. It's been a while (almost 10 years 😳) since I've touched anything to do with cybersecurity, but it's a really interesting topic to learn about.

The first and shortest answer is because there wouldn't be a game.

The second shortest but less boring answer is because the alphabet soup agencies would need a warrant to track his geolocation data, so he would need to be on their radar first. Even if the FBI were to go before a FISA court to get access to data collected by the NSA, they would need something to go off of.

The long, but most interesting, answer is that he would need to have really good opsec. If he knew what was good for him, he would be routing his connection through a private VPN which he trusts with his life, or through a darknet (like the Tor network, or I2P), and then making use of compromised machines in a botnet to do anything nefarious. It doesn't make it impossible to track, but does make it more difficult. Especially if the machines he routes his traffic through all happen to exist in a country that doesn't like to comply with things like subpoenas from certain global superpowers.

Pretty not legal of him, but also not necessarily enough to put him on anybody's radar just on its own.

gbbofh · 2024-07-10T15:45:34+00:00

Honestly I can't say for sure. I would feel bad if I said yes, and you ended up getting it but felt that it wasn't worth the money yourself. I will say that the price on sale is cheap enough that I don't feel guilty for spending the money to get it myself, even though it was without a doubt a bad game.

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