nytpu

@nytpu@tilde.zone

A winged creature that does the code and maybe even other things. Patented procrastinating on my own projects. I guess I'm also a notable geminaut?
he/him/they/them/whatever

Expect: Furry crap, programming crap (primarily Ada & Common Lisp), retro tech crap, and rarely film photography crap. Also some shitposts. Also angry rants.

All opinions are those of your employer

Note: I rarely post or boost (CW'd) NSFW art

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nytpu, to random

You may pet the floofy birdie… I definitely absolutely certainly will not enjoy it though

nytpu, to random

I could constantly keep making adjustments to the PS2's laser to get it almost working for five minutes, but I think I'm just gonna put the PS2 in the closet for a little while until I get around to buying a new optical pickup and replacing it, and then I don't have to constantly worry about “is putting in this disc gonna destroy the laser for good this time?”

nytpu,

I already adjusted the DVD laser potentiometer down to 725 Ω, which is the absolute minimum value according a bunch of people online so even if it was reliably working the diode's lifespan would probably be significantly shortened because of it

nytpu, to random

I would pay a lot of money for USB cables and wired mice and headphones cables and … that are jacketed in the same rubber that's used on soldering iron cables, that doesn't preserve bends and just fluidly moves however you push it instead of fighting you constantly

nytpu, to random

I present: the one (1) PS3 game I couldn't play elsewhere, i.e. the primary reason I got a PS3 at all

(I do love me some real physical hardware even if I have the ability to play emulated/ported stuff on modern hardware, so it's not like it's a waste or anything)

VallyDrak, to neverwinternights Italian

Legend says that if you scream "Dragons!", they'll flock to you.

#dragonposting #dragon #dragons

nytpu,

@VallyDrak dagns??

nytpu, to random

In case you read something from the late 19th/early 20th century like Dracula with diary entries or correspondence of some sort and wonder how realistic it was, here's a real diary, and yeah turns out they aren't inaccurate, even with the prose: http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4sea4not.html

nytpu, to random

Someone yesterday suggested Pandoc+Markdown for typesetting, but IMO a markup language isn't close to being suitable for real typesetting if it doesn't even have separate units for semantic emphasis and italics, even though in most cases they'll be rendered the same. (No, falling back to HTML tags doesn't count)

Seriously, there's things that must be typeset in italics specifically (species names, etc.), and there is emphasis that may change depending on how the document is styled and the output format. Additionally, nested emphasis (which markdown doesn't even support) should alternate between italic type and roman type, while italics must always be italic.

TechConnectify, to random
@TechConnectify@mas.to avatar

I recently noticed that the State of Illinois has changed the font of the stamping on license plates.

The design is the same, but the stamped text is a bit thinner and the glyphs are blockier.

I am surprised how much this change is bothering me, to be honest. It has never occurred to me how much that is a defining feature. The first one I saw I assumed had to be fake!

nytpu,

@TechConnectify At least they still stamp them! Colorado just prints plates now. They used to only print custom plates and stamp normal ones, but seems like all plates are printed now

nytpu, to random

Apparently in Colorado you can renew your driver's license at any time prior to the expiration date, and now I'm imagining someone getting a new driver's license every month lol

nyquildotorg, to random
@nyquildotorg@fedia.social avatar

The "if buying doesn't mean owning, piracy isn't stealing" take drives me nuts.

IP licensing is, has been and always will be gross, but you can't just use your misunderstanding of what you get with your purchase to link those two completely disparate ideas together. Yes, you own the paper that book is printed on, the plastic that DVD is made from or that MP4 file, but you do not "own" the contents of those things.

You can say that IP licensing shouldn't be a thing, or that all information should be free, whatever, but you can't just decide for yourself the terms of a purchase.

nytpu,

@nyquildotorg I believe what you're remembering with the degrading discs is “FlexPlay”. DivX required you to have a special DVD player that would phone home to a server to charge you for a watch before it would play a DivX “rental” DVD. Gotta keep the scummy DRM measures straight :P

nytpu, to random

I complain about LaTeX a lot (and am very justified in doing so IMO), but at least once you get your document formatting set up, it's a breeze to just write compared to anything else.

I guess an apt comparison would be that TeX has a massive up-front cost to get a document looking right (hours and hours and hours) but little cost afterward, while Word or other WYSIWG editors have minimal up-front costs (just start writing) but massive ongoing costs to manually keep the formatting correct, manually creating and organizing the bibliography & citations, and for the most part having to manually go through a document if you need to make sweeping formatting changes, etc.

nytpu,

@alcinnz
Honestly, for creating something meant to mimic a printed document (or in this case, literally will be printed to be turned in), HTML & CSS would incorporate all of the worst elements of LaTeX and all the worst elements of Word with almost zero of the benefits.

You still have to spend forever getting the formatting set up—and I refuse to believe it'd be easier to get a printed document looking correct in HTML than it is in a dedicated typesetting language. Have fun getting it to do double-spaced lines with leading indentation and no paragraph spacing for the document body, and then single-spaced with leading indentation and paragraph spacing in the endnotes, and then do single-spaced with hanging indent and paragraph spacing in the bibliography.

And yet you also still have to do everything like creating citations and organizing the bibliography manually. In some cases is actually worse than Word, because even Word supports automatic numbering and pairing of endnotes and their in-text markers; while in HTML you'd have to insert the marker and then manually insert an endnote at the bottom of the document, and then have to fastidiously ensure they stay correlated

nytpu, to random

I am not crazy! I know he swapped those numbers! I knew it was 1216. One after Magna Carta. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that idiot at the copy shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. That billboard! Are you telling me that a man just happens to fall like that? No! He orchestrated it! Jimmy! He defecated through a sunroof! And I saved him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own firm! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since he was 9, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the cash drawer! But not our Jimmy! Couldn't be precious Jimmy! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a lawyer? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him! You-

nytpu, to random

Dunno why anyone is surprised that Technology Connections is aggressively anti-FOSS considering that he made a video on his second channel following up on digitizing analog video, and he went on a whole rant about tangentially related FOSS project when people kept asking for (& suggesting) alternatives to “do all the postprocessing in Premiere”, as if it's your fault if you can't afford $300/year for that shit. (Really contradicts his analogy about people suggesting FOSS software “suggesting you should buy a house when someone complains about their landlord)

nytpu,

I still like his videos, because believe it or not you can disagree with someone and still agree with them on other things, and enjoy things that person creates

nytpu,

@nyquildotorg I was gonna say, I feel like he has options that he refuses to use. I think he's partially consciously and partially subconsciously trying to get a negative response to a lot of his toots though, so avoiding all the negativity afterwards would defeat the point :P

nytpu, to random

Deep from my archives, I have finally recovered the most legendary meme on Fedi (IMO, since most people here nowadays probably haven't seen it)

volpeon, to neverwinternights

New logo is complete ​:drgn_happy_mlem:​

For comparison, my old logo is here: https://volpeon.ink/art/2023-dragon-chibi/

#Dragon #Wyvern #VectorArt #FediArt

nytpu,

@volpeon Curly 'vern!

nytpu, to random

Time to make like it's 1999 and burn a bunch of PS1 games to disc XD

(Had to buy a new spindle because it turns out I only have CD-RWs)

nytpu, to random

If I want to make an SQLite database table with information about files in a directory, and want to “refresh” the database table so it accurately matches the current state of the directory (particularly file removals), what's the best way to do that? In this case assume identifying files by filename and ignoring their content is adequate (not quite true for my case but it simplifies the question)

The two simplest strategies to ensure files no longer in the directory are removed seem to be making a new temp table and copying rows into it as you walk the directory (adding new rows for files not already in the DB), and then overwrite the old table with the temp table; or maintaining a separate set of all the rowids of the table and remove ids from the set as you walk the directory, and then afterward remove the remaining IDs in the set from the table.

nytpu, to random

tag urself as the eagle or fish

A bald eagle being held outside of a fish tank with a variety of colorful fish in it. The eagle is excitedly looking in the tank and following the fish as they swim around, and flapping its wings in frustration at not being able to get the fish. The fish are looking at the eagle outside the glass curiously but not fearfully

nytpu, to random

Is Mac OS the winner for having the “recommended”/“main” architecture be changed the largest number of times? m68k→PPC→x86→ARM64. Sure, Windows and Linux have been ported somewhat/very widely, but they've generally stayed with x86 and maybe ARM as the most commonly-used architectures.

nytpu, to random

Also me

Close-up of an Osprey's head. It closes its eyes and yawns cutely and looks off to the side

nytpu, to random

I desperately need wings……………………

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