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bk1e

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Everything is going wrong / All my songs are coming true
Software engineer - Austin, TX - he/him

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bk1e, to random
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Beyond the door, which is now nailed shut

bk1e, to random
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Beyond the Door I had soup too! Not sure about Bava’s “Shock”…

xor, to random
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I have been enjoying the new NYT game Connections! Will be familiar for fans of a certain British game show...

Connections
Puzzle
🟨🟨🟨🟨
🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟦🟦🟦🟦
🟪🟪🟪🟪

bk1e,
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@xor This? Oh wait, that’s Sudoku

video/mp4

mcc, to random
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Speedrunning is kinda cursed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEQWT9rSkfM

Did you know this? Apparently if you bought a copy of Super Mario Bros. 3 in the US, depending on when you bought it the "bros" in the logo is either aligned left on the label or right.

If the logo on your cart is aligned right, you can't get a world record under current strategies.

And until last year, nobody realized this was a problem. It was believed the versions were functionally identical.

(image source reddit user stang189)

bk1e,
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@mcc Ah yes, the two enantiomers, levosupermariofratres III and dextrosupermariofratres III

foone, to keyboards
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My most recent Bad Keyboard, the ShiftKeyBoard, is up on my tumblr:

https://www.tumblr.com/foone/721218604811616256/

But here's a preview image to entice mastodon

bk1e,
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@foone You can hit backspace without shifting into reverse? 🤔

mcc, to random
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WHAT'S THAT SMELL?

bk1e,
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@mcc Ooh, that smell
Can't you smell that smell?
Ooh, that smell
The smell of the gazebo

smurthys, to cpp
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You know what C++ needs? Some Python-like courage.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/functions.html#classmethod

https://devguide.python.org/versions/

Tabular information with a header row, five data rows, and four columns. Black background. White text in all but the second column. Blue text in second column. Thin gray lines between rows and columns. Data in four cells have red ovals around them to draw attention. Branch Schedule Status First release main PEP 693 feature 2024-10-17 3.12 PEP 693 prerelease 2024-10-02 3.11 PEP 664 bugfix 2022-10-24 3.10 PEP 619 security 2021-10-04 3.9 PEP 596 security 2020-10-05

bk1e,
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@smurthys This is fascinating. help() calls class property getters 5 times. Class property setters and deleters don’t work. https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/89519

bk1e, to random
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Wait, was this OceanGate’s 3rd expedition to the Titanic?

“OceanGate has now led two expeditions to the site and has one planned for 2023.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/04/us/new-titanic-footage.html

mcc, to random
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Thinking about getting a KVM for when I get my expensive hardware dongle (Mac Mini) so I can compile iOS apps.

Some of the reviews on the KVMs I'm seeing warn about not having something called "EDID" and this potentially disrupting audio, desktop icons etc. Very few of the KVMs advertise either EDID or its absence. Does anyone know what this is about? Is "EDID" ever present on inexpensive KVMs?

bk1e,
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@mcc Related: keyboard/mouse emulation enables switching inputs with a keyboard hotkey, but it can also cause problems.

My Kinesis ergonomic keyboard doesn’t work with keyboard emulation. My workaround is to connect it to the KVM’s mouse/aux USB port and use physical buttons to switch inputs.

Some KVMs (Monoprice Blackbird) also switch inputs based on mouse position. There are a lot of negative reviews about this. Aux USB port helps here too.

futurebird, to random
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I hardly ever watch the same movie more than once or read the same book over again. I've always been like this. I can remember text, going through it again seems pointless. This isn't about "spoilers" (I don't even believe in the concept of spoilers) it's more that once I know a story I can tell it to myself all that I want. I don't need to see it again.

But music is different. Music gets better the more you return to it. So, the Fantasia movies are among the few I've watched multiple times.

bk1e,
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@futurebird Have you seen Koyaanisqatsi? Live action, no story, lots of time lapse, set to music by Philip Glass.

For a few months in 2020, I listened to the Koyaanisqatsi soundtrack every day, but then I suddenly realized that I could play the Koyaanisqatsi DVD every day instead, so I did that. Somehow, it had never occurred to me that you can watch the same movie every day if you choose.

alexwild, to random
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OceanGate selling Titanic tours to rich customers, as performed by Mitchell and Webb.

https://youtu.be/DTcBWo4Aj0g

bk1e,
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@alexwild Also “Swim with a Shark”

mcc, to random
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CODING TIP: Always add a small off-by-one error to each of your loops to increment one more than you needed, so you have room to grow into later if you need to add something.

bk1e,
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@mcc Is this like explicitly reserving vtable slots for future expansion? They still do that in xnu and IOKit.

bk1e,
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@mcc Example: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/xnu-8792.81.2/iokit/IOKit/IOService.h#L554

thomasfuchs, to random
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Does anyone else find it weird that the time between releases of new games in AAA series is now over a decade, with possibly going on 15+ years for e.g. The Elder Scrolls?

bk1e,
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@thomasfuchs Duke Nukem was the prototype for game sequel development? 😅

landley, to random
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Today I learned that "PYREX" (all upper case) is borosilicate glass that can handle thermal shock, and "pyrex" (lower case) is cheap sublicensed stuff that capitalismed away all the merit in the product.

The upper case version is apparently still sold in europe. I wonder why?

bk1e,
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@landley The Wikipedia page talks about the reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrex#Composition

esther, to random

Dropped off films at the lab for development. It'll take 2-3 weeks.

I should really get my ow development setup going

bk1e,
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@calvinprocyon @esther
photographers sysadmins
🤝
home labs

bk1e, to random
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It’s been a while since I checked in on HDHomeRun DVR support for protected content.

2015: “And yes, it even works with protected content.”
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1275320038/hdhomerun-dvr-the-dvr-re-imagined

2023: “And yes, it even works with protected content in the US*.

*DRM protected Cable TV channels in the USA are available to be viewed Live via Windows 10, Android and Apple iOS devices. Record, playback and other platforms coming soon.”
https://www.silicondust.com/dvr-service/#what

Ah yes, the “killer app” for DVRs: live TV.

mcc, to random
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Okay here's a Windows question

Is there a way to monitor temperatures in my system in general?

I have a program called CoreTemp. It gets CPU temp only.

If I want my GPU temp, I have to go into this nasty Nvidia alt-z overlay.

My PSU's software can't get the PSU temp, but CAN get… RAM temp? Somehow.

What I really want to know is the temp of my M.2 SSD. These instructions https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/m-2-temperature-monitor.html#:~:text=2%20SSD%20temperature%2C%20go%20to,Properties%20to%20see%20the%20temperature. explain how to get that in Windows… referring to a nonexistent button in Windows Settings.

bk1e,
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@mcc I’ve used CPUID HWMonitor to check SSD temperature. I’m sure it does CPU and GPU temperature as well. Not sure about power supplies.

bk1e,
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@mcc CrystalDiskInfo also does SSD temperature, plus S.M.A.R.T. reporting.

Win10 is finally getting inbox support for S.M.A.R.T. reporting with SSDs, but it’s only in insider preview builds at this point.

bk1e,
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@mcc I find it astonishing that the ATX power supply connector doesn’t have an I2C bus.

Apparently some PC power supplies have a USB port for monitoring: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/p/psu/cp-9020037-na/ax860i-digital-atx-power-supply-860-watt-80-plus-platinum-certified-fully-modular-psu-cp-9020037-na

bk1e, to random
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TIL there is a backwards version of the alphabet song: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_song#Backwards_alphabet

z-y-x and w
v-u-t, s-r-q
p-o-n-m-l-k-j
i-h-g-f-e-d-c-b-a
Now you know your ZYXs
I bet that's not what you expected!

https://die-partei.social/@hackernews/110560012130216088

foone, to random
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So here's the fun thing about the PVM (PWK Virtual Machine) used by Wheel of Fortune (2010, Wii) and a bunch of other spigot games:
It's a stack-based VM (a stack machine), but it's not a simple one. It's a typed stack, as it's built of an array PVariable* which is a base class with a bunch of subclasses. So you get polymorphism with your stack.

bk1e,
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@foone There’s a Windows code coverage tool called OpenCppCoverage that works by setting breakpoints on the addresses corresponding to every line of source code and tracking which breakpoints get hit.

bk1e, to random
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Cutting it a little close, aren't we?

mcc, to random
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Somebody posted this really weird soundcloudwave r&b dance song the other day and I was like "this is fun, I will wait a day or so and then boost it" but now I can't find that post, because "find a post you distinctly saw yesterday" is somehow even more impossible on Mastodon than on Twitter, so I guess I'm just going to post links to two separate songs in one day, like some kind of maniac https://hudsonmohawke.bandcamp.com/track/set-the-roof

bk1e,
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@mcc Haha, that Chipmunks album art must be from the same album as the “Chipmunks on 16 speed” sludge/drone remix.

https://youtu.be/hBga7yYBJ6Y

bk1e, to random
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My computer monitor seems to be haunted again.

It still puzzles me how Apple Silicon Macs can confuse an external monitor so badly that it displays image retention and vertical pinstripes for half an hour after you unplug all input sources and power cycle the monitor.

https://mastodon.social/@bk1e/109549008585751376

bk1e,
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This forum post has a great description of the problem.

Post in thread 'M1/M2 flickering, ghosting with external display [Merged]' https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m1-m2-flickering-ghosting-with-external-display-merged.2271670/post-32171240

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