Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 10

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Huh? Ranma ½ is remade? Watched it. Was fine. Still prefer the original drawing style. The chunkier and less refined lines as well as the are livelier than the polished new one. Content-wise basically the same.

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What makes me also annoyed in a big way is the STL and how impossible it is to read the documentation and how unintuitive it is to find the right headers.... C++ is the purest form of an abusive love-hate-relationship for programmers.

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I have programmed quite some C++ back in my days. I got a little bit more into it again and I must say that C++ is, for all intents and purposes, very backwards in their syntax. I don't mind some of its minor quirks. The big stuff that annoy me is the way it demands all the stuff that should be automatic but due to legacy and C-interoperability it's kept that way. I created a base button class and had different subclasses of buttons. I created an array of the base button class and assigned the subclass objects to it. However it didn't work as intended as only the base class was called because the array was of the type "Button" and not "Button*". It had to have the type to Button pointers because otherwise the polymorphism doesn't work. C# has pampered me way too much in that regard. However using C++ templates feels sooo good.

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When I worked at my university I had my only mandatory background check even though I only created some graphics for an institute. Some government agencies are more strict than others for no apparent reason. In my current job I worked for a few government agencies and never had to sign anything to allow being background-checked.

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This is the mockup https://i.imgur.com/h6hLDPJ.png Tomorrow I'll receive the last few parts and then I can start printing the case.

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After my foot switch I'm going to make a macro keyboard. So far my first use case is the input of some passwords. I know it's not safe to do so. As I'm working from home and have to enter the same damn passwords multiple times in a row it's tiring. As a safety measure I ordered lever switches with those cool flip covers that are always shown in movies for arming the big guns or a powerful machine. In my case this lever switch is for unlocking the password buttons. The buttons have a LED and light up when they are unlocked. Besides that I plan to have 8 additional buttons for volume control and microphone control and have some buttons left. With that I have almost all pins used up without resorting to a scan matrix. I ain't patience and time for soldering that.

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Finished my foot switch. The actual switch is a bit too loud but it's fixable with a bit of foam for sound isolation and the spring a tad bit too strong. That thing was done for a standing position and not a sitting one like in my case, so nothing really unexpected. I hope it will work loose over time. If not I can change it easily. The hard part is to find a suitable replacement.

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I bought a foot switch pedal. I intend to use it for the push-to-talk function for voice chat in Discord. I got myself a metal one for industrial applications for 11€. I'll connect an arduino Leonardo (Atmega 32u4) to the switch inside and it's practically done. I've already written the few lines of code, just a simple interrupt for the raising and falling edge of a pin that triggers a button press and release. I don't need any configuration of the key during runtime. There are foot switches for the PC available but they look cheap and I don't trust their software. Also I want it to use on my work pc so I can't say if the software will be blocked or trigger the dumb anti virus software.

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Aw man... My Blackberry battery is so cooked that it crashes when the charge is at 30% upon getting a call.

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I do not like the standard character sheet design of the 2024 edition (5.5e?) of Dungeons and Dragons. Maybe I'm way too used to the 5th edition but there is a kind of visual business that makes the new one unappealing. Unappealing in a way the transition from 4th edition to 5th didn't.

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Aaand Futurama got stupid again. The newest episode is a riff on children mystery adventure books. It was the most incoherent dumbass crap only Family Guy could produce.

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Also my DIY dry-erase plant tags held up better than imagined. The text was hard but could be scratched off with a fingernail if I had to but a cotton pad with isopropanol could dissolve it in no time. Also the writing surface was fine. Only a few ones were yellowed and now the text is inverted (white on light yellow) but they still work.

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Jolie Coeur were initially disappointing in their growth but they exploded in a ton of small-ish dark purple flavor monsters. Gonna grow them again.
Marmande were the general best in all departments: yield, taste, size, resiliency.
Polish Malinowy tomatoes were so-so. I want to try them again but I'll limit it to only one.

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I think I can give a verdict for my first gardening season. Green tomatoes like Green Zebra were growing very badly and the ones that grew were very underwhelming and confusing as to determine when they are ripe.
The one Black Krim tomato I could harvest was good but I have the feeling in a better year they could be way better.
The chocolate tomatoes were surprising as how they good they were but disappointing in their lack of chocolatey flavor. I had also a variant with smaller fruits and they were flavor bombs, however I rather want to eat tomatoes on bread and their size were cumbersome.
Yellow Pear tomatoes I had had the same problem, too small for my use. Also their taste was very neutral. Ate them in a salad and weren't contributing to anything but the texture. Won't grow them again.
Also ox heart tomatoes were way too huge and watery in taste. Next year they won't be planted again.

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The tomato season is winding down. There are only a dozen of tomatoes on the plants left. I had to remove half of my plants as they have no fruits growing and the cold temperatures in the night have stopped any new development and the fungus infection hasn't gotten any better but in a way stable enough not to kill anything immediately.

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I like LaTeX to an extend. I like to define my documents by a description language. HOWEVER it has the stupidest idiosyncrasies.

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Oh boy Majima. I'm on board https://i.redd.it/0n6ai670vxpd1.png

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This week's Futurama episode is so far the first one of the season that feels like one of the older seasons. The Beany-Baby craze is somewhat relatable as it is more approachable and universal in theme than Bitcoin and NFTs. It was still a bit off in a few places. Not a banger episode but solid.

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I feel forced to download any decent picture I come across as I won't be able to find it by any means anymore over the Internet. I have a huge folder of portrait pictures organized by D&D race. I do the same with battle maps as they aren't conveniently searchable.

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Do I have too high expectations? No. I got those kind of images easily a couple of years ago without getting the urge to stab my eyes out.

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Google image search and Bing image search, and consequently any other image search, is getting more useless by the minute. I was searching for some portrait images for an upcoming D&D adventure. For example I wanted a few different Kobold images, like a rich snobby type, a miner, cultist-like in a hood. All I got were cartoony, furry AF, overly sexualized, AI-generated, or pure eye cancer in all regards of taste, artistic or image quality.

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Futurama continues to be bordering to be meh. The Fyre parody would have been old even a week after the incident. Probably the better ones is the fast fashion moth. The coffee aliens episode is very forgettable despite