neidu3
@neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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- Comment on A 2003 complaint about Half Life 2 1 day ago:
The reason why HL3 is not out yet is because valve is waiting for consumer adoption of 10TB drives
- Comment on What is the magic diet for no-wipe poops? 1 day ago:
I don’t think they’re edible
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 days ago:
TIL…
- Comment on Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off 3 days ago:
While I can understand his syntax, I fail to understand the substance of that sentence. Now I’m curious how wealth can be utilized in a manner that pertains to African-Americans.
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 3 days ago:
The money behind the hype went into “AI” instead
- Comment on The worst thing about Linux is its users 4 days ago:
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- Comment on Is it okay to cover the outside of a microwave in aluminum to prevent or lessen microwave WiFi interference? 5 days ago:
No. It looks too silly. Other than that, there’s no problem.
However, if your micronuker is interfering that much, you should get a new one.
- Comment on If you had 1 dollar and 24 hours what would you do? 6 days ago:
First order of business would be to somehow exchange it to nto a currency I can actually use.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 6 days ago:
Valid. There’s no practical way of implementing a blanket ban on VPN. Hell, I’ve set up a VPN tunnel to the UK that I use for work. I wish them the best of luck, while I grab my popcorn.
If a ban were to be implemented, there would be no way of enforcing it.
- Comment on Hillsborough bereaved urge Keir Starmer not to appoint ex-Sun editor to senior role 6 days ago:
Honestly, more than just Hillsborough survivors should call for the same. I’m not even British, and even I know how scummy The Sun and it’s editorial staff is.
- Comment on The more you earn, the larger the timespan for which you know your salary 6 days ago:
This holds true for me as well. I get paid monthly, but is a functional of my yearly salary and how many days there are in the month. I know roughly what this means after taxes. I have no idea what this means weekly/daily/hourly.
- Comment on Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made 6 days ago:
The Land After Time
- Comment on How did you decide what you generally wanted to do with your life? 6 days ago:
I didn’t. I just ended up here, and eventually landed myself in a position I enjoy and is quite comfortable.
STORY TIME!
I’ve always been into computery stuff. Started tinkering with FreeBSD in late 90’s and later migrated to linux. This became a bit of a hobby, and I hosted a few websites in the early 00’s. But I never finished school, so I don’t have any formal education. I took a year of private school in a relatively big city, where I got my CCNA, that’s all.
Come 2007 and I wanted to move back to the previously mentioned city. I looked around for any job, and I landed what in retrospect is the worst job I’ve ever had - “truck driver”. I don’t mind driving trucks. In fact, I quite like it. It’s just that 95% of the time was spent loading or unloading. And the cargo in question was copying machines. And you can bet that whoever needed the machines never wanted them on the ground floor. Literally backbreaking work for shit pay. The only hilight of my day was chatting with the guy who set them up. Given my aforementioned hobby, many cups of coffes were drank while talking about postscript and spooler daemons.
Come 2008 and I desperately needed a new job. The hours at my shit job had been reduced to almost nothing, and I couldn’t say I missed it anyway. I stumbled across a listing on monster.com titled “Seismic Survey Technician”. I had no fucking idea what it was, but I applied anyway as it listed some things that seemed interesting; travel, ships, computery stuff, heavy machinery. So I put my application in just because why not.
A few weeks later I was awoken by the phone at the crack of noon. It was an unknown number. I picked up, and in was the technical manager (Let’s call him Bob. He’ll be relevant later) of the seismic survey company. Turned out my application was interesting despite my complete and utter lack of formal education. Turned out my upbringing around farm equipment and computer hobby was the kind of combination they were after. He confirmed that I was still interested, and let me know they’d be setting up an interview. I’d receive further instructions via e-mail.
A day or so later I got the e-mail. Time, date, and plane tickets for me to fly down there (different city). The catch: The date conflicted with some army-related plans (I was part time in the army at that time. Think of it kinda like national guard), and while I could get out of it, I had kinda looked forward to it. So I asked the people if they could change the date and rebook the ticket. I expected them to say “no”, but I didn’t care. It wasn’t like I was gonna get the job anyway.
Next day I got a new mail. Updated tickets for a rescheduled interview. OK, cool, there were a bunch of people in that city I hadn’t met in ages, so why not. It gave me a few hours of free time, so I might as well go to the interview for the free trip down there. Fuckit, it wasn’t as if I was gonna get the job anyway.
The day of the interview arrived. It went OK. Nothing particularly good, nothing particularly bad either. Before leaving I asked as a formality when they would expect to have reached a conclusion. They told me end of the month. I bid them farewell, and went to a bar on the other side of the town where I got way too drunk at such an early hour. Fuckit, it wasn’t as if I was gonna get the job anyway.
The month ended. Nothing. The day after I phoned them up, as a formality, just to ask about the status. Well, it turned out that it was just a manner of way more applicants than they expected, so they still needed some more time before deciding. They gave me a new date. Well, fuckit, it wasn’t as if I was gonna get the job anyway.
The new date arrived. Nothing. Normal work hours were over, so I concluded that I didn’t get the job anyway. I was sitting by my PC that night and suddenly an e-mail ticked in. 21:30. I read through it. I read through it again. It was a job offer, already signed on their behalf, listing starting pay higher than I’d ever dreamed of. The only thing needed for this to become real was for me to print, sign, scan, and send back to them.
I kicked in the door to my flatmate. “Hey, I need to borrow 1000 bucks.” When he asked why, I told him straight up “We’re going out to celebrate that I won’t have to borrow any more money from you. Also, I need to buy a scanner tomorrow.”
The job was pretty interesting, and it did involve the combination of heavy machinery and computers (Mostly linux), and it took me to the far corners of the world. However, I decided to leave in 2012: The company wasn’t doing that well financially, plus I’d just gotten my first kid. Time to get a “normal” job so I could spend time with my family.
It took me until 2019 to conclude that normal jobs are for normal people. I missed the travel, the freedom, and the substantially higher pay of what I thought was a chapter I’d closed for good. I asked a former coworker of mine what he was doing and whether they were hiring. Well, he was still in the industry, but for a different company (the old one had folded). Turns out they weren’t hiring, but he’d forward my details just in case.
A few days passed and I got a phonecall, again at the crack of noon. Turns out it was Bob, and he’d happily hire me again. I spent a few rotations offshore, but as Covid hit, there were drastic changes in the company. This somehow resulted in a promotion for me. I was no longer what we often referred to as a “backdeck monkey” - They needed someone to handle the shoreside support of the production system. That became me.
And to skip a lot of corporate stuff that I can’t be arsed typing out, a few colleagues and myself were poached by the competition to support their current survey system as well as design the next gen setup. So that’s basically what I do nowadays - Computery stuff. I still joke that I want to drive tower cranes when I grow up. But I’m 42, and I honestly don’t think I’m going anywhere.
- Comment on Is there gospel music minus the gospel? 1 week ago:
Closest thing NG I can think of without any research is Dream Theater - The Spirit Carries On
Don’t be scared of the title, though: Without the context of the rest of the album, it might seem like it’s about heaven and all that gooey christian stuff, but it’s a concept album centered around a reincarnated person.
From the open.spotify.com/track/2Wv2cZkKS1AR5VTpGuB25C be version of the same album you might find the solo-ish section interlude relevant: [Spotify] (open.spotify.com/track/2Wv2cZkKS1AR5VTpGuB25C) Youtube
- Comment on Thingiverse uses AI to block production of ghost guns 1 week ago:
Combustion assisted vegetable catapult, you mean?
- Comment on Lemmy has a problem 1 week ago:
Instance block gang represent!
*Throws weird gang-sign nobody has seen before nor since*
- Comment on Why do females got to be so hard to talk or flirt with? 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Is the periodic table still getting new additions? 1 week ago:
Yes-ish. The elements “exist” in a theoretical state: The higher the atomic number, the more unstable they are, so you won’t find them in nature.
However, they can be created temporarily in labs, and they exist a short amount of time before they decay into more stable particles. When a previously unibserved element is created, it gets added to the table.
What makes an element stable or unstable is beyond the scope of this question, but in general, the heavier an element is, the more unstable it is, and we’ve already discovered the lightweight ones. The Island of Stability has been theorized, so once we reach the tech necessary to create elements from there, we might see a large amount of new elements added.
- Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like? 1 week ago:
The only similar meeting I’ve been in was how to handle the aspect of of the job that could not be done remotely.
While Wfh was common, even before covid, there was workshop jobs that could not be done remotely.
The conclusion was to rotate who went in so as to limit infection risk. One at a time.
- Comment on What was the Nazi Germany equivalent to "Ted Lasso"? 1 week ago:
Are you telling me to watch a TV show to answer your question?
- Comment on What was the Nazi Germany equivalent to "Ted Lasso"? 1 week ago:
I know a lot about Nazi Germany, its cast and characters, what lead to it, and of course how it literally all went down in flames… but I don’t know a single thing about Ted Lasso, so I don’t have even the faintest idea how to answer this question.
Give me some facts/traits about him, and I’ll do it my best.
- Comment on If i stain or spill a drink on a shirt, can i just wash it in the bath with generic soap and let it soak rinse and dry to get the same thing as a whole load of laundry? 1 week ago:
I sometimes need to do similar things on work trips. Hand soap is alright, but it’s more effective to use soap meant for handwashing clothes.
Tip: Squeezing your socks between 1Kg bags of dessicant in a hot and dry place is an excellent way of drying them quickly.
- Comment on Is Mexican food uniquely good with alcohol or have I just been conditioned? 1 week ago:
There’s no more sure sign than a good time me the previous night than finding kebab salad in your pockets.
- Comment on Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer? 2 weeks ago:
Vestlandet, her
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Nah. My GF and I use each other’s cards all the time. Nobody cares.
- Comment on Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer? 2 weeks ago:
5ish C. It’s normally in the 20s.30+ is rare. It’s been 30+ for over a week now.
- Comment on Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer? 2 weeks ago:
Norway, here. Normal humidity but extremely hot.
- Comment on Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files? 2 weeks ago:
Yup, all they need is another Oliver Stone or Allen Dulles to throw under the bus.