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| Topic | What's the deal with facial recognition technology? |
| Sahuagin 07/02/20 3:04:03 AM #5 | Lokarin posted... I didn't know pizza hut owned wendy's... no wonder both suck!no... pizza hut is owned by Yum (previously pepsi's restaurant division). wendy's is owned by wendy's. --- |
| Topic | not sure if Fireworks or Gunshots... |
| Sahuagin 07/01/20 3:50:11 AM #10 | one time it was a pickup truck that had burst into flames like 200 feet away from my home. afaik some of the sounds were the windows bursting from the heat. (also the tires exploding too probably/possibly). at first I thought it could be gunshots, and then was pretty alarmed when there were more and more sirens that only got louder and never quieter and all sounded like they stopped right on top of me. was quite a sight when I went out to see it, whole front of the truck just a roaring inferno. still not entirely sure what happened. it also burned up the front of the guys home, and burst his front window. --- |
| Topic | Question about work... |
| Sahuagin 06/30/20 12:52:04 AM #19 | in this situation I ask my management something like "is this our responsibility or theirs? if it's ours, that's fine, but then it should be added to our budget". usually this results in a non-answer. --- |
| Topic | How do you feel about excel |
| Sahuagin 06/30/20 12:13:58 AM #12 | Clench281 posted... It thinks it knows better than you, the user, and automatically converts types.this is annoying, yes. you basically need to write various read functions that can each accept any kind of cell value, since a text column can have a number in it or vice-versa. but then, I don't think there's that many options either. any cell is going to have either a string, a double, or null. (could be wrong, but I think double is the only numeric type, which is also used for date values.) so really your main difference is between text and numbers, and then just deciding how picky you want to be about truncating, or if a value is required, etc. so, a read int function that truncates but requires a value (pseudo-code): case null: throw "value is required in {row, col}"case string: parse double, throw if cant, cast to intcase double: cast to intcase other: throw "unexpected data type in {row, col}"you can have a complete collection of such functions, and then provide a mapping between column header values and read functions and you can load data independent of column order and report when a required column is missing. also, it's a *lot* faster to load the whole sheet into an array rather than scan the sheet itself. just be aware that it will be an array with a 1-based index. (you can use the UsedRange property of the Worksheet object to get the entire range of data in the file (though in certain cases it might be way too big if someone placed a random value way out in the middle of nowhere)). --- |
| Topic | what's your son's favorite hulk hogan movie? |
| Sahuagin 06/29/20 12:37:33 AM #2 | |
| Topic | I flew this past week, and now I'm fatigued and have headaches and a cough |
| Sahuagin 06/29/20 12:24:05 AM #13 | jramirez23 posted... Yeah I think this makes sense, although at first it didnt lol. If the chances are really 0 or 1, then we would probably know.if I'm guessing the probability, with almost no information, then it's between 0 and 1, except that I definitely can't say it's a 0% chance, and I definitely can't say it's a 100% chance. if I said either of those, that's not really a probability anymore; I would be saying that I know he's not infected, or is infected. --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 28: Would you like a new Ogre Battle or Tactics Ogre game? |
| Sahuagin 06/29/20 12:08:12 AM #9 | interesting and deep unit tree with lots of hard to reach and fun to have unit types more complex ways to compose your armies as you pointed out, maybe better overall strategic map play, with unit positions being much more critical maybe more leader customization, including strategic not just tactical properties (stats that effect the whole map). maybe apply this leader customization to the leaders you face, so that each one has their own strengths and weaknesses. I guess you wouldn't want to push it in the direction of 4x games, so maybe steer clear of city management unless it was done in a more unique way. --- |
| Topic | I flew this past week, and now I'm fatigued and have headaches and a cough |
| Sahuagin 06/28/20 11:56:18 PM #11 | MrMelodramatic posted... More like [0,1]as long as it's an unknown, it shouldn't be either 0% or 100% --- |
| Topic | I flew this past week, and now I'm fatigued and have headaches and a cough |
| Sahuagin 06/28/20 9:59:12 PM #4 | something like (0, 1) --- |
| Topic | Elon Musk and his wife named their new child 'X Æ A-XII' |
| Sahuagin 06/28/20 5:59:23 PM #5 | looks like first name is just X which is not tooo bad. middle name is A-XII whatever the hell that means but who cares about middle names. --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 28: Would you like a new Ogre Battle or Tactics Ogre game? |
| Sahuagin 06/28/20 4:21:21 PM #6 | Would you like a new Ogre Battle or Tactics Ogre game? yes please, though make it available on PC if possible, thanks --- |
| Topic | So are we getting to the point where toothpaste will go the way of the dodo? |
| Sahuagin 06/28/20 4:11:48 PM #31 | Revelation34 posted... Seriously? Teeth are supposed to be white which is where whitening comes from. There is nothing unfortunate about a biological fact.I don't mean just teeth, but in general. things that are white tend to be clean. just that by itself is not unfortunate; it's unfortunate that it's easy to project onto skin tone when skin tone doesn't have anything to do with cleanliness. --- |
| Topic | Just a friendly reminder that ALL Star Wars movies are good |
| Sahuagin 06/28/20 3:00:28 PM #35 | adjl posted... "Canon" is literally "this stuff exists, anything else is unofficial and will not be recognized moving forward in the universe." If you treat something that is canon as though it isn't, you're pretending that it doesn't exist in-universe.I think what muscles is talking about is called "headcanon"; ie: choosing your own personal canon (for any reason, but often due to the original being messed up in some way.) --- |
| Topic | So are we getting to the point where toothpaste will go the way of the dodo? |
| Sahuagin 06/28/20 2:53:58 PM #29 | adjl posted... This is completely about skin colour, though, because these are skin whitening products. Demonizing the word "white" more broadly than that would indeed be silly, but this is a matter of changing marketing that literally promotes whiter skin as being desirable/better.yeah I was thinking of teeth whitening at the time. there is an unfortunate association between whiteness and cleanliness, but that still shouldn't make wanting things to be white (clean) racist. (because that kind of whiteness is not the same thing. really it's more like calling caucasians "white" in the first place is more racist than calling clean teeth "white". caucasians are not really "white".). for the skin products thing... I don't think customizing your appearance should be considered racist, even making your skin lighter if that's what you want. a person can get a tan, too, that doesn't make it racist. or they can dye their hair, etc.etc. but, to the degree that the company's marketing campaigns are pushing a cultural bias towards lighter skin and against darker skin, it's probably a good idea to stop doing that. it's one thing if it was completely neutral/benign, but as long as there's a group of people that are facing unjust discrimination partly because of that exact thing, then it isn't. --- |
| Topic | I'm trying to find a site that discusses obscure tech news. |
| Sahuagin 06/28/20 5:55:31 AM #2 | Judgmenl posted... I want to find any other site on the internet that discussed this.you mean a very specific edit of a very specific github project? why would anyone outside of that github project or other places specifically devoted to that project talk about it? wouldn't that already be the place to discuss it? there could be better answers to your question that I would like to hear as well. for me, stack exchange in general is a good place to be to learn about new and current trends in programming. though it's not always done in the usual message board "hey look at this" fashion; it's more up to you to look something up that you hear about and want to know more about, or to learn new things while trying to figure out problems for other people. --- |
| Topic | Which next gen console will you be getting? |
| Sahuagin 06/27/20 6:56:58 PM #12 | tempted to get a PS5 since it's actually backwards compatible with PS4. but there'd have to be some important games that I can't play otherwise, too, which I'm unsure of. --- |
| Topic | So are we getting to the point where toothpaste will go the way of the dodo? |
| Sahuagin 06/26/20 10:22:33 PM #22 | one thing that annoys me about this is how "white" people are not literally white, and "black" people are not literally black. it doesn't make any sense to project race onto colors of inanimate objects, or to object to the words "black" and "white" in non-racial contexts. there's more to race than skin color, and more to racism than color-ism. --- |
| Topic | Technically all of this is food |
| Sahuagin 06/26/20 2:32:39 AM #16 | why are there so many sliced hard-boiled eggs? do people not like those? --- |
| Topic | decaf coffee is just like...something pretending to be coffee |
| Sahuagin 06/25/20 8:45:43 PM #4 | InfestedAdam posted... How much does decaf taste differ?a lot... honestly it tends to taste like s***. if that's how coffee normally tasted I would probably never drink it. --- |
| Topic | Video game history quiz |
| Sahuagin 06/25/20 8:42:18 PM #18 | Entity13 posted... So Google was wrong about the release date of Mario Bros., at least when I checked? Huh. That's odd.depending what you were looking at, be careful when google tells you directly what it thinks the answer to a question is. it looks very official when it puts it in big bold letters, but every now and then it has inferred the wrong meaning of your question, or pulled a date value from somewhere that doesn't actually mean what it thinks it means, etc. --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 25: Ogre Battle is a fine RPG, but is it a bad strategy game? |
| Sahuagin 06/25/20 5:18:32 AM #2 | Lokarin posted... But rolling over entire armies with a god unit is more RPG than strategy.I can't recall, are you actively playing the game right now? or just watching videos of it? (that seems odd) do you know, is it the case that you can roflstomp the enemy and not lose tons of alignment? it's "supposed" to be that if you do that, you'll nosedive your alignment. I do vaguely recall that the gain from being high alignment VS low alignment offset that a lot (and also vaguely recall that certain maps with holy units were very difficult for that reason (since all of a sudden you can't slaughter them without huge penalties). otherwise I think you're right that the gameplay is a little weak on strategy (which personally I don't mind since I'm more of a "role-player" than "power gamer" anyway); or at least certain kinds of strategy (unit placement and counter-movement). the strategy is more about army composition, army growth, and how you deal with the opponent's army composition. (imagine playing a 1v1 vs another human player... that would sure be a different experience...) --- |
| Topic | Video game history quiz |
| Sahuagin 06/25/20 3:29:53 AM #2 | cool that was fun. learned a couple things too. (15/21) --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 24: What's your favourite unit in Ogre Battle/FFTactics? |
| Sahuagin 06/24/20 9:55:27 PM #12 | Ogre Battle: Lich probably FFT: can barely remember, and there's so many good ones... Ninjas and Samurai are awesome. Geomancers I like. Monks I like. --- |
| Topic | Which of these upcoming games on my radar are you most interested in? |
| Sahuagin 06/23/20 1:51:17 AM #3 | Lokarin posted... Creeper World 4definitely this --- |
| Topic | Relevant to poll - How much have you spent in Steam? |
| Sahuagin 06/23/20 1:49:59 AM #12 | $2,953.58 --- |
| Topic | Director Joel Schumaker may have died |
| Sahuagin 06/22/20 10:19:11 PM #2 | |
| Topic | What if you were allowed to fire your boss? |
| Sahuagin 06/21/20 8:00:28 PM #5 | I have wondered if you could somehow have a democratic business structure. most businesses are basically totalitarian, and there are definitely problems that emerge from that. would not be easy to do though. --- |
| Topic | Any fans of Heroes of Might & Magic around here? |
| Sahuagin 06/21/20 3:26:52 PM #2 | Might and Magic yes, Heroes of Might and Magic less so, though I've been meaning to try them. I played HoMM5 like halfway through once. --- |
| Topic | Lawn mowing |
| Sahuagin 06/21/20 2:58:52 PM #14 | I did mine for the first time last weekend, though I got interrupted by a rain storm. I finished it yesterday for the first time. actually pretty satisfying... the main downside was mosquitos. I must have gotten like 2 dozen bites on my arms, each time. I've ordered some bug spray but it doesn't get here till wednesday. --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 2020: Is Ogre Battle's success solely because of its song? |
| Sahuagin 06/20/20 9:21:38 PM #2 | ah yes, I remember "Fight It Out!" "Liberation!" but no, I don't think that's it. IMO the units and unit trees are awesome, and the sheer amount of meaningful decision making that goes into organizing your army. there aren't very many games that I know of (if any?) where you manually put together each and every unit on the battlefield. (having trouble with the words unit and army... if a set of units is called a "unit" what do you call an individual unit? or if a set of units is called an "army" what do you call the entire army? I guess an individual character is supposed to be a "soldier" or something? so, an army is many units and a unit is many soldiers?) --- |
| Topic | Dad, whose Kids DIED in a HOT TRUCK is RELEASED after video shows they WENT IN! |
| Sahuagin 06/20/20 8:46:12 PM #42 | Nichtcrawler X posted... There is no way to affect the internal hatches of a residential front door here from the outside without the key.the doors I know of have at least three states on the inside "switch" (little turning button thing that also can be pushed in). but I'm having trouble remembering exactly what the states are. I have muscle memory reflexes for locking them to make sure they're properly locked. I know two of the states are fully locked and fully unlocked. the other state or states are something to do with one or both of: - staying locked when you unlock it with a key. (the knob turns and allows you entry, but the door remains locked.) - not staying locked when you close it. if the latch is depressed, the door becomes unlocked. I'm not even sure what this mode is for or why you would want it to do that. I just know that I always press the latch to make sure the door stays locked, otherwise if it's set the wrong way you close the door and it unlocks. (these are internal doors though, not external doors. they're just the closest thing I'm familiar with to a door that is never unlocked from the outside, except maybe for apartment building doors.) --- |
| Topic | Dad, whose Kids DIED in a HOT TRUCK is RELEASED after video shows they WENT IN! |
| Sahuagin 06/20/20 7:33:14 PM #39 | Nichtcrawler X posted... Uhm, no? There is no way for me to open a front door, from the outside, without a key, without breaking the door.not all locks are like that, even on front doors. some locks have an additional state for that mode (unlocked inside, locked outside) but still have a fully unlocked state and fully locked state. (something like that anyway... the locks I'm thinking of actually always unlock from the inside, but I think there's a mode where they stay locked even if you unlock them to enter. but they can also be fully unlocked.) --- |
| Topic | So should I skip Dark Souls II |
| Sahuagin 06/20/20 2:43:29 AM #48 | ZBug_ posted... Get original DkS 2. DO NOT get scholar of the first sin.ah, yes, I should really clarify all my statements as being about SotFS not vanilla DS2. I haven't played vanilla DS2 and always forget it exists. I don't know the actual differences; some people say they're not very different. --- |
| Topic | So should I skip Dark Souls II |
| Sahuagin 06/20/20 12:43:02 AM #45 | Gaawa_chan posted... It's funny because I also consistently see people saying that it's one of the easiest Souls games (and that that's a bad thing)... so... *shrug*it's not so much that it's "hard" as that it's designed unnecessarily frustrating. a game can be hard without being frustrating, but DS2 is in ways specifically made to feel frustrating rather than enjoyably challenging. --- |
| Topic | Aside from running water into the battery compartment, what are some... |
| Sahuagin 06/20/20 12:20:17 AM #36 | SirPikachu posted... Imagine being this wrongI don't know for sure but it's compatible with my experience. my iPhone 3G has lasted something like 10 years now. meanwhile I can't count the number of times I've seen family members and coworkers have to replace their android phones. --- |
| Topic | Aside from running water into the battery compartment, what are some... |
| Sahuagin 06/19/20 10:18:45 PM #28 | to use water to destroy an electronic device, you would get its electronics wet while it's powered. you want to create shorts between high-current and low-current components so that something receives more power than it can withstand and burns out. if you got just the battery wet, theoretically you would just short the battery itself out, not any of the components. (super-theoretically, as long as the positive and negative battery terminals are shorted, no electricity would ever reach the rest of the device.) to damage it, you want electricity to enter the device (no battery short), but then short with some vulnerable internal part. --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 18: Are there any other games with battle systems like OB(64) |
| Sahuagin 06/18/20 9:59:52 PM #2 | the only thing I can think of that isn't really anywhere close (but I'd rather mention something than nothing) is the Majesty games, where you're not in control of your units, but rather build things for them to use and do your best to make the supplies they need available for them to purchase. (so, the only similarity is that the combat is automatic, and your decisions are more strategic in nature.) (I guess in some way any 4x games that you use auto-calc in would be sort of similar... but somehow auto-calc doesn't seem the same for some reason, although it might be.) (also tag, because if there are games like Ogre Battle, I'd sure like to know about it) --- |
| Topic | Month of the Ogre 12: Do you even read your game manuals? |
| Sahuagin 06/18/20 9:50:04 PM #5 | that was the best part of old PC strategy games and some infinity engine games (BG1, BG2, and IWD all have *amazing* manuals.) --- |
| Topic | best n64 game? |
| Sahuagin 06/18/20 9:38:43 PM #5 | Body Harvest --- |
| Topic | So should I skip Dark Souls II |
| Sahuagin 06/18/20 9:24:02 PM #43 | Revelation34 posted... Pretty sure every Dark Souls game acts like you're supposed to die.not like 2. 2 actually tells you you're "gonna die and die and die" as if it was a good thing, and you can feel it in the design. 1 and 3 are maybe hard games, but they're not obsessed with the idea that the player has to die a lot and that that's what the point of the game is. --- |
| Topic | So should I skip Dark Souls II |
| Sahuagin 06/18/20 9:11:37 PM #41 | DirtBasedSoap posted... so is dark souls iis gimmick just being stupidly hard? cause im honestly hating it.pretty sure I've already said it in one of your or someone's other "how is Dark Souls 2" threads, but yeah, the game acts as if the whole point of Dark Souls is that you're supposed to die, and it kind of has that baked into its gameplay. you get used to it after a half-dozen playthroughs or so 8) the worst part is that there are a couple ambushes where the enemies actually have infinite stamina, and they can run at you forever and attack forever. it's hard to survive those when you know about them, nevermind your first playthrough. basically, it ends up being hard in a bad way instead of in a good way. it can be incredibly frustrating if you let it, but it's not too bad if you can get used to it. (that's true for all of them actually, but maybe this one the most.) --- |
| Topic | What is the last book you read? |
| Sahuagin 06/18/20 3:08:17 AM #27 | EclairReturns posted... Is that written for any particular language, I imagine, in order to compare 'messy code' to 'clean code'?it's language-independent mostly. Robert C. Martin has three "Clean" books: Clean Code, Clean Architecture, and The Clean Coder. Clean Code is actually about "comparing messy code to clean code". IIRC almost all of the examples are Java, but still the advice works for any language. Clean Architecture is focused on higher-level organization of software systems. It basically works its way up to Hexagonal Architecture (which is like the awesomest thing ever and I can't believe I only learned about it like ~9 months ago), but he doesn't go into very much detail. (This book I feel could have had a whole other section leading the reader through a full implementation of a Hexagonal system.) (He does say that Hexagonal is only one example of a clean architecture though. I haven't learned others yet, but Hexagonal is my favorite at the moment.) The Clean Coder focuses on being a professional ("clean") employee rather that being directly applicable to code. Things like, don't agree to deadlines you obviously can't make; it's your responsibility to inform management of the true nature of the situation; make sure you don't lose control of your codebase (keep it tested at all times); etc. --- |
| Topic | What is the last book you read? |
| Sahuagin 06/17/20 10:05:21 PM #6 | I don't read fiction very often the most recent thing I'm reading is Language Implementation Patterns the most recent thing I've finished was The Clean Coder --- |
| Topic | if antifa is terrorists doesn't that mean George Washington was terrorists? |
| Sahuagin 06/17/20 9:44:27 PM #38 | Lokarin posted... But under this defnition, antifa can't be terroristsI don't know anything about "antifa" one way or the other. probably calling them terrorists is an exaggeration, or else they must have committed a terrorist act of some kind. --- |
| Topic | Will America have to shut down again? |
| Sahuagin 06/17/20 9:34:01 PM #22 | St_Kevin posted... Your Covid cases are going up againwhat's your source for this? using John Hopkins data system (though none of this takes into account population density or percapita): many states have basically recovered and are stable at low numbers New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Michigan, Connecticut some states have never peaked and are just still increasing or just starting to increase California, Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi some have peaked and are slowly descending Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin some have very little change over time Indiana, Ohio, Georgia very few that I've seen have actually had a downward trend that reversed. even when I can sort of see that, it's only slight Florida, maybe Louisiana, definitely Washington --- |
| Topic | if antifa is terrorists doesn't that mean George Washington was terrorists? |
| Sahuagin 06/17/20 8:57:18 PM #35 | Lokarin posted... What about the targeting of civilian merchant ships, such as during WW1 and WW2?it can probably be argued different ways, but I would say as long as there's a military/strategic goal then it isn't really. terrorism is attacking civilians for the sake of attacking civilians. not damaging civilians while also gaining some other military advantage. in "regular" warfare, civilian casualties are generally minimized when possible. in "terrorist" warfare, civilian casualties are actually sought for. --- |
| Topic | Poliception |
| Sahuagin 06/17/20 1:56:13 AM #34 | Lokarin posted... what's the difference between a pastor and a priestit depends, but mostly protestant VS catholic (orthodox has priests too, but not as familiar with orthodox). a priest claims to be a proxy for jesus. this is "heretical" to protestants. ("none shall come to the father but by me") a pastor is just the church leader, it's up to you as a protestant to contact jesus yourself. (this is of course endlessly arguable on both sides since neither side can really be right; and of course I'm over simplifying it to avoid writing a whole essay on a gaming forum) --- |
| Topic | Dad, whose Kids DIED in a HOT TRUCK is RELEASED after video shows they WENT IN! |
| Sahuagin 06/17/20 1:00:20 AM #13 | Zeus posted... I would point out how ridiculous and nonsensical a stretch of the imagination that is, but ridiculous, nonsensical, farcical stretches of the imagination are pretty much your thing.I see the dog is barking in my direction for a time, oh frabjous day, callooh, callay --- |
| Topic | Dad, whose Kids DIED in a HOT TRUCK is RELEASED after video shows they WENT IN! |
| Sahuagin 06/16/20 10:36:52 PM #3 | voted no, but really I think there's *some* negligence. he slept for 5 hours while his kids were up? also, it could be possible that he *told* them to go wait in the truck, but I guess there'd be no way of proving anything. --- |
| Topic | Anyone who likes the Resident Evil games is a liar. |
| Sahuagin 06/16/20 10:30:42 PM #27 | 2 is good, 4 is crap, dunno about the others --- |
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