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  1. Comment on Indian government to impose ban on import, sale, and cross-breeding of twenty-three ferocious dog breeds in ~life.pets

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    Terriers were bred to hunt rats. Pest control, not hunting.

    Terriers were bred to hunt rats. Pest control, not hunting.

    3 votes
  2. Comment on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened in ~finance

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    yup, every 64 bit OS is already prepared, and on newer linux kernels, even 32 bit machines are good. big issue is embedded devices that no longer get updates or whos companies cant be bothered to...

    yup, every 64 bit OS is already prepared, and on newer linux kernels, even 32 bit machines are good. big issue is embedded devices that no longer get updates or whos companies cant be bothered to do the work to upgrade the kernel. Some RTOSs might also not be prepared.

    8 votes
  3. Comment on Why you should consider a smaller keyboard in ~comp

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    I printed a case out of TPU, holding up just fine so far. I got a tiny carying case made for storing a backup HDD, just throw that in my bag. I will say the case is needed, dont want the bare pcb...

    I printed a case out of TPU, holding up just fine so far. I got a tiny carying case made for storing a backup HDD, just throw that in my bag. I will say the case is needed, dont want the bare pcb on whatever surface your typing on.

    1 vote
  4. Comment on Why you should consider a smaller keyboard in ~comp

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    very good writeup. Ive used a UHKv2 for several years now (65% split keyboard with trackball under the thumb), and I just last month built a ferris sweep for work and travel. I dont think I can...

    very good writeup. Ive used a UHKv2 for several years now (65% split keyboard with trackball under the thumb), and I just last month built a ferris sweep for work and travel. I dont think I can game on a 34 key keyboard, but im in love with this thing for typing/coding. Im actually thinking of replacing the UHKv2 for something of a similar size that is ortholinear, as well. The learning curve for a new configuration is not that bad as long as you stick to the same layout.

    1 vote
  5. Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp

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    Have partly assembled my ferris sweep keyboard. The mcu and pcb, and misc parts have arrived and been soldered, now im just waiting on the keyswitches to arrive sometime later this month.

    Have partly assembled my ferris sweep keyboard. The mcu and pcb, and misc parts have arrived and been soldered, now im just waiting on the keyswitches to arrive sometime later this month.

    3 votes
  6. Comment on My 3D printed Catan upgrade set is now live in ~games.tabletop

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    as someone who just finished printing another 3d catan set, it looks good mechanically, the interlocking bases look nice, and the peice holders and overall box are really, really nice. However, I...

    as someone who just finished printing another 3d catan set, it looks good mechanically, the interlocking bases look nice, and the peice holders and overall box are really, really nice. However, I honestly cant say its nicer than a number of other free sets out there. My main complaint with this set would be the highly symbolic terrain, compared to the really pretty terrain in the set I printed. (even without multicolour printing, that set still looks gorgeous, and there are interlocking, magnet less bases for that set, like these or these)

    Even without the price difference, I just cant see myself choosing your set over some of the competition out there, sorry. While its got a ton of nice utility features, the aesthetics just arent there.

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

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    been playing factorio basically whenever I have the creative energy for it. Working on a set of blueprints for a modular, block based base with full roboport construction coverage, using trains to...

    been playing factorio basically whenever I have the creative energy for it. Working on a set of blueprints for a modular, block based base with full roboport construction coverage, using trains to transport things between subfactories. The idea is that I can really easily place down new blueprints and have hooking it up to the rest of the base be a less painful experience.

    3 votes
  8. Comment on EU Cyber Resilience Act: What does it mean for open source? in ~comp

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    Seems like the new version of the EU's Cyber Resiliency Act contain specific carve outs for non-commercial open source software, and even encourage commercial users of open source software to help...

    Seems like the new version of the EU's Cyber Resiliency Act contain specific carve outs for non-commercial open source software, and even encourage commercial users of open source software to help the maintainers get security audits. I think this regulation, with the exceptions given, is a good thing for the software world, but im curious to see other tildes users opinions.

    5 votes
  9. Comment on African ports may be overwhelmed by Red Sea reroutings in ~transport

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    Given that the US is now the largest exporter of oil, and few of those shipments will be going through the red sea in the first place, that will blunt any price effects of fluctuation in the...

    Given that the US is now the largest exporter of oil, and few of those shipments will be going through the red sea in the first place, that will blunt any price effects of fluctuation in the middle eastern oil supply.

    2 votes
  10. Comment on Day 11: Cosmic Expansion in ~comp.advent_of_code

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    Easily, easily my slowest day in terms of runtime (~300 ms), probably due to my liberal use of hashsets and hashset lookups. Also definitely at the stage where I cant do every day in time anymore....

    Easily, easily my slowest day in terms of runtime (~300 ms), probably due to my liberal use of hashsets and hashset lookups. Also definitely at the stage where I cant do every day in time anymore.
    https://git.venberg.xyz/Gabe/advent_of_code_2023/src/branch/main/days/day11

    1 vote
  11. Comment on Day 9: Mirage Maintenance in ~comp.advent_of_code

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    Took me a while to figure out exactly how I wanted the recursion to work, but was pretty straightforward once I had that figured out. For part 2, I just reversed the input and fed it into part 1....

    Took me a while to figure out exactly how I wanted the recursion to work, but was pretty straightforward once I had that figured out. For part 2, I just reversed the input and fed it into part 1.
    https://git.venberg.xyz/Gabe/advent_of_code_2023/src/branch/main/days/day09

    1 vote
  12. Comment on Day 8: Haunted Wasteland in ~comp.advent_of_code

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    im not super happy with part 2, as to solve it I had to make some assumptions that were true in my input (and apparently everyone elses input) but not stated in the problem....

    im not super happy with part 2, as to solve it I had to make some assumptions that were true in my input (and apparently everyone elses input) but not stated in the problem.
    https://git.venberg.xyz/Gabe/advent_of_code_2023/src/branch/main/days/day08

    1 vote
  13. Comment on Day 5: If You Give A Seed A Fertilizer in ~comp.advent_of_code

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    Yah, I dont even stay up late for them, just do them in the afternoon on my lunchbreak. If I can do it the day of, im proud of myself. (day 5 took me an extra day to figure out the range...

    Yah, I dont even stay up late for them, just do them in the afternoon on my lunchbreak. If I can do it the day of, im proud of myself. (day 5 took me an extra day to figure out the range splitting, including notebook scribbles.)

    2 votes
  14. Comment on Day 7: Camel Cards in ~comp.advent_of_code

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    Took a bit of thinking in order to classify the hand types elegantly, but I think I came up with a pretty elegant solution based on the number of types of cards in the hand and the number of the...

    Took a bit of thinking in order to classify the hand types elegantly, but I think I came up with a pretty elegant solution based on the number of types of cards in the hand and the number of the most common card.

    The joker was pretty straightforward once I realized it was always advantageous to add the joker to the card you already have the most of.

    https://git.venberg.xyz/Gabe/advent_of_code_2023/src/branch/main/days/day07

    2 votes
  15. Comment on Day 6: Wait For It in ~comp.advent_of_code

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    Originally 'brute forced' it (still only a couple thousand calculations even for part 2, under 20 ms in rust), but later remembered high school algebra, and basically the entire runtime of the...

    Originally 'brute forced' it (still only a couple thousand calculations even for part 2, under 20 ms in rust), but later remembered high school algebra, and basically the entire runtime of the solution is taken up by parsing the input.

    https://git.venberg.xyz/Gabe/advent_of_code_2023/src/branch/main/days/day06

    1 vote
  16. Comment on Day 5: If You Give A Seed A Fertilizer in ~comp.advent_of_code

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    My rust solutions tend to also be a bit more verbose than other peeps it seems, I usually start by making data strucutres to parse the input into and then impl functions on those structures. I...

    My rust solutions tend to also be a bit more verbose than other peeps it seems, I usually start by making data strucutres to parse the input into and then impl functions on those structures. I also put actual unit tests in my code as well.

    2 votes
  17. Comment on Day 5: If You Give A Seed A Fertilizer in ~comp.advent_of_code

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    just realizing I forgot to put my solution out there when actually got it done... Day 5 part 1 was straightforward, though kinda tedious to implement. Part 2 actually took me till the next day...

    just realizing I forgot to put my solution out there when actually got it done...

    Day 5 part 1 was straightforward, though kinda tedious to implement. Part 2 actually took me till the next day before I came up with a solution, but I ended up with a 1.2 ms solve for both parts! Parsing is probably taking more time than the math is!

    https://git.venberg.xyz/Gabe/advent_of_code_2023/src/branch/main/days/day05

    1 vote
  18. Comment on Day 4: Scratchcards in ~comp.advent_of_code

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    How are you parsing? Im doing parsing via nom, which is probably not the most efficient way out there.

    How are you parsing? Im doing parsing via nom, which is probably not the most efficient way out there.

    1 vote
  19. Comment on Day 4: Scratchcards in ~comp.advent_of_code

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    heh, I was just using the unix time command, ill have to rerun with hyperfine. EDIT: hyperfine -N -w5 says ~3.5 ms

    heh, I was just using the unix time command, ill have to rerun with hyperfine.

    EDIT: hyperfine -N -w5 says ~3.5 ms

    1 vote