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  1. ShakyJake

    Fellowship

    How is character progression handled? What about items and gear? Do they carry over to subsequent runs?
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    IT: Welcome to Derry

    My question is, would children be using it liberally? I don't know. Just saying, as a kid during the 80s, I was pretty much oblivious to that word.
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    IT: Welcome to Derry

    OMG. "F" word means "fuck". Good grief.
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    IT: Welcome to Derry

    I thought this was fine. Disappointed if there were actual deaths at the end because I liked those kids. One thing I really dislike is the use of anachronistic swearing in period settings... it completely takes me out of it. Or maybe I was just sheltered as a child, but I don’t remember...
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    Peacemaker

    I wouldn't mind seeing a series with older versions of the heroes, like in Kingdom Come. Although I imagine it wouldn't appeal to younger viewers (but begs the question does the current stuff appeal to them? Seems not.)
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    The Long Walk (2025)

    I don't know, I enjoyed it. Ending was rather 'meh' though.
  7. ShakyJake

    Windows 11

    I used to build Gentoo from source. I think that's how it worked.
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    Windows 11

    Are you running the Plasma desktop? Linux Mint's default is Cinnamon which I quite like. But decided to try out Plasma and it's pretty kick ass. I've never been a big fan of KDE, but it's been years since I've played with it.
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    Windows 11

    I did an upgrade during Prime Day, got a new B850 motherboard and Ryzen 9 7900x. I typically go with Linux Mint, but...here we go: audio wasn't working. Apparently lacks support for the new Realtek ALC4080 chipset and I could NOT get it to work. So, installed the new flavor of the month...
  10. ShakyJake

    The Long Walk (2025)

    The Mist is one of my favorite horror movies. Short story it's based on was great as well.
  11. ShakyJake

    Investing General Discussion

    It's all long term. I sold enough to cover my original investment plus a tiny bit of profit.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    We had another RIF this week. The test department manager and a couple of senior testers were let go, while the devs went untouched.
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    Windows 11

    That's why I came to despise Windows 11. Inconsistent look of the menus and dialogs. Just a mishmash of new and old styling.
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    Investing General Discussion

    Need some advice: I hold several positions that have become very lofty (significantly appreciated). I’m reluctant to sell outright, but I recognize the need to lock in some profits. Instead, I’m considering selling covered calls on a portion of these positions. If I were selling shares...
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Yeah for me it was local, so it was wide open.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    We were coding in Lua for OpenWRT based routers. Dude was using vi for that coding directly on the router. I just mapped a sshfs drive and used Webstorm with a Lua plugin. Not a big deal.
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    What if I want to find all references to a public method? What if I need to dig into a base class and explore its overrides? What about debugging... can you step through the code and view variable assignments, etc?
  18. ShakyJake

    Peacemaker

    Relevant
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    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    Fuck no. An asshole at work wrote an entire codebase with "vi" and it was the biggest god damn mess I've ever seen. Kept telling me, "You'll learn to love it." I can appreciate the hate for the older Visual Studio, which has become extremely bloated. I personally use the JetBrains suite of...
  20. ShakyJake

    Peacemaker

    And why were they bothering looking for a Earth-like planet? If they *really* want to be rid of meta humans then throw them in the black hole door. No coming back from that period.
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    We're years away. Not suggesting this is happening overnight. And, Antropic's "Imagine" feature is where things are headed imo. There is no "application software". It's just data, and the AI will render whatever's necessary to fulfill the user's request.
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    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    I'm picturing user interfaces ditching the old desktop metaphor for something like Star Trek, where we just chat with AI, saying "show me this" or "do that," and it understands us... fast, natural, and super intuitive. No more clicking through menus.
  23. ShakyJake

    Peacemaker

    Vanessa Kirby has that same plastic look. Very distracting.
  24. ShakyJake

    Peacemaker

    For me the biggest twist is discovering it's a dude singing the theme song?
  25. ShakyJake

    Outer Range

    I just check every page. There's only 36 of them.
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    Outer Range

    This was cancelled FYI. And I'm fairly certain there already exists a thread for this.
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    Desktop Computers

    Thoughts? Finally below MSRP. Was hoping for the XT but they are still up there in price. Nevermind! PowerColor XT for $639. Close enough.
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    Desktop Computers

    Based on the Amazon Prime Day deals, now looking at: I realize the 7900X is Zen4, but doesn't seem Zen5 was a huge upgrade anyway? Alternate choice is the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D which is on sale for $338.
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    Desktop Computers

    Based on my research, I don't think that's true. But regardless, this PC will have a 6700 XT. I'm sure that's more than sufficient.
  30. ShakyJake

    Desktop Computers

    Alright, this is what I'm thinking about going with. Again, this isn't a gaming PC, mostly just a workstation for some software dev tinkering and the aforementioned Thinkorswim trading platform. Waiting on Prime Day to see if any of this stuff goes on sale. Also, decided on a 9700x instead of...
  31. ShakyJake

    AI: The Rise of the Machines... Or Just a Lot of Overhyped Chatbots?

    Has anyone checked out Claude 4.5 Sonnet's "Imagine" feature? I thought it was pretty dang amazing, and it lends to the idea that, in the future, applications will be created on the fly based on the backend data. I'm a software developer and our product owner is hinting at wanting us to update...
  32. ShakyJake

    Desktop Computers

    I'm not gaming on this PC, I have another for that. The main application that I want to run as best as possible is the Thinkorswim trading platform. It's a Java-based application and its performance is already God awful. From my understanding, single core performance is all that matters for...
  33. ShakyJake

    Desktop Computers

    Btw, what's up with ASUS? In the past, I usually went with Gigabyte or MSI anyway, as I had always seen ASUS as a premium brand and a bit overpriced.
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    Desktop Computers

    Yeah I'm thinking of going with the Ryzen 9900X and a MSI Tomahawk board.
  35. ShakyJake

    Desktop Computers

    Alright PC bros, need some feedback. I'm looking to upgrade my aging i7-8700K rig to something. This desktop PC isn't really used for games, but my main interest is raw, single thread performance. So, I'm thinking of the Core Ultra 7 265KF. Is there any reason to consider the alternative, the...
  36. ShakyJake

    Peacemaker

    Adding to the season's issues is the super short episodes.
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    The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

    I didn’t bother with this thread earlier because I skipped the theater release. Now, having suffered through the VOD release, I can confirm it’s utterly stupid. In no particular order: 1. This Earth has faster-than-light travel but, somehow, still uses clunky tube TVs. Retarded. 2. They FTL to...
  38. ShakyJake

    The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025)

    This is out on streaming FYI.
  39. ShakyJake

    IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

    All our work is "capitalized" (whatever the fuck that means), so stuff like Hackathons, etc are rarely approved.
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    Robotics and our new Robot Overlords

    Personally, I think robots, synthetics, or whatever we call them will be our successor species. They will be the ones to explore and colonize the galaxy. Humans are too fragile and short lived to perform such feats.