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static_void_
·2 yıl önce·discuss
lol i should have scrolled down. i love this game :)
static_void_
·2 yıl önce·discuss
William Adams is the protagonist of the excellent souls-like NiOh. That's all the history I need on the man thank you very much.
static_void_
·2 yıl önce·discuss
You can't have imposter syndrome with out the conscious or unconscious idea that you've "fooled" all the rubes around you into thinking you're good at something.

Even in doubt you're still doing some mental gymnastics that allow you to place yourself above your peers. It's inherently self centered and arrogant way of thinking about yourself. The opposite of self aware.
static_void_
·2 yıl önce·discuss
> Recently, I began playing Go

Yeah I didn't need to read the rest (did anyways) to know where this was going... I played Go with my father in law once. He said to me:

"What, I thought you were supposed to be smart?"

It was indeed humbling. I do not still play Go.
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·2 yıl önce·discuss
Electronic power steering already exists. It's used in a lot of cars, and has been for at least 10 years. Your car may have one of these systems in it.

In an electric power steering system there are steering angle and torque sensors that know what direction the wheel is turned an how hard it has turned, and this is connected to an electric motor that powers the gears to move the steering rack.

There are still regulations in place that require a mechanical connection to the steering wheel and rack, but try and turn the wheel with the car off and see if your wheels move... But when the car is running when you turn the wheel you're just a voting remember in the system.

There are no such regulations for throttles. Pretty much every car since the late 80s has electronic throttle control and there are no mechanical linkages from pedal to throttle body.
static_void_
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Yay, love the Chrono Trigger in the top 3. People always bring it up, either to say they love it or that it's overrated. It is not overrated! its correctly rated, it really is that good.

FFVII was great but it is an interesting contrast to games like FFVI / Chrono Trigger. The SNES games came out at the end of their console's lives and made the absolute most of what the hardware had to offer. FFVII was early-ish in the PSX life cycle and pushed JRPGs forward. There were some earlier 3d-ish JRPGs, sure, (wild arms was 1996) but FFVII would go on to define how those games would work for years. It became the prototype, but it also feels like a prototype in a lot of ways. It has a lot of jank. Some of those mini games just aren't fun anymore. The good news is all the stuff they learned about narrative in the previous generations was intact and carried the game where it might have other wise faltered.

Anyways, I still loooove FFVII a ton too. But it's good for different reasons than the later SNES games. Also FFVIII was a lot of fun too, and a much more solid 'game' than FFVII even if some systems were pretty breakable / exploitable.
static_void_
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Account IDs are 12 digit random numbers. They are used to identify an AWS account, that's all. Knowledge of the full 12 digits doesn't grant access to anything, prove you own the account, or enable you to authenticate to any systems (or individuals like in customer service for example) in AWS.

They are visible when ever you share something with another AWS account, they're in the ARN. For example, the 12 digit account IDs of all a vendors that vend AMIs, assume roles on AWS accounts (think datadog, for logging / metrics) or otherwise provide services have AWS Account IDs that are well known and easily discoverable. This s3 example is just sort of interesting since its one of the handful of AWS services that don't use account IDs in ARNs.

AWS account ids are not secrets and treating them as secrets or giving the impression that they are anything other than public data is a distraction from real security concerns.
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·2 yıl önce·discuss
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·2 yıl önce·discuss
Strange Days is sooo good.
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·2 yıl önce·discuss
When the website looks like this you know the takes will be hot (thoughtful and erudite). Probably the last website standing in the webring.