DaleGribble88

DaleGribble88, 8 months ago

Filling up the Linux bingo card quick this morning…

Noobs: “Help! How can I do X?”
Community: “Pfft! Why do you want to X? You should be using Y instead.”

DaleGribble88, 9 months ago

A trick the indie game development community has used for years is just a simple excel file. CSVs are the easiest to work with if you are unfamiliar. First column is the ID of the text that you can reference in code, and each column is a translation of that text. Get the initial translation in place, typically English, then email the excel file to anyone who ask to create as fan translation. Also, unless you are translating the Illiad, the extra memory use is negligible.

DaleGribble88, 9 months ago

True, but if there is a large project with many different collaborators, they’d need a more verbose system than a CSV file anyway. (And likely a more senior developer who knows how to handle situations like this.) My point is that excel files, and CSVs in particular, are easy to parse, easy to check for completeness, and easy to distribute to less technical people. Basically, while not optimal, they will just work.

DaleGribble88, 9 months ago

Obligatory PSA from Southpark about the real danger of many drugs - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd4cASkBAp0

DaleGribble88, 9 months ago

I don’t think that is a hot take at all. Many popular Linux tools in a way that feels like it was easy to implement, but not necessarily easy to use. This makes sense when you realize that many of the projects started as labors of love by developers, not UI/UX designers. Those folks work for money, and don’t spend their weekends designing imagery layouts for software that doesn’t exist just for fun. I think the only way this hole is going to be dug out is if universities start focusing more on cross-training and software engineering/development degrees instead of computer science degrees. If the next generation can make something useable, then people will use it. Once people use it, the money can flow, and professional designers can be hired.

DaleGribble88, 9 months ago

I got an Rg35xxx about a month ago and it has been fantastic!! I didn’t replace the stock OS as a lot of folks suggested because the stock one already has everything that I need it to do. If I had one complaint, it would be that the battery isn’t great. I haven’t had it die on me while out and about yet, but it can cut it close. Overall, I highly recommend it for someone into retrogaming old gameboy advanced -ish era games.

DaleGribble88, 9 months ago

I wish I was a flying miner pretending to be an alien so that I could harass villagers in Peru. That would be so awesome.

DaleGribble88, 9 months ago

Still waiting to see which guitar sub on which instance will come out on top. I miss seeing the NGD posts, answering questions for all the new folks, and learning about obscure equipment.

DaleGribble88, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

I’m actually going to fault regulations on this one. The EPA bases fuel economy requirements on the wheelbase of the vehicle. They used to publish a range of values based every other year or so, but then changed it to a formula. The formula is non-linear, making it neigh impossible to build anything with a small wheelbase anymore. In theory, they could design a small hybrid truck, but would need an obnoxiously long bed to compensate.

I watched a YouTube video on it not terribly long ago, and iirc, a 95 Ford Ranger, if held to the current formula-based regulations, would need 60+ mpg to be produced without major penalties to the company.

The EPA either needs to reevaluate the formula, or start manually publishing the numbers with values that are actually achievable by the industry at scale. Basically, by publishing the formula, manufacturers are able to min-max their designs in all the wrong ways.

EDIT: Updated for clarity and fixed some typos

DaleGribble88, 10 months ago

The AR Reading program that was popular in the early 2000s was an absolute disaster. It basically killed my love of reading for almost 10 years. They wouldn’t let me read books “above my level” based on some BS test that used timed reading. I wasn’t dumb, I just sub-vocalized when I read like a lot of people, so I read slowly. Read slow, don’t finish the test, grade poor, so “no books for you!” said the school.

DaleGribble88, 10 months ago

I have a master’s in CS. Currently teaching freshman/sophomore level courses, and have regularly done little side projects and internships in development. However, my only *career * experience is in desktop support and operations. Since I’ve been out of the game to focus on the master’s degree and my programming chops, I thought I would try for a Networking+ and Security+ to better poise myself for a DevOps position. This thread has me seriously second-guessing that career plan.

DaleGribble88, 10 months ago

I was also bested by Dune. I never finished “To Kill a Mockingbird” in high school, and have never had any desire to pick it back up. The most embarrassing/shameful is… “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.” I love the movies, and I love learning about the lore on YouTube, but I just cannot make it through that book. “The Hobbit” was such a fun and silly little story, and I loved it! Fellowship just reads like those chapters in Genesis that you tend to skip over.

DaleGribble88, 10 months ago

Board games are just as much about design as electronic games. I vote for the allowance of board games in this community. Besides, many board games eventually become electronic either as a direct implementation or as inspiration for something else.

DaleGribble88, 11 months ago

I figured out what random country I got dropped into was, but I cannot for the life of me figure out the best chess move. Made it though up to rule 16 with this:
Pepsi2004assnbcgb🌔wordVII114355!JuneVTRAcTKuwait

DaleGribble88, 11 months ago

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.
Also, good enough is good enough. And if it’s not, well then, it wasn’t good enough then, was it?

DaleGribble88, 11 months ago

Grant Morrison is OP. He had an absolutely amazing and incredibly long lasting run with Batman a few years back, immediately after Final Crisis. “Batman R.I.P.” -> “Final Crisis” -> (Special Shout out to Neil Gaiman’s “Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?” at this point in the chronology) -> “Battle for the Cowl” -> “Batman & Robin” (Basically the whole run, very few weak sections) -> “The Return of Bruce Wayne”. After that leads into “The Road Home” and eventually “Batman Incorporated” which are both good, but I really feel like the Return of Bruce Wayne really cemented the end of the arc, and those led back into a return to normalcy for Batman. Not a bad thing, but Grant has written a lot of Batman comics over the years, so I’ve got to cut it off sometime.

Grant Morrison also wrote “All-Star Superman” which is worth every bit of the hype it receives imo.

DaleGribble88, 11 months ago

I've still been peeking in while RIF still works and it looks like everything in those protesting subs were correctly marked as NSFW. It might be different in other apps, but from where I'm sitting, no body saw anything that they didn't choose to click on.

DaleGribble88, 11 months ago

One other thing you can try is establishing triggers for your habbits. "When X happens, then I do Y." That helps me keep to certain habits. "When I watch Dragon Ball, then I lift weights" and "When it is Sunday at 6:00pm, then I do the dishes." It may not work for everyone, it may not work for you, but it has helped me. No more "Zero Days" also helps.

DaleGribble88, 11 months ago

That last paragraph summarizes my feelings as well. This isn't the protest that will end reddit. I don't know when or if that will ever happen, but this feels different from all the previous reddit drama. This feels like the beginning of the end. Like those first few college students creating a facebook page instead of a MySpace account. MySpace didn't go away. Most people still had both for a long time, but it was the start.