mkhopper

mkhopper , 4 days ago

It flies under the radar, but I really liked him as the crooked warden in Lock Up.

mkhopper , 30 days ago

I’m just waiting for Captain Trips.

mkhopper , 1 month ago

Aside from the fact that the “whisker” looks completely edited, what’s worse is if you zoom in, it looks as if someone has trimmed back this cat’s real whiskers.

That must be a nightmare for this cat.

mkhopper , 2 months ago

But if it’s locked up, it takes too much work when you want to wave it around feeling badass.

mkhopper , 2 months ago

And to think they got away with it.

mkhopper , 2 months ago

I made the mistake of juicing raw potatoes once, figuring the other vegetable juices like beets and carrots would mask any of the potato flavor.

Won’t ever do that again.

mkhopper , 2 months ago

Funny how surgeons don’t seem to have the problems this flyer describes.
And I better not open this person’s closet and find a single scarf.

How anyone can still believe this shit just confounds me.

mkhopper , 2 months ago

Not “Eclipse”, the last track from Dark Side. Just over two minutes, which will a little longer than the amount of time my area will have totality.

mkhopper , 3 months ago

If only we had vaccines for this.
Oh, wait.

mkhopper , 4 months ago

Tell me someone is ‘fuck you rich’ without telling me they’re ‘fuck you rich’.

mkhopper , 4 months ago

But what is animal consciousness in terms of being self-aware? Pigs are damn smart, but I’m not sure they’re on the list of animals that exhibit self-awareness.

Also, the article merely states that blood flow to the brain was interrupted, not that the head was removed, which, I’m guessing, is why brain activity was largely unchanged.
If the head was still attached to the spine, then I would assume that all the nerves were still functioning normally. As normal as they would in an anesthetized pig that is, with no interference from outside stimulus. In this study, the animal was quietly sleeping. I can’t imagine any reputable doctor of science today doing such a thing to a conscious animal or human.

And, in one of the linked articles, it talks about how this research can further work on better life saving techniques for humans by developing much better blood and oxygen machines used during complicated surgeries.
So long as the animal is treated respectfully, I have no issue in using animals for research that help human medicine.

mkhopper , 5 months ago

If anyone ever thinks differently, this video should convince you.
If you work for a corporation, you are not a person with a name, you are a number. And that number is the amount of money given to you as pay and benefits.

And when the corporation no longer likes your number, you can be unceremoniously shown the door, regardless of your past performance.

mkhopper , 5 months ago

Time to start seeing just how “mandatory” they’re talking.

That or I would just have one stock answer every week. “I like to keep my personal life out of your fucking meetings.”

mkhopper , 5 months ago

Same. I read a few subs that haven’t yet fully grown here on Lemmy, but I don’t post.

mkhopper , 5 months ago

Greed.

No, no. Unabashed greed.

No, take it all the way. Fuck the little people to support my unabashed greed.

mkhopper , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Strap in friends, because this one is a wild ride.

I had stepped into the role of team lead of our IS dept with zero training on our HP mainframe system (early 90s).
The previous team lead wasn’t very well liked and was basically punted out unceremoniously.
While I was still getting up to speed, we had an upgrade on the schedule to have three new hard drives added to the system.

These were SCSI drives back then and required a bunch of pre-wiring and configuration before they could be used. Our contact engineer came out the day before installation to do all that work in preparation of coming back the next morning to get the drives online and integrated into the system.

Back at that time, drives came installed on little metal sleds that fit into the bays.
The CE came back the next day, shut down the system, did the final installations and powered back up. … Nothing.
Two of the drives would mount but one wouldn’t. Did some checking on wiring and tried again. Still nothing. Pull the drive sleds out and just reseat them in different positions on the bus. Now the one drive that originally didn’t mount did and the other two didn’t. What the hell… Check the configs again, reboot again and, success. Everything finally came up as planned.

We had configured the new drives to be a part of the main system volume, so data began migrating to the new devices right away. Because there was so much trouble getting things working, the CE hung around just to make sure everything stayed up and running.

About an hour later, the system came crashing down hard. The CE says, “Do you smell something burning?” Never a good phrase.
We pull the new drives out and then completely apart. One drive, the first one that wouldn’t mount, had been installed on the sled a bit too low. Low enough for metal to metal contact, which shorted out the SCSI bus, bringing the system to its knees.

Fixed that little problem, plug everything back in and … nothing. The drives all mounted fine, but access to the data was completely fucked,
Whatever… Just scratch the drives and reload from backup, you say.

That would work…if there were backups. Come to find out that the previous lead hadn’t been making backups in about six months and no one knew. I was still so green at the time that I wasn’t even aware how backups on this machine worked, let alone make any.

So we have no working system, no good data and no backups. Time to hop a train to Mexico.

We take the three new drives out of the system and reboot, crossing all fingers that we might get lucky. The OS actually booted, but that was it. The data was hopelessly gone.

The CE then started working the phone, calling every next-level support contact he had. After a few hours of pulling drives, changing settings, whimpering, plugging in drives, asking various deities for favors, we couldn’t do any more.

The final possibility was to plug everything back in and let the support team dial in via the emergency 2400 baud support modem.
For the next 18 hours or so, HP support engineers used debug tools to access the data on the new drives and basically recreate it on the original drives.
Once they finished, they asked to make a set of backup tapes. This backup took about 12 hours to run. (Three times longer than normal as I found out later.)
Then we had to scratch the drives and do a reload. This was almost the scariest part because up until that time, there was still blind hope. Wiping the drives meant that we were about to lose everything.
We scratched the drives, reloaded from the backup and then rebooted.

Success! Absolute fucking success. The engineers had restored the data perfectly. We could even find the record that happened to be in mid-write when the system went down. Tears were shed and backs were slapped. We then declared the entire HP support team to be literal gods.

40+ hours were spent in total fixing this problem and much beer was consumed afterwards.

I spent another five years in that position and we never had another serious incident. And you can be damn sure we had a rock solid backup rotation.

(Well, there actually was another problem involving a nightly backup and an inconveniently placed, and accidentally pressed, E-stop button, but that story isn’t nearly as exciting.)

mkhopper , 6 months ago

No kidding. Where I’m working now, it takes an HP CE over a week just to bring out a new hot swappable drive after we jump through a number of request hoops.

mkhopper , 7 months ago

What distro are you running as your daily driver?

mkhopper , 7 months ago

I support Biden not because he’s an anti-Trump, but because he’s a genuinely good man who gets things done. He knows how to work the system and gets results.

As do I. The problem this time around though will be the number of younger independent and third party runners that might end up pulling votes from the “Biden is too old” crowd. And unfortunately, every vote not for Biden is a vote for Trump.

mkhopper , 7 months ago

All, the, fucking, time.

mkhopper , 7 months ago

It isn’t “bad”, as it does have a purpose. It’s just fucking annoying to work with.

docs.platform.sh/learn/…/what-is-yaml.html

mkhopper , 7 months ago

Ahh, beat me to it.
We miss ya, George.

mkhopper , 7 months ago

The coloring on the back haunch looks like a hamburger patty, so I would go with “Burger”.

mkhopper , 7 months ago

This right here is the reason I call for permanent DST.
I’m at latitude 42N and having less daylight time in the evenings during the warm months would be awful.

mkhopper , 7 months ago

I swear, this family will pull anything out of their ass to delay when they know they’re guilty as hell.

mkhopper , 8 months ago

This right here. Reddit started with very general based topics and only later did smaller niche subs take off.

Lemmy will get there. It’s just a matter of time and it’s only been a few months since the Great Reddit Migration of '23.
By this time next year, or maybe 18 months out, once instances become normalized and settled, with user tools to help find and organize them, Lemmy will then start to cause large dents in Reddit’s user base.

mkhopper , 8 months ago

Rice milk not an option?
Literally a waste of time.

mkhopper , 8 months ago

Don’t put your dick in that.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

This is a bit misleading.
Workers that are laid off do get unemployment pay. They’re not just thrown into the wind.
But this was definitely a calculated move by the union with the targeted strikes, forcing the auto companies to dip into their unemployment funds to pay those workers who were laid off rather than let the union foot the whole bill with a wholesale strike.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

You? You’re all right.
This one? Real fuckin’ ugly.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

This looks like an IRL Far Side comic.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

Having your own router/access point can’t be stressed enough.

And, you don’t even need their modem. Sure it’s an additional outlay of cash, but buying your own modem gets you a nice upgrade and no worries about someone connecting to the Xfinity access point that’s bundled in their equipment.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

No, and I don’t miss it at all.
I’ve used BT headphones even when my last two devices had jacks and wouldn’t want to go back.
Prior to that, I can’t count the number of times I would snag the wires on something or get them tangled in some way.

Now I use my BT bone conduction headphones everywhere.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

500Gb maybe.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

It could be in large red flashing neon and people will still ignore instructions like this.
Even if the trash dumpster is a mere 50 feet away.

People just don’t care. Once it’s out of their hands, no matter where it ends up, it’s someone else’s problem.

One complex where I used to live, our trash dumpster was a full on compactor, very nicely concealed behind a small hill. Signs leading up would say, “No cardboard!” Signs plastered all over the machine, “No cardboard!” Yet, at least once, if not twice a week, the thing would be clogged because people would toss in boxes by the truckload. Not even broken down.
Meanwhile, just around the corner, a specific dumpster meant for cardboard only that would take all of 10 more seconds to get to.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

nun?

mkhopper , 9 months ago

Ugh, I once made the mistake of not checking what I was ordering at a bar.
Sour pumpkin beer. I know that many people like sours, and I like some pumpkins, but together, I’m out.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

I’ll use Google maps to check for traffic on my route before leaving, but that’s all.

If I’m going somewhere I’ve been more than two or three times, I don’t use GPS.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

I think of all the times I did that working on my cars years ago.
It was just something you did and no one ever even blinked. Old oil, gas, brake fluid, etc, right down the storm drain.

Now I think back and shudder.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

Next year is going to be epic.
I see it as episode 10 of what will be the eventual mini-series.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

I just finished this book the other day.
I found it about 400 pages too long, but the aspect of the humans being at least on par with the jellies was refreshing.

mkhopper , 9 months ago

I asked my 79 y/o mother if she knew. She didn’t even blink. “Because they’re not blue.”

Impossible to argue with that logic.

mkhopper , 10 months ago

“Plane crash” must be another term for “lead poisoning of the brain”, which likely occurred weeks ago.

mkhopper , 10 months ago

Robocop, Trains, Planes and Automobiles, Dances with Wolves.

mkhopper , 10 months ago

Apps don’t suck if they work.
If an app looks great and flashy but functionally is garbage, then what’s the point.

Give me a plain looking app that works well every time.

Looking forward to grabbing this when it’s available.

mkhopper , 10 months ago

No, but remember, those 70% will likely vote for the assbag, no matter how the legal matters fall out.

Another four year term from Trump would be absolutely disastrous. After being sworn in, I wouldn’t be at all surprised if, instead of making a speech, he simply took a copy of the Constitution and just tore it up.

mkhopper , 10 months ago

So if he goes to federal prison, do the secret service members who are part of his detail draw straws to see who else gets to spend time being bars?

mkhopper , 10 months ago

Who the hell cuts pizza?
Fold, eat.