Deestan

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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No matter what, you are still you.

A diagnosis, or a professionally assessed lack of one, can only help you understand better.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

You kick at empty space. Dumb move! You strain a muscle.

You kicked a doorway with an open door, a broken door, or no door.

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Door#Messages_about_kicking_a_door

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

A frequent frustration is recursive guilt-by-association.

"Yeah so okay we do align on everything however you refuse to denounce your friend who didn't really do anything but he is a fan of a controversial figure who also didn't really say or do much but they are friends with a bad person so... Get lost?"

Another is translation based on the assumption that one's assumptions are universal.

"You said you think Terry Davis was a technical genius for his OS. Honestly his work is nothing compared to a modern OS. I think so so therefore you must think so, and so you must mean something else. What you are really praising is his extremist christianity."

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Europe. Technically meat eater but not an "identity" and generally prefer veggie.

This rule makes no intuitive sense, or factual sense. It sounds like one of those US-specific things that have spread through "everyone knows" like the 3 second rule.

We have other nonsense rules here, basically.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Yeah that was kinda my point :) A cloud controlled device from a tech giant is supposed to ~~shit on the floor~~ start doing ads and invade your privacy. It's what they do. Like ponies pooping, you should expect it on purchase.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 209 points 4 days ago (4 children)

My pet pony keeps shitting on the floor.

I am very frustrated and did not expect it.

I should sell it off and buy a horse instead.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you are not willing to listen, don't pretend to ask questions.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Not quite like that. There is an internal wifi that I can't get onto, and a public "guest" wifi that half of the tech staff uses and VPNs from.

Basically the protected wifi only really works on locked-down windows machines, and those aren't usable for most developers. It's mostly mac and linux there, and while the protected wifi is supposed to work on those, the IT staff don't know how.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Well, I do. But it's because the security layers on the wifi are more strict than on the VPN to such a degree that I can't actually connect to it from my work laptop.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Ah, sorry this is me being actually stupid. I was looking up normal drives. My apologies.

Yeah we'd have to filter this a bit.

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

A backup can mean many things. One interpretation is as text files, which works.

Edit: actually any "backup" will work as long as the compression is pre-2002-era. After that it's something I could work out with a hex editor worst case.

Text content of wikipedia is 24GB compressed.

USB drives in 2002 could hold up to 256GB.

This isnt hard man

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

I can mount an old drive made in 2002 right now, formatted in a 2002 era format, and put text files on it, compressed with tar and gz from 1990 if need be.

I assume that is the hardware we have to work with in this scenario.

 

Current LLM-in-coding trends keep bringing this post up in my head.

I see a lot of the mentioned "King David fetish" in companies trying to cut salary costs by using more AI tools.

Like, the idea that you can make something worthwhile without strong skill, by just adding enough mediocrity to make up for it.

 

Played it on Commodore 64. It was a space rocket/shuttle sim where you launched into space on a rocket amd progressed through some minigame-tasks.

(I am fairly certain it was not a good or widespread game.)

One of the tasks was about grabbing a satellite using an arm or a cable. You would try to extend it pixel by pixel to grab the satellite and it was super finicky. I only ever managed it by luck.

I try Google every few years and can't get anywhere. Tried stuff with spacey names in emulators and looking on youtube. List of close-ish games it was not:

  • Project Space Station
  • Space Shuttle - A Journey Into Space (but this has really close vibes)
  • Space Shuttle Challenger
  • Apollo 18 Mission To The Moon
  • Samantha Fox Strip Poker (i mean it could have been - had to check)
 

Orbital Potato is one of my favorite channels to keep up on management/factory/strategy games. He usually covers one game at a time and tons more of them than I can keep up with, so I was happy to see which ones turned out to be favorites. :)

Cataclismo I have played, and its honking brilliant, but the others are new to me.

Rogue Command and Diplomacy is Not an Option look really interesting.

 
  • Saturday: Event in town, with small kids, socializing
  • Sunday: Teambuilding event
  • Monday: Work strategy meeting
  • Tuesday: Held a presentation and socialized
  • Wednesday: Work strategy meeting
  • Thursday: Course w/group sessions, parents over for dinner
  • Friday: Work event, work event
  • Saturday: Museum trip, family visit

Throughout the week, slow buildup of joint pain, feverish feeling, lack of appetite, swollen throat, buzzing head, torpor, lack of focus. Today I am just broken.

These are all (for me) normal physical reactions to overextending myself socially or spending time in sensory intense environments for any amount of time. They are also symptons I would get if I caught the head cold that is going around.

It feels extremely silly that I have literally zero idea if I have a cold or not.

Anyway, treatment is same either way: Take it easy for a while. Mostly wanted to share my frustrating confusion and maybe hear if others have similar experiences and how they manage. :)

 

This is part strong recommendation and part wanting to know thoughts of others who have read it. :)

Fern Brady is a scottish comedian who grew up with undiagnosed autism in a very catholic small town.

It's a brutally honest and personal story, and she manages to write everything in a way that I found captivating. She can describe situations of absolute torture in a way that makes them seem both heartbreaking, and almost funny in their absurdity. Like a scene where she got recommended an app to help her with meltdowns and describes how she is crying and punching her fist bloody against her living room wall, while with her other hand opening an app and seeing suggestions like "think of a puppy!", "count to ten and think of the last nice thing you ate!"

For me, the description of a years long struggle to push through a medical system with little and outdated understanding of autism resonnated deeply.

 

Space trains yesss

 
 
 

This reminded me of myself age 8-9 when I would get stressed if I didn't "undo" any rotations of my body, or rounds around a table. Quite to the annoyance of my teachers and parents. Did anyone else have a phase similar to this?

 

This popped up for me today, and I realized is very close to how I manage to trick myself to get things done even when it feels like my body's parking brake is on.

To me it feels like just "building momentum" in any way helps. If I'm in working mode, it's easier to pick up a cleaning task than if I'm in sofa mode. Sometimes just cleaning some lint from the table is enough to get the ball rolling.

Does anyone else have this, or similar techniques?

 

This was the last Cold Take that Frost made for The Escapist/Gamur. After being stuck a few weeks due to nobody left at The Escapist knowing how and where to publish already finished videos, they released it and a few others today.

For those who followed the recent Escapist news, this episode appears inadvertently prescient.

Note that he still continues the series on https://www.youtube.com/@SecondWindGroup

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