Love seeing mbmbam references in the wild

I think it’s funny that I didn’t even find the Last Judge until the end of act 2, so it was a pretty easy boss in my playthrough

Back in maybe 2012-ish my friend built a new pc with some excessive amount of ram for the time. He had a small enough amount of stuff installed on it that he was able to just load the entire fs into ram, and just load anything off of it effectively instantly.

Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but Wanderstop could fit the bill. It’s a little unconventional, but to great effect; going in without too many preconceptions is probably the best way to play it.

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Like a lot of people mentioned, there’s a few good things you could start with, but C is probably not one of them. At my old job I ran a course for software engineer 2s to go over C, and even they had some struggles with it. If professional engineers struggle with C, it’s maybe not the best starting point. Even C++ might be better, but still adds a lot of complexity that isn’t necessary to know as immediately as the beginning.

Whenever people ask me where to start, I say python. It gives you a relatively tame taste of environment setup, and can run code very easily and flexibly. Its type system is flexible enough to make a user aware of it, without it being as rigid as C or as vague as javascript. Because there’s enough libraries that are easy to pull in, even a beginner can start building useful programs without having to know how to build something equivalent to those libraries themselves.

Obviously if you want them to make websites, javascript will be necessary eventually, and isn’t a bad place to start. If you’re going purely for CS knowledge, I do think python is a little better; going from python to JS is probably easier than JS to python.

I thought I might have as well, but then I realized repeating the question word-for-word is there to help rule that out. It’s not fool-proof, but a human would be a lot less likely to fall for it when reading the question with the explicit intent to make sure they don’t miss, add, or misread any words.

There was a news segment that used that phrase verbatim. I couldn’t find the clip with a cursory search, but I’m sure if you go digging for a hot second, you’ll be able to find it.

As someone who used to live out in the farmland past Wilder — having to drive through Wilder to get to Boise — basically all the farm workers you see are Hispanic. Wilder itself is this tiny town surrounded by farmland. It boggles my mind that people presented with those facts day-in and day-out never put two and two together that removing or scaring away the demographic that makes up all your workers means your town becomes worthless.

My wife and I play a lot of games; my wife is also not super technical — she can get her way around some problems, but not deeper ones, and never uses the terminal, — and we’ve enjoyed bazzite quite a bit with almost no issues.

I also do development, and that’s been fine as well.

“If you really want to vote for someone, but don’t think they’ll win, put them at the top choice with your next choice as a backup; repeat for as many choices as allowed or desired. The backup choices will only be used if your higher choices don’t win. If you don’t want to engage with ranked choice, put who you want as top choice, and stop there.”

With reflowing zoom, all elements get bigger, but lose their relative sizing; eg. sidebars will remain on the screen, taking up relatively more space than they usually would. With pinch zoom, all elements get bigger, and retain their relative sizing to each other.

Basically, reflowing zoom tries to fit everything into a smaller space, while pinch zoom expands everything equally.

If the input is anything of the form 00XX, then p1 == 0. This will fail for p1 != 0 as well as p1 >= 13, meaning neither of the top-level ifs will trigger.

I was on Windows 7 until April of 2021, when I was taking a certification exam remotely, and didn’t find out that the software they used for it didn’t work on 7 until after I had paid the registration fee. Windows 10 was useable enough, but I never thought it was preferable over 7. Anyway, I’m on Bazzite now.

Any game with a free cam should have the option to turn off 3d fly. Trying to perfectly position a camera while having to constantly turn in order to not go up or down while trying to slightly reposition has got to be one of the most annoying things.

One thing you can do that I find comes up pretty often in C is start using switch statements to avoid code duplication. Because your operators all take 2 numbers, you’ve separated out the input handling into its own block; that alone is a really good insight.
You can take it another step further by making your print statement also, mostly, one block of code, with the only difference being the operation being preformed. By printing “The” followed by using an if-else block — or, again, preferably a switch statement — to both print the operation text, and compute memory, you can print the remainder of the line the same way for every operation.
It may seem nitpicky for such a simple program; but the use case of C is for programs which require tight execution and often contain complex, low-level logic. Reducing complexity whenever possible helps make C more readable, as well as signal when the complexity is necessary.

Now that Awesomenauts is back up and running, I’ve been doing pretty well at it this past week

I once worked on a project doing firmware that a lot of people have likely used (printer firmware for a big-name company). One of the more trafficked functions was something like 1500 lines of “if-elseif-elseif…” with something like 13 or 14 different cases.
It did end up getting refactored to something polymorphic and based on a configuration file to cut out any unnecessary steps, but it was like that for a while before I got there, and was like that for most of the year that I was part of the project.

In my experience, using Streamlink will still give you an ad break, but it will just be a screen saying it’s an ad break without any actual ads

Met a really racist person who was like: “All non-real british people should be deported”. I said: “What makes someone real?”; and he was like: “If both their families have been here since the 1700s”. I said: “You know what, I can get behind deporting the king.” and he didnt like that response.