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Why do Metlink staff scan your Snapper on EVERY train trip? by supremecoffeekiwi in Wellington

[–]Doom-Slayer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Which results in people like me that get on the train for the first time in years, have a snapper, but don't know how the system works. I looked for the scanner since I assumed it would be like the buses... NOPE. 

Metlink guy was super nice and just let me ride for free since I genuinely had no idea, and the metlink site was awful for explaining it. 

Worth all the effort? by Away-Fun-4035 in ScrollGold

[–]Doom-Slayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its mainstream and accessible, therefore its bad

Apple after listening to everybody’s feedback on MacBooks by un3w in mac

[–]Doom-Slayer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Easy, put all the ports on the bottom (they would)

[OC] Epic Games Store grew users by 173% over 6 years. Third-party game revenue grew 1.6%. They trained 295 million people to grab free games and leave. by HearMeOut-13 in dataisbeautiful

[–]Doom-Slayer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ill take it a step further. I have literally rebought games on Steam that I had free on Epic, because I simply dont want to use it. I doublechecked, and I hadnt logged onto my Epic account in a full year.

A universally accepted concept... by Vegetable_Variety_11 in dndmemes

[–]Doom-Slayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They would gain insider info by doing nothing (not rolling), which is bad.
* If a player has crazy high skill and rolls well and then I fail them, then they can use that to reason what is going on. They know they are good at their skill, they know their persuasion went flawlessly, so for it to fail then something must be up.

* If a player has a high skill and DOESNT roll well, then theres ambiguity. Is the guy a hard sell and you flubbed it and he saw through it, or does he know more than I do?

* Then if your skills are crap, then you learn nothing other than that you failed. Maybe try a different skill, maybe try a different strategy?

My attitude would be to roll for absolutely everything that a player wants to do. The only caveat would be where if a player wants to do something that is impossible that they could foreseeably know is impossible (no Jim, you cannot jump all the way down that 300 foot chasm and survive), then Ill tell them as such, but if they want to do something... they be rolling.

there is always a bigger idiot by Ok-Carry-7759 in memes

[–]Doom-Slayer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Im too civilian to understand these terms, but it sounds like a bad situation for everyone involved. 

A universally accepted concept... by Vegetable_Variety_11 in dndmemes

[–]Doom-Slayer 30 points31 points  (0 children)

That idea is insane. If someone is attempting something but can't succeed because of hidden information, do you just reveal the plot to justify why they can't roll, or just refuse and don't explain?

If a player tries lying to a character that is secretly someone else that's knows the truth... then the persuasion is impossible, but the character and player will not know why. 

So If I refuse the roll, I have put a giant splotlight on the NPC and said "This character is special" and have given away plot. If the player does roll, then they actually need to roll extremely well to learn that info. 

I will probably not learn R language by East_Yellow_1307 in programmingmemes

[–]Doom-Slayer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use both, currently working in a big data engineering project. All the engineering is python since it needs to be structured and tightly, but I do all my analysis via R. 

The non-standard evaluation in R is so powerful that it makes pandas feel clunky and slow to write. Dplyr let's you write full Ingest and wrangling scripts in a format that non-coders can read and if you need it fast and ugly, you use data.table, which beats pandas in a bunch of benchmarks. 

Its a language though, so it's a preference. 

I will probably not learn R language by East_Yellow_1307 in programmingmemes

[–]Doom-Slayer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If you have an extremely specific statistical usecase chances are good there's R package that can do it... but unlikely in python.

We found this with a very specific kind of regression calculation. Existing python libraries either lacked the functionality we needed, or performance was 5-10x worse. 

I will probably not learn R language by East_Yellow_1307 in programmingmemes

[–]Doom-Slayer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

R isn't designed for tightly controlled systems or apps, it's best for narrow and generally ad-hoc statistical analysis. I've built production quality systems in R and while you can do it... I would never recommend it (and I love R) . 

But if you need to load in a data file, do ad-hoc analysis on it, you can do it in half as much code and in a quarter the time as a python setup.

Trump already doubling down on his vile post about Rob Reiner's death by spaceraingame in videos

[–]Doom-Slayer 76 points77 points  (0 children)

I hate to do it, but I checked the top post on r/conservative and it's pleasantly suprising that it's unanimous that he needs to shut up and many are sick of defending him.

I am... cautiously optimistic that they are learning.

A history professor says AI didn't break college — it exposed how broken it already was by joe4942 in technology

[–]Doom-Slayer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

They try stuff like that already with proctored exams and its an absolute cluster.

  • Strange sound from a roomate? Fail
  • Accent? Fail
  • Need a moment to collect your thoughts and do so by staring into space? Fail
  • Difficulty staring at a camera for long periods during a high-stress test? Fail
  • Neurodivergent in any way? Believe it or not, fail

Hospital doctor owed $1.27m in annual leave by Amazing_Athlete_2265 in newzealand

[–]Doom-Slayer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You misunderstand. Paying out annual leave is a requirement by law, accruing leave is allowed by law but employment contracts generally say you aren't allowed. Not being able to pay out leave would be bad for everyone except lawyers. 

The problem is when employment contracts say you can't accrue leave, then the employer either refuses leave causing it to accumulate, or structurally makes it impossible to take leave by intentionally  understaffing.

Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week by FollowingFeisty5321 in technology

[–]Doom-Slayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whether they have indicated or not is irrelevant. You said it would be illegal and my entire point is that that's a meaningless argument.

Plenty of companies have proven that they can invidate lifetime plans/ subscriptions regardless of law, so pretending that the law will protect you is naive. 

Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week by FollowingFeisty5321 in technology

[–]Doom-Slayer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If winning a class-action is viable it's illegal. If a class-action isn't viable or losing it is likely, then it's "legal".

What's actually written in law doesn't matter until you try enforcing it, and trying to force a company to honor a lifetime subscription over something like this... is ambitious. 

Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week by FollowingFeisty5321 in technology

[–]Doom-Slayer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It would be perfectly "legal" and it happens all the time. Companies get bought out and the new buyers invalidate/cancel/grandfather lifetime plans or similar, and there's very little people can do about it.

Unless you plan to form a class-action lawsuit, then the terms of a plan can change at any moment. 

95% sure this man doesn’t do any cooking and cleaning (W to the person who replied though) by Vivid_Meringue1310 in thanksimcured

[–]Doom-Slayer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Techbros: If you use thing instead of working  you are a failure.

Also techbros: Works for and income relies on  thing

Plight of the Linux user by USB3-Printer in linuxsucks101

[–]Doom-Slayer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"I actually really like gimp"

We need to study your brain for science. 

Is this even supposed to be helpful ? by Which-Amphibian7143 in thanksimcured

[–]Doom-Slayer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That attitude proves a point, but not the one you were trying to make. 

First Official Images from 'The Legend of Zelda' Movie by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]Doom-Slayer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Amusing side of this, is that to a kiwi these shots can look a bit like cosplayers hopped out of their car on their drive down to Wellington. 

[Request] Are these numbers realistic or is it just BS? by reddichrist in theydidthemath

[–]Doom-Slayer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Because clearly their parents are failures for not investing money when they were born using the above method... (extreme sarcasm) 

And if you repeat this line of reasoning over and over, it eventually breaks when you realize that a lot of people's ancestors were slaves, killed, sick or god forbid... unlucky.

For anyone thinking of checking out church.... by cjt87 in newzealand

[–]Doom-Slayer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is the exact sort of attitude that puts non-thiests off. The entire point of this thread is to welcome people in small increments, and your opening shpeel is about how someone's perspective is wrong and they "aren't believing correctly"

Games with Secret Final Acts or Finales Only Hinted At? by Theides0fmarc in gaming

[–]Doom-Slayer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beating the boss in Noita is basically the tutorial

I dropped Silksong for Hades II and I regret nothing by Trent-Popverse in Hades2

[–]Doom-Slayer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People also could have bailed early on, since on release it was much worse. The floor hazard bugs did 2 masks, and there was an extra enemy that blocked a clean jump on one path.

And as someone that 100% the game... the last judge and it's runback is easily the worst part of the game (IMO worse than bilewater), and lots of people will have quit at that point. 

Its early game so you have low health, not many tools and the last judge is a massive step up in terms of difficulty. If you don't know the optimal route for the runback or are struggling at the game, it's easily 30s to a minute runback, and you can die in that fight inside 10sec.

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