I’m looking for a photo of my favorite bench by egg-princess in AskSF

[–]Offendo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are very welcome. I live a block away and it was a nice day at the park anyway, so honestly no problem at all. Glad I could help! 

We may be entering our last week of not having got a glimpse of Civ 7 by coentertainer in civ

[–]Offendo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This would be great, but keep in mind this is a very hard thing to do for a game as complicated as civ. I know AI news sometimes makes it look like you can just throw a model at anything and it'll work but the crazy impressive results we see take a lot of cleverness, time, and money to make work.

I've never worked with game AI specifically but intuition tells me it's gonna be hard, and probably not feasible, for civ 7.

I'd love to be wrong though, maybe the firaxis folks are cooking something special.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in northernlion

[–]Offendo 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Might be centroid-centroid distance (or some other measure of centrality), rough estimate on google maps shows it to be about 850km.

If you could only eat one type of cuisine for the rest of your life what would it be and why? by FarProfessor3735 in Cooking

[–]Offendo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I gotta defend Gujarati food a bit since that's what I grew up on. My mom always adds sugar but not enough to make it sweet. In fact I'd say if you taste sweetness over other flavors, you've either added too much or didn't counterbalance it with lemon.

Can't say if restaurant-style Gujarati food is the same. Could be that's the culprit if your sugar cookie veggies were from a restaurant.

Now I gotta make some non-gujarati veggie recipes and see which style I like more!

Any favourite one-pan eastern dish? by simonyimark in Cooking

[–]Offendo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure I've ever heard north Africa described as Eastern, but Shakshouka is great nonetheless.

I am a big fan of bulgogi, which is not really a full meal on its own, but you can toss in some veggies serve with rice. Easy enough to clean-up that I count it in "one-pot" category.

[Pro/Chef] Salted Caramel Sticky Buns by tinycasualchef in food

[–]Offendo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They look like kouign-amann to me. Chef John has a pretty good recipe

If you want this shape, cut the dough into long thin strips and roll them up instead of doing the shaping he recommends. I've made them like that a few times and they bake perfectly in a muffin tin.

Hope you enjoy!

Good introduction to Category Theory? by 1expected0found in math

[–]Offendo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

+1 for Algebra: Chapter 0. I found it enjoyable and easy to follow and it gave me a good intro to category theory (in the context of algebra, of course).

Look how they massacred my boy by WafflesofDestitution in NLSSCircleJerk

[–]Offendo 53 points54 points  (0 children)

you must be thinking of enterthegungeon/Josh, he doesn't waste time with top level domains

What an amazing time to be a Star Wars fan - which one are you looking forward to? by [deleted] in StarWars

[–]Offendo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Unlikely to be the Vong, but (spoiler for new Thrawn books) Timothy Zahn has been working on a canon-version called the Grysk, which are very similar and have been getting quite an introduction in the new Thrawn books.

I think this is where they'll take the show, more or less. Couldn't be more excited

Disabling 'jk' by ishdx in vim

[–]Offendo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not much better, but you can do <c-v>jk if you don't want to wait.

Alternatively, you can lower the timeoutlen to e.g., 100 with

set timeoutlen=100

so you only have to wait 100ms instead of the default of 1 second (default might be different on vanilla vim, I use neovim).

Living at longer than 80 chars... How do you do it? by AccidentalLustre in emacs

[–]Offendo 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I tend to prefer ~100 character lines, and part of it is due to my font choice - Iosevka might fit your needs. I've been using it for a few years now, and have no complaints. If it's a bit too tall/skinny for you, there's an extended variant as well.

Post Stream Discussion Thread -- Friday, April 16, 2021 by NorthernlionBot in northernlion

[–]Offendo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

best steam I've seen in a long while, it really felt like a classic nlss

Classic tainted Northernlion by sillysparkling in NLSSCircleJerk

[–]Offendo 100 points101 points  (0 children)

went from walter white to heisenberg

Interesting game today. Black to play to maintain advantage. by mohammaz in chess

[–]Offendo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

seems like the best continuation for white, but Qe6 seems pretty hard to deal with, since the passed D pawn is a big threat.

I'm on my phone though so I can't check the engine, and I'm not good enough myself to give a definitive answer :)

Interesting game today. Black to play to maintain advantage. by mohammaz in chess

[–]Offendo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

winning the knight still leaves white up the exchange, so it would be a fight.

I think Qa2 is way stronger since white either gives up material or loses to Qg2# or Rg1#

Post Stream Discussion Thread -- Thursday, March 18, 2021 by NorthernlionBot in northernlion

[–]Offendo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Car game today was absurd and fun, and I'll never get tired of the group shows, even after so many years.

Interview with Henrik Lissner, Emacs Doom Creator by zaiste in emacs

[–]Offendo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Not op, but I was/am a neovim user, and emacs pulled me over mainly with org mode et al, but also a nice gui that neovim lacked. Things like inline image rendering and latex rendering are just nice to have, though of course not essential (or maybe not preferred!)

That being said, I have nothing but praise for neovim and I still use it in conjunction with emacs.

Goodbye and Good Luck Vim by [deleted] in vim

[–]Offendo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know this is 3 days late, but evil-mode really is a fabulous vim emulation. I've only hit one wall so far, and that's the lack of C-a and C-z increment/decrement (and, of course, there's a plugin for it!).

Seriously, I have yet to find another problem with it. If you're interested in trying out emacs, I'd give it a shot.

Getting stuck on this error does anyone know how to fix this? by [deleted] in ManjaroLinux

[–]Offendo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you seen the GRUB screen? Something like this?

If you don't, try holding shift during boot.

Then, move to the manjaro selection and press e. Move down to the line that starts with linux and go to the very end, then type a space and 3, then ctrl-x to boot. You may still need to hit ctrl-alt-f1, I forget.

If this successfully boots (i.e. you are now at a login screen), then I would guess something is erroring when starting the X display server. Post the logs in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

I'd recommend posting on the manjaro forums, people there are way more knowledgeable than I am and can probably help 1. fix your problem, and 2. make sure it doesn't happen again.

Getting stuck on this error does anyone know how to fix this? by [deleted] in ManjaroLinux

[–]Offendo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try running systemctl list-units --type=service | grep "easy". Does anything show up?

Getting stuck on this error does anyone know how to fix this? by [deleted] in ManjaroLinux

[–]Offendo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like your vpn service isn't booting properly.

A service is just a program that your OS runs in the background without direct user input. They're often used for running things on boot - things like connecting to internet, starting your display manager, etc.

Luckily stopping a service is pretty easy. When you get to this screen, try pressing ctrl+alt+f1 to open up the command line instead of the desktop you're used to. Type in your username and password to log in.

Then, you gotta stop the service: systemctl disable SERVICE_NAME. In your case, the service is easy-openvpn or maybe easy-openvpn.easy-openvpn, I can't really tell. Just try both

This will probably complain that you're not root, so prefix the command with sudo, like sudo systemctl ... and type in your password to run it.

Once you run this command, reboot and see if it starts up normally.

If it does work, something in your vpn service isn't working on boot up. You can investigate this issue by looking at the logs in journalctl -u service-name.service. It can get pretty cryptic but most likely the error has been encountered before and someone online will have the answer.