MagicShel

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MagicShel , to Ask Lemmy in What is a product that didn't live up to its advertised claims?

Ian McDiarmid didn't pass away. But yes, this movie might be the single worst cinematic disappointment I've ever witnessed in my life. I'll never watch it again.

MagicShel , to Ask Lemmy in Do your parents help you financially?

I don't understand the Jaguar at all. He keeps it in a storage facility and I've never even seen it. Whatever. I never counted on any kind of inheritance from them, so I guess they can spend it up however they want, but I've been out of work for three months now, chewing up the meager retirement I've managed to save just keeping bills paid, and it's just frustrating.

MagicShel , to Ask Lemmy in Do your parents help you financially?

My parents have never helped me. They've never been able to. On the other hand, we've given them a fucking car to make it easier for them to help us out with watching kids and running them around. Then my dad bought a Jaguar. And he has a boat. And a truck. But they didn't have air conditioning for about a decade because they couldn't afford it.

I love them, but they are selfish and stupid when it comes to money. As long as they leave my sister (who is disabled and unable to work) some extra money when they pass so I don't have to pay a bunch for her, too, I'll be happy.

MagicShel , to No Stupid Questions in is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital?

I didn't say he did. I agree. Just trying to set expectations.

MagicShel , to No Stupid Questions in is this the right way to establish boundaries with my nosy coworkers at the hospital?

Some people are going to be offended unless you participate in their games. In the army I had someone tell me he was going to punch me if I didn't drink at a get together. So I drank. I probably would've anyway, but he was super weird about it.

Redirect conversation, be noncommittal, let yourself get pulled away by duties, etc. Eventually if you're lucky you just won't be in the clique any more. But they're never going to understand what you're telling them without offense because they just don't want to. There is no polite, easy way to do this that isn't going to upset them. They will feel like you think you're better than them.

MagicShel , to No Stupid Questions in What's up with all the "___punk" stuff?

Punk indicates rebellion against the status quo as part of the theme. If that isn't part of it, then IMO it has no place in the name.

MagicShel , to Ask Lemmy in What did you routinely fall asleep listening to as a kid and what does it for you now?
MagicShel , (edited ) to Ask Lemmy in What did you routinely fall asleep listening to as a kid and what does it for you now?

Other than the narrator it was all original audio from the movies I think. No idea who the narrator was.

It's incomplete, but it's here: https://youtu.be/72rovnIg85k?si=NZxuz7VqM4GjKaZp

MagicShel , to Ask Lemmy in What did you routinely fall asleep listening to as a kid and what does it for you now?

I had Episode 4 and maybe 6?

MagicShel , to Ask Lemmy in What did you routinely fall asleep listening to as a kid and what does it for you now?

It's not the soundtrack. It's like, the radio play or something. I can still hear the narration.

Vader grips the rebels throat

"We intercepted no transmissions. This is a consular ship. We're on a... diplomatic mission."

MagicShel , to Ask Lemmy in What did you routinely fall asleep listening to as a kid and what does it for you now?

The Star Wars audio cassette. No idea what it would do for me today, but I miss that tape.

Now I just listen to rain or ocean waves on Alexa.

MagicShel , to Programmer Humor in "Working with Gen AI" by Dandytoon

AI coding in a nutshell. It makes the easy stuff easier and the hard stuff harder by leading you down thirty incorrect paths before you toss it and figure it out yourself.

MagicShel , to Programmer Humor in "Working with Gen AI" by Dandytoon

I think there might be a lot of value in describing it to an AI, though. It takes a fair bit of clarity of thought to get something resembling what you actually want. You could use a junior or rubber duck instead, but the rubber duck doesn't make stupid assumptions to demonstrate gaps in your thought process, and a junior takes too long and gets demoralized when you have to constantly revise their instructions and iterate over their work.

Like the output might be garbage, but it might really help you write those stories.

MagicShel , to Selfhosted in Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

Well he specified static website, which rules out WP, but yes. If your host accepts posts (in the generic sense, not necessarily specifically the http verb POST) that raises tons of other questions, that frankly were already well addressed when I made my post.

MagicShel , to Selfhosted in Is it practically impossible for a newcomer selfhost without using centralised services, and get DDOSed or hacked?

DDoS and hacking are like taxes: you should be so lucky as to have to worry about them, because that means you're wildly successful. Worry about getting there first because that's the hard part.

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