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by distract8901 3y ago
No, I'm a totally normal human. I love to walk and have individual thoughts and speak with other humans. Just regular human things, you know.
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by distract8901 3y ago
I would pay a shameful amount of money for a big, fat laptop in the style of the old school thinkpads with modern hardware. I don't give a fuck how thin or light my laptop is. I want it big and beefy with some monstrous heatsinks and
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by distract8901 3y ago
I bought a used T530 6 or 7 years ago. The machine is 10 years old and it's still my daily driver. My desktop is of a similar vintage, probably 2011 or so. It's perfectly fine. I do wish I had more CPU cores, but it's probabl
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by distract8901 3y ago
We should absolutely, without question go poking at it. Surely there won't be any consequences
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by distract8901 3y ago
I had a Brother brand B&W laser printer with a duplex scanner many years ago. I had it for 10 years and it was still working when my ex took it. As far as I know its still going. Unfortunately, laser printers are just bigger than inkjet
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by distract8901 3y ago
Does anyone have a good explainer for how the NTP protocol works? I can't quite wrap my head around how you could possibly synchronize two machines in time over a network with unknown and unpredictable latency.
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by distract8901 3y ago
The code was convincing renewable energy companies to finance the upfront cost of building renewables. It's pretty much just seeking loans in a way that doesn't inflate their national debt.
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by distract8901 3y ago
My insurance automatically assigned the geographically closest doctor as my PCP. That person was actually a nurse at the local high school.
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by distract8901 3y ago
That's exactly what my current job does. I buy a policy on the government marketplace, submit my premium statements, and I get reimbursed every month. My allowance is quite generous, and it pays for 100% of the cost of the most compreh
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by distract8901 3y ago
The question mark to denote a nullable type is inherited from the .net framework days. You'd use that to mark a value type as nullable, which is syntactic sugar for Nullable<T>. Internally, that object stores a bool for IsNull a
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by distract8901 3y ago
CLI is one of my biggest pain points with C# on Linux. A lot of the Console functions simply don't work because they're expecting an entirely different kind of console. Just clearing the screen doesn't work, you have to sneak
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by distract8901 3y ago
Lots of reasons, but mainly that I don't consider null values to be a fault of the language. Even if it were, this doesn't solve that problem. But now we're in a situation where we still have nulls, but compiler warnings forc
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by distract8901 3y ago
I've been keeping up with the language and I am... Less than enthused. Maybe I'm just yelling at clouds, but I see more bloat than useful features recently. Non-nullable reference types as default was a bad idea and I will die on
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by distract8901 3y ago
Of all the posts I've seen on this website, this one is the worst
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by distract8901 3y ago
C# on Linux is only slightly more annoying than Windows. You have to make some effort to install the SDKs and naturally some of the system APIs behave slightly differently, but overall I have only a very slight preference for windows here.
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by distract8901 3y ago
Oh, I had no idea jellyfin was based on C#. I started my career as a C# dev, but now I only write C++. I miss C# dearly and have been badly wanting a project to flex those muscles on. I guess I'll dive into jellyfin now. I've got
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by distract8901 3y ago
The point is that they're unrelated, but Google "helpfully" interprets your search to show you things it thinks you want instead of what you asked for.
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by distract8901 3y ago
Had a lovely experience with this a few months ago. I built a little WPF GUI as an internal tool for my company. Literally all it does is read some data from an XML file and squirt some bytes out of a serial port. I zip up a build and send
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by distract8901 3y ago
I actually really like VeraCrypt. Last time I used it was 5 or 6 years ago and the UI looked like something straight out of the 90s, which is a good thing IMO.
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by distract8901 3y ago
At the risk of ruining your life... There's a free demo on the Factorio website
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by distract8901 3y ago
I'm a little scared to play Satisfactory. The only thing keeping my Factorio addiction in check is that I get bored after a few days. A new game just as bad might ruin me
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by distract8901 3y ago
The game has been on steam since 2016. That's a bit more than 1000 hours a year, which isn't as much as you think
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by distract8901 3y ago
> Blessings be upon you and may you not end up in hell. I've played Factorio for 1800 hours. I'm already in hell.
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by distract8901 3y ago
I played one map for 700 hours over the span of a full year. This game does something terrible to my brain
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by distract8901 3y ago
> Elevated rails Oh. Oh no. No, I'm not ready for this. The restrictions on rail placement keep train layouts sane. There has to be a demarcation point between your rail and belt network. Now I can just fly in a train over top of my
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by distract8901 3y ago
This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. To sum up: - Qualcomm mandated that manufacturers use their power supply chips with their processor - these power supply chips are wildly inappropriate for laptops, requiring 4-6 in p
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by distract8901 3y ago
Weird. I don't know anyone who uses WhatsApp or similar in the US. MMS is well supported and usually billed the same as SMS these days (AFAIK).
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by distract8901 3y ago
Mastodon doesn't care to replace twitter, that was never the goal. Mastodon is happy in the niche its found for itself
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by distract8901 3y ago
Something I encountered recently: I have a jellyfin server hosting shows and movies that I would like to play on my Chromecast on my local network. This is 100% not possible. The Chromecast always hits Google's DNS to resolve the med
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by distract8901 3y ago
It's nearly universal parlance in the USA to call MMS and SMS 'texts'. They are shown and treated as the same thing by the phone OS. I wouldn't expect the average layperson to even know there's a difference. I'

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