Thorry84 @ Thorry84 @feddit.nl

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And then everyone at the table stood up and clapped #blessed

Joe could go out like a real chad if his last words as president are: "It's Joever"

Yeah the "Analog stick" is just a DPad, it doesn't have pots or anything like that, just binary buttons. And I have to say, it's terrible. It feels bad, it pushes your thumb upwards with a really awkward angle. For some reason it's really hard shiny plastic and the edge stands up so it digs into your flesh. It's concave instead of convex like modern sticks are (and even sticks back then were really). Doing fast inputs is impossible since you need to move it quite far before it responds and diagonals don't work very well at all.

So it sucks, but it just adds to the charm as far as I'm concerned.

One trip to my trusty room of boxes full of old shit and I found it!

Along with its official carrier case and TV out cable in original packaging. The screen protector has seen better days tho.

And it still works just fine:

Yeah I think I have one of those still around somewhere. I remember when they released it they didn't release any sources at all, even though it was full of software that required sharing in their license. So the community got together and helped them publish it all. Some of the drivers were still binary blobs, but that was the maker of the chips fault and not GameParks fault.

Once I got one I created a small little side scrolling game engine and a couple of games for it, a couple of other people used my engine to make some games for it as well. To imagine that's 20 years ago. We had a small little forum of enthusiasts setup and shared code in attachments. It's all lost to time now, but those were the days.

Kinda funny how Musk wanted to sound like the hero by saying he himself personally helped out the police, who would have been nowhere without him of course, in solving what happened. But instead of being the hero people were like: "You did what now?" I think a lot of people didn't know the extent to which car manufacturers (Tesla among the worst in this regard) collect data and have control over cars.

Luckily there is a distro for anyone. There's plenty of super stable distros out there. But if you want the cutting edge, stability will be comprised. And the cutting edge is pretty cool at the moment, so for me it's worth the issue once and again.

No, but depending on what's wrong that might not be the best thing to do. If the new version is broken, rolling back to a previous working version might fix it. But when the update broke something, it might not fix it and could even make it worse. I'd rather figure out what went wrong and how to fix it, it's a good skill to have. And if the new version does turn out to be broken, it's good to have dug into it so you can make a proper bug report.

The fake news is fake news apparently. She has a video on her YouTube where she describes the whole thing and it seems true. However, I don't know what sort of content she does on OnlyFans. She does show the max amount of cleavage possible on YouTube, but I'm not sure if she shows more than that on any other platform. Everything I could find was actual science content, except she is a very attractive lady wearing revealing clothes while telling the story. But I know OnlyFans also does chats for example where pictures don't need to be exchanged at all, people will pay just to talk to an attractive person. She might also do feet pics, which can be highly valuable to some people.

So it's implied she sorta dropped out of school to do porn. But it's nothing like that, she has a couple of degrees already, had a nice side project going with her content creation on multiple platforms including YouTube and didn't see a future for herself with the path she was on. So she switched to doing content creation fulltime.

Well you say that, but I've had legit discussions with coders that use things like Dvorak because it allows them to type faster and thus code faster. I pointed out the actual typing of the code is the easy part and only a very small part of the bigger task. This one coder that swore by Dvorak had an impressive typing speed for sure, but also a reputation he could never push his commits because the linter kept spotting typos. And even then wouldn't get through testing because not all typos are caught by the linter. Of course he was the kind of developer that wrote 3000 lines of code before ever committing anything and testing for himself was beneath him, that was a job for the testers. Once he had lost a couple of days of work because he didn't commit/push and when he booted his machine somehow his files got corrupted and all was lost. After that he was in trouble for the nteenth time and was let go, shame because I liked the guy.

Using alternative layouts to prevent rsi I'm all for, but optimizing typing speed seems like not the way to go. I'm old and learned to type on a typewriter and later horrible 80s keyboards (although some were nice as well), so I don't care, as long as it has keys I'm OK to go.

It was too heavy to move, except for like the single truck that moved it when it crashed. It didn't just get heavier over night did it?

It's just code for nobody wanted to pay to have their shit cleaned up, so everyone just left it because who cares. I can't imagine it's much of an "attraction", that's just some smart local politician inventing an excuse to not have to clean it up.

I use Arch BTW.

Today the liquidctl integration of cooler control died, making all my fans go into a safe profile which makes a lot more noise than normal. Imagine having to listen to that for an hour trying to get it working again. I did get it working luckily, somehow the coolercontrol-liqctld python module didn't register properly. Once I got the module registered everything was working, for now....

It's also a pretty dumb rock to use as an example. If the moon were that color it would be way brighter than it is currently. And with a rock as shiny as that you would clearly see a reflection of the sun as well.

In real life the moon is about as bright as dark asphalt and because of all the dust it is very dull as well. So a matt black paint would probably be closer to what the moon looks like. Still bright as hell compared to the nothingness that surrounds it. Our eyes are also very good at low light conditions, once we get used to the dark a little bit of light goes a long way. So we can even pick out shadows in the moonlight on earth. A brighter moon would be annoying I think, imagine having some nights that look like early evening on a sunny day. But if we evolved with it we would be used to it I guess.

Just like with flat earth the glowing moon theory fails to explain the phases of the moon or things like eclipses. And why the glow doesn't follow black body radiation, but instead perfectly follows the tell tale signs of reflected sunlight, Fraunhofer lines and all. And where the energy to generate that light would come from, making something glow as bright as the moon takes a lot of power. And why that power source selectively lights some parts some of the time. And where does the sunlight that hits the moon ends up, if it's not reflected.

I would think it's a troll, but these days you'd never know. Even if a troll for example claims vaccines cause autism for the grift, idiots still believe it.

Ah yes those brief couple of years in the Roman empire where they had phones and selfie sticks, but drones weren't around yet.

That's the same code as my luggage!

My idea of a responsible adult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsbP13xu6k

Sure just saying, not trolling at all.

Solar drives energy prices down, not up. In the summer the energy price regularly goes negative because there is so much solar available.

And it isn't even remotely true, other countries have higher energy prices than Germany within the EU. The Netherlands for example has crazy high energy prices. And that's in absolute numbers, not even corrected for things like GDP.

Yeah that sucks, they haven't shared the source, only what site it's from.

This is the closest I could find: https://www.energy-charts.info/charts/energy/chart.htm?l=en&c=DE&interval=year&year=-1&source=public

But this includes all sources, where the chart shown only includes renewable sources. I can't find it on the site, but I'm kinda dumb so maybe somebody else can find it.

If they can keep that fucker McConnell going, they sure as hell can continue to reanimate the corpse that is Trump.

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