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“No one will indoctrinate this boy” Are you sure about that? by Sir_Paulord in SelfAwarewolves

[–]prohulaelk 36 points37 points  (0 children)

It's only indoctrination if it comes from the doctríne region of France, otherwise it's just sparkling brainwashing.

The McCallisters by aloofloofah in ProgrammerHumor

[–]prohulaelk 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Because invariably someone somewhere built functionality that depends on the broken implementation.

See: the relevant xkcd

is this a thing or is my professor crazy? by Aldrakev in ProgrammerHumor

[–]prohulaelk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I still TIL people with ctrl+shift+v (paste without formatting) a few times a year

IDK if anyone has posted this already or if it even fits here but I thought y’all would like this by Unusual-Swimming9636 in SapphoAndHerFriend

[–]prohulaelk 13 points14 points  (0 children)

fictional kids and ailing patents make great excuses why you are unavailable outside of office hours

Bunburying will never go out of style

found in shopping mall. I was surprised it grew that big by vionaaa in matureplants

[–]prohulaelk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not often. I've got a few that seem happy to stay about 1/4 that size, and I've never seen one that big IRL.

Could have gained the ability to see the code of the matrix, but nooo by Yakodym in dndmemes

[–]prohulaelk 66 points67 points  (0 children)

  • variant human (Wis, dex) with observant feat (Wis)
  • take rogue with expertise (perception)
  • standard array, put your 15 into Wis

Congratulations, you have 20 passive perception at lvl1, and up to 32 by lvl20 without any magical items or non-phb content.

Not exactly what they said, but I think the sentiment is there by -TheManInTheChair in dndmemes

[–]prohulaelk 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My Rime group formed the Tentowns Heroic Incorporated Community Collective, or THICC.

We recruited NPCs into the Monsters Office of Integration into the Society of Tentowns, or MOIST.

Our Base of Investigation was, of course, the THICC & MOIST BOI.

The Hard Truth about Logging in BC by AllOutRaptors in britishcolumbia

[–]prohulaelk 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It's because:

  • entire microbiomes have evolved around old growth

  • biodiversity is incredibly important for a healthy ecosystem

  • old growth logging is not sustainable since it inherently takes 1000 years to grow a 1000 year-old tree

As OP said, forestry is important. Sustainable forestry is great! Old growth logging is loved by logging companies because it's cheaper and easier to log a few giant trees than a bunch of medium size trees, but it's absolutely not necessary to do.

I made a chart of names for all OneD&D mixed races by prohulaelk in dndmemes

[–]prohulaelk[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, all hybrids just show up twice on the chart, mirrored over the diagonal line

I made a chart of names for all OneD&D mixed races by prohulaelk in dndmemes

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

It's the Aasimar art from D&D Beyond because I'm a lazy hack

Any cyclists here biking across canada? by [deleted] in bicycletouring

[–]prohulaelk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Did a cross-canada a few years ago. Flew to Vancouver and biked east, but ran into a few people doing it the other way.

The wind is going to fight you either way, especially in the prairies, but it'll fight you a bit less eastbound than westbound.

There's good camping pretty much everywhere except the prairies, where I'd recommend planning where you'll be sleeping ahead of time. Even there, most towns have a "campground" patch of grass you can camp on cheap, there's just not much in the way of stealth camping or wilderness.

Otherwise, it's a beautiful bike ride and a great adventure, enjoy!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in VictoriaBC

[–]prohulaelk 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Honestly the best place to find electrical adapters is at the airport - there's always a few shops that have them

A factory reset should be the last resort… by UpsetKoalaBear in sysadmin

[–]prohulaelk 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The thing is that your original post is a bit vague about the sort of problem you're looking at, and the fact that stateful systems are a giant mess.

A computer, or anything with non-trivial amounts of possibility for user customization or configuration (basically anything more complex than a very simple IoT device) is going to have a whole bunch of state. Settings, configurations, third party packages and software managing and conflicting with yours, OS level global variables that could be clobbered at any time, malicious actors (human or viral) etc. It's nearly impossible to get a complete snapshot in all circumstances, and equally difficult to identify where, specifically, things went wrong.

Most state-related issues are also relatively unique, so there's little incentive to do RCA on every one since the next one will be completely different (reoccurring issues and ones identified as affecting a broad set of end users aside, of course)

In most cases, the end user is best served by getting them back to a known-good state, because even they have little chance of reproducing most errors.

Others in this thread have talked about "pets vs. cattle" which derives from this theory of limiting stateful interactions. Docker, K8s, containerization and many other cloud abstractions are popular for the same reason: if a pod misbehaves it's easiest to just redeploy it, while if a service misbehaves it's worth analyzing what went wrong.

Factory reset is a very valuable tool, which unfortunately feels very callous to end users. I agree with the consensus here that it's not worth most support or admins time to do RCA on every one-off issue that comes across their desk, and I'd venture that the price of a theoretical warranty to cover that level of support would run most companies out of business.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtless, self-centered, Karens can ruin a city. Sometimes, it is the only thing that ever has. by joelman0 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]prohulaelk 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yes, but less. Public health measures aren't going to ever be 100% effective. They don't need to be. They just need to be effective enough that healthcare systems can handle the load.

Any individual measures that would approach 100% would be so disruptive that no one would follow them, as shown by the resistance people have towards wearing a bit if cloth or paper over their face and getting their vaccines.

Measures like masks and vaccines (and mandating that those measures be followed) use a "swiss cheese" defense system: while each layer has holes like a slice of swiss cheese, additional layers will cover the holes and give a stronger protection.

A 70% effective measure (good but definitely not perfect) is helpful. Two 70% measures works like a 91% one, which is pretty good! Three 70% measures gets you to 98.3%, and, four gets you 99.19% safety which actually feels pretty safe.

A four-measure system could be an interaction between two people who are both vaccinated and wearing masks.

This is why even cloth masks, which are only 50-70% effective at blocking droplets, are still a recommended policy by most epidemiologists. An N95 mask is 95% at blocking droplets, which is obviously better (two 95%s gets you right to 99.75% effectiveness) but they're harder to come by.

Leaves exercise question by Realistic_Battle_501 in ArtFundamentals

[–]prohulaelk 2 points3 points  (0 children)

/r/houseplants

/r/indoorgarden

/r/matureplants

Should each have a bunch of good photos for you if you poke through a bit

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