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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I had a TV capture card in my computer and a little program that could in a sense decode the signal. However it wasn’t very good at it. It had hotkeys to fiddle with the parameters, because a lot of them weren’t constant in the encoding, but varied over time. This meant readjusting them all the time, otherwise it would lose tracking and get messed up. The colors would also invert every 30 secs or so, so you would need to hit a hot key to toggle that. Also there was no sound, the encoded TV stations used a digital sound track instead of the regular analog one, and nobody had figured out how to decode that. And because computers weren’t that fast back then (I had a Celeron 300A running at 500mhz), the resolution was only half what the signal was. The signal was 480i, which got turned into a 240p image. Which at double the pixel size was still a very small image.

    But it was kinda neat it could at least decode some of it and boobs could definitely be seen :) Funny how that’s 25 years ago, it feels like it wasn’t that long at all.



  • Somehow up 10% today and 20% for the past 5 days. And the price is still double it was 1 year ago. So whatever they are doing to inflate the stock is still working, even though any other company would be folding with the amount of backlash they have received and the utter crap their products and numbers are.



  • Eat less sugar. What you are experiencing isn’t true energy, it’s the immediate boost sugar gives you. It’s a high your body has become addicted to.

    If you cut back on the amount of sugar, your body will adapt to the lower energy levels coming from burning fats. It’s lower overall, but it’s much more constant without the high highs and low lows. You’ll feel much much better.

    I would recommend looking into the cycles your body goes through. When you kick your body into a sugar burning cycle, it’s rough to transition back to fat burning. It feels like you have no energy and are hungry for snacks. It’s better to stay in the fat burning cycle for a longer time.

    This is why I’ve personally had good success with intermittent fasting or something like one meal a day. I eat normally in the evening and can even have a snack after. During the night my body goes from burning sugar to burning fat, then the next day it’s burning fat all day. A zero sugars diet wasn’t for me, but other people have had good luck with it.

    Just do some research and figure out what works for you, everybody is unique.


  • Well my first modem was. It was very slow and you used it by dialing the phone yourself and placing the receiver on the modem. This is called an acoustic coupler.

    Later modems changed this by connecting directly to the outlet. This allowed for digital signals to be sent directly over the copper wires. This allows for much more bandwidth compared to just bleeping and blooping using audio. There were also in between variants which still used pure audio signals, but still connected directly to the outlet to improve signal quality.

    My computer back then also had a tape deck and I would record data using the tape deck. This was also a pure audio based signal. So in theory you could use a regular old tape deck with regular old tapes. However I had a specialized tape deck, specifically made for the computer and special “data” tapes. Not sure if they actually worked better, but I had them so I used them.

    Yes both my back and knees hurt.






  • Important context:

    This is often an exercise for beginning programmers, it’s a very simple task that’s easy to understand, but leaves enough room in the implementation to make it a good exercise.

    Sometimes it’s used as a test on job applications, which is total bullshit, it isn’t a good test of someones actual skills as a software developer. Because of this it’s become a bit of a joke on the internet.