Netcob

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by Netcob 4y ago
I would love to just be able to "not let myself become one of these people". Unfortunately I can't change how my brain reacts to stimuli (and I've tried).
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by Netcob 4y ago
The compute power thing is becoming a pet peeve of mine. Consuming too much power is already a big ecological issue, and here in Europe it's becoming a financial problem too. I still want my computer to perform as good as possible, be
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by Netcob 4y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1484/
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by Netcob 4y ago
My mail server admin interface tells me I need to update two packages: 1. Try Ubuntu Pro beta with a free personal subscription on up to 5 machines. 2. Learn more at https://ubuntu.com/pro At least it didn't crash! Dis
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by Netcob 4y ago
I'm not sure what the proper didactic concept is to teach programming. I'd love to see some data, because my personal feelings probably aren't of much use. BlueJ does have a number of concepts that can be useful in the beginn
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by Netcob 4y ago
To me this always feels like being asked "will you marry me?" on a first date, before even shaking hands.
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by Netcob 4y ago
I have an original Vive and I hardly use it, mostly because of how it takes a while to set up and put on, but also because of the depth-of-focus issue that gives me headaches. I still haven't heard about any viable solutions to this. A
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by Netcob 4y ago
I'd love to just use an old smartphone as my webcam, but unfortunately they really aren't made to be connected to a charger 24/7. If they at least let you charge the battery to 80% and then shut off the battery until the next
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by Netcob 4y ago
Not having a #memes channel sounds like not having any trash bins in the house because you expect everyone to take their trash outside to the large bin / container. What actually happens is that the trash will litter the entire house.
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by Netcob 5y ago
Before I learned how to program, I used this software called "Klik&Play", later replaced by "Multimedia Fusion". This was over 20 years ago, but apparently the software still exists and works in a similar way: For th
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by Netcob 5y ago
I agree - I think a case could be made for translating older versions of a language into the latest one, but especially if it's already a translation from a completely different language. What's news to me is that people in the pr
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by Netcob 5y ago
I got the first Oculus Rift dev kit not too long after it came out and I got the first version of the HTC Vive. I find it hard to talk about VR as some monolithic thing. When I first tried it, I felt the same "wow, this is the future!&
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by Netcob 5y ago
I'm looking forward to reading this exact text a million times.
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by Netcob 5y ago
Am I missing something? In my experience, updating gitlab involves looking at either the docker hub page with the tags or that gitlab news page that I'm trying to find right now and then painfully going from minor to minor. If you upda
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by Netcob 5y ago
It works surprisingly well! I started using it for the noise filtering, which is even better.
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by Netcob 5y ago
My company had the marketing department design a few abstract backgrounds with company colors / logos, which look fine on their own, but incredibly weird when there's a blurry and badly cut-out person with a window behind them. Ba
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by Netcob 5y ago
Thank you, but I don't feel like I've put any special effort into this. It began as a way to calm myself down, then became a habit, and then it simply turned into this "don't break the chain" effect because the chai
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by Netcob 5y ago
How I feel (e.g. sick) / What I'm trying (e.g. some new exercise, medication) / Anything noteworthy that happened. It's intentionally non-machine-readable. Just to see the past weeks at a glance.
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by Netcob 5y ago
A few days ago I finally stopped doing something very similar. As fascinating as the data could be (I never managed to transform it like this), the constant recording of every single thing made me stop enjoying things. It made me hyper-cons
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by Netcob 5y ago
I've completely given up on playing with strangers. All my experiences were negative, and whenever they weren't, they were just neutral. One time I tried playing Battlefield 2 online (usually played against bots) and played the sa
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by Netcob 5y ago
There are no easy technical solutions to social/political issues. They'll simply make the software detect that it's running in a VM and ban that use. Then you'll work a few hours cheating the software, make your VM look
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by Netcob 5y ago
I think that's basically just a notification. Where it gets creepy is when parents install 24/7 surveillance cameras in their childrens bedrooms. I can kinda understand it when it's about being able to quickly check if your b
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by Netcob 5y ago
Communication issues aside, good luck finding developers who aquired all the necessary skills to work in software development without this mindset. Of course it would be great for a company to be able to hire people who only learn new thing
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by Netcob 5y ago
> When it was his turn, they immediately started telling him not to be afraid and that it wasn't going to hurt. He sat on his dad's lap, his dad holding him tight, while his mom desperately tried to deflect his attention by wav
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by Netcob 5y ago
I heard this too and somehow just accepted it, even though I could not imagine how this should have happened. So during this major extinction event all the big dinosaurs just gathered in giant groups, fell over, then never really decomposed
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by Netcob 5y ago
My boss loves to play with the idea of outsourcing, but he seems to be aware of the issues to some degree. In our situation, the idea is pretty hilarious - we as developers have to make sure our products don't become unmaintainable, pr
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by Netcob 5y ago
Kudos for sticking to it, I'm not sure I could have done that in your place! I'm always horrified at stories of parents who act this way. "Do it because I say so, I'm infallible as far as you are concerned, if you disobe
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by Netcob 5y ago
I always liked the flat-shaded look, the gameplay and world, but when I revisited it as an adult I just couldn't play it due to the frame rate. I'm so used to playing at 90-144fps that anything below 60 literally looks like a slid
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by Netcob 5y ago
Ever since the pandemic started, useful information was few and far between. I know that numbers scare people, but so much of this is basic risk assessment. The facts are extremely pro-vaccination, but good luck finding them! For example, t
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by Netcob 5y ago
Another example is "if you haven't memorized the entire documentation, you're too incompetent to use this software". I don't think it works that way nowadays, especially when software X has dependencies Y and Z, so

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