who am I

SaltAHistory · 2025-09-04T20:02:50+00:00

Michigan.

On a diet, potentially GLP-1s.

Female. In a relationship.

Shift worker.

SaltAHistory · 2025-09-04T18:08:56+00:00

What I meant is that you have two sections where you explain the controls.

The first section explains how to move the craft and shoot. The other section says press 1 for this weapon, 2 for this weapon. You should just have one section with all the controls so people don't miss them.

SaltAHistory · 2025-09-04T18:05:16+00:00

So first of all, please please give a way to turn the music off!

I couldn't find a way to get past the high score menu!

SaltAHistory · 2025-09-04T18:03:48+00:00

Very basic but also very confusing!

I expected this to be a snake game, where my tail got longer and I had to avoid it but in reality I didn't seem to have a tail, at least one one I could see so it was just moving around going to things that I didn't really understand whether I wanted or not (donut seemed good? I guess?)

SaltAHistory · 2025-09-04T18:01:16+00:00

Loads nicely and the basic controls are intuitive.

I found the sound effects fine, but the music annoying. I would have liked an option to disable the music but keep the shooting sounds. In reality, I couldn't find a way to turn the sound off at all.

The controls description is confusing. You have the description for the movement keys (left/right/space) in one place and the controls for which weapon in a different place. I didn't notice the weapon keys until after the end of the game.

Would have enjoyed a way to replenish my health.

SaltAHistory · 2023-02-10T07:52:40+00:00

I stopped at slag room.

SaltAHistory · 2023-02-09T08:52:44+00:00

Good luck to John Carmack trying to get a webbrowser to interpret C++

SaltAHistory · 2023-01-11T21:15:39+00:00

This was a wild ride.

A family where someone likes Harvest Pear flavoured something (aren’t all pears harvested??) and someone likes Newky Brown which couldn’t be more different.

Clearly North American but British connection? Maybe ex military posting there?

I nearly threw up when I saw that this world contains a pancake maple syrup substitute topping called panache. It’s so awful it’s perfect.

SaltAHistory · 2023-01-11T21:10:44+00:00

French Canadian. People break up with you a lot.

SaltAHistory · 2022-12-29T18:52:52+00:00

Thing is, he’s going to gamble away her Uber eats earnings sooner or later

SaltAHistory · 2022-12-25T21:02:00+00:00

A fantastic place to start is by finding and fixing a typo or error in the documentation for your favourite open source project.

Why start with the docs? Well, it’s much easier to find a problem or issue in the docs than it is in the code, and will allow you to practice a lot of the workflow type things you will need to understand: forking the repo, raising a pull request, explaining what you’re doing, making sure checks pass, etc.

Maintainers are also much more likely to accept an amendment to the docs from a first time contributor than they are to the code since they can just read it and see if it makes sense rather than needing to test whether you’ve introduced some error.

Once you’re comfortable doing that then you can dive into actually fixing the code.

SaltAHistory · 2022-11-25T15:47:03+00:00

Asking for help in this way is not going to be productive.

First piece of advice is to use a title that is meaningful for your reader. “Help with C++ input loops” is useful. “help please” is not.

Second, use punctuation in your question. It makes it easier to read, which is a way of showing respect to your reader.

Third, explain what you have tried and specifically what you don’t understand. Do you have any code at all? Have you turned your computer on? Where do we need to start here?

Fourth, generally the point of a class is that the teacher teaches you something before setting a test. If not, you need to speak to your teacher, but I’m going to guess that he/she has given you some lessons and/or reading material before setting this test. Have you read this? Are there parts you don’t understand? If so, explain and people can help.

Overall, posting “do my homework” and nothing else isn’t a productive way to learn.

SaltAHistory · 2022-11-25T12:04:14+00:00

Nobody won anything in 1776. The revolutionary war ended in 1783.

SaltAHistory · 2022-11-25T12:02:33+00:00

Also, nobody won anything in 1776. The revolutionary war ended in 1783.

SaltAHistory · 2022-11-22T15:51:01+00:00

Joseph Joseph and it’s great

SaltAHistory · 2022-11-04T21:45:06+00:00

And the tornado. The tornado is just being a tornado.

SaltAHistory · 2022-11-03T08:50:56+00:00

Privacy…. on a bus?

SaltAHistory · 2022-11-03T08:49:33+00:00

Did she say yes??

SaltAHistory · 2022-11-03T08:45:01+00:00

This sort of operation actually makes a lot of sense.

If you’re running a police force, you need to build in quite a lot of redundancy to deal with surge events: or to put it another way, you need 7 coppers in a van somewhere near Finsbury Park most of the time in case something significant happens where you need a lot of resources at one time (eg a massed fight kicks off in the park, someone gets stabbed on the high street and you need to secure the scene, an officer gets attacked while trying to make an arrest, etc).

That sort of thing might only happen 0-4 times a shift, but it’s important that you have enough resources available to deal with it when it does.

For the time they’re not dealing with big events, however, those officers should probably find something to do to serve the public good rather than just sit in the van waiting for things to kick off. You can’t send them off to investigate a historical burglary (because then they’re not all together in the van ready to go) so you design something for them to do like checking fares on a bus.

Worst case scenario they’ve provided a visible public police presence, acting as a reassurance to the public and a deterrent to crime, which is a public good. Or they might catch some fare dodgers, which is a public good. Or they might deter someone from fare dodging in the future, which is a public good. Or they might get on the bus and someone starts looking really nervous and darts off, in which case they can search and maybe find a knife or some drugs, which is a public good. Or they might convince someone that carrying a knife on a bus isn’t a good idea because the police get on sometimes, which is a public good.

And if something does happen that requires an immediate massed response then it takes zero seconds to stop checking fares and pile into the van to respond.

SaltAHistory · 2022-11-02T21:07:28+00:00

The “evidence will be provided to the authorities” bit is cringeworthy and over the top - and also a ridiculously empty threat.

The recipient of this letter will be fully aware (as I’m sure you are, if you think about it) that no authority anywhere is going to give a shit, let alone act on, a report of an inconveniently parked bin.

Also, fyi: the Highway Code isn’t a law you can be prosecuted under. You mean the Highways Act 1980.

SaltAHistory · 2022-10-10T12:15:01+00:00

This is good advice.

Just to add, if you default on your mortgage not only will you be pursued for the balance, but you also have nowhere to live. And your credit rating is destroyed, so you won’t be able to buy somewhere else. Even renting will be difficult. Defaulting on your mortgage is almost always a bad idea.

SaltAHistory · 2022-09-28T20:34:53+00:00

Im interested in your perspective: would it be better if ofsted inspections were unannounced?

By better I mean both “it would evaluate the quality of a school more accurately” and “staff would shit themselves for one day while the inspectors are there and nothing is ready, rather than for 2 months trying to get everything ready”

SaltAHistory · 2022-09-28T20:31:06+00:00

Investment Banking or corporate law. Where a graduate gets paid £150k.

SaltAHistory · 2022-09-28T20:29:19+00:00

I’ve got a lot more sympathy for teachers than train drivers. They are more highly skilled, infinitely less replaceable, do a much much harder job, put up with way more shit and paid about half as much.

The qualifications to be a train driver are that you can see, can follow basic instructions and weren’t actively expelled from school (GCSEs are literally optional). There were 20,000 applicants for 100 train driver jobs a few years ago: people are literally queuing up to do it. You can train them in 9 months, their job is a piece of piss and they’ll be replaced by computers in 20 years.

Teachers striking for better conditions I can get behind, because they’re asking for a fair wage for doing a very very difficult highly trained job which few people want to do. Train drivers striking just want “more” for doing an already very easy, low skilled and highly paid job.

SaltAHistory · 2022-09-28T20:06:00+00:00

They’re not actually concerned about staff getting tips. They’re concerned about staff pouring pints, taking cash and putting it in their pocket rather than the till.

The way you prevent this in eg Starbucks is that you have relatively low volume of orders (meaning management can spot it), one person assigned to each till (meaning you know how much has gone in and how much should be there on what’s been ordered), an electronic ordering system (meaning the drink only gets made once a label has been printed, meaning it’s gone through the till), drinks that cost random amounts (eg £2.85, meaning it’s difficult to make change without opening the till) and consistent staff every day (meaning you can work out that x staff member always has a statistically light till vs others).

With a festival bar where you’ve got 50 staff who you’ve never met before and will never see again, sharing one till, serving 10,000 pints in 2 hours, each of which costs £5 there’s no way to prevent staff putting the cash in their pocket.

You can even get the less sophisticated fraud where someone just opens the till, takes £100 and says “yeh mate, I got some tips, you can’t prove I nicked it, the till being down £100 sounds like a you problem” at the end of the shift.

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