Stupid movies, think Will Farrell and movies like Anchorman and Step Brothers.

I thought I was top shit in high school and college, that I was so much smarter than the average person and that my tastes were above the general public. Turns out I was just a douche.

Now I know that humans are not binary, that you can like two things for two different reasons. I can enjoy something serious like The Brutalist or The Whale, and then I can also enjoy something silly like Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (Seriously, you should go watch that, Rachel McAdams is amazing in it). It really simply depends on my mood and my emotions in the moment and what I want to watch.

I’ve also learned that the rating system is broken, because it pits movies that are polar opposites like that in direct competition, and there is no way to compare them. Apples and Oranges. But that’s a separate topic.

Being skeptical is fine, being accusatory with no proof is a jerk move.

Thank you! This is the part I was missing, and felt like I was blindly picking batteries. This feels much safer

I trust Batteries Plus, stupid question though, what do I search for? This is new to me, given that I have my APC model, how do I derive what I need from Batteries Plus?

Good move. Nothing kills a passion like working in the industry.

Monkey Paw Twist: We revert to Steam and wood energy

Agree, and I think it’s funny someone downvoted you because that’s always been the case, AI didn’t change that. It’s just now we’re seeing the next evolution and we’ll see who sticks around and who doesn’t.

This is the only sane answer here, and it makes sense because of the sentiment on Lemmy.

There is one constant rule about software engineering. You must be adaptable. The career is ever changing, you need to be okay with that. I think a lot of people right now are finding out that if they dig in their heels they think they’re making a point, but the company doesn’t care, there’s the door. AI is just another change in the career. Adapt, or be left behind.

The job isn’t the same as it was 5 years ago, which also was different than it was 10 years before that, and then 10 years before that. I’ll say this is a large change, but that’s the job.

I think the biggest thing is there’s no room for “I’m a react engineer” anymore. Everyone needs to be everything, and it means learn as much as you can as fast as you can. You must be a “T-shaped” engineer. Wide breadth, with specific deep knowledge that makes you stand out. You can be an expert at react, but should also know how to code in the backend, and how to deploy, how to work with APIs, some basic cloud architecture. If you’re not learning, you’re falling behind.

Ok great, thanks for sharing.

ZFS works best for drives of the same size. It is possible to do multiple drive sizes, but it’s pretty tedious. Mergerfs is a clear winner when you have many varying sizes of drives and are okay with the speed tradeoff

I rinse off anything that could be a blocker in the filter, and if there’s something really bad like dried egg yolk I’ll let it sit and soak for a bit before scraping. Other than that, I let the soap handle it now.

Relevant Technology Connections.

Spoilers if you somehow haven’t seen it - if you’re using fancy pods, you’re over paying by not just 10x, but more like 50x what you should be on dishwasher detergent.

They’ve been anti-open source for a while, they clearly don’t see a profit motive without killing off their open source side. Anyone selfhosting or into open source should consider MinIO dead, and migrate. Hopefully someone forks it.

Yes. I grew up that way. In the rural midwest, raised by a single hyper religious mother who probably has some sort of mental thing. She just completely turned herself off from pop culture. I think the latest movie she watched was made in the 60s, and I was born in the nineties. I grew up not knowing any movies, movies stars, music, or anything.

It hurt me deeply because all of my friends would talk about new movies and their favorite actors, and I had to learn how to fake it. They would say did you see so and so and I’d chuckle like I knew who they were talking about.

I remember one birthday asking her for movies, just any popular movies, I didn’t even know what to ask for. She got me three, and I remember the newest made one was Tora Tora Tora! Admittedly a decent film, but I was so hurt by it, made decades before my time. What middle school friend would want to come over and watch it with me?

Only as an adult did I realize it wasn’t anything like age ratings or holding me back for religion, she truly had shut herself off from the world. She wants absolutely nothing to do with the world. When I got into Lord of the rings finally I watched the films, and read the books cover to cover multiple times and loved them. I carried them around school, had every line memorized (and still watch them annually). I wanted so badly to share them with someone, and asked her so many times to watch them with me, but she never once did. Doesn’t even know the plot.

Eventually I just gave up. Christmas a couple years ago I had pirates of the Caribbean on in the background just while cooking and she asked us to turn it off because it was “too scary”. I didn’t know how to respond to it. I just… Turned it off. She then sat playing on her phone while we all just did things quietly.

When I met my now spouse we started watching everything. I watched braveheart and gladiator within the last couple of years. Big film buff now, and love following actors careers and comparing performances. Its a ton of fun!

I’m apathetic towards my mother for a lot of reasons, but I don’t think she fully knows how much she hurt our relationship with it. There’s a lot more, but you have to show an interest in what your children like. She didn’t. If she didn’t understand it or she if it didn’t involve her, she would walk out of the room. Now she wonders why we don’t get together often, or why I don’t talk much to her. I’ve gone to sewing things with her, quilting, other things trying to reach out to her and express interest in what she likes, but it never went reciprocated, so the branch has withered.

She’s always welcome for movie night though.

Thanks for reading

You’re just writing case over and over.

CASE!

my favorite is their mumps episode

Also the Florida episode.

I do live heavy weighty breasts

Just researched B99 and he had so many great moments, and he was absolutely perfect in the role. I read this thread thinking on each name “yeah him, felt sad about them”. Andre here though, yeah that hurts deep

The few things he got to do were all spectacular. Fuck Chrysler for making the shitty vehicle that ended up killing him.

I haven’t heard that term in decades and I immediately recognized it. God so stupid, and so brainwashed I was

I admit, I have no idea what the mirror is for

I remember one of those videos which more or less boiled down to “the human eye is so complex that there is no way that it couldn’t have been created.”

Wasn’t until I was older that I thought, hey wait a minute. Other animals see way better than us, and there are many animals that see worse kind of proving the whole trial and error thing, and then you also realize we need corrective lenses because our vision fails and there are cataracts and lazy eyes and colorblind and then blind people. Maybe it’s not such perfect creation after all but instead a bunch of trial and error over millions of years

Soon as you start thinking like they do its already over. I went down that path. It’s a looooong road to get back out. Male lonliness epidemic is by and large self inflicted.

I don’t understand, I think of them as lesser, judge them, get angry at them for not being like pornstars, and yet no one wants to date me!

Self reflection time for all of them.