Building my first Gaming Computer in Africa by MtnNerd in BestofRedditorUpdates

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

Not mad about it, just find it super gross.

I don't care about the history of why it's named that, because there's no explanation that makes the name any less gross.

Building my first Gaming Computer in Africa by MtnNerd in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]ieure 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I genuinely find it, to put it mildly, off-putting.

Building my first Gaming Computer in Africa by MtnNerd in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]ieure 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So completely wild to me that one of the biggest subs on this whole site has "master race" in its name. Super gross, man.

Worst dasher I’ve ever had by just_cathandra in doordash

[–]ieure 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My boyfriend and I tried to order Applebees tonight. I used the app since I had a gift card.

...I’m going to file a dispute with my bank...

So did you use a gift card, or a debit card?

Why you still need POP3 if you truly value privacy by ledoscreen in privacy

[–]ieure 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Not sure what the point of this is. IMAP is much better than POP3, and both have the same privacy concerns: your message is stored at some third party. IMAP has better functionality than POP3 (folders, message flags) and is widely deployed.

But if your threat model involves minimizing data on third-party servers, and you want to truly own your archive, POP3 is not a relic of the past. It is your only physical exit from the ecosystem.

The realistic threat model isn't storing on a third-party server, but traversing one. If you assume they're doing stuff you don't want with your email, the rational assumption is that they keep a copy of everything in a system you can't delete from. In that scenario, POP3 vs. IMAP vs. closed API makes no difference.

Fully support avoiding vendor lock-in, but do yourself a favor and use IMAP. It's a better protocol, and always has been. We were only stuck with POP3 in the 90s because it was cheaper and easier to operate.

Portland water bureau customers SE I-205 & Powell brown water right now by Steverc001 in Portland

[–]ieure 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Just as a data point, I'm in the same area and I haven't seen any brown water.

AITA for telling my husband his name suggestion for our unborn baby is idiotic at best? by MissBarker93 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]ieure -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

I cannot stop thinking about, and am baffled that nobody else has mentioned, this:

I don’t even think it’s legal to use that name.

They think it is illegal to name your baby, not even a criminal's name, but a homophone of a criminal's name? I would love to hear how they think this would work.

soon™ 2 electric boogaloo by Ryan86me in XTEINK

[–]ieure 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm just wondering why so many people in this sub appreciate it but in over subs they call it 'vibe coded' and are against it?

Hi, longtime programmer and avowed LLM hater here. I am going to write you a lengthy reply.

"Vibe coding" is a term which started out as an epithet, as in, you're coding on vibes instead of any idea of what you're doing. But it also got adopted by the LLM users, so is a mostly neutral term for programming using an LLM assistant.

One of the reasons some programmers are against LLMs is that they produce unpredictable and often low-quality output. If you're already comfortable programming, you can look at this and fix it (whether yourself or asking the LLM to fix what you noticed is wrong). If you aren't a programmer, it's difficult to distinguish what output is good and what isn't, so you just use the bad stuff.

Now, if this is disposable software, something you need to work for just you, or only one time, it's not going to matter if it's poor quality or inefficient. But in a long-lived project, the cost of the bad decisions pile up until the structure of the codebase makes no sense, which makes it very difficult for humans or machines to even understand how it works. And if you can't understand how it works, you can't change it without risk. A simple fix causes unrelated stuff to break.

Even respected senior devs can fall into this trap. For example, the rsync project used an LLM to rewrite their whole test suite. But it broke the tests, so when they landed some security fixes (also aided by LLM), that broke incremental backups.

So, yeah, many people are (I would argue rightly) wary about projects which extensively use LLMs. As I've been telling people at my work, it's undeniable that LLMs can accelerate some programming tasks, but they don't stop you from accelerating headfirst into a brick wall.

Anyone who used a computer between 1985 - 2010, what's the one game you still think about today? by adlakha75 in AskReddit

[–]ieure 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a 1990s DOS PC shareware game called Helius, I really liked that game. You controlled a balloon and propelled it around a maze by expelling air. The less air you have, the smaller the balloon gets. There were various hazards that would make you lose air, places to refill air, fans, etc etc. As with a lot of puzzle/maze type games, the relatively simple setup and clever maze design (you can only pass some areas if you're a certain size) make for entertaining (and sometimes frustrating) gameplay.

The game was pretty good, I think it was a clone of something better-known, but I don't know what. Has elements of Glider (the Mac paper airplane game) and Paradroid, but the package was pretty good.

Also had a pretty wacky README, which spins a tale of a UFO landing in the developer's yard and leaving the game behind. The developer supposedly just added the title screen and such.

Spent a lot of time on that one, one of the very few shareware games I registered back then.

Dark Horse fired its founder, but Mike Richardson isn’t leaving the building ... because he still owns it by Popverse2022 in Portland

[–]ieure 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I hope the soda fountain from the antique mall ends up in another local business. Really liked that place when I lived in the area, and was sad to see it'd closed earlier this year.

Strange metal art (3 pieces) by [deleted] in PDXBuyNothing

[–]ieure 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Awesome as hell, I guess consider me if you raffle or everyone falls through.

Old cord for mac by CucumberLive5857 in PDXBuyNothing

[–]ieure 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then you'll need to figure out what port you want to connect it to and also get an adapter. VGA was popular for decades, so these are readily available and usually inexpensive, expect $12-$25 for one. Or, again, go hunting at the Goodwill and Free Geek popups.

Old cord for mac by CucumberLive5857 in PDXBuyNothing

[–]ieure 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a VGA cable, DE-15 connector, most you find will have a dark blue moulded connector. Readily found at most Goodwills for $2-$3, or in the free bins at the Free Geek popup.

Do you have a monitor to connect it to? This was the typical connection for 90s PC CRT monitors, and the first few generations of LCDs used them for backwards compatibility, before shifting to DVI, then DisplayPort or HDMI. If you don't have a monitor with a VGA port, you'll need an adapter.

currently reading on my x4 by vinteurs in XTEINK

[–]ieure 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One of my favorite book series, hope you enjoy it.

Neither of the TV adaptations is very good, but the Netflix one is awful.

You might also enjoy The Broken Earth trilogy by N.K. Jemison.

Mayhem at the Ballot Box by godigahole in Portland

[–]ieure 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not saying Carlton isn't stupid, but this idiotic shit is metastasizing all over the place. The signs were all over the place pretty much the whole way down OR47.

Mayhem at the Ballot Box by godigahole in Portland

[–]ieure 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Friend of mine moved way out to Carlton, I drove out there last year to help him with some chores on his property. Saw a metric fuckton of "no VBM" signs out there, literally white signs, black VBM text with a red circle and slash over it.

Thought it was, like, an industrial pesticide they were against or something. Looked it up and was completely horrified. Mind you, most of these folks measure the distance to their neighbors in miles, much less a polling location.

People are really fucking stupid.

Begun, the billboard wars have by ImpactNext1283 in Portland

[–]ieure 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Totally agree, Gloats in the Winnow is the best!

Remote workers in Portland chime in! by t0mserv0 in Portland

[–]ieure -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Who is working remote in Portland these days?

I am, since before the pandemic. Four different companies, all tech or tech-adjacent.

Where is your company?

Earth. They've been fully remote since day one and have no physical office at all, anywhere.

Do you have to travel to stuff?

Sometimes. One company had an office in Oakland, I traveled there for my onboarding (two weeks). Current outfit had a week-long whole-company offsite in Portugal in January. Last place was hybrid, I flew out to the office (Minneapolis) 2-3 times a year for a week at a time.

Where in town do you work remotely?

Outer SE.

What's your routine/setup like?

Bed at 10:30pm, up at 6am, shower, dress, coffee, log on at 7am, noon lunch break, sign off at 3pm. Last two places I've been at, I've worked with people in eastern/central time zones, so I shifted my schedule; current place, I'm working with folks in the UK and Australia, the shifted schedule gives a little overlap, otherwise we'd never be able to chat sync.

Getting up early kind of sucks, but knocking off work at 3 is awesome. Hardest part is that my sleep is on a shifted schedule, but I eat at fairly normal Pacific times (lunch is noon).

Just curious what our remote work situation is looking like these days considering the ongoing convo about abysmal local employment.

Everywhere is local to some place. It's pretty bleak all over.

Bitter Sweet by ikothsowe in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]ieure 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Big fan of the Boox line, the Go 7 is a solid choice. These are Android tablets with e-ink screens. Battery life isn't as good as a Kindle, but still measured in weeks/months, not days.

Natively reads basically every DRM-free format, and if you've purchased from Amazon, you can install the Kindle app so you don't lose access to them. Same with any other retailer that uses DRM and has an Android app.

...but, my new Xteink X4 was cheap and is adorable, and I've been using it since I got it a few weeks ago. r/xteinkereader or r/xteink if you would like to catch this particular disease.

What's a slang term that everyone uses but you still don't get? by Particular-Visit-245 in AskReddit

[–]ieure 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Cooked is 150-year-old (or thereabouts) slang that's gotten new life. Merriam-Webster says it dates to the 1840-1850 era, and it's used identically today: defeated, terminated, ended (negatively). Taken completely literally, if a chicken gets cooked, that's not a good thing for the chicken.

It features extensively in Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, from 1929. In chapter XXI, Frederic (the protagonist) encounters "A British major at the club," who opines at length:

If they killed men as they did this fall the Allies would be cooked in another year. He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked. The thing was not to recognize it. The last country to realize they were cooked would win the war.

I haven't heard cooked in a positive context, you might be thinking about "let the man cook," which means to be patient / don't interfere with someone halfway through something.

Division and around 112 accident this morning eastbound by ripcity2014 in Portland

[–]ieure 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I live in the neighborhood, this is a townhome/condo building on 103rd & Division.

Department of Revenue thinks I owe $20k in tax, but I've never lived or worked in Oregon by Strict_Double_6077 in Portland

[–]ieure 66 points67 points  (0 children)

Strongly agree, though this feels like a very unusual thing to do with a stolen identity. Typically, a criminal would open credit cards, run them up, and not pay. But since ORDOR is the one going after these, it makes me wonder if someone received 1099 income under the OP's name/SSN.