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My friend recommended gandi for the domain service, which was fine for the past few years but now this TWS buyout happened. I was worried when enshittification would ensure, and here we goooo.

I think I am gonna check out porkbun, that looks like a decent plan (hopefully they don't succumb to buyouts etc in the future).

My last purchase was a 4.75 can of Gatorade flavor (not uh, low cal, alas), makes 9 gallons, far cheaper than energy drink. But you can buy low/no cal flavoring too. I think this might be the future (til they jack prices to reach parity with canned/premixed drinks cuz the market says they can).

This is the closest I could find in search without trying too hard.

But yeah, why can't these companies just design regular old glasses styles so people don't feel like a dolt and maybe would want to buy them. Instead everyone has to be made to look like a glasshole and all the entitlement that connotes in the mass mind.

https://di2ponv0v5otw.cloudfront.net/posts/2018/03/20/5ab0dc...

I'm not the dev, but figured it might help them if they know more details. You on Linux, Win11, Mac, BSD, Mobile?

Green = 1st try Yellow = 2nd Try Orange = 3rd Try Red = Fail

That would be pretty cool to see.

Or maybe a superscript by the date (though if you're using some pre-made component that could be harder to implement, but something like that might help colorblind users over my color-only approach). Or you could use a "number of dots system" (but again maybe not easy if a component).

Anyways, this is really cool, thanks for making it!

I don't know if it's pointless, and there's plenty of room for "pointless" research (because we learn so much in the process). But I do wonder if it's prudent. I think it's cool either way.

Especially considering the point of DMCA is "TAKE DOWN ASK QUESTIONS LATER" (I hate DMCA, so I'm not saying I'm in favor of it, but it's odd that big players get to abuse this, and scammers get to abuse this (and maybe this is a scammer?) but people who apparently have their own art assets (assuming this isn't open) isn't allowed to use the same tools the big players use? I'm not talking about "a copy of a game".

Or is this a case where the ad uses graphics of one thing but the actual game doesn't use the same graphics?

“I do think it is odd, particularly when I contrast it to the United States, where…virtually no one in the United States is paying any attention to Canadian politics,” he said.

Here's a short historical interview with Harold Black from AT&T on his discovery/invention of the negative feedback technique for noise reduction. It's not super explanatory but a nice historical context: https://youtu.be/iFrxyJAtJ7U?si=8ONC8N2KZwq3Jfsq

Here's a more indepth circuit explanation: https://youtu.be/iFrxyJAtJ7U?si=8ONC8N2KZwq3Jfsq

IIRC the issue was AT&T was trying to get cross-country calling, but to make the signal carry further you needed a louder signal. Amplifying the signal also the distortion.

So Harold came up with this method that ultimately allowed enough signal reduction to allow calls to cross the country within the power constraints available.

For some reason I recall something about transmission about Denver being a cut off point before the signal was too degraded... But I'm too old and forgetful so I could be misremembering something I read a while ago. If anyone has more specific info/context/citations that'd be great. Since this is just "hearsay" from memory, but I think it's something like this.

Getting yelled at by the Tim Heidecker in my brain "FORD DABNEY! DUH! FORD DABNEY! COME ON!"

If only Ford Dabney was on the Colgate Comedy Hour.

Maybe there's more than one cause, but the reason I hate this bug so much is because simple fixes like just alt-tabbing or even closing and re-opening or full-reload doesn't work. I'm like 99% certain that's the case. I'll have to verify next time this happens. It seems to happen at least a couple times a month.

But more seriously - FF isn't vim and no I'm not installing vim keybindings. And I do use the keyboard a lot (I've had to teach coworkers the tips for tab navigation for example), when in "type/entry" mode (oh maybe VIM is the right metaphor hmm).

Anyways, sometimes you're just chilling with a few tabs and wanna pop back and forth between a few, and not be in type mode... So mouse it is. And if you're using mouse and hand off the keyboard it's far easier to just use the right click (I've only started doing this the past year or two... likewise I've taken to right click, back from the popup menu instead of dragging mouse across to the back arrow. (but if on keyboard yeah I alt-arrow it).

What i love is how everyone just demands everyone use the interface the exact same way for all purposes and times.

I do get frustrated at my roomie who won't just do it my way, when I ask her to search for something or I'm trying to help with something technical and she's in control of her laptop... though, and in those times I'm 100% right and legit. That's the only exception to my paragraph above.

I believe there were other tools (I am no longer at this job, and can't recall them all).

I just know that even on a 1440 screen there was no way working with one monitor would be pleasant. Some people ran multiple DB terminals separately (IBM mainframes); I just switched DBs in the terminal (you could have up to 5 open at a time - but sometimes you'd be working multiple projects and it's easier for some people to just load a second window) If I ran more than one at a time, like others did, that would be yet more complexity.

I can imagine most places only need a few windows open at a time (ultimately that's what you did, because too much info at a time is just as bad as too little) Frankly, I would need a 4k bigass display to really have nicely tiled windows that did everything I needed to without stacking window managers making everything so complex)

The overhead of keeping track of state of all these things and swapping between them quickly was brutal and that's without the actual work done on them. Multi-tasking is a huge pain in the ass.

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWC5x9G45yo

Bill Evans - Waltz for Debbie https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUA0n-uVUEwLu2aEtHit-...

Possibly some Chet Baker (though he does a lot of vocal work too; I'm more partial to instrumentals): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PKzz81m5c

Horace Silver - Songs for my Father https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWeXOm49kE0

Anyways, I remember going in, and the guy pulling up a car in their system when the (too good to be true) car listed wasn't in stock.

He turned the computer screen around, and there was one of those (I think) fake "you have a virus" pop ups in the IE window. It was either that or a real alert. Either way - clearly incompetent with tech, and once I saw that I noped out of there fast.

Both are true. Neither will happen. So... yay society.

I'm pretty sure I have ADHD (the test I took which was a standardized test has me on the low end of ADHD)... I've tried some stimulants and it is almost like your brain is so wired, the the drugs over-saturate it and exceeds a threshold and causes a sort of "crash"...

My regular doc has me on Clonidine because "BMI" (they don't want me to Belushi/Farley myself). Clonidine only helps with slowing my brain down, but doesn't help with the focus the way stimulants should (in theory). I'm still as unfocused but just slower, mentally. Which can be good, mind; and it helped my STRESS level during an insane level at work, but not really with focus or motivation issues.

In terms of stimulants I've had in my life: Caffeine - usual addict (I drink two 240 mg energy drinks, maybe three a day. Wen I was an alcoholic and drinking heavy I would drink 4 cans a day - thankfully I'm no longer drinking and reduced my caffeine)

Ephedrine - as a teen, when it was legal (pre-2000s sudafed ban - when you could buy it in gas stations under the name mini-thins (which I think now are just... shitty caffeine pills last I heard)). I would get all tingly (like weak MDMA physical effects, but no real mental effects) I would crash hard shortly after, just fall asleep, when the drug was still in my system (e.g. most people wouldn't have crashed/fallen asleep)

Methylphenidate (Ritalin)- A coworker whose son had ADHD gave me some back in the early 00s. I tried both a lower and regular dose, both knocked me out. I was hoping for this magical "boost" - and maybe it wasn't the right med, and maybe it wasn't the right dose. IDK, I don't think I'd want that, because my understanding is Adderall is more effective (it's meth, where ritalin is more similar to the cocaine molecular structure - anyone please correct that if wrong it's been ages since I read up on this stuff).

MDMA in the past. This one doesn't knock me out, but it's also extra-serotonin goodness, and the rush is very nice (I bet if I took a lower/micro-dose of MDMA it would be more like Ritalin and Ephedrine) - and this was back in the 90s when MDMA was good - sold by Sammy the Bull Gravano on a mass scale, and you knew it was pretty pure (except the one time someone obviously sold me DXM which is 100% NOT MDMA LOL)

I currently take Venlafaxine, which also helps my focus very very slightly. It reduces my anxiety, which is why I take it, and in the same way Clonidine helps slow me down, so does Venlafaxine. It doesn't help me focus, it just slows me down.

So energy levels it is different for at least some people with ADHD (in fact it's funny - my friend shared a link the other day about this effect saying "if you get tired after stimulants like this, you have adhd" (maybe it didn't say tired, but the gist was the same). Looking up info - it says 2-6% of people may get tired instead (I assumed this was everyone with ADHD, but maybe it's a subset of them, then).

I only WISH I had the chance to be rx'd and TRY the damn stuff. It may not work, but at least give me a chance. I'm overweight yes, but my ticker is good. And I understand with alcoholism my "potential" for abuse is there (but I have no desire for opioids even though I've had them for medication).

The whole thing is rotten, how we manage it, how our society is built, and the demands placed on us (it's gotten worse the past 20 years, every job wants you to be 10 jobs at once). The only way TO be in this society is ADHD multitasking wizard, who can only activate for the bossman under extreme duress, and have no volition on their own, and struggle because of it.

This is a very solid base to start from. "As of 2023 it is the largest supplier for the semiconductor industry and the sole supplier in the world of extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) photolithography machines that are required to manufacture the most advanced chips."