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New comment by ulizzle in "It will never be a good time to buy a house"

ulizzle — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 22:06:14 +0000

My mortgage is up a thousand bucks due to interest rates. It was a an FHA loan so it made sense at the time

New comment by ulizzle in "It will never be a good time to buy a house"

ulizzle — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:53:22 +0000

Well I didn’t think of it that way. I admit im sentimental about it but it’s not sounding too bad too sell now either

I’m in Austin, so my house went up in value quite a lot.

New comment by ulizzle in "A chatbot that can't say anything controversial isn't worth much"

ulizzle — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:39:59 +0000

Apparently. Without one, everyone ends up making their own.

Take UFOs for instance. Still absolutely no proof whatsoever that they exist but atheists are still obsessed with the topic.

New comment by ulizzle in "A chatbot that can't say anything controversial isn't worth much"

ulizzle — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:38:05 +0000

Funny enough, revenge is something people willingly starve themselves for if need be.

New comment by ulizzle in "It will never be a good time to buy a house"

ulizzle — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:22:13 +0000

I don’t want to sell, I was hoping to be buried in the backyard when I died.

New comment by ulizzle in "It will never be a good time to buy a house"

ulizzle — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:21:29 +0000

I don’t want to, but looks like I’ll have to, interest rates being what they are. I really liked the place, made a nice little garden for the first time in my life

But if yall think selling is a good idea, that’s a good omen

New comment by ulizzle in "It will never be a good time to buy a house"

ulizzle — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:12:18 +0000

Buying a house in 2019 was one of the top 5 worst decisions in my life

New comment by ulizzle in "Whisky: Wine supercharged with the power of Apple's game porting toolkit"

ulizzle — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 15:06:47 +0000

Port was what I was thinking. Can’t turn wine into whiskey. That’s not only impossible but grounds for a holy war between wine and whiskey aficionados

Plus it goes with the whole gaming port thing

New comment by ulizzle in "Napoleon: Two centuries of life after death"

ulizzle — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 14:56:58 +0000

In that case the Russians would have scorched Stalingrad, which they didn’t. They didn’t because of the symbolism behind it

New comment by ulizzle in "Napoleon: Two centuries of life after death"

ulizzle — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 14:39:11 +0000

That’s a good question. No, I wouldn’t. It’s not one of Ridley Scott’s best works. I’d say if you enjoyed kingdom of heaven then you may like it.

I’d rather watch “The Terror” again

New comment by ulizzle in "Napoleon: Two centuries of life after death"

ulizzle — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:35:27 +0000

Watched it yesterday and hated it. I was looking forward to it too based on the trailers but it turned out to be a big hit ahistorical hit piece.

For example, no matter what you think of the guy, Napoleon was a bonafide military genius. In the movie, they made him seem like just one more of the bunch. Napoleon was famous for never being bothered by the gore of battle and the buzzing of billets, in the same vein as general Grant. In the movie they made him seem like a scaredy cat

In “Waterloo” you could see why French soldiers joined his cause in droves. Extreme charisma

New comment by ulizzle in "A Light in the Woods"

ulizzle — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:30:38 +0000

I’m a big fan of point n click adventures.

Graphics are great, so either a talented team or someone very talented, but you have to wade thru 40 mins of exposition before starting the first chapter (you don’t have to but then what about the lore?)

New comment by ulizzle in "User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work"

ulizzle — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:23:28 +0000

The classic pair programming conundrum.

New comment by ulizzle in "Napoleon: Two centuries of life after death"

ulizzle — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:22:00 +0000

By the way, if anyone likes history flicks, I won’t recommend watching the new Napoleon, unless it’s a pirated hate watch.

The classic “Waterloo” remains undefeated

New comment by ulizzle in "Napoleon: Two centuries of life after death"

ulizzle — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 21:09:24 +0000

People were willing to die for the revolution and Napoleon. Apparently, self-determination and free will doesn’t apply if you don’t agree with their politics.

New comment by ulizzle in "The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation"

ulizzle — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 20:50:39 +0000

It was actually hilarious but I don’t think many people here got the irony

New comment by ulizzle in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

ulizzle — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 17:05:07 +0000

I actually think it's far better to pair program with ChatGPT instead of another human.

New comment by ulizzle in "People who voted for Brexit ‘more likely to be less intelligent’, study claims"

ulizzle — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 16:38:34 +0000

This is some seriously brazen propaganda. I'll give them points for courage.

New comment by ulizzle in "The bash book to rule them all"

ulizzle — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 16:31:48 +0000

What's a good useful difference between .bashrc and .bashprofile? I usually just ignore everything but the rc files.

New comment by ulizzle in "Things we always remind ourselves while coding"

ulizzle — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 16:26:11 +0000

That's a good description of modern software development. For any junior devs reading, this is the accurate presentation of the reality of software development for the most devs. There are exceptions, but they are either lucky and know it, lucky but with a superiority complex who think they have a monopoly on the truth, NPCs, or the usual gaggle of people who disagree with everything I post here anyway.

Think about it: How can JavaScript have so many innovations, yet practically no one has moved on from the scrum/kanban abomination in going on a decade? Perhaps more. Why