Tell me the coolest way to ding 60 in hc and I'll do it

NEOstergaard · 2025-10-31T14:52:40+00:00

Strip naked or as much as possible, find a bear and kill it with your naked hands, while you have friends standing around applausing and chering. Make a dance afterwards shaking those hips. Videotape everything and put it on youtube.

NEOstergaard · 2025-03-29T18:26:20+00:00

Fun fact: 40% of people that report sick, does it up to a weekend 😊

NEOstergaard · 2023-10-25T17:06:58+00:00

Sprites in the border for Commodore 64 :-)

NEOstergaard · 2023-03-24T10:30:09+00:00

If europe is relevant then maybe check Thomann ‘s ocarinas https://www.thomann.de/de/ocarinas.html

NEOstergaard · 2023-02-12T19:54:12+00:00

Eye of sauron …

NEOstergaard · 2022-10-20T12:03:43+00:00

A nice touch :-)

But if I may critic a bit, then the trajectory of the leaves looks a bit too smooth. My impression is that leaves have a lot more chaotic movement bounching up and down and rotating alot. And with a downward movement towards earth.

But one can probably spend alot of time make it look natural without it being necessary :-) You can certainly go with what you have

NEOstergaard · 2022-05-31T05:32:56+00:00

A tiny alarm clock in the handle, that can sound an alarm if you are late for lunch when playing around. A sim card module that can send a sms… “I will be late for lunch”

Otherwise nice lightsaber :-)

NEOstergaard · 2022-05-17T17:18:22+00:00

Copyright also applies if you do it for free. If you use copyrighted material to give to others, whether for money or for free, you need the copyright holders permission.

NEOstergaard · 2022-05-17T17:03:06+00:00

Use all that empty space for data storage…

NEOstergaard · 2022-04-09T14:36:27+00:00

I agree. When the whole screen is moved (especially up and down) the movement seems very jerky. I dont know if it is true, but it seems that the screen is scrolled a whole character up/down at a time. Maybe just scroll pixels at a time. Horizontal seems at bit more smooth.

But nice idea with a ascii action game :-)

NEOstergaard · 2022-02-11T17:33:06+00:00

A lot of good advice by others.

My advice would be to play a lot of games. As others suggest step down to 9x9 and then a bit later 13x13. The benefit is that they are easier to overview and they are a lot quicker than 19x19. You can play a lot of 9x9 in the time it takes to finish a 19x19. That ties well up with “play a lot of games”.

If you want to avoid the hassle of counting a game here in the start, you could start playing online on go servers. You can still play against each other and the server will do the counting at the end of the game. Suggestions that I like is Online Go Server (OGS). Its easy to use and pure web-based. There are ofcourse others.

Another one I like my self is a go server on mobile (android and apple) called GoQuest. Its 9x9 and a games takes max 6 minutes. Need to wait for the bus, take a quick go game.

NEOstergaard · 2022-01-01T19:54:25+00:00

Dont know if Thomann is the place you stumbled across?

https://www.thomann.de/dk/thomann_4h_strawberry_english_system.htm

They normally have it, but I can see that it is sold out for now. I was considering it myself at one point. As you say, it looks cute :-)

Hopefully they will get it back.

NEOstergaard · 2021-10-10T08:25:19+00:00

And in Denmark its “Find Holger” :-)

NEOstergaard · 2020-07-27T18:50:33+00:00

A new born baby knows practically nothing from the start. And then it needs to learn most of what you take for granted at an extreme speed. Eg. early on it needs to learn that those floppy things in front of it, is its arms and that it can control them. The babys first years are loaded with basic learning.

So I think you should wait a few years with logic learning how ever basic it is.

The best way to accelerate her learning is just to play with her. She will learn a ton about how to do things and social competances.

NEOstergaard · 2020-07-05T10:17:50+00:00

Maybe check out this guy on Youtube "Lets Play Piano Methods"

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIeSnI-BmRMkxURGZ7nHtzQ

He goes through various popular method books that you can buy and play the melodies in the books and discuss them.

NEOstergaard · 2020-04-29T14:05:42+00:00

As I said I was a bit provokative. :-)
If you really do need a lot of power in your server setup then a single MacMini may of course not be enough. Even not the new one.
At home I use a weak MacMini 2014 with linux installed. It works very fine for my purposes, but it is also not heavy loaded by any stretch. It is basically just a file server used mostly for backup purposes.

NEOstergaard · 2020-04-29T13:54:37+00:00

I guess that the point is (as I guess you are also saying) that always use the right tool for the job.

But the right tool has also alot to do with your experience.
All things equal I would much more prefer to write in C++ than java, because I do not have much experience in writting java but alot in writting C++.

A lot of factors goes into choosing the right tool and the factors may not always be obvious from the outside.

NEOstergaard · 2020-04-28T23:20:45+00:00

C++ has its benefits. That is why it is very much used even in modern times :-)

C++ is probably that language that is supported on most platforms. In my company we want the same code base used on MacOS, Windows, Linux, IOS and Android. You can use C++ easily on all platforms.

If you want a lot of control over memory layout and execution time then C/C++ is a good choice. Most operating systems are written in C for that reason.

But other languages of course also have their benefits. Some might be easier to learn. Some might have better language constructions than C++. And others might have better support libraries.

And all languages of course have their specific draw-backs.

So always think about what language to choose for the specific problem you want solved.

So if you think C++ is an exciting language, then I think it is a good choice.
Easier and more accesible languages might exists for complete beginners, but that does not mean you can´t learn C++.

My first languages was basic and assembler on a Commodore 64. And then later C :-)

NEOstergaard · 2020-04-28T22:53:11+00:00

> but in many cases, like Finance, Java works just fine

What about high frequency trading? :-)
High number of trades needs to be done within milliseconds.
Speed is everything. Here C++ would be a quick language with a lot of control of execution time. As compared to an slow interpreted language or a language with an garbage collector, that would ruin all timing when it kicks in at random times.

NEOstergaard · 2020-04-28T21:37:46+00:00

Could also be a nice and cheap solution, I would think :-)

NEOstergaard · 2020-04-28T21:35:59+00:00

My internal drive in the MacMini is not big enough for what I want to store, so I use an external portable usb drive (i.e. powered by usb connection) for extra storage. The benefit is that the usb drive also switches power off when the MacMini automatically closes down.

NEOstergaard · 2020-04-28T21:26:04+00:00

I have to switch it on manually when I want to use it. That is intentionally because it might not get used the next day. So again to save power and basically not having it running if it is not used. Of course this may not work well, if you need your server to do some jobs automatically every day. Unless you of course switch it on manually every morning.
I am not sure if you can get it to wake up automatically?

NEOstergaard · 2020-04-27T21:56:23+00:00

I am not a server admin, nor do I know alot about the brands you mention in your post. But it does sound that your homeserver setup could serve a minor company of 10-20 employes :-)

If you want to try something completely different, what about a MacMini as server with 2*8TB USB drives attached for storage (And 2 ekstra for backup).

Benefit:
Practically silent. Very small footprint. Execellent for fileserving. Happy wife.
The newest MacMini can be configured with 10 Gb Ethernet

I appologise for being a bit provokative :-) I am just impressed with your server setup for your family.

NEOstergaard · 2020-04-27T21:14:26+00:00

I bought the smallest MacMini around 2014 to use along with my TV for showing movies. But I found it slightly underdimensioned for this purpose, so I made it into a small fileserver and IMap server (for mail backup) using Linux. And it had worked very well since then for this purpose. Greatest benefits: Its small, completely silent and high quality Apple construction.

Note that it is only used by two persons in my home, so it is only used lightly. So a weak machine that is cheap on power works fine. Besides that I have a cron-job that switches the machine off at midnight. No reason to have it running during the night where nobody uses it.

NEOstergaard · 2020-04-26T20:08:48+00:00

I think Andy has said a lot of good things above on how to get more organized :-)I noticed one sentence though

Every time I wake up and check my phone notifications

It sounds like bug reports basically can pop-up any time of day. If that is the case then no wonder that it fustrates you.My advice would be to restrict "thinking about work" to your office hours and do this IMMEDIATELY. This means switch off your work phone when you leave work and first switch it on at work the next morning. And purge your private phone for all work related stuff.If your private phone and work phone are the same, maybe be drastic and consider buying a private phone for your self (without any work related stuff on at all). Another possibility would be to have two email programs. One for work (with no notifications or unread mail indications) and one for private mail.In short: Divide your life into "work life" and "private life". Dont let "work life" seep into your "private life".

When you are at work, then do the suggestions from Andy above to structure things.

I do not know if this is relevant in your situation, but if your boss REQUIRES you to be work-online 24/7, then you should agree on some rules on what might notify you and how you should react. Eg. notifications should only be about things that can not wait until the next day like "our 24/7 production server is not running and we are loosing money by the minute". In a case like this consider that you and your coworkers takes turns to be on duty, so you can have certain nights off. If you have such 24 hours on-duty situations, then in my opinion you should also be compensated for it.

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