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@MicroSFF@mastodon.art My parents tried that once. You know, drove extra detours around random city blocks.
Turns out prolonging the ride also prolongs the time you get annoyed by kids asking if you're there yet...
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Denian
@Denian@chaos.social
Introvert with #ADHD and a healthy (or not) appreciation for sarcasm and cynicism. Probably at least the second most boring person in the room. Ask your questions, I rarely bite without request.
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Joined May 27, 2020
Job:
Software Engineer
Hobbies:
Reading, swimming, games, talking about stuff I know nothing about
Way of Life:
ADHD, and proud of the chaos I cause
Motto:
Sarcasm protects the world from introverts, not the other way around.
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@gdinwiddie@mastodon.social @MicroSFF@mastodon.art Does it matter? I want to see a dragon sword master now!
Two important lessons you learn as a programmer:
1. Decisions grow on trees, and if you ignore any branch, somebody is almost guaranteed to end up regretting it.
2. Customers, project managers etc. are completely ignorant of the fact that decisions grow on trees.
(Ehemalige) Studenten langweilen dich mit Geschichten über Spaghetti aus der Kaffeemaschine? Servier ihnen ein Glas Tomatensuppe* aus dem Milchaufschäumer!
* Getestet mit "Heiße Tasse" Instant-Tomatensuppe. Ergebnis kann je nach Produkt (und Milchaufschäumer) variieren. Der Autor übernimmt keine Haftung für Sachschäden oder Verletzungen... Oder irgendetwas Anderes.
Man findet tausende Aktenvernichter, die mit automatischem Einzelblatteinzug Dokumente in einzelne Atome zerlegen, aber keinen einzigen, bei dem ersichtlich ist, dass man damit zuverlässig größere Mengen Karton in höchstens Handflächengroße Stücke zerlegen kann. Bin ich der einzige Mensch auf dieser Welt, der regelmäßig Kartons in gemeinsam genutzten Tonnen entsorgen muss?
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@MicroSFF@mastodon.art Imagine me slowly blinking as I try to mentally digest this one...
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I admire many authors. Those like Tolkien, who created worlds that will continue to shape people's fantasy for centuries. Those like Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett, whose words make you laugh first and think second, and then keep thinking until your brain hurts and you nod and say "that's probably right", simply because you don't want it to be wrong.
Fynn, with his simple stories about a simple girl that might or might not actually have lived at some point, somehow surpasses them all.
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@netopwibby My brain just goes "is it actually Windows 98, not 95?", because I remember 95 as the one with the green/teal default background color, and 98 as blue 😓
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Klar, kann man auch selbst machen, braucht aber Zeit und wenn man nicht aufpasst zieht man sich Papierschnitte zu, oder es landen einzelne Fetzen unter Möbeln. Und ja, Platz nehmen die Schnipsel immer noch weg, aber wenigstens suchen sie sich den portionsweise.
So... I'm using Duolingo to learn Japanese. Dubious life choices aside, those of you who use it probably know it has pronunciation lessons with dodgy voice recognition.
I currently have a slight cold, and my voice sounds about half an octave higher and rather nasal. My "accuracy" in those exercises is about 25% higher than usual.
Not sure whether I should report this as discrimination against myself or against the Japanese.
Could somebody please tell me why, in 2026, the "accepted" answer to "why the heck doesn't the ssh agent just start automatically" is still "just add this dodgy eval snippet to your bash profile"???
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Every time I read the book, it makes me laugh and cry in all the same places, and I hope it always will. I don't think I'd still feel human if I ever became immune to those scenes.
Weirdly enough, it's also one of the few "religious" books I don't mind, and yes, those quotation marks are there for a reason. Don't let your own opinions on religion stop you from reading that book - I almost did, and it would have been a mistake. This is not, strictly speaking, a Christian god, but a personal one.
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@MicroSFF@mastodon.art They're called "archeologists", not grave robbers, thank you very much. And yes, obviously the whip is part of their standard equipment.
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And if this were a bigger city, rather than the 5000 souls place it is, I don't think I would have started ringing doorbells all around the moment I saw her from my window.
I know, I'm not the most social person around, but... I guess I like knowing that there is a place where I _do_ feel the urge to help.
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And then there's the quest infrastructure, especially in games with an adventurers' guild or some similar institution. Here's the thing: it's a guild, so you aren't the only person getting those jobs. And those S-rank the-world-is-doomed missions you get near the end... Somebody posted those, assuming that somebody would do them. For such a thing to work, there have to be other people even at the highest rank.
You saving the world? You're just one of many doing so on a regular Tuesday.
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Kinda scary, if you think about it. Awesome, but scary.
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Maybe I should just replace my phone before I can no longer charge it at all, but realistically speaking, phone prices right now suck.
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@MicroSFF Am I the only one who doesn't see any indication that the willow prevents you from dying during those 100 years?
MS teams now hides its core functionality - chat - under "other apps" for me. That's like Windows only working as an operating system after you convince an AI that it should, so I expect that update sometime next week.
There's exactly one thing missing in the lineup of Steam android apps: The voice chat.
Sometimes, clouds are shaped way too distinctively... And sometimes, "but turtles don't fly!" is a perfectly valid first thought when you see one of them.
Could somebody please explain the science behind packaging - be it cardboard or plastic - always being strongest precisely where it's perforated?
A friend has bought a house and needs to do some electricity planning - the old wires weren't worth saving, so he already removed them. Does anybody have a recommendation for software to plan this kind of thing - hopefully something beginner friendly, since he'll only be doing this once?
Boosts are welcome.
Does anybody have experience running Stalwart (https://stalw.art)? Is it a good choice for someone who really doesn't want to spend a lot of time setting up and/or managing a mailserver? Dovecot and postfix kind of traumatized me during job training.
Do you get nervous when using git rebase or similar, because "rewriting history is evil"? Don't worry - these days, we have AI to do that for you.
As a side note, telling an AI "hey, the first commit you made on this branch is kinda big, can you split that into reasonable steps so I can proofread it more easily?" kinda tends to drive it to commit suicide.
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@NexCarter
Somewhere else, somebody suggested Sweet Home 3D with the Wirings plugin, both of which can be found on Sourceforge. My friend said it's good enough for a first draft, but he'd need something better for actual calculations etc.
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@sundew@beige.party Once again, I admire the evidence that there is, quite obviously, at least one person out there whose mind is more willing to dive into obscure tech stacks to distract itself than my own...