vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Because a well designed game does not include drudgery. "Work-simulators" focus on results and progress and gloss over many of the hours of outright boredom or physical exertion to get there.
For example, truck driving simulator does not include the pain in the ass and boring part of loading or unloading the truck. Farming simulator does not include the painstaking process of removing rocks from the field.
While I grew up on a farm, my first proper career was something called OBC seismic. What it is isn't as important as the fact that it involved placing a 6km long sensor cable on the seabed with a winch and position it properly. To do this right requires practice, and as the principle is farly easy I wrote a small simulator that our trainees could try out. At first they found it interesting, and even the seniors from other departments enjoyed toying with it. The biggest lack of realism was that it didn't involve doing it for 12 hours straight, only stopping to unscrew 25 meter sections and replacing them. Barring drudgery and repetitive boredom could've probably made it an interesting game similar to other work simulators.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
At least the 1st one is likely to actually fly in a somewhat stable manner. The rest are likely too heavy, in addition to the last one having a grossly offset CoG.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Or the superior .bmp
Hey, it's lossless!
vettnerk 10 months ago • 80%
Depends on the currency, though...
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
I found mine here, I'm sure you'll recognize yours: https://m.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson-phones-19.php
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Sony Ericsson W810i. Got it in 2007, I think. When it started to die on me in late 2009 i replaced it with an iPhone 3G, which was my first apple phone. It was also my last apple phone as I hated how locked down everything was.
EDIT: I just remembered I had a secondary dumbphone around 2012 or thereabouts. It was a dual SIM nokia of some sort that I used mainly as a backup phone in case my main ran out of battery while I was on the move.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
In 1999 when the entire town was on dialup, I set up this relatively small PC with FreeBSD 3.3 and eggdrop, and hid it in the school library. That way I had an IRC bot that worked while I was offline. After a while I also set it up to automatically grab files from FTP servers for me, but getting these out from the "server" offline was tricky due to 1.44MB floppies being the only removable storage I had available.
Back then internet carried dialup charges per minute for me, so this was a huge time and money saver.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
You can test it in the phone and see if it has any juice in it, then. If I were in your shoes I'd feel safe in testing it that way.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Presumably provided that they're with the correct team. I'm sure lgbtq fans and members of the opposing team is hated just as much as the cis/straight equivalent, which I guess is equality.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
It's probably fine. The batteries don't care about moisture, as long as the pins don't get shorted or corroded.
If they were wet enough to short, the symptoms are usually a completely dead battery or it seeming puffy, a.k.a. spicy pillow.
You can measure the voltage with a voltmeter if you want to check. It should read around 3.5 to 4V, depending on charge.
Source: I handle a lot of LiPo batteries at work.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
No
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
My "salads" are technically that due to having cucumber in them. But other than that it's mostly just cheese which I don't like with olives.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
I may have, I don't know enough about olives to tell. I usually just buy the biggest jar of castrated green olives that I can find here in scandinavialand.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 96%
Green olives. None of my cooking use them as an ingredient, so once in a blue moon I remember that I like them, so I eat an entire jar with a toothpick.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
I was thinking the same thing. Spanning tree is love. Spanning tree is life.....when deployed correctly.
Alternatively I'm thinking noise, as I've seen that in 10gig connections a few times, which is why I prefer LC fiber where possible.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Best quote from Eragon. So say we all.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 85%
We're still closely related
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
I never fully got into 3d printing, but I got far enough that I designed a lot in openscad. This was 10 years ago, and it was really popular back then, and might still be.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
I was on a business trip not long ago, and as we often do after the workday we eat at the hotel then chitchat in the bar for a little while.
"Yeah, I'm calling it a day" I said. My coworker agreed, and we went to each our rooms.
20 minutes later I met him in BattleBit
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
And I saw it. What's your fix for botnets and brigading?
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Whenever I hear someone suggest "an algorithm" without elaborating further, I'm usually correct in presuming that it makes as much sense as "a wizard will use magic". The other times it's usually someone suggesting blockchain. Sometimes it's both.
Or, hear me out, collaboration across networks. That's what lemmy does. And it's nothing new.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Because some of us remember how the internet was without moderators, and how it went to shit early 2000's when "everyone" started using it.
20-25 years ago mods were rarely needed beyond booting a couple of spammers and getting rid of the occasional goatse and tubgirl. Now platform-wide efforts are needed to combat csam and gore.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Whatever shell says can automatically be dismissed as a lie.
Source: I used to work on a survey ship right outside the niger delta roughly 10 years ago. Suddenly on day we were in the middle of an oil spill patch, and the onlyones in the area were us and a bunch of shell drilling rigs. Situations like that happened quite often.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Disclaimer: I'm not a 3dprinter guy. I want to be, but I never found the time beyond a partially assembled prusa mendel i3.
....however, I have done an extensive amount of wiring, in various environments, a lot of it on moving parts, and what I can say is that wires of these gauges don't break like this just from movement along that cable chain (or whatever it's called), unless it's incredibly cold environment and/or incredibly cheap wiring.
I'm thinking that you're most likely correct in that it has been pinched.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Job interviews
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Soooo many memories!
I used to play this on NES
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Yes, it would be very weird for server addresses to have the service name as a subdomain. Like a common prefix of web servers to signify that it's serving world wide web.
On a more serious note, this used to be fairly common for many protocols to ensure loaf balancing between different protocols - you'd have one server for www, one for ftp, and so on.
Also, from an administrative point of view, it's more manageable when you can, for example, add an entire (sub)domain to the firewall rules.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 98%
"Git is to github what porn is to pornhub"
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Discouragement. It was a bad idea to climb down from the trees to begin with.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Correct. I don't qualify for global entry, but i do have a TWIC which allows me TSA Prescreened as a known traveler, at least.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 88%
A second reasonable case is when entering US feom abroad. Passport check at Ohare is slooooooow, so I always make an effort to get there before most others. I usually don't care about exiting plane early, but I do care about maximizing the time spent drinking beer in a lounge, compared to standing in line.
I often fly from Europe to Houston via Chicago, and how early I get out of the transatlantic flight can mean up to 90 minutes less queuing.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Their greatest hit
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Depends on your OS, but symlinks can do that for you - file exists once, but multiple "files" link to it. The application (torrent client) doesn't care.
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
The what now?
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
I used to live in a very windy place where the wind would play the bridge and street lighting like you would play a bottle. It's a result of pipes that are hollow at the top, and the wind hits just right
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
You could always join NAFO
vettnerk 10 months ago • 100%
Same about his hands. The only reason why it is brought up so often is because he seems incredibly insecure about it.
Specifications: - Full size (80ish+ size with a reduced numpad will also work) - ISO key layout (as in, a proper Return key. ANSI can burn) - Numpad - Wireless (if possible) - Don't need any RGB - I don't care about keycaps, so any leftovers will do. They don't even have to be representative of the actual key, random letters and symbols will be fine, even duplicates When I wasbinto RC Helicopters i liked flying, but didn't get much entertainment feom building. This other guy liked building but didn't care that much about flying. I was hoping to run into someone similar here. EDIT: The helicopter sory as I posted it elsewhere, in case anyone cares. https://lemmy.ml/comment/2517850
I'm still trying to fulfill my biological duty to hype, so I'm posting another one: #274 - Ask Alex Anything It should also have the tagline "I'm gonna miss you, Paul" because the backdrop of this episode is that Alex is saying his goodbyes to Paul Joseph Watson who has been working closely with Alex for ages. Hilights of the episode are that Alex gets way too drunk and emotional, to the point where I think we're actually seeing a more human and vulnerable side of him than we've ever seen before. However, he's still a piece of shit, and the rest of the crowd also shows how awful people they are by keeping it going and having fun at Alex's expense. And Rober Evans of "Behind the Bastards"-fame is joining JorDan for this one.
Seeing as humans are built to hype, I thought I'd do my part by recommending an episode from the back catalog that some of our newer listeners may not have heard. #135 - The Wikileaks Press Conference The anticipation.. the predictions.. the over-investment of feelings... the hype.. and then, followed by the N stages of grief when it doesn't pan out the way Alex or Owen expected, going through the motions of a complete live meltdown and a 180 degree reversal of their opinion on Wikileaks.
Hairy Mary armored train with hemp rope armor from the Boer War.