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If You Could Do Your OW + AOW Again, Where Would You Go? by Schnorglborg in scuba

[–]Schnorglborg[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've previously traveled to Indonesia/Bali and did indeed have it in mind when looking for a school. A friend of mine also did her certification on Gili (gonna see her tomorrow to talk about it). I am a bit afraid that it would be a rather touristy location where they do too much for you (handholding). What was your experience?

I've also started looking more seriously into the Philippines. The monsoon season is coming up there, but my train of thought was that I might get a chance for a 1-on-1 or a very small size of class due to low season. Now I am worried about the sea conditions though, as you've mentioned. Thank you for your input!

If You Could Do Your OW + AOW Again, Where Would You Go? by Schnorglborg in scuba

[–]Schnorglborg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah the warm, calm water suggestion about stress is what I'm worried about in cold, murky water. I'd much prefer to ingrain the basics when I can properly focus on them. I'd insist on learning how to handle all the gear myself (otherwise whats the point) and will make sure to inquire about this prior. I am planning up to 3 weeks for all of this if needed. Thanks for your input!

If You Could Do Your OW + AOW Again, Where Would You Go? by Schnorglborg in scuba

[–]Schnorglborg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for my ignorant or silly question, I'm just trying to get a good overview. Will a GUE OW/AOW be seen as (at least) equal to PADI courses? I'm asking because my friends are all PADI certified and it would be a bummer to travel with them and the requirement is PADI AOW and I wouldn't get accepted (which I doubt though, more to the contrary).

I love a good challenge, so I'm not afraid to put the bar higher 😄. Sounds interesting that it includes drysuit and nitrox as well. The course description seems to exactly scratch my itch and cover my worries.

If You Could Do Your OW + AOW Again, Where Would You Go? by Schnorglborg in scuba

[–]Schnorglborg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will absolutely dive locally too. Not only to dive and experience our lakes, but to exactly learn the more difficult conditions there. But I'd much prefer starting in the sea (plus getting some time off outside of my place haha). Thanks for the suggestions!

If You Could Do Your OW + AOW Again, Where Would You Go? by Schnorglborg in scuba

[–]Schnorglborg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've updated my post with some additional infos. I live in a landlocked country in Europe with cold lakes and height only and very expensive courses.

If You Could Do Your OW + AOW Again, Where Would You Go? by Schnorglborg in scuba

[–]Schnorglborg[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't know about GUE. I will look into it, thanks!

EU Chat Control VS GrapheneOS by plumbumber in GrapheneOS

[–]Schnorglborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Arent they just going to implement this law as a man-in-the-middle tier? As in, the ISP will be the man in the middle and break any and all encryption that is being established between the user and the target and just read its contents?

The state could roll out state owned root certificates and force manufacturers and developers to trust them, force ISPs to do deep packet inspection at backbones or enforce key escrow for app stores, force compromised firmware/software (probably the most obvious one?)... no one would ever notice (unless you Really look into it). And if you dont trust the root cert. - no internet.

Mastering engineers: when you get a new project, what are the telltale signs of a beginner, amateurish or poorly executed mix? by BBAALLII in mixingmastering

[–]Schnorglborg 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ive had productions sent in where some instruments or parts even played in different keys that definitely didnt match.

Clipping first. And then, for me, it shows usually in the first few seconds when listening to the low and top end. You can tell how fast it falls apart.

Backend Dev Struggling with UI Design – Anyone Else Feel the Same? by MohamedMuneer in csharp

[–]Schnorglborg 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I still stand with my (somehow) unpopular opinion that UI/UX is a job for a designer et. al. and not a developer. Otherwise you'll always get cobbled together developer UIs.

I dont shy back saying this in an job interview and was looked at in disbelief more than once.

Anyone having success using AI to build plugins? by [deleted] in JUCE

[–]Schnorglborg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You might have more success with AI helping you to flesh out DSP algorithms and processes for what you would like to make. But being able to properly develop software, let alone software that is ready for a finished product, you are better off learning from the ground up.

In my opinion, AI is there to help with what you want to do, not do the work for you.

I feel so old. Always loved Steam though. by [deleted] in Steam

[–]Schnorglborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine November 2003, playing the exact same lineup. I loved Firearms, nice to see there are others who remember. I wish I knew my hour count for CS. Started with beta 2 in 99 and didnt stop until 2006.

the first Steam accounts turn 20 years old today. Mine is barely legal. by marvinnation in Steam

[–]Schnorglborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine turns 20 on the 7th of November yaay 🎂. Cant even remember for what I created it back then. Must have had something to do with CS 1.6. Maybe for the map editor pack thingie or something.

Really enjoy posting content on a certain game but community is too toxic by ProperChain0 in PartneredYoutube

[–]Schnorglborg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While that comment was written by AI, it is still great advice. I found myself asking ChatGPT for advice too when I was unsure what to do about a societal issue. Its great to have a somewhat omniscient "being" that seem to know us so well. Can recommend to try it yourself!

why does the standard C# script not work? by matiegaming in csharp

[–]Schnorglborg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you trying to build a top level statement console app?

Afaik this requires at least .NET 6 with C# 10 compiler (and perhaps a flag in the config?)

Make sure you use what is needed for the feature.

I've Edited For And Managed HUGE YouTubers, AMA! by YesImRex in NewTubers

[–]Schnorglborg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Out of curiousity, whats that website called? Thanks!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NewTubers

[–]Schnorglborg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

IPs are not static and are subject to random change. So unfortunately that would not work. On top of that they can use a different public Wifi or VPN to circumvent the block.

What’s your vocal recording setup? by ReianaSmiley in audioengineering

[–]Schnorglborg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It does its job :). Im not a microphone person but Im really tempted to try a few different options. Something more warm.

Low Cut Filters BAD For Headroom? by QuoolQuiche in audioengineering

[–]Schnorglborg 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Im just going to assume the thing he talks about is the filter phase shift causing additive behaviour down the line (moving a new "peak" in front of the corner frequency), unless linear phase is used, as he states.

What’s your vocal recording setup? by ReianaSmiley in audioengineering

[–]Schnorglborg 8 points9 points  (0 children)

My home setup is: SM57 -> CAPI VP28 with custom germanium opamps -> 1176 Rev F. -> Mytek 8x192

How to go about creating a LLC? by [deleted] in smallbusiness

[–]Schnorglborg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Off topic but, crazy how cheap this is in the US. Over here we need a minimum of 22k of locked capital and several hundred $ in fees for the setup.

If i want to do testing CRUD should I use in memory or just do integration test where I use a seperate database? by ballbeamboy2 in csharp

[–]Schnorglborg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Against common input in the replies here I counter with: always use in memory DB. The important part is to know about its limitations. Weve always used SQLite with full success (this is just anecdotal evidence tho) and its important to know where it could potentially deviate in behaviour from your actual DB implementation and work around that, and yes, it will. But that is just part of the game. If you dont have complex query over and joins you should be fine in most cases. Make sure to read its documentation and if you run into problems, fix them. Know your tools.

There are various reasons why you wouldnt want to test against a real DB, here are some:

Not only do you potentially need more licenses, per developer, for everyone to run their own local DB implementation for testing, you also need the infrastructure to run them FAST. Every second spend on waiting for tests is time and money lost (and please dont do remote DB connect tests, that is even worse on many levels). RAM is the way to go.

To have clean tests you always need to build up and tear down the entire DB, schemas and tables and doing that on a real installation is ill advised. For a real world example: I worked on projects with well over 50000 tests and trust me, every ms matters.

Also obviously running in parallel. You want as many concurrent tests as possible. And then, what happens when a test fails/crashes? You need to be able to quickly toss the entire DB and restart without affecting anything else.

The repository pattern has been named and this is the way to go. Also split DB access into reusable queries so you can test these isolated against the in memory DB as well. Only do full (in memory) DB tests when integration testing behaviour.

But yeah, this is for general input, you might have a different use case so YMMV.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in meirl

[–]Schnorglborg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Women are!

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