DeaconBlue's recent activity
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Comment on South Korea seeks multilingual talent to hunt down K-content piracy in ~tech
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Comment on How much "boilerplate tax" different languages have: a 400M LOC analysis in ~comp
DeaconBlue (edited )LinkI feel like C#/C++/C are unfairly penalized by this metric Most style guides put the opening and closing curly braces on new lines. That is a pretty hefty amount of the number of lines, but hard...I feel like C#/C++/C are unfairly penalized by this metric
My first query was to find out what is the uniqueness percentage across all languages. Uniqueness being take all the lines in a file, throw away anything thats a duplicate with the sum that remains being the unique count.
Most style guides put the opening and closing curly braces on new lines. That is a pretty hefty amount of the number of lines, but hard to call "boilerplate" at least as I use the term.
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Comment on Any software engineers considering a career switch due to AI? in ~comp
DeaconBlue Link ParentIt was wild. Let's say that they needed to get a bunch of information from a table and then did a ton of joins to get additional information. A lot of the joins were not used in the final select...It was wild. Let's say that they needed to get a bunch of information from a table and then did a ton of joins to get additional information. A lot of the joins were not used in the final select and were there as vestigial joins from iterations of the query or something.The table had like a dozen values in a column that they cared about.
They made a dozen separate queries where they did all of the joins and filtered to one of the specific values they wanted, wrote all of the results to a temp table, then repeated 11 times and finally returned the whole temp table.
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Comment on Any software engineers considering a career switch due to AI? in ~comp
DeaconBlue Link ParentI found some vibe coded SQL this week that I took from a 14 minute query to a second or so. I am expecting the consulting opportunities to be fantastic.And just imagine the consulting opportunities that’ll pop up as companies with vibecoded products need real engineers to come clean up their mess.
I found some vibe coded SQL this week that I took from a 14 minute query to a second or so. I am expecting the consulting opportunities to be fantastic.
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Comment on What are some of your recent "little" failures? in ~talk
DeaconBlue Link ParentReally it's more that the grandparents paid for them. They are like the ideal form factor for holiday gifts. As for the media player, here's a link to the blog. You could hook the pi up to a...I just looked up what a Tonie box is and it's essentially what I've been after for my young child. That said, the notion of paying through the nose for Amiibos is so not interesting to me.
Really it's more that the grandparents paid for them. They are like the ideal form factor for holiday gifts.
As for the media player, here's a link to the blog. You could hook the pi up to a speaker and play music instead by changing like two lines of code https://blog.ox-stuff.com/blog/mediaplayer/
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Comment on What are some of your recent "little" failures? in ~talk
DeaconBlue (edited )LinkI have mentioned before my kids' media player. We also have a Toniebox. I thought "well of course I can cross contaminate these and use the Tonie figure to play movies on the player" Turns out...I have mentioned before my kids' media player.
We also have a Toniebox.
I thought "well of course I can cross contaminate these and use the Tonie figure to play movies on the player"
Turns out some NFC tags are privacy protected? Okay, no worries, I have the hardware, I will just crack it so I can use it anyway. They probably all use the same password anyway?
Following that, it turns out that the NFC reader hat that I was using for the player does not have the ability to use password protected tags at all. Well, if it does it is undocumented.
I am now just spiteful. I paid through the nose for those figures and I am not going to lose this fight so I am looking into how I can get this board to do it anyway, and I am absolutely going to publish how for anyone else when I do figure it out.
Until then, it is a failure that upsets me more than it has any right to.
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Comment on Ideas for Arduino/microbits projects for my kids and me in ~hobbies
DeaconBlue Link ParentI had a coworker set up something like that so I assume that the answer is yes, but I will admit that I don't have any suggestions on where to find themI had a coworker set up something like that so I assume that the answer is yes, but I will admit that I don't have any suggestions on where to find them
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Comment on Amazon’s promotion of ‘Melania’ has critics questioning its motives (Amazon has spent 35M on marketing on top of its 40M budget) in ~movies
DeaconBlue Link ParentHe was impeached. We just all collectively realized afterward that being impeached doesn't actually mean anything.who's seemingly unimpeachable
He was impeached. We just all collectively realized afterward that being impeached doesn't actually mean anything.
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Comment on The downfall of OnePlus will be studied | The "enthusiast brand" arc in ~tech
DeaconBlue Link ParentHow much of that is bias that the kind of person that buys a Framework is the kind of person that uses their laptop aggressively?How much of that is bias that the kind of person that buys a Framework is the kind of person that uses their laptop aggressively?
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Comment on Best gas masks in ~society
DeaconBlue Link ParentI also drive past those. No idea what is in them but those also seem like a fair guess. My point was more that just calling them what they are (respirators) is a much less aggressive description...I also drive past those. No idea what is in them but those also seem like a fair guess.
My point was more that just calling them what they are (respirators) is a much less aggressive description than "gas mask"
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Comment on Best gas masks in ~society
DeaconBlue LinkWell that explains why I heard three people repeat that same question in a manner of hours. I was surprised when they asked though, because my immediate answer was "Lowes has full face...as I watched Trump Attorney General Pam Bondi appear on Fox News after Customs and Border Protection agents killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. “How did these people go out and get gas masks?” she asked, incredulously. “These protesters — would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask, right now? Think about that.”
Well that explains why I heard three people repeat that same question in a manner of hours.
I was surprised when they asked though, because my immediate answer was "Lowes has full face respirators, I bought one not that long ago for some house projects" and I know at least two of those people also owned respirators.
The trick is calling them "gas masks" on the news I guess.
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Comment on Steam Deck hits 25,000 games Valve have rated Playable or Verified in ~games
DeaconBlue Link ParentYeah, I actually use the proton layer to "play" quite a few home grown tools for random projects. There are a lot of video game modding tools from over the years that use Windows Forms and they...Yeah, I actually use the proton layer to "play" quite a few home grown tools for random projects. There are a lot of video game modding tools from over the years that use Windows Forms and they work fine even on a Steam Deck as long as I tell Steam to run them as a game.
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Comment on Steam Deck hits 25,000 games Valve have rated Playable or Verified in ~games
DeaconBlue Link ParentIt means that they can run on the steam deck specifically, but by extension it practically means that they can be run on any Linux distro because the proton layer is not specific to SteamOS.It means that they can run on the steam deck specifically, but by extension it practically means that they can be run on any Linux distro because the proton layer is not specific to SteamOS.
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Comment on USB-C PD all the things! in ~tech
DeaconBlue Link Parenthttps://www.adafruit.com/product/6383 250x122 seems to be the smallest they sell.https://www.adafruit.com/product/6383
250x122 seems to be the smallest they sell.
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Comment on Ideas for Arduino/microbits projects for my kids and me in ~hobbies
DeaconBlue (edited )LinkI think that those kind of kits are beat suited as an addition to hobbies rather than a hobby in and of themselves (at first, anyway). If they like gardening, using an arduino to make some kind of...I think that those kind of kits are beat suited as an addition to hobbies rather than a hobby in and of themselves (at first, anyway).
If they like gardening, using an arduino to make some kind of ground hydration tracker can be a fun thing to do. If they like board games, making some kind of score tracker customized for the game can be cool.
Don't make a new hobby, improve an existing one.
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Comment on New books aren’t worth reading in ~books
DeaconBlue LinkIf we are cool with low effort ragebait being posted on tildes, can we at least tag it as such?If we are cool with low effort ragebait being posted on tildes, can we at least tag it as such?
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Comment on What's something you've moved on from? in ~talk
DeaconBlue Link ParentThere is a small brewery near me that does excellent sours, so I will get one of those if nothing else grabs my attention. They have done really weird ones like a blueberry pie sour that included...There is a small brewery near me that does excellent sours, so I will get one of those if nothing else grabs my attention. They have done really weird ones like a blueberry pie sour that included graham crackers to get a pie crust note.
If I go to a brewery known for their stouts, I will get one of those. Another brewery near me did a dark chocolate cherry stout last Valentine's that was fantastic.
Really I will just try the house special wherever, as long as it is interesting. Some winners, some losers, but that really isn't the point.
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Comment on What's something you've moved on from? in ~talk
DeaconBlue LinkLiquor. If I am going to drink at this point, I am going to go to some kind of craft brewery and nurse a beer for like an hour. I really enjoy the taste of beer and the flavors that some breweries...Liquor.
- If I am going to drink at this point, I am going to go to some kind of craft brewery and nurse a beer for like an hour. I really enjoy the taste of beer and the flavors that some breweries come up with, but I have no interest in getting drunk.
Video Games
- I cannot enjoy myself playing games at all. I have a backlog of things to fix in the house, or chores to do, or going to play with my kids, or any number of other things. I stare at the screen enough at work, I don't really want to look at a screen to play games too.
Helping family with tech issues
- This might be a weird one but I am so far away from normal tech use that I can't really practically help people with their normal problems. I haven't used Windows in like 5 years outside of my corporate laptop that I can't really fiddle with, so I have no idea what to suggest to them when they have all kinds of weird problems. I also (per the last thing) do not have the time to try to learn someone else's tools. I just shrug and don't engage when it is clear that they are asking for help.
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Comment on UK Appeals court state RuneScape gold counts as property and can be stolen, in $700k bombshell case in ~games
DeaconBlue LinkThe kid in middle school that took my rune platebody in the computer lab will be hearing from my lawyer!The kid in middle school that took my rune platebody in the computer lab will be hearing from my lawyer!
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Comment on Microsoft gave US FBI keys to unlock encrypted data in ~society
DeaconBlue Link ParentAn inflammatory title might be the best way to get people to read instructions on how to disable this function.An inflammatory title might be the best way to get people to read instructions on how to disable this function.
And following this process, I don't understand why you would spend money to try to curb piracy rather than license it out and make more money.