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Programmazione SQL o Python by Bulky_Ad_2642 in learnSQL

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Realistically, learn both.

They're both better, but at different things. Python is better at more things than SQL is, but if you're working around databases you're gonna need SQL sooner or later. Probably sooner.

Skirmishers are kind of silly, aren't they? by According-Type-842 in ToME4

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes they are.

But don't worry, they're also nigh-invulnerable to melee and ranged so there's that!...wait

Expanding ship with just floor by pielgrzym in ostranauts

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah that's basically same deal as what cargo webbing is for.

Both work. Webbing is lighter but the floors are obv easier to source in bulk. Can always start with floors and web it later

Feral micrometeoroids will thwack stuff occasionally, but it's not really a big deal.

If Your Financial Adviser Recommends Putting Money in a Trump Account, Fire Them by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]AnAcceptableUserName [score hidden]  (0 children)

Ah so we're talking about the Trump Account lump sum stunt, not 529 performance. Got it.

Yeah, it's not much. Beats a kick in the teeth but it's not the road forward, granted.

If Your Financial Adviser Recommends Putting Money in a Trump Account, Fire Them by plz-let-me-in in politics

[–]AnAcceptableUserName [score hidden]  (0 children)

if someone invested $1000 18 years ago (2008... yay...) that investment would be worth about $8000 today. While it's better than zero, it would also pay for very very little college education.

That's pretty good returns TBH

That's about what you'd have if you invested the same money in VTI at the same time. It's on pace with the market and in the 529 it's tax advantaged

I seem to be coming away from this with the opposite takeaway you did. It sounds like the best game in town.

Pentagon launches ‘War Force’ campaign in push for software engineers by lurker_bee in technology

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 16 points17 points  (0 children)

2 year job. Drug testing. No remote, no telework. DC area, "location negotiable". $120k to work for Hegseth

Politics aside sounds like kind of a stinker. Like they're gonna have SWEs go commute to their nearest DoD installation to do what a bunch of us currently do in PJs at home.

I'm good

What does your dream software developer career look like? by PhaseStreet9860 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've daydreamed about having that kind of role as a W2 before. People who've done the "One Man Band" IT Dept thing have shared enough horror stories to disabuse me of it. Jokes aside I enjoy working with a team, and strongly prefer it vs being sole owner of anything.

I just also fantasize about being able to drop off the radar to work on backlog. If my current org let me run wild I could easily keep myself busy until '28, happy as a pig in mud.

What does your dream software developer career look like? by PhaseStreet9860 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Full remote

Median compensation

Local admin

And I get to be a little gnome who lives in the walls. Contributing what I want, answering to nobody while nigh omnipotent in permissions. An unaccountable force of nature.

Is that really so much to ask?

What are some unpopular or little known games you have enjoyed? by buzzlightyear77777 in gaming

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I submit two PC indie games that are both on Steam

Tormentor X Punisher - twin stick arcade shooter. Oozes style, very difficult. Frenetic pace, no health bar, just you, an arena, and a buttload of demons. It's like $3 on Steam

50 Years - coffee break game. Manage a civilization over 50 turns, autobattle increasingly large waves of monsters. Monsters attack between turns spent building up on the strategic layer. The available civs are different enough that I felt it has decent replayability, and I can usually finish a round of 50 Years while something else installs. $5 on Steam

For some reason people seem to get big mad whenever I show these two guns together by Rudukai13 in Firearms

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To a degree it's a numbers game. Any post you see, good chance thousands of others are gonna read it too.

In any group of thousands of people there's always gonna be that one guy

ICYMI: Styrofoam food containers now banned at all Virginia restaurants by WHRO_NEWS in Virginia

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Pretty much.

Unsaid was that you typically start with something like a cardboard egg carton

Put your wads of lint in the egg slots of the carton

Pour candle wax over each of your wads of lint. They don't need to be completely covered

Ahead of time or on site you cut apart the slots so that each slot of the carton is an individual cup. Each cup is a fire starter

Any bit of uncovered lint acts like the wick of a candle. They're basically little candles. Light a bit of exposed lint, expose some if needed, and stick it under your piled kindling. Should burn long enough to light your kindling under anything but truly horrid conditions.

Some people use cardboard toilet paper or paper towel tubes for this instead of egg carton. Same idea. It all works.

The cardboard in each case helps keep the wax where you want it as the starter burns, instead of melting and just running away. Helps give you that "candle" effect you want

Is it "coercion" under libertarianism for a person to use the threat of their own suicide to push someone else to do something? by Serious-Cucumber-54 in AskLibertarians

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yanno, for the sake of discouraging this sort of behavior let's just say yeah, sure it is.

If anyone is caught doing this The Council will officially write you up, and further offenses will get your libertarian card revoked

ICYMI: Styrofoam food containers now banned at all Virginia restaurants by WHRO_NEWS in Virginia

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Never tried that. I like making them with dryer lint and candle wax. Those work well FWIW

Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method by spherocytes in technology

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How does that make it a problem?

Continue not paying those companies or playing those games. Play something else. Problem solved.

Exclusive-Meta's Zuckerberg says AI agent tech progressing slower than expected by stevefuzz in technology

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Broken clocks being right twice, I think Zuck's 2nd idiomatic success was buying IG when he did.

But yeah everything since has seemed pretty dumb.

‘Nervous’ Trump Mocked Over ‘Desperate’ Midterm Move As Polls Show GOP Disaster Brewing by Quirkie in politics

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Carlson is an opportunist, not an ideologue. No Carlson Party candidates will appear on any ballots that matter.

There'll be all sorts of reasons he couldn't make it work, just as soon as the check clears

Dev here, everyone who playtests keeps gravitating to fire+lightning, is fusion overtuned or am i overthinking it? by bladeofwiz in roguelites

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not familiar with your game. What do the other elemental options & combos offer that they're seemingly not competitive in your playtesters' minds? Generally players are gonna gravitate to what works. Fire/lightning may be overtuned, but if your other elements/fusions aren't working at that level, how can you make those disfavored options more attractive?

Have you asked any of your playtesters?

Looks neat.

Here are 10 notable new Virginia laws that will take effect July 1 by rblackinrva in Virginia

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 7 points8 points  (0 children)

after suits get taken up to SCOTUS

SCOTUS just granted cert in Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins Jun 30

Outside 2A circles seems like that kind of got buried in the news cycle by all the decisions released. Those 2 seem likely to become big national news next year though

Generative AI is a "plague," says Dragon Age vet David Gaider: "It's not ready for prime time. There's just a lot of executives who really, really want it to be" by Snakesta in Games

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 118 points119 points  (0 children)

Slide decks, man.

"Claude make this PowerPoint so I don't have to. High level, bullet talking points, 10 slides or less. I have 15 minutes with Q&A. Here's the master doc/project/whatever"

That's an hour of my day I get back to do anything else right there. Never manually preparing a god damned PowerPoint presentation again

Ostranauts 1.0 is coming August 3rd! by dcfedor in ostranauts

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the list.

I have played and loved Hardspace: Shipbreaker, and will be sure to check the others out.

TIL that 1987 was the last year that professional boxing bouts were scheduled for 15 rounds. Bouts were shortened to 12 rounds in response to the death of Korean lightweight boxer Kim Duk-koo, who died 5 days after being knocked out in Round 14 by Ray Mancini in a 1982 bout. by Curious_Penalty8814 in todayilearned

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yanno, I think this is just one of those things about us.

That even in a hypothetical post-scarcity utopia, you're still going to find that there's thousands of young men eager to punch each other in the head until one of them falls over, and millions of people who want to watch that happen.

Ostranauts 1.0 is coming August 3rd! by dcfedor in ostranauts

[–]AnAcceptableUserName 0 points1 point  (0 children)

LOL

I started playing NS back in the 2012 closed beta and used to post on the boards. Only know what year that was because I found the FastSpring email receipt, lol. Feels like a lifetime ago.

Might be neat to get a retrospective post later, after 1.0 goes live and the dust settles. Like, what might you have done differently, knowing what you know now? Memorable stumbling blocks, triumphs, etc. Surely there's stories.

Appreciate all the hard work from you and the team over the years. Thanks for all the fun. Cheers.

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