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Everett False posted:Oof, that's rough. If you have a post on fedi about the issue and you're willing to share a link (PMs are fine) I can try to boost it over there and see if anyone I know has any ideas. I mean at the moment I have a solution, it's a day away from completion if my question gets answered. The instance owner is burnt out and there are like 5 people on the instance, and I think she'd have to deeply trust the people who took it over Even then, that doesn't solve my problem that I do not have a backup, and the current backup systems are either not available to me (as someone who isn't the instance owner) or causes the database to fall off a cliff because it hammers it with a fuckload of requests all at once. There's already room for a better backup tool regardless, and like I said, the majority of the code is written and functional, I just need advice with one specific part which is something that I do not have much knowledge on. I want to get back to writing a bootsector lisp 
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Extra row of tits posted:Does anyone have any handy tips for using contact lenses? I am not a contacts wearer, but I will only add this: I don't know where "Here" is, but unless it is an optometrists' office, absolutely do not stick non-prescription lenses onto your eyes. That is a recipe and several ingredients for a disaster. What do you mean by Practice Lenses? Do you mean something that you can repeatedly put in and take out to get used to the sensation? I really think this is something best handled by the Dr that prescribed them to you. They probably have dealt with people needing to get over the anxiety of inserting contacts before. And it sounds like contacts are a fairly new thing for you, so hopefully it's something you can discuss with them as you are still getting used to them.
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Extra row of tits posted:Does anyone have any handy tips for using contact lenses? It's really just experience - your body has a lot of energy put into the "don't poke things in your eyes" reflex and you need to overcome all of that to get the thing onto your eye.
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Aug 9, 2021 04:47
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Good advice, Thank you both.
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Extra row of tits posted:Does anyone have any handy tips for using contact lenses? Few tips: 1. Use your left hand to put in your left contact, right hand for right 2. It's kind of a multi step process. Get contact from case with the hand in tip 1, transfer to index finger of other hand temporarily, completely dry off the index finger of the inserting hand with a lint free towel, transfer the contact back to that finger 3. Contact is now centered on the correct, dry, index finger. With the middle finger of your other hand, pull the top eyelid up. With the middle finger of your inserting hand, pull your bottom eyelid down 4. Stare into the distance and blur your vision as you bring the contact to your eye. Try and put it directly on your pupil. You don't need to mash it down -- if the index finger is dry, the contact should suck onto your eye easily. 5. Don't let go of your eyelids right away. Let the contact settle onto your eye, give it a second, then move your eye just a little. 6. Slowly release your eyelids. Sounds complicated but practice it and you'll be able to get them in almost always on the first time. I can put my contacts in in about 5-10 seconds per eye. Oh, and wash your hands thoroughly and dry them before starting. Any dirt or oil on your fingers will result in burning. regulargonzalez fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Aug 9, 2021 |
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Aug 9, 2021 07:17
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lol I don't wear contacts but that's almost exactly what it's like to put in a vaginal contraceptive film
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Aug 9, 2021 15:14
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artsy fartsy posted:lol I don't wear contacts but that's almost exactly what it's like to put in a vaginal contraceptive film At least (most) vaginas don't reflexively close as soon as something gets near them. Honestly I could draw a lot of parallels between the learning curve for contact lenses and menstrual cups, except that for me with contact lenses the benefits didn't outweigh the annoyance of learning to do it conveniently and for the cup they 1000% did.
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Aug 9, 2021 15:19
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Why do you always see jokes about things in Australia being "upside down", toilets flushing the other direction, etc, but not about other countries in the southern hemisphere? Like I've never seen someone make a light-hearted jab to that effect about, say, Argentina or South Africa or any other country south of the equator. My wildly speculative guess is it's bc it's a whole continent that's "upside down".
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Aug 9, 2021 16:26
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I think it's more because Australia is a western colonised first world country in the southern hemisphere, so the joke lands better because it's "just like" the US/Canada/UK etc but upside down. It also probably feels like the weird version of those countries because of the animals & plants and stuff too moreso than less isolated countries.
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Aug 9, 2021 16:36
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I'd suspect that it's a combination of Australia being an entire continent that is very far south rather than stretching across the equator like South America or Africa, and large enough that you can see it immediately on a map or globe without having to look for it like the Philippines or whatever. The fact that it's a commonwealth country mostly full of white people also makes it harder for other jokes or stereotypes to stick, and easier for dumb weird jokes about how this country is so similar to "us" but the toilets spin the other way (not actually because of it's position on the globe but it still sticks), or other things caused by it's position in the world being so different from all the other wealthy white nations like getting winter in our summer and vice versa. I think it's just something that got into the popular consciousness and stuck around as a cartoon joke.
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Aug 9, 2021 16:41
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China could be joking about the upside down Argentinians and I'd never ever hear about it.
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Aug 9, 2021 17:37
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What is the name of the famous experiment which showed that adding financial incentive actually decreased cognitive productivity? I think it involves teams constructing towers out of raw spaghetti noodles and marshmallows or something?
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Aug 9, 2021 21:02
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Ornery and Hornery posted:What is the name of the famous experiment which showed that adding financial incentive actually decreased cognitive productivity? I think it's around 4:30 in this video that he mentions it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0_yKBitO8M Not super sure if that's a famous experiment but there you go
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Aug 10, 2021 02:27
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Is there a way to play Flash in Chrome now?
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Aug 10, 2021 09:34
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Is there some kind of class I can take, or certification I can study for, that will make dealing with SSL certificates stop being a hideous nightmare? Is there any amount of expertise that will stop about 1% of all users from emailing me because on one specific browser on one specific network they get served a cert I've never seen before in my life?
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Aug 10, 2021 19:51
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Everett False posted:Is there some kind of class I can take, or certification I can study for, that will make dealing with SSL certificates stop being a hideous nightmare? Is there any amount of expertise that will stop about 1% of all users from emailing me because on one specific browser on one specific network they get served a cert I've never seen before in my life? Go into carpentry and never look back.
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Aug 10, 2021 20:03
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Everett False posted:Is there some kind of class I can take, or certification I can study for, that will make dealing with SSL certificates stop being a hideous nightmare? Is there any amount of expertise that will stop about 1% of all users from emailing me because on one specific browser on one specific network they get served a cert I've never seen before in my life?
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Aug 10, 2021 21:21
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TLS certificates are a racket ran by the CAs. In short no. The change apple made somewhat recently to distrust any cert with an validity period of more than 1 year is total bullshit.
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Aug 10, 2021 21:49
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With any luck, given a few years, letsencrypt will completely kill all the CAs and everything will be SSL and just work out of the box.
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Aug 10, 2021 23:28
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Can anyone tell me what word I am thinking of? "*** of management duties", the word being "I did them while he was away". I just cant seem to remember it. (It's not assumption is it?)
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Aug 11, 2021 02:41
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assumption seems as good as anything else to me
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Aug 11, 2021 02:42
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Acting Manager of Whatever.
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https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/acting adjutant alternate assistant delegated deputy interim surrogate temporary ad interim pro tem pro tempore provisional substitute
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Aug 11, 2021 03:01
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Delegation?
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Aug 11, 2021 03:02
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"While Bob was away, I assumed his management duties" seems pretty standard and normal sounding. Maybe a little formal or stuffy. You could also say "performed," or "I filled in for him," depending on context and what tone you're trying to have. If it was for a longer time and this is on a resume then "Acting Manager" is better, more succinct.
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Went with Assumed, it sounded better in bullet points. Thank you everyone!
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Is there a software, or maybe a batch script, that would allow me to point it at an image file, and then it copies the file 3 times, each with a unique suffix to the file name, without changing the extension? (Not a number, but just 3 copies of the file with something I input ammended to it.)
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Boba Pearl posted:Is there a software, or maybe a batch script, that would allow me to point it at an image file, and then it copies the file 3 times, each with a unique suffix to the file name, without changing the extension? (Not a number, but just 3 copies of the file with something I input ammended to it.) Is it the same set of suffixes each time? Like, abc.jpg becomes abc123.jpg, abcabc.jpg, and abcxyz.jpg? Or is the suffix unique each time? Either are doable in PowerShell, the first is easier. You may be able to do the first in batch, I'd have to look when I'm at a PC.
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Aug 11, 2021 17:39
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Thanatosian posted:Is it the same set of suffixes each time? Like, abc.jpg becomes abc123.jpg, abcabc.jpg, and abcxyz.jpg? Or is the suffix unique each time? My exact use case is to turn 210811.png into 3 files 210811WC.png 210811SA.png 210811SV.png And I can just drag and drop it, or just copy / paste the file location so that tomorrow I can do the same thing easily with 210812.png
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Aug 11, 2021 18:08
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Will there always be the one and only file in there when the script is executed? Will it always be a png? And will you execute the script manually or do you want this to be executed automatically at 1:37 pm every day?
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It'll always be the one and only file, and I can make sure it's the only one in the directory if that's what it needs to work, it will always be a .png, and I'd like to execute it manually.
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xcopy %1 %~d1%~p1%~n1WC%~x1 xcopy %1 %~d1%~p1%~n1SA%~x1 xcopy %1 %~d1%~p1%~n1SV%~x1 Put it in a text file, save with the extension .cmd, drop files on it or on a shortcut to it.
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Boba Pearl posted:My exact use case is to turn 210811.png into 3 files If it's the latter, you could create a scheduled task to handle it automatically so you never need to do anything with it again.
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Flipperwaldt posted:xcopy %1 %~d1%~p1%~n1WC%~x1 This is exactly what I needed thanks! Thanatosian posted:It's the creation of these files something you do manually every day, and you have to do manual things with the copies as well? Or is this something you get sent, and then you just put these copies in various places? I do a webcomic, and when I finish it, I give it different titles for what site it's going too to help monitor metrics. So I can see how many times each file has been accessed and from where.
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Another question, my wife and I like to wear headphones while we are on our computers, and listen to music. We sit in the same room, but it's difficult to hear each other. To fix this, we've taken too sitting in a discord call. We wanted to watch an anime together on the TV while maintaining this set up. My idea is to set up a sound mixer with USB inputs, and run the USBs to both our machines. Is their an easier way to do what I want, so that we can maintain our headphones / discord call method? Neither of us are neurotypical, so like a huge shake up will introduce a whole slew of issues, and it'd be easier to just buy something that fixes the problem so we can continue what we're doing. She nor I want to buy in ear headphones, or not wear one ear cuff, though if they are high quality, I would definitely consider those headphones that sit above your ear and send the noise into your skull.
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Aug 12, 2021 05:30
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Is Tom Kenny the voice actor for the Arby's vending machine in Idiocracy?
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Boba Pearl posted:She nor I want to buy in ear headphones, or not wear one ear cuff, though if they are high quality, I would definitely consider those headphones that sit above your ear and send the noise into your skull. I know you said "no shakeups," but have you considered open back headphones? Especially if you're spending very long periods wearing headphones, good open backs can help a lot with comfort and fatigue.
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Boba Pearl posted:Another question, my wife and I like to wear headphones while we are on our computers, and listen to music. We sit in the same room, but it's difficult to hear each other. To fix this, we've taken too sitting in a discord call. We wanted to watch an anime together on the TV while maintaining this set up. My idea is to set up a sound mixer with USB inputs, and run the USBs to both our machines. Is their an easier way to do what I want, so that we can maintain our headphones / discord call method? Neither of us are neurotypical, so like a huge shake up will introduce a whole slew of issues, and it'd be easier to just buy something that fixes the problem so we can continue what we're doing.
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You know what, if I pirate the shows and put them on a plex server, we can "Watch together" and sync with the TV, and get audio through our headphones, that's an amazing idea, thank you.
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They repaved a nearby road, and they haven’t put the traffic markings like stop bars on yet. Wherever they need to put them on, they roughly spray painted a line, but there is also another line scored in the pavement in the same place. Does anyone know what the process is there?
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