brianary

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[–] brianary@startrek.website 19 points 3 months ago

Give it time. Soon enough he'll hire a reputation management company, shave his beard, show up for Dancing on the Stars, then SNL will put him in a sketch as Waluigi.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget the burned monkey testacles

[–] brianary@startrek.website 10 points 3 months ago

I love living in Washington. But I i fear the backlash as Inslee finishes his last term. He's been a great, green governor, but absolutely vilified for it by the right.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And yes, taking less profits to distinguish your product as a prestige brand is fairly common.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even load-balancing multiple servers in a homogenous network, where patches are only deployed in phases is better (and a best practice) than what, to outside observers, appears to have been everything going down due to a mass update everywhere, all at once.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How precise is this translation?

I've also heard "From many, one", which can be taken two ways: the same celebration of the individual (presumably over other individuals), or that the many come together as one, which is a much clearer call to action.

I prefer the Voltron version.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Two big assumptions here.

First, multiple business systems are already being supported, and the OS only incidentally. Assuming double or triple IT costs is very unlikely, but feel free to post evidence to the contrary.

Second, a tight coupling between costs and prices. Anyone that's been paying attention to gouging and shrinkflation of the past few years of record profits, or the doomsaying virtually anywhere the minimum wage has increased and businesses haven't been annihilated, would know this is nonsense.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Air rifles are a pretty different type of gun.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 22 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's that in Trusses?

[–] brianary@startrek.website 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wow, no.

When people forget to vote or are disenfranchised or are too distracted or were tricked into really inane rationales, this is what "the system" thinks about you:

"I don't think about you at all" meme

[–] brianary@startrek.website 7 points 4 months ago

I played multiplayer Tetris frequently.

When you get lines, your opponent's stack pushes a line with a gap up from below, except when you get a Tetris, which pushes four lines (with the gap aligned, so you could Tetris back and forth).

You had an indicator for the max height of your opponent's stack next to yours.

Great game.

[–] brianary@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

At the height of the pandemic, I was admitted to a hospital after a worse one had sent me home. I was delirious with pain, and was allowed no visitors. Once I got pain meds, I was confused from them. I couldn't eat or drink anything, including water. It took them a week to determine that I needed my gallbladder out (some shortage with their nuclear medicine unit), and by then I was apparently also septic. Due to a mixup with my pain meds, it took an extra day to get into surgery. I missed giving the elegy for my father in law, and the whole episode is just a fuzzy kaleidoscope of pain. This was one year after fighting for days to get a kidney stone removed surgically, only to wake up in recovery with another one that no one would believe me about for another week, then having a stent for a month.

I can fully understand jumping out a window in desperation.

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