u/JacobStyle

How do you know what it's like to put your penis inside an elephant's mouth??

I am actually in favor of people playing on their phones between sets, as long as they aren't going overboard and hogging machines. Whatever makes them feel comfortable enough to stick with their routine year after year is what they should do, even if it's not perfectly hyperoptimized.

Don't they give you an actual manual with verified answers for this stuff? Why are you asking Google Gemini?

SO says "your shit is closed due to a vaguely similar topic being discussed already." Meanwhile, I'm like, "Claude, I don't want to scroll up and find it. What was that loading function called again?"

I have been working on computers, printers, and other electronics for decades and could count on my fingers the number of times I have used compressed air during a cleaning. Vacuum is where it's at. Brush attachment for anything that clings to a surface, super narrow attachment for stubborn crevices.

I don't know for this game in particular, but I have seen that some games do not work well with the standard AHK functions, not because they are intentionally blocking them, but because they just don't detect the AHK keystrokes properly. AHK 2.0 supports different send modes and other options, and getting macros to work with any given game may require fiddling around with these to find something that works. For example, I have had ones where I had to send the keydown event, then a delay, then the keyup event, as separate lines to get the game to accept the input.

edit: forgot to include the link to the relevant documentation: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/v2/lib/Send.htm

The bundle especially makes a lot of sense for a company that services hundreds of printers across a large territory. The service call is already costing the service company $50-100 in labor and travel just to have the tech show up to the client, before they even touch the machine. In a case like that, it makes sense, if a $3 roller is at 50% of life, just to replace it early. There are also often left over parts from the kits, which the tech can then use on other service calls as needed.

Everybody in this thread is being so careful. Meanwhile, I dumped all my disorganized, loosely commented, magic number heavy video game cheats on there with nothing but a readme.md saying "These are my video game cheats." Using Github like a 2006 Youtuber.

sadly, I have not seen fusers with replaceable sleeves on desktop printers. I've seen rebuildable fusers on some higher end Canon copiers and production machines (big ones like you'd find in dedicated printing rooms in big office buildings or schools), but even then most of the normal Canon copiers you'd find in typical offices have you do the whole fuser at once. Even harvesting sleeves of broken fusers is impractical because 90% of the time, a damaged sleeve is the whole reason for the replacement, and in the other cases, the fuser is often so old that the sleeve is already showing signs of wear and is not worth recovering. Thankfully, on the monochrome Brother printers, it's only about $100, which is about as cheap as a fuser will ever get. On most desktop printers, it's closer to $200. One bonus though is often, the replacement fusers ship as a full maintenance kit with replacement rollers and other little replaceable parts that wear out frequently.

I think the issues with this sub not being as DIY/repair focused have to do with a set of rather unfortunate incentives, which I have written about before in more detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/BuyItForLife/comments/1wndezf/comment/pbg3sro/

I really wish this sub had more of a repair culture. I'm a big BIFL guy, but I feel like buying things for life has a lot more to do with repair and maintenance than shopping.

Not at all. It's a fine machine.

Its biggest BIFL limitation is that the fuser is difficult to replace. It's rated for 150k pages, but if the sleeve tears (can happen naturally or if a paperclip gets caught in it or something) replacing it requires removing the entire back half of the machine, and the new fuser is over $200. Non an impossible repair if you're handy, and definitely saves over replacing the whole printer, but it's not the quick, inexpensive swap you get in some other printers.

All the feed/sep rollers can be replaced without hassle. If you start getting paper feed jams, it's usually because these rollers have developed flat spots, or the tread has worn off. Usually happens every 20-30k pages or so.

Same cardstock fix for process-direction voids applies to its cartridges if you start getting that issue with one of them before it's time to replace it. For a color printer, the void will usually only be one color, so if you are printing something with a lot of color coverage, it may look like a discolored band running down your print, rather than a blank area, since only one of the colors is missing. You can eyeball this to see which cartridge it is, and also use the print to line the discolored band up with the offending cartridge to see exactly where the obstruction is.

Often, a janky cartridge is either impossible or impractical to repair, but I always take the route of, "if I'm just going to throw it away anyway, I might as well see if I can fix it." though with toner cartridges, it's important to have a good vacuum and some Stretch 'n Dust rags around to clean up spills.

I used to work on printers. Current conventional wisdom is that Brother laser printers are the way to go. If you get one where the drum is separated from the toner cartridge, the toner is cheap to replace every 5k prints or so, and the drum can last 100k+ prints. If you find a deal on toner, you can stock up. It lasts years on the shelf as long as you aren't storing it in 100+ degree heat or something.

For BIF(nearly)L, you'll want to be able to do some repairs.

The first things to go are usually the separation roller (or sep pad if it's one of the ones with a pad) and feed rollers in the paper tray. They need to be replaced every 20-30k pages. It's maybe $5-10 worth of parts that you can find on ebay, and about 5 minutes to replace them with really basic tools.

The fuser can fail, usually with a torn fuser sleeve. I've seen laser printer fusers go strong for 200k prints, and I've seen them fail after the first 30k. Fuser replacement can be as simple as popping open the back and pulling a few latches, or it can require a complete disassembly of the machine, depending on printer model. Replacement fuser is usually about $100.

If you get weird gunk on the drum (especially if printing labels), and you need a solution to clean off the drum surface, saliva works better than any household cleaners. Best balance of breaking down bad stuff without damaging the drum surface. Also any time you have the drum out of the machine, unless you're working on it directly, put a few sheets of paper over it to shield it from the light. This will lengthen the life of your drum. You don't have to be perfectly strict about this, like it's not going to explode or anything, just don't make a habit of leaving it sitting out for an hour with nothing covering it.

If you start getting void lines in your prints in the direction that the paper comes out (basically like part of the drum is not working) you may have some debris trapped in the drum/developer cartridge (different models have different setups for this but basically if the drum is connected to a larger cartridge and you can't access the drum all the way around). You can knock the debris loose or sometimes even fish it out, by sliding a piece of card stock into the narrow gap between the drum and toner/developer.

I don't use Vim, other than if I'm doing small edits on config files with SSH, but I would still like to go anyway if this is or will become a thing. I've been tinkering on the computer machine ever since I learned how to read. I've checked out Tech Alley before and liked it, but I'd also love something like the old LUG from my small town that was basically just 8 nerds meeting up and talking about video games once a week.

I've already hooked up with partners who had disabilities, health issues, or strong preferences, that required a lot more accommodations than this. Brushing my teeth ain't no thing but a chicken wing. Besides, it's not like I don't also have some strict requirements around partners recent documented STI test results, so it's only fair that I approach others' requests with a spirit of patience and cooperation.

As with any distinctive physical feature like this, there will be some people who find it off-putting, some who don't care much either way, and some who really like it. In your case, at 20 years old, with dark genital skin and puberty stretch marks, the guys who don't care much either way are going to be the biggest population.

You are right that someone you have sex with may end up not being into you after. That's a risk everyone takes no matter what they look like. You could have even skin tone and zero stretch marks, and it could still happen. The thing is, if someone is not into you after having sex, you just move on and find someone who is. It's not the end of the world.

The broad way to think about these concepts is as layers of abstraction. The lowest layer of abstraction would be the actual electrical signals and logic gates. General computer use (clicking menus and whatnot) is the highest layer of abstraction. You can learn how higher layers of abstraction connect to lower layers of abstraction.

Let's look at one of the simpler examples you gave: What is a .txt file?

At the highest level, of course, a .txt file is a file with a .txt extension as part of the filename, which stores plain, unformatted text.

If you think about it one layer lower, it stores a sequence of bytes, since each character is 1 byte. You can open text files in a hex editor, and it will show the plain text, very similar to what you see in a text editor like Notepad, along with the corresponding ASCII hex values for those characters.

One layer lower than this, the .txt file is an actual sequence of bytes stored on a disk. The file system (NTFS, exFAT, APFS, ext4, etc.) determines the exact format of how it's stored, how the disk keeps track of where the file starts and ends (or starts, stops, picks back up, stops again, etc. if it's not stored continuously), and all those details.

You can go a layer deeper and ask, "what is physically happening when data is stored on a hard drive platter?" How does the hard drive physically read from and write to the magnetic platter?

When you want to learn about something on the computer, it helps to think in terms of, "how does what I'm doing connect to the abstraction layer below it?" Some abstraction layers are good "trunks" that connect to a lot of higher level concepts, so you don't have to learn a bunch of low level stuff every time you encounter a new high level concept you want to get familiar with. The main example of this is building software of course. Once you have made a desktop application with menus, buttons, system calls, and event handling, you will understand the lower layer when you encounter those things on your computer.

Winco on Washington and Buffalo is right between your home and work. For the most part, they have lower prices than any other grocery store. They sell candy by package in the candy aisle or by weight in the bulk section (no minimum quantities in the bulk section either). Also lots of components for making your own candy if you want to try that. Selection is about the best you're going to find without going to a dedicated candy store. You'll also find better prices on groceries than anywhere else in the city.

Well, since it would be a new site, created by me with my shit marketing skills, it would remain obscure enough never to be botted.

But for a more technical answer, any anti-bot, anti-cheat, anti-hack measure in any big platform, there is no single solution. There are fundamentals (requiring email verification to make an account, banning for rapid posting, basic account security) that any platform will implement from the start. Anything you implement will get circumvented eventually though.

This requires continual effort, detecting when botters have found ways around your countermeasures and then implementing new security. Any solution aggressive enough to have an impact will also negatively impact user experience when first implemented and will require fine tuning. Sometimes compromises will have to be made, allowing some bot posts in order to avoid too many false positives.

Bot traffic also comes and goes for a lot of platforms, depending on factors like controversies related to the community making the news. During a time that is particularly bad, you may need to implement temporary measures that are more strict that normal, such as freezing of account creation or having stricter posting limits.

If you get the guard card from PILB ahead of time, you'll get traction a lot faster with security companies than if you apply without having your licensing sorted yet. Every security company application will ask if you already have your guard card. You don't need it for some in-house security jobs, but given how easy it is to get, and how chaotic the job market is, you might as well get it. Ya never know when you might need to get a new job in a hurry. You can do the course/test online, and you can get the fingerprinting done at various security fingerprinting places around town. All the information is on the PILB website. The whole process costs less than $100.

As for pay for higher-end security jobs, I am not 100% sure, but I do know that there are specialized security roles that involve operating sophisticated camera setups or other security infrastructure and require a lot more technical sophistication than normal security jobs. There are also private security details for VIPs, some of which are W2 roles for companies that contract with these folks. These positions can pay well, since they need people who are more prepared for danger while also maintaining a very professional appearance and behavior. Armed security jobs do pay more, but that isn't always the biggest factor determining pay. An armed guard at 7-Eleven will not be making as much as a security supervisor who manages a large industrial facility but doesn't need a gun. Some places also have an automatic starting pay bump of $1-2 per hour if you have a military background.

I've written systems like this. Automation is not always about completely removing the human from the process. Manual checks can be important, both as a general quality control step, and also to maintain regulatory compliance in some contexts. Even an automation that doesn't actually save time on paper due to these manual checks may ultimately be super useful if it reduces error rates by automating some small error-prone component of the workflow.

That has been my experience too. Human-written code is meant to be edited by hand. Well-written code is set up so that someone can go in, figure out what's going on, and make changes to it. The AI can be cajoled into doing this somewhat, but it's just not the same. I've had really good luck with totally AI-generated modules though. Like, if there is a module that all fits in one file, maybe 100 lines, that does some very specific thing with specific rules about how it interfaces with the rest of my code, none of which will change, the AI does pretty well.

haha I was also immediately like, "that is Factorio."

> i am not from Vegas.

We know.