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by somat 6d ago
Noita is mad, in the best sort of way. So it is this very hard amalgamation of rogue and powder toy that controls like terreria, Very hard, With none of that silly meta progression nonsense you find in most roguelikes, But you push through
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by somat 6d ago
Deus Ex Used MOD, At least I think they were mod, There were a fair number of what was basically MIDI + samples formats. Also while trying to get my facts straight (All I remember was trying to find a mod player to play the deus ex music fo
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by somat 10d ago
Roundabouts often have stop signs, usually when you really need to slow traffic down(lots of pedestrian use)
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by somat 10d ago
Reminder that technically a 4-way stop is the smallest possible roundabout.
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by somat 11d ago
Sigh, webcams, at one point they were solved. How far we have fallen. Originaly every webcam was a special snowflake, a screwball custom interface with a screwball custom driver. Then microsoft, as much as I like to rag on them here they di
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by somat 12d ago
So this is all pure speculation, but seeing as they are a hardware company I wonder if they have some sort of internal only server chassis to house apple motherboards for their backend, tolerate asahi linux for this? No real external market
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by somat 12d ago
I suspect the danger of pivoting into a pure fashion design is that even in the fashion market people crave a little authenticity. Perhaps you never run but you like the idea and so buy running shoes. do you get the fake running shoes or th
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by somat 13d ago
If we are doing a survey of self hosted video conferencing services I would like to propose galene. Very easy to set up, I run it on obsd(an unsupported platform) and it just works. https://galene.org/
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by somat 15d ago
For what it's worth(not much) On OpenBSD swap is always encrypted, With or without full-disk encryption. I don't know why linux always has to make the easy things hard.
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by somat 15d ago
A skit Boss enters, enthusiastic hand gestures dev: Web 2.0? what the hell are you on about? Boss: evasive mumbling dev: Oh... css border-radius Sure, I will get right on it.
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by somat 15d ago
I just got nerd sniped by the room map in the movie, it is a minor 30 second scene where the clerk shows the guests a map of the hotel so they can pick their room. The hotel in question is placed so it bisects the CA/NV state line. thi
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by somat 16d ago
This is the source of my favorite border dispute. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tahoe#Interstate_boundary... In summary there is a border dispute between California and Nevada, It was exacerbated by some surveying
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by somat 18d ago
Yeah, insisting on "only" shell is weird, shell is at heart a process orchestrater, and denying it it's processes is rejecting most of it's functionality. It is equivalent to saying "do this in python, but you are n
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by somat 20d ago
Very depressing, and I believe it. I am a bit of a luddite in this domain and have so far managed to resist the lure of using the generator to expand my thoughts, and I still catch myself writing "it's not just an X it's a Y&
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by somat 20d ago
My take is that the generated stuff is terrible for communications. It feels great to use, direct your machine minion to fill out your thoughts for you, but holy hell does it suck to be on the receiving end. Least of all is the disrespect,
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by somat 22d ago
Boy it would be nice however. On that note, I remember reading how some phones were able to use the headphone jack as a serial debug port, which is pretty neat. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Serial_debugging/C
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by somat 23d ago
It is sort of like english spelling, we all know spelling in english sucks(So pointlessly difficult we have contests centered around the skill), we also all know we can do nothing to fix it. Still gonna complain about it however.
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by somat 23d ago
The fundamental problem in music notation is that it was designed for an 8 note system and we use a 12 note system. It's.. fine I guess, they got those extra four notes in there and millions of people read music with no problems. But i
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by somat 23d ago
I was watching a video of a guy fixing up an old homemade guitar he found. A well built solid piece, only one that exists in the world. A thing somebody spent real time and effort to create, and nearly worthless. While some soulless factory
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by somat 24d ago
Flow batteries specifically are liquid, or more accurately fluid, there can be gas flow batteries, where the chemical sub-products are pumped in and out of the cells. They tend to be large utility scale things that look like a chemical pla
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by somat 24d ago
The public is not going to buy a flow battery anyway. Or perhaps they will, but only when public is taken in the context as in public utility or public city. But individuals are not going to buy a flow battery, it is a chemical plant.
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by somat 24d ago
Static-site generators. Nothing wrong with that, I like to think there are some apps you should probably make yourself, like the blacksmith apprentice making their own tools.
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by somat 25d ago
The tricky bit, especially for the small operater is keeping a working drive as long as you want to keep the storage.
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by somat 25d ago
As a interesting tangent consider the data structure and the data behind a thesaurus. I was using the wordnet data for a project. https://wordnet.princeton.edu My first pass was to do the modern thing and just load the entire da
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by somat 25d ago
A similar life hack is the next time you have to give a presentation, you know, what is normally a brain numbing powerpoint slide deck sort of thing, rehearse and do the slides live on a chalkboard. The novelty of the spectacle means people
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by somat 26d ago
It sounds like the only end result of this is them making the bureaucracy even more bureaucratic by employing their own agents, where the only way to get anything done is to have your agents fight their agents. Frankly, it feels like Kafka
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by somat 26d ago
Or Andrew Jackson approaching the problem from the other end. “It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.” As a rather, well... "creative" speller I blame Webster for locking thing
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by somat 27d ago
Aside from the fact that it is a stupid law, there should not be any sort of exemption. I have not read the other proposed laws in this category but after reading the California law, I found it was so vague that my interpretation is that an
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by somat 27d ago
I would argue most data is inherently(naively?) hierarchical(the document), relational structured data is a clever but unintuitive mechanism to introduce powerful analytic opportunities to a set of data. Basically a document is a report, a
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by somat 27d ago
The "document" is sort of the native data type, Put everything in a big hierarchical structure, It is very flexible but analytics across the set can suffer. "relational" is another way to store data, break your big hiera

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