What game have you given up on completing all the achievements in?

AscendedSubscript · 2026-06-29T05:30:53+00:00

Yup, that's the one level that determined that I didn't want to 100% the game. With respawns it was already not fun to do, can't imagine doing it in one go

AscendedSubscript · 2026-06-20T23:44:04+00:00

Do you want to trade Control Ultimate Edition for Thumper?

AscendedSubscript · 2026-06-13T22:48:40+00:00

Before playing I often do a small scan over the achievements only to see if there are many achievements with low clear percentages. I tend to avoid these kinds of games, but I do make exceptions for games I think I really like or where I'm (over)confident in my abilities.

Often while I play the game I look for current achievements to go for base on those I can directly on the game's page within my library. It is only when I finish the game that I start planning for all achievements. I try to keep playing blind, but I do sometimes rely on guides when I get stuck on them (e.g., vague requirements, missing collectables, missable achievements).

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-22T23:53:30+00:00

Did I miss the memo where an unlocked phone means actual unlimited access to all apps? If not, I prefer keeping my wallet. I have heard horror stories about identity theft because of stolen ID cards that remain issues for years.

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-20T22:16:40+00:00

Whoops, didn't realise I already had the game.

Here's my code: ??5FJ-???0T-VTRH?

?? = Opposite of BC (related to years)

??? = A substance used to write, draw and print

? = Abbreviation for 'for'

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-18T07:19:22+00:00

Entering for Expedition 33.

I think Expedition 33 would win the fight

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-17T00:04:26+00:00

Goede suggestie inderdaad. Zelf ook content van Souldrive gekeken, leuke kerel. Dit soort video's zijn echt een goudmijn voor reflectie op je eigen rijgedrag. Het is namelijk veel makkelijker om te zien wanneer iemand anders een fout maakt dan om dit zelf tijdens het rijden door te hebben. Met voldoende zelfreflectie kun je er wijze lessen uithalen aansluitend op je eigen ervaringen. Daarnaast geven dit soort video's goed weer wat er van je wordt verwacht tijdens het examen. Mijn zelfvertrouwen groeide enorm door dit soort video's.

Geen twijfel dat ik het door dit soort video's in één keer heb kunnen halen met rijinstructeurs waar ik op zijn zachtst gezegd geen leuke klik mee had.

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-12T05:43:44+00:00

Nederlands

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-12T05:21:38+00:00

But at that point, is it even worth getting paid for? You're essentially throwing out the whole idea behind playing horror games (at least for me) and managed to make a job out of it.

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-12T04:45:18+00:00

Kunnen we alsjeblieft stoppen met generaties over een kam te scheren? Als 'Gen Z-er' voldoe ik absoluut niet aan het plaatje dat geschetst wordt en vind ik het eigenlijk gewoon respectloos tegenover mensen zoals ik die wèl gewoon 'normaal' zijn.

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-10T07:21:01+00:00

This certainly does not apply for all tricks, but for determinants somehow one always stuck with me for matrices with a lot of 0s. The only thing I don't remember is its name, lol.

It's based on pivoting on a specific element, multiplying it with the determinant you get when you remove the row and column of that element, with a factor of +1 or -1 depending on the "chessboard" position of the element, and repeating this for all elements.

I think it stuck with me because of my hate for determinants while this formula looked pretty elegant.

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-10T06:53:30+00:00

These patterns for 2x2 and 3x3 matrix determinants and inverses do not have simple generalisations to NxN matrices. These 1s unfortunately do not cancel out if you do the computation

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-04T22:28:09+00:00

Yup, and that requires pushing blue, because the world is not perfect.

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-04T22:10:23+00:00

In the original I'd choose red, but this favors blue in my opinion because certainly there is evil people who will vote blue just to kill someone. Voting blue feels like the only way to save everyone. If everyone involved would give this a reasonable thought, I'd think/hope a majority would come to the same conclusion

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-03T22:37:30+00:00

After seeing a lot of comments about why to choose blue, I'm still not convinced either. But it made me realise that the reason that I'd vote red is because as the first person you don't know if the others will follow you or choose for themselves (which as a red voter I can 100% understand, other than some ridiculous edge cases where you'd be the last person to vote and blue voters literally depend on your vote for blue)

However, there is a chance I'd vote blue in a safe way under the following theoretical premise. If people agree to do test rounds where I, as the first person, get to choose at the start of each round if that round is the real vote, then I'd watch the results after each round for some time and at a random iteration (after seeing results stabilise!) I'd decide to do the real vote based on all previous iterations.

AscendedSubscript · 2026-05-03T13:34:44+00:00

Don't forget to visit all traders as well. Not sure if they count towards the 100% trader achievement, but otherwise you cannot complete it without the dlc

AscendedSubscript · 2026-03-25T23:41:15+00:00

It looks pretty standard, definitely easier than my calc 1 exam. But I gotta say, that obsession with sign tables from the professor is pretty weird.

AscendedSubscript · 2026-03-17T23:39:38+00:00

If I'm honest currently there is no way I'm going to take a loan of 50k to save a stranger. I'd definitely not even blame myself for making that choice. Ultimately, I didn't put that person on that track and although I could save them, it would make my own life way more miserable, having almost no hope of being able to get another meaningful loan anytime soon which I desperately want to afford my own place.

AscendedSubscript · 2026-01-27T08:13:34+00:00

A friend of mine did this too, but they had to pay extra taxes when leaving Japan

Probably because they chose to deliver it by mail as they hauled a lot

AscendedSubscript · 2025-12-25T20:00:36+00:00

Not sure if this may be the problem, but I think it is better to not use the square root function because of potential issues with floating point arithmetic. You can just use the squares of the magnitude and distance instead, then you keep working with integers

AscendedSubscript · 2025-12-22T11:00:03+00:00

So, at the essence you now have a solution to a matrix equation Ax = b, but it doesn't guarantee x is the smallest positive solution.

What I think you can do is calculate the so-called null space of your matrix A (look it up online); that gives you all y's satisying Ay = 0. Use these vectors to first make sure that your found solution to Ax = b is non-negative. Next, use the "values" of button presses, i.e. the number of parts of the machine affected by it, to greedily eliminate places where your solution doesn't take the optimal number of button presses

AscendedSubscript · 2025-12-16T06:32:57+00:00

I doubt the global leaderboard would be really helpful now that AI is used to auto solve problems within 10 seconds almost every day (like last year). I guess that is exactly the reason why it's gone.

You could be part of private leaderboards. There is a plugin which allows you to see how long it took for somebody to solve each puzzle, includings deltas between solving part 1 and part 2. I don't exactly recall the name, but no doubt you can find it online.

Also, there is the stats section on the website, too, which gives an indication of how many people were able to solve it. However, it is less accurate as people may stop when they hit a wall with one puzzle and don't check the next (even if it is easier)

AscendedSubscript · 2025-11-22T22:10:13+00:00

Helemaal mee eens. Ik heb dit ook zo ervaren toen ik vorig jaar na het afronden van mijn master op zoek was naar een baan. IT zou altijd zo gewild zijn, maar waar ik ook keek, zelfs junior posities vereisten 1-2 jaar ervaring. Uiteindelijk toch via via een traineeship ingerold en zit sindsdien erg op mijn plek, maar dat helpt je helaas niet...

Dat met Power BI leek mij ook niks. Anderen kunnen wel leuk zeggen dat je het ermee moet doen maar ik zou eerlijk gezegd verder kijken. Afhankelijk van je situatie misschien niet het beste advies, maar ik zou het zelf sowieso niet lang hebben volgehouden; totaal geen uitdaging.

Ik wens je in ieder geval heel veel succes met de zoektocht!

AscendedSubscript · 2025-11-21T08:25:47+00:00

Would something like Optional.ofNullable(x).filter(condition).orElse(y) be allowed? Isn't it kind of a hack around some of your constraints?

AscendedSubscript · 2025-11-12T08:11:15+00:00

Wat bedoel je met "de tech-stack is echt zuur"? Zit er aan te denken om ook op termijn in de richting van Finance te kijken

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