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2019-04-05 at 5:38 AM UTCof this entire forum.32
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2019-04-05 at 5:39 AM UTCEnough ALTemio.
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2019-04-05 at 5:40 AM UTCSomething takes a part of me
Something lost and never seen
Every time I start to believe
Something's raped and taken from me from me
Life's gotta always be messing with me (You wanna see the light)
Can't they chill and let me be free (So do I)
Can't I take away all this pain (You wanna see the light)
I try to every night, all in vain, in vain -
2019-04-05 at 5:43 AM UTC
Originally posted by aldra That's more or less how I got started… Honestly I feel like I don't care a lot about IT in general anymore given the way things are going and don't really know what else to get into given I've done years of linux/sysadmin/programming work.
I actually am not entirely certain what it is that you do exactly, but I do know that you know your stuff tech-wise, and I remember we had a brief talk about like squeeze functions in one-way hash methods like sha and all that... Or some kind of talk about it. But those algorithms they use are pretty intense.
Originally posted by aldra yeah, the concept itself is useful for decentralised tracking but it's being shoehorned in everywhere because it creates a new industry for training, certification etc.
There are tons of legitimate use cases for both public and privatized blockchain data storage... The problem is that the people that truly understand how that provides any kind of monetizable business value, and those that are in charge of selling the idea to other companies... It's a thinly overlapping Venn diagram. -
2019-04-05 at 5:45 AM UTC
Originally posted by gadzooks I should have done the same in my own case.
I fall fast into "love", and she slept with my that night, so I was kinda hooked on her.
She only got worse…
Even at the hospital that night, she threatened to accuse me of giving it to her forcibly.
yeah, some sketchy manipulative bitch trying to run a game on somebody seems to be something to look out for I suppose. Thats how it comes off to me the more I think about it.
...and yet I still feel like calling her back -
2019-04-05 at 5:45 AM UTCHey you could make my word cloud. It's not like you've promised to 90 fucking times already.
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2019-04-05 at 5:51 AM UTC
Originally posted by mmQ Hey you could make my word cloud. It's not like you've promised to 90 fucking times already.
Ok, first things first, have I told you about my broken HD?
I had to make a day trip out to downtown Vancouver... It's $1500 to recover the data, and takes until the 12th of April.
THEN, there's the issue of transient addicts flooding my domicile...
THEN, there's my dwindling chequing account balance and piling bills...
THEN, a bunch more stuff...
The other night, while in Vancouver, I met up with a friend... I witnessed a domestic situation that was awkward as fuck... plus, my friend's girlfriend basically #MeToo'd an old friend from high school...
Like, I feel like there's some kind of conspiracy targeting me right now with really fucked up shit I'm just not prepared to handle. -
2019-04-05 at 5:54 AM UTCLike, my friend's girlfriend (of nearly a decade... they have a seven year old daughter)... broke down into tears and said she was raped way back when...
So, naturally, my friend (her boyfriend) and I inquire as to who it might be...
It turns out it's my best friend going back to grade 8.
The guy is married with two kids now... Like... She can't be serious.
None of this makes sense.
But her tears seemed pretty real.
This whole #MeToo thing is just an absolute cluster fuck. -
2019-04-05 at 5:55 AM UTC
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2019-04-05 at 5:56 AM UTCWell gadzooks, sounds like your life is pretty fucked at the moment. Wish I had some meaningful advice, but about all I can come up with is shunning your responsibilities entirely and exploring our wonderful country. There's a lot to see. Have a car? Drive up to the arctic circle. See the northern lights. I don't know. Sounds like you need to make some kinda pilgrimage at least. Any chance of moving to a new city? A new province? Pretty good escape tactic. Wish I could tell you something more helpful. :/The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-04-05 at 5:58 AM UTCGetting rid of the transients can't be that hard right?
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2019-04-05 at 6:01 AM UTC
Originally posted by HTS Well gadzooks, sounds like your life is pretty fucked at the moment. Wish I had some meaningful advice, but about all I can come up with is shunning your responsibilities entirely and exploring our wonderful country. There's a lot to see. Have a car? Drive up to the arctic circle. See the northern lights. I don't know. Sounds like you need to make some kinda pilgrimage at least. Any chance of moving to a new city? A new province? Pretty good escape tactic. Wish I could tell you something more helpful. :/
I used to always go to Ottawa to live with my Dad, but I dunno if I can do that anymore. He's trying to retire somewhere in Western Quebec with his new wife.
In fact, my mom brought the suggestion up this morning.
If I had a vehicle, I would hit up Kelowna, Hope, or Victoria (all in BC) in a second.
I'm working on the vehicle angle.
I also wrestle with feeling unproductive if I run away so abruptly for any significant stretch of time.
I tend to put myself into these impossible dilemmas where I want the benefits of an escape without the disadvantages of any productivity-downtime. -
2019-04-05 at 6:02 AM UTC
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2019-04-05 at 6:02 AM UTC
Originally posted by HTS Well gadzooks, sounds like your life is pretty fucked at the moment. Wish I had some meaningful advice, but about all I can come up with is shunning your responsibilities entirely and exploring our wonderful country. There's a lot to see. Have a car? Drive up to the arctic circle. See the northern lights. I don't know. Sounds like you need to make some kinda pilgrimage at least. Any chance of moving to a new city? A new province? Pretty good escape tactic. Wish I could tell you something more helpful. :/
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2019-04-05 at 6:03 AM UTC
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2019-04-05 at 6:05 AM UTC
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2019-04-05 at 6:08 AM UTCthread has prompted me to restart some (h)arduino projects
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2019-04-05 at 6:08 AM UTC
Originally posted by gadzooks They're like boomerangs. No matter how far I toss them in any given direction, they return as though it's just another normal day and they've never been here before for the night (let alone a dozen nights).
You like them there otherwise you wouldn't complain about it. You like it. Whether you think you do or not. If you truly didnt like homeless people living with you (hah that sounds funny [homeless people living in a home]) you wouldn't allow it. I know you dont like to say no but if you really hated it youd find a reason to say no. But NO
you're fucking social and like talking to people even if you dont think you do. I let one "homeless dude" stay at my place one night once and the next day I went to work and all I was thinking about was how I was gonna have to tell him to leave. My anxiety goes through the roof.
What I'm saying is you have good traits that you maybe subconsciously play off as bad traits. -
2019-04-05 at 6:09 AM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-04-05 at 6:12 AM UTC
Originally posted by Nil It's valuable but it doesn't need to be done now does it? the data can wait.
Well, it was a mixture of stuff...
Some of it sentimental (I lived in Kelowna last summer, and have no evidence of that trip, photographic or otherwise, until that data is recovered).
I also had some programming projects where I was brainstorming/ideating, and even writing some pseudocode and so on, that is still on that drive.
Take it all, and factor in the OCD aspect where it just plain feels like a piece of my brain is missing... and the $1500 ain't no biggie (all things considered).
It's a shitty set-back, for sure, but I am extremely relieved that it's almost certainly recoverable.
