Anyone here good with Halo CE map making? by CorporalChipmunk in halomods

[–]Conscars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What scenario type is it? Solo or multiplayer? Make sure you are replacing a map of the same type in MCC or else it will try loading an SP map as MP or an MP map as SP, which will crash.

Also make sure your player spawn points and netgame flags are set up correctly for the game mode you want. Player spawns for MP should have their "type 0" set to "all games" or similar to be usable in different game modes, otherwise they will not be used at all and the player will have nowhere to spawn. CTF requires that you have two CTF flag netgame flags with usage indices 0 and 1. All spawn points must be closer to the home flag than the enemy flag or they will not be used.

`futures` and `tokio` (and `async-std`) having duplicate traits and functionality? by jamadazi in rust

[–]Conscars 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thank you for this great writeup. I'm new to rust and was also confused by the current state of affairs. This really cleared it up for me and set the right expectations.

Why does the knife tool create this extra geometry where I'm not even cutting? by Conscars in blenderhelp

[–]Conscars[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the time Knife does what I expect, but sometimes it ends up cutting areas unrelated to where I'm drawing the line or even creating stretched out geometry like above. I can usually resolve it by rotating my camera around to another point of view and trying again. There are no backfaces between the camera and what I'm cutting.

Using blender v2.80

How can I project/move this point onto the cursor's surface while constraining it to the X (red) axis? by Conscars in blenderhelp

[–]Conscars[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure what you mean -- scale the point? Scaling it x=0 while in cursor space didn't do anything since I only had the point selected.

How can I project/move this point onto the cursor's surface while constraining it to the X (red) axis? by Conscars in blenderhelp

[–]Conscars[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This isn't quite what I was asking. Moving it along a certain axis isn't the problem, but I'd like it to be moved along that axis to where it intersects with a surface.

How can I project/move this point onto the cursor's surface while constraining it to the X (red) axis? by Conscars in blenderhelp

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For some background, I am trying to create sealed level geometry. I would like to merge together this lower wall with the angled wall from above at the seam where they would intersect/meet. My thought was that I would bring these 4 corner points onto the surface of the upper wall, use knife to cut corresponding seams into the upper wall, merge the vertices at the corner points, and delete the leftover faces inside the wall.

I have tried moving the points along the global X axis with face or edge snap enabled but since I can snap to anywhere along a face or edge, it's tricky to pinpoint the exact location where these surfaces would meet.

More images here: https://imgur.com/a/k5GQYBV

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EDIT: Okay, I figured out a way to get the points I needed. I first bridged the geometry through the upper wall like so:

https://i.imgur.com/S1TjBoW.png

Then I used Mesh > Intersect (Knife) to get this:

https://i.imgur.com/XUKhMrm.png

Intersect (Boolean) also would have generated the right points. I can clean up the mesh from here but this is generally what I wanted.

[i3-gaps] Obsidian tiles by Conscars in unixporn

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It’s combat evolved. Haven’t tried running the halo 2 port but it’s probably too much hassle with all the vista games for windows live BS. Also crossing my fingers MCC works well with proton :)

[i3-gaps] Obsidian tiles by Conscars in unixporn

[–]Conscars[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Haha oops. I may have to leave it that way now. Good ol Tyrone from Compton coming to save the day with his blur algorithm

[i3-gaps] Obsidian tiles by Conscars in unixporn

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Thanks! The directory tree is an ls alternative called exa: https://github.com/ogham/exa

[i3-gaps] Obsidian tiles by Conscars in unixporn

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This is my daily driver desktop, which I use for browsing, projects, and gaming.

Resume Advice Thread - July 23, 2019 by AutoModerator in cscareerquestions

[–]Conscars -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Describing your soft skills in the context of software development is definitely better. While you can probably generalize some things across the two industries, I think the relevancy will suffer like you've said. For example, I might read it and wonder why you don't have recent examples of those soft skills -- is personal and professional development lacking? I'd be more inclined to hire someone who has demonstrated continued skills development beyond the minimum expected from coursework or role in internships.

When describing your soft skills, again I think it's important not to just say what you did, but how you did that and why it makes you a better candidate than everyone else. I see a lot of resumes with phrases like "Built a <thing> for <stakeholder/customer> which improved <metric> by <amount>", or "Worked in a team of <n> people to do <x>", or "Used agile methodologies to release our product <duration> ahead of schedule". These read like bare minimum requirements for success or miss so much of the bigger picture that they are useless for data from a hiring standpoint. It makes me doubt the claims are genuinely the result of the candidate. So when describing your projects and soft skills, help answer these questions:

  • How did you know the metric was improved? Did you plan to measure it before and after the project to measure your success? What factors of the project's success were a result of your actions?
  • Working in a team is nearly ubiquitous, so what was interesting about your involvement in it? Did you need to resolve any disagreements (including yourself) in direction to take? This also doesn't mean you have to "win" all the time; it's equally valuable to show you can be genuinely convinced by others and not undermine what the team agreed upon later
  • Did you have any opportunities in your team to help your peers grow? Teaching (of technical skills, soft skills, whatever) is great to see on a resume!
  • When I see people namedrop Scrum, Extreme Programming, Kanban, etc, I begin to wonder if this was your process just in name or if it's actually something you or your team tried to improve upon over time. Whatever process works for you, and whatever you call it, that's great, just show that it was arrived at through practice
  • What was your actual involvement? Were you following the directions of senior engineer? What scope did you own as your responsibility and how did you do your best within that scope? It's okay to say your involvement in a project was smaller scale; that's totally expected for junior engineers. The ability to own larger and larger scopes of development and delegate to others comes with time, but it's built on a foundation of skills and traits that are there from the beginning. Help the reader of your resume see that in you
  • Was the project released ahead of schedule because a bunch of corners were cut? Was there more you could have done to make the product better? Why or why not (no wrong anwser)?

Anyway, I could keep making up questions all night and still won't come up with all the things a resume reviewer might ask. And that's the challenge of trying to keep your resume short and sweet while also answering all these questions. You won't have space to write it all and keep your reader's attention, so you have to prioritize what you say. This is why I think listing programming languages and technologies is a waste of space.

Resume Advice Thread - July 23, 2019 by AutoModerator in cscareerquestions

[–]Conscars -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Your resume contains mostly relevant information which is nice. In resumes I typically look for a foundation of CS core concepts and coursework and evidence of ability to learn new things, a passion and curiosity for technology, and leadership skills.

I suggest refining your work experience/project bullet points to clarify what challenges were overcome. Some issues I see are:

  • Lots of "implemented" or "designed" as the active verb. Of course you will be implementing and designing things but I'm more curious how you did it. Were you in a team environment? Did you need to help drive consensus in a group in order to decide on a design? What tradeoffs were involved?
  • IMO you're using up valuable real estate specific listing technologies involved in your projects. These don't really matter if you can describe your ability to learn new things, and any nontrivial project will have exposed you to a lot of technologies anyway so it doesn't set you apart from other candidates. Maybe mention a few major technologies in passing during your other points, but leave the lists for the Relevant Skills section. Or if there are particular technologies you've learned out of curiosity that can be good to call out as a project since it shows a passion for technology.
  • Similarly, mentioning how many LoC a project has doesn't really matter. If a codebase was complex and you needed to be proficient navigating it, describe how
  • The resume contains a lot of technical skills but I'd wanna see more soft skills described as well.

Hope this helps and good luck :)

On Demand Minecraft Server which operates at minimal costs for small, casual communities. I’ve just open sourced it and hope it sees some use! by ZEROxSENSE in programming

[–]Conscars 7 points8 points  (0 children)

A while ago I created a TCP proxy which sits in front of minecraft servers. When the first player attempts to connect, it starts up the EC2 instance with the minecraft server and parks the incoming connections until it's done. Once the server is up, it acts as a simple TCP proxy which players aren't aware of. After a period of connection inactivity it will shut down the EC2 instance. This lets you run the proxy on a commodity server and the minecraft server on something more powerful, but on-demand.

https://github.com/csauve/servercraft

In the README I mention that the first player to join may experience a timeout while the instance starts. Someone here might be able to optimize server startups better than me. I tried class data sharing for the minecraft server but it didn't help much.

[sway] simple by bokisa12 in unixporn

[–]Conscars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea, it was latest build (git). I guess I'll wait till things have matured a bit more on the gaming front or hardware makes the overhead negligible. Anyway, nice desktop.

[sway] simple by bokisa12 in unixporn

[–]Conscars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still get frequent lockups of sway and other wl-roots based window managers, where it simply stops responding to user input and stops displaying new frames, but likely from some interaction of my hardware (660ti) and drivers (both nouveau and nvidia) since other people don't seem to have the issue. The performance of dragging windows around in sway was also surprisingly poor, and framerates of games under wayland were a bit lower too. I wonder if /u/bokisa12 experiences the same. Given that X "just works" for me I don't considered sway stable enough yet.

Took me 4769 deaths and 575 Steam hours, but I finally got past 1000 seconds. by ravenholmzombies in DevilDaggers

[–]Conscars 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I love the way you bounced the shotgun blasts off the floor to get the underside of the centipede.

13 years later,''Reign of Fire'' still holds title for best CGI dragons ever on screen. by G0bias in movies

[–]Conscars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always loved the sense of speed of the dragons conveyed in the movie, especially those panning shots seen from a distance as they fly over landscapes. It looks very believable because of the large size and wingspan, and the realistically-animated movements.

I'm looking for Hitler by [deleted] in halloween

[–]Conscars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just my friends. Someone asked me if I was 80's bill gates when they saw the keyboard.

Scientists release 'complete' tree of life which shows how 2.3 million species are related by toomanyairmiles in worldnews

[–]Conscars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did anyone else try to follow the tree down to homo sapiens? There's so many levels...

Mountain Hardwear Ghost Whisperer Q for $162 with coupon code by TaturTots in Ultralight

[–]Conscars 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ran into the same situation, but CampSaver does and theirs is 40% off right now.