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e0qdk

@ e0qdk @reddthat.com

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Interests: programming, video games, anime, music composition

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

  • Are there video media (e.g TV shows, Movies, anime, video games, youtube videos, etc...) with a majority of the dialogue in an fictional language?

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  • The Expression Amrilato is a VN that's mostly in Juliamo (i.e. Esperanto with some modifications like a custom alphabet). It's mostly an Esperanto tutorial though with an isekai yuri plot.

    Disney's Atlantis had a custom conlang specifically made for it, but IIRC the dialogue was mostly in English still.

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

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  • If it doesn't connect to the internet, it should be able to just keep doing what it's doing indefinitely. You will eventually get a significant amount of clock drift if it can't update the time from the network but you can manually set the time once in a while to fix that.

  • Documenting the descent into madness

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  • These days people usually just call it a "cluster" w/o reference to the Beowulf system from the 90s.

    The amount of compute you can fit in a single box w/o having to deal with distributed systems BS is kind of insane now though. You probably don't need a cluster to do a lot of things you would've needed one for in the past -- a single computer is often already good enough and way simpler to manage...

  • I still haven't forgotten that scene

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  • We are not reading old public domain books because it's not profitable

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  • You might not be, but I am. I'm currently reading The Count of Monte Cristo, and have read a bunch of other titles from Project Gutenberg over the last few years.

    I think I remember seeing that someone was running a group reading of Dracula in one of the vampire communities a while back, so I'm not alone even if I am perhaps in the minority.

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 42]

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  • I can't think of any other shows that deal with time travel off the top of my head, but if you want some more serious sci-fi flavored shows, maybe try Ghost in the Shell?

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 42]

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  • Steins;Gate has a particular kind of humor. My gut feeling is that if you're bothered by anime humor in general in other shows you probably won't like it, but I don't know your specific tastes.

  • You're going on a road trip! What's the first place you wanna hit up and why?

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  • The bathroom. Better to go before you go!

  • A well educated frog

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  • Just got my first FPGA in the mail any tips or book recommendations?

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  • It's been a decade plus since I touched that stuff. (I worked with Xilinx and Altera FPGAs for a couple of digital logic classes back in college as a CS undergrad.) My memory of writing Verilog is a lot of dealing with the manufacturer's clunky IDEs to type in code, compile it to something that could be either simulated or loaded on the device, and a bunch of poking around at waveform diagrams in the software to try to debug my mistakes. I did not have a very good grasp on the physical structure of the FPGAs we were using, but was still able to program the devices successfully in a class. We did need to specify information about particular pins that we needed our logic to hook up to correctly. The compiler did the hard work of figuring out what actually needed to go where (and consequently ensuring a bunch of constraints implied by the logic are actually met about signal propagation timing). I'd expect the compiler to bitch at you if you ask it to try to synthesize something that ends up being too big to fit onto your target.

    Contemporary Logic Design by Katz and Borriello was the textbook we used.

  • I Wanna Be The Guy: The Movie: The Game, hardest game I ever played

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  • It had it when I became aware of it a decade+ ago; it's not new, at least.

  • If you lose your memories, are "you" dead? If a close relative/friend lose their memories, are they still "your relative/friend"? What the hell even is memory? How sentimental are you about memories?

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  • This was my grandfather's axe; the head's been replaced twice and the handle three times since he owned it.

    It's the same pizza we had last week. / Eww! Shouldn't you have gotten rid of it by now? / No -- I mean, it's just got the same toppings! We ordered it last night!

    If you could swap memories with another person, which body is "you"? Well, that depends on what the meaning of the word is is... Mr. President.

    An annoying amount of philosophy "problems" are really just equivocation about different kinds of equivalence.

    These ramblings brought to you from my aging -- though not yet lost -- memories of long hours of procrastination during my sophomore year in college...

  • kurtjmac has reached the Far Lands!

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  • What is lunch like in exclusive private schools for rich kids?

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  • I went to a lot of different schools growing up. Some of them were not-very-well-funded public schools, but others were international schools for expats and private US schools -- some of which might qualify. Most of the schools I went to had a cafeteria with a typical "go through the line with a tray and get whatever they cooked that day in bulk" kind of system. Some of them also had a store where you could buy snacks, prepackaged sandwiches, and such. I remember bringing lunch from home a lot -- either sandwiches or leftovers from dinner the previous night, usually. One of the schools was so small it didn't even have a real cafeteria for us and all the students (6th~8th grade in the US system) brought lunch from home and ate on fold up chairs in the multi-purpose room every day. I also went to a boarding school for a couple years. That one had a cafeteria system too -- but the students were pressed into working on a rotation schedule (wiping down tables, cleaning dishes, and such -- I don't remember preparing any of the food). I don't recall anything particularly outstanding one way or the other about the regular lunches there, but that one had periodic formal dinners (once a month or so, IIRC) where I had to get dressed up (e.g. put on a tie) and they broke us up into small groups of students and teachers. I remember those being stressful, but also having better than average food.

  • I've been alive for the entire narrative of the internet and it's crazy to think any of the newer generations will be able to sort it all out for themselves.

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  • The internet is a testament to the power of applied interpretive dance; it wouldn't be anything like it is today without those Al Gore Rhythms!

  • YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save any page into a single HTML file.

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  • This takes a snapshot of the HTML elements from when they were loaded in your browser. If the page loads content dynamically, HTTrack won't save it but this can. (i.e. this works better on crappy modern sites that need JS to even just load the article text...)

  • YSK: there's a browser extension called "SingleFile", which allows you to save any page into a single HTML file.

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  • It stores the actual HTML structure and assets, so you can still view the page as it was more-or-less intended instead of it getting split up across print pages.

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong devs address difficulty concerns: “You have choices”

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  • Hollow Knight: Silksong devs address difficulty concerns: “You have choices”

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  • Huh. Maybe I'm just too early in the game still (despite having put 10+ hours into it) but crafting materials are like, the one thing I'm not hurting for. It's got the Zelda rupee problem for me, at least at this point in the game -- I'm constantly pegged at the max capacity, and it feels like I have basically nothing to use it on. (I mean, I do use the tools I have found so far, situationally, but I don't think I've been down by more than ~100 or so from max other than for that one wish in the starting area.)

    Edit: Ok, I'm a bit further in now, and I see what people mean... -.-