Posts by Lanny

2015-06-27 at 10:35 PM UTC in Moving to different forum software

Lanny Bird of Courage

I doubt anyone cares but I've been doing a little work on the code (none of this plugin nonesense, editing the files directly, I want the full spaghetti code experience in a few months) and whatever functional issues vB5 might have the code actually isn't too bad. It's kinda ponderous, partly because the code style and part because there's no separation between validation and intended action (like new thread validation is largely done in the function that makes new threads) which is kinda surprising considering the amount of infrastructure there is in this codebase (custom XML parser, they even have their own string class lol, it's like all the fun of C++ with none of the performance or gnarly language features). But in spite of that they've done a pretty good job of keeping the code path clear, not doing anything too tricky, passing data rather than behaviour. Honestly it's better than vB4 is in that respect.

2015-06-27 at 10:07 PM UTC in Test thread

Lanny Bird of Courage

test123

2015-06-27 at 9:56 PM UTC in Whats with all the fireworks tonight

Lanny Bird of Courage

test post 2

2015-06-27 at 9:53 PM UTC in Whats with all the fireworks tonight

Lanny Bird of Courage

test post

2015-06-27 at 9:37 PM UTC in Whats with all the fireworks tonight

Lanny Bird of Courage

BevMo sent me an email advertising kegs for the 4th. If they had a better ad team they'd realize trying to sell me a keg is pretty dumb. They should totes hire me to fix that shit.

2015-06-27 at 9:20 PM UTC in Posts that quote me don't get updated to New Posts

Lanny Bird of Courage

I think this should be fixed on the new topics link now.

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.

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