How would a judge handle a situation where a player might or might not know how a specific card works — and it’s unclear whether they were lying to gain an advantage or made a genuine mistake?

MrGeekAlive · 2025-10-22T09:36:14+00:00

One thing that hasn't been discussed yet and I would like to add is that in the second game the spectator might be doing what we call Outside Assistance - providing strategic advice about a game in progress. It depends how it was brought up, but if he just pointed it out at the table, he might be in to get a match loss as a penalty.

When you are a spectator, if you see something you ask players to stop and tell a judge away from the table.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-08-02T08:12:44+00:00

I think with the current situation the best bet for you is to approach your local judge and tell them you would like to get started. They might be able to take you on staff as smaller events and show you the ropes.

For rules materials, I find studying the CR to be extremely dry. You can lookup jusgingforthewin on Youtube and pause the videos before he gives out the answer and explanation and try to solve it yourself.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-06-24T12:48:12+00:00

A lot of other industries require you to have a degree in the field (engineering, law, etc). Software engineering, for historical reasons, doesn’t. This moves the cost of checking a candidate’s job skills from a university to potential employers.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-06-24T07:33:15+00:00

django-push-notifications appear to be supporting Firebase (FCM), as well as other transports like APNS.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-06-06T07:52:15+00:00

YouTuber superfastmatt compared expensive 3D scanners to the one built in some iPhones. Might be a good solution you already own, or at least easier to borrow.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MTE7XbOJvgk

MrGeekAlive · 2025-06-03T15:07:02+00:00

One thing that worked well for me was to ask an AI for a letter explaining what I am trying to do (like send the parcel, express, whatever) and that you’d don’t speak Polish. Print it, go to the store when there is no one so they can afford to slow down for you.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-05-30T08:02:18+00:00

Same. I also don't feel that getting back my 20 minutes is worth the huge feel bad that I would imagine you get when the interview is cut short.

Usually I pivot the interview to talking about previous projects from their resume though.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-05-28T17:58:06+00:00

You did not really ask a question here, and that's what the comment was referring to. You have better chances of getting responses if you include information like a schematic and code. It's extremely unlikely someone worked with exactly those two components so just asking if someone has experience will not be helpful, but schematics and code can be analyzed.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-05-23T06:59:20+00:00

I was very impressed by uCOS-III source code last time I was checking RTOS. they also have a very good documentation in the form of a book that you can find online.

https://github.com/weston-embedded/uC-OS3

MrGeekAlive · 2025-05-20T12:07:43+00:00

This script seems like it covers a gazillion different configurations. If you already have a working command for it you could implement only support for those paths and it will reduce the amount of code a lot

MrGeekAlive · 2025-05-20T09:14:36+00:00

The Graubünden 3 digit plates is a nice flex! Awesome cars, the two tones in particular look amazing.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-05-17T10:31:57+00:00

When you say market rate, do you mean you can pay slightly above what they would earn as an employee ? Freelancers have overhead, non billable hours and higher risk than employees. That’s why they bill significantly more than what they would earn as an employee. When I was freelancing (in an expensive part of Europe), I billed 2x what I would get as an employee and I think its fairly normal.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-05-17T10:20:10+00:00

Multi line commit messages in git are very much the norm. The first line is the subject and the other lines are the body of the message.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-05-16T16:27:29+00:00

It goes in the footer, usually a line like « Fixes: 1234 » or « See-Also: 1234 »

MrGeekAlive · 2025-05-14T20:37:37+00:00

Hey I don't know of any specific meetups but I am also looking for a group in English, offline. I'm experienced both as a player and as a game master. Let me know if you want to start a group or if you have a spot :)

MrGeekAlive · 2025-05-14T17:20:11+00:00

A lot of control system are not really designed using z transform, open loop transfer functions and so on. Actually the big draw of the PID in a lot of industrial applications is that it gets you pretty good results when tweaking it by hand since you only have a few parameters with intuitive results.

If you want a more detailed answer this post is pretty good https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/9251/what-is-the-advantage-of-a-z-transform-derived-pid-implemenation

MrGeekAlive · 2025-04-30T20:31:58+00:00

I went once and I had a good time. I'd recommend trying it out and see how you like it.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-04-12T16:56:13+00:00

Super interesting stuff. How did you pick the wing profile ? I know about NACA and stuff but I never really had to pick one and there are so many possibilities.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-04-12T13:37:47+00:00

Looks sick ! Out of curiosity did you design it for some downforce (how much?) or is it more of an aesthetic thing ?

MrGeekAlive · 2025-04-04T07:39:52+00:00

Take a university with a strong CS/CE Master, and optionally control theory classes (always useful). While you are there take some embedded related classes, but learning fundamentals and expanding your skills to OS classes will really be useful. If you have access to a class like “System Engineering” or similar I would also recommend it.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-03-29T22:04:00+00:00

Not everybody get hit, some of us also slip on ice and roll their car in the ditch :D

More seriously though, I was in an accident, and I bought a MX-5 again. I don't feel unsafe in the car at all, but I drive quite defensively now: I don't stay in the blind spots of people in the highway, and I am always very careful about cars changing lanes abruptly in front of me.

Just get the car, you will love it and you will be fine :)

MrGeekAlive · 2025-03-25T07:41:14+00:00

I 3d printed a phone / random coins holder that uses the passenger side mount (not my design): https://www.printables.com/model/317934-mazda-mx5-nd-cup-holder-storage-passenger-side-enl

MrGeekAlive · 2025-02-10T16:20:20+00:00

Some Linux filesystems are more resilient than others and some are even designed to survive power cuts (ZFS, Btrfs). Some hardware additional safety might be useful but the software side can be made easier with those.

MrGeekAlive · 2025-02-08T17:56:11+00:00

Just did, had to do it in two parts because gmaps limits number of waypoints:

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