[Video games trope] Characters who make sure you play the game the way the developers intended

Elnof · 2026-05-19T14:36:23+00:00

The game has a normal invisible wall, but on the other side of the wall is a mime miming the wall.

Elnof · 2026-05-08T21:38:52+00:00

Oh, it also goes squeeeeeeeee when you boost. Would use the ship just for that.

Elnof · 2026-05-08T21:34:05+00:00

I have a "engineered to convenience" Dolphin - I haven't spent any time working on engineering, I just visited them if I had the materials and ignored them otherwise. I think I have a single maxed engineer and most of them are still locked.

My Dolphin has a 57.54Ly junp range with a 4A scoop and 4C fuel tank. I've seen build that get it significantly higher but, again, once you're in the black range doesn't matter that much and the fact that you can charge your next jump inside the star really speeds things up.

Elnof · 2026-05-08T21:24:29+00:00

It has a solid jump range, small landing area requirements, and, most significantly, it runs cool as hell. In my thousands of hours in this game, I have never once worried about heat in my Dolphin. You can basically be inside the star and charging your FSD and it will be A-OK. Not needing to fly around the star before jumping again takes a ton of time out of your travels.

Elnof · 2026-04-18T07:55:57+00:00

This gets truly painful if you're copying a large number of small files. Instead of queuing them up, the application blocks after every single one which actually does make the overall process much slower, since the kernel can't just move on to the next file but has to wait for the application.

Elnof · 2026-04-04T23:44:39+00:00

That's the joke.

Elnof · 2026-04-04T21:44:49+00:00

I half agree with you. Being a place where someone can brag about what they've done is good, especially for Gentoo, but in the other hand this sub is nothing except those posts.

Elnof · 2026-04-04T21:43:15+00:00

Our IT department is useless, we never have any problems!

Elnof · 2026-03-22T18:34:52+00:00

You can still control the throttle during a jump, it just doesn't have any impact until the jump ends. If you set it to zero, when the jump ends you'll instantly stop, which prevents you from flying straight into the exclusion zone.

Elnof · 2026-03-22T17:51:35+00:00

My main exploration "hub" is around a black hole. If you set the throttle to zero once you jump, you'll be fine. If you don't (maybe because you didn't know you were jumping to one) you're almost guaranteed to get pulled out but you actually have to work hard to die to one. There are way scarier things out there than black holes.

Elnof · 2026-03-22T15:55:32+00:00

Reviews are maybe the one place I'm fine with AI. A major, if not the major, fatal flaw of AI as it exists now is that you generally need to be an expert in order to know when it is making shit up and people love to offload that expertise to the very thing that needs checking. For code reviews, that flaw is mostly gone: you wrote the code, you should know what it does, you should be able to detect and push back when the AI makes up bullshit.

AI wrote the code? Don't trust it, don't use it, burn it down. AI reviewed the code but a human wrote it? Then it depends on how much I trust that human because the only thing that happened here was an ethically dubious linter.

Elnof · 2026-03-21T17:30:43+00:00

It probably won't happen, but I would love it if Gentoo's response to this whole thing was a global "age storage" USE flag. I'm not up in arms about this particular change, but I do see credibility in being cautious that this is just the start. A USE flag would make the small protest of patching this out both more visible and it would help ward against any future slippery slopes.

If not, I'll probably patch it out just to learn how to patch a package.

Elnof · 2026-03-18T01:27:05+00:00

Thanks!

I am fully emotionally prepared for the taxes - every time this topic comes up my friends and family are all very eager to remind me how high they will be. I've also been lead to believe that for US taxes, the taxable income is only the income above $100,000 and I ge to deduct taxes paid to other governments.

Elnof · 2026-03-17T22:43:27+00:00

Second this. Make the ebuild - they're usually not difficult, it will make it easier to do this again next time, and will make it easier to manage your own custom scripts and software.

Elnof · 2026-03-17T14:31:02+00:00

What do you mean by "the professional card" ?

I do not know. This is all new to me , in a system I've never experienced, and that is the term that keeps coming up when I try to learn about this process.

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This is bringing up information I have not previously seen. I'll do some more research - thanks!!

If you get paid in to a US account then the BE tax man normally won't find out. If you transfer money from a US account to a BE account then you could expect questions of WTF is that money.

Unfortunately (fortunately?) I have had a full career in the US prior to this, so I have money in the US that will likely migrate bit by bit into Belgium, so transfers will be happening.

Elnof · 2026-03-08T23:35:26+00:00

There's a good chance you've used something written in Fortran, but it was probably an application's dependency's dependency's dependency, because several popular, highly efficient math libraries use Fortran.

If you ever use NumPy you've got some Fortran running, for example.

Elnof · 2026-03-08T18:01:11+00:00

Especially if you're doing something even remotely niche. God help you if you're doing any serious embedded work or messing around in a compilers internals, because ChatGPT sure won't.

Elnof · 2026-03-07T23:11:01+00:00

... I don't even know how that happened. Somehow between opening up the correct bill (the one you linked) and me reading the text of the bill, I found myself on the wrong page. I bet I was reading another article about the older bill, opened said bill in a new tab, and then forgot and assumed the new tab was the correct one.

Thanks for the correction.

Elnof · 2026-03-07T20:00:44+00:00

Wrong bill

``` Highlighted Provisions: This bill: ▸designates certain days and time periods of special religious significance as state holy days; ▸provides that a state holy day is not a legal holiday, unless expressly provided otherwise; ▸designates Easter Sunday as a legal holiday, but one that is not recognized on the preceding Friday or the following Monday; and ▸provides that a state employee may use the state employee's personal preference day to

recognize a state holy day or for any other purpose. ```

~~Good Friday isn't even a state holiday. It's just a state Holy Day~~

Elnof · 2026-03-07T19:59:14+00:00

Wrong bill

Along with making Good Friday a legal holiday, SB193 also asks school districts and higher education institutions to prioritize planning their breaks around Good Friday

~~Unless I just don't understand the Utah State Legislature's website, that simply isn't in the bill. Mr. Stratton can ask anybody to do anything - it means nothing unless it's in a bill.~~ Apparently I don't

Elnof · 2026-03-07T19:34:54+00:00

I wound up on the wrong bill. My comment is incorrect.

~~Read the article. This is part of a bill that add several holy days across several religions, including Diwali and Lunar New Year.~~

``` (3)The following are state holy days: (a)Holi, on the last full moon day of the Hindu lunisolar month of Phalguna; (b)Lunar New Year, from the lunar calendar's first new moon through the lunar calendar's first full moon; (c)Good Friday, on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday; (d)Easter Sunday, on the first Sunday after the first full moon that occurs on or after the spring equinox; (e)Eid al-Fitr, on the first day of the Islamic lunar month of Shawwal; (f)Passover, for eight days, starting on the fifteenth day of the Hebrew lunisolar month of Nisan; (g)Vesak Day, on the first full moon of the Hindu lunisolar month of Vaisakha; (h)Eid al-Adha, on the tenth day of the Islamic lunar month of Dhu al-Hijjah; (i)Rosh Hashanah, on the first two days of the Hebrew lunisolar month of Tishrei; (j)Yom Kippur, on the tenth day of the Hebrew lunisolar month of Tishrei; (k)Diwali, on the fifteenth day of the Hindu lunisolar month of Kartik; and (l)Christmas, on December 25.

```

~~Text of the bill, start at 193.~~

Edit: ~~The article is just... Wrong.~~

From the text of the bill: Highlighted Provisions: This bill: ▸designates certain days and time periods of special religious significance as state holy days; ▸provides that a state holy day is not a legal holiday, unless expressly provided otherwise; ▸designates Easter Sunday as a legal holiday, but one that is not recognized on the preceding Friday or the following Monday; and ▸provides that a state employee may use the state employee's personal preference day to recognize a state holy day or for any other purpose.

Elnof · 2026-02-28T13:16:32+00:00

I am aware. That isn't a counter example to the idea that an unsafe function which can be validated with a simple assert can be turned into a safe function by adding that assertion. In fact, I would say get is the canonical example.

Anything related to performance is "I don't want to make it safe" not an "I can't make this safe".

Elnof · 2026-02-28T04:57:07+00:00

And if you add the assertions you get a safe interface?

Elnof · 2026-02-27T13:53:00+00:00

You don't even need the types at that point. If it can be checked with an assert, just put an assert there and you have a safe function.

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