Notices by Clifton Royston (cliftonr@wandering.shop)

@eniko

On interview questions:

A guy goes in for a job interview. His resume looks good, and it's going well, so the interviewer starts giving him some of the standard questions and gets to "What would you say your greatest weakness is?"

"Oh, that's easy - I'm too honest with people."

"I don't think that sounds like much of a weakness."

"I don't give a fuck what you think."

@eniko

I completely agree with you on all of this. It's all so absurdly transparent I can't believe anybody over age 12 falls for it.

To follow, totally tangential joke on the interview question bullshit.
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@mcc @Orb2069

In sync with this, when I last rented a car earlier this summer, I found that the car and Apple Carplay were both telling me that it is impossible to use Apple Carplay with the car unless I enable Siri - even just to play my own music.

I absolutely did not want to enable Siri and have never wanted to enable Siri.

Funny how Carplay or just playing music *used* to work just fine without voice control, and now miraculously don't.

Bah humbug.

@SnoopJ

They might as well just come out and say ahegao, huh.

Americans live in a space and time when our popular websites are running reviews of the best gas masks to use when our government attacks us with teargas.

@aeva @brennen @glyph

Doesn't insomnia mean you're a hobby sleeper rather than a pro sleeper?

@skinnylatte

It is fantastic to have that spelled out in civil law like that. I think I will contact my state representative and senators, asking them to pass a similar bill.

@skinnylatte @rednikki

I've been surprised to learn how many of my friends are in this category.

Other friends have said that they have mental imagery but it's extremely coarse, for lack of a better word - low-resolution and crude. If they try to visualize or visually remember something, it's like looking at a young child's crayon drawing.

@skinnylatte @rednikki

Some people have an endless, non-stop internal monologue, "talking" their thoughts to themself. Others say they have no internal speech at all; they don't process thinking that way.

At this point, if I read a philosopher opining that "all people necessarily think in words", I just want to laugh.

People are endlessly different, and that's wonderful.

@lanodan @cks @grumpybozo

THANK YOU!

That's perfect, and enough to get me started. I can figure out the rest as I go.

Question for my Linuxheads (1 of N):

For VMs on Linux, if I want to use an existing physical drive with OS installed and run it as a guest VM, like I used to be able to do in VMWare years ago, how do I go about doing this?

When I look at virtmanager, for example, it seems to assume that I'm creating all VM drive images as files within an existing efs partition.

At least currently, on the way towards fully switching over, I want to try booting my existing Windows drive as the guest OS.
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@grumpybozo

Thank you! That gives me a much better idea what magic phrase to look for.

And yes, KVM/libvirt and qemu are definitely what's behind virtmanager or it seems nearly anything VM-ish on Linux.

@0xabad1dea

I've observed in recent years that most cashiers in the US nowadays can not make change for a cash payment without the register telling them how much it is.

They're completely lost.

As all cashiers were formerly expected to do this in their heads, almost immediately, and I used to work a register sometimes in my teens, this drives me bonkers.

@whitequark

An isobar, naturally.

@whitequark

Indeed you are as pure in mind as the driven snow, and a perfect cinnamon roll. You have no responsibility for my following a link under that name.

I would never have wanted to imply otherwise.

@whitequark

I had to go look at it. Did you notice they have a section labeled “golang”?

I am not going there, and it breaks my brain to even think the words “Golang porn.”

@ranjit

No problem, I just poked around on Yelp a little bit.

I'm certain the Korean one is Franchia Vegan Cafe (listed as Korean + Asian fusion, which sounds about right) and everything any of us tried there was extremely good. We found it by accident just walking past it from our hotel.

The other is Anixi, in Chelsea;it's listed as "Mediterranean" including Turkish, Syrian, and Greek food. It *is* vegan, the meat dishes listed there are all mock-meat!
Quite pricey but very good.

@skinnylatte

I'm sure you have plenty of people pointing you to their favorite bagel and pizza shops too!

But if not, I recommend Grimaldi's for pizza while you're in Brooklyn.

After all, pizza too was an immigrant food for weirdos until the middle of the 20th century.

@skinnylatte

Also when we were last in NYC about a year ago, we found a couple of really good ethnic vegetarian restaurants in Manhattan, including a Korean all-vegan restaurant that had really amazing food (maybe so-so by your high standards, but...) and a Turkish vegetarian/vegan restaurant (also fantastic.)

I don't remember their names right now, but can probably dig them up if you're interested, or you can figure it out from Yelp.

@ceejbot @skinnylatte

Sorry not sorry to pull you in on this thread, Adrianna - I really have been thinking for months about that post you made, and the similarities I immediately felt to that phase in my life.