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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.

  • [REWORDING MY OLD POST ON THE LEMMY. ML ONE] Places to post my vocaloid songs without getting my data sold?

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  • You can upload basically whatever to catbox.moe as long as it's <200MB. You don't need to register. Just upload the file and post links to your work on lemmy.

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    [Discussion] What is the best anime with 18+ rating you've seen?

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  • Yeah. I expect it was probably some licensing bullshit like either they couldn't get the rights again for the re-release or it cost to much to get them, but I don't know why they did it specifically. It irked me when I realized they'd changed it though.

  • Where would you live if money and/or visa requirements weren't an issue?

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  • If we're including borderline fantasy options, a private Zeppelin might be neat...

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    [Discussion] What is the best anime with 18+ rating you've seen?

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  • They changed the intro song when it was released on DVD. When the show was originally airing, the intro was "Girls on Film"　(グラビアの美少女) by Duran Duran; the version on my official (Funimation) DVD copy has "Shutter Speed" instead though which is much less memorable.

  • Can kids under 10 be possibly taught coding, without even mentioning the word syntax to them ??🤔🤔🤔

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  • When I was a kid, we had a class on Logo in, I think, 4th grade? (It was either that or 5th grade.) It wasn't particularly hard to make various geometric drawings with it, but it also wasn't clear how to use it to do anything beyond that.

    I used to tinker with Visual Basic on the school's computer lab at recess sometimes around then. One of the people who ran the lab showed me just enough to try to make a calculator UI (e.g. push number buttons and have it add numbers to the display) but didn't really explain the principles enough for me to get further than that. (I think he loaned me a book on BASIC that I tried to read on the school bus, but I couldn't get very far with it at that age.) I ran into a macro virus back then as well, and I was able to understand the logic for erasing files on a particular date when it was pointed out, but I wasn't able to make something like that or analyze it myself at that age.

    I also tinkered with HyperCard and some other creative software at home at around that age. I did not understand HyperTalk but could do a few simple things. I also stumbled into AppleScript but didn't understand it. I think I recorded macros with it, and tried to modify what it spat out without much success. I remember running into something about timezone conversion that was really cryptic to me as a kid -- that might have been the first time I encountered the term "GMT"? There's a lot of little things like that which will trip up a young beginner...

    I think I also checked out a book on Java from the library that had a CD-ROM with the compiler on it somewhere in that 4th~6th grade age range (don't remember more specifically when) -- I was definitely too young to for that. I was able to install the software, type in a program from the book, and make it run but I wasn't able to do anything beyond that with it and it was too tedious for me to persevere through the cryptic parts when I was that young.

    Somewhere around 5th ~ 6th grade I found Game Maker and taught myself that by tinkering with the sample games. For example, by making alternative level layouts for the Pac-Man clone and adding in some simple things like one-way teleporters. I used the drag and drop interface at that age with one of the really early versions before the 4.0 UI re-design -- it was a lot more approachable as a beginner, IMO, before that redesign. (With the changes it was better for me as a hobbyist as I got older though.) I eventually taught myself how to use its scripting language through a mixture of reading the manual and trial-and-error. The manual didn't explain the basics of programming very well, but the reference documentation for it was easy enough to understand that once I got a handle on the basics I could do a lot with it. I'm not sure how old I was when I got a good handle on it. Maybe 7th or 8th grade? I was able to make some fairly complex things from scratch by 9th grade and taught myself C++ in high school.

    I definitely could've learned a lot more conceptually earlier if I'd had more direct mentoring from someone who could code; I had to figure out a lot by trial and error. My knowledge of math, reading ability, etc. limited my ability to self-teach from books. People around me were also rarely able to answer questions when I hit something above my expected grade level (e.g. I remember asking what "sigma" meant to a math teacher in 7th grade after encountering it in a book and she didn't really understand my question and told me it was another variable like x instead of recognizing that I was asking about summations but didn't know that word yet... I eventually made the connection between it and for loops but I could've understood it then if I'd had the vocabulary to ask the right questions or had the sample text handy when I asked...) In retrospect, I'm surprised at how bad my teachers in high school were when I tried to get help with figuring out how to move things in circles in a game I was writing -- that was all just basic trig.

    I guess to summarize: if they're motivated, yeah, you can get a surprisingly long way very young.

  • Has Trick-or-Treating died in your area, and what is to blame?

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  • No kids Trick-of-Treating showed up at my door yesterday, but holy shit it was loud outside. People (adults) were lining up stretching around the block to get into some event, I guess, in an adjacent building. Lots of yelling / very loud talking, honking, etc. Bunch of police sirens at like 3am or so. Some Friday nights are kind of like that normally around here, but this one was extra rowdy.

    Downtown area of a city on the US West Coast.

  • A chicken pot pie is a quiche with very mature eggs

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  • A breakfast burrito is kind of like a quick quiche. 🤔️

  • This Monster Wants to Eat Me Updated Key Visual

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  • So... is this a metaphorical kind of eating, or are we getting a vore anime?

  • What is a good self-hosted solution for sharing files with friends?

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  • Just run a web server and expose the specific files you want to share through that?

  • An in-space construction firm says it can help build massive data centers in orbit

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  • The high radiation environment and the challenge of doing common maintenance tasks (e.g. disk replacement) seem prohibitively difficult as well...

  • YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice

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  • Yeah, it's not a great idea to leave it out for hours and hours; I usually portion and freeze a half hour or so after cooking -- it's usually cooled off enough that I can handle it by then.

  • YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice

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  • Cooked plain rice freezes well too. I cook a big batch and use a small bowl to split it into individual portions. I wrap those in a little plastic wrap, and freeze it. ~2 mins in the microwave (reusing the wrap as a cover for the bowl) and I've got almost-as-good-as-fresh rice.

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    Linux users, what are you doing on your laptop?

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  • No; the calculation is using bytes not bits, so 3 is correct. (24 would be correct if it were bits.)

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    Linux users, what are you doing on your laptop?

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  • Been a long time since I've used a laptop, but usually when I've got a terminal open I'm doing something with Python these days. Often I just use it interactively as a calculator with some nice extra features. (I have some libraries like humanize installed in a local environment that I fire up frequently for quick tasks. That library can turn a number of bytes or seconds into easily readable approximations -- e.g. humanize.naturalsize(1920*1080*3*60) spits out 373.2 MB for the size of 60 frames of uncompressed HD video.) I also have a bunch of custom scripts for various things -- like a trivial spellchecker, custom image viewers, tools for converting timestamps between formats I use frequently, etc. Occasionally, I'm checking the load on a system with tools like htop, or logged into a remote system with ssh to fix something, running a long download with wget (or other tools), or re-encoding a video with particular settings using ffmpeg. Rarely I'm searching through my files with grep or other tools.

  • Anime Questions, Recommendations, and Discussion Thread [2025, Week 44]

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  • Did you watch all of Endless 8? (Kyon-kun denwa!)

  • Whats the worst game mechanic?

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  • Insert real world money to continue/for advantage. Whether it's modern FTP with MTX or old school quarter eaters, it's poison to games.

  • Guess the show name

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  • I recognize the Richie Rich cartoon on the top right. Don't know the others.

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

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  • I am stuck on the last few required bosses; I've been stuck so long I've just done almost everything else possible in the game... 🙃️

    Act 3 is hard.

  • Why are people using the "þ" character?

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  • Yeah; @Sxan@piefed.zip uses þ a lot to mess with people trying to train LLMs off the Fediverse, IIRC, but I don't think I've seen anyone else using it regularly.