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It feels so weird to be on SPC with some of the people from here, but half a decade after, all of us old and wise now. But I'm thankful for those connections, and for this place's uncanny ability to bring to light the most interesting people.
Who could have predicted that we'd go from bronies to shamans and wizards.about 7 hours ago from web -
It's so hot that I sublime.
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What the FrankerZ is up, losers?
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@scribus Carcino sends his regards, says he misses you.
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I can't believe I was able to run do-release-upgrade on this server and it work *perfectly*.
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@ceruleanspark I wouldn't even attempt it. Whenever I want to upgrade I just knock over my root partition and start over. That's for a desktop system though.
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I couldn't resist and bought a Rapsberry Pi 4B with 4GB RAM.
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@adiwan Hmm, hdparm... now my nightmare is complete. I remember tinkering with that and super redacted outings of suffering and destruction
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@drinkingpony I remember when there used to be a bug in the Linux Kernel that would stop the disk too often and overload it. You had to use hdparm to reset it every time you started or woke the computer. Good times.
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@thismightbeauser Well, at least then I kinda know I was not insane for going insane.
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almost forgot what my username was so i assumed i had been purged but it turns out i am just forgetful
about 5 days ago from web-
@liquidusmira Yeah, I too have the feeling that one day I am going to wake up and rememeber my old nickname and password or something.
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I have almost a full collection of all good Wii U games. Just got Wonderful 101 for a good price.
about 6 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan Ohh http://rainbowdash.net/url/874730
That is wonderfull
user was shot for worse than terrible pun
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Who remembers when Red called Colfax a turbonerd but the filter changed it to turd
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I'm not a fan of anime but Aggretsuko is soulcrushingly entertaining.
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@adiwan soulcrushingly ? Wait, does that mean that it is a recommendation ?
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@drinkingpony Kinda of a recommendation. It's more about the rage and frustration day-to-day life can be through the lense of exaggerated Japanese (work) culture. Give it a shot. Each episode is about 12 minutes long.
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Wow, a spammer actually uploading a My Little Pony display picture. This is advanced tech
about 9 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@thelastgherkin They are adapting. They become sentient. Skynet is coming.
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Whenever the word "lose" is stretched like "looooooose" does it mean "lose" or "loose"? Weird shower thoughts.
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@adiwan The only thing I can think of that would not be bad ( like the word 'Lose' would imply ) when loose is a timing scedule.
Pretty much the opposite of a deadline.
So... I guess it is pretty much always negative unless for that one in a million time it is not ?Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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The spammer user names get more and more outrageous
about 11 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan I guess you see something I do not want to see in said spammers name.
Now I hope I can distract myself long enough with stupid nonsense so I will not dwell on it, after all you pretty much said there is something there :oJonathan Chouinard likes this.
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Yay! A new season of Jessica Jones is out! Oh no! It's the last. I really enjoy watching this wreck of a character.
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I hate when 1) it's hot 2) I need to air my apartment to cool down 3) my neighbours fried 4) the atmosphere is contamined with the smell of frying oil 5) all the smell goes into my apartment.
about 15 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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CROM WHY DO I STILL HAVE THIS AVATAR
about 19 days ago from web-
@adiwan Drunk enough at the airport bar to break my social media fast, and OMG I LOVE D. C. Simpson's comics! <3 (except maybe Raine Dog (which, I get the metaphor they went for, but DAMN did they miss))
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(I actually swore off social media for the month buuut...) me rn https://youtu.be/v0amkwwBChg
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Devolver Digital's E3 stuff is always the best.
about 15 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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I miss Touhou games. Do they still make those?
about 16 days ago from web-
@ceruleanspark "Wily Beast and Weakest Creature", Demo came out May the 4th ( 2019 ).
I mostly know that because I heard some Star Wars geeks rant about it.
"Why would they DOOOO that , May the 4th should be sacred"Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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The only piece of videogame news that matters right now is the existence of Wooloo, the round sheep pokemon.
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I wonder if it is possible to desolder the reset button on the ESP32-CAM and put it in a more tactical place ( for instance, on the side of a project-box ) I hope @Adiwan knows. I have not yet ordered the thing. Might be a kind of a deal-breaker.
about 18 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony Yeah. The solder pads are a bit small such that placing a cable might be cost some nerves. A little stress relief and hot glue might make it last. You can also short the reset pin directly on the ESP32 module but its pins are tinier. You can also use any other GPIO pin to trigger a software reset if you don't need all of them and a software reset works just as well as a hardware reset.
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@adiwan Ohh, thank you. I can work with that.
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People who buy and play Blizzard games perpetuate the sameness of Blizzard games. There is not much incentive for Blizzard to innovate or to diversify their portfolio unless they have to after a decade of nothing.
about 18 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan While that might be true, you do not go expect a baker to sell hammers without a hitch. Specifically in that you could have foreseen the original fans to complain about the decreasing selection of fresh bread.
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@drinkingpony At least I try some other types breads that the baker offers.
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@adiwan Which is good, but I still would understand those who who growel in protest as they grew up thinking that the bread of this particular baker was the best in the land.
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The feeling when you solder pins to a LED ring and then it falls down to the ground in such a way that the pins rip out the solder pads rendering the LED ring useless.
about 20 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@adiwan I wonder if the EPS-32 has enough juice to run an imagemagic subroutine. You could wait till the PIR is triggered ( or not ) make a sequence of pictures, compare them with eachother using imagemagic, and send it away though e-mail or something.
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@drinkingpony Compare them to see if they are the same ofcourse. No I do not know how to do that, I know you can though. The moment I figured it out myself I can do the thing I wanna do with my RPI
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@drinkingpony It's certainly capable of streaming pictures. It can be clocked to 240MHz with no problem.
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about 20 days ago from web-
@nerthos Imagine spotting that drinking coffee at the local starbucks or something. Just howmuch sugar would dissapear into one cup I wonder.
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I got Pokémon Typing Adventure for the Nintendo DS for 12€ complete. This means that I now have a nintendo Bluetooth keyboard that I can connect to the PC or my Android tablet.
about 21 days ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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The $1000 monitor stand is just there to make the expensive computer look more reasonably priced.
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@adiwan It does not even have RGB
Reddit : "Hey lets fix that"
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@adiwan Of Course! That, and they want to make sure they can release ProStand 2.0 that'll have a whole extra 3 degrees to pivot on.
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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!".
about a month ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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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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To hobby solder with solder that has lead ( Pb ) in it. Or do I make it all about 15 degrees of hell hotter and go lead-less, try to learn to solder with what is essentially almost pure tin using flux that could pose equal if not greater health risks. Why are there no simple answers ?
about a month ago from web- Jonathan Chouinard likes this.
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@drinkingpony My tip is already crusty. It's a very old soldering iron (about 12 years?). It's already very abused. Last time I scraped off all the gunk and applied a layer of solder before turning it off. Whenever I buy a better soldering iron station then I'll take better care of the tip and buy some replacements.
I still have a few Deutsche Mark coins somewhere floating in my closet.Jonathan Chouinard likes this. -
@adiwan Get a nice soldering station with a dial on it to set the target temperature, I got an Aoyue for about 35 Euro. For some reason Amazon.de is more expensive ( 47 ). Strange, normally Amazon is cheaper, even for me, with shipping costs included.
Ahwell, most important thing required for when you want to learn how to solder well or when you want to make really nice SMD, THT, Stripboarding or otherwise prevent the nightmare that comes from cold-joints and burned-joints it has to be a thermostat.
Soldering with just a pen you directly stick into the wall outlet or even a soldering gun is doable, however as I found out, you are going to have such a better experience with that thermostat dial. It's like spreading butter on your toast with a longsword, I mean, sure, you could do it, but it is not the optimal tool.
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@drinkingpony My cheapo soldering station has a "temperature" dial but that's more a suggestion. It works so far and I'm too lazy to get a better one. I haven't had a cold joint so far and for my imprecise hands it's good enough.
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Hearing that roar in IMAX? Damn, that was sweet.
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Why can I never find a payphone on the once-in-five-years event that I lock both my phone and my keys in the car!?
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@drinkingpony 2600: The Hacker Quarterly devotes the inside cover to photos of the endangered species in the wild.
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@scribus That was way too a cerebral comment for me to comprehend. I had to stop doing what I was doing for at least a minute and stare at the words until they made sense to me.
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@drinkingpony I do have that effect on ponies
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