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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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  • "Colder than a witch's tits!", as some of my relatives are fond of saying.

  • If the eight planets of the Solar System were renamed, what do you think the new names should be?

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  • Yeah; I think so. When I got this file originally, I think it was from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Neptune_Voyager2_color_calibrated.png

    which says:

    Neptune on 1989-08-17, taken by NASA's Voyager 2 probe. This color image was composed of three frames, orange, green, and blue, taken by Voyager 2's imaging system. This color image has been calibrated to best represent Neptune's true color and appearance. Based on: (in English) Irwin, Patrick G J (2023-12-23). "Modelling the seasonal cycle of Uranus’s colour and magnitude, and comparison with Neptune". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 527 (4): 11521–11538. DOI:10.1093/mnras/stad3761. ISSN 0035-8711

    It looks like I re-compressed the version I posted with webp to reduce the file size for quicker viewing on lemmy -- so the colors in that are a little off from the PNG on Wikipedia, but are still closer than the classic enhanced color image.

  • If the eight planets of the Solar System were renamed, what do you think the new names should be?

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  • darkblue

    It's also light blue; pictures of it were just always published with exaggerated colors for a long time. It's actually more like this if you do better color calibration, apparently:

  • 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.

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  • Mewstache

  • 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.

  • What should I do with spare DDR3?

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  • I'm still using DDR3 in some of my systems, so there's probably someone out there who could make use of it -- finding them may be a challenge though.

  • 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...

  • 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?

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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.

  • 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.

  • Why ActivityPub over Nostr? - function only

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  • I haven't tried Nostr, so have no opinions on what the experience of actually using it is like, but cryptographic identity seems like it'd be a better way (technically speaking) of doing things than AP; tying everything to domain names has worked rather poorly -- as we've seen repeatedly every time an instance goes offline...

    I ended up on AP after jumping ship from reddit. I was on kbin first (since it was readable w/o JS and I liked the UI), and then later using the mlmym interface for lemmy as kbin because more unstable and eventually went offline.

  • How will Australia's ban on youth access to social media affect instances hosted in Australia?

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  • reddthat is an instance hosted in Australia; so the answer to "how will the ban affect it" is "we already have an age limit in place". That's my point.

  • How will Australia's ban on youth access to social media affect instances hosted in Australia?

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  • We discussed it in the community posts back in Dec 2024 when the law passed -- February is when the sign up change happened and March was when the announcement went up. The UK's bullshit may be what prompted the announcement happening then though.

  • How will Australia's ban on youth access to social media affect instances hosted in Australia?

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  • On reddthat, we got this notice in an announcement back in March 2025:

    Age Restriction

    Effective immediately everyone on Reddthat needs to be 18 years old and futher interaction on the platform confirms you are over the age of 18 and agree with these terms.

    If you are under the age of 18 you will need to delete your account under Settings

    This has also been outlined in our signup form that has been updated around the start of February.