Konsta Hölttä

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Scattered technical and scientific thoughts and makings of an unhealthy mix of MacGyver and Gyro Gearloose

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

Best part of this festive holiday season: cool myofibril iridescence on just sliced ham and forgetting that you're hungry for five minutes

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Best time of the year, #adventofcode. Debugging off-by-ones back and forth like poor Trurl with his machine and it's already bedtime. Poke around inside the machine, disconnecting, correcting, checking, resetting. And yet, two and two = seven, so to speak. https://t.co/5M37woEOSy

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Stanisław Lemin tarina insinööreistä kuulostaa häiritsevän osuvasti ihan omalta pahimmalta trial-error-debuggaussessiolta

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Favorite hack to highlight specific patterns in shell output: stuff | grep --color=auto -C99999 pattern

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Now that EU is about done with that common charger stuff, they should focus on banning soft touch materials that turn into sticky slime in just a few years. Any shiny cheapo plastic is superior to that initially velvety rubber surface that is essentially planned obsolescence. 💩

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

Dead HW stages of grief:

- Not booting anymore? Did this power cord go bad?
- Sigh, let's try cmos reset
- Not that backup PSU, such a hassle
- Woo backup boots, RIP old PSU
- Argh zip ties
- Cable mgmt is fun, I feel young again
- Ahh last screws, such a good time
- Ow my back

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

My favorite command line trick has been and will always be: grep . /stuff/*/* to replace cat /stuff/*/* for small files (often in kernel filesystems) when you also wish to see the file names. Alternatively, grep "" /stuff/*/*

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

Still energized from #altparty. Hope it happens next year too, maybe could finish a demo once. Only started to relearn 8086 asm for this odd "portable" Amstrad I dusted off and brought (https://t.co/2no5iYIV7X). The teletext thing was fun, I traced a book cover into that format.

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Voitaisiinko yhteiskuntana lopettaa painonastojen käyttö kun kiinnitellään ilmoituksia puisiin katuvalopylväisiin. Veikkaan nimittäin, että tämänpäiväinen renkaanpuhkaisija on sellaisesta peräisin eikä varta vasten Lauttasaaren nastamuumion tuoma.

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Plottasin huvikseni hsl #kaupunkipyörät massan wappupäivänä ulliksella kun muistin jonain aiempana vuonna naureskelleeni asemien ylikuormitusta. Melko laillahan noita tuonne menee lähialueilta, mutta koko kapasiteetti on kuitenkin tuhansia konkeleita.

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

"silloin kun koodataan vauhdilla niin silmät on vaan tiellä" #instanssi spiikit parasta viihdettä.

"when you're coding fast, eyes are just in the way"

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

I toasted some bread with a laser engraver! Eväs tarjoillaan tarkasti paahdettuna https://t.co/v1rWwnrfhi - laserkaiverrettua paahtoleipää @ #instanssi

❤️ #kaupunkiverstas ❤️ #ompunpaja #palvelutori

kalibrointi, säätö, yritys, erehdys ja lopulta aika valmis tulos!

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

Been watching some old Star Trek lately.

Data sounds always so familiar, like I've just heard that voice before in some absurd dream.

Today it hit me. The How it's actually made series. Not far from absurd dream. Brent Spiner, is that not you? https://t.co/YL8a3hTUBv

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

Nerd at a party: I wish I was at home installing gentoo

Computer graphics nerd on a toilet: Wow this toilet paper roll SVBRDF is amazing, almost like chatoyancy in fine wood. I wish I was at home raytracing this stuff.

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

Sparkly snow on a sunny day always

a) warm, calming, delightful, beautiful
b) stressing, glitchy, like there's something slightly wrong in this raytracer, maybe probability distributions incorrect or somehow just sampling the lights too often, must debug immediately

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

Spend days on a neglected Gentoo system to resolve package conflicts, wait for those 1588 to build with 9 GB source to download, fix several build errors, polish things after by cleaning old use flag special cases. And now what? Go outside?

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

Had to go through most stages of grief, but chewing gum on a toothpick saved my bike repair evening. Usually chewing gum is just a metaphor for a hack; not today.

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

Saddle been dying for years, now the front fell off. Almost declared it's time to get a new one for this disaster of a bike, but invested an old rolled up sock and some duct tape. Perfect for at least another year. Also great theft protection: any other bike looks more desirable.

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Feminiini: naispuolinen sanasuku
Maskuliini: jonkun huonekaluliikkeen hellittelynimi??

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Toissapäivänä vietettiin Kalevalan päivää. Siitä tuli mieleen, että softakehityksen ilot ja ahdingot vois sopia jonkunlaiseen runomittaan. Laitan tuonne talteen sitä mukaa kun mieleen tulee https://t.co/2p11YE06Qp

[Konsta Hölttä @soodagyver]

Ambient occlusion is almost like structural coloration on a macroscopic level