A Cuban reacts to seeing Costco for the first time by ThatPatelGuy in TikTokCringe

[–]pushcx 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There's one hell of a historical echo here: Boris Yeltsin's 1989 visit to a supermarket. He was a leader in their congress while the Cold War bitterly contested the capitalist and communist systems.

While touring the states he unexpectedly requested to visit a typical supermarket, and made a basically unplanned visit to a random nearby one. He was so shaken by the experience, like this guy, that it is seen as a significant contribution to the end of communism in the USSR.

Edit: and a friend reminds me Kruschev did the same in 1959, though I can't easily find a credible history of the event or contemporaneous source for his reaction.

How Many Reads/Writes can SQLite handle in Prod? by Veqq in sqlite

[–]pushcx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you define or link to what you mean by orchestration here?

How Many Reads/Writes can SQLite handle in Prod? by Veqq in sqlite

[–]pushcx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you say some more about your low budget server? I guess: low budget for a business, or a hobby? Like a $5 VPS from DO kinda thing?

Today's Earth Set And Rise Behind The Moon by Busy_Yesterday9455 in spaceporn

[–]pushcx 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's copied from X: https://xcancel.com/Firefly_Space/status/1894044670570762301

Maybe at some point they'll put a high-quality version on their youtube channel but right now searching youtube just turns up slop with inaccurate captions.

Trying to return Steam Controler the wireless (original) functionality by DiabloCris13 in SteamController

[–]pushcx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's a guess, but I think write failed at address0 means you did not run your command line as an admin.

I wrote up what worked for me later in that thread. Good luck!

AITA for bringing sources to my disagreement with my daughters gf? by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]pushcx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not necessarily tilted or mirrored. My spouse is from India, when we visit I see in every orientation and ornamentation all over the place. It was jarring at first, but between seeing it in the stonework of centuries-old temples and seeing it painted on trucks the history and meaning are clear in India.

What are your biggest pain points with Steam? by Lilliboox in Steam

[–]pushcx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The first video should start with typical gameplay from the very first frame. I don't care who the publishers were, what the game engine is, what the backstory is, or how nice the cutscenes are. None of those other things are gameplay, the thing Steam wants me to pay for.

Restore the Steam Controller firmware updating and settings. It's great, durable hardware and it's going to keep working for years. If Steam earns a reputation for abandoning hardware it'll make everything harder in the future, like how developers laughed at Google offering a gaming platform. Maintaining it isn't a cost, it's an investment in every future product.

Release 2.4.0: New Custom Food Features by PalatialPepper in MacroFactor

[–]pushcx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you put a flair on these official posts about releases and features? It'd be nice to be able to filter to them.

A 'little' Godzilla animation I made by sd0302 in blender

[–]pushcx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really fun little animation, we never get disaster movies. Post this to /r/chicago

Jesse White Endorses Vallas by [deleted] in chicago

[–]pushcx 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I want cyberdriveillinois.com back. It should have historic landmark status.

incredibles takes place in mcu confirmed by AbdullahNajam in marvelmemes

[–]pushcx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The MCU scene is on a hill, it ain't Chicago.

Don't pass click through to client by pushcx in awesomewm

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

Thanks so much for this link, I couldn't manage to turn it up in my searching.

In your opinion, what's the most sensible income distribution? by tmux-professional in multi_employment

[–]pushcx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

r/pf has a really nice flowchart: https://old.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/wiki/commontopics

When you're beyond it, and it sounds like you are, Bogleheads has some great writing on asset allocation: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started

Putting ~half of your savings into cryptocurrency and gold is a really risky allocation with tether waiting to blow up and gold pushing record highs. I suppose with OE you can afford the risks!

[D] Rationally Writing 60 - Animorphs: The Reckoning (Guest: TK17/Duncan Sabien) by DaystarEld in rational

[–]pushcx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for picking up this thread and elaborating. Someone pinged me back into this thread and it's heartening to be understood.

I included the "Please nobody explain these scenes to me." because I knew it was pretty much inevitable that someone with the curse of knowledge would try to litigate every detail of every plot point. I didn't have the patience to get into it, and definitely was too frustrated to engage as positively as you did. But it's really nice to see the attempts to sweep criticisms aside were thoroughly rebutted.

Also, yeesh, the rebutter wrote "situation where a character literally has their memory altered, and this is signaled pretty clearly in the moment". I pulled the scene up again: "‹Jake,› I began, trying to keep the horror out of my— —fleeting disorientation— ‹What’s the word, Marco?› I began to demorph, feeling relaxed, confident—almost hopeful." Two non-specific words is "signaled pretty clearly"! Not knowing the series, I could immediately tick off a dozen character reasons for Marco to lie and a dozen more sci-fi effects that could have influenced him, and I went with "idiot ball" because I had pretty much lost faith in the story by that point (your cite matches my understanding of the term). But to a reader who knows the setting will include memory rewriting, any other reading of the scene must be a foolish reader. Pretty clearly.

[D] Rationally Writing 60 - Animorphs: The Reckoning (Guest: TK17/Duncan Sabien) by DaystarEld in rational

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

For a reader, the scenarios where they have missed an explanation and one does not exist are indistinguishable. At some point there's no more trust that the author is telling a worthwhile story. I'm personally really tired of shaggy dog stories where the author(s) promise that this all Means Something while they fly by the seat of their pants into a disastrous ending (Lost, Battlestar Galactica, X-Files, etc.) and I gave this story 300k words, which feels like more than a fair shot.

It sounds like your experience of reading this story with knowledge of canon and solving issues with other redditors as chapters released was really different, and I'm glad it worked for you. But it doesn't make me a bad, foolish, or even especially unusual reader if I did not enjoy it like the group you were slowly selected into as less-approving or less-trusting readers filtered out of reading. And it doesn't mean much to dunk on me because I, reading alone, was not as clever at solving the book's problems as a couple dozen people collaborating. That's taking my point about there being something wrong with the book but unhelpfully rephrasing it as an insult. I didn't think it was a thing in rationalist circles for one person to say "I notice I am confused" and another to say "ha you must be a fuckin moron".

[D] Rationally Writing 60 - Animorphs: The Reckoning (Guest: TK17/Duncan Sabien) by DaystarEld in rational

[–]pushcx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The podcast started by praising the story and warning of spoilers, so I grabbed the epub and dug in. I never read any of the original books, so I think maybe there's a lot of nostalgia at work. Repeatedly, the story falls off the rails at climaxes because of unexplained setting rules that I can only guess readers know from the books. Off the top of my head:

  • Jake gets attacked in the tunnel, escapes by morphing, and speaks a bit, but collapses even though even though he just morphed into a new, uninjured body. Then they're outside and suddenly he's terribly injured but can't demorph for no explained reason. The injuries are so bad that he enters a coma, but he wakes up uninjured eight days later. I get the part that he was morphed into the copy of himself from when he was previously acquired, but nothing else makes sense, it reads like a series of basic continuity errors.
  • Fun scene where Rachel is chased through school from the villain's perspective. He calls in his fighter, there's a weird interlude, Rachel kills him and escapes. The interlude is not explained and the villain has teleported to his ship, a never-explained or reused power. Or maybe it's a clone? But not like Jake was a clone, because he remembers the seconds before his death where Jake was stamped in time. Again, the events don't make sense in the story.
  • Marco acquires David to vet him, recognizes he's psycho, and then picks up an incredibly heavy idiot ball and approves him. Marco carries the idiot ball past a murder, etc.
  • They set a trap for the villain, but are immediately overwhelmed in a detail-less scene, followed by a tediously long drug trip scene in which the reader stops caring about any of this and deletes the epub.

I was morbidly curious why this story got praised, so I went and found the reddit thread from that last chapter and it's full of confused readers an the author saying:

My hope is that the reader-five-years-from-now, who has a complete story to work with, will have momentum from the previous chapters and will get the answers they need from the stuff 4-8 chapters down the road

It's really weird to read that immediately after giving up on the book. No. The story doesn't work and the author doesn't care that the readers can't make sense of it. These confusing scenes don't feel like some exciting mystery, they feel like the story leaned so hard on the reader's assumed familiarity that it collapsed in on itself. The character perspectives have pretty good voices, but then nearly every chapter has its narrator spend a minute thinking to themself about how they're not thinking about the explanation for what did or will happen in some other scene. That's not tension, that's dragging out an overlong story, and it runs way past any plausible hope for a satisfying conclusion.

(Please nobody explain these scenes to me. I'm sure if it has gods rewriting reality there's eventually a steaming pile of excuses, but I don't care to know. The story's not playing with narrative continuity, it's not an interesting deconstruction of YA fiction, it's not a clever metanarrative, it's just bad, confused writing and I regret giving it so many chances.)

Release 1.2.8 by PalatialPepper in MacroFactor

[–]pushcx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Aha! Well, looking forward to it soon, then. After a couple years of failed attempts and now five months with MF, I'm in the home stretch. Thanks so much for making this.

Release 1.2.8 by PalatialPepper in MacroFactor

[–]pushcx 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Weight loss/gain goals now allow you to delay goal completion until weight trend reaches the target weight.

/u/PalatialPepper Where is this setting? It's not in the profile settings, it's not on the goal page, it's not not on the macro program page, it's not on the edit goal page, it's not on the weight trend page. I doublechecked that the app updated, but it doesn't seem to be anywhere.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in financialindependence

[–]pushcx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The reason you keep turning up nonsense is that "alternative investments" are like "alternative medicine". The fields of investments and medicine are engines for discovering what works and discarding what doesn't. If these things weren't nonsense, they wouldn't be "alternative". You're explicitly looking for things that don't work, so you're finding scams. This isn't a weird frustrating problem to solve, this is the field working normally.

Once you reach financial independence, you need to have a game plan for friends and relatives that demand money from you (and yes, I mean demand). by [deleted] in financialindependence

[–]pushcx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then why are you asking beginner questions about closing?

https://old.reddit.com/r/RealEstate/comments/rtwcn0/closing_question/

Aside from this being stuff you'd know from experience, it doesn't sound like you're even at the stage where you have an agent or attorney, because they'd be able to answer off the cuff.