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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.

  • Hummus but with Great Northern beans

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  • Hmm. I've been making refried beans recently with canned black beans, butter, salt, and cumin. I wonder how they'd come out if I seasoned them more like hummus instead...

  • My N64 game collection. Not the most expansive but it is a lot of fun.

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    • Star Fox 64
    • Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire
    • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
    • GoldenEye 007
    • Super Mario 64
    • Star Wars Episode I: Racer
    • Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
    • Perfect Dark

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  • Quentin Tarantino probably got into movie making after misunderstanding what "film footage" meant.

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  • If you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?

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  • In a lot of cases, the distinction doesn't really matter. If it does in a particular application, I'd probably prefer words to make the nuance clear -- but an arrow to cloud + arrow to disk/folder may be appropriate for some of the cases if an icon is required too.

    In GIMP 2.10 on my system, there's a small difference between Save and Save As's icons. I think they added a pen over the hard disk the arrow is pointing towards -- presumably to indicate re-labeling? The difference is just barely visually distinguishable on my screen though. There's also an Export option (which has no icon, despite it being something I use a fair bit more than many of the other File menu commands) and a "Send by Email..." option with pencil over some paper with lines on it (presumably lines of text that's too small to be distinct).

    xed on my system has an arrow pointing at a line for Save and an arrow with a line plus 3 dots over it for Save As. Only the Save icon is on the toolbar; the other is in the File menu. I've actually never noticed that distinction before, and if I weren't actively looking for save icons in the software I have installed right now, I don't know if I'd have ever noticed...

    LibreOffice still has a (very stylized) floppy disk on the toolbar for Save and no icons whatsoever in the file menu on my system.

    KolourPaint uses an arrow pointing into the drawer of a filing cabinet in the toolbar, and a much more squashed version of that in the File menu -- along with something additional (a partially filed in text box to indicate relabeling?) above the Save As variant in the File Menu.

    Not sure if I have any other software that I still use regularly which has a Save icon... (My browser just uses text without any icons for save from File menu or via right click menu.)

  • If you had to replace the floppy disk save symbol in software with a new symbol for saving what would you choose and why?

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  • Down arrow pointing to a line, box, folder, or similar. Icons like that are what I've seen most commonly in software that has an icon for saving over the last few years.

  • What was it like the first time you had to call 911?

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  • First time I recall ever having to call 911 for what I thought was an emergency was when I heard breaking glass followed by seeing smoke pouring out of an apartment complex across the street late at night. No alarms were going off, which was weird. I was in a bit of a mild panic when I called them, and blanked hard when they asked me for my phone number. They must have gotten it from caller ID fine though since they were able to call me back later -- but I felt really stupid to have blanked on that... By the time the fire truck got there, the smoke was already long gone. In retrospect, I should've recorded a clip with my phone -- but I wasn't expecting it to just go away. When I was called back, I went out and explained what I'd saw and pointed out the location. They couldn't find anything amiss, but after discussion concluded that what I'd probably seen was someone vaping (out of sight) in the (open air) hallway. They weren't sure what the glass was, but I found shards in the street the next day -- I think someone chucked a bottle into the middle of the road.

    I've had to call 911 a bunch of times since then ("911" shows up on 28 different days in my journal), including for myself twice to get to a hospital. The first time I had to call 911 for myself I couldn't find the keypad on my smartphone to enter "911" since it had gotten shuffled to somewhere I wasn't expecting in an update. I found it eventually, and thankfully the issue was just my first panic attack rather than an actual heart attack...

    Most of the rest of the times I've had to call were about traffic accidents (or sometimes for people who seemed to have lost touch with reality) while living in an apartment in a downtown area. Worst was when someone was not moving, covered in blood and lying in the middle of the road after a car crash. An ambulance came and took him away about as quick as you could hope for in such circumstances, but looking at him lying there... that guy was probably already dead. Police were out there for hours afterwards with tape blocking off the road and photographing the scene and everything.

  • Is this a cool idea for a story or video game?

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  • You can probably find a way to make it work as a setting, but you should try to come up with a plot if you want to tell a story. Who are your characters? What do they want? What's stopping them from getting what they want, and how do they deal with that? What will make the reader/player care about what happens to your characters in this post-apocalyptic setting?

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    AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open Source

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  • As another data point for you: it's not just piefed. I'm seeing no link over here from reddthat (lemmy) either -- just an image and body text (i.e. the TL;DR).

    What did mbin do with images and links?

  • Artists, art enthusiasts and mad scientists

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  • Hmm. I dabble in artistic programming. Would anyone be interested if I posted about stuff like how I implemented a pencil tool in my pixel editor, wrote an image stitcher, or made this trippy spiral animation occasionally? I'd probably be posting more on the mad science / math wizardry side of things if that is of interest (and in scope).

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    Apparently your hobbies becomes less interesting if you're forced to do them all the time? Who knew?

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  • OP has a ℂ now.

  • Fully immersed

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  • Yeah, that looks like Jolly Roger Bay.

  • In Mint-Cinnamon, is there a way to move the applications' menu bar to the top of the screen a-la MacOS and Ubuntu Netbook Edition? (Not the 'taskbar' panel.)

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  • I'm not aware of an already existing way to do that within Cinnamon, but you could try installing the Unity desktop instead (which is what Ubuntu was using back then). Canonical moved away from it in favor of GNOME some years ago, so it's languished, but I was running a version of it until I jumped ship to Mint and Cinnamon earlier this year; it's still possible to run it, though you might have to work around some breakage from limited maintenance.

    Staying within Cinnamon, you can move the panel up to the top and re-arrange/remove elements on it. I made a few tweaks like that to my set up since I was running Unity for so long. e.g. put the menu on the right with a different icon, etc. That was good enough for me, personally.

  • Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?

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  • Yes, and they're often used together.

    Celery is cold tolerant and can be grown/harvested in winter, IIRC. That might also be a factor in why it's prevalent in soups?

  • Why does everyone put celery in soup stock?

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  • What is your development environment?

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  • Linux Mint. No IDE -- I just use xed (a fork of gedit) + gnome-terminal, both of which ship with the distro. Only plugin I use regularly for xed is "Code Comment" which lets you comment/uncomment blocks of code quickly.

  • It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects

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  • My guess was that it was probably due to Hollywood, but some form of mass communication, almost certainly.

  • It's quite impressive that most English speakers across the world understand each other, despite variations in accents/dialects

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  • I had a roommate from Manchester (UK) for a couple months back in college. I'm American (US). He seemed to have no trouble understanding me, but I usually couldn't understand what he said without him repeating it multiple times.

  • Any good games I missed in the last 21 months?

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  • I haven't gotten around to playing either of them yet myself, but Nine Sols and Astro Bot also come to mind as titles that got a lot of attention.

  • Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names.

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  • Which sort of makes sense since the US has always had a huge agricultural / grain surplus.

    米国 is because of ateji, not agriculture. 米 is the second character of 亜米利加 -- an old transliteration of "a-me-ri-ka" as kanji. 亜 is the shorthand for Asia (亜細亜); the second character 米 is used as the shorthand for America. 米 is both the country (USA) and the continents -- e.g. 北米 and 南米 are sometimes used for North and South America, respectively, while 米軍 is the US military.

    Katakana has mostly replaced kanji transliteration of foreign words in modern Japanese, but some uses like the 米 shorthand persist.