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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.

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  • Most games have trophies designed by some corporate drone and consist of a handful of trophies giving for completing the storyline and the rest for token actions that you’ll inevitably do while playing.

    Those are basically just publicly accessible analytics for how far people typically get in a game.

  • Searching for a smooth function that goes from flat zero to exponential growth

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  • Thanks for the links. This is outside the area of math I usually deal with, but I agree it's interesting. I think I understand what you're asking for now, but I've hit my mental limit for today trying to work it out. Good luck in your search!

  • Searching for a smooth function that goes from flat zero to exponential growth

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  • all the derivatives start from zero and then grow smoothly.

    I think you need to have a discontinuity in a derivative at some level to have a function like this where the lower derivatives grow smoothly. If you have zero at all levels and no discontinuities... nothing should ever change, right?

  • In case you were having a hard time pronouncing Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg, Lake

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  • Some other classics:

  • Mount an ISO in Linux?

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  • As others have noted, you can use the mount command from the terminal. On Mint, you should also be able to use the Disks utility that ships with the OS if you'd prefer to use a GUI.

  • A community for the most traumatic superhero story

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  • I gave up on it on the first real chapter because Wildbow was still repeating the extremely obnoxious pattern of withholding critical information for understanding the significance of a scene -- like who the fuck the primary characters in a scene actually are -- until the end of a chapter. He started doing that heavily in Pact, IIRC.

    It's 7600+ words in Daybreak 1.1 before the main character provides their own name! 15+ 8.5x11 pages at ~12pt font of being coy about who the protagonist is!

    Maybe someone took Wildbow by the shoulders after that and shook him and said "STOP DOING THAT, THAT'S OBNOXIOUS!" and it gets better -- I don't know; he lost me as a reader with that chapter.

  • There is a cat on e5, what do I do in this position? (I'm white)

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  • You either let loose the rats and try to get the cat to chase them off the board (Rat's Gambit) or unchain the dog (Dog's Defense).

  • What do computer scientists actually do?

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  • Computer Science is basically just a Frankenstein amalgamation of interconnected subjects related to computers that have been useful for universities to lump together for teaching and/or funding purposes. I have a Bachelor's degree in it. Most of the courses were split between either more "theoretical" / math-y courses on discrete math, probability, "Theory of Computation", etc. (where we were mostly solving math problems/writing proofs) or practical programming courses on things like "Intro to Java", "Debugging", and "Software Engineering Best Practices", etc. (where we were mostly writing programs). Some met in the middle -- e.g. Algorithms, which got into things like graph theory and complexity classes while also requiring us to write programs. The traditional "hard" courses also included compilers and operating systems where we were supposed to learn enough to build at least toy versions of both. I also had digital logic courses that got into to the boundary between programming and electrical engineering (but without going too deeply into how electronics physically works or is manufactured) -- e.g. covering logic gates, state machines, the design (but not physical implementation) of CPUs, Verilog, etc.

    Basically a "computer scientist" is someone who does something academically interesting about/with computers -- either on the mathematics of what can be computed, or on the practical applications of computer technology. Most people who study it go on to become professional programmers rather than academics though.

  • Linux Mint Taskbar (panel) on left, rather than bottom?

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  • Glad I could help. Enjoy!

  • Linux Mint Taskbar (panel) on left, rather than bottom?

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  • Mint doesn't have that option to move it to the left.

    Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you're asking for, but can't you put it on the left by right-clicking on the panel, clicking "move", and then clicking the left side of the screen? (I put my panel on the top instead of the bottom that way.)

  • Linux Mint 22.3 “Zena” released!

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  • Not really a fan of the new menu. Thankfully, it's pretty easy to install the Classic Menu applet instead.

    The update also broke my IME setup for Japanese. I can get it added back by going into panel edit mode, then right click on EN -> manage keyboard layouts and edit from there, but the Super-Space shortcut I had set before no longer works and that's going to take some debugging to figure out... It's still listed -- just doesn't actually do it any more. (Shift-Super-Space works though!?)

    Other than that, seems to be working OK for me so far post-update.

    Edit: Apparently the shortcut was bound to both switch to next layout and change input language; setting it to just use "switch to next layout" fixed it.

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    Flowers nut on unsuspecting bees

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  • Bee-kake

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2026, Week 03]

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  • So, I dug back into physical media a bit at the end of the year and managed to scrounge up some copies of older works that I either hadn't seen or where my copy had issues (like parts of a few episodes skipping due to physical defects on the discs).

    One of those I haven't seen before is To-LOVE-Ru. I don't know how the hell I never realized this -- having seen it pop up in fanart and such for a decade or so... -- but the name とらぶる is obviously a transliteration of "trouble" into Japanese. So far, the writing is wonderfully stupid; I'm not expecting much out of this in the story department, but a lighthearted distraction from our extremely depressing reality is not unwelcome right now... I've heard the show described as "thinly veiled hentai" before, but even with that description I was still a bit surprised they actually put unobscured female nipples in the first episode. This kind of episodic ecchi harem comedy isn't something I find bingeable, so I'll probably be chipping away at it episode by episode for a while when I'm in the right mood for it. Hopefully I get a few good reaction shots out of it.

    For upcoming releases, I am planning to watch S2 of Frieren, but given that that's the kind of thing I expect I'd rather want to binge, I will probably be waiting towards the end of the season to start it.

  • Is this the world's biggest owl gathering? During winter nearly 1,000 owls descend onto a tiny Serbian town centre – and at night it's party time

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  • Ah, sounds like a real hootenanny.

  • Quite

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  • Mewstache

  • Blu-ray hits 20 years old, and it isn't dead yet — optical disc format was introduced to the public at CES 2006

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  • Today I have no idea why one would buy a DVD over a BD

    Having bought multiple DVDs (in combo packs with Blu-Ray) in the past year, it's because, unlike Blu-Ray, they actually fucking play reliably on my computer. Blu-Ray is about 50/50 IME. (Entirely the fault of the DRM -- not the physical material.)

  • "My dumb ass thought my full body 3D tracking wouldn't work if I left the room to go pee."

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  • What kind of tracking system are they using?

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Thanks. I finally managed to get him this morning! Just barely won though. 23 HP left, Estus flask empty and used an Ember for healing late in the fight... One Ashen flask left. Used the Pestilent Mist strategy in combination with Sunlight Spears and Tears of Denial (which triggered twice, I think, during the fight) -- cast using Crystal Chime+5 and unequipped my sword to stay under the 70% weight threshold. 8 Estus / 7 Ashen Estus split. SL143. Ring of the Sun's First Born, Morne's Ring, Sage Ring, Estus Ring. Dragoncrest shield (for fire defense) + Crest shield (for Dark defense) that I meant to switch to for the second phase, but didn't. Armor was a random collection of whatever seemed like it might help -- most significant piece was the Winged Knight Armor; I look really goofy. Started game as Deprived and played early game as Dex fighter before switching to mostly pyromancy mid-game. Highest stat is currently 40 Faith -- I did some grinding to get there from 35 to free up a ring slot for an earlier strategy that didn't work. (The 3 guys who drop down on top of the Archive are worth about ~21K souls each with my best grinding gear equipped and are vulnerable to Rapport -- best grinding location I've found so far.)

    I'm sure the guys who live and breath this game will be like "Lol, git gud scrub" but it's my first playthrough and I'm just happy I managed to pull it off at all. :p

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Still getting my butt kicked by Dark Souls 3. The end is in sight though. I've already beaten the final boss of the base game, but I'm going through the DLCs. Finished Ashes, but still stuck on the M. boss fight in the Ringed City DLC. (I'm too stubborn to just skip it -- or, well, I have been so far, at least...)

    Edit: I did it! Finally beat DS3!

  • NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux

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  • I have a 1050 Ti running the 580 driver under Linux Mint; it works fine.