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foone

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Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️‍⚧️)

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Fun bug: my wife and I were playing Wheel of Fortune on the switch. We each created female characters, but the game crashed while spinning the wheel. Fortunately it saves your mid-game progress, except when we resumed playing, my wife's character was now a man.

She got transed by a crash!

foone , to random
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I saw this voltmeter at the electronics flea market. Look at that massive probe! It looks like you need to check your back blast before using it.
Apparently it's for REALLY high voltages? Like, 3kV?

foone , to random
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Can't believe they spent a gigawatt training GPT3 and the fucker isn't even trying to overthrow humanity.

Look, where I come from, if you burn a gigawatt of energy to make an AI, it had better damn well go skynet on you.

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If you spend that much time and effort building an AI it should be less than an hour before something is on fire, several people are dead, and someone is talking about how it was wrong to tamper in God's domain.

foone OP ,
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I know it seems ridiculous but I think the main problem with the AI industry is insufficient hubris.

foone OP ,
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GIVE👏GPT-5👏NUCLEAR👏WEAPONS

molly0xfff , to random
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foone ,
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@molly0xfff annoyingly I've written about this before. It's solely because of people who have copies of the blockchain stored on offline/unplugged computers that wouldn't get fried.

But let it be known that if society falls, me and my gang of roving bdsm-core warriors will be finding and smashing every one of those computers.

foone , to random
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I'm a "full stack developer", in that my stack is full and if you try to push any more tasks on me I'm gonna overflow it and start corrupting my own memory

dec_hl , to random German
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I’m going with dark red glitter today

foone ,
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@dec_hl looks nice!

lritter , to random
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the "miniaudio" C header library has over 90k lines of code.

foone ,
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@lritter audio is a sin. Computers shouldn't make noises

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a pox on whoever came up with the fucking byte order mark

foone ,
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@eniko 10$ says they only add it because some damn microsoft product does, and they want to be bad-idea-for-bad-idea compatible

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OH: "c++ is more effective at causing pain than any knife ever will be"

foone ,
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@whitequark what if we made a knife that ran c++ code

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one of my least favorite things in computing are progress bars that straight up lie to you until getting to the very end

just make it a puck that goes back and forth and grows bigger as you actually receive data or something

stop fucking lying to me you piece of shit

foone ,
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@whitequark I made one of these when I worked for the US government. The progress bar was just faked, the api we had only had a "is it done?" call.
So I programmed it to consistently go up and stall at 95% until it finished.

I'm sorry

foone , to random
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the world needs more recreational programming.
like, was this the most optimal or elegant way to code this?

no, but it was the most fun to write.

foone OP ,
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cause like, yeah, it's good to know how to write optimal code and how to make it elegant and easy to maintain, sure!

but one thing you have to maintain is your brain. If you're constantly driving your programming brain at maximum speed, maximum awareness of all possible caveats and vulnerabilities, always considering "how will I maintain this code in ten years time?" you're going to burn yourself out.

foone OP ,
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You're associating programming with a high-stress high-attention activity. That's going to make programming something that's categorized in your brain as no fun, never relaxing, never something you do just cause it would be interesting... you're going to start dreading it, even just a little. "oh well, let's get this over with."

That's not a good way to think about it in the long run.

foone OP ,
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we often say that programming is more an art than a science, but we need to treat it like one too.

Sometimes you need to paint a sunset not because someone paid you to paint a sunset, but because it'd be fun to paint a sunset.

foone OP ,
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we need a bob ross of programming

foone , to random
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There's an alternate universe where Netscape Navigator embedded Lua instead of inventing js, and I'm not sure if that's a better world or not.

foone , to random
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The Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.

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Lmao Tesla has sold fewer cybertrucks than I've sold copies of MidBoss. Is this the power of the richest man in the world? Pathetic

foone ,
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@eniko yeah but how many copies of midboss has he sold?

foone , to random
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Bad idea: an external floppy drive that can appear as a mass storage device of arbitrary size. The way it works is it has a little screen, and you use that to configure how big you want it to be, then it formats the proper number of 3.5" floppy disks.
Then when the PC tries to read a sector that's not on the current disk, the display will just prompt you to insert disk or whatever.

foone , to random
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I'm still broke, though I've got a temp job for now: they've not yet paid me, however, and I've had to pay something like 4k$ for two medications, and another 2k$ that was supposedly going to make the 4k$ free.

So any donations would be great. https://ko-fi.com/fooneturing

foone , to random
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People are always telling me I'm "basic" but they won't clarify if they mean like qbasic or visual basic or one of the 8bit micro basics?

eniko , to random
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youtubers stop using the term "asset flip" for reusing an enemy sprite or model recolored for a different enemy challenge

words have meaning and that is not even remotely close to what that term means

foone ,
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@eniko I should do an "asset flip game jam"
The only rule is that you have to use pre-existing assets and you can't modify them except for like, in-engine scaling/palette swaps.

foone , to random
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I know I really should prefer ARM given that it was designed by My People, but I just can't help it:
My favorite processor is 32bit x86

foone , to random
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Diffie-Hellman's Mayonnaise

foone , to random
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My Pocket 386 arrived! It seems to have basically the same specs as the Hand386, but in a laptop form factor. There's a few new options for managing the video, and the built-in screen isn't as horribly shit this time.

foone , to random
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The worst part about being a transfemme building a homelab is that you're always thinking "I need a bigger rack"

foone , to random
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VGAPride says happy trans day of visibility.

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I guess it's a good thing the entire CI/packaging infrastructure got compromised... A good thing for my job hunt at least!
CI is my bread and butter. Y'all are gonna need to hire a bunch of people to better maintain your whole software delivery system... People like me!

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bad idea: A mouse cursor that's not just a simple floating pointer, it's a cat/dog paw... but it stretches all the way to an edge of the screen like it's a really long leg

foone , to random
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I was looking up a power adapter on ebay for an old toshiba laptop, so I could see the pinout diagram on the adapter, and I just noticed now that they're selling it for 199$

this is a laptop from like 1992. The laptop itself is not worth 199$. Why the fuck would you sell a power adapter for that much?

foone , to random
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why do I have a parallel port token ring adapter sitting on my desk

why did I just spent 5 minutes restoring it

foone OP ,
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does anyone know what year it is

foone , to random
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New generator time! I got distracted and finally added Winners Don't Use Drugs.

This screen was never a font-based thing that I know of, so I made a font out of the letters we have, drew the rest, and made it kinda fonty.

https://deathgenerator.com/#wdud

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