If you think someone is a piece of shit just because you perceive their life to be better than yours, and they relate to your friends more than you do, you’re the actual piece of shit.
SCOTT
When you get on an airplane, take Your backpack off and carry it by hand. You’ve got luggage on your back sticking out 12, 16 inches and you’re swinging it around like a brain dead fool.
The number of people that cluelessly hit people in aisle seats, shove backpacks in the faces of aisle sitters as the wearer turns to to talk to friends or tries to remember their alphabet and how to count while looking for their seat is ridiculous.
Take your backpack off! You’re hitting people.
this applies for boarding/riding on public transit (bus, subway).
Use zip not tar.gz. I just lost 2GBs of data because the archive was corrupted out of nowhere :')
Only then do I find out that if a zip file id corrupted the damage is only done to one compressed file unlike tar where the damage affects everything after it.
Tar is just concatenated data so that an entire file structure can be written to tape. This means that your archive is recoverable provided that it gunzips fine.
I’ve used tar.gz for decades, and never had any dataloss because of it. Honestly, I think your issue is down to operator error, I’m afraid.
I don’t know. Maybe. I don’t know much about how either works. I got my info from this answer
This seems to be correct.
But a downside of this is that zip archives will be larger, possibly much larger, since there is no compression across files.
The actual lesson you should have learned was to use backups. If data isn’t backed up then you might as well pretend you don’t have it.
This archive was a backup :/ I was trying to restore the original after making some bad changes.
The actual actual lesson I should have learned is wait for the full archive backup to extract successfully before deleting the original and declaring the restoration done.
Still I will always have a (maybe irrational) fear of tar.gz now.
In case it isn’t obvious to readers, “tar” is literally shortened from “Tape ARchive”.
When traveling or going to a convention in the USA bring a surge protector for extra power outlets.
Put trash bags at the bottom of your trash can for efficient replacement.
The worst job I’ve ever heard of was back in Tenochtitlan where someone would go around in a canoe collecting human dung.
I wouldn’t mind a job going around in a canoe though
Depends on the weather.
Nice weather would be nice. Maybe inspecting irrigation ditches in a desert. Always sunny, paddling around those ditches all the time. And there’s dogs that need rides to various places via the canoe.
A friend of mine is a river rafting guide. On the trips, everyone poops in a big metal box. At the end of the week, she has to clean out the box. Sort of same deal. Raft instead of canoe and a different reason for carrying poop around, but don’t let your dreams be dreams.
Spend as much time as you can, with your aging loved ones.
A bicycle doubles your speed for the same effort as walking.
With jobs, there is no trade off between pay and atmosphere/nice environment. Bad employers pay bad and treat you badly. Good employers give you decent wage and also treat you well
With jobs, maybe. With careers, especially in STEM, you get lots of exceptions like extremely rewarding but low paying positions in academia, and tech companies that think they can just spend money instead of effort to fix their culture and broken hiring process.
I can relate to that last bit. There’s a reason for the phrase “golden handcuffs”.
I think I get the sentiment that OP is trying to make though, a lower pay isn’t likely to correlate with a better culture, it’s probably likely it is the inverse.
I agree with you in general, but in my industry, there are still lots of companies that buck this trend. Employers that pay competitively but have shitty toxic environments, and scrappy startups where the pay sucks but the vibe is great.
Still, the advice to not think of it as a trade-off intrinsic to companies is solid. You deserve good vibes and good pay from the same job.
Well, to be honest, not that I can think of at the moment.
I just wrote a post about getting your life stuff in order. Its really important
Always remember that this, too, shall pass.
Never cross anyone who has access to your toothbrush
2 Guys I know went on holiday, back in the day, disposable cameras etc. Had a great time with two ladies, all sorts happened. Came home, developed pictures, found one with the girls and their toothbrushes up their asses. They say it was a sick prank, knowing one of them well to I’m not so sure…
At any point in time the entire internet is one finger slip away from breaking or being hijacked.
How do we know it hasn’t already been hijacked
No one would publically disclose that if they did
And its easier to hijack the Internet than you think
You just need to poison the information that is avalible to manipulate the right audience to your end goal and people already do that
Just look into the “kochtopus” for example
https://dividednolonger.com/kochtopus/
https://prezi.com/5xzibopikc3a/ifgs-kochtopus-mapping-the-influence-of-koch-cash/
Now find similar groups to the kochtopus and see if they are interconnected with other groups
Find those and you’ll find the people who secretly hijack the Internet
What you need to dismantle are those groups
Help bring them into public knowledge so more people are aware of them
The more people are aware of them the more they will share
And the more people are aware of them the more these groups power will waver as people begin to become aware of their manipulation
I am talking more about finger slips than actual malicious intent. Like when Facebook broke themselves or when Turkey broke YouTube for the whole world for a couple hours.
There are ways of detecting it like using rpki to reject poisoned prefixes or BGPmon to track the origin of prefixes or as an after action use Ripe BGPlay to see how a prefix was rerouted.
At any point, someone could be thrown through a wall and crush the internet box (I am talking about that IT Crowd sketch - so good!:-P).
If you have recurrent anxiety-related chest pain and shortness of breath that has already been evaluated by a professional and conclusively determined to be non-cardiac in origin, here’s how differentiate the two for yourself going forward:
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Think about what your panic attacks usually feel like. I’m going to describe some common presentations, but ultimately you need to learn YOUR body and what YOUR panic attacks feel like. If something feels wildly different than usual, go get checked out again.
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Anxiety pain is usually stabbing, heart attack pain is usually heavy/crushing. (In women, however, heart attack pain is often jaw pain and indigestion).
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Anxiety pain and shortness of breath usually gets better with physical activity and getting your mind off the pain. Heart attack pain gets worse regardless, and extra worse with physical activity. So when in doubt, call or find a trusted friend, and tell them your location and that you’re pretty sure your chest pain is a panic attack, so you’re going to go on a walk or fold laundry or some other light physical activity and want them to shoot the shit with you. They will hopefully help take your mind off things, and if it turns out it is a heart attack, they can call 911.
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Make sure you don’t have GERD/indigestion/heartburn, and if you do, get it treated. Turns out that can actually feel exactly like a heart attack even to people who have had both, and it can actually be caused by stress/anxiety. I can’t tell you how many of my psych patients get passed off as simply anxious when their EKG is clear, and it turns out its GERD! Bonus protip: skim milk is the best drink (aside from water) for GERD because the calcium neutralizes the acid, but there’s no fat to be metabolized into more acid.
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Buy a plunger before you need one.
And if you didn’t follow this advice, soft PET plastic bottles make excellent plungers.
You can always use the poop knife before you need a plunger.
Make sure you buy the correct type of plunger.
Cup plungers are meant for sinks.
Flange plungers are meant for toilets.
I posted this on Reddit back in the day. Use a plastic bag if you don’t have the right plunger. Bad for the environment, good for unblocking clogs. Stick a toilet brush inside the bag, a bit of air is good. Secure the top with an elastic band or whatever, you can even use the bag handles tied. Shove it in the toilet and use it just like a plunger, the bag should form a full seal at some point, might take a bit of trying/wiggling but the bag will eventually get a seal because it is variable size/volume. If you are not getting the seal you need you can shove your hand in the bag, it’s nasty to some people but in honesty there is nothing touching your hand but the inside of the bag. You can force a seal this way. Now pull. Done. No need to call anyone.
Every time you pass through a door that locks, do this:
- hold the door open, not allowing it to close
- locate the key that opens that lock and hold it
- now let the door close
- let go of the key
The more you do this, the more it becomes a habit: you never let a locked door close unless you’re holding the key that opens it.
The fact that it’s physical touch and not just mental confirmation makes it stronger, and easier to program as a habit since you sort of build it into your body.
It’s just a mental trigger: PASSING THROUGH DOOR -> TOUCH KEY
Then sometimes you’ll be unconsciously reaching for that key to touch it, and you can’t find it, and you’re still holding the door open, and it just saved you from a major hassle of being locked out.
