It’s actually not that hard to figure-out which file in the torrent they give you is the one book you want, by which I mean, I don’t recall exactly how, but my dumb-ass figured it out and did it a few times.

If you didn’t know, you don’t have to download and seed every file in a given torrent. In fact, a lot of torrents seem “broken” because .nfo’s, .txt’s, Extras and/or Samples aren’t being seeded.

deleted by creator

deleted by creator

When Asahi started, the M1 chips were so good they might as well have been the only ARM-based-that-can-run-x86/x64-code-CPUs in-town. Last I checked, the M-series were still consistetly near the top of the stack of such chips, and look even better when you account for price.

Your argument works even better versus the Snapdragon X, but that’s Microsoft’s current fav, so … ?

Thanks for spelling-out the stupid for me. My brain was hung-up on the correct way to un-fuck logic I would rather not understand, for a moment. “Too stupid for words” came to mind, and the phrase just sorta … hung out, wasting time.

TF did I just read? Is that for real?

You had me until “out of office” … “from a great height” was right there!!

I don’t goon, I don’t like the gameplay for most of them, and I only play trash games on my phone, no-where else. Have you SEEN the install sizes of the mobile versions of these games? I don’t think I’ve seen ONE that didn’t leave me wondering why the developers bothered.

When I’ve got Human Resource Machine, Really Bad Chess, Wordle, Sudoku and more, do I really need 30gb for 2B’s enhanced jiggle physics?

You’ve seriously got the wrong idea about me and what I was trying to say to you. I’m not trying to elevate liars, just people, versus the worthlessness of lies and petty truths that aren’t helful.

You have suffered because you are too wrapped-up in one of the Three Sieves of Socrates . Most lies aren’t worth calling out because doing so is not kind or helpful - particularly the lies that good people tell themselves to get through the day.

I never said you should or had to lie to get by, be a good person, or have a full understanding. I won’t even pretend I’m too wrapped-up in the concept of trying to be a good person, BUT, the wicked man still knows what goodness looks like, and I personally dis-like watching good people suffer, almost as much as I dis-like watching “good” people disparage others over something that basically amounts to LOUDLY MIS-UNDERSTANDING THINGS.

right, everyone is a liar, because you lie. and if they don’t lie, they suck.

au contraire, I am merely a vaguely reasonable person who wastes time begging idiots like you to notice and acknowlege simple facts laid-out by studies throughout both of our lifespans and before. I happened to have learned about some of them before middle-school, and so I’ve been at this versus self-righteous cretins for a looong time.

How DARE I ask you to make life a little easier for everyone, starting with yourself?

this is exactly how all my exes told me too. everyone cheats! if you aren’t doing it, you’re a chump! and anyone who is better than me, is shitty.

notice how in this, you’re always right, and everyone else is wrong? funny how convenient that works out for you.

So wait, you mean EVERYONE who has been in a position to tell you anything about your own bullshit, over-the-top reactions to this topic has had the same response? Literally, everyone else is wrong, as you’ve put it - I’m not the one alone in my world-view here.

Look, if you can’t look in the mirror, could you at least pick a narrative? I was bored with your incoherent gibberish days and days-ago. If self-honesty and intro-spection are such hateful topics to you, maybe don’t interact with them, but calling people who are honest with you about the potential for dis-honesty out as pathological liars just makes you look stupid, ignorant, and even likely in-sincere.

If I lie, I’ve committed to doing the work to make it true(the optimist’s conceit), at least enough to let the other person pretend they don’t know better. When you lie, its because you can’t even be bothered to notice or admit that’s what’s happened. No wonder you’re alone.

Any company that sent me this far-into the weeds for them ghosted me or replied with un-reasonable terms when I came up with something appropriate. Usually they replied with a whole boiler-plate they had on-hand, but apparently wanted to pretend it was a negotiation, until they didn’t. A couple times, the legal department on the other end got shitty with everyone and tried to act like their company had never and would never interact with a contractor who hadn’t already signed terms I found exploitative and walked-away from when they wouldn’t budge.

There are plenty of licenses out there that would work, but when you’re two-companies removed from the legal offices of the company with the ultimate say, its never as simple as trusting your friend. That said, my limitted experiences with similar situations never involved an insider I was close with, so I mean it when I say I wish you the best of luck.

You’re always gonna need to be ready or at least able to stop and ask yourself, were the favors that big, or did they just tell you they were? It’s the middle of the weekend and you’re fretting over this instead of spending your own time how you see fit or coding for profit.

A company that’s asking you to figure this stuff out for them isn’t necessarilly going to sign-off on anything too reasonable, but I’ll agree my advice was more suited for after that happens.

Real serious reply right there. I don’t have time for your non-sense, let alone to engage with it by way of an alt. This Orange man method of confession-by-way-of-accussation is pathetic.

“My lawyer will need to talk to your legal department, he charges $xxx per hour…” If you think I’m being snarky, I’m really not. Your entitled client is hoping to force you to, or let you, do something stupid so they can hang you out to dry or wring you out for free or discount labor, maybe even a “small guy like you should be willing to pay us for the oportunity to do this work”.

I’m not saying to pretend you are a lawyer, I’m saying to get one, and if its all above-board, things will work-out. If it ends up a “missed opportunity”, then it was never really an opportunity in the first place.

Maybe I’m just cynical, but I’ve always made double or triple the $$-per-hour as a contractor than I have as a W2. Some “clients”, head-hunters, and would-be “lead-finding services” would try to interact with me as though being a contractor just meant I was jobless, which, maybe they would have been right, in a world where I had or made the time to interact with people set on wasting it like so…

Read that last sentence again; By entertaining their non-sense, their assumptions about how they can get-away with exploiting you become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Hire a lawyer or become one. You can be out some money paying the lawyer(which becomes overhead expense to factor-into what money the client should owe you, in beautiful black-and-white contract/invoice form that let’s you sleep at night), or you can be out time, near-infinite amounts of time, doing your client’s homework on-top-of the programming they ostensibly are paying you for. Everything you care about suffers in the second version, including your code quality.

… and now we’re talking about your previous comment getting more positive traction than it deserved. Seriously though, you don’t think the meddling in Oceania involves China? I gotta see this…

That’s the thing that’s got me wondering what the problem could be here. Oh no, they might switch-out their ICBM launch rockets and use the old ones for boosters to get other payloads to orbit? THE HORROR

People like you just demand to be lied to and will never admit when things are contrary to what they expect. Thinking you’re really more truthful than others is just huffing your own farts.

I don’t gaslight people - I come clean and what’s this? I’m never called-out on things I’ve actually lied about - for anything that matters I was almost-always just wrong about something, genuinely confused, but good luck getting me to help you lie to yourself in a way that hurts people. Can you claim any of that with a straight face? Do you even own your mistakes, like ever? Doubt.

Nah, my wife is much more like you, and it’s often exhausting, although she’s learned a bit across the decades.

You’re a little old to be equating the capacity to lie to get by, doing even the bare minimum to preserve your own and others’ dignity, and feelings, with “being shitty”. As if euphemism and metaphore are just “cool story-telling tricks we developed for some reason”, or human recall doesn’t make AI hallucinations look almost par for the course of actual intelligence.

No wonder you’re single.

You don’t build on the bullshit and lies, but around it. It’s a pain-in-the-ass, but so is dealing with a snitch who is incapable of lying. Personally, I tell my wife and kids to throw me under the bus as needed to get them out of awkward conversations and commitments they don’t want to make. “My dad won’t let me do that” works a treat. The latest was “my dad won’t let me commit insurance fraud”(like I particularly care about insurance fraud, but my limits are surprisingly more restrictive than some we know who would never admit it).