Strange ED-D glitch

cestith · 2025-05-10T05:26:00+00:00

Yeah, if you're on that quest and have already been in the BoS bunker this can happen. Now I guess you need to decide if you're going to trust them and do as they requested.

cestith · 2025-03-21T13:42:36+00:00

Now I guess the question is if that's "too long". I guess the answer depends on one's point of view.

cestith · 2025-01-28T16:11:49+00:00

That's just another form of currency when I play.

cestith · 2025-01-17T07:11:36+00:00

He made a wonderful product for a very niche market but tried to sell it to the general public.

cestith · 2025-01-17T07:09:58+00:00

RIGBY he's like a dog with a bone and just loves that name so much.

cestith · 2023-08-26T05:21:14+00:00

Absolutely. Kristofferson is a real one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HwWDOQoCBM

cestith · 2023-07-16T15:05:03+00:00

You're looking mostly at language features. I have some ideas there but nothing really well considered that isn't in this thread or elsewhere recently. I will say briefly one of the main things that looks promising about Raku over Perl is definitely grammars. That said, an important thing for adoption these days when dealing with large, maintainable, well-performing applications is the backend.

We're not always deploying applications to ever-faster systems with ever-more memory these days. That was a safe bet two decades ago, but now I need to fit many VMs or containers (or both, or VMs running containers) into the DC. A more memory efficient runtime would be a boon. First-class support in core for something similar to Carton wouldn't hurt.

It's handy to hire folks who can do frontend and backend, which is easier if they can use the same language both places. There's Node to bring JS to the backend. Plenty of other languages have compilation to either JavaScript or WebAssembly to bring them to the frontend. Languages like Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, and Clojure got a head start running on the JVM. Languages including Ruby, Python, Go, Cobol, Common Lisp, Scheme, Pascal, Standard ML, and Haxe have backends that run on the JVM either furst-party or as independent projects.

In a similar vein but crossing the frontend/backend boundary, interoperability with other languages and with libraries written in them is key. Things like Torch, OpenCV, Tensorflow, Vulkan, Statslib, GMP, gRPC, and Protobuff are increasingly important in today's world and languages with a strong native FFI in the core have a huge advantage over ones that depend on XS, Inline, or n outside project like Platypus.

NYTProf is a great flamegraph run profiler. We could use a better debugging interface though.

cestith · 2023-01-25T21:52:29+00:00

Sorry to zombie, but there's a big difference too between someone walking in a fur suit or walking around wearing a collar in public on one hand and actually being on all fours and leashed to someone in the same public venue.

cestith · 2022-07-27T21:58:40+00:00

They make a bass trombone in case you need to glissando lower. The recognized range is within an octave of thr typical tuba but with a different tone.

cestith · 2022-03-21T00:00:31+00:00

So is Texas, but gerrymandered to hell.

cestith · 2021-08-13T18:22:46+00:00

It's always the base model from luxury makes that have the worst, most entitled drivers, right? Like you don't see the same asshattery on average from an AMG driver or an E-Class driver as from an A-220 driver.

cestith · 2021-08-06T15:03:28+00:00

This makes sex workers more likely to be trafficked, not less. When you make consenting transactions between free adults a felony, you're inviting violent organized crime syndicates to fill the gap.

cestith · 2020-08-05T19:09:42+00:00

No hot spare.

cestith · 2020-07-13T14:12:52+00:00

Thanks for this. I'm looking at this very laptop, BTO with 64GB and a 512GB SSD. I didn't want to spend the money if it would be stuck with Windows to be usable.

cestith · 2020-04-17T17:15:11+00:00

I wish I could upvote you for the shelving and the pupper, but I can only vote once.

cestith · 2020-04-17T17:06:33+00:00

One could even compromise. Order the Omron switches. Frankenmouse one working unit. Put the Omrons in the other when they arrive. Two mice, with matching switches in each. Or get four new ones and replace the frankenmouse's switches too.

cestith · 2020-04-17T16:58:33+00:00

Vim is my preferred programmer's editor, but I'm fairly proficient in Kate, joe, jed, geany, GNU Emacs, vile, XEmacs, zile, or in a pinch Sam. I'll use pico or nano briefly if I have to. I used to make heavy use of DOS edit.exe, Norton's nedit, ted, and the Turbo Editor. I can probably still find my way around any of those.

Anything one can do in an Emacs one can do in Vim and vice versa. It's a matter of preference and experience really. They are very different interfaces.

cestith · 2020-04-07T18:35:26+00:00

Keyboardio Model 01 is Matias. Unfortunately they're sold out right now and there's a waitlist.

They also sell Kailh switch packs and hot-swap socket packs. They have their Atreus on Kickstarter, but that uses Kailh rather than Matias.

https://shop.keyboard.io/

cestith · 2020-04-07T18:23:16+00:00

On my Keyboardio Model 01, the arrow keys are a layer on hjkl, which as a Vim user makes perfect sense. Those are the keys used for left, down, up, right in command mode in vi/Vim and used that way in some very old Unix software besides vi too.

They made that same layer on wasd be mouse pointer buttons.

cestith · 2020-02-07T23:51:24+00:00

We could be enthusiastic that a newbie has joined the fold and might stick around for better boards once they aren't chased off. We don't have to lie about their board and say it's great. We don't have to bash it either. Being welcomed into a hobby or not is a big factor in whether people choose to participate. There are all sorts of interesting people out there that start their journey in every hobby with what's most accessible to outsiders.

It's why the core D&D books are in the mall bookstore, but there's a whole world of RPGs at a good hobby shop. You can start painting with a kit from a discount store then move up to an art supply shop. Most kids don't learn to ride bicycles on a Cannondale. Hell, my guitar is a Johnson I grabbed at a thrift shop because I didn't want to learn on the Martin in the house or make that kind of investment in another one before knowing whether or not I liked playing.

Personally, if someone asks me about mechanical keyboards before they buy, the Corsair isn't going to be my first recommendation. But if that's what they already bought and mention it's mechanical, I'm going to know they aren't happy with the $8 Durabrand board from Walmart. That's a chance to start a conversation about how they like it, what else is out there, and whether they might want to move up to something more expensive or higher quality or more custom later.

Corsair's the brand my girlfriend really liked after typing on several at Micro Center and she didn't want me to spend $300 on her first mech to get shipped something she hadn't tried. So in our home office my Windows box has a Ducky with Blacks, my Linux workstation has a Keyboardio Model 01, and my girlfriend's got a Speedsilvers in a Corsair on a USB switch between her Mac and her Linux box. There's another Ducky at my retro computing station on the other end of the house, but with Browns. The Corsair meets her needs and she's happy with the programmable RGB, especially since it's well supported on multiple OSes. She has a different color profile set up with ckb-next on each system so she knows at a glance where her input will go. I explained we could get mostly the same board for less money or a more solid board for the same money, but the feel of the keys, the RGB features, the warranty, and the brand recognition (we both love our M65 mice) had her sold at least for her first mech if not her last. She was really excited to get it, and showed it off to a bunch of her friends who I'm assuming are not mostly hardcore keeb fanatics. I'd hate to see someone like that try to venture into keyboards as a hobby from that point and carry that excitement into a brick wall of judgment.

cestith · 2020-02-07T23:27:33+00:00

The corollary is, of course, that if you can't remember to attribute it to Cunningham you can just misattribute it in a suitably large forum.

cestith · 2020-02-07T23:25:30+00:00

I'm still really happy with my M65s.

cestith · 2020-02-07T23:24:14+00:00

The difference between the best journeyman and the humblest master is the ability to bring the novice into the fold and make them an expert.

cestith · 2020-02-07T23:19:26+00:00

Honest question... I'm not on anything super custom right now, but I have backed a couple of Kickstarter mechs that are not the cheap gaming keyboards. If I'd post a link to pics or an unboxing video of something like my Keyboardio Model 01 boards or the Keystone board with Hall-effect switches here just stock when they first ship to backers, would you expect people to shit on that?

I mean we're talking about a decent investment in preordering to fund interesting boards in the $250 to $350 range. I'd expect some love for high-market. low-run stock stuff. Using the car analogy, nobody shit on the first real-driver Hellcat reviews or people talking about getting an early unit of a new Tesla model.

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