sol_hsa

Binder, 16 days ago to random

Men will literally burn down a rainforest to avoid giving an artist $20 to draw an image.

sol_hsa, 7 months ago to random

Google introduced .ing domain names, which is surprising in that they didn't think of it earlier.

Another surprise is that the most obvious, f-word .ing domain hasn't been taken.

Then I checked the price.. 12k at the cheapest. Per year.

sol_hsa, 7 months ago to random

During the past 10 years or so, while working on various c++ projects, I have reiterated the following way too many times:

If this was c, it would already have been done.

sol_hsa, 8 months ago to unity

My 2 cents on #unity situation. If they can attract a rockstar gamer CEO (say, Carmack) who would open source unity, change licensing to be more in line with unreal, focus development efforts etc, I'm sure unity would have a great future.

What I fear is that they will hire some careful guy with a long career at IBM or Microsoft who won't take any risks and unity will slowly fade into obsolescence.

sol_hsa, 8 months ago to random

am I the only one who sometimes hears a notification bell and doesn't have any idea what application did that, or even which device made the noise..

sol_hsa, 8 months ago to random

Introducing: rubber ducking as a service (RDaaS). Pay me 5€, send me email describing your bug, and by the time I'm reading your mail you've very likely figured out how to fix it.
(This is a real service, just use my ko-fi)

Tories heading for landslide election defeat, says Britain’s top pollster (www.independent.co.uk)

Exclusive: Sunak could be presiding over ‘wake’ at conference, warns Prof John Curtice – with voters furious over NHS failures, cost of living, migrants and Liz Truss

sol_hsa, 8 months ago to unity

Arghlol #unity

sol_hsa, 9 months ago to ai

Was writing some z80 assembly after a long pause, and I needed to check if space was pressed on the speccy keyboard. I was feeling lazy and didn't feel like looking it up in the docs, so I asked #AI to code it for me. Both google's #bard and microsoft's #bing gave confident, good-looking and entirely wrong answers. I ended up digging up the docs in the end.

sol_hsa, 9 months ago to ubuntu

Downloaded latest #ubuntu lts. Followed their tutorial installing it in VirtualBox. Terminal doesn't open out of the box. This is definitely the year of linux on the desktop.

sol_hsa, 9 months ago to random

I tried google's bard and asked it "what is love?" and it didn't answer "baby don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more", so it's clearly not an actual AI.

sol_hsa, 9 months ago to 3DPrinting

In other news, #3dprinting organic supports are not creepy at all.

sol_hsa, 9 months ago to random

JIT is just modern take on self-modifying code.

Change my mind.

sol_hsa, 10 months ago to 3DPrinting

My experience with #3dprinting so far says that vast majority of printing problems have to do with adhesion.

I haven't been doing it for long though, so some maintenance issue will probably rise its head eventually..

Like 9 times out of 10 when my prints have failed it's because the print had gotten loose from the print bed at some point.

sol_hsa, 10 months ago to random

tragedy: I can't find my bag of googly eyes

sol_hsa, 10 months ago to 3DPrinting

So, what do people use to design their #3dprinting models? Blender seems to work, but I'm fairly certain there are better tools for technical drawings..

sol_hsa, 10 months ago to random

Bought a cheap "weather monitor" from lidl. You know those lcd panel things that come with a remote unit or two. The main unit gets info via radio signal from the remote units.

I put the remote unit inside the fridge, and the weather station on top of it.

Works great. Can monitor the fridge temp without opening the door. Considering how dirt cheap these are, it's a great solution.

Someone should market this. Just drop the unnecessary weather crap from the display.

(@TechConnectify)

sol_hsa, 10 months ago to random

Even if we caught an extraterrestrial communication, how could we tell, considering that even our own communication is starting to be so encrypted that it looks like random noise..

sol_hsa, 10 months ago to random

It's my party and I cry if I want to.

I turned 0x30 today. Couple years to the big five-oh. Sigh.

sol_hsa, 10 months ago to 3DPrinting

So let's say I'm in the market for my very first 3d printer. Suggestions?

I've looked at a few reviews and listings of "best beginner 3d printer" and everybody lists something completely different.

#3dprinting #3dprinter #suggestions #beginner

sol_hsa, 11 months ago to random

For some reason I don't feel the urge to join bluesky.

grumpygamer, 1 year ago to random

As a narrative designer, I'm always confused by "stories" in Agile development.

sol_hsa, 1 year ago to random

@mike
Now that I've played a bit more with asciidoc I have to say I'm a bit frustrated with it, especially regarding those graph plugins I mentioned.. every single graph plugin is written in a different language so if, for example, you want ditaa graphs you'll have to install java, etc.

I wanted things to be simpler (and the pdf/epub output is), but this is a bit more complicated than I'd like.

Funnily enough none(!) of the graph generators are written in ruby (asciidoctor is written in ruby)

sol_hsa, 1 year ago to random

What the heck is that? (I looked at the other side of the leaves, nothing there)

sol_hsa, 1 year ago to random

You go to bed normally and wake up 100 years in the future. After being treated for the shock, you're given access to whatever is equivalent for web search at the time. What do you look up first?