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  • what's the coolest thing you have ever programmed?

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  • Coolest thing is hard... I'm a bit of a nerd, but let's go from a few angles.

    As a kid I had made and recreated a number of games on my TI-83+ and did some fun optimization challenges to get as much in the pure BASIC code as possible. I was working in an ARG into it. But all that code is lost because I didn't know how to back up that stuff back then. (And I was a bit lazy even when I knew I should.)

    I'm proud of how fun my Football mod for Binding of Isaac is. It's just an item that give Isaac randomly bouncing projectiles, like how a football kind of sporadically bounces in real life. I meant to release a challenge where you get ipecac and football to start, and all explosion immunities are removed from the pool. With a short goal since I think that's enough chaos.

    But probably from a different angle PySpeedup and DriveLink are libraries I designed to improve code as invisibly to the end user as possible because I got tired of taking PhD coders' code and making it actually work because they don't understand swap space or scheduling. (I've worked with brilliant algorithms at times, but had to correct critical misunderstandings of the computer at times.) I haven't touched the libraries in years, but a lot of time and research went into it, and there was a full test suite and documentation. I don't think the idea is fully without merit yet as the multiprocessing in Python is better but still has oddities, and I don't think there's an RAM aware abstraction in the base language yet? I forget what state I left things in. I know the CI I was using doesn't exist (for free users) anymore though.

  • Please Don’t Be a Lurker!

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  • Not really. I physically don't have the energy. Can't speak for the person above, but most of the time, I just can't interact here without having to take a break. Like. Lay down and close my eyes break. (I'm okay now, if you couldn't tell.)

    To others, I'm chronically ill, but not being able to interact here doesn't make you less valid. Lurking is fine too. This post is a call to arms but if you can't answer it don't. Your health comes first.

    Upvoting and downvoting is appreciated if you have the energy for that, but don't feel pressured.

  • What TV series has the worst continuity or internal plot consistency?

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  • Never got into GoT but I getcha.

  • What TV series has the worst continuity or internal plot consistency?

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  • Oh right.

    It's only the netherworld after they get back to the island or something. IDK and IDC honestly. I never liked the afterlife author theory.

    And yeah.

  • What TV series has the worst continuity or internal plot consistency?

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  • "Don't tell me what I can't do" is Locke's catchline. "You All Everybody" is the song that Pippin (whatever his name is in Lost, I don't know) sings with his band. (Whose lyrical inspiration was from someone shouting word salad at the cast of Lost before shooting started and was ad libbed when Pippin was trying to get Jack to recognize him as the lead singer.)

    Maybe I remember more than I thought.

    Also. I think not pressing the numbers caused a (apparently reversible) meltdown that resulted in a huge magnetic field like the one that pulled down the plane. Or something like that.

  • What TV series has the worst continuity or internal plot consistency?

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  • The "official" answer I keep hearing is they're only actually dead in the last episode, which makes everything about it cheap and tacky, so I reject that.

    But there's an alternate timeline shown where they never were on the island as well, iirc. And it's all just weird. You can't be internally inconsistent if there's never any established consistency.

    I enjoyed it like watching a train wreck in slow motion and getting to discuss it with people as it developed. But it clearly didn't have enough of an impact on me to remember anything worth remembering except "Don't tell me what I can't do" and "You all everybody."

  • Dog shoots owner in the back after jumping on shotgun left on bed: Police

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  • Can confirm. My anti intruder body pillow is a little uncomfortable sometimes.

  • List of games where knowledge is progression

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  • Mostly out of laziness. I keep forgetting the spoiler markdown... I used Discord and Telegram's spoiler format first... Also, that ended up spoilered so it didn't tell me how to do it. ;;

  • List of games where knowledge is progression

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  • It took me twenty in game days to be offered

    the foundation

    after

    repelling it after putting it outside with the monk blessing

    ... I would agree with you, but I have really bad RNG. It needs a pity system of some sort... Even the later upgrades don't cut it.

    I burned over twenty rerolls one day to finally get it to appear again.

    I know you don't need

    the foundation

    but that's just to illustrate my luck.

  • Does Terminal use actually make sense in the real world?

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  • Clicking? I spend most of my time typing. Even in Labview there's some typing to do. And godot requires a substantial amount of code to go with the gui side, it just has its own text editor.

    But I mostly mod games these days, and I frequently need to understand the terminal api that's being used to gather and use resources because the vscode gui fails to get things set up on its own a lot. I use the terminal directly less these days. But I still interact with it daily. Heck, I even use terminal args in steam game launching to improve performance occasionally.

    I mostly use the terminal for automation though. And ffmpeg.

  • Guess the show name

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  • Right you are Ken.

  • [x]

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  • I know plenty of girls with full beards. And plenty of guys who can't grow them. It's not common, sure, but a female perp could just get a fake beard if we go by the gender presentation on a license.

    I stand by my statement.

  • [x]

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  • The license already has a picture. Neither sex nor gender provide any value in identification, and have lead to misidentification of cis people too.

  • If A.I. is so fast and efficient, and CEOs are paid so much, why not replace CEOs with A.I.?

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  • It is amazing how human CEOs manage to surpass a 100% hallucination rate.

  • Alex Jones sports Hitler mustache in shocking broadcast: 'It had a wild effect on women'

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  • I don't think he did it on purpose either, but the lead part is true. The Center for Environment Health did test it.

    Don't worry, I'm going to die to this fascism too.

    You're barking up the wrong tree. Most people in the state are incompetent, not evil. The problem is incompetence allows evil to thrive. I've never supported censorship, but I do support people getting consequences to their actions. Alex Jones has actively supported violence through lies, and actively sold poison with no recompense. If you think what he's going through now is recompense.... I'm sorry? But you're wrong. He's doing fine through his crocodile tears.

    Please. Take care of yourself. And whomever in your community you have the power to take care of. We only get through this together.

  • Alex Jones sports Hitler mustache in shocking broadcast: 'It had a wild effect on women'

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  • There's a pretty good series of episodes on the podcast Behind The Bastards. Including how he sold high in lead content supplements for years. That actually might be brilliant though, as lead increases violent tendencies and reduces cognitive function, which will prevent his customer base from realizing he's just making shit up and trying to make them mad.

  • Very much smart people

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  • It's good. Thanks for correcting yourself. :3

    The graphs struck me as weird when learning as I expected the input and output nodes to be neuron layers as well... Which they are, but not in the same way. So I frequently miscounted myself while learning, sleep deprived in the back of the classroom. ;;

  • Very much smart people

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  • There are ways to estimate a little more accurately, but the amount of fine tuning that is guesswork and brute force searching is too damn high...

  • Very much smart people

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  • Simplest multilayer perceptron*.

    A neural network can be made with only one hidden layer (and still, mathematically proven, be able to output any possible function result, just not as easily trained, and with a much higher number of neurons).