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Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk
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Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk
Apocalypto LinkI make hummus from fermented chick peas. Our power got cut off, not for the first time, because the landlord didn't pay his municipal bill. This is the 4th time now I've had to pay the...I make hummus from fermented chick peas.
Our power got cut off, not for the first time, because the landlord didn't pay his municipal bill. This is the 4th time now I've had to pay the municipality myself just to have electricity.
Anyway today for lunch I mixed crunched up flaming hot doritos and a scoop of fermented hummus -
Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Apocalypto LinkNot super productive An autohotkey script to grind a game. The long of it: There's this mobile game called Event Horizon: Frontier that I've been playing for a while that I recently found out has...Not super productive
An autohotkey script to grind a game.
The long of it: There's this mobile game called Event Horizon: Frontier that I've been playing for a while that I recently found out has a PC build that I feel the keyboard and mouse controls are much nicer than the touch screen controls. There's no real story, but the progression missions involve you and your mercenaries defending your starbase against waves of enemies. You also unlock optional survival missions after every 5 sectors cleared, with much bigger waves but you keep any collected loot and xp when you die.
The mercenaries, ships, and starbase each level up up to a cap of 100. They gain a percentage boost to attack and defence based on their level, also the skill points you have available are the sum of all the levels.
The mercs aren't too bad, but the ships take forever to level up, especially the ones that just aren't very good.
The short of it: An autohotkey script that periodically scans a certain portion of the screen for either "mission completed" or "you have been defeated" and escapes to the galaxy map and launches the same survival mission again when either is found.More productive
Our South African company is contracted to be the offshore team for an American company; that delivers customizations to Microsoft's Dynamics 365 ERP platform; so they can offer 24 hour support by just having people in different timezones instead of having people on call. Sometimes some of us get swamped and either have to juggle multiple tickets from different projects or hand some work off to colleagues.
The idea now is to have locally hosted VMs with Visual Studio configured with all the right mappings and connections and then use Tailscale so people can rdp in to those VMs and pick up where you left off.
If that works we can ask the company to provision a server plugged in to the UPS system at the office or maybe even in an actual data center.
I've always wanted to try my hand at managing an actual server -
Comment on Satisfactory | 1.2 launch trailer in ~games
Apocalypto LinkFluid trucks and a pathing rework? Be still my beating heartFluid trucks and a pathing rework?
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Comment on Emacs bra size calculator in ~comp
Apocalypto Link ParentI was also thinking moment of force in case you wanted to hang things from your penis, but that's not strictly speaking a size calculationI was also thinking moment of force in case you wanted to hang things from your penis, but that's not strictly speaking a size calculation
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Comment on Emacs bra size calculator in ~comp
Apocalypto Link ParentWhat kind of penis size calculations? Unit conversion? Volume?What kind of penis size calculations?
Unit conversion?
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Comment on What change would make you quit Tildes? in ~tildes
Apocalypto LinkAchievements and streaks. I would elaborate my dislike for reddit's streaks specifically, but I'm not sure what the policy on cursing isAchievements and streaks.
I would elaborate my dislike for reddit's streaks specifically, but I'm not sure what the policy on cursing is -
Comment on Youtube channel recommendations 2026 in ~tech
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Comment on What are some stories of progressivism gone wrong in implementation? in ~society
Apocalypto Link ParentI haven't really kept up with that since I'm not an American, but the very first actual explanation I heard was to defund the police to move money and responsibility to social services for social...I haven't really kept up with that since I'm not an American, but the very first actual explanation I heard was to defund the police to move money and responsibility to social services for social and civil issues, and create a new organization or organizations that don't already have a bunch of corrupt people entrenched in the system for criminal issues.
That way the people with guns can focus on issues that require people with guns and people without guns can tell teenagers that their music is too loud -
Comment on What are some stories of progressivism gone wrong in implementation? in ~society
Apocalypto LinkDo you mean implementations that failed because the reasoning was fundamentally flawed, or things with sound reasoning implemented poorly? And by progressivism do you mean the philosophy that...Do you mean implementations that failed because the reasoning was fundamentally flawed, or things with sound reasoning implemented poorly?
And by progressivism do you mean the philosophy that arose during the Age of Enlightenment that seeks to advance the human condition through social reform, a specific subset of that, or just vaguely anything people who use the work "woke" would describe as "woke"?
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Comment on I am kinda curious about the demographics of Tildes in ~talk
Apocalypto LinkLate 20s/NB/South Africa Software developer mostly developing customizations form Microsoft's Dynamics 365 ERP platform. Would kinda like to get assigned to some other projects for variety, but...Late 20s/NB/South Africa
Software developer mostly developing customizations form Microsoft's Dynamics 365 ERP platform.
Would kinda like to get assigned to some other projects for variety, but I've been handling this one fairly well for around 2 and a half years while my coworkers usually don't last 1 year. Not sure why, this project is definitely way less organized than even our other D365 projects, but that also means there's no one breathing down your neck asking for updates every 15 minutes (unless you're working on a production incident) -
Comment on What's the coolest thrift store find you've ever scored? in ~talk
Apocalypto LinkAn HP EliteBook 8770w that served me well for many years, could manage any game I threw at it until Aliens: Fireteam Elite Can't remember what I payed for it, but it couldn't have been more than...An HP EliteBook 8770w that served me well for many years, could manage any game I threw at it until Aliens: Fireteam Elite
Can't remember what I payed for it, but it couldn't have been more than ZAR 4,000 whereas the cheapest configuration looks like it would've been closer to ZAR 34,000 new -
Comment on Tildes Game Giveaway: Holiday 2025 in ~games
Apocalypto Link ParentWhat are the odds that I'll see Starbound mentioned twice in the same day all of a sudden. Might be my sign to actually play it again for onceWhat are the odds that I'll see Starbound mentioned twice in the same day all of a sudden.
Might be my sign to actually play it again for once -
Comment on Tildes Game Giveaway: Holiday 2025 in ~games
Apocalypto Link ParentSince the oh so fitting Video Games is already taken I'll put forward Summertime Sadness. I'll also mention Hallucinogenics without putting it forward so I can bring up that I like referring to it...Since the oh so fitting Video Games is already taken I'll put forward Summertime Sadness.
I'll also mention Hallucinogenics without putting it forward so I can bring up that I like referring to it as that song by cringe guy and video games girl.
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Comment on Whatever happened to _____? in ~talk
Apocalypto Link ParentOff topic, but the second to last time I repaired one of our 2 old Bosch washing machines I was surprised to find that the micro switch for the overflow floaty thingy had cherry written on it. Not...Off topic, but the second to last time I repaired one of our 2 old Bosch washing machines I was surprised to find that the micro switch for the overflow floaty thingy had cherry written on it.
Not sure if it's the same cherry, but how many companies named cherry can there be in the switch industry -
Comment on You’re probably using the wrong dictionary in ~books
Apocalypto Link ParentI don't know if I can even rightfully claim to be a non-native speaker if I speak English better and possibly more often than my "native" Afrikaans, but I wanted to chime in that wholly is a word...I don't know if I can even rightfully claim to be a non-native speaker if I speak English better and possibly more often than my "native" Afrikaans, but I wanted to chime in that wholly is a word that zi perfectluly understand, but would never use myself.
I have a list of of obscure words that me and my mom try to memorise for the fun of it (like zemblanity for the opposite of serendipity), bu I've barely used any of those words because you don't need them to be even quite proficient -
Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
Apocalypto LinkI'm working my way through Crafting Interpreters with the goal of adding some scripting elements to a game me and my friend want to makeI'm working my way through Crafting Interpreters with the goal of adding some scripting elements to a game me and my friend want to make
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Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk
Apocalypto Link ParentAlso not a game dev, we develop customizations on top of Microsoft's Dynamics 365 ERP platform. There are so many minor bugs and QoL issues I'd love to fix if they'd allocate me a bit of time for...Also not a game dev, we develop customizations on top of Microsoft's Dynamics 365 ERP platform.
There are so many minor bugs and QoL issues I'd love to fix if they'd allocate me a bit of time for it and given permission to touch that part of the code.
These things annoy me every time I have to test my changes, but I'm not the one who pays my salary so I just have to live with it (and maybe sneakily make a quick fix every now and then if I'm working in those methods anyway) -
Comment on What common misunderstanding do you want to clear up? in ~talk
Apocalypto LinkPlanes do not generate lift exclusively through negative pressure from air moving faster over the top of the wings than the bottom and pulling it up. That is a factor, but the wings also push air...Planes do not generate lift exclusively through negative pressure from air moving faster over the top of the wings than the bottom and pulling it up.
That is a factor, but the wings also push air down, and according to Newton's 3rd law if an object exerts a force on another then a force of equal magnitude is exerted on object a in the opposite direction. So if the wing pushes air down then the air pushes the wing up. -
Comment on Make new friends here! in ~life
Apocalypto Link ParentIT pronouns? Like IP/V4? In a groan inducing joke way, not a making fun of pronouns wayIT pronouns?
Like IP/V4? In a groan inducing joke way, not a making fun of pronouns way
I got me and my brother tickets for Sunday.
Haven't been to a movie theatre since Dune