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Comment on Leading Ladies Humble Bundle - Monstress, Saga, Paper Girls, and more! in ~books
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Comment on Using computers more freely and safely in ~comp
scrambo LinkThis was a super cool read! I have a tendency to agree with the author, specifically about keeping things simple - though I don't have any personal projects that I've written for myself. The...This was a super cool read! I have a tendency to agree with the author, specifically about keeping things simple - though I don't have any personal projects that I've written for myself. The premise seems sound though, and I might take a look into what I could do for myself using it this year!
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
scrambo LinkQOTSA released their first single off their new album! The song is titled "Emotion Sickness". Listened to it a couple times now, I quite like it! I'm not sure what to expect for the rest of the...QOTSA released their first single off their new album!
The song is titled "Emotion Sickness". Listened to it a couple times now, I quite like it! I'm not sure what to expect for the rest of the album, but I'm going to be trying my best to not listen to any more of the singles that are released. If an album only has 8-9 songs and 5 of them are released as singles, it ruins a lot of the fun of discovery for me.
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
scrambo LinkI realized looking back on the comment that I forgot to thank @whispersilk for their suggestion on my previous post in here about my fishing tournament application. Thanks! :) The architecture for...I realized looking back on the comment that I forgot to thank @whispersilk for their suggestion on my previous post in here about my fishing tournament application. Thanks! :)
The architecture for the application has changed pretty drastically after I took a long think about how well certain features would work on a windy, stormy, beach with no data and minimal cell connectivity. No more rest api, no more controllers, no more spring anything.
Now the backend is a simple cli application that I plan to run from termux on my android phone. It will take data in csv format (either as a string or file), run calculations on that, and spit the results to stdout so they can then be read for closing ceremonies.
"Now @scrambo..." you may ask. "How are a bunch of geriatrics who are scared of technology, supposed to be able to format the data you need?" And to that I say: "They won't!"
The second half to this project now is a PWA that they will enter all of their catches on during the day. When the tournament ends they will send the data (either as file or SMS) to me, and I'll merge all the results together and feed it into my program. That way everything should be formatted properly, and I (hopefully) won't have to worry about connectivity on the beach.
source is here if anyone wants to take a gander: https://github.com/huffstler/SRCServer
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
scrambo (edited )LinkI found a new song that will have me burnt on it by the end of the weekend, I'm sure. "Let's Ride" by swooh It's got some great energy and it actually is long enough for me to truly feel like I'm...I found a new song that will have me burnt on it by the end of the weekend, I'm sure.
"Let's Ride" by swooh
It's got some great energy and it actually is long enough for me to truly feel like I'm enjoying it without overstaying its welcome imo. If anyone knows other songs that are similar to this, let me hear them! I have a playlist that I'll be curating til I die that has songs that should fit in a basement party, this is definitely one of them. -
Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
scrambo LinkCopied and pasted from the other one since I apparently have impeccable timing for contribution. After not having read any books since at least mid 2022, I'm back... and apparently very hungry. At...Copied and pasted from the other one since I apparently have impeccable timing for contribution.
After not having read any books since at least mid 2022, I'm back... and apparently very hungry. At least relative to my usual book consuming levels.
I read the entirety of "A Court of Silver Flames" by Sarah Maas in about 12 hours over 2 days, and then I started (and finished) "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman yesterday. I enjoyed both books for different reasons, and am excited to read the rest in the series, eventually.
CoSF:
I love me some romance, especially when it's full on adult romance (smutty :]) and not the piddling YA mind games romance. My sister introduced me to this series and I have loved it every step of the way; it's had some pretty good twists and turns through the 5 books, and had some GREAT character development. In my eyes at least. This book specifically starts at ground 0 and shows how a person might "unbreak" themselves after multiple traumatic events. Heartwarming (in places), heartbreaking (in others), relatable, and with some good action; I probably enjoyed this more than I enjoyed book 4 to be honest.Scythe:
Reading this not even 24 hours after CoSF was a pretty interesting switch up. It's YA, so I didn't expect the romance subplot to rise to the level of CoSF, thankfully, because the romance was a _SUB_plot, not even sure I could call it anemic. That wasn't a bad thing though, as it left room to explore other aspects of the story. The world is an interesting place to be with 2 interesting characters that I enjoyed diving into the heads of. I think the next couple books in the series will dive a little deeper into the Sci-fi aspect which I'm excited about as it played more of a background part in this one. -
Comment on What are you reading these days? in ~books
scrambo LinkAfter not having read any books since at least mid 2022, I'm back... and apparently very hungry. At least relative to my usual book consuming levels. I read the entirety of "A Court of Silver...After not having read any books since at least mid 2022, I'm back... and apparently very hungry. At least relative to my usual book consuming levels.
I read the entirety of "A Court of Silver Flames" by Sarah Maas in about 12 hours over 2 days, and then I started (and finished) "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman yesterday. I enjoyed both books for different reasons, and am excited to read the rest in the series, eventually.
CoSF:
I love me some romance, especially when it's full on adult romance (smutty :]) and not the piddling YA mind games romance. My sister introduced me to this series and I have loved it every step of the way; it's had some pretty good twists and turns through the 5 books, and had some GREAT character development. In my eyes at least. This book specifically starts at ground 0 and shows how a person might "unbreak" themselves after multiple traumatic events. Heartwarming (in places), heartbreaking (in others), relatable, and with some good action; I probably enjoyed this more than I enjoyed book 4 to be honest.Scythe:
Reading this not even 24 hours after CoSF was a pretty interesting switch up. It's YA, so I didn't expect the romance subplot to rise to the level of CoSF, thankfully, because the romance was a _SUB_plot, not even sure I could call it anemic. That wasn't a bad thing though, as it left room to explore other aspects of the story. The world is an interesting place to be with 2 interesting characters that I enjoyed diving into the heads of. I think the next couple books in the series will dive a little deeper into the Sci-fi aspect which I'm excited about as it played more of a background part in this one. -
Comment on Naughty Dog's game design is outdated in ~games.game_design
scrambo Link ParentDo you know whatever happened with him? He used was prolific and then he pretty much dropped off the face of the earth. Is he focusing on music right now or something?Do you know whatever happened with him? He used was prolific and then he pretty much dropped off the face of the earth. Is he focusing on music right now or something?
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
scrambo LinkI was gonna make a distinct topic about this, but figured that it might do better here first. I'm working on a Fishing Tournament program for a tourney that my uncle hosts every year. I'm...I was gonna make a distinct topic about this, but figured that it might do better here first.
I'm working on a Fishing Tournament program for a tourney that my uncle hosts every year. I'm currently in the process of laying out the database structure, and I'm having an issue visualizing how to apply scoring rules to what I have so far. Any suggestions or even links to existing systems would be super helpful.
Basic Schema (without anything for Rule or RuleGroup).
It's very anemic right now, but I'd like to start small and add sugar to it later once I have a better idea of where to go.Tournament | List<Participants>: participants | List<Rule>: rules Participant | String: name | List<Catch>: haul | int: score Catch | Fish: fish | Boolean: lure Fish | string: species | float: lengthFirst idea was to have some sort of Rule object defined in a table, but the more I think of that, the less I like that idea. Maybe something like a Calculator(Fish, Rule) that takes a fish, and a "Rule" and spits a score out. That makes it stateless and only dependent on input. That still leaves me pretty lost on how to define Rule(s) in the context of the application.
So for an example to work through.
There are tiers of fish, and each tier is worth different amounts of points per inch.- T1: 10 points / inch (Black Drum)
- T2: 5 points / inch (Puffer)
- Trash Fish: 2 points / inch (Shark or Skate)
IF a fish is caught with a lure, that's an extra 100 points per inch.
There's also bonus points if fish are over a certain size:
- If T1: 10 ppi then 5 more ppi over 10 inches
Meaning an 11 inch Tier 1 fish, no lure, would be worth 115 points
So on so forth for T2 and Trash fish.
Going through this, maybe I have the score defined as the return value from a Rule, when it's given a fish? Multiple pre-defined rules, have a haul filtered and each Catch sent to the appropriate Rule to calculate it's score? But that still seems a little... brittle?
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
scrambo Link ParentI absolutely do (thanks windows 💢). I'll make a change to spring boot 3.1.0 Milestone and see if that fixes the problem. If not, I'll downgrade to 3.0.2 for the time being, and see what that does....I absolutely do (thanks windows 💢). I'll make a change to spring boot 3.1.0 Milestone and see if that fixes the problem. If not, I'll downgrade to 3.0.2 for the time being, and see what that does.
Thanks for the help :)
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Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
scrambo Link ParentWhat the hell, I'm not getting that running it using openjdk 17 through intellij on windows.... I even ran it through powershell just to make sure, and I'm still getting 404's. There can't be THAT...What the hell, I'm not getting that running it using openjdk 17 through intellij on windows....
I even ran it through powershell just to make sure, and I'm still getting 404's.
There can't be THAT much of a broken difference between windows and Linux...
PS C:\Users\huffstler> Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri http://localhost:8080/foo Invoke-RestMethod : The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found. At line:1 char:1 + Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri http://localhost:8080/foo + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (System.Net.HttpWebRequest:HttpWebRequest) [Invoke-RestMethod], WebExc eption + FullyQualifiedErrorId : WebCmdletWebResponseException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.InvokeRestMethodCommandC:\Users\huffstler> Invoke-RestMethod -Method Get -Uri http://localhost:8080/actuator _links ------ @{self=; beans=; caches-cache=; caches=; health=; health-path=; info=; conditions=; configprops=; configprops-prefix... -
Comment on What programming/technical projects have you been working on? in ~comp
scrambo LinkI am having a hell of a time getting a stupid Spring Boot project off the ground. I have no idea why the application isn't finding the Controller classes and autoconfiguring them so I can do a...I am having a hell of a time getting a stupid Spring Boot project off the ground. I have no idea why the application isn't finding the Controller classes and autoconfiguring them so I can do a simple
GET /foo.For whatever reason, the spring-boot-starter-actuator is configured properly, so I can
GET /actuatorjust fine.Debug logging is showing that none of my controller classes are being found for autoconfiguration, which originally lead me to believe I had my package structure incorrect, but following the advice found here but that didn't help at all. Nothing changed in the structure, or the debug output in the logs after that.
If anyone has (probably less than 5 minutes) of experience to donate and show me what the hell I'm doing wrong, I would very much appreciate that. I feel like a freshman back in CS 101 again 😅 Link to my github project
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Comment on The jock/nerd/prep/goth test in ~life
scrambo LinkDead center in the X axis and only 2 blocks from dead center on the Y. Normies, meet your milquetoast overlord!You are tied between Goth and Prep, 19.1% Nerd, placing you in the Normie category.
Dead center in the X axis and only 2 blocks from dead center on the Y. Normies, meet your milquetoast overlord!
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Comment on ~s shorts recommendations in ~movies
scrambo LinkOooh so years ago, I was on a short movie kick and found several YouTube channels dedicated to some sort of awards for short story videos. The channels are RIPE with some amazing stories, so I'll...Oooh so years ago, I was on a short movie kick and found several YouTube channels dedicated to some sort of awards for short story videos. The channels are RIPE with some amazing stories, so I'll drop them here and you can watch to your hearts content!
I'll come back and drop links to specific shorts that I've watched and like from my computer later, so you don't have to discover it all yourself
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Comment on Food suggestions, dieting help in ~health
scrambo Link ParentSomething like Metamucil (aka Psyllium Husk) or its store brand equivalent would be the easiest way to go for fiber. Add to the recommended serving size of ice water, shake 'er up, and you're good...What are your easy fiber recommendations? I like apples but not in large quantities.
Something like Metamucil (aka Psyllium Husk) or its store brand equivalent would be the easiest way to go for fiber. Add to the recommended serving size of ice water, shake 'er up, and you're good to go.
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Comment on Food suggestions, dieting help in ~health
scrambo (edited )Link2 from me: Fiber. It's important! It fills you up, keeps you full, and keeps you regular. I'm pretty sure the saying is more due to the fact that apples are high in fiber than any nutritional...2 from me:
- Fiber. It's important! It fills you up, keeps you full, and keeps you regular. I'm pretty sure the saying
an apple a day keeps the doctor away
is more due to the fact that apples are high in fiber than any nutritional value they have. Also there are some good comments in the link above that go into other ways of getting fiber if you don't like the idea of the video.
- Not buying the things you crave in the first place. It's difficult for me to not eat something that I already own and have within reach at my house... but fuck going out to the store just to get some donuts. Any chocolate I buy is gone within the week, regardless of how much there is, and If the amount is small enough it won't survive the drive back home. But I don't eat all that much chocolate overall because I rarely buy it. Knowing what unhealthy foods you crave and consciously avoiding them in your grocery cart is a great way to avoid eating them later when the willpower is lower.
+1 on the smaller plates idea too. I do that as well, it really helps control portion sizes.
Kinda forgot about the second part of the post.
- Peanuts (or any nuts really) are great snack foods that are healthy and filling. My favorite are pistachios, but they're pretty expensive compared to the other kinds.
- I don't know what your liquid intake is like, but make sure you're drinking water throughout the day. Staying hydrated should help with minor cravings and have some other added benefits like nice skin :)
- I love popcorn, so I make a big batch of clarified butter and blast kosher salt in the blender so that I can make a healthier (and tastier, frankly) popcorn whenever the need strikes. Having the ingredients on hand allows you to control how much butter or salt you want in your popcorn. Sprinkling a little Nutritional Yeast on it also adds a nice nutty flavor!
- Fruits are a good way to get some sweetness in your life without going overboard. I'm partial to apples, pears, grapefruits, kiwi, and bananas. No cooking required.
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Comment on Monster (2023) | Teaser in ~movies
scrambo LinkIs this a live action of the Monster manga? From Urasawa??Is this a live action of the Monster manga? From Urasawa??
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Comment on Comcast Xfinity accounts hacked in widespread 2FA bypass attacks in ~tech
scrambo LinkA quick heads up for those who might be Xfinity users! Emphasis mine.A quick heads up for those who might be Xfinity users!
Comcast Xfinity customers report their accounts being hacked in widespread attacks that bypass two-factor authentication. These compromised accounts are then used to reset passwords for other services, such as the Coinbase and Gemini crypto exchanges.
Emphasis mine.
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Comcast Xfinity accounts hacked in widespread 2FA bypass attacks
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Comment on Steam Winter Sale recommendations in ~games
scrambo Link ParentI have it in my library, I'd be down to try it out with y'allI have it in my library, I'd be down to try it out with y'all
What a coincidence, I've been meaning to get around to starting Saga for quite some time now. Is the series finished, or are there more volumes to come?
Also, Monstress looks really cool. It's looking like ill be adding a huge volume of literature to my backlog 👍