@Lensflare @antigermgerm

Listen, size of storing data is totally my wheelhouse.

If something like this ever gets to the point of storage size or a data infrastructure suited for whatever, not existing... let me handle it.

Not only am i confident that id be one of a small pool of engineers that could potentially solve some seemingly impossible issue with data/math/etc X compsci... i literally cannot fathom anything more nirvana-esq, ultimate happy place, most ideal objective to exist for.

It's things like this that make me wish i was one of those overly abundant people that can mentally rewrite reality, typically subconsciously, based on intense desire... or ignore hard facts like 'doing this same thing without actual need/benefit is a severe waste of time and without merit'

But, alas, im too damn logical. *sigh*

@Lensflare personally id prefer if we(society minus the intentional/wilfully ignorant causers of negative impact) could just convert some boring, not impactfully useful, land(s) into monitored colonies...

not like hitler-esq, think more like a protected nature preserve with the good intentions of senior citizen housing, that has the necessary measures to allow those with dementia and alzheimers.

Ofc it'd require hefty funding... but cameras, like wildlife reserves, would allow for security/safety with minimal disruption to their habitat... and the research to gain potentially valuable insights, while also allowing monetisation like a much more humane, realistic/true... and surely fascinating, zoo. Ofc unlike most zoo's it'd be totally remote viewing... possibly even some form of harmless, yet monetised, interaction options... nothing to mess with their budding ecosystems or culture.

@donkulator oh... forgot...

Somehow i am a "fine arts artist". I don't think ill ever actually comprehend why... but the products of me playing/experimenting with molten glass and metals is innately of some (imo) ridiculously high value to people at auctions... even when i literally dont know wtf the thing i made is/should be used for.

It's fascinating, gives tens of thousands usd to charities i think r valid (mostly children's) yearly and is one of 3 primary reasons the IRS hates me an continues to audit me/any entity connected to me, at least once a year on avg.

Trade-offs:
I've had to be flawless in rel tax code since 18 and a few times a year i need to dress up like a girl, well beyond my typical lvl of acceptable fancy bs, and hold my tongue for a few hrs at charity events that normal people greatly desire entry to.

These events being restricted to the Internet was a thoroughly enjoyed perk of Covid19

@donkulator
Btw... not bs-ing, grandstanding or some version of facetious know-it-all type crap i cant think of...

I actually don't know all this relatively highly specific stuff about gold due to my tech nerd nature... it actually stems from another very prominent nature of mine... i like melting shit.

Seriously... even have a doctoral grasp of coefficients of expansion(rate of molecular expansion and spacing based on temperature/resulting state), esp relative to metals and glass, since 16.
some odd/possibly creepy prof at wayne state's library got obsessed w/me while returning books and printing papers for a mandated science fair.

He apparently had the habit of pulling face-down paper from the trash to read. I typed a 10pg paper before looking to see it was supposed to be ~2 pages... after explicitly denying several reqs of his i traded him my email address for ending that interaction. 2wks later he sent me a very detailed review, quotes from other profs and a (pointless)grade

@donkulator technically u got me... cuz technically 24k is supposed to be 100% purity... but due to the extremely soft structure of gold and the natural, near inevitability of inclusions (most being unintentional) and molecular structural enhancements(however minor) from essentially waste products of heat-mediated purification and molecules naturally existing in air that get pulled in during cooling... unless in a sterile vacuum...

The standard usage of "24k" has grown futher away from actually pure/100%... especially as consumerism favours terminology and labels far more than lnowledge of scientific standards.

Basically:
The label 24k gold has quite a bit of allowed, lower, variance... whether in jewelry or ethernet.
Industrial gold plating for tech (aside from some specific high precision applications in a vacuum) is facetious because there's thin layers of componuds for binding and resilience.
I was just using an excess of highly purified gold directly, more functional purity.

@kiki yea... but by what protocol(s)? How do u know the users to ban?

@TeachMeCode umm... nearly the whole world of modern compsci anything is run/based in 3rd party code providers at some (tbh most) levels. Its literally the definition of every freelance/contracted dev(or dev team)... and its far from new

@donkulator
Several issues with your response:
- it's not "softcolon" in a situation etc... it's the title of a business (the business has nothing to do with anything even remotely connected to biology/colons)

- colons(the biological kind) are not naturally soft. It's often confused as synonymous with the large intestine, because, in fact, it is the largest part of the large intestine. It's basically strechy layers of smooth muscle and thin, porous, tissue that acts as a filter to pull water and certain micronutrients/electrolytes/etc out of crap before it passes to the rectum.

Medically, if a colon was able to have "soft" as an attribute (of the colon itself, not the density of your shit) it would be extremely concerning... cuz itd be extremely swollen/inflamed or otherwise abnormally, not at all benignly, enlarged tissue

... i guess it's possible that softcolon was a ref of a puctuation type, : colon... but that's a whole different bag of mind-bogglement

@jestdotty oh ofc they didnt escalate then... they did later but probably dont actually realise it or how it may have happened... it's being dealt with, i just couldn't deal with it efficiently using only the abilities and general knowledge/acumen of a typical customer... which is the big issue.

@lorentz yes/no

Even though i keep current with at least a few, mostly changing, online casinos (specifically ones with slots) because it let's my previous experience/skill continue to be a figurative, quick and easy to suddenly tap, gold mine... watching this one for any huge issues (most of a variety i cant specify) is essentially a personal favour.

That said, i do agree, especially in principle. Actually wagering anything significant, or spending significant time on the platform isnt at all necessary for my objectives here

You finally make sense to me! You live (your home) in some commercial medical building not realising that's abnormal.

Now i have adequate context on why you sometimes seem to have normal or valid commentary... but others i didn't even know where to start aside from "wtf?" or more often "wzf?".

Thank you

TypeScript... and any other method/language allowing static typing <3

Also... wtf do they think a semicolon is meant for/why did they believe that a period, was so wrong, it simply couldn't be used for this application.

I mean... i know a great deal of textual mandarin... enough that I have multiple reps i do business with use mandarin instead cuz it's simpler than clarification of some of their english... they use periods the same as we do... including in a numbered list like this. Ive even encountered the very rare use of a semicolon in mandarin... seemed to have the same function (but tbh idk if it's a natural language element or if they borrowed it/its usage from a language like english)

I know the numbers of all this manufacturing etc sht too well... so it drives me nuts. The money they spend for aesthetics, packaging, research of modern aesthetics in their targetted countries (most even have a full-time employee just for that)... but a native english speaker(not even transl.) For a few hrs of QA a quarter... nope.

@kiki oh... i also have a totally unopened (incl original plastic) DOS 5.0.2 ...top of my only display case. i got it 16yrs ago for 2$ from an ignorant thrift store.

the way i make applications, program servers\networks\etc, is the same way i am with hardware... if it annoys me i tear it apart and rebuild so it doesn't annoy me. applies heavily to Microsoft (i mod my registry and system variables, extensions, logs, ports... etc so much that i think there's a good chance id strip a system down to pure BIOS (including removing several binaries) and build my own if it was between that and the intended typical usage of MS... or apple.

if allowed id load DOS then add\mod

few yrs ago i soldered a 24 port network switch from mostly ripped out ethernet ports that i metallically enhanced with some custom, way over 24k, gold, nearly got the specs of CAT6... tried buying one... only managed ones had the word "smart" somewhere, not showing if integral (or id have removed it, physically)

@kiki of what exactly? i frankenstein hardware all the time... i even had to make personal rules like X real work i loathe doing = Y time to build\play with totally unnecessary tech

i also had to limit what i call my "tech graveyard" to only 1 big-ish box and 1 small-ish plastic clothes hamper... arduino boards, chips and components ive already stripped down and font have several of already, basic components like resistors, leds, small motors, etc... and shiny 'new' (sold\packaged as a specific component to build something with) dont count as the graveyard max... if i can't fit them in my organised space for soldering etc... i forcibly pare down.

now i got ~12 moisture sensors (specifically bought... few dollars) an old af fire tablet from the graveyard (i certainly didnt buy it) some usb 2 wifi (and some bt) dongles (sent to me via shipping error 6yrs ago), tiny shitty solar panels (broken 1$ halloween lights) and 2 nanos

gonna monitor my weed plants w\o walking to the garage.

@SidTheITGuy dude... if i gave the slightest genuine concern\attention\etc to you in any way you seem to believe, id have checked this thread before now... also wouldve read whatever i said (which apparently you view as very prominent and thoughtfully crafted) before typing and sending this response.

seriously, i have no clue, can't even make w strong guess at any aspect aside from 50\50 chance that i also referred to you as sydney ...or syd to save 3 chars of time\effort... and im pretty sure near all of devrant is fully aware that i type excessive blocks of max chars over the least important things... so that alone should clue you in on how much i give a sht about u.

@Lensflare hey at least u got the balls to admit it to randos on the internet... though ive found most modern 'devs' only understand that context on the same level as a history textbook.

@antigermanist depends if myspace ever deleted profiles made and not used over 2 ½ decades ago.

@Demolishun wait... you think that, if there are beings(as in more than 1) that survive on(or near) the surface of mars... elon musk would be able to physically overpower them???

i considered that perhaps you meant via extensive weaponry or a personal army coming with him... but im pretty sure you realise how direly each kg tached on reduces the likelihood of potential feasibility of successful travel.

he'd find a way back but be a lot less active on social media... and die faster... space travel kills your bone's vitamin D and speeds up permanent thinning... so lots more dr appts and physical therapy... and, given his age, a very brief life expectancy.

tbh... now i kinda want him to... im curious if his tone\perspective would dramatically change... like when a stubborn grandfather has a stroke and totally changes in order to 'cherish' the suddenly (esp by psychosomatic belief) uncertain and short remaining time left.

im fondly reminiscing to the days when web devs got assumed incompetent\made fun of for even a temporary use of "Form Tools"... if only i knew how much worse it'd become...

if Orwell was immortal, im sure he'd have seen this coming.

i used textnow for basic context (under a dozen messages likely all to myself) ...for under a week, years ago.

today, for the first time, i had a use for it....

i had 1 short, totally legal, non-harassing, use of sending 1 txt to 1 number. open it >> says my acc was banned cuz their server 'detected' and therefore i was suspected of "unusual activity".

i ofc just quickly made a new acc..

...but i went back to their dumbass form... which they apparently cant write a basic, extremely minimal styling form and needed to pay for a 3rd party form provider. (like it actually couldve been written in only straight html from the 90s and a simple POST php script (didnt check but they probably used some framework bs))

god... i so loathe the fact that my disgust took nearly a half-second to kick in whilst typing "3rd party form provider"... cuz that's, unfortunately, now a valid, thriving and multiple sources of competition, field of business.

@Demolishun im only racist against white females... the type with blonde hair and blue eyes

@typosaurus yea... it's been confirmed now (by an MD literally named Lucy Liu... just so i dont actually feel sane) apparently ive had a reactivation of HHV-6 that ive been fighting off, slowly losing against, for 2½ decades (at least most of that time also causing meningitis, brain and spinal cord swelling)

now im just trying to figure out how best to acknowledge it to blood family, less close friends and others who kinda need to know... with the least amount of shit like 'youre so brave\strong\an inspiration' as possible. i already get that crap for random ppl just noticing my left hand not being functional. *sigh*

@awesomeest
oh... it doesn't show the original size...

60px X 60px, each square being 30x30

it's literally just 6 colours rotating in a 4x4 grid... lines up perfectly if tiled... still will induce a headache if u tile it as someones desktop background... cuz if they try to focus on or read anything it literally hurts. could be legit basic terrorism lol

@Demolishun
back in early middle school, on runescape (yea... i had my reasons), there was some kid who started to get some messed up form of a power trip via pretending to be a god cuz HE could make animated gifs...

this was back when commoners first started becoming aware... there was the ad spammed sites thatd compile them and the basic af gui tools (trojans) you could dl to make them.

i found this behaviour\the reactions fascinating (autistic af but unaware i was autistic)... he was picking on other kids over that nonsense. some kid i was slightly more fond of (and paid waaaay too much attention to things i did... but kept it to himself so.... meh) was really upset and assuming(rightfully ofc) i knew how to make them too, begged me to to make him stfu (pretty sure he was implying some version of time-exhaustive kiddie war).

5m later via mspaint i made this... then wrote a simple persistent batch script that kept tiling this as his desktop and screensaver. simple and effective

technically gifs always work if they show an image... i think u mean animated gifs brah

@cafecortado
duuude...(somewhat irrelevant) look up the music video for TLC no scrubs.

i was trying to explain old 'good'(shit) music videos to this girl that worked for me and randomly was searching and clicked on that. there's beyond a nip slip near the end. totally brought my point home though lol

@Lensflare not sure if you're being sarcastic... but it does totally seem like something youd do.

i built myself a laptop (saws and solder), taught myself basic binary... fortran and C... wrote the drivers for my frankenlaptop then made a little server to host websites i was building for small businesses. i never actually considered making a personal site til years later and that was for my arts and crafts business... i totally used to have the domain coolcrafts.com (i need to see wtf it is now)

@SidTheITGuy pretty sure u still have it. itd make so much sense, given your rapid irrational demeanor and persistent aggressive yet nonsensical ideas. tbh, it lines up perfectly.