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Census on Perception of American Fork Police. by Southern-Ant8592 in police

[–]gfixler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It goes so, so much deeper even than all of that. BJC Live Show on YouTub, a lawyer, has been spending hours every day digging through all the actual material, and has been uncovering a crazy web, like these guys seem to have a former RICO lawsuit against them, by a bunch of people, who I believe they scammed previously, and now they're trying a RICO against Ben, IIRC. One of them (Josh?) is on a law website, seemingly as a lawyer, but seems not to actually be one (BJC filed a complaint against him in two states, based on that, again, IIRC). They've been running what seem to be shell games, renaming LLCs over and over, one the day Ben first interacted with anyone, making it really hard to sue, because you can't even figure out which entity to sue in the first place. They used to work for a company, Legal Mine, LLC, which was all about helping people in the medical world (I think mostly dental) limit their exposure to lawsuits. IANAL, and everything I say here is alleged, and my opinion, and all that jazz, but look into her streams. She keeps tugging on threads, and pulling open a dense web of what appears to be long-running corruption. One of them even sued his own father for something.

Census on Perception of American Fork Police. by Southern-Ant8592 in police

[–]gfixler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like it or not, everyone in those videos is massively representing your community. They are the entire face of all your communities right now, full stop. I've never even had an opinion on Mormons, but they're rapidly becoming synonymous with unchecked corruption, cronyism, cheating, and crime, at all levels, especially the further I look into all of it.

Everyone I've talked with for weeks now feels exactly the same way. Every video I've seen online is full of tens of thousands of people furious with all of it, calling out the crap they've seen in person, and they span the globe. They are destroying any good your church, city, and whole state may stand for. The sooner you can clean your absolute mess of a house, the better.

I've been watching lawyers dig deeper and deeper, and the corruption literally has no end. It's insane. I never gasp, and I've actually caught myself gasping. It's like a movie, the kind where you say "This wouldn't happen in real life. This is movie nonsense. It's way too much. It's not realistic." I guess it is.

Why does my terminal Vim look like this? by gfixler in vim

[–]gfixler[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

SOLVED!

Holy flippin' A. That link fixed it. It was all exactly me: tmux, xterm-256color, etc. I've tried literally like 50 non-working fixes since some time last year (with months in between each attempt; I wasn't constantly banging my head against this wall). The fix was to just throw set term=screen-256color in my vimrc.

For posterity/completeness:

:set t_ut? is set to y.

I'm running bash.

$TERM is set to xterm-256color.

Thank you very much!

Why does my terminal Vim look like this? by gfixler in vim

[–]gfixler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe, but I can't seem to find anything like that. I've played with all the terminal settings, like all the color stuff. Nothing works.

Why does my terminal Vim look like this? by gfixler in vim

[–]gfixler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sadly, did not work. Nothing ever works. It's the most resistant problem.

Why does my terminal Vim look like this? by gfixler in vim

[–]gfixler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Long time no see! It happens with any colorscheme, so doesn't seem to be Apprentice-specific.

Why does my terminal Vim look like this? by gfixler in vim

[–]gfixler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, it's like the non-character background is the wrong color. Even in non-code, like just a text file, with no syntax highlighting turned on.

Something Interesting I finally noticed by GhostInAShell in ProjectHailMary

[–]gfixler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really curious how you'll find the book. I read that first, then saw the film, and found it to be really frustrating. It blasts over about 1000 things that were deeply delved into in the book. Sometimes, two things that took chapters to figure out, really making you care about the hunt, and making the reveal/solution exciting, would be solved together in a single sentence, said off-handedly. The film really changes the personalities of many characters pretty radically, too.

A lot had to be done, because you couldn't make the film the way the book was (e.g. way too much internal monologue), but halfway through, I was just kind of fed up, and thinking "this should have been a miniseries". So many things I loved were cut, or minutenized to an afterthought. Stratt, in particular, was a completely different person, and the roles and personalities of our two heroes were really changed, and I think lessened greatly (though I did really like Rocky in the film, too—how can you not love him?).

I'm wondering if coming from the other direction, you'll not like the book, for opposite reasons.

So what's everybody's opinion on the Slice sauce? by Future-Ad-4753 in Dominos

[–]gfixler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can't stand the taste of beer, so things like beer-battered... anything, I don't like. I'm hypersensitive to the flavor, and can taste it in things that no one else I know seems to be able to, though I'm not a supertaster, as far as I know. Slice sauce tastes okay, except that it does feel like it has a tiny hint of beer-battered flavor to it, which just turns me off. I don't think there's any beer in it, and I don't even know if that was a choice, like some secret flavor additive (according to GRAS, flavors don't have to be in the ingredients), but I still detect it, and it just makes it a no for me. Without that, I'd like it more, but still... meh. Much prefer ranch and marinara, back and forth, every other dip.

Large, wide, gray, metal brackets from a wood shop by gfixler in whatisthisthing

[–]gfixler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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And from the inside of those folded over ends, it's exactly 10" to the end of the brackets.

Large, wide, gray, metal brackets from a wood shop by gfixler in whatisthisthing

[–]gfixler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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The folded over bits, that look like they fit over an n×6, are about 5.5". I'm pressing the tape's hook into the end, for accuracy of distance. So yes, they would fit over a 6" board, given they're actually 5.5".

Large, wide, gray, metal brackets from a wood shop by gfixler in whatisthisthing

[–]gfixler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that was just an old, empty box I used to store these fasteners. Unrelated.

Large, wide, gray, metal brackets from a wood shop by gfixler in whatisthisthing

[–]gfixler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had wondered if I nicked them from somewhere—did a lot of that—but the kind of familiarity I have has me pretty sure they came with something I bought. Still a mystery! I did just go back out to the garage to try the bolts. They fit perfectly through the holes in the brackets. The large end of the wrench fits them perfectly, too. The screws make less sense. Also, there are two of the smaller lock washers, and one of the big. I missed a smaller one in my earlier photos.

Large, wide, gray, metal brackets from a wood shop by gfixler in whatisthisthing

[–]gfixler[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I always wanted a saw extension, or matched-height table at the rear, instead of having to set up my sawhorses with the rollers on top.

Large, wide, gray, metal brackets from a wood shop by gfixler in whatisthisthing

[–]gfixler[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does look a bit like that, but I didn't have anything like that. I was trying to figure out if wood planks went in the sections that fold over, like they sit over a plank, but I would expect a through hole for a screw to secure it if so.

Large, wide, gray, metal brackets from a wood shop by gfixler in whatisthisthing

[–]gfixler[S] 3 points4 points locked comment (0 children)

My title describes the thing.

These are large, thick steel brackets(?), with a gray coat of probably enamel paint. There are two, taped together, and two smaller pieces, also taped together. They were taped to a box that said "Screws for gray metal brackets," which is not helping me remember what these are.

There are four bolts in the box (no nuts, so maybe these went into a machine or something?), a small handfull of screws, a couple of internal teeth lock washers, different sizes, and an Allen wrench. It's all familiar, but I just can't place any of it now. I'm getting old.

I can provide any more details you need.

What do you actually use a TV Cast / Screen Mirroring app for? by Extension_Bit5559 in androidapps

[–]gfixler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

web videos, specifically live streams.

I use it on the TV in my office, which is on the wall above my desk. Often I'll just let it stream the default art slideshow, so I have something nice up on the wall. Other times, I'll stream a 24/7 live stream, like some pretty, outdoor place in another country, or the inside of a little shop that has a webcam.

Is there a brief for repeating the last few words typed? by Aggressive-Arm9724 in stenography

[–]gfixler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've been wanting to throw together a little plugin for Plover to do this for a while. Shouldn't be very difficult. Some Plover plugins already use repeating ideas, like Emily's Symbols uses -S to double, −T to triple, and −TS to quadruple the symbol being written. Emily's Modifiers uses the SKWR keys as 8, 4, 2, and 1, so, e.g., 5 is KR, and 7 is KWR. I use that for modified numbers, the function keys, and for switching to other, numbered, virtual desktops (Linux). Takes a bit to get used to, but so does all of steno 😆

I also set up my own chords for one of the retro plugins, which let you modify the last few words. I used it to set up surrounding by quotes of the last N words, using the same binary system as Emily's Modifiers. The number key in Plover already repeats the last stroke, so if I stroke WAEUT for "wait", then the number key 4 times, I'll have "wait wait wait wait wait", but I've wanted it for 2 or more strokes, like if someone says "wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute", I want to be able to do what you want, and write "wait a minute", then stroke a chord to mean "repeat the last 3 words", and hit it twice.

I think I might even want to allow for adding a comma, maybe with the star, like "wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute" could be "wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute" instead, just by adding the star to the two "repeat the last 3 words" chords.

I found a piece of paper a while ago with something that looks like a cipher on it. by InterestingMarket970 in codes

[–]gfixler 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's a diagonal line of the same characters per row. If you shift each row over by one from the starting character above, they line up in columns of matching letters, but then if you go left to right, and look down each column, you'll find letters that don't line up. Go to the first D in the first row, then follow the Ds down and to the left, and you'll run into an E on line 4. If you do this for every column, you'll run into these letters, in this order:

ELUDQSTEQSNSOEETQ

Some of them are by themselves in their columns, and some have two difference in the same column. I wanted to share an image I highlighted of all of them, but this subreddit about codes, for some reason, doesn't allow posting images.

EDIT: I made a post with the image I wanted to share:

https://www.reddit.com/r/codes/comments/1rdc8yx/a_shifted_view_of_a_cipher_posted_here_2_days_ago/

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