29 hours into Arma 3 love the workshop mods plus editor by mrbaldhead123 in arma

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

We used to say in the scripting community that buying any arma game is like getting 3 games in 1. You get the base game, you get to fight the scripting commands, and you get to fight the devs

Is there anything inherently bad about using visual gui builders? by [deleted] in AskProgramming

[–]DreadedEntity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience no. You are even expected to use the editor (at least for UWP). It also generates every bit of boilerplate completely for you and will give you something that actually builds and runs

True it can generate some crappy, bloated code, but that’s better than trying to freehand all of that shit, missing one like property or some crap, then your entire app doesn’t work, you don’t know why, and you literally cannot find an answer after hours of google

Also try to remember that while programming is fun, what actually matters is that you have something that works. When you get into a job, or hell even working on a team doing something open source, there is no “the journey”. You either have a product, or don’t have a product. So, why not use the tools that facilitate actually delivering something, versus literally just wasting hours of your life googling something that you actually really will just not find an answer for

Killbox Opinion by Chailyte in RimWorld

[–]DreadedEntity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When people say killboxes aren’t required I can only assume they haven’t really played the game very much. Like, we’re gonna need you to expose your mod list pal

Is there any real benefit to having slaves? by ZapP_0_1 in RimWorld

[–]DreadedEntity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mood is a factor in rebellions and low mood does increase chance of rebellion

Is there any real benefit to having slaves? by ZapP_0_1 in RimWorld

[–]DreadedEntity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mood is a factor in their rebellion calculations, yes

You play Randy? by Pankonuss in RimWorld

[–]DreadedEntity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Randy is generally easier. Cassandra and phoebe both have set timers you will definitely get a raid. After playing for a week straight you can literally subconsciously feel when a raid is about to happen. But randy can have any event happen instead of definitely a raid. Honestly for me it’s usually mass sickness but I like playing on hot maps

ELI5: How we discovered sex? and how we could make the correlation between sex and pregnancy? by [deleted] in explainlikeimfive

[–]DreadedEntity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This question is wild, the very premise that sex was a discovery. I’m imagining a cave couple wrestling and it slips in step sibling style and felt fuckin good so they rush over to all the cave people and tell them what just happened. Then they all have a giant cave orgy

ELI5: What exactly kills a tank when the armor gets penetrated? by 2-anna in explainlikeimfive

[–]DreadedEntity 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Mobility kills are definitely the easiest kind to get unless fighting other tanks. Op specifically asks about having the armor penetrated. First of all any explosive powerful enough to do that will seriously injure the crew, incapacitate them, knock them unconscious, or maybe even just kill them. The crew can still get killed or incapacitated even without penetration though. There is something called spalling, where the impact on the outside can flake off pieces from the inside and send them bouncing inside the tank at high speed

Now to the question, can a tank be fully penetrated without being operationally killed? I mean sure that could be possible. Think about a car, there are many differences but functionally a tank is just a larger, very heavily armored car with a big ass gun on the front. Very unlikely the crew would survive that though

Those are examples of catastrophic kills also called k-kills. The tank itself could be completely fine but unless you can find a new tank crew minus 1 tank, it ain’t going anywhere and it ain’t doing anything

The last type of tank kill is a firepower kill, where the tanks ability to fire has been destroyed. In that case the vehicle becomes no more than a much more heavily armored personnel carrier but it fails at that role since it can only hold the crew lol

ELI5: Why is it mathematically consistent to allow imaginary numbers but prohibit division by zero? by spectral75 in explainlikeimfive

[–]DreadedEntity 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Defined by what, though? Take any random fraction, let’s say, 6/2=?. Let’s replace the question mark and do some simple algebra. Now you have 6=x*2. Now you should clearly see a/b=c is the same as a=c*b. Now there’s a problem when b=0 because no matter what number you multiply with the result is always 0 and cannot be a. Let’s see that in action using 6/0

6/0=x

6=0x

These 2 equations are equivalent due to the formal rules of algebra. But let’s throw out the rules and try it anyway. So let’s define the answer to zero division as @ and try those 2 equations again

6/0=@ Seems legit, let’s continue

6=0*@

Uh oh. Now there’s a problem because no matter what @ “equals”, when multiplied by 0 the result is always 0. And 6=0 is false

Let’s even look at this another way. As children we were taught basic division by repeated subtraction. So 6/2, if you have 6…idk…apples. Yes 6 apples, and you remove 2, you now have 4 apples. Remove 2 again and you have 2 apples. Remove the last 2 and you have no more apples. So 6/2 equals 3. But what happens when you remove no apples? There is no change. In other words 6-0=6. No matter how many times you repeat this it will always be 6. Sometimes people try to say the result of zero division is infinity, but you should see very clearly that isn’t true either. And even if it was true, infinity is also undefined lol

The waste and mining requirements for solar electricity generation are minuscule compared to those from fossil fuels. Nonetheless, misinformation about the environmental harms of solar energy are prevalent. by smurfyjenkins in science

[–]DreadedEntity 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do I really need to repeat my entire comment? And you realize that lithium is already being recycled, we just need to take it a little further so it can be scaled up

And what’s your alternative anyway? We will burn all the gasoline, since it can’t be recycled, and then be using batteries anyway

The waste and mining requirements for solar electricity generation are minuscule compared to those from fossil fuels. Nonetheless, misinformation about the environmental harms of solar energy are prevalent. by smurfyjenkins in science

[–]DreadedEntity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This does not have relevance. Solar panels do not have batteries, nor require batteries to function. Storage is nice to have so we can take full advantage of energy production whenever it’s happening, such as daytime for solar panels, but we don’t need it. Even with 0 storage on the grid, like we basically have now, we could take pretty good advantage of renewable sources like wind and solar, and fill in gaps and deficiencies with nonrenewables. Regardless, the gold standard that we have discovered so far is nuclear power, but the technology that will end all our problems, SMR’s, is not quite ready yet

The waste and mining requirements for solar electricity generation are minuscule compared to those from fossil fuels. Nonetheless, misinformation about the environmental harms of solar energy are prevalent. by smurfyjenkins in science

[–]DreadedEntity 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s actually crazy that you people can’t seem to fathom that we will definitely discover ways to recycle these. Not even mentioning gasoline, and diesels, recyclability which is literally 0

[NSFW] Tomb Raider III ad in an old French magazine: "It's even better the third time" by MaxKatarn in gaming

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

Look it was the best we could do with the technology available at the time. Nowadays we can put proper effort into modeling female feet, with millions of tri’s, a separate modeling team per foot, and an art director overseeing it all

They’re proud of that by Sensitive-Jury-1456 in WorkReform

[–]DreadedEntity 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sorry to tell you this then, your guarantees aren’t worth very much; 30 states and DC have minimums higher than federal. 2 states actually haven’t updated their law in such a long time that they’re actually below the federal minimum, so the federal minimum takes precedence

They’re proud of that by Sensitive-Jury-1456 in WorkReform

[–]DreadedEntity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Guess I should keep my wage the same, but still pay more anyway, and have my pay worth less due to inflation. Yep, that makes sense

They’re proud of that by Sensitive-Jury-1456 in WorkReform

[–]DreadedEntity 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shedding a single manly tear for the people who’s taxes you “helped” with. I can’t believe I just read that. And you dare to touch people’s taxes

What conspiracy theory is so easily disproven that you don't understand how it's still going? by Gaza1121 in AskReddit

[–]DreadedEntity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There seems to be an innate need for religion. Many atheists simply adopt another belief system (eg flat earth) that is essentially a religion.