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@pamela yeah, it's a regular expression, and | is the regular expression syntax for "any of these items"

Give a man a fish, and Republicans immediately blame you for inflation. Teach a man to fish, and they call you a woke Marxist and pass a law banning Fishing Studies.

@lyncia you just need a soundboard with a range of clips that encapsulate every emotion you would express verbally. they dont even have to be your voice

Incidentally, another trick to finding the length of a vector (x,y) to within 12% is just:

if ( x > y )
return x+(y>>1);
else
return y+(x>>1);

(do you really need more than 12% precision in a 16-bit game?)

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Neat thing I discovered. If you have a sprite with 5 directions of animation - from going right to going down (make the rest by flips), you can figure out which sprite to use by testing against lines of slope 1:5, 2:3, 3:2 and 5:1, which is really elegant on an 8/16bit machine.

@listeninggarden i once made an addition to my .bashrc that gave my terminal a cute little face that does a frown when a process exits with a nonzero code. at this point, destiny 2 is the only thing keeping me from completely switching over

no one has ever surpassed the animated netscape logo's ability to make the internet feel majestic and awe inspiring

@BeanedCatte@chitter.xyz if i was a hacker, pathetic creature of meat and bone that i am, i'd want to use a toughbook too

food 

i ordered chicken curry medium spicy. i think the restaurant may have missed one crucial word in that order

i will be strong

in need of some financial help 

thank u to everyone so far for sharing this! and, thank u to everyone who has donated!! we've reached $150 so far!! thanks to u all we're gonna be staying afloat for another month and hopefully by then we'll be all good on our own!

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one more network share related question for the nerds 

what's the most straightforward way to set up a client such that it automatically synchronizes the contents of a network share onto local storage?

example use case: i've got a steam deck and it's got some emulators on it. i'd like to put my roms and stuff in a network share and set up the steam deck to grab 'em (or a subset of 'em perhaps) on its own, so i don't have to manually copy them over myself and they're accessible when i'm traveling

i suppose i could just write some software to do this, but i figured i'd ask if anyone knew of a preexisting solution

re: request for help with networking sorcery (a bit long) 

(while explaining what those other things are, i whisper "USB gadget mode" and am immediately attacked by wild dogs)

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re: request for help with networking sorcery (a bit long) 

for a bit of extra explanation, i'm leaning toward having a separate machine as opposed to two samba daemons on the same machine because i want to use that in-between machine for a couple of other things at the same time, not just as a relay here

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re: request for help with networking sorcery (a bit long) 

@Skirmisher that would help, thank you!

No matter how many times an enthusiastic tech bro tells me that widespread AI use will be a positive for humanity, all I can hear is "capitalism go brrrr, income inequality go brrrr, structural inequities go brrr". It's strange how this happens every time. Must be something wrong with my hearing.

re: request for help with networking sorcery (a bit long) 

@jamey this answer is delightfully thorough and has given me a lot to go off and research, thank you very much

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