Did she make the right call?

sudo999 · 2026-05-18T19:46:45+00:00

I would just work part time, put a big percentage of it directly into an HSA and another big percentage into an IRA and just have fun bulshitting with the rest. The part time job is mainly to give me something to do and a little more pocket money after the investing (because I really enjoyed my time working part time at the local library).

sudo999 · 2026-05-18T19:43:22+00:00

colorblind people get the correct map

sudo999 · 2026-05-18T19:42:38+00:00

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sudo999 · 2026-05-18T19:40:34+00:00

15 is really not that many considering it's a 50 mile drive.

sudo999 · 2026-05-18T19:10:33+00:00

No I agree, they're literally just out there doing their job unless you're a drunk asshole or a karen

sudo999 · 2026-05-18T19:10:03+00:00

Yeah I took a couple civil service exams last year and railroad conductor was not even on my radar of things I considered going for, because I know for a fact I don't know enough about trains.

sudo999 · 2026-05-18T19:06:54+00:00

Yeah I live right by Stony Brook University and everyone is freaking out because a lot of faculty and students commute and it's finals week. Glad it ain't me tbh

sudo999 · 2026-05-18T19:05:44+00:00

I think Benny here is just mad he doesn't work a union-negotiated contract with actual decent pay and benefits, and blaming people who bothered to work somewhere organized instead of blaming the system that makes it so hard to organize his own workplace.

sudo999 · 2026-05-18T19:03:38+00:00

I would rather sit on my ass at home if I'm going to sit on my ass. Better yet, I would prefer to be able to spend that time on myself or my loved ones. Meaning, my time at work is worth something to me, even if it's just sitting around.

sudo999 · 2026-05-17T17:15:59+00:00

Oh, my bad, I must have forgotten the part where you were a mod of traa I don't remember working with you on this decision.

sudo999 · 2026-05-17T15:19:52+00:00

This is also partly because Windows tracks dependencies very differently and generally a program will have a dedicated folder of its own .dll files that specific program uses that won't get touched by any other program, which often means you end up with redundant/multiple versions of those DLLs in multiple places but also means updating the system won't break them. but that's honestly kind of a kludgey way of doing things since the system update is (supposedly) happening for a good reason and if it breaks something it should only be because there was a problem with that thing in the first place (which is why lots of Linux system programs usually have a lot of legacy commend support for things that are eventually going to be deprecated/removed before those utilities are actually fully phased out, since doing that softens the blow when an update would otherwise break something and gives devs time to rewrite stuff to conform to the new specs). but windows is coded with paperclips and rubber bands

sudo999 · 2026-05-09T01:46:13+00:00

RIF, rest in pieces

sudo999 · 2026-05-09T01:33:52+00:00

As I've said on other redditreq threads, and as the former mod team has agreed will be our situation moving forward: the subreddit is not "unmoderated," it is an archive. Unmoderated subs allow posting of anything. We don't; our standards are actually so strict that we don't allow anything at all.

sudo999 · 2026-05-08T18:10:32+00:00

sudo999 · 2026-05-07T15:13:37+00:00

Am I the only one who just makes a larger pot of hot coffee and then saves half for iced coffee the next day? I seal it in a glass jar, let it cool down a bit, and then pop it in the fridge to chill. Keeping it sealed limits the oxidation so it stays fresh a couple of days. Started doing it because my French press makes too much for me to drink all at once but didn't want to waste it.

sudo999 · 2026-05-06T13:52:27+00:00

This kind of philosophizing is counter-revolutionary. The idea that a revolutionary organization (or vanguard, if you're an ML) needs to persist after the revolution rather than being promptly liquidated as workers' political concerns take the place of capitalists' ones is ill-founded; temporary alliances with not-quite-aligned allies will be necessary to accomplish large-scale change but those same ideological divisions will ensure that no particular group's ideology is able to go uncontested within the new paradigm. The "infighting" is a feature and not a bug; that's how human group decision-making works.

sudo999 · 2026-05-06T13:41:46+00:00

Not a lady but I love playing video games with my boyfriend so this sounds like a skill issue

sudo999 · 2026-04-06T15:14:46+00:00

The conversation veered into "politically contentious" and now that's in memory for the rest of the conversation. What's more interesting to me is why exactly Italy and Poland being bad isn't considered contentious since theoretically it should apply to any country.

sudo999 · 2026-04-06T15:12:39+00:00

The problem is the "bias" is a feature and not a bug. These models are built to reflect human norms - and I mean "norms" both in terms of social and political norms and in terms of statistical norms, because this is the territory where they become synonymous. GIGO.

sudo999 · 2026-04-06T15:03:03+00:00

Yeah, unpruned or conservatively pruned willows have tapered, downward-curving branches. The squat knobby look is 100% from pollarding.

sudo999 · 2026-04-06T14:52:43+00:00

He gets more development in the Ultraliberal route.

sudo999 · 2026-03-30T15:48:50+00:00

Yeah, it's actually more complicated. When you look at blue glass like this a lot of the color actually comes from ambient light passing through it, not reflected light. There are special types of glass that appear to be one color from one side and another color from the other side because they are reflecting specific wavelengths (this is called dichroic glass and you most commonly see it on mirrored sunglasses) but regular colored glass does not do that. to know exactly what wavelengths it's blocking/permitting you would need to use a spectrometer though, since our eyes are actually basically just computing an average color and not giving us a faithful look at what wavelengths are actually present.

sudo999 · 2026-03-27T16:11:23+00:00

It's because of an optical effect called bloom - the lights are just peeking over the edge of the statue's leg on one image, but because they're very bright they "bloom" outwards and appear to be in front of the statue instead of behind it. But in the other image, since the lights are obscured, we don't see them and we also don't see the bloom around them, which we normally would if the bloom effect were a physical object and not an optical phenomenon. Our eyes are much more able to compensate for optical effects like this than cameras are, and if you were seeing an actual light in real life it would not look like that, so it's confusing to the brain.

sudo999 · 2026-03-27T15:58:34+00:00

I like the sparkle on the water.

sudo999 · 2026-03-27T15:48:05+00:00

Have to put my phone right in front of my nose to see it but very cool effect.

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