I still regret that garden hose/time machine combo from late nite TV
14:38
It's a lousy hose
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14:38
Trader Lenny, the forgetful scholar. Leader of the biscuit Brigade in service of the Church of Dadbod
Wasn't the snuggle a as seen on TV product?
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14:38
Reason the LA Quail
The as seen on TV phase issuing out because A) a lot of people don’t have TV anymore and B) it was marketed to illiterate (in terms of cooking or outdoors stuff) people
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14:40
Woofle A Thylacine
So instead of as seen on TV it's as seen on YouTube or some such. It's not plausible that gullible people went away with basic cable use. ;P
14:41
Or non-use
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14:41
Reason the LA Quail
Instead of taking a product that already exists and is cheap ( like tongs or a basket) and spending a lot of time trying to improve it and then market it over the major companies that already make it, why not make up something new that fills a need
And even if that thing is both useful and original, perhaps the average person needs some exposure to the idea before its utility is obvious.
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14:43
Trader Lenny, the forgetful scholar. Leader of the biscuit Brigade in service of the Church of Dadbod
Like I see a little snap sides to adjust height and maybe length with a wire grid that pops on both top and bottom
14:43
Tongs to grab and flip marketed for ovens and toaster oven.
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14:44
Woofle A Thylacine
I go back to making bad code now. But despite skepticism I think there's always room for kitchen gadgets, both useful and useless, as long as people prepare food and things are not perfect.
14:45
Eventually your kitchen robot will take care of those details. :P
they used to have a service where you could generate a temporary credit card number but the FTC slammed them because people used it for money laundering
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My credit score tanked when I closed my two secured credit cards.
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But I had to close the accounts to get regular non-secured cards.
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Michichael
@majikbear Yeah. Counterintuitive; but if you alter your DTI ratio, it has an outsized effect
16:42
I increased my credit score by 50 points by simply requesting limit upgrades on my credit cards that I never use anyway. No annual fee, never use the cards, but i have that "credit" available so it wildly inflates my score.
16:42
Dumb.
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16:42
Majik ɹɐǝq
I need to increase my DTI.
16:42
I have 1 credit card, I'm waiting a month before I put in another hard inquirey to get a second one.
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16:43
Michichael
*nod*
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16:44
Majik ɹɐǝq
I got stuck in a catch 22 when I closed all of my credit cards back when I was being supported by my ex.
16:44
I had 4 no-limit cards and when I closed them all it wrecked my credit, so I couldn't get any credit cards to build my credit.
16:45
I had to start all over with 2 secured cards like when I first established new credit.
I’m still debating on opening a bank account for myself, and where would be the best place to start. Coz not being able to purchase certain things online as well as carry cash all the time is causing some pretty big limitations for me overtime
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16:58
Majik ɹɐǝq
Check with Nerdwallet
16:58
pretty good unbiased website for financial products
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16:58
Daze 🇿🇦
Heh
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16:59
Majik ɹɐǝq
I use Chase because they have all the cool online features that other banks have but they actually work all the time
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16:59
Daze 🇿🇦
Yeah I’ve been considering them for a good long while
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16:59
Majik ɹɐǝq
I have a Chase checking account that I autopay my bills from and a Chase savings account that my savings auto-transfers into after every payday
16:59
Then I have a Chime account where my spending money gets auto transferred into each payday.
17:00
I keep my spending money in a seperate account so that when the money in it runs out my brain goes "definately stop spending money now" rather than "well I can spenda little more then just spend less next pay period."
17:01
Chime is really cool because I get a notification on my phone whenever a transaction is processed, and a reminder of my balance every morning.
17:02
They also have a feature where you can have it round each transaction to the nearest dollar and transfer the remainder into your savings.
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17:03
Daze 🇿🇦
Oh sweet
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17:04
Majik ɹɐǝq
Also you don't have to go into a bank to set up a Chime account, you do it online and they mail you your card.
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17:04
Daze 🇿🇦
I’ll look into it
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17:04
Majik ɹɐǝq
They have another feature where if you use direct deposit for your paycheck they'll pay you 2 days in advance of payday.
17:05
What they're really doing is just paying you when they get the money, as most payroll companies actually pay on Wednesday but the bank holds the money in a mutual fund to draw interest off of it until Friday.
Eh, I’m broke. So even though I was there, I wouldn’t have enough money for anything “substantial”. I did check out the clothing places there, so that was fun at least
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18:03
H̵a̴r̷u̸d̵o̷ The Otteryeen
uwu
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*shrug* takes a lot more effort than what many people have done, and constantly switching between jobs and chasing opportunities.
20:22
lots of risks, pain, suffering, and stress x.x
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20:24
StarForce/Kaiser🐯🐲
Meow?
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20:25
Majik ɹɐǝq
It's starting to look like this better paying job I was offered isn't going to end with me getting hired.
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20:25
Michichael
:(
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20:25
Majik ɹɐǝq
The company wanted to do their own background check, fucked it up real bad then blamed me.
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20:25
Michichael
I'm always happy to forward your resume along to a consulting firm i worked for
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20:26
Majik ɹɐǝq
The recruiter then said she was going to call me yesterday to confirm I could start, then didn't, and today she's been avoiding my calls and ignoring my emails.
It's the same with any older generation of younger adults. You go back 20 or 30 years back, you'll find a lot of kids listening to Beach Boys or Jimi Hendrix than all the 80s pop dominating the top 40
24 bits gives 144 dB of dynamic range capability even if it's pure digital and vinyl barely can do 60 dB, CDs can do 96dB. It's the mastering process and intentional amplitude compression that limits dynamic range, not the source technology, pretty much always. Mastering sucks thanks to the industry deciding loud sounds better and ruining the source. It's not really vinyl vs digital... But some vinyl is mastered without that hateful amplitude compression
22:33
Deleted Account
just look up the songs on youtube lol
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22:34
Woofle A Thylacine
Basically a CD can deliver perfect sound and nearly all the dynamic range anyone needs ... If it's mastered right
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22:35
Tamino
everyone used to be enthusiastic about CDs because they had *more* dynamic range and required *less* compression :-P
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22:36
Kes Zerda
unfortunately, portable music exploded in ways that made record companies compensate by completely ruining mixing because so many people were now listening to music on absolutely crap devies
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22:36
Tamino
if something was DDD, or even ADD, then you knew you had a pretty good chance of it not being ultra-compressed, but if something was AAD then you were getting "the same thing you'd have gotten otherwise".
Basically the upshot is rigid A/B/X testing proved that people couldn't hear more bits than 16 or higher sample rates than 44.1Khz, so CD is already as good as anyone can hear
22:40
But mastering, that's a crime how it's done and ruins music.
22:40
Deleted Account
everybody to the limit
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22:41
Crazy Joe1952
Wow and yes I was at FC for sure.
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22:43
Woofle A Thylacine
It's a Pfennig Fox?
22:48
The little one :)
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I don't know how to anatomy
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23:04
Made new account
That’s guud
23:04
Like really, super guud.
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23:05
Daze 🇿🇦
It took me only about 20 minutes lol. As opposed to an hour sketch on my phone.
From what I've seen on macbooks usually the admin password is randomized and is changed at a regular interval to a new random password in edu/corp environments.
It's easy and is done by default in all of the major like sccm and jamf
10:51
You'd have to actively undo... okay right, competent IT department.
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10:52
H̵a̴r̷u̸d̵o̷ The Otteryeen
I mean its good that we do have a competent IT deparment..
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10:52
Majik ɹɐǝq
I mean
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10:53
Raaky->BLFC
When I was in high school the students were smarter than the IT guys and someone installed both counterstrike and Halo 1 on the network drive
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10:53
H̵a̴r̷u̸d̵o̷ The Otteryeen
I wonder when the iMacs would get updated..
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10:54
Majik ɹɐǝq
Mojave has caused a lot of headaches for IT departments.
10:54
They've been putting it off as long as possible.
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10:54
H̵a̴r̷u̸d̵o̷ The Otteryeen
Huh.
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10:55
Majik ɹɐǝq
Apple is getting desperate to sell product because they have a problem where their devices are such high quality that nobody wants to upgrade for 4-5 years or even longer.
10:55
So they're trying to get edgy and make MacOS do all kinds of cool things that fuck with how jamf and other management systems work.
We live in a bubble of sorts here where we assume that everyone outside our little world embraces arts and culture and racial diversity, gender fluidity, etc.
Yeah with gender fluidity I think I’ll take a pass
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11:01
Majik ɹɐǝq
I feel like for anyone who lives in the area of a major center of diversity like LA or New York should be required by law to spend 6 months in rural Alabama or Mississippi.
I'm not proud of some of my usenet posts from when I was young.
11:12
Which are still there. You can still look them up. Usenet is forever.
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11:12
H̵a̴r̷u̸d̵o̷ The Otteryeen
Am too young for this.
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11:13
Daze 🇿🇦
I wouldn’t consider myself apolitical, but after all the drama that comes with different opinions and such, I just choose to distance myself further from the topic and any sort of debates that tend to rise up
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11:13
Majik ɹɐǝq
I'm gen X. I'm just watching and eating popcorn.
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11:13
Daze 🇿🇦
Hell, I have news articles to read if I wanted to xD
