JakenVeina @ JakenVeina @lemm.ee

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What I want Supergiant to do is.... whatever the fuck they want.

I literally fainted (i.e. got dizzy and lost the ability to stand)

This is how we know you're a real adult.

Poking his fragile masculinity is the entire point.

Based on the user's very-limited post and comment history, the bot is severely malfunctioning. I could only find one single item (a comment) where the downvotes outweighed the upvotes.

I thought he "wasn't looking to negotiate"?

Context? Who's AndyPantsGaming?

I did it last week. We were out of power for about 30 hours. But I actually have a degree in Computer Engineering, and I did it with a friend who is a professional Electrician.

It is indeed EXTREMELY dangerous. If you don't know what you're doing, or make a mistake, best case scenario, you fry your generator. Worst case, you electrocute a lineman from the power company, who isn't expecting lines to be live when there's an outage, because yes, if you feed power into your house, that will flow OUT of your house onto the main lines (to some extent), if you let it. You could end up trying to power your whole block on your little gas generator.

We made sure both the indoor and outdoor main power shutoffs for the house were turned off, as well as all breakers. Then we unplugged the oven, and used that for the feed from the generator. Then we gradually re-activated breakers so as not to add too much load to the generator at once. Ultimately, we were able to run the whole house, except for the AC compressor, which the generator actually would have had enough power to run, but not to kick-start.

The proper way to hook up a generator to feed your house is to install an "inlet" which is both nominatively and physically the opposite of an outlet: instead of holes going into a box, you have prongs sticking out of a box. Generally, it'll be one of the big fat 4-pronged round cables, like what your oven might use. That'll feed down to a large double-breaker, in the top-right slot of your breaker panel. That breaker stays off until you want to run a generator, and, to meet code, you have to also install a special bracket that prevents you from turning this breaker off without turning off the primary feed for the whole house. Still kinda dangerous, but they make those brackets surprisingly foolproof.

Modern day Patrick Bateman?

If she does manage to fulfill her revenge fantasy, and then find peace, THAT I would find rather unbelievable. Living in hate and rage for that long, you can't just let go of it, regardless of logic.

My guess would be they were expecting a moral payoff, and didn't get it. Mizu's "Violence only begets more violence, I must let go of my revenge" moment. Especiallly since the episode or 2 prior really seemed to be setting up for it.

I was offput by it as well, but a bad ending is one that has nothing interesting to say, or something really shit to say, or that isn't believable in some way, not just one I hoped would be different. Plus, this story isn't over.

This guy texts.

FromSoft ain't about to stop FromSofting on account of critic opinions.

I WOULD say "call the police and report him missing" as this is absolutely the scenario for it, but.... well, that ain't actually gonna help for shit, is it?

Because I have nothing to ask.

I hope Pritzker understands that opposing this will LOSE him votes, whether it's for Governor or President.

It doesn't even fucking MATTER how you feel about Israel, how the hell is outlawing boycotts and divestment EVER acceptable?

But im not sure how to apply it to anything realistic

I think that's a misconception a lot of people have: unless you get a job in the field, or get into open source work, you probably won't. Not at any amount of scale, anyway.

Like, you go to your computer and start working in...what?

For myself, I find that (outside of work and open source) I don't really USE my programming skills, except that knowing programming enables me to think about problems in my life in a more analytical way. Every once in a while, I might be doing something tedious and techy that I'll take an hour or two to automate. For example, I've done that for re-organizing and renaming video and music files. I also helped my wife a few hundred pages of text from a wiki she maintains for her D&D guild, when they were migrating to a new provider.

im just unsure what people do especially when starting out.

If you have an idea for something that you find interesting or are passionate about or would use personally, great! That's extremely rare, so don't stress about it. My go-to recommendation for starter projects is to just re-make something that already exists. That gives you very specific, achievable goals. Specifically" I recommend re-making "dir.exe" or "ls" (the Linux equivalent), which are command-line programs that list files on your computer.

If you can work a project like that, even if you never "finish" it, and you get any enjoyment out of it, that's a good sign. If you find that you dread working on it, or really struggle with it, then that's a good indicator that maybe programming isn't for you. It's a useful skill to have, but you shouldn't feel bad if it just isn't your thing. I always like the idea of being a musician, and toon guitar lessons as a kid, but whenever I would sit down to practice, I found I would rather be doing almost anything else. Eventually, it occurred to me that I can love music and musicianship, without being a musician.

What is really meant by "programming" when people say they like to use linux for it?

I think it's just a matter of personal preference among the type of people that are drawn to programming. Linux doesn't just LET you have a very high level of control over things that happen "under the hood", it often MAKES you have to deal with some things that Windows or iOS would traditionally keep hidden (to varying degrees, depending on distro). That ends up being appealing to the kind of tinkerer folks who are also attracted to programming.

I don't think there's any inherent reason that Linux is better for programming, except MAYBE that there's more of a programming ecosystem built around it, because more programmers end up using it. Sort of a self-fulfilling prophesy.

C, C++, C#, to name the main ones. And quite a lot of languages are compiled similarly to these.

To be clear, there's a lot of caveats to the statement, and it depends on architecture as well, but at the end of the day, it's rare for a byte or bool to be mapped directly to a single byte in memory.

Say, for example, you have this function...

 cs

    
public void Foo()
{
    bool someFlag = false;
    int counter = 0;

    ...
}

  

The someFlag and counter variables are getting allocated on the stack, and (depending on architecture) that probably means each one is aligned to a 32-bit or 64-bit word boundary, since many CPUs require that for whole-word load and store instructions, or only support a stack pointer that increments in whole words. If the function were to have multiple byte or bool variables allocated, it might be able to pack them together, if the CPU supports single-byte load and store instructions, but the next int variable that follows might still need some padding space in front of it, so that it aligns on a word boundary.

A very similar concept applies to most struct and object implementations. A single byte or bool field within a struct or object will likely result in a whole word being allocated, so that other variables and be word-aligned, or so that the whole object meets some optimal word-aligned size. But if you have multiple less-than-a-word fields, they can be packed together. C# does this, for sure, and has some mechanisms by which you can customize field packing.

I recently discovered that Plex no longer works over local network, if you lose internet service. A) you can't login without internet access. B) even if you're already logged in, apps do not find and recognize your local server without internet access. So, yeah, Plex is already there.

I can't think of too many games that DO community management at this level, so I dunno. Doesn't really seem strange to me, in context, though.

They had one community manager for the first year or two, then they added a second. The two of them went strong for like 4-5 years until one of them decided he was ready to retire and be independent. They replaced him, then about a year later, after the game reached 1.0, the other one also decided to retire and be independent, and now they're replacing him.

In the middle of that period, they hired a third community manager, presumably when Jayce had already told them he wanted to retire, but due to personal reasons, she never actually got to start, so she's not really worth counting if we're talking about personnel churn.

All together, I don't see anything to be concerned about.

To be clear, the fact that there's no evidence has nothing to do with Grok saying there's no evidence. It just determined that's a likely thing for a human to say.