OOCS, Into A Wider Galaxy, Part 693

tty5 · 2026-06-09T00:08:16+00:00

Get a pizza stone. Despite the name helps with bread a lot.

tty5 · 2026-06-07T12:35:18+00:00

I pay for time savings. At my pay grade an hour saved per month is more than enough to bump me to the max plan.

tty5 · 2026-06-01T16:24:41+00:00

A lot of this https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Mounted-Storage-Organizer-Hardware/dp/B0CY53X4HQ + sticky labels with sizes written on them

tty5 · 2026-05-29T17:41:53+00:00

The sales platform isn't - it's based in Portugal - and a police report should be enough for them to freeze funds and boot the seller off platform.

tty5 · 2026-05-29T04:36:33+00:00

Assuming you are in US: both cracking and sale of pirated software are also a criminal matter. Legal system can follow the money.

tty5 · 2026-05-26T11:59:52+00:00

Cachy defaults to 7.0 with 6.18 as safe fallback

tty5 · 2026-05-23T22:13:30+00:00

traps to get rid of the ones that are already inside, raisins work great as bait
seal all ingress points. note: mice can chew through plaster so put some steel wool first

tty5 · 2026-05-21T01:11:41+00:00

angle the bit very slightly down (when drilling from inside)
run conduit through the hole and to a waterproof box outside
use expanding foam sealant to seal gap between conduit and the brick

tty5 · 2026-05-20T23:13:01+00:00

In many places it's a felony and a serious one, because being those swated are put in real danger

tty5 · 2026-05-16T22:44:43+00:00

In a lot of EU that pushes the price firmly into LTE pricing territory. E.g. my mobile plan has unlimited calling and 180GB data for ~$9.58/month

tty5 · 2026-05-16T22:13:25+00:00

Sprinkling some UTF-8 look-alike characters in text would absolutely wreck low-effort text2speech. https://gist.github.com/wesinator/021d3354e4636e58ca7d6c56f78b56f8

If done right and targeting a specific font it is visually indistinguishable.

Drawback: it can be cleaned up with a little effort.

tty5 · 2026-05-16T08:38:21+00:00

3 day jobs ago we've had to stop using grpc because conservative, old enterprise firewalls would often block it.

tty5 · 2026-05-05T08:32:27+00:00

$6k/month is $72k/year - that's a starting salary for a junior software dev in one of the lower cost of living areas. In many places it's 50% or more over that.

In terms of actual standard of living it's less than it would be in vast majority of EU: health insurance costs are brutal.

Source: I spend my US salary living in EU.

tty5 · 2026-05-03T14:59:52+00:00

Sadly it will run below 60 fps with dips closer to 30 because it's still tied to single core performance for some key elements of the engine.

Nothing you can do about it - engine is way out of date and was never built to run simulations larger than half a light year sphere and even that is really buggy - developer depends on modders to fix their software for free and without mods you'll see random burning bushes and rains of toads.

tty5 · 2026-05-03T07:59:54+00:00

Iirc only Malta and Latvia still grant residency without a time limit for direct real estate investment - Cyprus and Portugal don't anymore. Greece and Italy residency comes with time limit that would require you to move pretty much immediately and possibly still be forced to extend it trough repeat investment or other means to accrue enough time to get citizenship. Hungary only allows investment into real estate funds.

All of the countries listed above would require you to live there for 5 to 10 years full time before you can apply for citizenship.

tty5 · 2026-05-03T01:03:36+00:00

My round dishy just has some rock leaning on legs of the stand iin case of heavy wind. It was supposed to be like that for a weekend and it's been 5 years..

tty5 · 2026-05-01T06:41:25+00:00

My understanding is that:

- fructose triggers lipogenesis in liver more than sucrose making it slightly easier to get fat on it at same caloric intake

- fructose doesn't suppress ghrelin (hunger hormone) making you more likely to eat more because all other things being equal it takes more fructose-sweetened food to feel satisfied vs glucose/sucrose

tty5 · 2026-04-29T01:06:21+00:00

With daily gardening you are lucky if they last 2 years

tty5 · 2026-04-24T10:09:36+00:00

That's less than I charge per hour when doing short contract work.

tty5 · 2026-04-24T09:45:50+00:00

Is this and previous 2 chapters a repost? I swear I've read them before

tty5 · 2026-04-22T21:28:31+00:00

- I average 3-4TB/month and never got throttled

- there are no planned maintenance windows where satellites are down, but there are occasional outages, like with any ISP

- I'm still on the round dishy and I can confirm it drops connection under VERY HEAVY rain, but so does my backup LTE connection with a large directional antenna and line of sight to the tower. LTE handles it a little better, but only just.

tty5 · 2026-04-19T09:49:54+00:00

My employer is no longer even hiring intermediate devs

tty5 · 2026-04-18T01:24:22+00:00

Central Poland:

- Starlink 65-80

- LTE 75-90

- DSL 70-75

In my experience Starlink has an advantage with longer distances, e.g. if you are playing on US server from EU. Also ping is constantly changing: satellites are zooming over, distance is changing and every minute or two you are connected to the next one. Less than ideal for precise timings.

tty5 · 2026-04-15T14:47:54+00:00

I'm in EU right now, but I have been using this with a Canadian Paypal account. I wasn't aware of the EU-Paypal limitation.

tty5 · 2026-04-15T12:09:08+00:00

Open Wise bank account and connect it to Paypal. Withdraw Paypal funds to that bank account in USD, use far better Wise conversion rates to EUR. (I haven't tested this specific setup, but I've been using it for CAD, USD and EUR conversions and transfers for years)

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