Notices by sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net), page 2
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sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 22:38:39 JST sj_zero Anyone have any suggestions for good domain name providers who might support a dynamic DNS script? I obviously need something new now that godaddy decided to shut down their API...
And for people about to go "wow you're so stupid didn't you know godaddy is shit", I started using them 20 year ago and they were basically the first guys I found and they worked ok for me for most of those 20 years... -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 21:44:32 JST sj_zero Just finished the adventures of Tom Sawyer with my son, we just started the Hobbit.
I read Tom Sawyer in college and remember enjoying it, but it apparently was long enough ago that I forgot many of the plot beats so it was kind of like enjoying it again for the first time.
I've never been a fan of Lord of the rings or Tolkien -- not saying it's bad, rather than that I just was never a fan -- never had access to the books, and I was aware that the movies were very popular and highly regarded, but I ended up watching the trilogy one day with my brother, and it was like the super long director's cut where the last movie was like 7 hours long, and then probably just wasn't a good way to experience that movie. Regardless, I'm pretty interested in seeing how the book plays out. I've got a giant monstrous tome containing all three Lord of the rings novels for when he's a little bit older.
I think The Hobbit is 19 chapters, and as a general rule of thumb I try to do a chapter a week, so whatever I read next day assume I'll be starting it before the end of the year. I'm kind of giving bullfinch's mythology the side eye, apparently it's a really good mythology book. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:38:59 JST sj_zero The darkest Day in Canadian history.
I remember passing by the 8-ft tall sign that said "the land of rape and honey" and it brought me so much joy. But now, it's gone probably forever.
Truly dark days. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 20:21:26 JST sj_zero Even if taxes don't change, the inflation tax goes up every year for 2 reasons.
First, your wage loses X% of its buying power every year so if you don't get a wage increase you just lost X% of your earnings forevermore.
Second, higher wages are taxed at higher rates due to progressive taxation, so despite having the same buying power on your new wage you're taxed more.
Third, inflation causes nominal capital gains that aren't real. Let's say that you bought enough stock to buy a basket of goods in 1980. If you sell the stock, assuming it kept up with inflation it should buy the same basket of goods. The problem is that the number of dollars it takes to buy the same basket of goods doubled (even if you believe the "inflation has been 2% lie) so the stock doubled, and so now you owe taxes on a 100% gain, even though it didn't actually gain value. In that sense, inflation *is* a wealth tax because the government gets a cut despite your wealth not increasing. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 06:33:39 JST sj_zero Tbf, 2006 is right before the world ended, and it wasn't such a bad time. No good music had been released for about 5 years but we didn't notice yet. Right after the gfc is when things started to go downhill. By 2010 it was obvious that things were changing, and by 2015 the coffin was well and truly in the ground... -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 20:54:45 JST sj_zero The dummies who think they can take over our culture by sneaking into our video games don't realize that we don't buy the latest games because we have to, we buy them because we want to, and if they stop making games we want to buy, we'll just stop buying and play what we have instead.
I feel like this is one big reason we need to be fighting for DRM-Free games like on GOG, because if we don't control our games, we're effectively renting them and if the companies running the game stores decide it isn't profitable to keep letting us play them, they can very easily take that from us. Gaben probably wouldn't do that, but what about after he dies of old age and a bunch of idiots infiltrate valve? We'll get Half Life 3 starring Alyx Vance (sorry Gordon Freeman got killed in the intro) and steam will stop serving games with too low of a DEI score. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 18:55:04 JST sj_zero I feel like the worst part about Manhua is that you could read like 1200 chapters and then it's like "ok, you're caught up but absolutely nothing is even close to be resolved, see you next week!"
There's something to be said for stories with a complete narrative arc that tell you a story with a beginning, a middle, and an end. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 18:45:04 JST sj_zero [Admin Mode] Looks like we may have been having some connectivity issues for the past 12 hours or so. I'm not at home right now so I assumed it was due to my connection here being bad in general, so I didn't address it right away. This morning I still wasn't connecting so I was able to get it back up happily again. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 10:43:39 JST sj_zero I believe the numbering of "worlds" is a relic of the cold war, the first world being developed democratic capitalist countries, the second world being communism, and the third world being anything else. Today I think it would be undeveloped or underdeveloped nations, developing nations, and developed nations. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 01-Apr-2024 02:55:06 JST sj_zero Why must the Americans keep dropping nukes on Japan? -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2024 04:11:38 JST sj_zero And a week later the lady found the dog in bed with her best friend! Scandalous! -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 07:47:07 JST sj_zero I love these idiots "We need to be inclusive, so you're no longer included" -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 18-Mar-2024 10:40:33 JST sj_zero "What piece of information would you need to receive to change your mind?" is almost like "How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast yesterday?" for intellectuals. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Mar-2024 00:52:12 JST sj_zero Any plans on how to spend it all? -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Mar-2024 00:17:39 JST sj_zero In industrial maintenance, an important axiom is: "every time you walk up to a working machine and do maintenance to it, there's a chance even a great technician will break it". Therefore in order to achieve the greatest reliability in your equipment you must strive to find the right balance so you're spending the best dollars and spending the best time to deal with potential problems without introducing more problems as a result.
This concept came about on the Boeing 747 project because they needed to get higher reliability and it turned out that aircraft maintenance was dramatically over maintaining aircraft and causing more equipment failures. Today aircraft have orders of magnitude better reliability because they're doing the right maintenance instead of just more.
It seems to me that medicine is about 60 years behind the curve in this regard. We think more treatment is better, even if nothing is ostensibly wrong. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 19:50:02 JST sj_zero My favorite was during the pandemic they claimed was caused by the Chinese eating random animals they found, they suggested we should eat cicadas we found on the ground. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 11:29:33 JST sj_zero That in freedom dollars? -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 11:28:58 JST sj_zero and it totally worked! Last week it was downgraded to "flu"! -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Monday, 04-Mar-2024 11:28:56 JST sj_zero Honestly, that's exactly what I was thinking. Everything that happened was absolutely terrible and never should have happened, but the entire world is changing thanks to what they did -- and at least for now I have hope that it's for the better. -
sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 11:53:14 JST sj_zero Quiet night tonight, so I'm finally gluing bookmark ribbons into my big books. They're so nice to have when you're reading over a really long time.