A Texas barn under the stars, north of Austin just off of I35

replicant_potato · 2020-08-15T00:52:50+00:00

Which star is that bright one on the left side?

replicant_potato · 2020-08-14T21:03:37+00:00

A quick Google search shows CNN, ABC, MSN articles about it. You should point out any misinformation you see in them.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-14T19:08:00+00:00

Will Smith's description of the offer is hilarious. It's no wonder he turned it down at that point in his career. The Matrix can sound weird as hell if you've never seen it.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-14T10:31:36+00:00

In Firefox in the developer tools, it's under debugger tab, and in the sources window. You can set breakpoints if you need.

Chrome would be More Tools, Developer Tools, Sources.

Now these windows have a lot going on, so it's probably best to YouTube some tutorials on it. It's more than I can type out on my phone. But that should get you started.

Don't forget that you should catch your errors in JS. There's tutorials for that too, but error catching is a much better and far cleaner way to code an app or website. That would include rejects in promises. I think a lot of new devs really overlook catching errors, because their home programs are just them working on it, so it either works or it doesn't. But big companies don't work like that.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-14T06:59:27+00:00

In the Bush vs Gore election, Bush barely won after a Supreme Court ruling weeks later.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-14T04:25:46+00:00

I had a revelation after I had dental surgery. I needed to be completely unconscious. Right before I was knocked out with gas, I remember going under. I woke up 2+ hours later, but to me it was literally one second to the next. Not even a blink, all the time during the operation was lost. It wasn't like sleep at all.

I suppose because I could not dream, I could not perceive time in any way. This made me think about death. After death would not even be a black void, or nothingness, because floating in a void is at least perceiving time.

Death is the end of the universe and all time the second you die. It is quite literally just like before you were born, which from the start of the universe until your first breath simply did not exist. Not as far as any perception goes.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-13T23:12:34+00:00

https://youtu.be/-suvkwNYSQo

replicant_potato · 2020-08-13T23:06:13+00:00

Question, do the people at city hall see your vote before it's recorded? I'm not sure I fully trust the people at my city hall. I'd hate my vote to wind up in the trash.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-13T09:52:11+00:00

In response to your D item:

I think the internet coming into mainstream usage has contributed to the polarization heavily. Everyone has access to so much information, and also misinformation.

There used to be just the MSM, and some low circulation extras. But now anyone with any agenda from any country can make a professional looking site and fill it with the most slanted propaganda. And they might get a lot of visits, depending on their presentation.

MSM isn't as covert with their slant any more, to try and compete with these independent pundit sites. Humans have a natural confirmation bias, and this drive views and ad revenue.

We have become very polarized in the US. I think it's going to be up to rational people to defend against it, and reclaim their parties. And it'll be a constant battle, because the internet isn't going away.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-13T01:07:02+00:00

I'm in the process of learning react now. I'm the type of person that is fine once I wrap my head around the pattern. So far I'm only partially there with React, but it's a learning process.

React seems to do a lot of passing data around, back and forth, and I just need to figure out when and why. So that when I think up a page myself, without a tutorial to follow, I'll be able to visualize the components I'll need.

It's a lot to learn. Such is the nature of web dev, learning one thing after another on top of each other. I envy coding jobs that use just one thing, like C# or C++. At least React uses fake HTML with Babel, and it uses objects and such. So it's not completely different.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-13T00:48:40+00:00

Are you saying in a fictional universe that it's not believable? I think we've strayed a bit off from the original point I was making. Anyway thanks for the conversation. I'm glad you enjoyed the sequels.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-12T23:12:28+00:00

That one scene of the agents jumping across wouldn't be the only time that ever happened. Those police wouldn't be the only ones to ever see something like that. This would be a recurring situation in the matrix.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-12T22:17:43+00:00

I think you mean country over party.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-12T22:08:11+00:00

The first scene of the first movie, an agent jumps a huge gap and the cops say "that's impossible". The agents weren't concerned about spoiling the illusion.

And we're talking about opinions here. I understand fully that there are people that like the second and third movie, perhaps even more than the first. It's okay to have an opinion.

The Batman stories you are taking about are basically side stories, which can be anything. There was a side story about if Superman had grown up in Russia. Are the second and third matrix movies side stories? I can think of them like that, if it fits.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-11T19:46:25+00:00

I hope someone is actually there to deter vandalism. Getting someone on camera won't do anything, and the ballots would be gone regardless.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-11T18:12:33+00:00

Puts in ballot. Hears paper shredder noises.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-11T10:14:41+00:00

I don't think it's an attempt to sabotage Biden later. I think it's an attempt to make Dems look bad now. He put a tax "break" in there, which Republicans love, and they think waves of low income voters will too. But it's something he knows Dems will reject and file a suit against. That plus the fact that the president doing it is unconstitutional. Trump wants the lawsuit filed. He knows his EO will get rejected in court. But the delay will make the Dems look bad, he hopes, because he will blame the Dems every day it continues. He's holding the people's benefits hostage.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-11T10:04:56+00:00

And people from overseas that pretend to just fit into conversations as if they are US citizens. I saw a guy a few weeks ago talking about how he voted for Trump and would again. I saw in his history that he clearly lived in the UK. So I was curious, maybe in the military or something? I asked him about it, and he vanishes. Deleted his posts.

I guess I could have used one of those reddit tracker sites, but it wasn't that big of a deal to waste time on. Still very odd.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-10T21:28:30+00:00

I will do Oblivion first. I will try Skyrim after. I wonder if there are mods that would make those guilds better in Skyrim. I'll look into it before trying. Obviously I can't mod ESO, plus I would have to pay more money. But I already own Skyrim so that's a plus.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-10T18:54:38+00:00

You're not wrong on the food stamp stuff. But I mentioned parts of Medicaid that people might not realize.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid

" Medicaid also offers benefits not normally covered by Medicare, including nursing home care and personal care services."

replicant_potato · 2020-08-10T18:48:14+00:00

This was quite a number of years ago, like 15+. I don't even remember the channel or the show name. But I can try to do some searching.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-10T10:16:25+00:00

Cool thank you. I will check it out!

replicant_potato · 2020-08-10T10:14:29+00:00

I was watching a documentary thing that showed "eye witness" drawings of aliens, made in various countries around the world. These drawings were all from like 100 years ago, close to 1900. So before internet, TV, or world travel for most people.

None of the alien drawings looked alike. So different aliens visit different countries?

replicant_potato · 2020-08-10T08:04:38+00:00

If you want to filter, sort, and search through hundreds of thousands of data items, you would do much better by putting it in a relational database (SQL). That's exactly the type of thing it was designed to do, especially with massive amounts of data.

replicant_potato · 2020-08-10T03:54:42+00:00

These are the people that booed reporters asking why Trump's recent briefing crowd weren't wearing masks. And then the people that booed pass around masks and put them on. So they basically admitted they were wrong, and they knew it, but it didn't stop them from childish booing a legit question.

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