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foone

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Hardware / software necromancer, collector of Weird Stuff, maker of Death Generators. (she/they🏳️‍⚧️)

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foone , an Random Englisch
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Personally I think programming languages should always be uppercase or always be lowercase. No proper noun programming languages.
It's python and ruby, not Python and Ruby.
It's C and APL, not c and definitely not Apl.

Swift and Java? Wrong. Bad programming languages. Make SWIFT an acronym and understand java is a programming language and Java™ is a product

foone OP ,
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@nonnihil I think you hit the nail on the head with the interpreted vs compiled. That's probably EXACTLY why it's like this in my head.

outadoc ,
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@foone Ah yes, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication

foone , an Random Englisch
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I should build a coin operated PC tower for reasons

foobarsoft ,
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@foone Maybe it works like the old AT keyboard locks computers had? 50¢ buys you a minute of typing?

EndlessMason ,
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@foone
You gotta make the letters cost their scrabble points
@fozztexx

foone , an Random Englisch
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it turns out if you try to git clone a youtube video, it doesn't work

foolishowl ,
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@foone It's the hard difficulty level on my favorite game, "What's in 'y clipboard?"

dwardoric ,
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@foone 🤣

foone , an Random Englisch
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I'm writing rust without fully understanding the language. Pray for me.

Actually I guess that's true of most language I program in? Like, I'm sure there's some obscure python syntax or behavior I can't remember, despite calling myself a python programmer and having done it professionally for many years.

but my point was more that I barely know any rust. there's entire parts of syntax I don't understand yet. but I'm coding anyway!

nougcat ,
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@foone may i recommend scribe.rip?

https://scribe.rip/@wastedintel/reference-iterators-in-rust-5603a51b5192

vikriti ,
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@foone seems like rust has been screaming back

foone , an Random Englisch
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I just realized I KINDA wrote a language where parsing file A requires also parsing every other file in the directory, and parsing those files might require parsing file A first.

mctwist ,
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@foone Welcome to C++ "pragma once".

fschulze ,
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@foone I had done the 2-pass thing in my Rust implementation. Filename is nicer though

foone , an Random Englisch
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I can't get my browser to load google.com, anyone else having problems?
do I need a newer browser?

mittorn ,
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@foone no, you should not change your browser! It is google should be fixed to work in it!

th ,
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@foone it is still broken, even with a newer browser.

foone , an Random Englisch
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my favorite thing is hacking a game and then going and looking on the company's mobygames page to see what else they did around the same time and then grepping that ROM to see if it is the same engine... and it is.

foone OP ,
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I asked someone with a fullset of GBA roms to run some greps and they found three more:

  • The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning
  • Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue
  • Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 3: Night of the Quinkan
mothcompute ,
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@foone this has all of a sudden become relevant to me because ive been wanting to decompile that last one (or at least extract the audio data) for a while now

foone , an Random Englisch
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you ever have one of those normal days when you need to run a regex on the binary data of a GBA rom?

quixoticgeek ,
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@foone not 256 problems stored as an 8 bit int ?

foone OP ,
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@quixoticgeek nah. I'm non-binary, so I don't need to worry about powers of 2

foone , an Random Englisch
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Fun fact about PII:
People in the US military have a number but often they could use their social security number interchangeably. And it was common enough for forms to require one or the other that it just became standard procedure at one point to basically sign your name "FirstName LastName ###-##-####".

This was stopped eventually, but the National Climatic Data Center has /millions/ of pages of paper records of weather data with SSNs written on them.

foone OP ,
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@transbian_arsonists @thebluewizard that's exactly how they were doing it. Sadly, after 2011, as far as I know they stopped (congressional budget drama) and I don't think they ever restarted. So all those records are simply not digitized and may never be

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@foone @ozzelot I think your expectations are probably still too high lmao

foone , an Random Englisch
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Interesting reusability designed into this Sony remote.
The front metal bit looks like this.
but the plastic is just a bunch of generic holes which can have sliders placed/not placed at different locations.

The inside of the same remote. The buttons are laid out in a grid, and there's holes for every possible button placement, but unused placements don't have sliders in them

byteborg ,
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@foone
Sony was on top of the world in mass-manufacturing. Their designs from the 80s/90s are so good in terms of ease of manufacture and ease of use.

Gazoche ,
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@foone I remember a friend showing me that his remote had a "secret" button. There was no hole for it in the shell but the button was there on the PCB if you opened the remote. And it was functional! I think it enabled extra bass boosting or something like that. The manufacturer probably had a higher-end model that had that feature and they just "disabled" it on the lower-end model by hiding the button inside the shell.

foone , an Random Englisch
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Someone really needs to stuff one of those AI assistants into software using Microsoft Agent. I want a Bonzi Buddy for 2024!

foone OP ,
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And yet again I have to do everything my fucking self

dannotdaniel ,
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@foone

It looks like you're trying to replace everyone's favorite digital assistant with malware.

Clippy Kay Yay, FOONE

foone , an Random Englisch
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I'm having a very uncharacteristic problem:
I don't have any keyboards on hand to use

mousefriend ,
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@foone We don't actually believe this??? Like, Foone without a keyboard?? Are we SURE???

brot ,
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@foone out of all my followers, i would have guessed you to be the least likely to end up in that predicament.

foone , an Random Englisch
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There's a mod for the NES that works by running HDMI video over the RCA plug.
Specifically, the RF plug.
I mean... I guess?

bloognoo ,
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@foone
Could you push three signals out on the r, g and b pins of a vga card? For multiple television support!

pdcawley ,
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@foone latency

much?

foone , an Random Englisch
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Sony memorystick, aka SD card betamax ...

eliasp ,
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@foone Sony created so many fantastic technologies (MiniDisc/ATRAC3 😍), but killed them at the same time by making sure noone else would ever use them.

bifo ,
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@foone what does that make MiniSD

foone , an Random Englisch
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Given all the icons on a microsd card I expect it's only a matter of time until they start claiming to be Mozilla too, like a user agent

bayindirh ,
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@foone I got a couple of A2 Canvas Go cards from Kingston. With all the icons the cards look like souped up rally cars, and I don't understand at least half of them.

I don't care as long as they work on my SBCs, and they are snappy as roadrunner when compared to other, older microSD cards I have.

I got what I wanted to get, so I'm happy.

montar ,
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@foone might come in handy

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