what's crazier is how fuzzy those memories are -- I didn't take any pictures at the time so I don't even remember what I looked like. what my room looked like at my parent's place.
but i remember when i put an HDD in that old beater and upgraded from Linux installed onto a flash drive to Mint on a real disk. I had to go to this old recycling center that wiped, cleaned, and resold ancient parts... that place was so grimy. I got my first LCD monitors there too, two ancient 720p TN panels. memories 🥲
in 2016 my daily driver desktop used 512mb Rambus memory. it's honestly hard to conceptualize how much has changed since then.
Is there an easier way to determine the pinout of a 7-segment LED display than "use a power supply and see what it does when you connect the pins"
I've got the docs for it, but it's not like an IC where one side of the piece has a little cutout or dot - just a white plastic body with a lil weather-resistant goo on the bottom
people working in corporate jobs: when you inherit a project, or part of a project, what is the best way to ask for all the relevant details on the project so that you don't keep putting your foot in your mouth or doing unnecessary work that is voided by decisions made before you arrived? #askfedi
Does anyone have any advice for doing this? I'm not really sure how to wire all the switches up - iirc you have to treat it like a matrix and wire rows/columns into your controller, but I can't visualize it for some reason
i am several trout in a trenchcoat posing as a software developer
sometimes i flap my fish hands and code comes out
i dont really know how it happens, it's just a monkeys with typewriters thing i guess