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Sileni
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
At least with pip and env, you'd have a hard time doing general tasks in python without getting to know them anyway.

You can also shortcut a lot of that with a hosting service like Heroku, which takes on a lot of the mental overhead for you.

You've made me curious to ask, what programming environments don't have a significant learning curve when you get to the hosting portion, short of a "no-code" hosting solution?
Sileni
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Just to clarify. The concept of words having an origin and evolving over time is nonsense?

I have so many more questions if that's what you're trying to say here.
Sileni
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
Geocities, Angelfire, and Maxpages. GIFs everywhere. Backgrounds tiled with GIFs. If it didn't sparkle in some way that distracted from the content of the page, you weren't doing it right.

What a time to be alive.
Sileni
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I have no experience with modern variants of Latin, but wouldn't that be akin to trying to read Portugese when you know Spanish? You might get the general gist, but you wouldn't really get the full underlying meaning. You'd certainly miss more complex ideas like idioms.

I'd imagine it would depend on your goal. Do you want to be able to work your way through a text, or do you want to be able to appreciate poetry in the language? I'd say it might work for the former, it almost certainly wouldn't for the latter.
Sileni
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
And focuses most of their time and energy into brown nosing. Zero respect in either direction and an adversarial relationship by design any time you need resources from the company/higher-ups. /shudder
Sileni
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I said it was an easy thing to have happen, not that it would happen. I'd argue that you took my statement in bad faith, looking for a flaw in it, and generalized more aggressively than I did.
Sileni
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
As many people learned last year, it's easy to gloss over the parts of someone you don't like when you're both actively working towards a goal. When you start spending too much time together, it's easy to have the relationship die from a thousand cuts.
Sileni
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I agree. I did it towards the end of 2019 and completely torpedoed my life.

Because of COVID I didn't even get to do much actual hiking or backpacking as I planned; I went out to the west coast and everything shut down basically as soon as I got settled in.

Then I had a couple of deaths in the family due to COVID. The nest egg I had built up for the trip would have been really helpful, but I essentially wasted it to sit in an apartment. Now I'm searching for jobs nowhere close to where I was at because my industry took a massive hit.

Life's a dice roll. Hedge your bets.
Sileni
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
I've been voicing this for years since I found out about it working for the company that manufactures leaded fuels in the UK.

Even here, I got quite a bit of dismissal. It was jarring, really reminded me how little most people understand outside of their area of expertise.
Sileni
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
I'd look into more project based "classes" instead of a rigidly taught curriculum. As more of a guided process than explicit steps, with the student getting to pick the direction they'll go in.

That's what taught me the most. It's a shame there aren't more opportunities like that in classes in general. Could be a question of teacher hours available, or because we can't effectively measure progress between wildly different projects. Still, I think it's more in-line with the way a workplace functions now.
Sileni
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
How's the latency on BT?

I've always avoided using it because of the horror story from early models, but I might pick up a used PS4 controller for PC gaming if BT works well.
Sileni
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Wouldn't that mean going through the inventory system every time I want to throw more than a knife or two? That seems irrationally clunky. Like making someone use a menu for cut and paste.
Sileni
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Where are you getting 8 from? Even being generous about what counts as a difference I'm counting 6.

I was already counting the "secret" ending. Two of the "choices" you can make without meeting the criteria are really the same ending with slightly different dialogue options. Mass Effect did not have multiple endings.

Side missions may have subtle differences but the entirety of the mission is in a vacuum; there's no difference between whether or not that trigger exists outside of that single event.

It led me to feel like a county fair more than a living world. "Next up, head to the torture booth! Ignore the wood scaffolding along the way".
Sileni
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
I remember that moment. I turned to my girlfriend and said "Whelp, guess we're not playing a stealth build".
Sileni
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Looking back at the moments when I thought there were no bugs on my linux desktop supports his theory. It wasn't a lack of bugs, it was a lack of my ability to spot them.
Sileni
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Agreed. It felt like a 2010 remake to me, even on a rig with all the bells and whistles.

Stunningly beautiful when you went looking for a shot, but otherwise, there wasn't much to invest into. Especially once I realized there wasn't any consequence for the way I completed an objective, the illusion really fell apart.
Sileni
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
No, you can't. That was a feature that got cut. The entirety of the "branching path" system is a series of 3 questions at the end of the game.
Sileni
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Might already know this, but your phone's hotspot should pass through the location data. We used my laptop on a couple of roadtrips where we wanted to pull the map up larger.
Sileni
·6 jaar geleden·discuss
Agreed. Those little Lack tables are sturdy enough that they're often used as a cheap rack mounts by guitarists. Iirc they're almost perfectly a 1U width and depth, for anyone looking into a home lab. Add a couple of corner brackets and a layer of sealer and they'll take an outrageous beating.

That said, a benefit to the lack(heh) of quality is how light everything is. I do a lot of projects that require using my entire living space. If it wasn't so easy to just shove the furniture out of the way, I'd have that much more inertia between me and doing what I want.