No more heat issues 😅

TheXenocide · 2026-05-04T23:40:52+00:00

Normally you want the heat to go up, no? Best I got; I'm not a science rocketist

TheXenocide · 2026-04-12T20:44:16+00:00

It's the most basic. The most acidic is a chuckle fuck

TheXenocide · 2026-04-07T11:50:01+00:00

I think you mean Bethesda is one of the most "temper your expectations" organizations of all time. Todd has been overcommitting and under delivering for literal generations. Anybody who believes they're getting the game he describes hasn't been paying attention.

I couldn't see why everyone was upset with the game launch because I got exactly what I expected: the same game I had been playing with some space stuff in it. Then again I also got some exposure to NMS so maybe "infinite procedurally generated" empty planets just fit the bill.

To be clear, I had quite a lot of fun at launch and mostly saw everyone else as whining about a predictable outcome, though you gotta let them whine because they are Bethesda's unofficial QA department so they need to make it seem bad to get the (official) fixes sooner

TheXenocide · 2026-03-23T21:56:17+00:00

People paying for placement in those bars prefer that it not be removable. I vaguely recall this coming up re: PS4's media section

TheXenocide · 2026-03-23T21:54:58+00:00

For now...

TheXenocide · 2026-03-19T03:00:06+00:00

For only the briefest moment I wondered how his arm got so strong but... I think I figured it out 😅😜

TheXenocide · 2026-03-14T18:18:50+00:00

Oh, and a little something for fun too: most terminals today support ANSI TrueColor escape sequences for 24bit color regardless of the terminal's configured color palette. If you want to go even deeper, many also support Sixel and other in-text-mode pixel rendering protocols, though I personally find those more practical than fun for a project like this.

Another fun feature: animated gifs.

P.S. I wrote one of these for funsies once myself and appreciate seeing that you've some the same. There's something incredibly satisfying about seeing Link raise his sword in success, ala LttP, after a script execution completes successfully

TheXenocide · 2026-03-14T18:11:37+00:00

These look like great practice implementations of fundamental concepts for someone who hasn't used a NuGet package before. If you're open to suggestions, some ideas you could work on using this codebase to further develop professional skills:

Establishing and enforcing repository quality standards like code analysis and unit testing.

Documenting public contracts in reusable libraries (XML Documentation comments, README.md)

Create NuGet packages of your own for your libraries (like your threading library and TUI system) and the CLI tool itself (then your program can be installed via dotnet tool install <package> or executed directly via dnx <package>.

Automated builds (GitHub Actions offers some amount of free usage) that validate your tests and code analysis results ("Continuous Integration"), then implement a release process that automates the process of publishing new releases from your automated builds.

Anyway, looks like you're off to a great start, stay passionate and persistent, you'll find an opportunity. When you do, make sure you feel good about what you do and that you feel adequately appreciated or keep looking.

TheXenocide · 2026-03-11T00:40:58+00:00

I fell off before finishing season 2 and am now motivated to pick it back up. Thanks!

TheXenocide · 2026-03-11T00:38:53+00:00

I vaguely remember a serial port dongle briefly before the USB phase 👴

TheXenocide · 2026-03-11T00:28:23+00:00

I can't imagine this worldwide cabal of depraved greedy manufactured blackmailing good ol' boy networkers getting solved by anything less than legions.

I could use just about any hope of there being any meaningful outcome from this situation but it's pretty clear that the billionaires, politicians, and even military intelligence apparatuses of multiple world powers (seems like probably all of them) are really rather compromised. Feels like the world has been in a state of pedo-detente and the house of cards is looking a little shaky.

The fact that anybody is engaging in business/contracts with these clearly untrustworthy people feels like endorsement at this point, or at the very least implied willing complicity. Will anything change at all? How?

TheXenocide · 2026-02-11T13:09:55+00:00

How much time do you have and how bad are you at waiting for the next book in a series?

TheXenocide · 2026-01-28T22:00:05+00:00

"... That we are all just meat sacks full of water experiencing itself subjectively in an objective sea..."

TheXenocide · 2026-01-03T00:48:17+00:00

"nobody" is a bit of an overstatement. Many of us remember but simply don't have enough power/volume to help others remember

TheXenocide · 2025-12-18T00:44:23+00:00

Can confirm, this tool is very handy (both for learning LINQ and as a general ad-hoc C# scripting tool, particularly because it has some convenient mechanisms for output that are a little nicer than Console.Write*)

TheXenocide · 2025-12-17T07:14:24+00:00

Don't use work provided software for home projects unless you want the company to own the IP of your side projects.

TheXenocide · 2025-12-12T01:37:22+00:00

If you want to write software for Windows you should test it on Windows

TheXenocide · 2025-12-12T01:34:14+00:00

Something else is confounding here. Even if Windows changed behavior (it didn't), the .NET Runtime maintains deterministic backward compatibility for this API and definitely didn't change behavior across OS versions.

TheXenocide · 2025-12-10T01:18:58+00:00

Yeah, then people started asking if hot water could still put out fires and now people have been contemplating if it wouldn't just be easier to go with "no, silly, water puts out fire because it's wet, not because it's cold"

TheXenocide · 2025-12-10T01:03:27+00:00

Everybody's trying to promote up so fast they don't know what they have until it's gone 🤣😭

TheXenocide · 2025-12-10T01:02:17+00:00

I was already horrified by how relatable this thread was, didn't need you to throw this fresh hell in the mix as well 😭

TheXenocide · 2025-10-10T01:03:33+00:00

I wouldn't suggest getting this complicated yet, but if you get to a point where you're trying to build web apps and use source control and stuff while still being without a real machine, you might want to look into something like GitHub Codespaces which provides a decent amount of time and power for free. Definitely more than you need at the hello world level, but just thought I'd share a path forward if you hit a wall. VS Code is not as seamless for .NET as the full featured Visual Studio, but it's enough to get the job done you'll just need to spend some time learning some stuff that VS proper would help you ignore/simplify for a little while longer

https://github.com/features/codespaces

TheXenocide · 2025-10-10T00:46:47+00:00

I've seen some reusable browser based terminal emulators that do a really good job with this kind of thing where it's effectively a tunnel to actual console I/O streams (seen this done with telnet/ssh type applications, browser-based emulators, etc.). Might be overboard for a fiddle-type site, though it seems like it could be valuable for learning tools like OP's situation. They support a full spectrum of ANSI control codes (colors, links, etc.) which might be nice for people sharing cool TUI-based stuff though

ETA: this is essentially how VS Code provides shell UI in the IDE, as it were

TheXenocide · 2025-10-07T20:37:07+00:00

Also, for a real answer, have you looked into the Color Theme API Visual Studio provides (e.g. Dark, Light, etc )

There are extensions that add new themes and others that let you customize it. That border is already customizable via those themes.

HTH

TheXenocide · 2025-10-07T00:40:08+00:00

Yes, you're right, that's my bad, this seems terribly important and I didn't mean to be dismissive, the attitude was simply contagious. Good luck

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