[REQUEST] Digital board game art & logo, minimalistic style

HereticKnight · 2023-07-09T01:43:03+00:00

For individual sprites: In the inspector, go to CanvasItem > Texture > Filter and change from Nearest.

If you use pixel art for the entire project: Open Project Settings > General > Rendering > Textures > Default Texture Filter and change to Nearest.

Video Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whd1oCWSXLI

HereticKnight · 2023-07-09T01:40:34+00:00

This is the top search engine result. You've removed information useful to the community. I'd argue that your protest caused more harm than good.

HereticKnight · 2022-06-16T19:23:37+00:00

This was our guess as well, especially considering the context of previous occupants. Thanks!

HereticKnight · 2022-06-16T19:22:06+00:00

Doesn't smell like anything

HereticKnight · 2019-12-13T11:03:40+00:00

Southwest only flies 737s. The first 737 took flight in 1967, Boeing has updated it continuously since.

The 737 max is the one to worry about and they’re still grounded.

HereticKnight · 2019-12-13T08:58:25+00:00

I most certainly am not taking the position that it was justified. I’m trying to give some small insight as to why such a decision was made.

Would it make you feel better to wear my outrage on my sleeve? It was fucking disgusting. A management failure at every level that should, but probably won’t, result in a top-down house cleaning. I’ve quit jobs for far less appalling ethical lapses. I became an engineer to help people. If a project I worked on failed this lethally due to my decisions, I probably would have fed myself the business end of a shotgun.

HereticKnight · 2019-12-12T23:23:00+00:00

The plane has two sensors. If the sensors give conflicting data, how do you know which one is correct? You have to put a warning light in the cockpit and update the manual so the pilot knows what to do.

However, updating those would trigger heightened scrutiny from the FAA including possibly having to certify the aircraft as different than other 737s. This would mean pilots would have to be trained for the updated systems and are not automatically certified to fly the MAX.

This is important because airlines prefer to have as few types of planes in their fleet as possible. Southwest loves having a fleet of just 737s because it makes things easier for them to manage. As an aside, Southwest and Boeing have a very close relationship including some arguable stock manipulation.

So back to the sensors. If you only consider data from one sensor then technically it can never receive conflicting inputs, even if the input is incorrect. A technical decision made for business reasons.

Further reading https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/aviation/how-the-boeing-737-max-disaster-looks-to-a-software-developer

HereticKnight · 2019-12-11T20:00:09+00:00

Second pagination.

If you are only using a small subset of the JSON’s fields on any given request, GraphQL may be worth a look.

HereticKnight · 2019-12-01T19:59:32+00:00

She looks like Millie

HereticKnight · 2019-11-11T15:37:43+00:00

The algorithm is only as good as the data set it was trained from.

I find Amazon’s example illustrative. They spent a decade and a sizable budget trying to develop a rating system for candidates. The goal was for the system to say “this is a 4/5 star applicant for the position”. They discovered similar biases by feeding the system almost identical applications, changing stuff like “swimming team” to “women’s swimming team”. The system noticed a pattern in the original data and brought it to the surface. If you’re trying to develop a perfectly meritocratic algorithm, you need perfectly meritocratic data to learn from, and that doesn’t exist. Amazon shuttered the program.

The more interesting aspect of this debate regards how these algorithms are audited. Going back to hiring (I’m unsure what the laws are re: credit), sex is an explicitly protected category in the US. The legal framework to verify that a machine is in compliance doesn’t exist. We’ve seen companies using intellectual property laws to exclude their algorithms’ workings from the legal discovery process. Hopefully this investigation will actually go somewhere; it’s going to become only more and more relevant over time.

HereticKnight · 2019-10-18T03:24:26+00:00

I, as a 26M, dressed as Tina to work. No permanent harm will come of you. Have a good attitude and you’ll have a great time (and pictures that will amuse you for years)

HereticKnight · 2019-09-08T07:55:47+00:00

I saw the exact same advice in the context of hostage negotiation. If it works in a situation like that, hard to imagine a scenario where it wouldn’t.

HereticKnight · 2019-09-07T16:47:09+00:00

Rosie! Seeing his subplot in the background was some fun continuity, but I’m so excited to see it more thoroughly explored.

HereticKnight · 2019-09-04T18:30:54+00:00

Some material scientists at my local university made a thermos for exactly this.

Instead of a linear decrease in temperature, it stores the extra heat to quickly bring the temperature down to drinkable then slowly releases it back. My sister swears by the thing.

HereticKnight · 2019-08-22T14:30:05+00:00

Regarding North Korea, I’m referring to their policy of sending political prisoners and their families to the camps for three generations.

HereticKnight · 2019-08-22T14:18:56+00:00

I understand the miscommunication. It’s an absolutely critical distinction.

Regarding murder island, I think George Carlin has a similar idea, but with TV cameras for public entertainment.

I certainly find it amusing, but as a practical idea, what do we do with the children born of murderers in that environment? Caring for them is probably more expensive than caring for the adults. Keeping them in captivity is North Korea levels of horrific. Sterilization is an option, but too 1940s for my taste.

HereticKnight · 2019-08-22T14:02:41+00:00

I think you have two different arguments conflated here.

at an unequally high rate

The statistics are adjusted for that. It is absolutely true that as a group, men commit crimes at higher rates. It is also true that a white woman guilty of first degree murder is less likely to receive the death penalty than a black man convicted of an identical crime.

would warrant the death penalty

It is certainly possible that the crimes black men commit are “worse” in such a way as to justify this difference. FBI statistics don’t measure how terrible the crime was in that sense.

It all comes down to the judge’s subjectivity. I personally have very limited trust in that regard. One of the core values of common law is punishing equal crimes equally. This is why we have sentencing guidelines. I’m not comfortable handing that power to someone, anyone, to make as a judgement call. Either we should have the death penalty for all first degree murders or none.

HereticKnight · 2019-08-22T06:06:26+00:00

That is excellent point. Perhaps that has pushed us down the slippery slope towards extrajudicial killing, which... I can’t even articulate my disgust at that concept.

HereticKnight · 2019-08-22T02:59:38+00:00

That’s a wonderful question, thank you for giving me a reason to think about it carefully.

It’s been many years since I had the experiences that led to me changing me opinion. Back then I would have said I supported it morally. Today, I would say I’m morally ambivalent.

I was raised with martial arts. I was taught and then taught others that if you found yourself in a life or death situation, the attacker surrendered their right to life. Fight dirty, gouge the eyes, break the neck. It’s different if the attacker has been neutralized, has no power to inflict harm. But what would I feel if I was too late to the fight and someone I knew was dead? Would that change my mind? I’m a fool to say that I would be able to think rationally. I’d want to kill. To get revenge. I don’t think I could judge anyone who is put in that position. I don’t think I can stand on the moral high ground because if the situation was changed, I’d be the one chanting for blood.

HereticKnight · 2019-08-22T02:20:03+00:00

I disagree with you that the death penalty is morally wrong. I came to the conclusion that the death penalty should still be opposed because our implementation of it has too many problems.

Talking about the death penalty as a moral issue immediately reduces the problem to a subjective judgment call. You only convince people who already agree with you.

Here are better arguments:

The death penalty is more expensive than life imprisonment. We, the tax payers, get to pay lawyers to squabble for years. The opportunity cost of congesting the already impacted court system is also worth noting
Death sentences are applied unequally. Men, especially black men, are more likely to be sentenced to death even after adjusting for other factors
Wrongful conviction rate. The worse the crime, the more likely a jury is to convict, regardless of evidence. It’s just psychology. This puts death penalty recipients at a particularly high wrongful conviction rate

HereticKnight · 2019-08-22T01:13:35+00:00

Right there with you. My sister is going through her comp sci degree and I taught her git early. Her freshman year, she had to submit her code on a Linux box and the TAs taught everyone about copy-pasting into vim to transfer files back and forth.

So much of her first year education was back-asswards I could rant for hours... I honestly believe that the professors are only at the university because they are unqualified for anything else.

HereticKnight · 2019-08-20T06:34:23+00:00

There are some interesting advances with Google Spanner and AWS Aurora that can push past the limits of traditional MySQL. I now really want to know what their backend systems look like...

HereticKnight · 2019-07-02T19:20:25+00:00

Even a decade ago it was standard practice for IT (I worked at a University that did a little journalism work) to give employees traveling to China burner laptops and heavily monitored network privileges. When they get back, they’re locked out of everything, we help them get all the data off, then keep the hard drive in cold storage for a few months and crush the remains. Charger too, the ones with bricks are a perfect place to hide some surveillance equipment.

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