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  • Because a well designed game does not include drudgery. "Work-simulators" focus on results and progress and gloss over many of the hours of outright boredom or physical exertion to get there.

    For example, truck driving simulator does not include the pain in the ass and boring part of loading or unloading the truck. Farming simulator does not include the painstaking process of removing rocks from the field.

    While I grew up on a farm, my first proper career was something called OBC seismic. What it is isn't as important as the fact that it involved placing a 6km long sensor cable on the seabed with a winch and position it properly. To do this right requires practice, and as the principle is farly easy I wrote a small simulator that our trainees could try out. At first they found it interesting, and even the seniors from other departments enjoyed toying with it. The biggest lack of realism was that it didn't involve doing it for 12 hours straight, only stopping to unscrew 25 meter sections and replacing them. Barring drudgery and repetitive boredom could've probably made it an interesting game similar to other work simulators.

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  • What was the last dumb phone you had before your first smartphone?
  • Sony Ericsson W810i. Got it in 2007, I think. When it started to die on me in late 2009 i replaced it with an iPhone 3G, which was my first apple phone. It was also my last apple phone as I hated how locked down everything was.

    EDIT: I just remembered I had a secondary dumbphone around 2012 or thereabouts. It was a dual SIM nokia of some sort that I used mainly as a backup phone in case my main ran out of battery while I was on the move.

  • Have you ever done something for yourself on your (job) company's infrastructure?
  • In 1999 when the entire town was on dialup, I set up this relatively small PC with FreeBSD 3.3 and eggdrop, and hid it in the school library. That way I had an IRC bot that worked while I was offline. After a while I also set it up to automatically grab files from FTP servers for me, but getting these out from the "server" offline was tricky due to 1.44MB floppies being the only removable storage I had available.

    Back then internet carried dialup charges per minute for me, so this was a huge time and money saver.

  • I have a spare lithium phone battery that got wet a couple months back- will it go boom if I try to use or charge it?
  • It's probably fine. The batteries don't care about moisture, as long as the pins don't get shorted or corroded.

    If they were wet enough to short, the symptoms are usually a completely dead battery or it seeming puffy, a.k.a. spicy pillow.

    You can measure the voltage with a voltmeter if you want to check. It should read around 3.5 to 4V, depending on charge.

    Source: I handle a lot of LiPo batteries at work.

  • Weird 10Gbe networking problems
  • I was thinking the same thing. Spanning tree is love. Spanning tree is life.....when deployed correctly.

    Alternatively I'm thinking noise, as I've seen that in 10gig connections a few times, which is why I prefer LC fiber where possible.

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  • Whenever I hear someone suggest "an algorithm" without elaborating further, I'm usually correct in presuming that it makes as much sense as "a wizard will use magic". The other times it's usually someone suggesting blockchain. Sometimes it's both.

    Or, hear me out, collaboration across networks. That's what lemmy does. And it's nothing new.

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    I want a proper mech keyboard, but I can't be arsed building one. What do I do?

    Specifications:

    • Full size (80ish+ size with a reduced numpad will also work)
    • ISO key layout (as in, a proper Return key. ANSI can burn)
    • Numpad
    • Wireless (if possible)
    • Don't need any RGB
    • I don't care about keycaps, so any leftovers will do. They don't even have to be representative of the actual key, random letters and symbols will be fine, even duplicates

    When I wasbinto RC Helicopters i liked flying, but didn't get much entertainment feom building. This other guy liked building but didn't care that much about flying. I was hoping to run into someone similar here.

    EDIT: The helicopter sory as I posted it elsewhere, in case anyone cares. https://lemmy.ml/comment/2517850

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    Retro Recommendation #2

    I'm still trying to fulfill my biological duty to hype, so I'm posting another one:

    #274 - Ask Alex Anything

    It should also have the tagline "I'm gonna miss you, Paul" because the backdrop of this episode is that Alex is saying his goodbyes to Paul Joseph Watson who has been working closely with Alex for ages.

    Hilights of the episode are that Alex gets way too drunk and emotional, to the point where I think we're actually seeing a more human and vulnerable side of him than we've ever seen before. However, he's still a piece of shit, and the rest of the crowd also shows how awful people they are by keeping it going and having fun at Alex's expense.

    And Rober Evans of "Behind the Bastards"-fame is joining JorDan for this one.

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    Retro Recommendation #1

    Seeing as humans are built to hype, I thought I'd do my part by recommending an episode from the back catalog that some of our newer listeners may not have heard.

    #135 - The Wikileaks Press Conference

    The anticipation.. the predictions.. the over-investment of feelings... the hype.. and then, followed by the N stages of grief when it doesn't pan out the way Alex or Owen expected, going through the motions of a complete live meltdown and a 180 degree reversal of their opinion on Wikileaks.

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    Cope Curtain

    Hairy Mary armored train with hemp rope armor from the Boer War.

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