#kludge — Public Fediverse posts

So, he's a super-smart humanoid robot, with his head physically wired to an AI-cloud, who is typing on his personal laptop with his ten metal fingers. #icon #kludge #weird He's obviously The Future, man. We need to give him a hundred billion dollars right away

Oh how loudly we elevate the virtues of elegance and simplicity
in deafening tomes and curricula of art and architecture!
Nature skipped those lessons,
fudged all designs,
from your million base pairs of apparently unused DNA
to your messy, sludgy internals -
we are kludges, hacks, permanently on evolution’s drawing board..

Maybe this is exactly why humanity
desires simplicity
so much?

#kludge #MastoPrompt

Hack achievement of the day: for both a proper animation keyframe triggering system missing from the in-house game engine, and purely out of curiosity, I decided to try out a Time Modulator (shareset in Wwise) to then sync trigger sounds from within a Blend Container. Video cap from game with a sine beep on zero frame, read timecode from Reaper project. But it works! (Mua-ha-ha!)

It is nothing but cumbersome, yet a fun hack 🥳

#Kludge #GameAudio #Wwise #AudioDesign

BleepingComputer: "Microsoft: Windows 'inetpub' folder created by security fix, don’t delete"

"...Microsoft told BleepingComputer on Thursday that this empty folder had been intentionally created and should not be removed.."

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-windows-inetpub-folder-created-by-security-fix-dont-delete/ #cybersecurity #kludge

The hames made of the census means that my handy shortcut that brought me straight to the search for the censuses - http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/ - doesn't work any more - you have to wade through reams of kludge before happening on the search form
#CensusOfIreland #Kludge

From the Maybe-Too-On-The-Nose department...

> Microsoft uses .NET internally and a team tasked with migrating thousands
> of .NET Framework projects to .NET Core ran into performance issues, with
> the restore command taking more than 30 minutes in some cases, causing
> what principal software engineer Jeff Kluge called “wasted time and frustration
> for developers.”

A software engineer. Named "Kluge". (And at Microsoft.)

I think we're done here.

#OnTheNose #kluge #kludge #microsoft #software #engineer #SoftwareEngineer #ForReal

From the Maybe-Too-On-The-Nose department...

> Microsoft uses .NET internally and a team tasked with migrating thousands
> of .NET Framework projects to .NET Core ran into performance issues, with
> the restore command taking more than 30 minutes in some cases, causing
> what principal software engineer Jeff Kluge called “wasted time and frustration
> for developers.”

A software engineer. Named "Kluge". (And at Microsoft.)

I think we're done here.

#OnTheNose #kluge #kludge #microsoft #software #engineer #SoftwareEngineer #ForReal

From the Maybe-Too-On-The-Nose department...

> Microsoft uses .NET internally and a team tasked with migrating thousands
> of .NET Framework projects to .NET Core ran into performance issues, with
> the restore command taking more than 30 minutes in some cases, causing
> what principal software engineer Jeff Kluge called “wasted time and frustration
> for developers.”

A software engineer. Named "Kluge". (And at Microsoft.)

I think we're done here.

#OnTheNose #kluge #kludge #microsoft #software #engineer #SoftwareEngineer #ForReal

From the Maybe-Too-On-The-Nose department...

> Microsoft uses .NET internally and a team tasked with migrating thousands
> of .NET Framework projects to .NET Core ran into performance issues, with
> the restore command taking more than 30 minutes in some cases, causing
> what principal software engineer Jeff Kluge called “wasted time and frustration
> for developers.”

A software engineer. Named "Kluge". (And at Microsoft.)

I think we're done here.

#OnTheNose #kluge #kludge #microsoft #software #engineer #SoftwareEngineer #ForReal

From the Maybe-Too-On-The-Nose department...

> Microsoft uses .NET internally and a team tasked with migrating thousands
> of .NET Framework projects to .NET Core ran into performance issues, with
> the restore command taking more than 30 minutes in some cases, causing
> what principal software engineer Jeff Kluge called “wasted time and frustration
> for developers.”

A software engineer. Named "Kluge". (And at Microsoft.)

I think we're done here.

#OnTheNose #kluge #kludge #microsoft #software #engineer #SoftwareEngineer #ForReal

Hackaday: ALL ABOUT USB-C: MANUFACTURER SINS

https://hackaday.com/2023/02/07/all-about-usb-c-manufacturer-sins/

From article, The First Sin:

"The first, honorary entry is omitting 5.1 kΩ pulldowns on a USB-C port intended for charging your device. “Why does my device charge with a USB-A to USB-C cable, but doesn’t charge with a USB-C to USB-C cable”, asks the user? The answer is simple – because your device’s designer decided to save one cent while building your device, and didn’t care about testing the device before selling it to you. In other words, your device is supposed to have two resistors connected to the USB-C plug, yet it does not, and USB-C power supplies are unable to detect that they ought to provide power. Remember, the resistor detection is fundamentally a safety mechanism, and by now, information about this problem is omnipresent."

The overall situation of USB-C out there does seem to be a clusterfuck.

Oy.

#USB #USBC #USBA #tech #clusterfuck #kludge #glitch #mess #hardware #blog

Me: “It’s #broken for my case, and here’s an #experiment showing how and where it can be fixed.”
Them: “That’s useful but this guy that outranks you wanted it this way and he’s out today so I can’t get him to explain it.”
Me: (engages in #kludge to try to unblock, finds another stupid resource #limit)

Apparently I’m not supposed to be able to prove to others that the thing I’m working on will work. I’m 👉️ 👈️ this close to hollering to #management.

So if they’re looking at it that way, I don’t feel so bad about this #kludge that makes the ridiculous application deployment actually work (technically by coincidence) on both the old machines and their replacements.

First kludge of the year.
#kludge #hny #hardwarehacking

So, turns out my re-purposed food dehydrator can't hold two spools of filament - but it was so close I could remedy the situation by haphazardly taping on a strip of PVC I had lying around, so I did 😝

#maker #3Dprinting #kludge #improvisation @3dprinting

@RainCityBunnies

If that wasn't in jest, it's an electronic component - a chip in a DIP-16 package - that I had to cut the pins off of to remove it from a board, and then manually soldered replacement pins onto so I could test it out-of-circuit.

Non-hacked examples can be seen here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_in-line_package

#hack #kludge #ugly #wat

So when Android Studio complains about this error and prompts me to fix it in Gradle's settings, how is the second screenshot helping me in any way? Why is the Android build system this awful?

Every day I have to do anything with Gradle I hate the software world a bit more.

#android #gradle #horrible #curse #kludge

I was really proud of my #homebrew from trash parts through table wireless charging pad for my phone by coworkers says it’s “creepy” 🙄

I’ll get a fabric sticker to cover it because they can’t handle how cyberpunk i am apparently. 🙄🙄🥲🙄 #kludge

#HouseHunting #Architecture #Jank #Kludge #FacePalm

I'd like to create a shared knowledge base using #tiddlywiki for my work team, hosted on #OneDrive / #MSTeams, and I'm worried about burdening them with the complexity of the UX of TiddlyWiki. I really just want a simple taggable #knowledgebase but that's hard to get going on an internal file sharing site where we can't run our own servers. I currently have a #markdown KB running within #Obsidian, but people are struggling with the #kludge of that solution as well.

What would you do?

#TFT

@polpo @mediaarchaeologylab When I was at UCLA we needed a feedback system to control the output of a CO2 laser. Using parts on hand we grabbed a plotter. We duct-taped one end of a ruler to the print head and the other end to a the knob on the top of a rheostat that adjusted the laser output. It worked, although we ended up burning out several plotters.

#kludge #laser

In the end, I've decided something a bit different: just found (and bought!) from Amazon a #Royal #Kludge #RK61 60% #keyboard with #blue #switches, Italian ISO layout and even double-shot #PBT #keycaps for €80!
It's a 60% so arrows as secondary functions. But still it's Amazon: I'll try it and if won't like it, I can simply return it .. and probably do for the #YMDK one.

In the end, I've decided something a bit different: just found (and bought!) from Amazon a #Royal #Kludge #RK61 60% #keyboard with #blue #switches, Italian ISO layout and even double-shot #PBT #keycaps for €80!
It's a 60% so arrows as secondary functions. But still it's Amazon: I'll try it and if won't like it, I can simply return it .. and probably do for the #YMDK one.

In the end, I've decided something a bit different: just found (and bought!) from Amazon a #Royal #Kludge #RK61 60% #keyboard with #blue #switches, Italian ISO layout and even double-shot #PBT #keycaps for €80!
It's a 60% so arrows as secondary functions. But still it's Amazon: I'll try it and if won't like it, I can simply return it .. and probably do for the #YMDK one.

The Second Worst CAD Package Ever - A while back, [Heavydeck] remembered stumbling across the worst CAD package ever, ... - https://hackaday.com/2021/12/17/the-second-worst-cad-package-ever/ #softwarehacks #schematic #kludge #klunky #online #cad