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Waiting for the Verizon guy to show up. Time to do something I should have done a long time ago. http://rainbowdash.net/url/874461
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I'm extremely frustrated. I have to dumb down my VR training program a lot more than I already have. I'm told that people shouldn't be allowed to drop grabbed items. I mean WTF! They take out all the fun of flinging items around. Also all the dynamic things I've built in should be gone. "Only activate the items that are immediately needed at the moment of the procedure!".
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@oracle In industrial maintenance, dropping items and tools can cause serious setbacks. My opinion is that a user SHOULD be able to drop items, and that the dropping of the items should create a natural penalty.
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@adiwan I am interested in your work here because I have a lot of experience in writing technical training documentation. Mostly with an emphasis in SQF (Food safety and quality) procedures but also in the documentation of my own and my teams poorly poorly written code.
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@oracle The main problem is that I'm not responsible for the storyboard of the training. I'm the one who has to convert the gibberish into code. What I get is a very linear script that tells the user what to do and when the action has been done the next instruction appears. I use a giant state machine (in my current one there are about 80 states) for that purpose. Every time an action or an instruction has ended the state machine advances. The storyboard has 3 "difficulty levels" in mind in which the first level the user get all the instructions and the interaction items are highlighted. The second difficulty level is the same but without the instructions, and the 3rd is with no highlighting. In every state only the currently needed items are interactable and nothing more. My current training has also a little quiz in the second level and a thing where the user has to order the steps on a whiteboard. It's on the level of a kindergartener.
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I just want to share this, mostly because of the video that is attached to it. http://rainbowdash.net/url/874440
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So aparently I am looking for a new amplifier with at least one HDMI port for the beamer (Projector) online at 03:22 in the middle of the night because something broke at work and I know noone even remembers the impedance of the speakers which are in that room currently NOR if there is any money to replace the broken amplifier system.
I should go to bed instead. Screw this, probably gonna get yelled at tomorrow anyway.about a month ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony do you have a link?
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@microsbm I was looking at http://rainbowdash.net/url/874428 and http://rainbowdash.net/url/874429 .
But right now I am at the stage where people really want me to fix it WITHOUT spending any money and also WITHOUT going down on the featureset. That is not really possible, Though I guess I could use an HDMI audio extractor with 5.1 channels off of Aliexpress.
Can you feel my eyeballs tumbling at top speed here ? I really do not want to do the latter.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Someone took over my TV soundbar. I operate it via optical cable and I didn't think that bluetooth would be on all the time. A person blasted bad music (hip hop) through my speakers. I had to turn it quickly off and look into the manual how to lock the bluetooth functionality.
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I have to think of http://rainbowdash.net/url/874422 RN. Worst part is that there are worse voices and devices who do that.
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@drinkingpony LG SK8. I bought that one because I have a LG TV and it sounds OK. I'm not an audiophile but it's completely alright. Better than the thin TV's squeaky speakers. It's a 2.1 system and it is sufficient for me. A surround system would be nice but laying down the cables and finding a place for the rear speakers is too much hassle for me.
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@drinkingpony My soundbar doesn't speak to me. However I'm intrigued to look into Google Home.
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What's popcorn worth when only half of it pops?
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@adiwan and gummy bears, and coca cola lids, and taffee, and cookies, and cupcakes, and sushi, and soft pretzels, and banana & Peanutbutter, and yoghurt, and ( melted ) ice cream, and Starmix, Heck I once exited the cinema with almost a complete pizza stuck under there.
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@drinkingpony One time, I had a small child stuck to my boots!
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@scribus ... Intentionally ? I mean the underside of my shoes get awfully sticky at such places, and sometimes you just want to make sure the noizemakers stop by kicking the noizemakers.
"I swear I did not know it was a child, I thought it was someone with Dwarfism. Why would you take someone of about 12 to the Wolf of Wall Street ?"
Heheh, my imagination is running overtime now.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Chinese Nintendo Switch adjustable charging stand. Minor repair was needed when I got it. Took a picture while my soldering iron was heating up. I can't help but wonder how similar the official one looks on the inside. No really, I can not find a teardown of that thing. http://rainbowdash.net/url/874404
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@adiwan Nice find, but no, I was looking for this product http://rainbowdash.net/url/874407
Not this product http://rainbowdash.net/url/874408Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@drinkingpony Ah. I strongly believe that the official one is as dumb as this Chinese copy of yours. The current and voltage is just passed trough 1:1 from one connector to the other. I don't think that the stand has to regulate anything or do any kind of processing. 25€ for that thing is way too overpriced and should cost 1/10th of that.
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@adiwan Agreed, you can litterally achieve the same with a USB C hook connector and the cheapest tablet stand you can find.But that does not make me any less curious regarding and I still would like to see a picture of the official stand's internals.
"But it is Nintendo's official product and it just looks good" - a fanboy
Look, I am not saying you should not get it, I just expect more than just a fancy looking passthrough of GND, VBUS, CC and USB 2.0 data channels on something that would cost 25 Euro's and has USB type C. What for ? Well, Idunno really, but I am sure there is someone out there who would prefer to play with an XboX controller while in handheld mode and charging at the same time.Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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So, now that the Endgame #spoiler moratorium has passed, is Reddit screaming at its own ass over !movies
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@adiwan He is now, but I remember some backlash when he was introduced. Personally, I was just sick of new spider-folk, which I have since recanted. Spider-Verse ruled!!
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@scribus Hm. I agree that there are too many spider-themed super heroes at Marvel. Regular Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Spider-Woman, Spider Gwen, Silk, British Spider Man... There was a comic event with all of the spider people but I didn't care to read it. The recent Spider-Verse movie was splendid. I quite enjoyed it.
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@adiwan Spider-Woman is kind of weird, too. Isn't she more about something like the "Web" of Fate, or something?
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Jebus https://www.wsbradio.com/news/national/passenger-plane-crashes-florida-river/A3dg5UT08IsJxGEMdrwUoJ/
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Hmm, one of these buttons of this remote control has started to come loose. I already did check and I can buy a new RC for 50 Euro's.
But do I get it for the sake of my TV ? Or do I just install that android app and be done with it. Leaving my RC in a drawer somewhere for when I really need it ( which is not that often to begin with anyway )about a month ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Well... You could solder tactile switches on the remote control PCB as a last resort. Or buy a cheap universal remote, or make a remote on your own by buying a micro-controller, an IR sensor, an IR LED, and record the IR signals of the original remote and replay them with your own contraption. Or get a Wii U and use its tablet controller to switch channels and such...
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@drinkingpony Or use the micro controller idea in a different way: make the micro controller translate the signal of a different remote control that the TV recognizes like in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yyy7h7qh80
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@adiwan Ohh, I really like that.
But ehh, I am about 90% convinced that there is no IR on this here RC.
I'mma check that the next time my camera is charged. ( since the equine eye can not see the infrared, but camera's can. )Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Not only is it lulzy, it just might work. http://time.com/5582034/carbon-tariff-tax-fee-europe-macron/
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My latest new #summerjam https://youtu.be/1MoHgT8y98Q (maybe again)
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Somebody's been busy http://rainbowdash.net/url/874333
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I found my favorite Thanos comic page. http://rainbowdash.net/url/874330
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Came out of Endgame 7 hours ago. It ended at 1:45 AM and went straight to bed. Was it worth? Sure. I'm glad I didn't chose a screening on Thursday, otherwise I'd be dead in my car at the side of the road.
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@adiwan I can only assume that you going to bed straight after watching it speaks to how mindblowingly good ( or not ) it was.
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@drinkingpony I was at the end of the movie about 20 hours awake. There has to be some leeway in the interpretation of my words. The film was good nonetheless, it kept me awake.
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@adiwan Considering there was some sort of event going on yesterday, I can relate staying up some 22 hours straight and how it can numb the feeling of enthusiasm of, well, everything I guess.
Meanwhile this thing plays at the back of my mind http://rainbowdash.net/url/874327
Stupid pattern seeking cranial matter.
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According to one of my friends. "This will never stop being funny". Then why does it make me cry on the inside ? http://rainbowdash.net/url/874279
Maybe he cries on the inside manifest themselves as laughter ?
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@nerthos Somewhere, in the distance, a whisper on the wind: "C h a l l e n g e A c c e p t e d"
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@nerthos Ohh, you are talking mental and physical fortitude to walk the route from A to B. Such as grain to bread if you have nothing but grain, lumber, stone and clayish mud. In which the walking the walk is the important part.
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@scribus Halfway there http://rainbowdash.net/url/874326
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here was this week's comic... http://rainbowdash.net/url/874320
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Pic unrelated http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/874317
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@scribus I have been an athlete all along.
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oh... are things... not going well for you? are you perhaps... having regrets? http://rainbowdash.net/url/874316
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Screw everything, I'm going back to using a Palm Pilot!
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@scribus Does this thing count http://rainbowdash.net/url/874315 ( Wikipedia photo )
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TL;DR Disney are weiners, long live Looney Tunes! https://www.cracked.com/article_26340_disneys-streaming-service-to-cut-out-some-racism.html
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If humanity was truly made in God's image, we can reverse engineer some really unflattering deductions about Him....
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@scribus Look up "eigenfaces". It's an application of "eigenimages" that use principal component analysis to pictures of human faces. In the process it generates an image that is an "average" image when each image of the set contributes the same amount to the final image. That can be used to recognize faces or morph faces.
The quality depends solely on the image set. The more faces are not aligned the "blurrier" it is and the more nightmarish it becomes.
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@adiwan This reminds me of an X-Files episode where the guy kept seeing flashes of this face that was found in atmospheric noise and it slowly drove him insane.
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Holy chrome, I want it. http://morphcat.de/micromages/ !vgp I love new release retro games.
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@scribus My grandparents have a NES, and I have a SNES from Dad, so I feel strongly that it wouldn't be quite the same.
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@thismightbeauser ahem. Yeah, genuine hardware is its own experience.
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Happy Easter everypony! Hmm... I've been wondering. What would the Pony version of this holiday be called and how do you suppose it would be celebrated? http://rainbowdash.net/url/874308
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@sweetpalette Samhain! No, wait.... <_<
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