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  1. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Oh, Ive played through all the zachtronics games as well, yah. actually 100%ed a few of them.

    Oh, Ive played through all the zachtronics games as well, yah. actually 100%ed a few of them.

    1 vote

  2. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Ive gotten into shapez2, and Ive gotta say, Im relieved that Ive found another factory game, was worried Factorio had completely spoiled me. (Ive tried satisfactory, and bounced off of it due to...

    Ive gotten into shapez2, and Ive gotta say, Im relieved that Ive found another factory game, was worried Factorio had completely spoiled me. (Ive tried satisfactory, and bounced off of it due to jank and the first person view.)

    Im really enjoying the core premise of the game: There are no recipies. Instead, you have shapes made of 4 quadrants, each of which can be 1 of 4 shapes and 1 of 9 colors, and these shapes can be stacked 4 high. Every operation is valid on every shape, operations like splitting a shape in to 2, rotating a shape, stacking one shape on top of another, swapping the west halves of 2 shapes, etc. Its closer to mathematical operators than to traditional 'recipies' that most automation games use.

    Ive finished the 'main' game, making increasingly complex shapes and delivering a higher and higher throughput of them, and this past weekend I started on the final challenge of the game: the MAM.

    With the circuit logic the game provides you, its possible to make a factory that makes any shape. You give it a logic signal containing a shape, and it makes that shape from raw materials. Ive made a factory that can make any single shape, so now I need to make 3 more of them and build a system to stack them on top of each other in order to make the final shape. Theres a few more complications than that, but after Ive finished this MAM, I think Ill put it down for a bit, do some other hobbies that Ive been neglecting.

    2 votes

  3. Comment on I'm going on vacation in ~tildes

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    Have a good trip!

    Have a good trip!

    1 vote

  4. Comment on What I learned building my first custom water loop in ~comp

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    Thanks for the in depth explanation! I didnt consider that the coolant isnt necessarily completely non-conductive, it would just need to have a high enough resistance to not count as a dead short...

    Thanks for the in depth explanation! I didnt consider that the coolant isnt necessarily completely non-conductive, it would just need to have a high enough resistance to not count as a dead short on 12 or 24v lines.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Business idea and feedback thread in ~talk

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    Rackmount KVMs are close, but they typically dont have their own battery, and dont function as IO expanders, either. (Also, they cost an arm and a leg, for some reason. My laptop is cheaper than...

    Rackmount KVMs are close, but they typically dont have their own battery, and dont function as IO expanders, either. (Also, they cost an arm and a leg, for some reason. My laptop is cheaper than that one...)

  6. Comment on What I learned building my first custom water loop in ~comp

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    Not that Im going to do this, but I thought galvanic corrosion only happened when metals had an electrical connection, something cooling liquid tries very hard to avoid? If your using soft tubing...

    Do not mix aluminium and copper/brass

    Not that Im going to do this, but I thought galvanic corrosion only happened when metals had an electrical connection, something cooling liquid tries very hard to avoid? If your using soft tubing as well, wouldn't that remove all electrical connection, preventing corrosion? (Not an expert here, asking what part I have wrong in my mental model rather than asserting that you are wrong.)

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Smartphone recommendations? in ~tech

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    Im not sure why this is, but the 7 standard does have a headphone jack, only the 7 pro does not.

    Samsung Galaxy Xcover, 6 if you gotta have the Headphone Jack, 7 if you’re willing to go without and have something a little bit newer

    Im not sure why this is, but the 7 standard does have a headphone jack, only the 7 pro does not.

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Smartphone recommendations? in ~tech

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    Samsung Galaxy Xcover 7. Battery replaceable without tools, SD card slot, headphone jack, No back glass, fairly durable, and a somewhat beefy speaker. My only complaint about it is the standard...

    Samsung Galaxy Xcover 7. Battery replaceable without tools, SD card slot, headphone jack, No back glass, fairly durable, and a somewhat beefy speaker. My only complaint about it is the standard samsung bloatware, but nothing UAD wasnt able to take care of. Not super expensive, either.

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Business idea and feedback thread in ~talk

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    I always have little electronic hardware things that Id love to see made. Hardware is such a capital intensive business, and my ideas are usually on the niche side, though, so Im not sure Ill ever...

    I always have little electronic hardware things that Id love to see made. Hardware is such a capital intensive business, and my ideas are usually on the niche side, though, so Im not sure Ill ever persue them:

    I really want a laptop without a cpu. What I mean by that, is I want a laptop housing with a decent quality screen, keyboard, and touchpad, with a good selection of video ports, usb ports, an ethernet port, etc, but no CPU. All the video ports are actually inputs, as is a single usb3 port. If your a sysadmin or a homelabber, you might know the pain of when a machine goes offline and you have to lug a monitor and keyboard over, plug everything in (including the screens power supply), and sit on the floor, typing on a keyboard and looking at a screen, on the floor.

    This device would replace all of that. You would just plug in the usb-in port to the server, plug in the appropriate video connector, (Ideally this laptop would have DP, HDMI, and VGA), and bam. The screen is connected to the server, the keyboard and mouse work, and every other port on the laptop housing is connected to the usb port (so it doubles as a usb hub, sd card reader, USB-ethernet adapter, etc). All the IO you could ever want in a single package. Would have an internal battery and charge over usb-c, of course.

  10. Comment on Mythos finds a curl vulnerability in ~comp

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    3 months ago I watched this guy announce the end of the bug bounty program due to slop on stage. Have the tools gotten that much better, or is it just that without the profit motive, people are...

    3 months ago I watched this guy announce the end of the bug bounty program due to slop on stage. Have the tools gotten that much better, or is it just that without the profit motive, people are spending more time separating the real vulns from the slop?

    15 votes

  12. Comment on Anyone else a bit unnerved by the number of visible satellites? in ~space

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    Or just a regular star/planet (you forgot to mention they need to be moving across the sky as well)

    Or just a regular star/planet (you forgot to mention they need to be moving across the sky as well)

    6 votes

  13. Comment on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars in ~transport

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    IMHO, trolleys/trams are just funni smal-gauge electric trains, so that tracks.

    IMHO, trolleys/trams are just funni smal-gauge electric trains, so that tracks.

    1 vote

  14. Comment on Nobody understands the point of hybrid cars in ~transport

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    IIRC, electric trains powered by overhead wires/3rd rail already do this to cut down on the energy usage (these tracks are common in europe). One train braking contributes power to the rail...

    IIRC, electric trains powered by overhead wires/3rd rail already do this to cut down on the energy usage (these tracks are common in europe). One train braking contributes power to the rail network that can be used to by any other train currently using power on the network.

    7 votes

  15. Comment on The Ploopy Bean - an external four-button trackpoint in ~tech

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    Really depends on how comfortable with electronic engineering you are. They design the enclosures, the PCB, and customize the firmware (they dont write it whole cloth, they use QMK). To produce...

    Really depends on how comfortable with electronic engineering you are. They design the enclosures, the PCB, and customize the firmware (they dont write it whole cloth, they use QMK). To produce one of these at home you at the very least need a decent FDM printer, a reflow oven, and be fairly comfortable with mechanical design and embedded device development+workflows.

    2 votes

  16. Comment on The Ploopy Bean - an external four-button trackpoint in ~tech

  17. Comment on What’s the best 3D-printed thing you have? in ~talk

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    That is super cool! Is there a design reason the encoder wheel is so big, or was it just to make it look awsome? (Also, interesting to put a face to you).

    That is super cool! Is there a design reason the encoder wheel is so big, or was it just to make it look awsome? (Also, interesting to put a face to you).

    1 vote

  18. Comment on What is your go-to project for learning a new language? in ~comp

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    Rust has a really good CLI ecosystem, actually, though its standard library doesnt provide that much.

    Rust has a really good CLI ecosystem, actually, though its standard library doesnt provide that much.

    1 vote

  19. What is your go-to project for learning a new language?

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    Ive been playing around with learning a lisp language for a while, and I recently decided to go for it and learn fennel (as I already am comfortable with lua) just to see if I like lisps as a...

    Ive been playing around with learning a lisp language for a while, and I recently decided to go for it and learn fennel (as I already am comfortable with lua) just to see if I like lisps as a class. Normally, I try to do the first 5-10 days of a previous advent of code to pick up a lang.

    Setting up my advent of code environment got me wondering: what projects do other people use to learn new languages/tooling? Id love to hear how other people approach learning a new skill.

    33 votes

  20. Comment on Artemis II April 1 launch in ~space

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    During the Apollo missions, there was no radio contact on the far side of the moon, however, IDK about this time, we have a good few satellites around the moon, but they may or may not be able to...

    During the Apollo missions, there was no radio contact on the far side of the moon, however, IDK about this time, we have a good few satellites around the moon, but they may or may not be able to act as relay satellites.

    4 votes