HakFoo

@HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think twice before gifting someone an M dwarf this holiday season⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I though dwarf stars had far longer lifespans than solar-type stars, and conversely the largest giants last only tens of millions of years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I guess I'm just a cubicle monkey now⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Right there that’s where we went wrong. Back when Dracula was in charge the prices of groceries were reasonable, and he only needed a few virgins a year sacrificed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upgraded my setup (for x86 asm of course)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Why not nasm? Are you actually targeting DOS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Happy birthday, peon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My company originally said you got two free days off per year, outside the accrued PTO: one for your birthday, and one for parity because office #2 got a state holiday that #1 didn’t.

  Now they moved to the “unlimited PTO” gimmick which has no right answer for how much time you can take off, so I follow the old PTO accrual schedule for my seniority as a guide.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why virtual desktops always have same background?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  CDE supports it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨marketing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to be clear, the chicken sandwich itself holds no ill will to the homosexual community. Sandwiches are generally incapable of hate.

  Sadly, the ghouls that own the company that makes the sandwiches are incapable of reaching the same level of human empathy that an inanimate foodstuff can.

  Aside from that, you ain’t missing much. It tasted weird and sweet 20 years ago when they started selling them here, before the controversy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hot take⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder where “same language, different encoding” turns into “new language”

  The morse-derived shorthand used by radio enthusiasts might be similar.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you die, what do you want to be done with you?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is vampirism or zombification an option?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Scalper economy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would thry?

  The ticket seller doesn’t care if there’s an empty hall, he got paid early on.

  You’re hoping that the scalpers don’t get enough return to be able to justify continuing to play their role.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But GOG is alresdy the Steam with Principals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mine was the fact that Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr were both born in 1929 😭⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The Apple II’s big selling point, compared to the other two big brands introduced in 1977 (the Radio Shack TRS-80 and Commodore PET) was colour.

  But it was a weird and colour scheme that took advantage of clever Wozniak hacks to make it viable on a cheap machine. Good video hardware, and enough memory for the colour display, were spendy. That’s why even into the 1980s you’d have machines like the ZX Spectrum with limitations like “every 8x8 block can only have 2 colours” which used less memory, and 40-column screens that were readable on TVs instead of dedicated high-res monitors…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orac⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was always disappointed that celebrity and character voice packs weren’t a thing for the voice-assistant platforms. I’d pay literal ones of dollars for a voice assistant with a Sebastian Michaelis intonation and theming.

  Cortana for Windows Phone came closest, I think they did use the same voice actress as the game character.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random question for today: Considering people who are not amateurs, if you wanted to create increased visibility and participation in amateur radio, what would you do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a bit late, but here’s my upvote. Ground the site for a few weeks, and took my Technician and General exams today, holed up in my bathroom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ain't nothing a dollar anymore⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Ten Bits” seems viable, although nobody cares much about the Spanish real anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would it be weird if I took something my neighbor put out for trash?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I put out one of those big plastic storage units with like 30 little drawers recently, figuring although 2 were missing, someone could still use it. I stood it next to the dustbin, on trash day where it would be optimally visible for anyone who wanted to scrounge it.

  The bloody HOA took a picture and sent a nastygram.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Sundae⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cute!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anon finds a flashdrive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My idea was a worm that just torrents random shit and dumps it on your desktop like a cat bringing you a dead bat with “I broughted you a pwesent ^w^” energy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would a brigade effort to "engage" with Trump ads in streaming services force the campaign to waste extra money, and make a viable psyop when they measure their telemetry?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we get the politicians to shift from illegal aliens to Sasquatch? Build a wall across Washington state and make Canada pay for it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Ticketmaster Doesn't Want You To Know: Concerts Were Cheap For Decades⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The experience could be somewhat tamed by a lottery process.

  Accept a token deposit for a week or two, and then draw from people contending for a given seat, then give them another week to pay the balance. Any unclaimed seats are put up at will call night-of-the-show. Limit the number of deposits taken from any given card to prevent “I’ll claim 30 seats and only buy 1” gaming of the lottery.

  There’s probably some more complexity about it (if you want N seats together), but I think that would dramatically cut back on the frustration for “the tickets were only available for 14 seconds and the server was being DDOSed by scalper bots.”

  Having to put down a deposit with no guarantee of a ticket also makes “buy All The Seats” scalping theoretically impossible and economically riskier. If there’s 5/1 contention for a ticket, you’d have to find a way to get 3 lottery slots for a better than even chance of getting it. If the deposit was $10, you’re spending $30 for the chance to buy a $50 ticket-- so if you can’t resell the ticket for at least $80, you lose. Under current policies, if you can sell that $50 ticket for $51, you’re ahead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Level 5 Gyatttttt⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never realized the tattoos were photoshopped.

  I assumed they used a random stock photo that had a convenient pose to add the shirt onto, that happened to have a tattoo.

  Of course, I also figured using a photo with too much ink would 1) distract from the merchandise and 2) make the stock photo model too recognizable. (Oh, they clearly used Getty #8675309, “Fat White Guy With Mediocre Barbed Wire Tattoo”), but plenty of the pics are identifiable enough to use for a police report.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will outlive us all⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve had KVMs that don’t like the ‘fancier’ USB keyboards with NKRO. It would work, but it wouldn’t listen for its own ‘switch to different console’ hotkeys. Reconfiguring the keyboard to run in 6KRO-only mode addressed it, but not every keyboard can be configured that way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Random question for today: Considering people who are not amateurs, if you wanted to create increased visibility and participation in amateur radio, what would you do?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As a non-amateur who every few months thinks “I should consider getting a license”, I’ve been hoping for an obvious bootstrap point.

  The library has some old “here’s every exam question” style cram books, but I’m actually looking for a course for understanding, so I don’t pass the exam and proceed to have no idea what to do or how to behave. That went so well eith the driver’s license exam. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Somehow USB disks are still the easiest and most reliable way⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  MTP is awfully slow on my Nokia G20 at least. OTOH, it has a uSD slot so I could just pop it out and transfer that way.

  $150 phones are better than $1500 ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look you've just to got read the prologue that was a limited edition IHOP giveaway in 2015 and the story is awesome⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  With American comics, it’s not even the shattered continuity, it’s that availability is a mess because some of the franchises are so ancient and collectible.

  If I want to read through One Piece from the 1997 start, my library probably has/can inter-library loan all 105 volumes, or I can go to mainstream retailers and get any I’m missing without a huge fracas.

  If I want to read Batman from the 1940 start, I’d better hope some of the rarer issues come up at auction in the near future AND that I can mortgage my house to afford them.

  I’m amazed they never put out a DVD-ROM collection that’s “Everything Marvel/DC did prior to, say, 1990, as PDF scans” just so mere mortals have a chance to enjoy the experience of completionism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm just gonna stick to slotted, thanks⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After wrecking some JIS screws on a vintage reciever, I bought a nice Vessel-brand JIS driver set, and use it for all my crosshead needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No more boot loader: Please use the kernel instead⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The “looks for other operating systems” is huge for any desktop use with dualboot, recovery media, and plenty of systems have utilities like Memtest86 through the boot menu.

  Grub always seemed weirdly complex yet incomplete- the idea that you had to pre-enumerate every bootable OS made it worse than rEFInd to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised nobody makes an affordable PCI or maybe even USB GPIO box.

  To me, the RasPi served two purposes:

  • if you wanted GPIOs and the associated ecosystem of hats/shields/capes/straightjackets but a less barebones experience than a bare metal MCU
  • RiscOS, because an Archimedes is far rarer than even an Amiga or ST in the Rogue Colonies
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How should news sites be funded?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I’ve learned anything from GTA… just drive the news van around and hit pedestrians until you make budget.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in the 1970s when we switched to unleaded gas, what did the vehicles that ran on leaded gas do?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was under the impression thar’s what the mid-grade petrol was for; it had a high-enough octane factor to be non-knocking in engines designed for leaded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Says a lot about society⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No wonder DEC went broke. My VT220 didn’t come with any hunks crawling out of the screen Ringu style.