Cooked plain rice freezes well too. I cook a big batch and use a small bowl to split it into individual portions. I wrap those in a little plastic wrap, and freeze it. ~2 mins in the microwave (reusing the wrap as a cover for the bowl) and I’ve got almost-as-good-as-fresh rice.

No; the calculation is using bytes not bits, so 3 is correct. (24 would be correct if it were bits.)

Been a long time since I’ve used a laptop, but usually when I’ve got a terminal open I’m doing something with Python these days. Often I just use it interactively as a calculator with some nice extra features. (I have some libraries like humanize installed in a local environment that I fire up frequently for quick tasks. That library can turn a number of bytes or seconds into easily readable approximations – e.g. humanize.naturalsize(1920*1080*3*60) spits out 373.2 MB for the size of 60 frames of uncompressed HD video.) I also have a bunch of custom scripts for various things – like a trivial spellchecker, custom image viewers, tools for converting timestamps between formats I use frequently, etc. Occasionally, I’m checking the load on a system with tools like htop, or logged into a remote system with ssh to fix something, running a long download with wget (or other tools), or re-encoding a video with particular settings using ffmpeg. Rarely I’m searching through my files with grep or other tools.

Insert real world money to continue/for advantage. Whether it’s modern FTP with MTX or old school quarter eaters, it’s poison to games.

I recognize the Richie Rich cartoon on the top right. Don’t know the others.

Yeah; @Sxan@piefed.zip uses þ a lot to mess with people trying to train LLMs off the Fediverse, IIRC, but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else using it regularly.

Here’s one of mine. I got annoyed at the complexity of other command line spellcheckers I tried and replaced them with this simple python script for when I just want to check if a single word is correct:

#!/usr/bin/env python3

import sys

try:
  query = sys.argv[1].lower()
except Exception:
  print("Usage: spellcheck <word>")
  exit(1)

with open("/usr/share/dict/words") as f:
  words = f.readlines()

words = [x.strip().lower() for x in words if len(x.strip()) > 0]

if not query in words:
  print("Not in dictionary -- probably a typo")
  exit(1)
else:
  print("OK")
  exit(0)

No; I don’t use AI at all for programming currently.

I just ssh in and use the remote computer’s shell (typical bash on the remote side via gnome-terminal on my local Mint system) or mount a remote directory (via sftp) if I want to use a GUI editor. Not sure what hoops you have to jump through on Mac since I don’t use it these days. I’d assume you can ssh into a remote system from Mac’s default terminal app still? (I learned a bunch of Unix basics on OS X in a class ~20 years ago; it worked back then, at least…)

Uh oh… have any of you seen Beowulf around lately? 🤔️

I thought I wanted to be a game developer back then and was making a bunch of hobby projects with Game Maker, had taught myself C++ (to a mediocre level), was writing (not very good) music, and generally burning myself the fuck out. -.-

The programming turned into a career (not in gamedev though). Everything else turned into an anxiety disorder.

Ah. Now I see why they had so many meals…

I’m a kitty cat

and I have a

box box box

in my

box box box 🎶️

Adding onto this: 3D TVs

Any clocks that aren’t synchronized periodically will diverge… but I honestly have no idea why the clocks in computers drift as quickly as they do.

To be clear, I didn’t make the community! I just make a lot of silly drawings in response to posts… :3

!sillydrawingrequests@sopuli.xyz

(probably – if anything)

The Expression Amrilato is a VN that’s mostly in Juliamo (i.e. Esperanto with some modifications like a custom alphabet). It’s mostly an Esperanto tutorial though with an isekai yuri plot.

Disney’s Atlantis had a custom conlang specifically made for it, but IIRC the dialogue was mostly in English still.

If it doesn’t connect to the internet, it should be able to just keep doing what it’s doing indefinitely. You will eventually get a significant amount of clock drift if it can’t update the time from the network but you can manually set the time once in a while to fix that.