Thorry84

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[–] Thorry84 5 points 2 hours ago

The annoying thing is, a lot of modern battery protection circuits will brick themselves once they read a too low battery voltage. So not only will they not charge anymore, they will never charge, even with new cells. It's so dumb and meant to prevent 3rd party refurbished battery packs.

[–] Thorry84 1 points 5 hours ago

Yes, but that relies on reporting by the power plants themselves. Obviously that's not the most accurate thing.

Satellites offer an independent way to measure CO2 emissions not just from power plants but from all sources, all over the planet. So in that way it makes sense.

There are other ways to measure and those should be done as well, that way the data can be validated.

[–] Thorry84 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah it's so dumb, like we have amazing technology, yet the software is fucking terrible.

For example with most keyboard you can have a heat map of where you hit each button. So you can clearly see where the buttons should most comfortable be. However I've never seen any keyboard that could ever make use of that data to morph the shape of the buttons to my patterns. It seems so obvious, otherwise why collect that data?

Instead we keep making the same shitty keyboard over and over again. And big companies monitor all our keypresses because number must go up. And put dumb ass AI powered autocorrect that are trained on all data ever instead of my personal data. I swear that thing "corrects" the right word into the wrong word more often than the other way around.

Somehow touchscreens and keyboard have also gotten worse. I remember my old IPhone 4 I could type so fast without errors. And that screen was fucking tiny. Maybe I'm just too old but modern phones make my hands hurt and I still have errors all the damn time.

[–] Thorry84 28 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

And Trump wears those weird lift shoes all the time as well

[–] Thorry84 4 points 1 day ago

I hate that this is actually how the universe works, total BS.

[–] Thorry84 2 points 1 day ago

We are so cooked

[–] Thorry84 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sure but when you have space travel, its dead simple to get water. Just park up at any old moon or asteroid, a lot of them are almost all ice. Sure you need to filter and clean it, but that's the easy part. Replicators seem like the hard way to get water.

[–] Thorry84 10 points 2 days ago (5 children)

The Kazon also had big logical fallacies, they are somehow very technologically advanced, but have weird gaps in their knowledge. They have space travel, but clean water is an issue? How is that even possible?

And Voyager, one of the fastest ships ever made flies at ultra high warp, but is somehow months inside their territory? And not like there is just a lot of them, no, they were interacting with the same people all the time. Later this is explained by Voyager needing to stop all the time getting supplies, which meant their speed dropped down to a crawl, but that's a different issue. But the Kazon are season 1 when Voyager has plenty of supplies. So the Kazon, a backwards people, can somehow move people faster than Voyager?

[–] Thorry84 2 points 2 days ago

Legend has it he's still out there trying

[–] Thorry84 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks for helping anyways!

Its been driving me nuts not knowing what that game was called. Because I can still remember the sound clip so well.

And you'd think I was just insane and imagined the whole thing, but I played it with my brother and he remembers it as well.

[–] Thorry84 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

No it was definitely for DOS, it was on one of those shareware/freeware CDs.

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submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by Thorry84 to c/TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com
 

I've played a demo of this game or a Shareware version, I never had the full game. It was on one of those 1000 shareware games CDs. It's a top down racing game with a gritty sort of vibe, a bit dark. As you raced there were pickups and bonus items and I'm pretty sure you could fire weapons at other racers. It was a single player game. It was top down in that semi 3D kind of way, but I think the cars were meant as full sized cars, not a micro machines kind of thing.

The one unique feature that never let me pinpoint exactly what game it was, was this very specific sound effect when getting a certain pick up. A voice would say "Booster", but it was pronounced more like "Boostah".

There were jumps on the game and one way to kill other racers was to jump on top of them. I think the track had multiple routes you could take.

I think because of the shareware version I had I only had one track, which was kinda dark, like maybe a cave. And the surroundings were rocks. I think there were also thinks like oil barrels with fire in them and pretty lighting effects for the time.

Very similar to Death Rally, but maybe a game inspired by Death Rally? Because that game was earlier I think and doesn't have the distinct "Boostah" audio clip.

 

She died about 10 years ago. I love and have loved all the pets I've ever had, but Pyxel was something special. She was very headstrong and did whatever she felt like, getting pissed off if you did something she didn't like. But when she was in the mood she would be the sweetest thing in the world.

She was saved from the dumpster, along with her mother and brother. The mother had to be put down and a lot of the brothers and sisters didn't make it from being dumped in a trash bag. But Pyxel and her brother made it and we adopted them from the rescue when they were very young still.

I remember Pyxel sleeping for hours in my lap, or in the cat bed on my desk. When I was working from home, she slept in the cat bed, till she got fed up, went for a drink and a snack only to get back and jump in my lap because it was her time and she would let me know it.

Still miss her every day.

 
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/22643315

Rescued old CRT I put a lot of work in. Was totally dead when I got it, rescued it to be almost perfect again.

It still has an intermittent horizontal size issue and the power button has some cosmetic wear. But at least the power button works, it used to only work when you would hold it down.

Be sure to enable the audio for some good retro tunes coming from the monitor.

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Rescued old CRT (imgur.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Thorry84 to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
 

Rescued old CRT I put a lot of work in. Was totally dead when I got it, rescued it to be almost perfect again.

It still has an intermittent horizontal size issue and the power button has some cosmetic wear. But at least the power button works, it used to only work when you would hold it down.

Be sure to enable the audio for some good retro tunes coming from the monitor.

 

Serious question. I know there are a lot of memes about microservices, both advocating and against it. And jokes from devs who go and turn monoliths into microservices and then back again. For my line of work it isn't all that relevant, but a discussion I heard today made me wonder.

There were two camps in this discussion. One side said microservices are the future, all big companies are moving towards it, the entire industry is moving towards it. In their view, if it wasn't Mach architecture, it wasn't valid software. In their world both software they made themselves and software bought or licensed (SaaS) externally should be all microservices, api first, cloud-native and headless. The other camp said it was foolish to think this is actually what's happening in the industry and depending on where you look microservices are actually abandoned instead of moving towards. By demanding all software to be like this you are limiting what there is on offer. Furthermore the total cost of operation would be higher and connecting everything together in a coherent way is a nightmare. Instead of gaining flexibility, one can actually lose flexibility because changing interfaces could be very hard or even impossible with software not fully under your own control. They argued a lot of the benefits are only slight or even nonexistent and not required in the current age of day.

They asked what I thought and I had to confess I didn't really have an answer for them. I don't know what the industry is doing and I think whether or not to use microservices is highly dependent on the situation. I don't know if there is a universal answer.

Do you guys have any good thoughts on this? Are microservices the future, or just a fad which needs to be forgotten ASAP.

 
 

 
 
 
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