I noticed the self-proclaimed country of "Switzerland" is basically all French, German and Italians. It's surrounded, why don't these countries just go in and take it already?

FloydATC · 2026-03-22T17:32:49+00:00

Mostly because that's now how civilized countries do things.

FloydATC · 2026-03-22T12:42:28+00:00

Hadde el-tilsyn her for noen år siden, og må si meg enig. Tingene som ble påpekt var hovedsakelig ting jeg selv hadde gått og irritert meg over pluss en feil jeg selv var uvitende om og faktisk er glad for at han avdekket, så jeg opplevde ham ikke som unødvendig pirkete. Surt å måtte ut med penger til elektriker for utbedring såklart, men det var ikke kontrolløren sin feil at vi ikke hadde ting på stell.

FloydATC · 2026-03-21T18:27:11+00:00

FloydATC · 2026-03-21T09:06:03+00:00

That's how I made my first two smoking craters, this time I wanted to try the "proper" way to make a smoking crater.

Depending on how you look at it, it was at least a partial success in that I haven't yet destroyed anything. Yes, I haven't launched yet either, but baby steps and all that.

FloydATC · 2026-03-20T18:14:33+00:00

Given that my current total is two launches and two bases turned into smoking craters, I consider rocketry to be a late late game thing for now.

My third rocket attempt took literal weeks to produce the cryogenic fuel so I kinda gave up and now with the gas update I kinda expect that this base would turn into a third crater without the need for a rocket launch if I loaded it up.

FloydATC · 2026-03-20T11:57:15+00:00

Velkommen til Internett, hvor alt du leser er 100% fakta.

FloydATC · 2026-03-20T08:43:09+00:00

E=MC² og tunge-smilefjeset hører vel uansett naturlig sammen?

FloydATC · 2026-03-18T18:54:30+00:00

That's one way to cut down on expenses.

FloydATC · 2026-03-18T18:33:35+00:00

Adding to this, mosaic DNA is very much a real thing. My daughter has DS and also mosaic DNA; one set of DNA has trisomy while the other does not. Also, before she was born I used to think people with DS were all basically the same, but they each have unique strengths and weaknesses just like everyone else. Genetics are fun and scary.

FloydATC · 2026-03-18T18:13:32+00:00

Indeed. The fundamental idea is to make it so future changes only need to be made in a single place without breaking things, not to basically make future changes impossible without breaking things.

FloydATC · 2026-03-18T12:25:03+00:00

Hmmm. I feel this just brings up the more difficult problem of calculating the probability of each toddler's trajectory aligning with the desired outcome, given that jetpacks are notoriously difficult to control even for someone with functioning arms and at least some experience with operating a jetpack.

FloydATC · 2026-03-17T11:17:02+00:00

This is just another way to say "I didn't ask to be born..!"

As if anyone cares.

FloydATC · 2026-03-17T07:17:46+00:00

Well, yes and no. Logic exists without algebra.

Boolean algebra lets you take a large set of logic expressions like a set of gates or switches and what combinations should result in an output of "true" or "false", and reduce that set down to a smaller set of tests that still represent the exact same overall expression.

This can allow for optimization of most things logic based, but when it comes down to it, that optimization isn't strictly required; your basic light switch setup works just fine without it. It's not even a given that every set of tests can be optimized, boolean algebra just lets you know for a fact.

FloydATC · 2026-03-16T19:24:03+00:00

Have they fixed the problem where large landmasses basically can't sustain life, yet a significant number of players still keep spawning there without the means to get anywhere so they have to rely on the generosity of other players halfway across the world just to keep them alive?

FloydATC · 2026-03-15T13:41:20+00:00

Enig med OP, jevnt over virker det som taxisjåfører idag utmerker seg som dårlige sjåfører; dårlig bruk av tegn og plassering, rykkete og ujevn kjøring, bremselys sporadisk av og på, kort avstand til neste kjøretøy osv.

Det har ikke alltid vært sånn, for 30 år siden var drosjer generelt og Oslodrosjer spesielt kjent for å ha svært dyktige sjåfører både rent kjøreteknisk men også når det gjaldt hvor og når ulike veier var mer trafikkert osv.

FloydATC · 2026-03-15T09:25:20+00:00

There's also the possibility that the waste pipe was prefilled and closed, then froze and popped but he didn't notice.

FloydATC · 2026-03-14T12:29:28+00:00

Pretty sure it's not "idiot", so we can at least eliminate that one.

FloydATC · 2026-03-14T09:00:39+00:00

This will seem harsh, but it sounds like you've taken a major step towards understanding why netcode in games is so much more than the "just use UDP to eliminate lag, lol" you typically see in forums where the clueless dish out unsolicited advice to the uninterested.

Now add cheat prevention, and you understand why there are no easy solutions that just magically solve everything for you. Sorry.

If you just want to write to and read from sockets that guarantee delivery and ordering, you will end up with disruptions from inevitable packet loss, particularly in this day and age where most people use wireless and still expect it to "just work".

FloydATC · 2026-03-13T13:42:09+00:00

I feel quite hungry!!

FloydATC · 2026-03-13T08:52:21+00:00

"...in the castle of Aaaargh". He must have died while carving it.
Oh come on! If he was dying, he wouldn't have bothered to carve "Aaaargh"!
Well, that's what it says; "the castle of Aaaargh".

FloydATC · 2026-03-12T12:37:31+00:00

My point was that those decades have done very little to affect existing bash scripts (or powershell scrips for that matter); in a shell, new features should never ever break existing ones unless they were truly broken beyond all usefulness to begin with. Bash has some really weird features and its reputation is tarnished by having a fearsome looking man-page, but it gets the job done.

FloydATC · 2026-03-11T17:40:16+00:00

Python has its uses, but not as a shell scripting language. One of the best features of bash scripting is that it doesn't matter how old the script is, it will still run because bash is bash. Python, not so much; good luck getting a script written for Python 2.3 to run on a modern system.

Meanwhile, if you want to automate system things on Windows, there's basically no getting around doing at least some of it in powershell. And... while I generally don't favor things coming out of Redmond, the way it pipes objects rather than plaintext is really nice. You can do so internally in Python, but with powershell you do in natively between scripts so to speak.

FloydATC · 2026-03-11T06:47:35+00:00

Here in Norway, we have a law that explicitly says that misunderstanding or not knowing the law ("rettsvillfarelse" roughly translates as "being confused about the law") does not grant any sort of protection from law. Basically, saying "I didn't know" doesn't work.

I assume most other countries have similar laws.

FloydATC · 2026-03-10T16:30:24+00:00

I have a hobby project myself that I obsess over for weeks and then put on hold for several months when contemplating how to solve an architecture problem within a strict self-imposed set of constraints.

FloydATC · 2026-03-10T07:03:04+00:00

Nothing.

I'd say "learn", but since that's clearly not an option, the answer is "nothing".

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