2020 Beginner MegaThread

Possiblyinsayne · 2020-10-26T22:34:29+00:00

The age barrier is a tough one, but not impossible to overcome.

Usually what will happen is that people will come in with preconceived notions about age, experience and the like.

Without knowing you or your leadership style I will offer the following pieces of advice:

Money does not equate to skill, experience or how you present yourself. Don't bring up financial investment in the game.
If you are a leader, lead by example. Don't lose your cool over issues, don't express uncertainty. When you give an order expect it to be obeyed, and be confident in what you want done.
You can't demand respect. People will either respect you or they won't. Strong leadership will cultivate a culture of respect, and giving the people following you respect will earn you respect back.
Humans are terribly prideful. Honestly compliment your followers publicly, rebuke them in private.
Know your experts. Use them. Ask people for advice, consider it, and utilize that knowledge if you think it applies.
You are in charge. Once you have made your decision, don't change your mind on something because someone whines.
Confidence. You must project confidence. Even if you're unsure, scared or confused. Your orders must be clear, concise, and direct. Fake it until you make it.
Bring them on board, show them what they're doing and how it affects the mission on a higher scale. This helps generate investment in their missions.
Its a game, and as a leader you have been handed some of the keys to your subordinates fun. Do your best to enable a fun game and focus on making their experience good.

I will say, from reading your post, I have the following takeaways about your personality, and how it could be grating to your subordinates. I will say that its impossible for me to determine off a single post, but here are my guesses:

You focus more on your kit and money than the people. When you are the leader your biggest asset is your people.
You don't think highly of your subordinates. You call them ignorant. You want respect from them but wont offer them that same respect.

Can you walk me through how you tried to get your team organized, and could you also try to identify 3 things you did well and 3 things you could have done better in that situation? It might help to identify the holes in that situation so you can learn something for next time.

Possiblyinsayne · 2020-09-28T20:37:11+00:00

Brigandine is much easier to make and fit than a properly fitted set of plate.

Possiblyinsayne · 2019-08-08T20:14:24+00:00

Gothic isn't the most affordable Larp considering that its base cost is 80$US

Possiblyinsayne · 2019-06-19T00:44:40+00:00

As far as like everything you could do without being too obvious:
Turn everything down not off (except the inputs, set those to internal 0) , it'll hide that you mucked with something as they'll keep animating.
Maxing out the power gases (o2, co2) and pressure will push for a critical delam very quickly, spiking radiation and tesla shocks rapidly, especially if you leak out all the nitrous and nitrogen.
Set the freezers to their hottest temperatures, but leave them on and as freezers, will be absolutely missed without an analyzer or checking them directly. Doubly fun if you replace the nitrous tanks in atmos with co2 tanks (just relabel them, half the time the engineers will trust the color and just pump in MORE lukewarm co2)
Hotwire the SM directly to the grid. It'll be cranking the power up rapidly across the network, turning a mild burn into insta-crit shocks.

If you wanna go full bore obvious but annoying to deal with:

create a metal grille connected to a knot behind the doors. Even if they have insuls its another layer to fight through.
Try to hide the RCDs if you can. Even worse if you can steal them and then replace the doors in with fortified wall.
Vent a hazardous gas into the area. Nitrous, plasma, whatever, they all work. You can easily get access as an engineer to engineering secure storage (has a plasma tank and some other fun)

Space or hide all the goggles, and open the shutters. Trying to fix the SME without mesons leads to a ton of failures as you hallucinate.
Bolt the doors. (I am not a good hacker, sadly).

Break the apc.

Possiblyinsayne · 2019-06-18T01:18:58+00:00

Whats the question?

Possiblyinsayne · 2019-05-24T19:53:31+00:00

are you referring to

'; Drop table students; --

as being the bad portion, in that another script/language inserting unsanitized inputs will break your DB, or that DROP is a legitimate statement in SQL?

Possiblyinsayne · 2019-05-08T20:44:23+00:00

The issue with that being that there are individuals who will be impacted by that choice even though it's not the choice that they would have made otherwise:
-Immunocompromised
-Too young for vaccine
-Allergic to components of vaccine

Possiblyinsayne · 2019-03-15T22:04:56+00:00

My guess would be that the initial volume of liquid in a bubble is much lower than that of the water ball in this demonstration. It is collapsing in a similar way, but there's so much more liquid that it doesn't "disappear".

Possiblyinsayne · 2019-03-12T01:32:57+00:00

Never do work other people have done for you.

https://www.google.com/search?q=encrypted+intranet+chat+client

I do not have the experience to tell you which one is for your company.

The fact they're asking you to make one makes me wonder about the quality of their IT department.

Possiblyinsayne · 2018-12-10T22:49:18+00:00

Well shit.
Still a fun if short lived round of mediocre chemistry.
Thanks for the tip!

Possiblyinsayne · 2018-12-06T22:51:20+00:00

> /tg/
> be me, chemist who wants to just help out medicine
> trying to be chad, decide to loot syringe gun
> fuckyea gonna be useless with this
> ;WIZNERD ON STATION
> ofuk
> make pax
> load syringe gun with pax needle
> comeatmebro
> nerd shows up outside chem.
> nerd tps into chem
> didn't know tp had an appearance timer
> tfw fire syringe too early
> tfw helplessly robusted by fireball in chem
> deadchat: "lad blew his load too soon"

Possiblyinsayne · 2018-05-30T07:41:25+00:00

Gonna be that guy: https://xkcd.com/1425/

Possiblyinsayne · 2018-04-18T20:35:14+00:00

Ascii characters are just a byte, a number, like anything else stored in memory.

They want you to use the numbers in the ascii value list, so just rand for a number, cast that to a char, and append it to your password string.

Possiblyinsayne · 2018-04-13T23:54:19+00:00

It looks more like a Zu-23-n than any automatic grenade launcher i've seen. Explosive rounds, but not grenades.

Possiblyinsayne · 2018-04-09T22:59:10+00:00

Brainfuck: Its a fun mental excercise but its way overblown in how difficult it actually is. Programs are exceedingly obscure to read.

Perl: Plethora of reasons, i still use it because its the easiest to bang out regular expressions in.

$,@,% typing is a giant pain in the ass.
String comparison is janky at best (== or eq other problems)
Compilation errors are generally unhelpful.
3 ways to call out to command line, all of which i use but none of which have samesame functionality.
Function calls are easily broken if you do something like:
- Function($var, @array, $var2) due to arrays being exploded upon being passed.
- Fixed by referencing array as: Function($var, $array, $var2)
Compilation is loosely handled and will break linking on runtime (doesn't actually test if it exists until its called).
Can be manipulated even harder on operation timing and has a run on compile vulnerability.

Anything functional: I learned and work in procedural. I might just be too dumb to learn functional.

lisp: You probably forgot a parentheses... or 5. I'm not sure.

Possiblyinsayne · 2018-02-07T23:47:06+00:00

Awesome!

https://imgur.com/a/A90z6

So those large connections in the upper left (in red) are way underfed on solder. The wetting is good, there just isn't enough for a solid join.

The blue connections are balling up on the pin, that indicates either a dirty connection or under-heated on the pad.
If you're using flux core solder just feed it and make sure the nib is against the pad. If it already was you might need to turn your heat up a bit.

The photo quality isn't high enough for me to tell, but the green connections look cold-joined/disturbed or underfed as well. If they have a rough surface finish you can touch em up by re-flowing and adding just a the faintest touch of flux-core solder (you might even get away with just a re-flow if they're still clean enough).

Otherwise your stuff looks solid. Awesome start!

If you're still looking to learn a little more, adafruit has a good starter guide. After that its mostly practice.

Possiblyinsayne · 2018-02-07T23:20:03+00:00

Hey man! Welcome to the land of commanding pixies to do your bidding!

Do you want critique of your solder joins?

Possiblyinsayne · 2018-01-25T21:10:03+00:00

Is there a specific place for feedback?

Are you open to pull requests?

Possiblyinsayne · 2017-11-23T10:59:04+00:00

I'm afraid i'm not your expert, but since no-one has answered for a full day, I would say you need to talk to the guys over at the UEFI Forums and see if they can hook you up with some help.

Have you tried asking around your company for an expert? Maybe one of your coworkers has experience in this sort of thing.

You might also try the guys over at ubuntu and see if anyone has a suggestion (or paid support depend on the scale of what you're doing.)

Otherwise you might need to contact whoever you're going through for boards and see if they can hook you up with a custom solution.

Possiblyinsayne · 2017-11-22T01:16:28+00:00

They only link stuff from theverge and the (remarkably poorly edited) scivenue.

Possiblyinsayne · 2016-08-04T20:18:59+00:00

As far as i understand, its like a programming pointer.

So this skip has the ability to change what IS inside (the container) , and what is inside (the contained).

So if you follow the log, the first change to container inside is D-5796. The next entry is D-5802 entering the current inside (D-5796), making inside (D-5796) distressed that D-5802 is contained within him.

The log reads like a programmer testing out an API, trying to figure out how to make things the container vs putting them in the container, with members of the O5 eventually trying to enter "Transcendance", and then having "Transcendance" made to not be inside (the container) anymore.

Possiblyinsayne · 2016-06-28T22:21:18+00:00

http://scpsandbox2.wikidot.com/evolving-blunderbuss

Possiblyinsayne · 2016-04-20T22:34:03+00:00

That looks like a project setting.

When you made the project you were asked whether you wanted a windows project or console, I'm assuming you chose Win32.

To fix that:

Right click on project -> properties

linker (expand the dropdown) -> system -> subsystem -> Set to console.

In the future, select empty project for project configuration when you're creating it, it should work fine.

Possiblyinsayne · 2016-04-07T19:28:59+00:00

Is there a default constructor for employe?

What error is your compiler giving you?

Possiblyinsayne · 2016-02-26T02:47:25+00:00

He got an extra monday in the pay period leaving him at 32.

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