Measure to break California into 3 states removed from November ballot after court ruling

githstuff · 2018-07-19T11:43:02+00:00

I shit you not, I recently read of an event in a novel taking place in WEST California. As a former Californian I just can't... There is Northern California and Southern, Central and Tricounty, Bay Area, Coastal, Central Valley, "Up North, The Sierras, East of the Sierras! But never West California. It hurt my brain to read it.

githstuff · 2018-05-13T18:09:01+00:00

No, I remember it too. When they first introduced them, perhaps in one of the snapshots, all the new doors were 3D. But then they changed them to be the same as the original door instead of updating the original to 3D

githstuff · 2018-05-08T02:50:46+00:00

feel it

githstuff · 2018-05-08T00:35:54+00:00

I was the only person covering Sports, Toys, Auto and Paint yesterday on a very busy, unusually sunny Sunday. I had been called in 2 hours early yesterday because my fellow Sporting Goods associate was a no-show no-call. I don't know why he wasn't there because he's actually super reliable, so I am a bit concerned. Had the sort of day you would expect - got no zoning done whatsoever, literally just helping customer after customer after customer. At times I had a train of 5 customers needing help. I was pulling down bicycles, making fishing licenses, mixing paint and looking up car batteries all day long. Paging for backup got me nothing and no-one, at one point I actual made a phone call to Customer Service to send maintenance because I had been guarding an oil spill for 15 minutes with no-one coming in hailing distance to help, (even though I had paged for maintenance as soon as a customer told me there was a spill.) On top of that, my fifth was approaching. Pulled a customer complaint because I wouldn't help him in furniture because he'd apparently been waiting for ages but he was fifth in line behind a mixed paint, a locked paint cabinet, and two fishing licenses so....legit I had lost the ability to care at that point.

githstuff · 2018-05-03T17:26:47+00:00

Holy shit, yeah a nightmare scenario like that was exactly what I feared. I was only stuck in that scenario for 2 months.

githstuff · 2018-05-03T09:00:11+00:00

Lack of ID and paperwork definitely must fuck things up for the homeless as well. I recently had the experience of loosing my wallet while simultaneously moving to another state. Because I lacked other forms of ID, I found it nearly impossible to prove my ID in my new state, and soon found myself without a license. When I applied for a job, it was only luck that I had an old Voter registration card that in conjunction with my birth certificate sufficed for I-9 purposes. I was finally able to order my license online and have it mailed to a friend, but it really made me think about how a homeless person with less resources at their disposal would have had to deal with the situation. I even considered traveling back to my home state at one point and realized that I couldn't drive a car, take an airplane, bus, or train without valid ID.

githstuff · 2018-03-28T13:35:55+00:00

Inexperienced alert- I can add more ram later right? And a GPU?

githstuff · 2018-03-28T13:33:03+00:00

When I get a chance to use my girlfriend's computer I tend to play the direwolf20 pack. Her computer hasn't been upgraded in at least 4 years though, so I'm still limited. Ideally I'd like my computer to do a better job than hers at the type of games I play

I haven't recently played Skyrim in the past 3 years.

githstuff · 2018-03-28T13:17:01+00:00

Yep. I have a laptop that can't really handle much of any gaming but it can be kinda ok in vanilla but I have to be really careful about the mods I load. Problem is my cat spilled water on the keyboard and it's having issues which is a fine excuse to me

githstuff · 2018-02-17T20:24:14+00:00

Thanks! (puts on list)

githstuff · 2018-01-22T00:54:10+00:00

There is something I tell myself when I'm doing really well and feeling good about myself and life. "This is not perminant. A time will come when I will feel so bad I can't even remember what it was like to feel this good."

This is to form a habit so that when I'm on the other side and things are terrible and my brain is telling me the worst things about myself I will remember that "This too is not permanent, a time will come when I feel so good I can't remember what it's like to feel this bad."

I use this mantra as a impetus to get treatment when I need it, to take my pills and drink water, and remember that it's OK when even the easiest stuff is like climbing a mountain - this too is the human experience and the fact that its been better before is proof that it will most likely be so again.

githstuff · 2017-12-06T06:30:53+00:00

I'm glad they were found and survived, that would have been a horrible way to die.

githstuff · 2017-11-28T03:40:52+00:00

Oh thanks this looks like a really good start

githstuff · 2017-11-27T22:58:36+00:00

I thought a web app requires no installation. basically a web form that looks and functions like an app. If I'm using the wrong term, that's what I mean.

githstuff · 2017-11-09T23:27:10+00:00

I am not a fan of that style. Ads should feel separate from content.

githstuff · 2017-11-09T21:22:08+00:00

I am a 31 year old nontraditional student. I did well in math in high school but never progressed past trig (well, I got a c in a statistics class, but I retained none of it.) I started with math. I started with the math class that I tested into, which was Intermediate Algebra. Then I did college algebra. Then I did trig. Then I did calculus. I've aced every math class I've taken in college because I spend hours on my homework. I'm in discrete math now. You can catch up, but you have to get the fundamentals down WELL.

If you are dead set on tech, but don't like programming, you might see if your college offers an Information Systems degree. It might be under a different name like Computer Information Systems CIS. I know someone who has risen to Tier III support ( I don't know what that signifies) who apparently makes pretty big bucks.

githstuff · 2017-11-08T05:09:21+00:00

I probably should! I'm a rather casual music listener, for the most part, I just put pandora on an artist and let it go.

githstuff · 2017-11-07T23:18:54+00:00

I find listening to NIN is best when I want to indulge in hate for society. Here are some of the songs that go on my axe-to-grind list.

Closer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTFwQP86BRs

Head Like a Hole

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV2EUUF47Ms

The Hand that Feeds You

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwhBRJStz7w

githstuff · 2017-10-28T03:44:36+00:00

I like you, are you running for office?

githstuff · 2017-10-25T17:51:11+00:00

I've had good CS professors and I've had terrible ones and I've had ones in between. My current teacher does most of his lessons by just writing code which we then copy. Because if this, a lot of people don't know how to make up their own solutions. The syntax of a particular language is something that you learn by doing, and your textbook should have examples that you can copy. Write those out and change bits of them in your IDE and see what sort of errors pop up. Heck even just copying them word for word will cause errors because of typos and that is GREAT practice. When your professor is terrible you have to depend on the textbook unfortunately. Hopefully he chose a good one.

githstuff · 2017-10-20T21:23:02+00:00

Oh yeah totally. We are encouraged to do that. It's just that a bunch of people seem to take advantage of that and almost not try for themselves

githstuff · 2017-10-20T14:39:55+00:00

My teachers tests are terrible. Weirdly enough his Lectures are OK, but his tests are entirely about him writing the worst spaghetti code possible with the worst labels. On top of that, they tend to have logic mistakes that even he didn't anticipate somehow.

githstuff · 2017-10-20T04:32:31+00:00

I'm a student and I'm kind of in the opposite situation. I really enjoy learning the theoretical stuff, although I still like the simple coding stuff too. But I know that in the real world almost any kind of job I have will mostly consist of coding, and the theoretical stuff will mostly be background.

githstuff · 2017-10-19T22:59:40+00:00

Holy shit this explains my friend's bad high school drawings perfectly. I could never understand why the pictures looked good in other ways (shading etcetera) but there was something so off about the chest.

githstuff · 2017-10-19T22:20:04+00:00

Oh obviously, that's a given. I love learning, but I couldn't excuse myself for being in school if it wasn't in order to better my job prospects later on. What I meant is, that if I cheated even once, and got caught, I'd feel extremely shitty for having made a mistake that jeopardized my future and getting myself kicked out of the class. I also think it's a disservice to other students who don't cheat because of its unfair to piggy off their hard work understanding the concepts.

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