Gumus

@Gumus@lemmy.world
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The original Peggle. There's a free APK available on speedrun.com. Works flawlessly even on modern Android.

https://www.speedrun.com/peggle_deluxe/resources/ehelq

I hate using Excel for this reason. ALMOST all functions are translated, so you're never sure what to look for. If you find a solution for a problem online? Doesn't work, you'd have to rewrite it in your language. And you can't even switch the language in settings, because it's tied to the OS language (maybe you can in recent versions, haven't bothered to check for a while).

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I collect unfinished projects.

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/06/guests-bored-ape-event-hong-kong-vision-problems

It was a Bored Ape event "ApeFest' in November. They used harmful UV bulbs instead of regular black light for decoration.

There's OSTRAJava, a parody esoteric language based on a very specific regional accent of the Czech language.

Switch-statement (called match) was added to Python 3.10 in late 2021. This is a reasonable, albeit older style of enumerated branching.

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I know it's not a good advice, but having something very serious happen in your life might shift your perspective. In my case, getting (through) cancer made me realize it's not worth stressing for stupid little things and greatly deepened my stoicism.

I took up online tutoring and teaching programming for kids. It has great benefits:

  • It's an hour or so after work, it has a fixed schedule so it forces me to clock out
  • it makes me focus hard so I completely forget about work
  • it pays for itself (not my corporate day-job rate, but I'm not doing it for free)
  • I can try out languages and tech I'd normally wouldn't be able to in my day job, or I'd have to invest my free time for a side project
  • I have a background in teaching... I like it, it's fun and refreshing
  • I've helped many kids jump start their interest in programming even in families that know nothing about tech at all. I've helped a few of them to get accepted to the school they wanted to and pursue a career in programming

All in all, teaching after work makes for a great hobby and a strong barrier for my day job so I don't find myself working late anymore.

A lot of people voted for Brexit just to see what happens (because they actually didn't believe it would go through). Look at how that worked for them...

Video games: A promising tool for inducing anxiety and depression

How's that ruined? That's epic!

AFAIK the black hole in Interstellar is considered a fairly realistic representation (not SA* specifically though).

They even published a paper on it.

Judging from the photo at least Intex seems to be doing quite well.

You know you can configure to not autoskip those segments, right? You can always skip manually, if it's that kind of video.

That's just a charity...

You don't need root for ReVanced. It can patch an APK from storage.

I highly recommend PowerToys Run (something like Mac's Spotlight) with Everything plugin (better search).

I've been using that as a ringtone ever since Orange Box came out

Teaching programming for kids, 3D printing, photography, playing the saxophone, gaming (pretty much exclusively coop), playing board games.

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Give phind.com a try. It can be set as your default search provider (manually or with a plugin), so you can just type in the search bar.

Getting a used mid-range printer is quite affordable. Or try looking for your local maker space, so you don't have to buy your own. It's never been easier to get into 3D printing than today.

Also, it's quite easy to sell custom 3D prints. Thus it's not that hard to cover the cost of materials (or even the printer itself).

I'm a developer, so that's a bonus for me. However, it's just ChatGPT with access to search, you can use it for anything, not just code. I tends to produce scripts rather than guides when you ask how to do something, but if you get used to it, it's just a matter of phrasing your query the right way. I don't know of any other similar service - other than Bing - that can search on web and crunch the results for you. And I find Phind to be much more reliable than Bing.

I didn't, but now I do. Thanks, I guess.

I'm gonna just leave this link to the official speedrun.com asset page that may or may not have a freely available Android APK of the original Peggle Deluxe that works on modern devices.

The requirement for Recall is a neural coprocessor with substantial performance, specifically to be able to run the model locally.

This. Youtube is getting progressively more annoying (my train to switch on PC), but what pushed me was Dark Reader on mobile.

I'm using Phind. It's presumably using Google search, but it skips all the bloat and ads, skips clicking through the links one by one, and rummaging through articles full of more ads and annoying popups. Then it summarizes everything with sources, if I ever need to go to the page directly (which I mostly don't need to). And it supports bangs for Google and DDG, if you need to go old-school.

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The heat death of the universe is technically a deadline, right?

The brain also named itself (along with everything else)

Why not use winget or chocolatey instead? They allow for auto updates and have much wider library. Winget can even pull from msstore if necessary. There's even a convenient WingetUI that consolidates them and others (winget, choco, scoop, npm, .net, pip, etc.) to a single app manager.

It will have an addon that binds it to your household. It comes in a form of a gold ring and costs half your money.

I assume it's generated or photoshopped. A proper D6 has opposing sides that sum to 7. Thus you should never be able to see 3 and 4 or 1 and 6 at the same time.

I worked in China for a couple years on a banking app for lending money. The middle class in large cities over there was interested only in social status. They would happily borrow insane amounts for the newest phones and biggest cars, when they couldn't afford a dinner for their kids. I know that what we did was predatory and exploitative, and on a scale unimaginable on European markets. Our marketing predicted a collapse of the target social class in 5-7 years... That was 4 years ago.

I'm certain other (western) markets experience similar progression - and exploits.

Homeopathy was developed and thriving in an era when "do nothing" was better for the patient than contemporary accepted treatments.

SAO / Matrix level immersive VR

I have great news for you: check out Ferdium.

Hi, I found the game giveaway post. I'd love to give Super Cable Guy a try with my friend. Thanks for the giveaway!

Oh but it is

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