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mastodon 4.7.3I can do anything. I can do absolutely anything. I’m an expert.
Recently worked on the development of the GX400 core for MiSTer FPGA, starting with Nemesis.
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@VoltPaperScissors@chaos.social @inselchaos@chaos.social Do cool. My daughter (10) just read The Bletchley Riddle, and got really into ciphers. I was already thinking of the strip around a TP roll, but the cardboard Enigma looks amazing.
Ce soir, interruptions du trafic CFF entre Lausanne et Genève à cause d’un dommage à la ligne de contact, annulation de l’IC Lausanne–Neuchâtel, et annulations depuis Bienne également. Comme par hasard ça arrive à chaque fois que je dois être à la maison à l’heure pour pouvoir m’occuper des filles.
C’est quoi cette mascarade ?
#SBB_WTF_FFS #SBB #CFF #WTF #FFS
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@younata@hachyderm.io I loved the shortcut to change capitalisation on the Newton: double-tap to select the word, and draw a vertical line (upwards for uppercase, downward for lowercase) in the middle of the word to affect the whole word, on the first letter to affect it only.
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@VoltPaperScissors@chaos.social 5. Align all rings and the reflector, and hold the reflector to the cylinder with clips. 6. Optionally remove the clip handles for better readability.
It might even be better to not tape the cylinder and clip it on both sides, it makes assembly even easier: stack the rings, roll the paper, put it in, and clip it. But A4 is a tad too short to reach both ends.
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@VoltPaperScissors@chaos.social I improved a bit the Pringles Enigma:
- Roll a piece of A4 card stock (about 180g/m2) inside the Pringles can and tape its inside to form a cylinder;
- Get it out and tape the outside;
- Tape the paper rings (input, rotors, reflector) onto the Pringles can and cut the can in between to obtain four rings (you’ll need another can for the other reflector and rotors;
- Assemble the rings on the cylinder, and tape the cylinder inside the input ring; >>
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@6lr61@mastodon.social @mattgodbolt@hachyderm.io In curious, but not 19-minute-video-curious. More like 8-minute-video-curious. 😉
(Not criticising, as I’ve not watched it yet. It’s more of a commentary on my current state of mind, just before bedtime.)
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social I once heard that the asymmetry of ADSL is because the hardware in your home is cheap shit with bad SNR, but the hardware at your ISPs is much more performant. But now that I think about it, it seems it’s the wrong way around.
@CursedSilicon@social.treehouse.systems @argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @fivetonsflax@tilde.zone @futurebird@sauropods.win
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@ariane@tooting.ch Importance nationale? Personne n’en veut de ce dossier électronique du patient. La preuve: ces 70’000 dossiers de la poste, c’est la moitié, voire plus, des dossiers totaux. On est combien en Suisse déjà?
Les patients ne demandent pas ou refusent le DEP, les médecins ne le proposent pas, et les fournisseurs l’abandonnent. Le message est clair, je dirais. @siegi@tooting.ch
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@raganwald@social.bau-ha.us Ooooh, CodeWarrior. Memories. I still have some CDs in the basement.
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@gsuberland@chaos.social “why aren’t these LEDs dimming?!” asks the guy who fixed said clamp function thusly:
return max(10.0, min(0.0, v));
Donc j’apprends qu’apparemment, il y a des parents qui paniquent quand ils voient que l’appellation de la classe de leur gosse l’année prochaine est 4CRPF2 au lieu de 4FRPF2 comme ils s’y attendaient, ce qui nous vaut un message dans pronote 💩 pendant les vacances à tous les parents du cercle scolaire pour expliquer que le service de l’enseignement a décidé que ce serait maintenant Classe Régulière au lieu de Formation Régulière.
ON S’EN BAT LES COUILLES!
Ma collègue a vu ce panneau de randonnée dans les Gorges de l’Areuse : “Vide mental, 0.066 sec.”
Est-ce que quelqu’un sait de quoi il s’agit ? J’ai d’abord pensé que c’était le temps qu’il te faut, si tu perds ta concentration, pour t’écraser au fond des gorges, mais 0.66 secondes, ça fait une chute de 2 cm.
À la vitesse du son ça fait 22 m, et à celle de la lumière 20’000 km, la moitié de la circonférence de la terre.
Je sèche.
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@hardy@social.netspectrum.de That’s it, I’m calling the AAAAA (American Association Against Acronym Abuse.)
@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net
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@maxleibman@beige.party You can probably take it one step further by arguing that he doesn’t really HAVE a trillion dollars, hea has stocks that are worth a trillion dollars.
But your post is more impactful and important.
It would be funny to be able to chain 4 or 5 of those, though. Like, the stocks are not worth, they’re valued at, etc.
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@VoltPaperScissors@chaos.social Honestly, I’m a bit surprised I remember it in such details.
Oh my god, I found it! First result for “80s robot toy”.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/356659056508
This listing has a good view of the bottom: https://www.ebay.com/itm/155336426624
@dat@social.g33ky.de
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@dat@social.g33ky.de I had a humanoid robot on the same principle: I think it was driving by the two from wheels, and a small free running pivoting wheel at the back, that was straight when driving forward. There was a switch at the front that would cause it to reverse, so the back wheel would pivot (it could do so in only one direction) and the robot would turn, then after a while go forward again.
@VoltPaperScissors@chaos.social
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@dat@social.g33ky.de @VoltPaperScissors@chaos.social I don’t know what caused it to stop reversing, either a timer or the back wheel hitting a switch when reaching the max pivot angle.
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@uncleslacky@federate.social He also thought cars were Earth’s dominant species, didn’t he? I think I missed that in the book (I hadn’t heard about that model, in French they called him Ford Escort, I think,) but in the movie he tries to shake hands with a car.
@jonuriarte@tldr.nettime.org
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@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Two years ago I did some Advent of Code puzzles in Erlang, and it was refreshing. Easier than I expected too, given that I’m not very familiar with the language.
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I passed it. Challenge mode, in the train, M30 gamepad.
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
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@Scuttlest@retro-gaiden.com You can beat it Gradius-style, with small up and down moves opposite to the boss’ direction.
How did you find the difficulty of the shmup level? I don’t remember how hard I found it as a kid, but I replayed it recently after doing some serious training in Gradius, and I really felt a difference in analysis and reflexes.
@Oregon_Pacifist@retro-gaiden.com
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@hopeless@mas.to “The next generation of LLMs will solve it. I swear, bro, just one more iteration. Yes, I already said that three generations ago, but the last two were only incremental, and the previous one was an edge case. Just one more gen, promise.”
@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io
Can anyone tell me what the (Air) modifier means in Street Fighter special moves guides, like Zangief’s Headbutt in Super Street Fighter II? How is it different from Air (without parentheses)? Does it mean the move works on the ground and in the air?
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@worik@mastodon.social Everything matters more than the model, because the model is a useless piece of junk. It’s not even good at what it was supposedly built for. https://kucharski.substack.com/p/real-signals-or-artificial-stereotypes
And there’s an extraneous ’f’ in your last sentence.
@hopeless@mas.to
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@Devorppa@aus.social Can you have a full stop inside a dot point, then start a new sentence? What is you have a parenthesis in a door point, with a full sentence in it?
@timixretroplays@digipres.club
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@ryanc@infosec.exchange Remember when you needed a special, never properly labelled, cable to connect two computers directly via Ethernet?
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@faket@veganism.social Et il parait que ça coûte un bras. Genre dans les milliers d’euro. À ce prix-là tu t’attends à ce que ça détecte quand il y a 25 emoji de suite et te propose de les sauter, ou les textes avec des caractères faux-gras et les interprète. Ce n’est même pas un problème compliqué.
Non pas que j’aie un problème avec le fait de demander un effort aux valides pour que nos toots soient lisibles dans un lecteur d’écran, mais il y a clairement un manque d’effort chez les devs aussi.
@access42@social.a11y.fr
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@thalia@discuss.systems I wish my local arcade was filled with great high scores by my nemesis.
Because that would mean I had a local arcade.
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@mayasynth@eldritch.cafe Dans Lire les informations… quand même, mais effectivement on regardait rarement ça. À l’époque, les chemins c’est le DOS, et le DOS c’est le Mal.
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@jacqueline@chaos.social I’m pretty sure it’s not the case for all of them. Some might go and look, but not be capable of seeing it’s shit.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@hcf/116766730950368400
The year is 2028. Through-Skin-DNA-Sequencing has supplanted Brain-Waves-Pattern-Matching, which has supplanted Intestinal-Fauna-Surveying, which has supplanted #passkeys as “the last authentication factor you’ll ever need.” Logging in to your bank requires a username, account number, password, one-time SMS code, passkey, vomit sample, 5-minute EEG and 3-minute arm scan.
Incoming money transfers still take two working days to show up on your account. Tuesdays and Thursdays are bank holidays.
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@latortue@tooting.ch Mon avis c’est que tu ne trouveras jamais de système de freinage assez bon pour les vélos enfants, parce que les vélos qui freinent tous seuls n’existent pas encore. 😅
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@sundogplanets@mastodon.social Hopefully they’re as incompetent as the other Silicon Valley startups, and they will cause an accident in a space-capable country other than the USA, which will promptly shoot this crap down, with exactly the same authority the FCC had when they approved it.
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@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place I need to play this game again. I got stuck at the (first) level with the platform on rails back then (easy mode doesn’t help much, because you revive in place, but the platform is gone.) After a lot of Silksong and Return to Dark Castle, it should be manageable, now.
@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange
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@mattgodbolt@hachyderm.io Actually, it was perfect to watch in the morning.
@6lr61@mastodon.social
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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net The French are pathological when it comes to acronyms. I think they consider it a weakness to explain them.
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@inthehands@hachyderm.io @hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange Indeed.
Sometimes I even feel the new tech is actively working at making me feel useless. Like SAML IdP federation, or everything provided by Grafana Cloud.
But even normal tech that has not been purposefully build with engineering artificial complexity in mind is tough at the beginning if it’s not similar to what I’m used to.
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@evacide@hachyderm.io Well, human workers wouldn’t have given the hackers access. The AI did. So the AI is doing more than human workers. QED.
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@robert What do you read the scripts you download with? Hexdump, I hope.
And do you also read the whole contents of a ppa you add before installing a piece of software?
@alex@tech.lgbt
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@VoltPaperScissors@chaos.social Have you managed to match the online Enigma simulators with this, though? I’m failing spectacularly. I tried these two, which agree on the results, and I checked the paper rotors against the Wikipedia page, and they match, but I can’t get the same results as the web sites.
https://www.101computing.net/enigma-machine-emulator/
https://chriswilson.ai/enigma/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_rotor_details
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@khan_gnot@tooting.ch Je dirais que le rendre vivable passe avant la préservation. Genre si tu dois légèrement changer la teinte des fenêtres, ou changer l’aspect des stores, pour éviter qu’il fasse 35°C dedans, ben tant pis pour l’égo des architectes décédés.
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@cielak@mastodon.social Mine is the quick brown fox knob positions.
@mwichary@mastodon.online
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@jonny@neuromatch.social You don’t understand: you were using it wrong by asking it something you know how to do. Large LLM models only work for things you don’t know about.
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@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social I still regularly remember the harassment towards Katie Bouman after her the black hole image, and it makes me furious.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al Both this regulation and the one about plastic straws are probably the result of lobbying by the oil and plastic industry, to make us hate ecologists using laws with an anecdotal impact on the environment but a real annoyance factor.
@s10n@mastodon.social @matt@oslo.town