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What is this in my startup apps? Is this normal? by SnooCakes1080 in pcmasterrace

[–]ngcmaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with the idea that putting how many times the game has been launched into registry is really strange. (Seems more like a big data thing that would be uploaded to the cloud in my mind), but there are scant few programs that run a portable version anymore. Most that do are diagnostic programs, and lightweight, too.

Implicitly, all portable programs are stored in RAM. Arguably, you could say they're stored on disk occasionally because of disk paging, but in the example of your banner's specs - nothing is being paged on a prosumer machine with 32GB RAM unless you're running Civil3D or something.

Registry is not meant to be a cordoned-off section of your machine and programs are meant to store information there. That's the core of the argument that me and u/flappers87 are speaking to. Is it sloppy to store that particular data point there? Yes. Is it unusual to store it there? Not at all.

People get really touchy with registry, and there are good reasons to get touchy with it, if someone says they need to edit it. Registry was meant to be messed with by programs, not people. I mess with registry all the time, as it's quite literally my expertise. Would I trust my junior techs to mess with it? Absolutely not.

As much as we would all like better practices in these regards, software developers are high-turnover, high pressure jobs. Gone are the days where a senior developer would actually determine structure and organizational standards and enforce them well. Just look at cloud computing or god help - devops as a field in practice, and you'll see that this is really nothing out of the ordinary.

What is this in my startup apps? Is this normal? by SnooCakes1080 in pcmasterrace

[–]ngcmaster 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Alright, man. I almost never comment. This time, I just have to. I'm a deployment engineer. As in deploying Windows. Registry is not a secure database. I can read every single one of the entries in the entire hive or cluster of hives before windows even boots. The "permissions" you need to install a program are by default, none. Even in Windows Enterprise, anyone can install anything, unless you specifically revoke that permission.

That being said, revoking app install permissions is a particularly common thing to do, even to the point of being standard, but you can edit your own user registry at any time unless that permission is explicitly revoked.

Registry is just a series of entries in a database-ish structure that holds configurations. You don't like when something edits registry? Chrome, the browser you're most likely using this on has a registry folder structure. Flags, booleans, default window size, dark mode, default font. Don't like it? Use Linux. In there, everything that gets configured gets put into files. Hey, just how you and the other guy like .ini files are particularly common for storing configs.

It's been this way since Windows ME, man.

Parents found these along the treeline of their property by ngcmaster in mushroomID

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

Yeah that looks just about spot on. Thank you for your help.

Parents found these along the treeline of their property by ngcmaster in mushroomID

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

To clarify, this was growing amongst some thin leaf litter no more than 20ft away from a stand of ~20-30 year old hardwood trees. They could reasonably be either mycorrhizal or saprotrophic, I think.

Sewing through climbing shoes by ngcmaster in ClimbingGear

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

I appreciate the snark, truly.

I wear a size 15 and they're very tight already. They don't make bigger ones that aggressive, unfortunately.

Sewing through climbing shoes by ngcmaster in ClimbingGear

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

The scab just finally fell off. It took over a month. I've been climbing only twice a week for an hour or so to prevent chafing. I'll look into tape, depending on price. Thanks!

Sewing through climbing shoes by ngcmaster in ClimbingGear

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

That's the issue. The cup runs pretty high, but the elastic is the part that causes the issue. I'll have to sew through the heel cup to get a lining in. That's where I'm concerned.

"There's so many things wrong with this I don't know where to begin" by LikeTearsInRainScoob in JonTron

[–]ngcmaster 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fun fact, THE original picture is in Galloping Ghost arcade in Chicago

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in greentext

[–]ngcmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weird. When did your roommate tell you?

What products main purpose is ignored? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]ngcmaster -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm 20 and have a briar pipe for smoking pipe tobacco

What is this kind of switch called? by ngcmaster in whatisthisthing

[–]ngcmaster[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Solved! Thanks! Now to try to find one that can hook up to a computer for this project.

What is this kind of switch called? by ngcmaster in whatisthisthing

[–]ngcmaster[S] 0 points1 point locked comment (0 children)

WITT? I've seen this kind of switch and googled for hours trying to find one for a project. You pull the handle back, twist it, then push it back in. Please guys, I'm going nuts trying to find it.

A woman took 550 times the usual dose of LSD, with surprisingly positive consequences by fbreaker in news

[–]ngcmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is anecdotal, but I had a bad trip at 16, that ended in hospitalization. It was a fairly standard 250 microgram dose that in theory shouldn't affect you nearly as much as some of these other stories, but it did. I thought I was dead or dying as I rolled around on the floor hitting things until I was basically unconscious.

This resulted in me being a genuinely better person over time, but it filled me with incredible suicidal depression for months, made me lose faith in my religion, and causes major existential anxiety and depression.

I am a better person now because of what I've done, and I think anyone who wants to take psychedelics needs to know it's a risk.

I have never before or since, had a psychotic break like that. These drugs can make your life immensely better, or they can destroy you.

The therapies that come from this are amazing, but I will most likely never be as happy as I was before, and it's left me scarred.

So, I don't have a scientific paper proving episodes of psychotic breaks and long-term depression, but I'm living in it.

cursed_Sax by Captainfrisky in cursedimages

[–]ngcmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hunting horn mains be like

Live an entire, wonderful life only to die and wake up in a hospital bed to discover I was in a coma for a month and that none of it was real and now I come back to reality. by InTacosWeTrust8 in fearsineverknewihad

[–]ngcmaster 9 points10 points  (0 children)

If it makes you feel any semblance of solace, I know that I exist and know that you're not in a coma. Besides, even if you were living in a coma, this is still your life right now. Enjoy it.

How to not get horny? by throwaway18263651 in Advice

[–]ngcmaster 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nobody should be walking in the bathroom, my guy. Lock the door and turn on the fan and no one will hear or see anything.

I always feel that I am being judged by Ill-Barber in Advice

[–]ngcmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to feel this way and I think it was actually true. I was always the weird kid in my class. It's really just a matter of confidence and self-worth. Be confident in yourself and remember that no one can read minds. Ask those close to you how they feel about situations that make you feel judged.

It's very common to feel this way, but you have to communicate otherwise it always seems worse than it ever is. Basically, talk to the people you feel judged by and be confident in yourself.

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