CaptPretentious

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CaptPretentious , to FoodPorn in I love making pizzas with my bread maker

This is like, reason why I should definitely NOT get a bread maker. I lack the will power...

CaptPretentious , to Programmer Humor in Programmer Pain Chart

I was building up some packer stuff. Vsphere-iso plug-in. Tests were going fine and then for reasons I didn't understand it said it could no longer find the cd creation tool it has just been using.

So I try a few things, nothing works. So I figure I have nothing to lose, I make a new folder to house all the tools in one place. Update Windows system environment path. Restart everything. VScode didn't have my path statement, Google is of 0 fucking help, and now packer doesn't work. I least it's the weekend now.

CaptPretentious , to Programmer Humor in Not really sure whether S-expressions or Python indentation-based scoping get more hate...

Do a search for 'why yaml is bad' and you'll get a lot of stories.

Constant passing problems, especially when the yaml gets very large and complex. After I implemented a new feature I was pulled into a call with 12-15 people demanding to know why it didn't work. The new feature worked fine, The guys yaml had the wrong amount of white space and so it didn't parse.

CaptPretentious , to Ask Lemmy in You are transformed into an animal of your choice, and must send a message to the president in order to turn back. wdyd?

I guess falcon or an eagle or a hawk. Since I get to retain my intelligence it is my one and only opportunity to truly fly.

CaptPretentious , to Games in Black Myth: WuKong - Official WeGame Event Trailer

It's got good cinematics.

But remember folks do not pre-order.

CaptPretentious , to Android in I tracked my SOT on my Pixel 8 for 2 months across stock and GrapheneOS

A single up vote seems inadequate for the amount of work you put in. But it is all that I have to offer.

CaptPretentious , to Ask Lemmy in Name a Superhero you just can't stand

Modern Batman and Modern Superman.

I won't go on my 2 hour rant off everything wrong. But a short version is the writing for them is lazy and undeveloped. Both of them represent the most uninteresting form of a power fantasy. The modern Batman of 'having a plan for everything' and being this overburden angsty character is just awful. If Batman was a d&d character, he has loaded dice and is throwing that 20s on intimidation. And for Superman he's just not interesting, because with the amount of power he's been given and the amount of abilities he has the fact that lex luthor is somehow a villain of his is laughable.

Batman used to be the world's greatest detective. And for me the last time I saw Batman be Batman was the '90s animated series. And frankly the most recent movie The Batman also did a very good job I thought in that regard.

Superman used to have limits. He was fast but not infinite speed fast. He was strong but not infinite strength.

In both cases it feels like the people who write for these characters use one simple rule... This my favorite character so he win. Neither character feels like their struggles are earned, because the writing is forced. Like it used to be if Superman needed to save somebody you weren't 100% sure he'd be able to get there in time, stop the bad guy save the people! Modern Superman is like, a being a hundred light years away, tripped and their falling! They need your help before they get a boo-boo and I have no doubt Superman would get there somehow and then save a hundred worlds along the way. (An over-exaggeration I know but I want to get the point across at how lazy I feel the writing is). Or the fact that anybody fears Batman when most of his villains barely fear him. You have members like Green lantern, Martian manhunter, Superman, and Wonder woman who act like in any way Batman is a threat to them.

I'll stop ranting cuz I can honestly go on. But I will say with the massive decline for me personally with these two, I've been far more receptive of some of the other DC characters that I used to overlook when I was younger. I can't believe I 100% slept on the flash like that dude is straight boss. Or plastic man! So at least some good came of it.

CaptPretentious , to zerowaste in Beer bottles can get quite nasty before people return them -- how good are industrial beer bottle dishwashers?

I've always given bottles and cans a quick rinse. Stops then from being sticky and smelling, so that's incentive enough for me

CaptPretentious , to zerowaste in Beer bottles can get quite nasty before people return them -- how good are industrial beer bottle dishwashers?

Are people not rinsing out recyclables?

CaptPretentious , to Technology in Elon Musk laid off the Tesla Supercharger team; now he’s rehiring them

He's always been incompetent. He was fired from PayPal for that very reason. He's used his parents emerald business money to fabricate a career. He's paid his way into being the engineer he clearly idolized but couldn't actually earn himself. He bought Tesla, he bought Twitter, the "HyperLoop" was a hundred year old idea called a vac-train. Even the biggest selling point for SpaceX, were just plans NASA had decades ago but the technology didn't exist at the time to pull it off. I mean the Boring Company... we've been successfully digging subway tunnels for a long time... the London Underground opened in 1863. New York had theirs in 1904. Elon in 2018 debuted a claustrophobic tunnel that was less than 2 miles long...

If it wasn't for daddy's money, he would have been a nobody. But he bought his way into some sort of 'relevance' and has conned a lot of people who don't understand science out of a lot of money. His greatest accomplishment is being a great conman.

CaptPretentious , to memes in A bit late

It's this sexist statement still being made? Cool, cool, cool... I mean it's not actually, but here we are with this crap still being said.

CaptPretentious , to memes in Too soon

That's just want you to think!

It actually disintegrates you and prints out a new clone.

CaptPretentious , to memes in Too soon

It might have been a joke but I think Jonathan Franks pointed out the single bathroom on the Enterprise one time.

Yeah supposedly the clip is on Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek - The Next Generation

https://youtu.be/UAKQzZfpaz8?si=x_jCkGKAqVRK1AEX

CaptPretentious , (edited ) to Technology in A YouTuber let the Cybertruck close on his finger to test the new sensor update. It didn't go well.

There should be no algorithm. It should be done by a human. There are no amount of lines of code I will ever make up for knowing intent and what the current situation is.

If it's going to be closed by software it needs to prioritize safety 100% of the time. If more pressure is needed and that pressure needs to come from a human.

CaptPretentious , to Asklemmy in Why are many men growing beards again ?

I'm slightly less fugly with it, I hope.

But I grew up admiring beards. So I finally decided to grow one over COVID only to find out I got screwed genetically in that area too.

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