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Chill Annoying

Frustrated Rant!

That course really bites ass and is extremely difficult. It covers everything under the sun and you have to be able to read Javascript programs with no ability to run them and figure out what they do. And the same for determining what snippets of CSS do. This is actually quite hard.

I passed it by a lot, but I wasn’t confident in it as you have to learn a huge amount of material across three extremely large areas of study and just hope you studied the right things.

Copy This, Copy That

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Tech

I’ve now written two different extensions for Firefox (both signed, but none of them publicly released as I just don’t need that kind of drama). One copies text and converts it to title case. The other takes text from a page copied into the clipboard and turns it into a plain-text anchor link with the copied-from page as the link target and the text properly formatted with punctuation.

Neither one is really that sophisticated but both do exactly what I want them to do. And it was so much more of a hassle than it should’ve been for a browser running locally on my computer and in my control. Or, rather, should be in my control. I have nearly no power to alter what the browser UI can do so adding an icon for an extension to the non-existent status bar is now impossible. And all the fake security means I cannot substantially change the UI to do anything useful.

Even worse, to even run any extension permanently on my own goddamn machine I have to get Mozilla to sign it so it’ll persist beyond a Firefox restart (in regular editions of FF). It is fucking insane anyone puts up with this. I cannot understand it.

To use what the kids do these days, you are all cucks. Miserable, simpering ones.

No Comp

Chill Annoying, Clowns, Tech

It’s insane. But we’ve done it and are doing it.

I’m not worried about my job because there is zero competition behind me. No one can do the things I do and no one is learning them. The younger generations just have not had the opportunities, and in every aspect this decline is accelerating.

Height Filt

Chill Amusing, Annoying

Height filters are taking off on dating apps. Are they getting in the way of finding true love?

My thoughts are is that we should let the women obsessed with height have these filters. I mean, this no longer affects me directly unless my partner gets run over by a Cybertruck or decides she’s tired of a grumpy old paratrooper.

As we all know, though, many women are in fact extremely fixated to an unhealthy degree on height1, even to the point of shaming their “friends” who date someone they deem “not tall enough.” (Far more than men are allegedly obsessed with boobs.) And these are invariably intolerably terrible women.

So, men, my advice is so let these women sort themselves out of your lives. Sure, that might mean being single for longer. But why would you want to be with someone not really into you anyway?

These women are truly only hurting themselves. My advice is to let them. It is amusing to watch them carp about not being able to find anyone and then die alone.

  1. This article attempts to “both-sides” it but most men don’t give a crap about height, while many more women do.

Too Many Fails

Chill Annoying, Clowns

I’m 88 and Work With No Savings, Used to Have Half a Million Saved.

This is a sad story, but it’s also full of calamitously boneheaded financial decisions that led to inevitable doom. Flipping houses? Are you flipping crazy?

And pulling money from mutual funds to buy a house?

Also, she received a lump-sum payout of $800,000 in today’s dollars from a pension buyout, got a return of 10% to 12% annually and is broke now? Clownish. They must’ve lost vast amounts on that house flipping scheme.

You do the stupid, the stupid returns tenfold.

Battered Brain

Chill Annoying, Clowns

How the fuck did batteries get wrapped up in the culture war nonsense? I truly do think culture warring lowers IQ by 50 points.

If you’re against batteries, you’re a fucking idiot. Right or left, doesn’t matter: fucking idiot.

User Antics

Chill Annoying, Tech

End Users out in the World.

Working help desk or anything near help desk leads to general misanthropy. It did for me.

One time I had a user who angrily declared, “I don’t want to have to turn on my laptop. It’s stupid I have to do that.”

I asked him what he thought about having to turn on his lights or his position on being required to start his car if he wanted it to go anywhere. He reported my comments to my manager. Fortunately, my manager just laughed and told me it was better to say nothing when the users were being dumbasses.

That was way back in 2002 or so and I generally followed her counsel after that.