At this point I have developed a spiel for them. I apologize and let them know that I have not called anyone, but that some spammer likes to spoof my number on the regular and that I get one of these calls every few weeks. If they are still angry or say something about me needing to change my number, i mention 2 factor authentication and that it would take me literally years to break free of this number and even then there would be issues, so it just isn’t worth it yet.

I don’t know if this will help, but as someone who struggled most of my life with my own undiagnosed list of mental issues, I worry so much about my children and the issues that they inherited from me. Getting diagnosed and learning more about my issues has helped me understand a lot about myself and my dad (who I inherited most of my issues from). Understanding doesn’t mean fixed though. I am still struggling with myself, and my dad, all while trying to teach my kids about themselves and trying to help them avoid, or at least navigate the issues and trouble that comes with being different. I stress so much and work so hard to make sure that they don’t have to suffer like I did. But, even knowing how hard I try, I am still amazed and even stunned when they do or accomplish things that are beyond what I could even have envisioned as my “best case scenario”. There are times when I don’t have the answers and they have to suffer much like what I did, and that absolutely destroys me. But there are also times when they sail right through as if it was nothing. It’s feels a lot like I think the parent of the first penguin to just pop out of the water and land on shore must have felt. Can you imagine spending your entire life fucking struggling to get on shore and then stand for your entire life? Having watched everyone you know, your parents, and your grandparents all struggling their asses off, and being terrified that your kids might have it worse than you, or maybe even be one of the ones that never makes it out of the water… And then the first time they get in the water, they literally just pop right the fuck out and walk right the fuck off?
I don’t know you or your dad, maybe he is just a raging dumpster fire of a parent. Or maybe he is stunned that you are casually doing something that he could never even hope to do himself.

Got another one today. I get 1 or 2 every month.

Let’s just hope that the politicians never realize the danger of sharpened sticks or they might ban trees and bushes too.

Computers can’t do random. They usually approximate random by truncating seconds since epoc and throwing them into an algorithm the hashes them up into something that’s sort of random. Problem is that time is not really random. You ever notice that your random music shuffle seems to play the same shit all the time? Unless of course somebody else is there to listen, then it plays crazy shit you’ve never heard before. It probably has less to do with luck and more to do with you having regular listening habits, and the times that it plays crazy shit is those times that you are listening outside of your normal habits. And then there’s the algorithm that they use. There’s been a number of digital games that I have stopped playing because the “randomizer” was so shit that I could begin to “predict” future rolls.

That’s true. I hadn’t realized how little it uses the GPU. I have had other 3d cad apps that I have worked with that were impossible to run on a server without a well above average video card, so that was definitely my first thought.
I guess one thing he could do is try some other opengl apps on his server and in the same docker. I have seen some badly configured servers and docker instances that fell back to rendering everything to bitmap.and then using some antiquated x11 bitmap handling routines to transfer the images. The handling of the images was so slow it was impossible to use.

Ya, that is what I thought, but skipped because I couldn’t remember for sure. GetVersion didn’t even exist until win2k, so everyone already had their code that checked version numbers written and squared away. They never needed to go back and change it or read the new documentation.

Covered heads, covered faces, fat, stupid, incompetent, unorganized, and full of self loathing rage… Ya, these are bog standard KKK. It’s the same play book as last time too. All they have done is changed to camo colored sheets.

My guess is that the GPU available on the Serv is either really underpowered for 3d rendering, or not being clearly picked up by the docker. If the docker having to completely render in software, it is going to be slow

Microsoft’s version function didn’t return what you think it returned. They would deliver massive changes to OS functionality and call it “second edition” or just some service pack number. The version function gave you the same value for all of it. Literally, the only way to know what version you were working with was to parse the name. Microsoft’s own documentation on new functionality told you that was the way to do it. MS even gave you example code to copy and paste.
It wasn’t until much later, well after the dumpster fire they had created was blazing away, that they took the time to revise the way any of it worked.

Ah the good old days… Back when they gave you a full 20 seconds before shooting you for being unarmed.

“See! I told you that we could get them to pay for the wall!”
“That’s very good sir, but still, what the fuck are we supposed to do with all these giant wooden horses? And isn’t it suspicious that they drop off a new one every day?”
“Fake news! We have the most, the biggest and the best giant wooden horses! We’ll give them to our giants wooden cowboys to ride! Just yesterday a giant wooden cowboy, the biggest wooden cowboy you have ever seen, came up to me with tears in his eyes, tears just streaming down his wooden face. And he said thank you!. Thank you for the giant wooden horses! Until you we had nothing to ride and had to chase the giant wooden cows around on foot.”

The true mpv of this entire thread.

Then it is under something. Whatever it is under is something that there’s no way it could be under. The item it’s under is either clear so that you can see everything under it, or waaaaay the small to cover up the entire thing without you seeing it. Either that or the cats played with it and pushed across the house.

I find that if I turn on a flashlight, even just the flashlight on my phone and then put it close to the ground so that it shines parallel to the ground that I will often see stuff that I couldn’t see before. It seems to work on things from the size of a tiny screw up to something like a large remote. It could be the change in the shadows makes your brain reprocess what it is seeing, or it could be some kind of summoning spell.

Unfortunately, the company that was developing it wanted to work on a different universe instead. So even though it was insanely popular, they rushed the ending and completely shit all over the story up to that point.

I hear that used to be a really nice neighborhood, but it really seems to be going to shit these days.

Mine is more of an abusive relationship. More of a why would you do this, or why do you hate me, type situation.

Because it’s where I live, man

Don’t confuse joaquin phoenix and jared leto. The 2019 Joker movie has nothing to do with jared leto.

This is entirely true for certain types of development. There are plenty of coding jobs where you are constantly writing and rewriting the same type of thing over and over again. UI development, web page development, ect. Any place we you have multiple “customers” wanting a similar thing done, but with a different look or aesthetic. Or maybe you work for a company that makes stuff that needs to be refreshed every so often to avoid looking antiquated.

But then there’s also lots of people who are constantly doing things that they have never done before. I am not even talking about the poor suckers out there right now have having to “add AI” to random shit right now without even having a clue wtf that even means. You have plenty of people doing what is essentially “we want you to do this thing we have never done before”. How do you estimate time on a ticket that essentially says, take this 30 year old pile of code that has been hacked and rehacked by dozens of people (all who have either retired or left the company to escape this dumpster fire you are being handed) and “fix this bug” that has been around for a decade. It’s been there for a fucking decade. When the first version of this ticket was originally generated it was done in a ticketing system that has been replaced by 2 generations of ticketing systems since then. Whatever the issue is, it’s a big enough issue that it can’t be answered with “can’t do/won’t do”, but at the same time everyone who has been assigned it in the last decade has at best created half ass work arounds. Good luck with pulling a number for how long it is going to take you to figure out what the bug even is, much less how to fix it.