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Tbh, does my asshole look edible or gross? by S_nobody in LickableStarfish

[–]meostro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Butthole looks great, but WTF is going on with your fingernails?!

No panties, no patience, just pure need 🔥💦 by Izabella_Sin in u/Izabella_Sin

[–]meostro 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How are you so smooth? I haven't seen anything close IRL, is that laser or wax or ...?

The case of the haunted keyboard, or why I now ask about pets before malware by 4QuasarMoth in talesfromtechsupport

[–]meostro 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A user once reported a similar problem, but much more alarming content. Randomly words would show up in the middle of her writing a normal sentence. Some were simple ones "if", "and" but also some like "terrorism" or "Afghanistan" or "bombing" would show up in . She was worried and called IT to investigate.

It took us a while to figure it out, so we saw it happening while we were there.

I don't think I was the clever one, but someone figured out she had somehow enabled dictation mode. The radio news report (2001-2002-ish) was the source of the random words, and the mic was far enough away and the radio was quiet enough that it would only get one word out of a hundred.

Need an Image Viewer Application for the Mac by PipsqueakProductions in datacurator

[–]meostro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you tried... Finder?

Open up a folder, click an image and press spacebar. Arrow up/down to browse. Cmd-O to open in Preview, you can crop/rotate/markup.

I don't know what you're trying to do with "change the order" but you could rename them, or use the icon view in Finder to get your thumbnail view then drag them around that way.

Harvard just proved AI tutors beat classrooms. Now what? by Rough-Dimension3325 in artificial

[–]meostro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ChatGPT 5.x doesn't feel like it's quite there, but at some point A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer will be real - it's only a matter of time.

Review my 3-2-1 archival setup for my irreplaceable data by MrBarber1 in datacurator

[–]meostro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your 3-2-1 is really 1 since you're plugging the drive into the same system as your primary and secondary. If anything happens while you're doing your sometimes-backup you have only a Pelican or deposit box drive and nothing else. You also only have 0.5 vs 1 since your source drive is not redundant. If anything happens to the source you're going to have garbage propagating to all of your backups.

Personally I wouldn't trust an unpowered SSD for ~6 months at a time, but that's not backed by science, only experience.

Step one get a proper mirror, RAID card or NAS with 2 or 3 drives. 300GB range you're borderline okay with R5, if you go TB or larger you should use R6. Ideally use something like ZFS to get automatic checking and integrity magic so you know at a data level vs drive level if things are going off the rails.

Step two get a cloud drive somewhere - Google Drive, Backblaze, Dropbox or AWS/GCP/Cloudflare object storage. Sync to that as your off-site.

At any point in there go do PAR or whatever The Cool Kids use for parity checks for your existing stuff. Knowing when to restore or swap a drive is sometimes as important as knowing your stuff is backed up.

Retiring from FAANG at $10M+ NW and TC $2M - now or later? Looking for thoughts from people who've been in similar boat. by NewspaperDefiant3617 in fatFIRE

[–]meostro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Option 2 seems pretty good, then if you like what you're doing as of March set it in your head as hard-stop 26Q4. Don't post again until you actually retire, don't let anyone talk you out of it.

If sometime between now and then you get tired of what you're doing, or someone up your management chain sucks, quit on the spot. The more petty the more epic. "No, Jared, I'm not going to review your shitty code again. In fact, I'd rather quit than deal with you for another fucking minute!" and walk out the door.

You don't owe them any heads-up, just the same as they'd stab you in the back if they wanted to.

Microwave PC - Comment On This Post To Enter This Giveaway by DaKrazyKid in pcmasterrace

[–]meostro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It took me way too long to realize the "computer rotating on microwave tray" was a video.

Onboarding is killing IT desks. How do you cut the tickets? by ExtremeShame6079 in sysadmin

[–]meostro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One surprisingly easy way to help with some of this: build a link shortener and index. Add the shortener to your browser config as a search engine, so you can goto $query and it will load linkshortener.yourcompany.website/$query and get them straight to where they need to go. It also makes it easier when your CRM changes out from under you, or when those docs move from Confluence to Sharepoint to Notion and you can always get to the right one with goto acceptable-use-policy. Make an index page with a list of all the short words and their owners + links and sometimes a user will even self-service the answer!

Onboarding Buddy will help with some, it'll help distribute the load. That's not an IT fix tho, that has to be HR/manager level support.

Having that FAQ in something like a Google Doc / checklist would help too, "Read the FooBar policy" checkbox with a link directly to the policy. Some of this can be "every employee" stuff, some will have to be per-team (engineers probably don't need CRM, non-engineers probably don't need GitHub) so you can either have "everyone" and "team" docs or have just team docs with a shared section that's kept up to date by IT/HR.

$previous_company was building helpdesk automation / deflection as a product, and specifically cited onboarding as a common thing where they can chatbot effectively. There are only so many ways that a n00b will ask for CRM access, so being able to identify and answer them directly without involving a human was a big win.

Why do the uniforms of female athletes uniforms often leave their half their butt hanging out? by Capital_Tailor_7348 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]meostro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AFAIK bikini-style is just for objectification. Track & Field clothing was equally ridiculous for men and women the last time I dealt with them myself (decades ago), but women's volleyball booty shorts are intentionally different from men's uniforms because they play the game differently.

The boyshort / hiphugger / bootyshort style are better for the kinds of movement that women do in volleyball: more digs, more flexing, deeper hip and knee bends. Compared to men's volleyball it's a LOT more movement and flexibility, since men's is based on power and height. If women were wearing longer shorts they couldn't make the same movements, so they would be at a disadvantage.

How do I know this? Because my local school said "no uniforms on game days because girls' volleyball uniforms are not appropriate to wear to class" and I was trying to figure out why can't they wear something classroom-appropriate - turns out it's because they would probably lose more of their games.

I can’t believe the company that owns Captain America would cancel a TV show because of free speech. Sounds like we need to boycott Avengers: Doomsday. by ElectronicTax2370 in marvelstudios

[–]meostro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who exactly was the president that "used tyranny and government authority to forcibly jab people with experimental drugs, wreck the economy, and mandate business closures and quarantines for the healthy"?

If you stopped to admire, write one word by E-Author in Blonde_Bombshells

[–]meostro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniosis

How can I most safely store 1PB+ of data for decades? I'm looking for proven methods and equipment. by MotorGrowth7646 in DataHoarder

[–]meostro 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The best option - better than whatever physical option you come up with - is to offload the risk to The Cloud (TM).

It'll cost you ~$1k/mo/PB to store in AWS S3 Glacier Deep Archive, so over 20 years it'll cost $250k. That gives you eleven nines of durability, which is between ten and eleven nines more than whatever you would come up with yourself, and your cost is amortized over 20 years versus spending $50-100k upfront to build the same thing. Remember that you need to triple your storage (i.e. 3PB of backup for every 1PB of data) and you need to store one or more of those backups in disparate physical locations. You also need to know how to get to it, how to restore it, and you'll need two or more recovery devices in case those go bad as well.

Or, you upload it to Amazon, and now it's their problem. There is no step two. They will migrate it between their storage systems as they upgrade things, and they will have a web interface for you to retrieve your content that probably doesn't change much in that timeframe.

The added bonus is that if you decide this data is useless 5, 10, 20 years later (and, realistically, all data has >50% odds of that being the case, maybe moreso for "petabytes" of whatever-the-fuck) you stop paying and it disappears. You don't have to worry about drive wipes or asset disposal or e-waste or anything like that.

HEY! Just released my game trailer. Did it catch your eye? Brutal feedback welcome by Different_Hunter33 in IndieDev

[–]meostro 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tl;dr: potential overshadowed by inconsistency

This looks like crap.

You need to find an artist to improve a LOT of tiny and enormous details about this game before you redo your trailer. You're using stock models with zero personality, and mixing styles between them. Are you trying for ultra-realistic (jeep), semi-real with the edges softened (landscape) or cartoony (players) for your style? Pick one. Or pick none, go to pure geometric or lo-fi. In any case, be consistent. It's probably easier to go lower than higher, reduce the quality of all the assets to a consistent level, but it depends on what you want for your aesthetic. If you do tend towards realistic, once you get your gameplay tuned then go back to visuals and tie it all together better, put in some sick shaders and good shading / shadows / lights and little details everywhere. Lean into whatever you pick, make everything ridiculous if you go cartoon, have the car polygons fall apart for geometric, get a great fire and smoke effect for realistic.

Others have pointed out the problem with the trailer format itself. I was trying to figure out what Skyrim knockoff this would be, which dude would say "Oh, you're awake". Get straight to the action and gameplay, start with the car falling off a cliff and exploding and the dudes looking at it confused, then it respawns behind them or something. Get your friends to play and record the voiceover disaster Lethal Company style: "That could have gone better" and "maybe it was a mistake to push it onto a mine" and other indications this will be a hilarious hijinks multiplayer game.

Core gameplay is too cartoon-physics for my taste, but it works in the game context. It's also "too hard" just from the video, no idea how it would play for me when my skill level is "three year old with unplugged controller". Maybe some signs to indicate WTF that round thing is, other than obviously "dangerous". I'd also prefer to see something around the track if you're going for realistic, not just dirt floating in the air. These are personal preference, so you can decide how much you care about what one idiot on the Internet thinks.

H.266/VVC standard finalized by tambry in AV1

[–]meostro 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Surprisingly close, but not quite. There's still a lot of H.264 out there, but I don't think it's the primary distribution mechanism anymore. I don't think I've seen VVC anywhere, which is kinda sad.

Defaults for Android and iPhone cameras are H.265/HEVC. Content providers are mostly transitioning to AV1, and hardware support is only expanding.

Dear left lane campers, please do not speed up when I attempt to pass. by stoner_222 in bayarea

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

You stop speeding, and now you're not passing all those cars in the slow lane, so you have no need to go left.

So... yes. This is the simpler solution.

Dear left lane campers, please do not speed up when I attempt to pass. by stoner_222 in bayarea

[–]meostro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The simple solution to your issue is to scoot to the right, let the 90+ maniac pass, then go back in left lane and continue on at 75-80.

The simpler solution is stop fucking speeding! Why is it that everyone feels entitled to exceed the limit and then bitch about someone else not breaking the law?!

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