Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@ClaraListensprechen4 What are you talking about? I never blamed your generation for anything my generation did.
As for picking cotton, no thank you. I'm too busy helping surgeons learn how to fix your old bodies.
You should be thanking us for creating the software you're using right now and for revolutionizing the shopping experience so you don't ever have to leave your home, and for truly on-demand entertainment in the form of streaming. Really think for a minute about what a pain in the ass it was always having to flip a record to keep the music going.
@ClaraListensprechen4 Uh, I am a millennial.
And, yes, Boomers broke a lot of the system. But we'll fix it once you guys get out of our way.
@ClaraListensprechen4 Some of us think new people bringing new cultures while helping us grow our economy is a good thing, rather than "hell". We welcome our immigrant neighbors and friends into the great American experiment.
And we'll keep building a better world for the next generation. You can be sure that Millenials won't be the last generation to have it better than their parents.
Mary Shelley's key contribution to the world was to teach us to name our monsters more interestingly than our scientists.
@Pat Well, yeah, but in this case, the movie is specifically about the follies of racism.
Ugh. Max/TCM added a 3-minute introduction "contextualizing" the racist language in Blazing Saddles to the beginning of the movie.
If you can't tell the racists are the bad guys in Blazing Saddles without some lady telling you, you probably aren't smart enough to be watching satire in the first place.
@aronow Or, instead of abandoning those of us who still live here, they can do what Disney did and stick around to fight back against the flood of bigoted retirees.
@alecui The problem with that is that ammo is pretty easy to manufacture. I know a few people who load their own rounds just to save money.
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@freemo It depends on the ammo you use. My .45 long colt weapons are caked with soot after one shot, but firing new 9mm rounds tends to be considerably cleaner.
You got a gun in chrome, right? Should be pretty easy to see. I'd expect visible soot in the receiver and barrel within 100 rounds. And for the guns you can't see it (i.e. black metal), you can smell it. Like rotten eggs.
@freemo There's probably no harm in that strategy.
But I would put it to you: If, god forbid, you found yourself in a situation where you needed to use a gun to defend your life, would you prefer to use one caked with soot, or one that's been cleaned and oiled?
The men who keep coming for James Bond know the value of a good mirror sheen on their rifled barrels.
Dear fellow #IT people. I know we all hate it when users give us vague error reports like "it's not working!".
But how often do you go out of your way to thank them when they get it right and send you an error message with a screenshot and reproduction steps?
If you don't do this already, I highly recommend starting ASAP. Even for the most technical users, it's helpful to perform this simple action as *positive reinforcement* for doing things right. Training users to be better at their jobs makes all of *our* jobs easier as a result.
But, as an added bonus, people seem to like being thanked! So, it also makes them like you more as a side effect ("oh, (s)he's not one of those grouchy IT people!").
@freemo There are a lot of factors, like whether you're using new ammo or reloads, how many you put through it in a session, etc.
If you're shooting two days in a row, do you need to clean in between? Probably not. But it's still good advice not to leave guns dirty for extended periods of time, and to err on the side of safety, as regular cleaning is necessary to the upkeep of any mechanical device, but that goes double for devices meant to regularly contain explosions without breaking.
It's disturbing how quickly journalists normalize this manchild just because he's rich.
@JonKramer @Pat Did you even read what you just linked? It supports my argument. It even explicitly says that at-will employment is often codified in employment contracts.
At this point, I have to assume you're trolling me and not arguing in good faith.
@JonKramer @Pat That's not what "at will" means.
@JonKramer @Pat The only businesses with employees who haven't signed contracts are lemonade stands and the employers of illegal immigrants.
@JonKramer @Pat You do know a collective bargaining agreement is an agreement to *modify* a set of existing contracts, right?
@JonKramer @Pat You think people were pouring concrete and getting paychecks without having signed employment contracts?
C'mon, man, your arguments are getting more and more divorced from reality.
@JonKramer @Pat Again, it's not about them quitting on you. It's about you quitting on them. Many contracts impose limitations and liabilities on the severing party for exactly these reasons. Uber would absolutely do the same to cover their own asses, and that has nothing to do with the employment status of their drivers whatsoever. A contract is a contract.
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
