Yeah, Neelix has a lot of annoying times (and creepy in the case of Kes) but I definitely like him as the guy who’s smiling because he’s seen some truly terrible shit and just wants the people around him to feel comfortable in their situations. Neelix was written so many different ways in Voyager, it’s hard to totally like or dislike him.

I have Hydrus Network periodically scrape e621 search results using a plaintext list of artists I’ve just compiled over the years. As far as checking artists I like, e621’s design is so inherently poor for that that I just started following artists on different websites, particularly bsky and FA.

Do it again but with Emacs and it’s actually half accurate

This is getting into CG/L territory with some of the language being used.

That’s why I stick to skill games for the most part. I know I want to sink hundreds to thousands of hours into a game so I might as well be able to actually get good at something too and surprise or impress somebody.

I have an uncountable number of hours in rhythm games and plastic guitar especially. But I also like Counter Strike and recently Ring Racers.

I agree, I have absolutely 0 issue with patiently leading people through a process. Even if they’re a bit confused or unsure, as long as they are honestly listening and trying, I will try my best to explain things in a way they can understand. The thing that pisses me off is when people go all learned helplessness and try to get you to do it for them instead. No, I want you to try and learn it for yourself. If it doesn’t stick, I’ll patiently guide you again. Just try. Believe me, people of any age can “get” technology or refuse to learn. It’s a mindset

I will make an exception, and that’s when I’m dealing with people who literally cannot learn. If you have dementia or a severe learning impairment that’s a different story, usually those folks will have someone else who can learn for them though.

Yes, working in tech I’ve personally encountered this lots and it never stops personally pissing me off. It’s a facet of learned helplessness. It’s pretty clearly a way to get other people around them to do things for them. They probably don’t see it as manipulative but it is, albeit in a pretty minor way.

Honestly I think I like Java better than C++ because with all that complexity at least you get memory safety, actually readable errors, and portable code. C# is great but Linux support is spotty.

As an adult I’m asking nobody if I “may” use the bathroom. I might ask, “can I use YOUR bathroom” (notably not “may”) or say “can you point me to the bathroom” because I am a human being with a right to access these facilities (Americans need not apply).

Teachers who feel the need to get one over on a child are pieces of shit. It teaches nobody anything except “adults are awful”. Be nice to kids, you can fuck them up with something you don’t think twice about.

Python is the tradeoff between ease of development and performance. If you do things the “normal” way (aka no cython) your programs will oftentimes severely underperform when compared with something written in a relatively lower-level language. Even Java outperforms it.

But, you can shit out a program in no time. Or so I’ve been told. Python is pretty far from the things I’m interested in programming so I haven’t touched it much.

This except furry

This community is one of the only things keeping me going at this point.

Especially Lower Decks. SNW is good but I feel like it lacks some character.

This is so circlejerky. I love it.

I was implying that you’ll be seeing this until he’s dead. It’s also a little presumptuous at this point to say it’s only gonna be four years with him, what with them trying to change term limits and all.

Then they shouldn’t be called lifetime subscriptions. This seems like a really smarmy justification of a shitty business practice.

I actually prefer the Jellyfin client to the Kodi client by a lot. Using Kodi on top just adds more unneeded complexity and reloading libraries in my experience.

It works pretty well for me but I separate anime and TV/movies, and make sure the anime library is only scraping data from anime-centric databases. But I’m also not watching too much new or obscure stuff.

I understand but he is the unofficial president of one of the most powerful nations in the world. It is going to continue like this until he is brought out of power through one way or another.

I only know this because of SAO Abridged.

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