blackstampede

joined 2 years ago
[–] blackstampede 1 points 12 hours ago

Second this. Hard. It was a great film.

[–] blackstampede 3 points 13 hours ago

Made a trebuchet that almost destroyed a neighbor's car. Tried to build a fuel-air bomb out of kerosene and a shotgun shell. Made napalm out of gasoline and styrofoam. Huntes squirrels with a .22 rifle.

Weird childhood.

[–] blackstampede 2 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Can I get an English translation, please? I'm curious.

[–] blackstampede 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Seconded. It was just such an enormous pile of shit from the first episode.

Edit: felt like it was worth mentioning that I've read all the books multiple times, and love them. I just hate what they did to the characters.

[–] blackstampede 29 points 1 day ago

I had the same experience once, but I was explaining it to a woman. I'm a guy.

[–] blackstampede 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

No worries. The internet is full of people who are confidently ignorant and happy to tell you all about it.

[–] blackstampede 1 points 4 days ago

Oh shit. I need to watch this.

[–] blackstampede 3 points 6 days ago
[–] blackstampede 41 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Minecraft. You think that there's no way to play Minecraft "wrong", right up until you accidentally fall into the 4-block wide valley that I've cut through the entire map or walk into the liminal space that I've mined out just above bedrock. Fuck cutesy cottages and Minecraft in minecraft- let's just build superstructures that disappear beyond the draw distance of the map. Fuck creative mode- let's do it while we're facing down mobs day and night. Fuck explosives- do that shit with a pick like a goddamn man. You haven't really seen confused rage until your child discovers hundreds of unexplained and unexplainable brutalist towers extending into the distance like the gravestones of alien gods when they thought you were building a farm over the next hill.

[–] blackstampede 8 points 1 week ago

TIL it's woke to draw people as people.

[–] blackstampede 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My mom always said, that if you do what you love you'll never work a day in your life.

[–] blackstampede 11 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Jokes on you, I give all blind people 30 seconds of sight once in their life at the single most useful moment. Blind people worldwide regain their sight just in time to avoid accidents, to see their loved ones right before they die, or to save their children from danger.

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How to make a company not suck (self.actual_discussion)
 

I've been thinking about enshitification recently, and I'm also working on a startup with a friend that just received funding. I've been wondering how one might arrange a business such that it won't gradually trend towards shittier products in search of higher profit margins.

Obviously, it would be nice to redesign all of society so that this isn't a thing, but barring that, does anyone have any ideas for setting up a business in such a way that motivations are aligned with producing a good product?

Currently, we're trying to retain as much control as possible, but at some point we may go public, and if we do, I'm not sure how to keep us aimed at accomplishing our goals. We're building a platform that should solve or at least improve the replication crisis in scientific research, and we could lose control to investors that want board seats, or sell to someone like Google.

If we do either, I doubt the company will do what we want it to do in the long term.

Going public is the route that seems less likely to lead to this change in direction, but it seems like it could end in the same place over a long enough timeline.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by blackstampede to c/[email protected]
 

I recently acquired two used blade servers and a short rack to put them in. I'm planning to use one or the other as the replacement for a media server that died on me a bit ago. The old media server was just a little refurb dell workstation, with a single SSD in it, but the servers have 6 and 8 bays, respectively.

I would like to RAID them so that one drive dying doesn't lose any of my media, and I was leaning towards Ubuntu server as an OS. I'm not sure how to do that, and I'm kind of poking around for info and advice. Hit me with it.

 
 
 

I'm working on a parsing library for mil-std-1553 messages. It's a fun, minimal project that doesn't currently exist as far as I can tell.

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Got a big presentation today (self.huntsvillealabama)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by blackstampede to c/[email protected]
 

Wish me luck ladies and gentlemen

Edit: it went great. Thanks for the good wishes.

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