I kinda suck at Tetris. We had a “LAN” last year where we played some battle royale Tetris game, and there was one girl who absolutely demolished everyone. After that I feel like a kid playing (and failing) with one of those block shape matching toys whenever I play Tetris. It’s a cool game though. Nice simple gameplay, but high skill ceiling. I respect people who absolutely destroy me at a game due to pure skill
I’m a programmer, so this is pretty much a constant thing haha. Sometimes you write the smartest shit imaginable, and sometimes you waste 4 hours on something extremely simple.
I guess it’s a matter of priorities. Some experts will deal a lot with air quality in their field, so they go kinda tunnel vision on that. And others (like firefighters) will be very focused on the fire safety aspect so to them that seems most important.
Personally I usually close all doors for fire safety except for my bedroom door because the air quality improvement is just too large. I can open a window, but it usually blows open further due to the wind. Then it becomes too noisy and cold. So I tend to keep it closed when it’s cold outside.
Right now I’m basically playing Beyond All Reason almost every evening. It’s a game in the Total Annihilation “tree” of games. A massive scale RTS. I previously played Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation, both of which are also inspired by Total Annihilation, but I have to say that BAR is really better than both of them. I almost can’t believe it’s an open source game. It’s still in alpha, but it’s been way more stable than most AAA games I’ve been playing recently.
Isn’t it to make sure that you’re not mixing two incompatible chargers? I have 2 Philips chargers that do fit (as far as I can see), but are not the same voltage. I’ve previously also had something like this where 2 fitting chargers were completely different electrically, one 12V AC and the other 9V DC. One time a family member mixed them up, bit luckily the extra voltage didn’t fry anything. I don’t mind having to get an extra charger of it prevents me from doing something dumb and frying my electronics.
[Tobi Grüner] We hear Albons chassis can’t be repaired over night & will go back to the factory tomorrow. Albon might get the only running car that’s left if there is a realistic chance of points & if Sargeants contract allows Williams to make the swap.
Damn that sucks for Logan. Looking at only this race, from a purely logical perspective, I do get it. But even if we take empathy out of the equation, I’m not sure if this would be the optimal move when you take the rest of the season into account. Showing confidence in Logan and letting him have a go surely would help him a lot, and might increase his performance over the rest of the season. Especially if he does perform decently. By giving his car to Albon they so raise their potential for points, but might absolutely shatter Logan’s confidence and motivation.
Every point counts, especially now that the top 5 teams are quite a bit ahead of the rest. But damn, that’s brutal
Imo it’s more the other way around, but that’s not necessarily bad. Arch (and Linux in general) gives you a lot more control, while windows tries to block the user from touching the internals. In my experience Arch breaks more often though, but when it breaks I can usually fix it. In Windows things usually work, but when they don’t work you might be kinda screwed because the internals aren’t that easy to reach.
Barony doesn’t need an end life button. Just walk around for a bit and get smacked by a random boulder. It’s a fun game though, just quite hard and unforgiving.
Yeah I only played with friends. Alone it seems even harder because it becomes permadeath. With friends you can at least continue as long as one player makes it. Any favorite playstyles? Personally I like being arcanist and then trying to pick up tinkering at some point to get a cute helicopter buddy, or starting as tinkerer but also doing some magic. Basically (cross)bow + magic + tinkering.
It’s hard to say what I’d recommend for a 1 player run because I didn’t really do those. I think I’d go for a solid “base” class like a warrior, barbarian, wizard, or something. Ultimately it’ll always be difficult though. Maybe something ranged like wizard, arcanist, or tinkerer is actually easier when playing solo because you can stay out the range of most enemies. But when they get close, you’ll probably get killed because there’s no-one to protect you.
Ultimately, if I were you, I’d just play whatever I want. Dying is extremely common in this game, so just accept that, have fun, and get better.
This also goes for many things in general, not just gamedev. I used to be a teaching assistant at the University that I was studying at, and this was the main thing people seemed to get wrong in their projects. Instead of going for the basics and building from there, they just went for all the fancy cool features, or the most optimal algorithm. Then, when the deadline inevitably came around, they would have basically nothing working correctly. Sometimes I even warned them, and yet it still went wrong.
When you’re lonely, you don’t become cripplingly hopeless and withdraw from life? You just contact some friends or easily make new friends and have a good time and carry on with life?...
I wouldn’t say that my mental state is perfectly optimal at all times, but I usually don’t experience any of these. Sometimes I get overwhelmed with the world, when life feels like a treadmill going faster and faster and I just can’t keep up. Usually that resolves at some point though, and then I can be somewhat happy and cheerful again in the here and now. Nowadays I tend ro try and dissociate a bit from what’s happening out there.
There’s war, famine, and crisis in the news every day, but I just have to accept that I can’t change the world on my own. I tend to ignore the news mostly, apart from the headlines every now and then, because it just constantly got my mood down. Me being sad about it doesn’t help anyone.
And life may be meaningless once you start analysing everything. In 200 years there will be barely any trace of me. The more reason to just do the things that make me happy, even if it ultimately doesn’t matter to anyone else.
I’ve found that the ability to be happy is something subconscious that can fail from time to time. In 2019 I wasn’t doing great and everything just felt empty. I did fun things, but didn’t truly feel anything from it most of the time. When I recovered in 2020, I felt a weird happiness that I didn’t understand. The world was going to shit due to COVID, and yet here I stood smiling at 2 birds fighting over food. It’s like I got a sense back that I didn’t realize was lost. Since then I try to remember this “irrational” happiness whenever I feel down. At some point it’ll always come back again, and the exact same situations will suddenly feel happy and worthwhile again.
Nah, at worst I’m just searching for things I should reasonably know like “do I need to cook X before eating” or something. Why would I ever search for something weird with my search history on?
Yeah because everything in the world is binary and there can’t ever be nuance.
I’m reducing my meat intake, but I do still eat meat every now and then. When I do, I tend to consider the impact on animal welfare and the environment. Eating meat from an animal that has lived relatively free and happy life is a lot better to me than one that has been locked inside for most of it’s life.
I want to compile a docx file into a Typst file, I believe deep down docx is XML, and Typst is close to markdown with interesting functionalities, is that feasible? Note that Typst does have syntax to define functions and call them and I want to create special functions during the code gen step, is ANTLR the right tool for the...
I’m not sure what the best approach would be, but for reading docx you might be better off using something like Apache POI. Docx may be XML, but it’s imo absolute abuse of XML. POI shields you a little bit from all the nonsense happening in docx. I could see ANTLR working for Typst since there’s probably not another interface for it.
I don’t think it’ll support it, but you could also check if this can be done with pandoc.
When you have too many people working somewhere, it becomes impossible for one person to oversee everything. So you get multiple managers managing more specific groups, and then managers who manage the entire segment without knowing all the details or people. When a company gets even larger you’ll need even more layers. There’s only so much time and mental capacity that humans have, so at some point you need some multi-threading by involving multiple people.
To me it kinda makes sense, and I don’t really know how I’d do it differently if given the chance, but the higher level management does always seem to feel like some people making decisions high up in their ivory tower without knowing what is actually going on.
I tend to use screenshots from games that I’m playing, especially pretty games like Jedi: Survivor or Cyberpunk. Currently I have this Cyberpunk screenshot:
Recently, on the francophone lemmy, there was some discussion on downvote, as some posts (on francophone instance, or francophone communities) gets a lot of downvote without a reason....
If it’s in a language-specific community or instance then it makes no sense to downvote imo. I personally do downvote unlabeled posts in communities that aren’t language specific though, because they clutter my experience.
This doesn’t change that much. They’re still forming a cabinet, it’s just a different construction. The prime minister doesn’t have any extra power or anything, his party is still the same size and will still have the same influence
I don’t have the data to back it up, but as someone who lives in the Netherlands I can tell you that e-bikes definitely seem like a problem. People who ride a normal bike to go somewhere definitely don’t go faster than 15 kph on average. You totally can do so if you want, just like you can run everywhere instead of walking, but then you might arrive sweaty and out of breath. E-bikes allow people who don’t usually have the physical strength to cycle that fast to suddenly go 25 kph without much effort. Especially children and elderly are a problem. The bikes are heavy, meaning that they’re hard to control for these groups. And children and elderly also both often lack the awareness of their surroundings needed for driving this fast. I’ve seen many dangerous situations where these groups on an e-bike yeet into a crossing, suddenly have to brake due to other traffic that they failed to account for, and then almost fall over or crash.
E-bikes have a way too large speed difference with normal bikes, and imo they’re definitely a danger. Anything that makes them slower is imo a good thing.
Lando Norris has no regrets about an “aggressive” strategy call in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, suggesting that his McLaren Formula 1 team sometimes plays it a “little bit safe”.
I mean, fair enough. It was a decent bet to make imo. Safety cars are common in Saudi. If he and Lewis had succeeded they would’ve been praised through the roof.
Let's discuss: Tetris (beehaw.org)
The format of these posts is simple: let’s discuss a specific game or series!...
Sirens Rule (i.imgur.com)
Cassette Beasts Showcase 2024 (m.youtube.com)
What’s the last thing you’ve done that’s made you ask “Am I stupid?”
Jan Smit (sh.itjust.works)
Wikipedia
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What is your favourite Open-Source game?
I personally love Naev and Mindustry
Not buying a shaver from Philips again.. (i.imgur.com)
Edit: see comments for clarifications....
(Rumour) Albon's car can't be repaired overnight, Williams looking at option to give him Sargeant's car and make Sargeant sit out weekend (twitter.com)
[Tobi Grüner] We hear Albons chassis can’t be repaired over night & will go back to the factory tomorrow. Albon might get the only running car that’s left if there is a realistic chance of points & if Sargeants contract allows Williams to make the swap.
Functional bros be like (lemmy.world)
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In case it isn’t obvious this is (mostly) ironic lol
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Alt text: Screenshot from the Pause menu of the video game “Barony”. The selected menu item reads “end life”.
Starfield's lead quest designer had 'absolutely no time' and had to hit the 'panic button' so the game would have a satisfying final quest (www.pcgamer.com)
For those who aren't burdened with chronic or intermittent depression, how does that feel?
When you’re lonely, you don’t become cripplingly hopeless and withdraw from life? You just contact some friends or easily make new friends and have a good time and carry on with life?...
Right at this exact moment if all your friends & family & law enforcement saw all your search engine history, would you be embarrassed? Anything you'd want to delete before they see it?
Meat. (lemmy.zip)
Is ANTLR suitable for markup-to-markup compilation?
I want to compile a docx file into a Typst file, I believe deep down docx is XML, and Typst is close to markdown with interesting functionalities, is that feasible? Note that Typst does have syntax to define functions and call them and I want to create special functions during the code gen step, is ANTLR the right tool for the...
If managers are so good at managing things, how come they can't manage to manage themselves?
Or why is it that managers need managers to manage their management? 🤔
What is your current wallpaper? Where did you find it? (files.catbox.moe)
Just found the one linked, I like it but I can’t find the high resolution version, so I was curious to see where people get theirs.
People who post in other languages than English, do you also get mass downvotes ?
Recently, on the francophone lemmy, there was some discussion on downvote, as some posts (on francophone instance, or francophone communities) gets a lot of downvote without a reason....
Dutch anti-Islam populist Geert Wilders abandons PM bid (www.bbc.co.uk)
Amsterdam testing system that can remotely slow e-bikes down (nltimes.nl)
Alrighty,...
Norris: No regrets on McLaren's "aggressive" F1 Saudi Arabian GP strategy call (www.autosport.com)
Lando Norris has no regrets about an “aggressive” strategy call in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, suggesting that his McLaren Formula 1 team sometimes plays it a “little bit safe”.