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cco3 | I've decided that if I ever right an autobiography, it will be totally factual, except that I will have the superpower to jump back in time 24 |hours and tell myself, "24 hours from now, you will be <insert implausible scenario that actually does come to pass>" cco3 | write* cco3 | So this future me will keep jumping back in time and telling me this crazy stuff cco3 | "24 hours from now, you will be totally lost in downtown Austin in a car you borrowed from a paranoid schizophrenic" cco3 | Stuff like that +telnoratti | You stole a paranoid schozophernic's car? cco3 | borrowed... cco3 | I was helping someone move, and he had the UHaul, and someone needed to drive his car to the UHaul place +telnoratti | he's paranoid schizophrenic I don't think he'd let you borrow cco3 | and I was the only one that could drive a stick cco3 | I guess his meds were working for him that day? +telnoratti | This story seems dubious cco3 | When I started up the car, it was one of those where you have to turn the key *just* right to get it to start cco3 | so after 5 minutes of struggling, I got it started, we rolled out of the driveway and I was following him cco3 | He starts to pull over at a gas station, and he's being pretty hesitant cco3 | I guess he doesn't know if the uhaul is too tall or he's having trouble seeing everything cco3 | so park and get out to help direct him cco3 | turns out he was just letting someone else in our party pass cco3 | I rush back in the car and try to start it cco3 | of course, I can't start it again cco3 | it takes me like 10 minutes to get the key to turn right cco3 | and this guy just doesn't notice that I'm not following him cco3 | luckily someone had given him my cellphone number and eventually he calls me and tries to direct me cco3 | but this is before GPS was everywhere, and I had only been in Austin for a month or so, and it's near midnight, and I have no idea where I am cco3 | After 30 minutes of driving around while trying to talk on a phone at midnight in an unfamiliar place, I finally made it there cco3 | but that was pretty stressful +telnoratti | you didn't know where you were goign so your solution was to just keep driving randomly? cco3 | telnoratti: yes cco3 | optimal algorithm cco3 | I don't think it'd be as bad now that I'm older, but back then I hadn't had a car for months and even driving was somewhat unfamiliar cco3 | I was so sure I was going to hit something and wreck his car -
<summerspeak> i want to get a "don't tread on me" license plate for memes <giggybyte> https://i.imgur.com/ogzqMZm.png IASIP basically describes my stance towards voting <summerspeak> i saw a sticker of that flag, but instead of "me" it said "memes" and someone put pepe's head over the snake's regular head <summerspeak> really gets my memes joggin
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JPO’s steps for success: 1) find a community that’s technically awesome, and has a real sense of community 2) read, learn, do shit, share it, contribute something of value 3) participate in the community’s form of communication (e.g. mailing lists) (help people out, give feedback in areas you’ve actually learned about and done shit in) 4) go to events of said community 5) surround yourself with people way smarter than you are, shut up, listen, ask questions, take notes, really research the shit you didn’t understand afterwards 6) keep going to said events, speak up, engage, and let people associate your face with your name that they know from your worthwhile contributions 7) repeat from step 2 until the community considers you one of their own, and you’re (at least just barely) old enough to get past HR 8) find someone willing to give you a chance. Some is luck, but luck absolutely favors the prepared. If you want to get stuck by lightening, go climb a mountain in a thunderstorm. Here: go do shit that’s worthwhile and let it be known 9) profit 10) give back to help the next person do the same, and be willing to take a chance on someone when it’s your turn to pay it forward Cost of above: a sacrifice of time (perhaps years of your nights spent hacking instead of sleeping, perhaps a bad GPA), and maybe ~$600/event once or twice a year
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01:51 <Macuser> echarlie i heard tomorrow was supposed to be 60F. 01:51 <Macuser> but i don't have a damn bike pump 01:51 <Macuser> RIP 13:57 --> Macuser (~Macuser@unaffiliated/macuser) has joined #vtara 14:22 <Southern_Gentlem> Macuser, walmart has bike pumps and sheets has free air 14:22 <Macuser> presta? 14:22 <Macuser> walmart prob sells the Joe Blow for full retail $50 14:22 <Macuser> i already got one back at home 14:23 <Southern_Gentlem> which does you no good here and will cost you the same to run back home to get 14:24 <Macuser> correct 14:25 <Macuser> i was HOPING to get the pump from Facebook marketplace, but an asshole who got an extra pump for free wants to sell for full retail price 14:37 <Southern_Gentlem> that way he gets his for free 14:39 <Macuser> yeah screw him. no wonder it hasn't sold 23:11 <Macuser> welp no bike ride today 23:20 <pew> Macuser: but it's so nice outside 23:20 <Macuser> stoooop 23:20 <Macuser> i have no pump 23:20 <Macuser> i kill u 23:20 <Macuser> reeeeeee 23:21 <pew> idk, stop by east coasters? 23:21 <Macuser> and park where 23:21 <Macuser> by the time I get there sun is set anyway 23:22 <Macuser> oh wait parking free 5:30 iirc 23:22 <Macuser> maybe even 5 23:22 <pew> huh? 23:22 <Macuser> point is, i dont wanna pay full retail for a 2nd pump 23:22 <pew> east coasters is in same parking lot as kroger 23:22 * Macuser thinks 23:22 <pew> oh you're on campus aren't you 23:22 <Macuser> no i'm in Cburg 23:23 <pew> oh lol 23:23 <pew> rip u 23:23 <Macuser> lol it's fine out here 23:23 <Macuser> away from all the undergrad density 23:23 <pew> which part? 23:23 <pew> of cburg 23:23 <Macuser> not downtown 23:23 <Macuser> the part that has the kroger 23:24 <Macuser> and food lion 23:24 <Macuser> im literally right adjacent to the food lion 23:26 <pew> I bet the re:store has a pump 23:26 <pew> maybe the rec center too 23:26 <Macuser> ohhh shit 23:26 <Macuser> i'm an idiot 23:26 <Macuser> they have pumps all over this area 23:26 <Macuser> they have to have presta. no way they dont 23:27 <Macuser> it's too darkkk nowww 23:27 <pew> rip 23:27 <pew> there's also the bike kitchen in the back of re:store 23:27 * Macuser looks up reeee:store 23:27 <Macuser> oh u mean habitat for humanity 23:28 <pew> oh I'm dumb I thought it had a : in the middle for some reason 23:28 <Macuser> what's a bike kitchen 23:28 <Macuser> and why is it in the back of a furniture store 23:28 <pew> it's like a bike co-op 23:29 <Macuser> it's not advertised ANYWHERE 23:29 <Macuser> lol 23:29 <pew> but not called a bike co-op 23:29 <Macuser> how u know this 23:29 <pew> lol 23:29 <pew> I help run the blacksburg co-op 23:29 <Macuser> maybe this was the case 10 years ago last time u were here 23:29 <Macuser> nothin on google maps 23:29 <pew> I graduated in 2018 btw 23:29 <Macuser> oh 23:29 <Macuser> neat 23:29 <pew> https://www.facebook.com/NRVBikeKitchen/ 23:29 <Wadsworth> [ NRV Bike Kitchen - Home | Facebook ] 23:30 <pew> neat, the restore has an online shop 23:31 <Macuser> interestin
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// 2023-08-16, cynic spends his first few days on campus wondering how he's going to run the first year engineering software. cynic oh good eduroam works cynic teim 2 figure out how to run solidworks on a 2012 debian shitpad cynic https://www.solidworks.com/support/system-requirements <-- brb jumping off slusher tower +h4des cynic: im gonna let you in on a secret technique +h4des we had a vtluug guy who basically kept buying and returning the same laptop through best buy to run freshman software +h4des he would basically take an image of the laptop, return it, then deploy the image on the new laptop, and do that for a whole ass semester +h4des an alternative option would be to request a loaner from SWAT +h4des but you'll need to have a broken laptop or invoice for that +h4des but you see they don't actually check whether or not your laptop is broken, they just need a ticket # from a repair center or an order # +h4des there's nothing really stopping you from writing ur own fake dell/lenovo/samsung/microsoft/fujitsu support tickets and using that as evidence +h4des then you get a 3 week loan +h4des you can also request another 3 week extension once, no questions asked, so technically 6 weeks cynic would the public boxes in newman/torg work? +h4des after that they get suspicious and ask for an update on your laptop ticket +h4des but you could easily do the method i described above, and have "backordered parts" (this is especially a popular excuse with microsoft hardware) +h4des or you could say "my laptop came back and it's DOA, i need to ship it again" and request another loaner cynic heh cynic okay
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< phnx> so, i need to teach myself css and javascript to work on a web page < phnx> what order should i learn them in? < phnx> or does it matter? <+ackthet> css <+ackthet> then javascript <@mutantmonkey> yeah < phnx> any particular reason? <+ackthet> yes < Jagged> because < via> they <+ackthet> are < Jagged> really < via> kind of integral to website design