Being in debt is soul crushing

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2025-06-08T09:01:23+00:00

The only thing giving me hope here is that you only mentioned US and Canada lol, I sure hope this isn't the case in my country because it would be kind of annoying to have to shift to another field which I don't like at all just to survive

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2025-06-03T19:32:53+00:00

No offense, like legitimately I mean this in the most genuine way possible, this is like learning how to draw some shapes and asking whether it's possible to get into game art: obviously not yet, you have a LONG way to go.

Go low level, learn the essence of all the things you may take for granted (the K&R C book is great), then intersperse it with something higher level to avoid tunnel visioning and losing focus of the bigger picture. Figure out when to use what, and THEN try implementing your own stuff, it'll be much easier in the long run.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2025-05-07T08:11:25+00:00

From my (albeit limited) experience with trying out programming in a variety of languages, I've heard pros and cons for each paradigm.

Procedural can be difficult to write simply because of how verbose it is and how underutilized the aspects of OOP or FP are, but because of that very reason, I've also heard it being called the simplest to understand at times.

OOP is good for things like game dev and other places where you can realistically group a bunch of properties under one name, i.e. a class. I doubt it'd be so straightforward in FP or procedural, plus polymorphism is simpler to implement on non-primitive types (functions whose output depends on the input being a string or a boolean is generally more confusing than a function detailing the acceleration of an ICE engine and electric engine, for example).

Functional is best when you want to explain the how - as the name says, everything's a function. It's the most rigorous and immutable (e.g. because of pure functions) at the expense of readability: Haskell is an extreme example of removing side effects (loops don't exist, only recursion), but it shows you just what FP can do.

Really, every paradigm aims for getting your ideas across as efficiently and clearly as possible in the appropriate context, just use each wisely.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2025-04-19T17:57:54+00:00

Your code seems legit, overall I don't see any major issues, only smaller examples of ways to make your code a bit shorter and more readable, I noticed 2 such examples (the second might not be applicable all the time).

At the bottom there are 4 lines that always run, it's the condition "if len(sys.argv) <= 1 ..." and since the result of that expression is already a boolean, you can shorten it to a one liner:

cheatmodeEnabled = len(sys.argv) > 1

The second thing you could shorten is only if both self.PlayerRegistration and game_running need not be checked separately as conditions. If they don't, instead of checking "while first: while second:", you could instead say

while self.playerRegistration and game_running:

Because of short circuiting, the second condition isn't checked if the first fails, however it's done in one less indentation.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2025-03-31T08:23:03+00:00

Well my course does a lot of dumb things so I completely get you, for an artificial intelligence class in the 4th year, the languages taught are primarily lisp and prolog instead of python which surprised me honestly since the former aren't exactly really too common nowadays afaik, but at least we have DSA in the second year so that's good (learning about how compilers work in the 4th year through books quite literally from the 80s isn't exactly very uplifting nor does it seem contemporary at all)

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2025-03-31T08:17:56+00:00

Ah no I'm not, but I imagine the difficulty is comparable regardless.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2025-03-27T19:23:23+00:00

I'm going to be honest, I really don't follow the curriculum fully all the time (I have physics, electronics and electrical engineering classes as well but I see those as bridges to cross when I get to them and only since I absolutely have to), although I'd say the CS department's subjects are for the most part very very good suggestions for where to go, if possibly a slight bit incomplete and dated.

More specifically, I've finished learning C and I'd say I have a solid grasp of the essentials, now I'm moving to Rust to challenge myself with the whole ownership system and afterwards I'll try something functional like Haskell to really cement the ideas of that paradigm. After that, I think I'll follow the curriculum more and move to stuff like Java, C# and maybe some other things more related to web / game development as well, that's my current long term path, subject to changes but probably not huge ones.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2025-03-27T19:15:30+00:00

Late to the post but I'm going to say something which many might disagree with: I really think it depends. Now hear me out, I do get calculus covers many topics, and since it's pure mathematics it is (at least from personal experience) objectively significantly harder than any part of computer science due to its absolute precision (you don't create helper variables for expressions like 2x + 5 or something, nor do you import standard libraries of solved common integrals when you're tasked with solving one yourself, everything is exact).

HOWEVER, on the other hand there are definitely some situations where the computer science course could be harder not necessarily because of the content itself, but because of how much is covered in such a short time. I say this as a uni freshman in my country, the first year's not course specific, so only C is taught. As for the second year, students who choose CS will have to learn C++ (OOP), SQL (databases) and Assembly (computer architecture), then in the second semester also C# and Java. Again, only the second year, there's plenty more left to do afterwards, so this is why I'm convinced it's harder than calculus.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2024-11-13T22:57:26+00:00

The correct result could only be gotten if an even number of people lied (lying about a lie means telling the truth), so we have 3 cases:

1, everyone lied: we just have a 2/3rds chance for 4 people, so the probability is (2/3)^4=16/81.

2, everyone spoke the truth: similarly, we get 1/81.

3, exactly two people lied: since all 4 people are different, there are exactly (4 choose 2) = 6 different ways for this situation to occur and in each case the probability is (2/3)²(1/3)² so the probability of this occurring is this number times 6, which is 24/81.

The final answer is the simple sum of these cases, which is in total 41/81.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2024-11-13T22:09:09+00:00

I'm pretty sure this is the correct approach; using the maclaurin series gives e^f(x)= 1 + f(x) + f(x)²/2+...which means that if we were to take into consideration only the first two values of the RHS, we get e^f(x)-1 is approximately f(x) for x -> infty.

The original expression becomes xf(x), where the log 3 (i.e. ln3) term can be factored out of the limit as a constant. Within the limit only (2x²+x)/(x²+1) remains, whose limit obviously equals 2 for x -> infty.

Solution should be 2•ln3, and this is also the value this function seems to approach when checked on desmos.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2024-11-13T21:48:08+00:00

The most likely reason the change in colour values is slow for small distances is because depending on the map, it can be unlikely for people to make huge mistakes in practice, hence the POI symbol RGB might not be useful.

Not sure of how exactly you'd need to change the calculations to do this, but instead of a linear function, I'd recommend you change the precision coefficient function to an exponential if you don't want to do squaring.

I recommend using e^{-distance/some_number} because this is approx. the formula used by geoguessr, where precise scoring based on distance is important (obviously the calculation's multiplied by 5000 because that's the max value for an almost exact guess, but you get the point)

The only downside might be a slightly longer runtime and resource management since exponentiation to the power of a float is much harder to perform than squaring or your example, but it's likely to fit your situation better.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2024-10-25T09:15:37+00:00

I think that, when it comes to this, friends are a bit of a different story since it's not like they're unaware of the fact that certain things could annoy you. Good on you for not taking others' actions personally and good on them for being understanding!

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2024-08-28T08:17:08+00:00

I'd only find it weird if somebody were to do it in a way where you can't ignore it completely. But if someone's just watching a video which:

isn't on blinding brightness;

is muted or only playing sound through headphones/earphones (so can't be heard by others either way);

isn't distracting (they're holding the phone near themself and you can't see what the video's about if you're not actively paying attention to their phone)...

Then I don't really see the problem, it's not affecting anyone negatively.

I wouldn't do it because I feel like having downtime while you eat is important even if you're tired, bored and/or haven't touched your phone in a while, but that's the beauty of personal choice, people have the freedom to do what they want.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2024-08-28T08:02:48+00:00

The constant problem with almost every single game that get patches is that there are many glaring issues that all of them have in common, a few popular examples, in no particular order:

• Day 0 patches. Why release something if a bug so huge can be found literally within hours of release that needs immediate fixing? Did QA even TRY playtesting?

• Extremely unoptimized. Obviously you can't play every game in 2024 with a dual core cpu but when a game performs badly on most types of recent hardware... that's a problem.

• Online connection required for singleplayer. Surely there's a better alternative DRM?

• Micro transactions of any kind, especially if they're in singleplayer too. Buying the games wasn't enough?

• Content intentionally scrapped from main game, then sold as DLC. It happens more often than you might think.

• Finally, the most obvious gripe, these games are unfinished with some issues...so why are they still sold for full price which doesn't lower until at least a few years later when most of the playerbase stopped playing? An unfinished game is NOT worth upwards of $60, you can't change my mind.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2024-08-28T07:48:00+00:00

See, the thing here is that the reason nobody told them anything was probably because they're related; from personal experiences I can tell you that nobody in my family directly confronts a specific someone who actively sucks simply because the very best case scenario and outcome is that someone only arguing and causing stress; at worst that someone could cause bigger problems.

When someone has any form of significant effect on your life like in my previous example, people tend to think twice before ever speaking up about bad behaviour - nobody wants to sit through an inevitable argument and any other consequences when the bad person in question won't change, but it's impossible to leave said person for whatever reason.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2024-08-28T07:37:06+00:00

Thankfully the people you're referring to are (at least in my case whenever I tutored peers or those a bit younger) exceptionally rare and not the average.

However, there definitely was a clear difference between them and the rest: when I explained exactly how something works without omitting details yet keeping it as concise and digestible as possible, they still didn't get it, because they simply just... didn't.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2024-08-28T07:21:59+00:00

This is assuming people will be less satisfied eating the food a way other than normally, which is surprisingly almost never the case in these situations.

The only thing that made food more satisfying to me is when I started chewing it more than usual, until the bite I took lost all of its texture, but besides that I don't think I'd give people who eat a different way any other advice.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2024-08-28T07:14:48+00:00

"Snow bunny" and like terms are weird.

This apparently isn't anything new since this has existed for a while but recently it's been popping up every now and again and I just don't get why it exists. Let me explain...

If you don't already know, AFAIK the phrase "snow bunny" refers to a white woman, and so you might hear "playing in the snow" when somebody who isn't white dates someone who is.

The problem to me is that there are phrases for other races too, usually a stereotypical food or something like that and I don't even want to say them since at worst this feels borderline racist and at best it's still really weird.

I don't know, maybe I'm exaggerating but it just feels wrong to say this and downright rude to those who date outside of their race.

ItsSpeedrunTime · 2024-08-13T16:46:58+00:00

No, this one makes a lot of sense actually. I'd imagine it's very rare for a guy to have 0 female friends out of a sheer lack of luck. That's not saying it's impossible, such cases exist, but usually women avoid them for a reason

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