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MadMike77

@MadMike77@chaos.social

Opensource, Linux, Python, Hackerspace: Ruum42, Married and father of 3. Gamer, ADHD. Learning #rustlang. Living in #switzerland. Likes Comics, Manga, Anime. German, English, Français.

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Gameplay mechanics were also a lot better with more replayability. (lemmy.world)

Ignoring the lack of updates if the game is buggy, games back then were also more focused on quality and make gamers replay the game with unlockable features based on skills, not money. I can’t count the number of times I played Metal Gear Solid games over and over to unlock new features playing the hardest difficulty and with...

MadMike77,
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@EatATaco @TankovayaDiviziya I somewhat agree.

But there is also how games have aged over time. Some game mechanics still work and are fun.

I just recently bought "Populous" on steam for 2$. After learning how to use DosBox the game is still as addictive as it was on my Atari-STE ... but now I have bad old PC sound.

Compare this with "Command & Conquer Tiberium Wars" I should have skipped buying that. The conversion is so faithful that it still has the same stupid unit movements.

Edent, (edited ) to random
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You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?
1/3

MadMike77,
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@glitzersachen @CaptainJanegay @Extelec @Edent I've grown up with computers and work as a DevOps. I regularly speak with friends about security.
This scam is unsuspicious as hell. A good reminder that I'd need to remind myself why the person needs my passcode.
I'd have fallen for this MITM, I'm pretty certain.

evan, (edited ) to random
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How many Raspberry Pis are in your home right now?

MadMike77,
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@evan Now ask me how many I have at work...

mcc, (edited ) to random
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I dunno if 1:30 PM EST on a Saturday morning is the right time to reach someone who cares about this, but: I really have problems with the Rust LSP. I use it with Sublime and on all platforms I use it on it seems to create huge problems with absurd memory use that compounds more and more with the number of windows you have open. The indexing when it opens a new project is very slow, it seems to take much longer to come to the conclusion "oh, this doesn't compile" than actual rustc

MadMike77,
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@mcc @onelson I don't know the reason what made you leave VS-Code in the first place.
But I've switched to VS-Codium to have the same thing without the telemetry.

gvy_dvpont, to random
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We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME

(warning: probably loud)

Before shot: egg cooker finishing an egg before modification. Jarring alarm goes off, I say "fuck!" After shot: egg cooker finishes. A few moments later, a small mechanical music box next to the cooker starts playing Pachelbel's Canon

MadMike77,
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@RustyBertrand @reconbot @MLE_online @timonsku Fediverse is a strange place.
I see content warnings "eye contact" on toots with images looking straight at the camera and then in other toots you see a cucumber in a skeleton with blank muscles... without any warning (or explanation)

jpm, to random
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Ugh fine, I’ll try doing this embedded firmware in Rust. Let’s see how badly this goes…

MadMike77,
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@jpm @laund I'm pretty new to rust too. But I've read that you can separately optimize depending if it's your code or some imported library code. Would need to search somewhat to find that reference though.

mcc, to random
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This image was in my head this morning and so now it is on the computer

MadMike77,
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@argv_minus_one @mcc Apparently there is already Redox OS if you want that. Needs some more drivers and isn't the fastest. But it is there.

MadMike77, to random German
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One of my favorite YouTuber speaking about creativity.
Fast and to the point. I love it. "The Cult of Done":
https://youtu.be/bJQj1uKtnus?si=EWHwPexRHbxnupB4

mjgardner, to programming
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There’s nothing more permanent than a temporary fix that works.

MadMike77,
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@mjgardner If I dare beeing the smart-ass: Skip a critical component in the prototype. If possible do it where it's visually obvious.

drewdevault, to random
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Anyone know where I can get my hands on one of these?

https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Serial_Port

MadMike77,
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@drewdevault I am not sure if I could. Most off those are really old.
Can you give some more context? Is it too get hands on old hardware in general or do you need it for a specific serial port?

MadMike77,
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@drewdevault Sorry if this sounds like a dumb question, but did you consider a usb to serial adapter?

MadMike77, to IT German
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Meine Tochter ist jetzt 13 Jahre alt und hat sich bei der Berufswahl ernsthaft dafür interessiert, etwas in Richtung zu machen.
Ich habe etwas selber recherchiert und (zumindest hier in der ) sieht man quasi die Steppenroller über die leere Ebene vorbeiziehen: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauen_in_der_Informatik#Schweiz -> Link in der Referenz zeigt auf eine archivierte Seite der ETH Zürich von 2016.
Kennt jemand ein Netzwerk (am besten von Frauen für Frauen), das sich für Frauen in der IT einsetzt?

drewdevault, to random
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HN: "can someone explain American politics for us non-Americans"

Me: explains American politics

HN: 😠

MadMike77,
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@cjk @drewdevault It's the only sane way to survive this world. Concentrated on the stuff you can change and try to ignore/accept things you can't.

Fischblog, to random German
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Die Krätze verbreitet sich übrigens auch wieder merklich in Deutschland. Ziemlich unangenehm. Verbreitet sich über engen Hautkontakt, deswegen nicht das primäre Risiko beim Feiern, aber kann man auch mal im Hinterkopf behalten.

MadMike77,
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@Fischblog Eww https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kr%C3%A4tze

datenteiler, to CASIO German

We need more content here. 😇 :casio:

I love my A168WA. Especially the colors in winter. Simply timeless design. I think the watch is great for working at a desk.😎

MadMike77,
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@datenteiler
A friend convinced me buy a watch again. The F-91W was my first watch I had when I was a teenager. And the one I liked most.

The ribbon got brittle after some time. I was able to replace the rubber ribbon myself with the help of said friend. I was unable to buy a replacement rubber ribbon from the store. So I bought one from china. 🤷

beandev, to random German
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Ich habe nun zwei seltsame Job-Offers bekommen:

Einmal das Programmieren einer Slotmaschine mit Wahrscheinlichkeitsalgorithmus.

Das andere ist ein Vorschlag als Lagervorarbeiter bei Amazon in Leipzig.

Von unterschiedlichen Plattformen, also kein Zusammenhang. Wir brauchen uns wirklich keine Gedanken um den gläsernen Menschen zu machen, wenn so etwas dabei herauskommt.

MadMike77,
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@beandev Was wäre denn Dein bevorzugtes Betätigungsgebiet?

MadMike77,
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@beandev Ich hatte auch schon mal Bedarf nach einem IT Dev für die Firma in der ich arbeite. Aktuell sind diese aber bereits vergeben.
In deiner Timeline sehe ich kein Aufruf nach einem Jobangebot. Ich gehe mal davon aus das du bereits ernsthafte Jobangebote erhalten hast? Ist es aktuell schwierig in Deutschland ein gutes Jobangebot als Software-Architekt zu bekommen?

MadMike77, to random German
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"If the world needs more software, we can either add more people with the skills to produce it or find ways to make the process of software production more efficient and that means easier. This is really the corporate appeal of ideas like AI code generation and low code solutions. But while both of these things can help a bit in some narrow fields of software development, I don't believe that they are a general solution at least until AI is a better (than) humans at everything
🧵1/x

MadMike77,
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Not simply produces software based on bad ideas faster.
This is why I talk about the core of our skill being about the problem solving. Not the mechanics or even detail of writing the code."

Dave Farley 2023-12-13, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNTWhNctGZ4&t=1101s
🧵3/3

MadMike77,
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and then they'll be running the businesses as well as writing the software.
As I've said before, in both cases the current approaches seem to be on the problem being one of optimizing for less typing. But that misses the central point: It is the problem solving that is the bottleneck not the typing.
Professional software development is a process of exploration and discovery and for we need the mindset and the tools that allow us to try out our ideas and discard the bad ones.
🧵2/x

EposVox, to random
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I love CRTs. I can't stop loving CRTs.

MadMike77,
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@retrosteveuk @EposVox Long exposure time due to the dimm lighting I guess. So the guy to the left seems to have nodded while the photo was made.

TommyKrappweis, to random German
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Ich habe mir zu Weihnachten ein @jhspedals DIY-Kit besorgt und habe vor, es während der Feiertage zusammenzupappen.
Vielleicht wird es einen Livestream auf twitch.tv/wildmics geben, bei dem ihr Zeuge meiner eichhörnchenähnlichen Geduld sein werdet, alles genau nach Anleitung auszuführen. 🤯

(An alle Nicht-Musiker: Es handelt sich um ein Pedal für die E-Gitarre.)

MadMike77,
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@TommyKrappweis Interessant, dass JHS Pedals das im Ikea-Design verpackt.
Ich mag das Design, aber warum wurde das gewählt?

jwildeboer, to random German
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Das ein ziemlich ranghoher CDU Politiker eine verbotene SA Parole als Hashtag verwendet ist schon wirklich schlimm. Aber dann anschliessend die Schuld auf ChatGPT schieben — das ist Next Level. https://taz.de/Verbotene-SA-Parole/!5994169/

MadMike77,
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@jwildeboer Ich habe paranoide Kollegen in meinem Bekanntenkreis die davor warnen, dass "AI" bald alle Computersysteme unterwandern. Da geht mit der Umgang mit den Programmen genau in die falsche Richtung. 🙄

MadMike77,
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@jwildeboer "Auf die Anfrage der taz bei ChatGPT, ob der Hashtag „DeutschlandErwache“ zu dem Text, ..."

Was?! Die haben ChatGPT quasi als Interview-Partner genommen als wäre es eine lebende und denkende Person?

Bin ich der einzige der das mehr als nur etwas schräg findet?

nblr, (edited ) to random German
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OH: "Ich ha'n ahglütet, aber s'isch d'Manuela Biedermann drangange." - "Und was het's gseit?" - "Willkommen bei Combox von Swisscom" - "Du mich au."

MadMike77,
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@nblr Angefangen zu lesen. Mir vorgenommen es auf Deutsch zu übersetzen ... das Vorhaben aufgegeben.

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