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Thanked Posts by Lanny

  1. 2018-10-14 at 6:22 AM UTC in Do you regret not joining the 27 club?
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by HTS I'm ancient. ;_;

    I look like shit. I need to get something done with my hair but I'm afraid to go in and ask for something cute because I'm so ugly.

    I'll cut your hair for you babe.

    Actually on second through I won't because I'm bad at it and I want to see you with a cute haircut.

    Hair salons are staffed by depressed people who didn't know what to do with their lives whose dreams deadened in an oversaturated service industry. They aren't good enough to judge you.
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  2. 2018-10-09 at 6:57 PM UTC in no hot topics?
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Hmm, I'll put it on the list. I don't think there's any good way to do it for mobile devices, but you could probably do some query for them once and cache it pretty aggressively so it wouldn't cost too much.
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  3. 2018-10-13 at 9:38 PM UTC in Bring back TSTM
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by Sudo Where the fuck is the gmail account? I can only find the @niggasin.space account

    Oh sorry, I took it down when I set up the NiS one. It should be up now.
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  4. 2018-10-13 at 7:51 AM UTC in Bring back TSTM
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    I decided on a policy. I'll accept a $20 payment to TSTM your account if you'd like, subject to the usual caveats. You can send money via paypal to the account tied to my gmail account, if you care you can figure out which account that is. Your $20 payment will be donated to a charity, it's called "GiveDirectly" and operates by making direct cash transfers to some of the poorest people in the world. In exchange for your proxied donation, I'll "TSTM" your account. This is now how TSTM works.

    If you don't give enough of a fuck about getting your account anonymized that you won't fork over $20 then your problem isn't worth my attention. If you think I'm going to pocket the cash then fine, I don't really care if you make a decision to do something good because you think you're being extorted or from good intentions.

    So let it be written, so let it be done.
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  5. 2018-10-13 at 7:42 AM UTC in We kinda got to resurrect Totse (the text files)
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by HTS Lanny will probably shutter this site the first time he gets subpoena'd over the forum, and that's understandable. He's risking a lot as it is. No reasonable person would shoulder the risk of publishing highly curated user content that could reasonably be argued to be published by the host.

    To get section 230 protection you'd probably have to run it like a wiki or something, and even then… it's going to bring unnecessary and unwanted law enforcement attention.

    I have no obligation to fight a subpoena on anyone's behalf and as always, you should assume I won't, but the story I'll tell you is I won't close shop after being served a subpoena. You should assume any information that's ever been available to me as administrator as NiS should be considered to have been made available to law enforcement, but I don't make any promise that I will or won't terminate service after receiving a subpoena. I'll tell you the story I'd like to put forwards is that I'll make that decision on the basis of continued service potentially leading to further immoral breach of privacy or not, but don't take my word.

    In any case, section 230 protections are pretty much irrelevant in the context of text files. I won't ever publish content as text files (like as distinct from forum posts) without personally reviewing it, and I won't publish illegal content, so I don't need section 230 protections on that. For what it's worth I built some simple CMS code into ISS to support some other features and I've been contacted by posters before about publishing text files. My position remains the same, I'll publish novel textfiles (or BBCode files) if anyone wants and their files don't break the relevant laws of my jurisdiction. To be honest the main reason we don't host text files here is no one actually submits text files. If someone wants to put forward so much content that my simple CMS doesn't support it well I can expand pretty quickly at that point. The reality is that, as far as I've been able to tell, no one has anything to say that makes sense to present as part of NiS content.
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  6. 2018-10-12 at 5:54 PM UTC in 2pacs of eminems cost 50 cent thats ludacris & can i have my nickelback?
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    some real high quality content going on here.
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  7. 2018-10-12 at 7:31 PM UTC in Unban Scron
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by vindicktive vinny idk.

    must have accidentally stepped on his tail.

    That's my long schlong, but I see how you could mistake it for a tail
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  8. 2018-10-12 at 7:22 PM UTC in The Retarded Thread: Sploo Needs Attention
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    work from home fridays more like get high and play videogames all day fridays yeee
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  9. 2018-08-29 at 6:25 PM UTC in Is college really worth the cost? Finishing with five and sometimes six figure debt?
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    University education historically was not concerned with professional training, it should surprise no one that it isn't ideally suited towards that end. What should surprise us is that the misguided middle class idea that college education is supposed to come with a promise of future employment seemed to hold up for so long.

    Also the reason student loans are not forgiven in bankruptcy is because almost everyone graduating college has no assets. If it was most reasonable people would just default on their loans the second they graduated, the repayment rate would be so low no institution could break even on offering student loans.
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  10. 2018-09-13 at 4:57 AM UTC in Hannah Hays, possible retard, can no longer get work
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by RisiR † I don't get what's wrong with her getting fucked on cam even if she's a bit retarded.

    It's not like she's a drooling vegetable. Plus she's hot as fuck and has a pretty pussy. Win-win for everyone.

    For me it's about what her options are. Like what is she going to do if she decides porn is too degrading? Or when she can't do porn anymore? Do you think she's managing her earnings responsibly so that she'll be able to retire when she can't work in that industry anymore? She specifically said she doesn't have any real friends, that she had to be taken to a hospital for an anxiety attack after a shoot. And of course there's the prevalence of drugs in that industry. Can you really say her life has a upward trajectory?

    Like I'm sure there are plenty of perfectly intelligent and competent women in porn that understand that they have a shelf life in that industry and they're making an informed tradeoff of shorterm earnings vs. long lasting earning potential, or semi-pros who have other means of support. But that's not what I'm getting from Hays. To me it looks like a girl that's not the brightest without anyone in her life who actually has her best interest at heart.
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  11. 2018-09-12 at 10:37 AM UTC in Hannah Hays, possible retard, can no longer get work
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    This makes me feel kinda bad about porn, like I think we all know it's exploitive, but you don't have to think about it as long as you don't have retarded southern girls talking about their mental illness.
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  12. 2018-10-09 at 6:47 PM UTC in New Linux Kernel Root Access Exploit (Mutagen Astronomy)
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by PrettyHateMachine The jedis are trying to sabotage Linux
    First they were going to pay someone for finding a backdoor exploit into Linux, then they get Linus to leave and have a tranny to ruin the ecosystem for developers.
    It's obvious who is behind this.
    The jedis are moving towards a future completely saturated by the net and a kernel and operating system not controlled by them is their number one threat.
    Not to mention Microsoft is moving towards an always online operating system as a subscription style setup.
    We must fight this war and help Linux by any means, even if it means actual bloodshed.

    Holy fuck you're retarded.
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  13. 2018-10-10 at 8:34 AM UTC in I'm a Bad Parent
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Dargo is now in the difficult position of deciding if he can be fucked to go out and buy a child's shirt in order to win some bonus points on this trolling attempt. It's a tough one, but now that you can avoid the public shame of being a single guy buying children's clothing alone and online ordering is a thing I'd say it's within the realm of possibility that we'll get a pic.
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  14. 2018-10-10 at 7:11 AM UTC in I'm a Bad Parent
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Tommy is so fake lol
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  15. 2018-10-09 at 10:24 AM UTC in What are you drinking tonight?
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Been having moscow mules lately. Not usually into vodka drinks, usually my vodka reserves go towards bunch-time bloody marrys and not much else. Went to a place a while ago that added a lot of bitters to it and the taste was actually pretty dank, the anise in the bitters went well with the sweetness of the gingerale, so I've been playing with the mix and have something I like. Probably going to get too cold for them before long.
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  16. 2018-10-10 at 12:19 AM UTC in Unban cup of cheer
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by Ghost Wow, talking to cupofcheer on PM's she's actually pretty cool lol, I like her as a poster even more now.

    She's concise and chill and trolled Lanny into banning her.

    🔥

    I'm glad she's enjoying her success in trolling. I sure hope she doesn't stay gone for longer than a week, cuz that would be a really good way to troll me. Really get one over on me by never posting again. I HOPE THAT DOESNT HAPPEN.
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  17. 2018-07-04 at 5:38 AM UTC in Hey Sophie and other techs
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by Madman You made a post saying you had alot of resources for different things and I saw some things about python and I was hoping I could get everything you've got about python. I've worked as a tech before but never learned any programming. I've heard that if you know your stuff you can get a job without a degree, is this true? I don't really know what language to start with but I've heard that python programmers are in demand so that seems like a good of a spot to start as any.

    You can get a job without a degree. Historically self-learners have been well respected among programmers and generally considered to be completely capable of competing with degree holders. Often because the norm for a number of years was that degree holders had programming experience before entering college and considered themselves self-learners at heart. There's various stereotypes of scrappy kids teaching themselves to code, being "unpolished" but smart, good and bad but I think it worked in your favor in general if you knew what you were doing.

    The advent of "bootcamps", non-accredited and highly condensed programs somewhat reminiscent of trades schools, have muddied the waters somewhat. I think one criticism of the bootcamp phenomenon is that it's made the situation for actual self-taught programmers more difficult since non-degree holders are now split between some official training (with no promises as to quality) in the boot camp case and no official training. Instead of being viewed as a kind of parallel path to professional programming, self-teaching is now the bad end of a spectrum of certification (unfairly, if you ask me).

    That said I still think you can make it as a self-taught programmer, you just need a bit more hustle than you used to.

    If I spent 10-20 hours a week learning do you have any idea how long it would take before I would be able to handle anything an employer could throw at me?

    You're never going to be able to put a good timetable on learning. Even in colleges where there's a formal scheduled curriculum there are people who could work as professional programmers their freshman year and people who graduate without being able to really put together a program. 20 hours a week is a lot, 10 hours a week is probably still a lot. I don't think most people can stomach that much of practicing something they're garbage at (and everyone's garbage when they start, naturally). You sometimes hear two years of regular practice tossed around, but no one seems to have any particular evidence for that number. It does seem uncommon to find someone who can go from no experience to being a reasonably competent professional in under a year. It was probably two years for me between starting to program seriously and realistically being able to hold down a job, although I was lucky to have a job I didn't really know how to do where I was allowed to learn as I went.

    There's lots of resources for learning to program, which you choose really doesn't matter too much. I do like to plug How to Think Like A Computer Scientist. It's a bit of a difficult pitch to people looking to learn since what you think you want to learn is python. But actually you want to learn programming, and this book will do both for you although its title suggests neither.

    The reason I suggest it over the many other excellent introductory resources on Python is because it goes through language constructs a sequence that's "natural" in that they reflect complexity and dependence of ideas within the language. That probably doesn't sound very meaningful, but contrast it with the typical approach where an author sits down and says "I want the reader to be able to do X by the end of the book", they think "they need Y and Z to do X, so we have to include chapters on Y and Z before the chapter on X" and repeat the process for Y and Z until they run out of topics. On the other hand TLACS asks "what's the smallest next thing you can learn exhaustively from what you know right now". The downside is that the very first chapter is a somewhat painful discussion of the expression/statement distinction which is something you typically handwave around until it becomes relevant to do the big X the book is building up to. The upside that you as a reader can go off-script and not get bitten in the ass by previously hand-waved material. There's also the fact that the exercises don't treat the reader like a retard who's terrified of math, which is always a plus.

    I think the closest analogue is probably The Little Schemer which is an absolute hidden gem of computer science education which has tragically fallen out of fashion half because no one likes scheme anymore for some reason and half because the socratic method sews the seeds of social upheaval.

    Originally posted by esbity The best way to learn Python is to Learn Python the hard way.

    Putting the fact that Shaw is an asshole, I think there are some real flaws with LPTHW. The biggest being that it's woefully unambitious, it's not a small resource and the capstone project is a textmode adventure game. Shaw handwaves a bunch of stuff and, at least the last time I looked at it a few years ago, it was downright deceptive in how some of the more subtle language constructs operate. You can tell he's far more comfortable as a C programmer than in Python, which is curious seeing as he decided to write his python book before the C one (I have no idea how LCTHW turned out)
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  18. 2018-10-08 at 2:45 AM UTC in This site needs a female admin and an admin of color
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    It looks like we have a new candidate in the mix:


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  19. 2018-10-05 at 10:29 PM UTC in New damming accusation against Kavanagh
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    Originally posted by Speedy Parker It's scary how brainwashed your generation is.

    It's scary how you can't imagine people disagreeing with you unless it's because of brainwashing.

    Originally posted by Archer513 “Wipes ass with constitution”

    Is a bit far.lol.

    The constitution (the document) is basically bones. It’s been filled in over time with interpretation and precedent.

    No illegal search and seizure…

    The precedent is clause for imminent danger. As in:
    - -finny grabs your mom,pulls her In a building,begins to vigorously rape her (or your dad)-

    The imminent danger clause allows for police to enter the building without warrant or identifying ownership to save Mom (or dad) from finny’s Disgusting cock.

    I believe that was the guise and precedent used for the patriot act. It was partisan and a slippery slope,there were guidelines and checks and balances for it. I remember that Time vividly, and ppl were scared shitless. It was really about Muslims,but of course had to be more larger scope due to the liberals crying racial profiling (same reason us white ppl and our grandmas get “random” searches at the airport,instead of dudes names Mohammed)

    I remember reading various papers from different constitutional scholars on the subject at the time (it’s been a while) might have to revisit those.

    I wonder if kav wrote anything?

    Has the patriot act every been used in an "imminent danger" situation? Obviously the point was that the spying that was conducted under that patriot act needed to be conducted without warrants because there was not probable cause and spying on political opponents is difficult to dress up as anti-terrorism when it has to go before a court, not because the spying had to be conducted to prevent "imminent danger".

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  20. 2018-10-05 at 5:29 PM UTC in We have a moral obligation to feed LanLan's meat to Zanick
    Lanny Bird of Courage
    The realest of men have the inner strength required to harm no sentient life.
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