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e0qdk

@ e0qdk @reddthat.com

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Joined
2 yr. ago

Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition

I used to be on kbin as e0qdk@kbin.social before it broke down.

  • [Discussion] Which Soulslike will you be playing this weekend?

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  • Still trying to beat Silksong -- with the day 1 GOG release. Unpatched, because I'm stubborn.

  • Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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  • Here's one of mine. I got annoyed at the complexity of other command line spellcheckers I tried and replaced them with this simple python script for when I just want to check if a single word is correct:

     
            #!/usr/bin/env python3

    import sys

    try:
      query = sys.argv[1].lower()
    except Exception:
      print("Usage: spellcheck <word>")
      exit(1)

    with open("/usr/share/dict/words") as f:
      words = f.readlines()

    words = [x.strip().lower() for x in words if len(x.strip()) > 0]

    if not query in words:
      print("Not in dictionary -- probably a typo")
      exit(1)
    else:
      print("OK")
      exit(0)
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    Do you guys use AI when programming? If so, how?

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  • No; I don't use AI at all for programming currently.

  • Remote Terminal and IDE

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  • I just ssh in and use the remote computer's shell (typical bash on the remote side via gnome-terminal on my local Mint system) or mount a remote directory (via sftp) if I want to use a GUI editor. Not sure what hoops you have to jump through on Mac since I don't use it these days. I'd assume you can ssh into a remote system from Mac's default terminal app still? (I learned a bunch of Unix basics on OS X in a class ~20 years ago; it worked back then, at least...)

  • GRENDEL PT.6

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  • Uh oh... have any of you seen Beowulf around lately? 🤔️

  • TIL the bible is copyrighted

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  • Ecclesiastes surprised me though - that one was interesting.

    Same. That's one of a few parts I'm planning to go back and re-read eventually. I don't know if I have a favorite part, but that definitely grabbed my attention.

    In general, I'd say the parts worth my time, in addition to Ecclesiastes, were the first 5 books of the Old Testament (Torah equivalent), some of the histories, and the Gospels. I didn't really care for the seemingly endless letters of Paul et al, the Psalms, Proverbs, or the prophets generally. It's possibly I didn't have the right perspective/context to appreciate them. I did find the fact that there are words -- like "selah" -- which we don't actually know the meaning of to be interesting though, and, of course, seeing names and the sources for references I've encountered in other media was also interesting. (e.g. the title "Malachi" of the last book of the Old Testament jumped out at me because of Futurama even though the book itself didn't leave a strong impression when I read it.)

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  • It's an imitation xkcd -- from here.

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    What were you doing at 18?

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  • I thought I wanted to be a game developer back then and was making a bunch of hobby projects with Game Maker, had taught myself C++ (to a mediocre level), was writing (not very good) music, and generally burning myself the fuck out. -.-

    The programming turned into a career (not in gamedev though). Everything else turned into an anxiety disorder.

  • Nobody has ever lit a cigarette because of happiness. Smoking is a anxiety-coping mechanism.

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  • Ah. Now I see why they had so many meals...

  • TIL the bible is copyrighted

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  • Indeed -- it is out of copyright. KJV is available for free here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10 (among other places)

    I've read it cover-to-cover (excepting some parts like the census results in Numbers that I skimmed) despite not being a Christian. It is a rather challenging read.

  • Your Kitty Order Has Arrived! Do You Prefer Xtra Large Or Xtra Smol? 😻😹😺🐾📦📬

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  • I'm a kitty cat

    and I have a

    box box box

    in my

    box box box 🎶️

  • Please draw me a spaniel dancing ballet in a full tutu

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  • What technologies were ubiquitous ten years ago and are much less common now?

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  • Adding onto this: 3D TVs

  • TIL - the Alt-Right is obsessed with Roman Memes

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  • Really?

    No. The link is to a ~6 year old advertisement. The author interviewed was using weird American culture war bullshit from 2019 to try to get you to buy their book.

    Nuts to that. History belongs to all of us, and anyone can poke fun at the Romans if they want to.

  • Running Windows 10 on a spare drive, only for games. How dangerous is it to not get security updates?

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  • Any clocks that aren't synchronized periodically will diverge... but I honestly have no idea why the clocks in computers drift as quickly as they do.

  • What do you get recognised for on Lemmy?

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  • To be clear, I didn't make the community! I just make a lot of silly drawings in response to posts... :3

  • Draw your first or favourite starter pokemon FROM MEMORY muhahah

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  • I started with Japanese Yellow Version

  • Draw me a potat

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  • You're in luck. There's just one left!

  • A cat wearing an eyepatch

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  • I was feeling extra silly, so here's pirate cat having an adventure!