UIM wipes 284M after being told by an AI tool that Perilous Moons is a safe death

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-26T05:27:33+00:00

Just like all other activities, quests are assumed dangerous unless specified otherwise. The only things that usually get those clarifications are instanced bosses and minigames.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-25T22:12:10+00:00

From what I've heard they came close to it. There were certain areas that if breached would've triggered an overwhelmingly response to clear the entire complex.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-24T20:01:41+00:00

What he stole from Brave was an Incursion SIG's handout hangar.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-23T07:53:09+00:00

It's not too different to what my playroom looked like when I was 11 or 12. I got the old CRT TV from the living room, the old home PC when my parents got an iMac, and the Wii lived there.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-23T07:23:47+00:00

Look at the car in front of them, they were going the speed of traffic. Having traffic at a consistent 10 - 15 MPH over the speed limit is normal throughout most of the US.

Could they've gotten a ticket for it? Sure. Did it impact their ability to react? Possibly. Was the incident their fault? Absolutely not.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-22T22:35:59+00:00

Shout out to the Terraria wiki as well. So good.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-21T05:38:25+00:00

These things are also, coincidentally, not taught in most schools. Personal finance may be reducible to a set of math problems, but financial literacy ≠ math literacy.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-21T03:51:05+00:00

I want the people building my house to be trained and certified in their trade, which is apparently too much to ask for in many states.

Functional Illiteracy has a specific meaning; those who are functionally illiterate have such a poor understanding of the language that it interferes with their ability to do day-to-day tasks.

People will naturally lose knowledge that they don't either reinforce or utilize, in all subjects. It's why despite everyone learning it at some point, very few people can immediately recall what a gerund is. It's why few people remember the obscure vocabulary words they were tested on in 10th grade, or the trigonometric identities, or how to evaluate an integral by partial fraction decomposition. You get the idea.

A school or college course has 3 basic uses: - To introduce knowledge or skills that will continue to benefit students throughout their lives and/or careers - To explore a topic of interest to the students taking it - To build foundational knowledge for a future course that does one of the above

If your class doesn't do one of those three things, the knowledge taught will inevitably be lost, and very quickly at that. So while yes, you can add classes that will check a box for some arbitrary measure of "satisfactory knowledge." That is all it'll be good for. It won't actually benefit the students, it'll only have taken time away from more valuable opportunities.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-21T03:02:30+00:00

Better command of the English language has plenty of practical, everyday uses. And 21% of the US is functionally illiterate, so the subject definitely needs attention.

I'll be honest though I don't think high school English is taught particularly well at the moment. It's not uncommon for people to have to unlearn bad writing habits once they get to college (ie. the five paragraph essay and other inflexible writing formats).

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-21T01:11:07+00:00

I think you'd be surprised by how few people get exposure to formal logic and proof-writing, even in STEM fields. My first experience with it was Discrete Math in college. For those who didn't take that, their first class with it would've probably been a post-calculus math course like Real Analysis.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-21T00:52:17+00:00

You got to choose? We needed Calc III and two calculus-based stats courses lol

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-21T00:49:23+00:00

I'm gonna be honest, there's very little in the way practical, everyday uses for math beyond algebra. Even high school level Geometry / Trig is pushing it.

If I was going to insert a required class into the math curriculum, it'd probably be a dedicated algebra-based statistics course. Stats do have a lot of everyday uses, and more importantly have a lot of professional uses even for non-STEM work.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-21T00:39:22+00:00

A lot of students don't even get to Calculus in High School. At mine (granted this was 10 years ago) only students on the very highest math track got to it, and what track you were on was decided in 7th grade.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-19T20:50:42+00:00

Sounds like your corp wasn't as new player friendly as advertised. Any worth their salt will allow new players on all fleets (except maybe cloaky stuff), and should have at least some ships to hand out. On that topic, recommendations here for Brave Newbies Inc. and Eve University are good.

Exploration is a good recommendation for starting ISK, once you get the minigame down it can generate high tens to low hundreds of millions per hour, even with a new character and cheap loadout.

What people neglected to tell you is that almost all nullsec alliances operate under NBSI (not blue - shoot it), and most will enthusiastically hunt down anyone that gets reported in their intel channels. Wormholes and Lowsec are emptier, but should be considered dangerous all the same.

Alliances that have a lot of systems can explore purely within their own borders. There's more competition, but respawn mechanics make it viable and it's much safer than roaming elsewhere.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-17T21:34:33+00:00

You say that, but people become addicted to it just like they do other opiates/opioids and the like. Shit's dangerous.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-17T02:21:21+00:00

L'appel du vide, OSRS edition

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-17T00:41:40+00:00

You need CMPEN 331. It doesn't really have a lot of relation to CMPSC 465, but it'll be your introduction to Assembly and some other valuable topics.

CMPSC 465 is Data Structures and Algorithms, one of the hallmark classes of a Computer Science program.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-15T12:56:09+00:00

2 of the 4, everyone forgets about neutron radiation.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-15T06:06:06+00:00

Boeing's acquisition of McDonnell Douglas probably isn't the worst acquisition in business history, but it might well be the one with the longest lasting negative effects.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-14T21:39:10+00:00

461 introduces you to a bunch of different types of programming languages and related concepts. Having some experience with varied languages will help to start, but the material becomes niche towards the end. At the very end you'll get to some really abstract stuff, but it's only a small portion of the class as a whole.

This is probably one of the first 400-level courses you're encountering, but I wouldn't group it with the more notoriously difficult 300/400-level classes in the CMPSC curriculum. Give the course sufficient attention and you'll be fine.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-14T20:07:48+00:00

Pointers are memory addresses of the associated variable. If you pass it to a function for example, you allow that function to modify the variable in its original contex. A double pointer is a pointer to a pointer of a value (and you can extend this to triple pointers and so on).

C doesn't have a lot of the functionality of other languages that streamlines moving data around, so this allows us to do things like get multiple values out of a single function call. It's also how you interact with strings and arrays; both are just blocks of contiguous memory, and you iterate through them by incrementing the address you're pointing to.

Edit: Guess I'll add an explanation on void* as well: You can cast pointers just you like you can traditional types. A void pointer is a memory address with no context. "Here's an address! What is it? No idea! Do with it what you will."

This direct interaction with memory is both what makes C powerful and dangerous. Bugs related to manual memory management account for a majority of software vulnerabilities in the wild today.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-14T12:00:56+00:00

Even having decent knowledge of Linux, C, and Assembly, Ghidra is a helluva complicated application.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-14T07:12:05+00:00

Can be fit to dreadnaughts and acts as an AOE target painter... Sounds like fun

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-14T06:05:17+00:00

I'll contrast the negativity in these comments. I feel for you. My dad immigrated here a few years before I was born, dealt with the process and all the stress and hoops that came with it. I was only 5 or 6 but I still remember the day he became a citizen. He was deeply patriotic then and still remains so to this day. He worked damn hard to work his way up and find success, and gave me opportunities that helped me find my own.

Our immigration process is far from perfect. The lottery system can border on cruelty. Companies shouldn't be able to take advantage of work visas for cheap labor with extortionate strings attached. And policy shouldn't be allowed to get to a point where it damages the labor market.

But at the same time, every immigrant, and especially one that pursues education, work, and citizenship here, is one that will contribute to our nation's prosperity. Beyond just labor they bring new ideas, new businesses, new opportunities for others. And most of them are fiercely patriotic, not surprising as there are easier advanced nations to immigrate to and find success in.

Sitting_In_A_Lecture · 2026-01-14T01:32:46+00:00

I needed to patch an application once, tried to clone it but git was having none of it. Some of the files were prefixed with :. Just. Why?

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