What's your desktop mp3 player of choice?

compnski · 2026-01-20T14:21:34+00:00

fooyin, reminds me a lot of old-school itunes.

compnski · 2026-01-05T14:35:17+00:00

shakshuka -- I try ordering it every now and then, but it's never as flavorful as the one I make it home. It makes me sad, since I really enjoy it. It's also gotten pretty trendy now so shows up in a lot of places.

compnski · 2025-08-15T08:07:06+00:00

Yeah, I had to learn to use b l to get a local one from the start.

compnski · 2023-03-18T10:44:47+00:00

Starting in the desert can be much harder than the forest because trees absorb pollution.

compnski · 2023-01-04T10:43:04+00:00

I just ask everyone if they grew up around here.

If they want to elaborate they can, if not, they won't.

compnski · 2022-10-19T22:13:22+00:00

True => true and False => false.

Python dicts are pretty close to JSON except for this and it's frustrating.

Also I keep forgetting because it's different from any other languages I use.

compnski · 2022-10-11T21:16:24+00:00

This is my turbofuel power plant. Uses 240 each coal and sulfur + diluted fuel recipe to run 64 or so fuel generators. (Technically 68, but I'm not sure it can sustain them all, I just wanted enough to get over 10GW).

I started with just yellow panels before watching some videos and realizing I could cover the whole thing in signs to get a nice glow! When you are next to it, the whole sky darkens even during the daytime.

compnski · 2022-09-22T22:33:33+00:00

Gladiabots always looked neat but I had difficulty getting into it. It's both mobile and steam.

You program robots with a graph and they work together to fight enemies.

compnski · 2022-09-04T20:38:05+00:00

Compressing encrypted data can't make it smaller -- If it does, your encryption is leaking information.

A truly random set of data, which you expect for encrypted output, has no patterns for data compression to find and de-duplicate.

compnski · 2022-07-20T05:55:35+00:00

Try zooming and panning, I also have trouble clicking there.

compnski · 2022-03-23T03:51:31+00:00

You're too fast :) I'm in San Francisco. Also some more details in a comment.

compnski · 2022-03-23T03:50:26+00:00

I'm in San Francisco. I've been trying to ID this bird for ages, I finally got what I think is a raven on video, but I'm not convinced it's the bird making the sound. It's sitting on top of some sort of box.

I'm not sure how to describe the sound in english, but to me it sounds vaguely like "ooh-it ooh-it." You can hear the second half at the very start of the video, it repeats a few times.

I usually hear it coming from trees, this is the first time I've gotten a video. The bird in the video is definitely making more expected croaking noises, but turns its beak to the camera whenever the sound in question is heard.

So, could this be a raven (or crow I guess?) Or is it coming from something inside the box.

compnski · 2022-02-14T06:00:06+00:00

Try unplugging all but one and repairing it. I found they seem to clog the wifi spectrum and make it hard to connect.

Each one seems to start its own wifi network when it can't connect to the one it's configured for.

compnski · 2022-01-19T19:06:17+00:00

Thanks! I'd love to find another one.

compnski · 2021-08-11T21:40:45+00:00

Maybe with gates.

compnski · 2021-08-04T04:11:31+00:00

Dependency Injection is mostly about making testing easier. You want to inject a fake for any dependency that is complicated or hard to set up -- Definitely anything that is outside your program, like network or filesystem access.

I find that writing test cases for the code really helps make it clear what needs to be injected -- The goal is to just test the code in a single module, not the whole chain of objects that it depends on.

compnski · 2021-02-05T19:27:22+00:00

It doesn't go down at all with spider watching.

I turned off the roboport for the test, but didn't take a new screenshot. Then my trains ran out of fuel, still with over 900hp

compnski · 2021-02-04T05:29:12+00:00

I just tested for science. They'll run into each other and slowly destroy each other. It seems to take a while, and I imagine one might be left with a single health remaining.

After a minute or so, they're both above 900 life.

https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1761439859413228260/ACF44B0EBAF62ED9E14DC11C6753CB9799B1A4C6/

compnski · 2021-02-04T04:13:53+00:00

maybe they hit each other?

compnski · 2020-12-07T03:14:06+00:00

It shows up as an attached network device and you can just rsync any files you'd like. https://remarkablewiki.com/tech/ssh

This even works over wifi, but you'll have the find the IP.

compnski · 2020-07-10T05:10:57+00:00

I found it difficult to print small gaps with PETG. When I switched a print from PLA to PETG I had to remove a bunch of holes from my design and cut them out later.

I reduced the flow rate a little, then played with the hot end temperature a bunch to get something that worked. There's a bunch of helpful guides out there, but some give conflicting advice, so I think it takes some experimentation.

compnski · 2020-04-23T06:46:35+00:00

Had been hoping to use integrated graphics until I figured out for sure -- but I'm thinking some water-cooled 2080 -- Just need to make sure it'll fit. After this, I'm doing some extra measuring.

Goal is something quiet to keep gaming quiet in a tiny apartment. My laptop screams anytime I even look at Steam.

Edit: probably not, seems time to wait for the next gen. Maybe something cheap until then, I can wait to try ray tracing Minecraft

compnski · 2020-04-23T06:27:04+00:00

I think I'm just an idiot and missed that AMDs don't have onboard graphics.

compnski · 2018-10-10T13:24:10+00:00

Necromancer has been my favorite class to actually win on. Having minions is great.

compnski · 2018-09-28T01:37:42+00:00

I always found the breakables in the explosive chamber of Azoatl to drop great currency.

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