Valid point. Which makes it even dumber that I can’t buy corrective lenses with a prescription a doctor once gave me that arbitrarily expired. It’s not like eye prescriptions tend to change significantly, and if it’s like other drug prescriptions, no need to worry about me growing an addiction to contacts, I’m already there.

The thing is, if you’re eyes are unsuitable for contacts, you’ll know really quickly. I would think almost anyone that would buy contacts without an active prescription, has already tried contacts. You still have to know the numbers, so at some point there was an active prescription. I’ve never been to an eye doctor that didn’t give free contacts samples, so there’s that option too.

True for glasses, illegal for contacts. It’s the dumbest shit ever. I don’t need a prescription for band aids, why do I need one for eye correction?

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I think when it comes to the code that controls the navigation, control, detonation, etc, or our munitions, that perhaps that should not be publicly reviewable. Not because of hacking concerns, but it does give info to a potential enemy that could render them less effective.

I have a full, luscious beard. I maybe shaved less than a dozen times before I was 20. At some point, I just let it grow, and would knock everything down with the same length guard, increasingly getting bigger as the slow growing areas caught up.

Keep you neck trimmed to not look like a dirty neck beard. Before I had length, I’d shave everything a finger or two above my Adams apple, down. Find that line, about a finger about the apple, tilt your head to a side, and trim a straight line across the neck, then back the other way. That gives a bit of a natural curve in the neck. You can kind of eyeball that a bit too, but I would say don’t go to high and shave under your chin. If you do that, you get a chin strap and an Amish look that can appear thin.

Find the line for the top of your beard and keep that relatively clean. Something from the edge of your lips, angles up to your sideburns. I keep mine a bit higher, because if you get too low, you get a lot of cheeks and your back to a chin strap. The cheeks are the slowest to grow in, so it takes time.

For my stache, I like a big one, not a pencil thin one. Proportionally, a thin stache and a thick beard looks bad to me, but the trade off is I frequently compete with eating and keeping the handle bars out of my mouth. I’ve learned to cope, but things like a big burger will pull the handle bars in to your mouth.

That’s a lot of words to say, try to keep everything fairly even length, and slowly let the overall length get longer. Since your cheeks are established, you can let the rest grow, and either learn to maintain yourself, or find a good barber that can clean it for you. I do myself most of the time, because most barbers go too thin on my stache or take too much of the sides, and a get a pointy beard.

Edit: Also, get a dedicated beard wash. It will be less harsh than your 3 in 1. Then find a good beard oil or balm, and wet your beard before application, get a brush to brush it in, and a comb to make it tight. I like Badass Beard oil myself. I’ve used Honest Amish before and liked it, but the BA beard has some great scents. Everyman Jack is solid too. Not related to beards, but I’d get dedicated shampoo and conditioner instead of a 3 in 1 too. That stuff is not good for hair.

Turboprops are no less safe than your typical turbo engine. If that’s your concern, then I would suggest reading up on how they work just to ease your mind a bit. They are loud AF though. If that’s your issue, then ANC work well, but outside of that, a different flight may help.

Aw man, we need some of that everywhere.

I have a pixel 9. I use a case that is slim, but larger than the bezel so when I accidentally launch it off of my lap across the room, it will survive. I can’t do thick cases.

WTF is this dog shit title? It’s not the title of the article and gives literally no value to the content.

Ew. I didn’t think of it that way, but your right. Hopefully the seniors are tech smart and not just MS smart.

I hope so. I would have loved the opportunity to be in that position, and if I was still working as a sys admin, I’d still live it.

Assuming the IT staff isn’t comprised of a bunch of junior techs that only know the Microsoft suite and not the actual inner workings of how email and Linux works.

As a millennial, I’m starting to relate more and more. The world changes very quickly, and all of the sudden things you knew as fact have different meanings, and there are new words and stuff. It’s not all bad change, but it’s change, and odds are, I’m finding out something changed the hard way.

I think the biggest problem, is anytime you try and create a universal, low/no-code platform that anyone can use, it results in a poorly optimized, sandboxed, half cocked product. Sure, you can do anything with the platform, but half the time it’s like shoving a square peg in a round hole. I have had to write bad code and processes because that is the only way to get somethings done in the platform.

Also, if I go out and custom create an app, like say I create a fully loaded app for HR, and it’s similar to a product they sell, they will charge you for that product.

Need? None. There are certainly areas that “ai” tools excel at but what I saw was a company literally forcing it into every aspect of the system. Every single booth at the conference, regardless of the topic, made a point to talk about agentic AI. It was my first time there and I left feeling like I got screwed, because I missed out on quality content that I could use in lieu of AI that I’ll never use.

If I were I prospective customer, I’d be looking at other solutions for sure.

I work with ServiceNow for my job and a couple weeks back was the big knowledge 2025 conference in Vegas. The CEO came out for the opening keynote and opened with some like, “ah yea, doesn’t it feel good to be an AI company?” and I didn’t here a single cheer from the crowd, just polite applause. They have gone all in on AI, have made it completely unaffordable, and have just been shoehorning it into everything. I hope every one of these companies that that goes big on AI crashes and fails. They’ve already cut the employees, so the only people affected are the ones making the cash, so fuck em.

I was down in Texas for Dreamhack last week at the LAN. On the drive back, my car passenger was able to take my shitty laptop, connect to his phone hotspot, and he used the GeForce streaming service to play a steam game for a good 4+ hours.

Fuck Nvidia, but the service is okay in a pinch. I will never use it, but I see the appeal for people that don’t have gaming computers.

Always make sure you get consent and wear protection.

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Not as effective but an easy temp fix is to put a small rock under the cap and screw it back on. Most effective if two tires are done so they can’t just swap a spare, not that this chud knows how to change a tire or has a 5’ tall jack to lift the truck 6" to do the work.