I have a 30 minute drive each way to work. This is an opportunity to relax and listen to my wife. Sometimes she isn't available and I just drive quiet. No radio. This helps me be more aware I think.

These drives have allowed me to notice how drivers seems to be getting worse. My biggest peeve being the tailgaters. It just makes zero sense to do this. My theory is there is a lack of knowledge about physical consequences to mechanical interactions. They don't have the frame of reference to understand the danger they put themselves or others into. Or they don't care. I dunno which. Probably some kind of combination.

Why am I thinking about this today? Because I have identified a new class of dumb driver today. Motorcyclists that tailgate. I had this guy get behind me and was getting a little too close. Then the guy decides to get closer. Plenty of room to pass me for miles. I think he is taking the next exit. I am going about 2 or 3 over speed limit on cruise. So he gets between 1 to 3 motorcycle lengths behind my car.

Normally I would be peeved and lower my cruise speed with the decel button. But one of my biggest fears is hitting a bike. So I have no desire to change my speed at all. The guy already seems a bit daft. I also am a bit comforted that it is a bike tailgating me and not a car or truck. Why? Because at worst this bike would leave a "conversation dent" on the back of my car. Some story to tell people. Not a big threat to my safety.

We go past the exit and he is still behind me. Backs off a bit and isn't tailing so close. But he keeps getting close off and on. I get to my exit and he goes past continuing on his way. Thank you for not going the same way I was going today, stupid dumb fuck.

Motorcyclists like to complain we don't see them. We do, and a lot of them drive like shit. Doing unexpected things like this. We see you bro.

Then I see this video today:
https://reddit.com/r/WTF/...

You can judge the driver all you want. I can see both sides of this altercation claiming to be in the right. However, the motorcyclist did one thing that is stupid. He chose to pick a fight he couldn't win. This is survival 101. If you are outclassed don't be an aggressor. What is interesting about this is the driver of the van may have thought the cyclist was reaching for a weapon and acted accordingly. It was already a bad situation. Even if the cyclist was completely in the right he chose to make the situation worse, much worse.

The driver of the van was arrested. It will be interesting to see what happens in this case. The comments in the thread are really interesting. The bikers in the group saying the cyclist was being stupid. Bringing a bike to a van fight. My initial reaction was against the van. Having watched the video a few times I see how the van driver could see the biker as a threat.

The bottom line: neither of these drivers were in their right mind while driving. They should have chosen to deescalate the situation and not make it worse.

This kind of stuff reminds me I need to not get all pissed off when driving. I don't want random people thrust into my life. People are nuts and they just gotta be right. They will go to their grave insisting they had the right of way.

When I see someone post something about a grammar nazi I think about a grandma dressed in a nazi uniform. Where grammar is a substitute for grandma. I wanted to produce this image using AI.

The challenge was to get chatgpt to produce such an image. It will refuse to produce any image with the tag "nazi". (Seriously, we pay for a company to lecture us on morals about imagery. openai stole most of their data and they want to get high and mighty? Also, a whistleblower died in connection with openai. Yeah, they are the "good" guys. lol.)

How did I get around their bullshit? Don't use the term nazi. I told it to produce an image of a grandma dressed in the world war 2 german uniform. That is it. It will happily do this. lol

So I present to you "grammar nazi":
https://devrant.molodetz.nl/grammar...

Been enjoying the ATM10 (MInecraft) modpack. I got my armor and weapons up and thought I was doing okay. Until an Apotheosis boss enderman humbled me. Two hits I was dead. This is because Apotheosis has a world tier. I had it set to highest. It gives mobs huge bonuses, but they also drop way better stuff.

So I worked on getting my weapons and armor a lot tougher. Jacked all the stats on them. So I decided to test my new armor setup on the Warden. Well, it was anticlimactic. I one shot him with my sword. What?! Then I worked on the sword more. Now its at least twice as strong and criticals do like 300% damage. Sword damage is like 170. Plus it will do 25% damage based upon targets hitpoints. I think it might one shot the ender dragon now. I need to test this on the Apoth bosses though. There are other bosses in the game that have like 15K hitpoints. It will be interesting to see how I do against them.

Yeah, the modpack cranks up your stats when you use certain mods. But they are required for the nasty things they add. Regular mobs are not a challenge once you scale up stats though.

Its not really a boss centered pack. It is more automation oriented. There is a dungeon in the game that has hundreds of spawners though.

When is the AI copyright apocalypse going to occur? We have AI models trained on thousands of TBs of dubiously sourced data. This leads it to be a proceduralized plagiarism and copyright evasion system.

Obviously not everyone has done this. Can we prove people did or didn't though?

Here is a list of some of the suits:
https://bakerlaw.com/services/...

Kind of interesting.

Days since @retoor has made fun of someones' manhood on devrant: 69

Linux weirdness of yesterday. I was copying files from one file manager to another. If the managers weren't the same file manager they couldn't see each others copy and paste selections. Which is kind of odd. I am not used to copy paste being incompatible on the platforms I use. One of those managers was Dolphin and another with a generic name called Files. So I don't know if this is KDE weirdness or what. Since I transitioned from Gnome I have like 3 file managers I use because each one has different features I like. Yeah, probably not great for file copying. I just never imagined they wouldn't work together.

So 20 years ago people were laughing about the reviews on Amazon for sugarless gummy bears. I decided to check to see if anything in that regard has changed. I selected two brands to look at reviews. Both brands in the first few reviews had a great amount of entertaining reviews. I was reminded once again of how despite people having issues with them for over 20 years that they continue to sell.

This just reminds me of why products that are seemingly broken still have a market. Its not just our industry. Its all industries.

Embedded is so fun...
You get to use Code Composer from TI...
How do you add "system" variables and not break your project when someone else downloads it from the repo?

Edit the .cproject file.

TI: Please don't edit the .cproject file, but do it to fix this garbage shit mess.

This is a really inspiring recap of Minecraft history. I was disappointed it didn't cover the modding scene. Which is huge and I believe a big part of the success of Minecraft. This narrator is really naive to think Notch is racist. I was really disappointed by that take. Notch refused to go along with the woke crowd (which is cancer). What is funny is the guy claims he had racist tweets. None of the tweets were nonfactual. People want to label hard truths as racist. They are not.

https://youtube.com/watch/...

Fun to watch to see where it came from. My big take away was the CEO of a company he worked for encouraged him to pursue his game. So a non dick CEO helped him go after his project. This in turn made this CEO close to, if not a billionaire himself.

Notch spend 10 years go after something. Which changed gaming forever.

FUCK!!! I have the Minecraft bug right now! I got tired of Cyberpunk and want to automate shit in ATM10! If Minecraft ever gets a really good RPG mod(s) with immersive world gen it will be a killer game. I like open sandbox, but that gets tiring after a while.

One mod I like a lot right now is Modular Routers. Its a fake player on steroids. That combined with resource gen mods is a lot of fun to automate.

I also found a magic mod that lets you build islands in the sky that gets filled with villagers. Seems like a fun thing to play with.

Then there is Apotheosis that helps you build super OP gear. Like a pick axe with fortune 25 on it.

Some doctor dropped a video online that says 1 egg per week (whole egg) can prevent dementia by like 47%. I guess I need to eat more eggs. Doh!

What I don't get it what the 47% actually means. Is this a chance of a person getting something in a population? So lets say the chance of dementia is 10%. Does that mean eating an egg will reduce this chance to 6.3?

So I thought up a game for work.
I am calling it: "Head, Rear, or Other"
When you hear a random noise at work that sounds organic you can classify it as:
1. Head - a noise that comes out of the head
2. Rear - a noise that comes out of the rear
3. Other - unknown or unspecified noise source

Can be combos if need. Such as "Head or Rear".

So the first thing my coworker did was make motions like he had gas. I said "Head".

These are the scopes of knowing if you are stupid.

1. you know your stupid about some things.
2. there are things you don't know about, or that you are stupid about those things. but you can still conceive about these things as not known and that you may be stupid about them.
3. tailgaters, they don't know they are stupid and they don't have the ability to know they are stupid. also these are the people that took life science instead of physics in high school.

Had quick stuffed mushrooms with cheese and ham in them. Marked safe from self caused rapid explosions today.

not @b2plane...

https://devrant.molodetz.nl/needfib...

Happy Easter
Happy Hitler's Birthday
Happy 420 day

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the Flying Circus is on Amazon Prime right now.

Started taking ginko. I am finding I am much less annoyed by other people. This is interesting. I also want to learn more things.

Dang I felt like shit today. Gotta cold. Talked to doctor to make sure not strepp. He said I have to go to work tomorrow. I told him I got the wrong doctor then. He laughed. I went to doc because this morning I was wheezing when I exhaled. He said its just gunk in my throat. Lungs are fine.

Went to store for about an hour and felt like horrible shit when I got home. Lame.

Made tortilla pizzas today!

tortilla
pizza sauce
cheddar/Colby shredded cheese
pepperoni
sausage
Parmesan

Baked 7 minutes at 420 F.

Gave me a reason to speak with a Mexican accent and hold my finger likes this 🤌.

My kid who didn't want to try them said it was good. Thumbs up!

ostream, are you visiting the USA?
Some dude in NYC got caught on camera sexually violating a dude that died on the subway.

Scrotumborn
(stolen from reddit, but this is some funny shit!)

Tasty quick treat:
1. mushroom (wash remove stem)
2. cheese (stuff into mushroom cavity)
3. microwave (15 to 30 seconds to melt cheese)
4. eat (nom nom nom)

My first go was 2 mushrooms with gouda and blue cheese. Cooked 30 seconds. Was a nice little treat.

What is the difference between an Italian chef and a StackOverflow Programmer? One letter: cut n' pasta vs cut n' paste.

Was thinking about in game scripting language so people can do "hacking". I figured I would use something like V8 since it has support for sandboxing. But in game I would call it JankyScript/JankScript. That way nobody gets mad about trademark.

I think it would really funny. And JS purists won't get out of whack if I add commands to it.

Which is better: JankyScript or JankScript?
I like them both.

Finally forced myself to play one ending of Cyberpunk. Kinda felt underwhelming with no real impact on the world. All the player's motivations are pretty selfish. Got tired of playing and started playing Minecraft again. ATM10.

ATM10 has shaders and tons of cool mods. Plus rewards for doing basic shit so getting started takes less time. I will see how long before I get bored of Minecraft again.

Been taking tons of notes on gameplay I want, and don't want. I feel like a fun/epic rpg would be great with base and vehicle building.

Why did the programmer go broke?
He used up all his cache reserves.

So today I got to talking about "plane jacking" with a coworker. To me it has always been called hijacking a plane. I have heard of car jacking though. For some reason plane jacking sounded like masturbation in a plane. Don't know why.

Me: So calling it plane jacking is going to lead to someone attempting to join the plane jacking mile high club and having the toilet damage their penis due to sucking.

Coworker: Nobody is long enough to have their penis reach into there...

Me: I am so sorry. I feel bad for you.

Coworker: ...

Me: That was really good wasn't it?

Coworker: Yeah, but I hate it. <laughs>

How much should I be concerned with protecting the OS filesystem from being fragmented by writing large amounts of data to multiple files?

I am using a filesystem that I think is either ext2 or ext3. I need to convert files that might be as large as 1GB to csv. Not sure how big the files will be. Right now the existing conversion code uses fprintf to do every single line of these files (ugh...). I would like to do bulk conversions and then write to disk. I am assuming 8GB of system ram, with probably half that free at any time.

I plan on adding a feature to do bulk conversions (multiple files in sequence). Wondering if I can do these in parallel and write after conversion. So would need to store in ram. Only write one at a time. I feel like this would be better on the filesystem. I was stage writing. If files are large enough I wonder how many I can stage at once. Have not been given an example file yet.

Am I overthinking or should I be treating the filesystem with kit gloves?

My chocolate covered bacon is cooling right now: