Posts by Lanny

2015-06-27 at 9:10 PM UTC in I can't change my avatar

Lanny Bird of Courage

What image are you trying to use? vB was being niggertarded before about believing me when I told it where the imagemagick binaries were, built from source instead of out of apt and that seemed to satiate it but I may have dropped a flag or something for whatever format support.

2015-06-27 at 2:08 PM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

forgot my password and used 10 minute email to register. Lanny would you mind resetting my CountBlah pass and pming it to me?

Hmm, alright. There's the off chance you're someone else though so ima have to wait like a day to make sure there's no activity on the "CountBlah" account (if you were trying to get his account presumably the real article would post in that timeframe). Unless you can figure out some other way of establishing yourself as real.

2015-06-27 at 1:53 PM UTC in Something's wrong

Lanny Bird of Courage

Lol, while I'm certianly not going to kill myself over politics on a message board, arnox does have a point in that spectral acts all friendly with every new admin and it's only a matter of time before he finds something to latch on to after which it's "totse traitor this" "duck and dive that".

2015-06-27 at 9:13 AM UTC in What are you reading?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Reading Knuth, do you mean The Art of Computer Programming? If so, how are you reading it? Like page 1 book 1 and just powering through, or are you looking up specific algorithms that catch your fancy? The series is notoriously dense although I'll be honest, I haven't read a page since well before I was really qualified to understand any of it. So it may turn out to be more approachable than I remember (and perhaps than as described, most people in the field are inept after all so a representation of something as being "hard" or difficult to understand is generally best taken with a grain of salt in my experience.)

2015-06-27 at 9:04 AM UTC in What's your favorite 40 oz?

Lanny Bird of Courage

you know it blood, two of these bitches taped to my hands on a rooftop where it's attttt. Not really though, I'll do malt liquor if it's my only option but I'd rather even straight 80+ proof given the choice.

2015-06-27 at 8:59 AM UTC in Nice Job on the Site Lanny

Lanny Bird of Courage

Lol, I'll admit that fang made some bad decisions for sure, now that he can't ban me I'm fully willing to some of them were straight stupid. BUT I still think he was good as a poster (as distinct from being a mod), posted helpful shit in cooking related threads at least.

I meant to include this in my post above, but fuck it.

Isn't it a bad thing to admit that this forum software is cracked? Anyone who wants to fuck this place over can just report it to vbulletin. I wouldn't put it past fanglekai or one of his cohorts to do some passive aggressive shit like that.

I don't think jelsoft has given a shit about their IP in years. Worst case I can just shell out for a license or switch software.

2015-06-27 at 8:46 AM UTC in Starting a new deep web drugz forum/site.

Lanny Bird of Courage

I mean I would gamble at least small amounts initially on niggas I knew from totse/zoklet/whatever if they had drugs/RCs that I was interested in. First drug I ever bought on the internet was noopept from someone on zoklet. I definitely think there's a place in the world for a non-public market where both users and vendors were vetted but the hard part would be finding an appropriate mix of users (you need some vendors you personally know to be legit and then N times as many customers all of which you need to be fairly confident isn't a narc). If you open it up to just anyone then there doesn't seem to be any reason to go that route rather than the market that pushes thousands of customers through a day where reviews are abundant. On the other hand if some nigga I've been shitposting with for a decade is like "hey kids, wanna by some drugs" imma be like "sure blood, im down to try this shit".

feel blood?

2015-06-27 at 8:37 AM UTC in Charmed to meet you all

Lanny Bird of Courage

Sup Bill Krozby, welcome to the new shithole, same as the old shithole. On the down side I won't be sticking a special thread for you, on the up side I won't be merging all your threads because they make me feel insecure (or whatever reason they got merged for back on rdfrn).

I said I was done with the forums but fuck it I woke up at 2 am and have to wait several hours to drink, hey there.

Lol, I know that feel blood. It's strange, on the one hand it sucks when you can't have what you want but I swear when you're like waiting for something before you start drinking, and then it's done, that first drink tastes like way better. It's like with each sip all the worries of the world just melt away.

2015-06-27 at 8:32 AM UTC in Any wantreprenuers here?

Lanny Bird of Courage

There's definitely a lot of people that fit that description in my neck of the woods. I think Paul Graham was devastatingly effective in rolling a certain flavor of entrepreneurialism into mainstream programmer culture which tbh I resent a little bit. I have no problem with people wanting to start their own businesses and bring a new product to market. I came close to doing the same with a hobby project I was working on with a friend. But I think it has, in some sense, marginalized the fact that programmers primarily... write programs. Most of us have zero special access to market information, the only thing that makes this programmers-as-entrepreneurs image feasible is that there's a class of products that require programmers to build and some of us luck out in picking a good idea to go implement. But it seems to draw people who aren't interested in the craft of programming first but rather the more motivated sort of "idea people" who are in the field to make their product and retire or whatever. IDK, maybe that's just me being a curmudgeon but sometimes I wish a few more of my coworkers were interested in automata theory and compilers and a few less in building the next big social network.

2015-06-27 at 8:20 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition

Lanny Bird of Courage

Oh the stories I have. Would you believe me if I said he fucked me in the ass or would you think I was trolling?

You couldn't tell us you tied your own shoes this morning without us being suspicious that you were trolling blood.

2015-06-27 at 8:18 AM UTC in Do you think Sploo's parents considered abortion?

Lanny Bird of Courage

I've considered having sploo anti-aborted. Which is like, having his clone born or something. I guess.

2015-06-27 at 8:16 AM UTC in Last.fm thread

Lanny Bird of Courage

ITT: Post a 5x5 of the last 30 days and your last.fm handle. Collage generator at http://tapmusic.net/ . Nuff said.

LannyIsMyHandle

2015-06-27 at 7:54 AM UTC in Share Yr Github

Lanny Bird of Courage

It's also a graveyard of old projects or half-written projects that don't work anymore. Every once in a while I get an urge to groom my account, but nothing ever comes of it. God, I wish I was cool and had a cool project on there with like 10+ stars.

Oh man, I know that feel bro. My last commit was on May 13 and I have long runs of no activity (plus the most stars I have on a repo is 2 </3). Plus I have like a more than a dozen projects that are in various states of completion (most of them are at the "proof of concept, all interesting problems solved, lots of boring code before being a meaningful release" phase). I lament that both my last job and my current one don't use github. I'd have crazy month long streaks down if I could count commits on work projects, but I guess on the other hand not being able to count work projects does makes it a more useful overview to hiring managers or whatever. Not that I give a fuck for the moment since I'm in my current job for at least another 11 months, but it will become relevant after that.

Whatever state of disarray or sparseness you're at though I'd still be interested. It may just be silliness but I feel like I gain some meaningful insight into people when I read their code (people who write code with some level of regularity at least).

But regardless of if you want to share your profile or not, if you're interested in mine (again, not really edge-of-your-seat stuff, but is you interested in the same way I am it might be fun to glance at) I'll give you a link to mine since I don't think you're going to go and post my PI all over the place.

2015-06-27 at 7:30 AM UTC in What's for Dinner?

Lanny Bird of Courage

I've tried cooking before but I don't have the memory for ingredient amounts and temperature/timing stuff and I eventually got too frustrated with it, when I'm cooking with someone instructing and it all goes well that feels good.

For sure, I'm pretty bad with remembering stuff too. My computer is set up like 4 steps away from my kitchen and when I try a recipe for the first time I find myself walking back and forth multiple times for one ingredient lol. Having a recipe book in the kitchen or a recipe on a computer nearby (sometimes I take my laptop into the kitchen while being very careful not to dump food on it by accident) is a must IMO. The far more interesting part is in deciding on substitutions (which is an area where experimentation can be a bit risky but very rewarding when it pays off) and re-adjusting ratios of ingredients, especially spices, to meet your taste. I think the mark of a good cook is more in being able to taste a dish and decide if certain flavors are too strong or too weak than being able to memorize ingredients and quantities by heart.

Plus the meals I like aren't too difficult(boil pasta, put sauce and cheese on, bake for however long etc)

I mean, pasta is a food as much as anything else is. I'm no master chef but I think that if you cook pasta for yourself then you know how to cook. I mean maybe knowing one recipe isn't quite as impressive as someone who can make a dozen dishes out of sauce packets or whatever but if you can make a meal then you can cook in my book. I definitely think there's value in branching out, but then like I said in my second to last long winded rant ITT, I'm the kind of person who can't seem to be happy with the same meal time and again.

You were the one who convinced me to make an account on zoklet instead of just lurking, thanks for that.
I had an account on rdfrn but I wasn't around much at all because the place didn't seem as active, I didn't even know it had gone nuclear until a while after and I didn't know why it happened though I've since been enlightened.

Aww <3 u blood.

I'm not the one that decides if this place is active or not (although I obviously hope it is) but if you ever have a question or thread on a topic I might know something about (basicially just tech stuff, heh, afraid I'm pretty much a one trick pony unless you're interested in highly opinionated, analytic tinted views on a handful of philosophers) I'm happy to reply to the best of my ability, and if I miss a thread feel free to PM me.

2015-06-27 at 6:49 AM UTC in What are you reading?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Currently reading the first three Halo novels. I'm a big fan of the games so it's been enjoyable reading the novelizations which give more detail than the games cutscenes and narrations.

Lol, I remember seeing Halo books in stores when I was starting high school, even then I was far enough up my own ass to be like "novels based on video games are gayyyyy" even though I read like every one of the 12 or so resident evil novelizations in middleschool (each game had a book, some side characters in games got books, and there were fully original stories that took place between the games. It speaks to how bad the writing was that the books based on games were better than the original works). Anyway, how is it? Do the novels follow the game closely? I remember the games being like 2/3 fighting covenant and 1/3 flood, does the book stick to that? I feel like every level from when MC crash-lands to when you bust into the, uhhh, what was it? That ark? The thing where where there's a dead nigga in the room and you walk in and the door locks and those crawly niggas swarm you. Well that span of the game was just shootem up with basically zero plot, so one wonders who that translated to a novel. "Master chief fired a volley from his assault rifle at an elite, its shield ate most of the impact and it sidestepped behind cover. He sprinted parallel to their strong point in the rocks while his marines advanced and laid down suppressing fire. He flanked the covenant and threw a plasma grenade, sticking an elite and flushing the grunts from cover and right into the marines' suppressive fire" seems like it would get pretty tedious when it happens two dozen times between each plot point.

Anyway, I'm reading Camus' The Stranger. It's kinda ironic that this is supposed to be like the most edgy "nihilistic" (not really, obviously, but it gets taken that way) book but when I'm reading it I think the description of 30s/40s Algeria is so quaint that almost steals the spotlight from Meursault's "absurd struggle" and sociopathy. I'm not sure if that was intentional, to some extent it servers to put the reader in the narrator's shoes because you spend more time focusing on the inanimate objects and places so characters are reduced to less emotional significance (to the reader) than these passive things. I guess it was probably intentional.

2015-06-27 at 5:52 AM UTC in What's for Dinner?

Lanny Bird of Courage

I can't cook, probably going to have a frozen pizza or something.
Malice are you someone who works in the food industry or something? or is this your usual obsessiveness?

I'd suggest you try it. I couldn't cook until I started doing it. I mean I'm sure not everyone enjoys it, that's OK, but I think even if you don't see the appeal in it initially it's worth trying out because I didn't either and now I get a blast out of it (which is in addition to the health benefits of eating less prepared food). I'd suggest trying to cook one of your favorite dishes at restaurants or that you had when living with your parents or something. It surprises a lot of people (it did with me) that even novices can cook pretty "advanced" dishes. Now and then there are things where you have to resort to a diminished quality without specialty cookware but even then you can make very fancy dishes with really basic cooking stuff if you invest a little more time (as an example, I moved recently and last week I wanted to make a dish that included lime zest but I didn't own a grater/zester so I googled how to zest a lime with a knife. It takes a more time to do but if you're trying something out it's definitely worth it to try it the most minimal way to see if you're pleased with the results before optimizing with special equipment). I guess my point is to give it a try, if you don't like it at all then all you've lost is a half hour to a couple of hours of time which are pretty insignificant next to the fun that cooking can be in and of itself as well as the benefits it brings (good food, generally a healthier diet, bitches think that shit is romantic as shit).

P.S. Number13, mah nigga! Good to see you blood! You're one of my fav posters. Were you reg'd under a different handle on rdfrn or did you just make an appearance? Good to have ya around.

2015-06-27 at 5:29 AM UTC in What's for Dinner?

Lanny Bird of Courage

Same thing as always.

Do you really stick to that and just change meats and throw in beef liver regularly? Not even hating blood, I totally appreciate the asceticism, I've had really homogenous diets for spans of multiple months before and it's definitely beneficial in terms of having more time for other things and it's probably more healthy because when I eat a single dish for a full month or more I put more time into making sure it's well balanced but I could never keep it going for more than like ~12 weeks before I came to just really despise mealtime despite being really hungry so I'd end up eating lightly and then being really hungry the following day. I sometimes wish I had some super generic soylent green type nutrient I could consume as a totally neutral experience and prepare in less time than it took to eat but then I realize whenever I have something that approaches that (like a regimented homogeneous diet where prep takes a long time but yields enough food that I don't have to worry about prepping again for a week+) I just don't enjoy eating enough to make it a win in terms of time. I sorta wish I had whatever quality (probably autism, to be honest) that it takes to enjoy the same meal over and over but ultimately it seems like a sufficiently deeply ingrained desire for novelty/variety that I'll never be able to maintain an acceptable level of net-happiness without regular changeups in diet.

Lately I've been diversifying my diet a bit, cooking more (and to good effect I think), it definitely takes more time but I'm starting to enjoy the activity itself. Music and a little alcohol/recreational drug use beforehand helps a lot too.

The activity of making food itself is, as I'm sure you know, pretty uninteresting. Even when I was cooking beef bourguignon on a weekly basis, lighting a pot full of vegetables on fire is really only cool the first handful of times and then becomes old hat, but there's a certain rhythm to it that's pacifying.

A related story, but really only tangentially, took some 2-fma so this is probably unrelated ranting (but probably still interesting to you, malice, for psychoanalysis): When I was in high school there was this art class everyone had to take as this kind of lip service to whatever hippy population remains in california and insisted art not be cut from the curriculum. The guy who taught it was an old white guy, he was pretty quiet but just a really nice soul. He always maintained really strong eye-contact and I remember it making me uncomfortable (although it wasn't like he was staring me down or anything, he just looked at you really intensely), but his eyes always looked a little sad (on a side note, he once gave me a really expensive fountain pen and said, and this is a literal quote which has stuck with me even though I don't remember his name, "here, I trust you implicitly" and the way he looked at me just screamed so clearly that he fully expected me the ruin that pen but he was giving it to me anyway. Sometimes I think he knew I got that out of him and it was his way of making sure I didn't fuck with his shit but it just seemed so sincere I have a hard time doubting my recollection even in my most cynical moments.). Back them I was a hardcore STEM-fag so I was pretty dismissive to art in pretty much any form (except engineering, but then it was engineering and totally divorced from art in my mind), I thought it was just a class I had to take to get through to college, so I was like "whatever, I'll just do the assignments and be done with it". But on the first day he was like "you need 500 points to pass this class, each day you decide how many points your work was worth", and one dude drew a stick figure and was like "this is worth 500 point" and he was like "alright". I was a pussy and did some math and was like "I need to earn X points each day to be done by the end of the semester" and just wrote down X points each day regardless. BUT, since I had to sit in that class every day I still had to fill my time with something. The first few days I just talked shit with other niggas in the class, there was this black chick who was all up on my dick but I was like "nope" who I would spend the 60 minutes insulting and shit (it was cringeworthy, on both sides) but that got old mighty quick. So eventually I got bored and then one day was digging around the supplies room (which had all kinds of cool shit in it, 90% of it personally owned by art teacher bro) and came across a loom (and inkle look, to be specific) and art teacher bro gave me a book about using it (he also had a minor library of art books) and I was like "what the fuck, I'll try weaving". So that was a really long buildup to the point: I found that working on that loom while listening to music to be perhaps the most content I've ever felt in my life. It wasn't the ecstatic highs that I've felt from various accomplishments or intense euphoria certain drugs can bring on, but it was a kind of overall peacefulness and well being that was really profound. I don't know if it was some weird biological recall to an era where my ancestors who weaved survived better than anyone else or if the slow repetitive process induced some kind of quasi-trance or what, but the experience was intense enough that I remember it the better part of a decade later when I can't remember what I had for breakfast. Being naturally over-analytic, I can't do anything for more than a few minutes without backing up and asking "does this produce more per time-unit than I can at the highest paying job I hold" but there are these weird niche activities like weaving where I just don't feel the urge to do that calculation and I think it generally makes the process a sort of relaxed that I rarely feel. ANYWAY, lately when I've been cooking I feel a similar sensation of not being concerned about activity efficiency, like it's alright if it's not maximizing the use of my time, it's fulfilling in and of itself.

/rant

P.S. I'm totally gonna email that art teacher, haven't thought about him in a while, he was a trill ass nigga.

2015-06-27 at 4:35 AM UTC in Share Yr Github

Lanny Bird of Courage

haha, sure thing blood. Step one in lan lan's coding master class: never take anyone's programming advice, literally 100% of people giving you advice are either crotchety old faggots who think women these days are too promiscuous and men are too feminine or newly minted developers who think they know everything despite not having a line of code in meaningful production (or both) and god knows that applies to my advice too.

2015-06-27 at 3:35 AM UTC in Moving to different forum software

Lanny Bird of Courage

There has been a little grumbling about vB5, and I'll admit it has some annoying aspects. With time I think I'll be able to hammer most (although maybe not all) of them out but I just wanted to float the idea of a migration to something else (probably vB3 or 4 but if people feel passionately about something else we could try that too). It doesn't make a huge difference to me, I can hack shit onto the side of whatever we end up on. I haven't looked into what migration looks like yet but there are two main possible outcomes. One is that the DB is non migratable, or a migration is so involved that it's not feasible to do in a reasonable time-frame in which case I would have to dump the db, everyone re-registers, and threads and posts and such are toast. The other is that I can pull a migration script together and things like posts and accounts make the jump.

So I guess I just wanted to get a feel for where people are on it. I'm personally leaning towards not doing anything (partly because I'm a lazy cunt, but also because who really gives a shit about the software, we're not here for forum software), but if people have strong feeling on the matter I'll consider it. So I guess ITT, post if you think a change would be worth it in the dump-everything case and in the stuff-makes-it-over case and reasons or whatever.

2015-06-27 at 3:20 AM UTC in Share Yr Github

Lanny Bird of Courage

ITT: post your github profile or interesting projects. Just logged into github and noticed the only people I've collaborated with seriously in the past haven't done anything in a while. Could be fun to paw through some of yall's repos and vice-versa. Even if you don't have any super exciting projects (lord knows I don't) it could be interesting to see the code that goes with people's handles.

I'm going to be a bit of a hypocrite, since my GH username is my full real name I'll ask that other people post here or PM me and I'll link you off of the public boards.

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