It’s a lot better than other fast food burgers. But it’s a pretty basic, straight forward burger. It’s fresh ingredients, done simply. And it’s why everyone loves it.

I know of a few places near me where they serve nearly identical burgers, and I love those too.

Jurassic Park

Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Harry Potter films

Privacy is something that I think needs to be actively encouraged. It is a right, and thinks like location tracking are creeping their way into daily life and eroding that right.

No one should have the ability to violate that. And we shouldn’t be making it easier to.

Yep. This is one of those hard lines for me. And I feel like it’s a red flag for anyone who demands it from a partner.

I trust my partner and they trust me. I actively encourage them to do things without me, because I want them to be an independent person. I want them to have friends that I don’t hang out with.

I second this. It’s the daily driver mouse I use and it’s really comfortable.

Understanding things. Like, I learn rather quickly. I can take something apart and see how it works, I can debug code and understand what it does and usually why it does it that way.

In lectures, I don’t need to be easily guided into the conclusion. If the pieces are laid out before me, I’ll usually get it before the lecturer gets to that point.

I say no a lot. But at the same time, I also try to show excitement in whatever my boss thinks is good. The tech is interesting, the tech can be objectively good. But it doesn’t fit our use case, and it seems like shoehorning something in just for buzz words is not a great idea.

The really good tech comes out of a need, and we don’t have the same need as those other people.

If we go the replace route. We should be looking at more refurbished equipment. Instead of an appliance going to a junkyard, a company/service would replace with a returned unit. Then take your broken one, fix/refurb that one and keep the cycle going.

But that takes labor, parts, storage, shipping, etc.

Let’s not forget the quality of the repair work. A lot of people may repair something but do it so poorly that they will have to deal with it again soon or it is unsightly. Repairing things is a skill, and when starting out people will fail or do a poor job.

I do all the repairs at my house. It takes a certain mechanical inclination for some things that many people don’t have.

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I let a domain expire once and even though I had changed the email to something else. One of my accounts still used it and support didn’t help. I ended up having to rebuy the domain to get back into my account.

Keep it until you are 100% sure that NOTHING is tied to it. Just set up forwarding from the old domain to the new one.

And do what they told me to do for 8 hours. In return, I got in for free.

I did have the occasional shift that was stress test a new thing so they could train. So riding an attraction that wasn’t open yet for 4 hours was pretty fun.

Hard agree on pretty much all of that.

But it’s still my friends and I get in for free, I’ve been literally thousands of times (most of them Disney paid me to be there) and I, maybe, get on one or two rides a day, if I go on any at all.

Sure, but a lot of those people there are my friends. You can find plenty of posts from me criticizing their management, board, and CEO. I don’t like how the company is run or many of their projects. But a lot of people there are actual friends of mine, and it’s an avenue for a lot of their art to be seen by the world.

I’m a big fan of theme parks and live entertainment. I haven’t seen anywhere that really compares with them on that front. I’m not familiar with anywhere else that does a parade multiple times a day, fireworks practically every night, a dozen small theatrical productions, a large technical fountain show, and an elaborate stage production every single day. Many with people I actually personally know running or working on them.

Disney makes money, and I agree they over charge for everything. But they also do put out a pretty good product for it. For the most part, at least. I have a lot of gripes about some of it because of the standards that I have after working there.

Oh, and I also still utilize friends that I have there to get in for free. I haven’t paid to go to a Disney park in nearly 2 decades.

What did you lose?

And there are plenty of shows that I’ve had to manually recover at times. And plenty more that I can’t find a copy of at all. I don’t get too attached to much, and those I’ll usually be seeding on multiple machines myself at that point.

I worked at Disneyland for 8 years. I still go there every year. It’s been over 10 years and I’m still running into people I used to work with and can shoot the shit with them for an hour.

For me, there is something about that place that I took ownership of, cared for people there, and tried to make it better in the small way I could. I see all the effort that so many people have and continue to put in and really appreciate the artistry and care these people have.

It’s a place that I feel comfortable in, and I like to just sit, listen to the music and the sounds of the crowds and people watch.

Haha. Thanks. I really didn’t want to pay Netflix or any other streaming service. But it might have been cheaper than hdds and electricity.

This is something I’ve been building for over 10 years at this point. I’ve gone through so many iterations of servers and storage architecture. I’ve lost my entire TV and movie library multiple times. (I don’t back it up because a. It’s expensive at this scale and b. this data is easy to rebuild over time.)

It’s been a part of learning about hosting and data management that I’ve brought to/from my work.

13200 movies 1200 shows

Over a 1/4 PB of data.

Phone numbers are the new ICQ number

Police. As much as I hate their current incarnation, I. Some form or fashion they are required to handle those that do harm to others intentionally.

Mean, mode, or median?

What’s the standard deviation look like?