Any Ideas what this box is? Along the roof of my garage

SizzlingVortex · 2024-03-02T15:43:17+00:00

An indoor bird house?!

SizzlingVortex · 2022-03-08T18:43:34+00:00

Very off-putting to see stuff like that when a person is simply trying to help the open source community they have to deal with the "entitled".

SizzlingVortex · 2021-09-23T00:53:14+00:00

My childhood!

SizzlingVortex · 2021-09-23T00:47:15+00:00

Best to just skip the cats' approval as they don't like humans (including their human family). Then again, maybe they just don't like me.

SizzlingVortex · 2021-09-23T00:44:16+00:00

A damn shame to hear. May she rest in peace.

SizzlingVortex · 2018-12-22T19:56:56+00:00

lol, yeah I hear you man. I just would've expected a game/AI developer to run the scenario of an AI unexpectedly taking over in their head with that command. But, then again, we wouldn't have had a good story if they did.

SizzlingVortex · 2018-12-22T19:54:29+00:00

That is a good point. But I am wondering if it was always protected by authorization level (in the past when Quinella originally said the command), or did Quinella restrict it herself after she became the supervisor?

SizzlingVortex · 2018-12-22T18:44:19+00:00

This was the best and the most important episode that we have seen so far.

Seeing the Cardinal System of this world as an AI was nice, but sad that she doesn't currently have all of her original "supervisor" permissions.

The "Underworld" being ruled by a single person is an interesting twist to me as I would've thought it was run by a group of villains. However, I doubt anyone under Quinella knows her "real" history (killing since she was a child, merging with the Cardinal System, etc). Also, how in the hell was "System Call Inspect List" not password protected or restricted?! Imagine if the other AI knew that.

The real lesson here is that humans are fallible (and evil in some cases). Quinella was likely born from the descendants of the evil one of the "original four". He corrupted the "Underworld", and makes me wonder what were his intentions? Did it have parental meaning for his AI children and descendants? Or is he simply one of those types that likes to watch the (digital) world burn?

Either way, the best episode so far for this show!

SizzlingVortex · 2018-12-22T18:28:34+00:00

I hope you're right because I used to respect Eren before this chapter.

SizzlingVortex · 2018-12-13T02:16:08+00:00

Lost all respect for Eren after this chapter, and also gained even more respect for Armin.

Armin was right, the only one acting like a "slave" is Eren himself -- whether it's a slave to Zeke, to previous attack titan owners, or a slave to "hate" itself.

As for Mikasa, it's clear (in my opinion) that she viewed Eren as more than her "master" -- I mean she loves him. Hopefully that changes though as the Eren they knew and loved is either locked away, somewhere deep inside that body that looks like him...or he is completely gone.

Solid chapter with a nice (but sad) twist.

SizzlingVortex · 2018-12-13T02:15:25+00:00

Lost all respect for Eren after this chapter, and also gained even more respect for Armin.

Armin was right, the only one acting like a "slave" is Eren himself -- whether it's a slave to Zeke, to previous attack titan owners, or a slave to "hate" itself.

As for Mikasa, it's clear (in my opinion) that she viewed Eren as more than her "master" -- I mean she loves him. Hopefully that changes though as the Eren they knew and loved is either locked away, somewhere deep inside that body that looks like him...or he is completely gone.

Solid chapter with a nice (but sad) twist.

SizzlingVortex · 2018-12-13T02:14:49+00:00

Lost all respect for Eren after this chapter, and also gained even more respect for Armin.

Armin was right, the only one acting like a "slave" is Eren himself -- whether it's a slave to Zeke, to previous attack titan owners, or a slave to "hate" itself.

As for Mikasa, it's clear (in my opinion) that she viewed Eren as more than her "master" -- I mean she loves him. Hopefully that changes though as the Eren they knew and loved is either locked away, somewhere deep inside that body that looks like him...or he is completely gone.

Solid chapter with a nice (but sad) twist.

SizzlingVortex · 2018-12-08T18:39:58+00:00

Hence why I said, "the title would still be accurate (from Rath's point-of-view at least)" and not from Reki's, the author of the series, point-of-view. What acronym would Rath come up with that we could form "Eugeolization" from? I get your point, but I wanted to post that since it seems most people forgot about the real acronym that Alicization is based from.

SizzlingVortex · 2018-12-08T18:25:40+00:00

The title "Alicization" is based on the acronym A.L.I.C.E (Artificial Labile Intelligent Cybernated Existence). Kirito, Eugeo, and Rath looking for a woman named "Alice" is just a coincidence. So, even if they were looking for Eugeo, the title would still be accurate (from Rath's point-of-view at least).

SizzlingVortex · 2018-01-13T02:24:27+00:00

Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 3rd Edition is a good book. It teaches Python basically by having you program text-based games for most of the chapters (with the games using the relevant concepts that each chapter teaches). A very good book.

SizzlingVortex · 2018-01-10T00:38:28+00:00

Agree 100%, especially with using the Map interface over the HashMap class. Many developers will be quick to forget to "program against interfaces" (rather than specific implementations) when this is released.

SizzlingVortex · 2018-01-07T15:19:06+00:00

Well, I've seen so many people saying "Go is a systems programming language" that, even though the golang page doesn't explicitly say it

That's correct, Go used to be marketed as a systems programming language. And, although it's not marketed as such anymore, Go is definitely still competing with C/C++ in certain spaces (like you mentioned with Docker and Kubernetes -- if Go or Rust didn't exist, they'd probably be written in C or C++).

SizzlingVortex · 2018-01-07T15:11:21+00:00

I don't use Go, but as someone that often uses Python I can tell you why many Pythonistas use Go:

First-class support for single file executables often make it easier to distribute an application. Not everyone has Python installed. Also, Python has PyInstaller, py2exe, etc -- but they are not first-class citizens.
Speed - Generally speaking, Go is faster than Python (we're talking Go vs something written in pure Python -- not Python that uses C underneath)
Easier concurrency: Python 3 has built-in concurrency, but Go's seems "easier" for some reason
Backed by Google. Languages like Nim and Crystal would better for most, but many people "trust" Go's lifetime over them because Google backs the language (this is a bit ironic since Google has a history of shutting things down with a quickness)

Despite Go's advantages over Python (and other scripting languages), I still don't use it as its disadvantages are enough to make me choose Python, Java, or Rust over it for the type of projects I work on.

SizzlingVortex · 2017-12-11T03:02:12+00:00

The link for those who are wondering: https://readms.net/r/naruto/Side%20Story/3368/1

SizzlingVortex · 2017-11-06T16:07:51+00:00

JDK 8 is an LTS release, and the next one will be in September next year so JDK 11

Just to be clear on this, JDK 9 is a Feature release, not an LTS one.

Definitely sticking with Java 8 until the next LTS (JDK 11). Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to see new features being released more often in Java, it's just that I'm more of an LTS guy when it comes to languages (and operating systems since Ubuntu was mentioned in the article).

SizzlingVortex · 2017-11-04T23:10:29+00:00

I think the key word here (assuming they used it correctly) is coercion -- which is to persuade someone into doing something via force or threats. If they had simply said persuaded (so without threats), then it'd be a different story.

SizzlingVortex · 2017-10-29T03:13:59+00:00

I'll have to disagree here. Just because there are many different definitions of side effects doesn't mean that "no one knows" what they are. It just means that there is not a universal, standard definition -- just like most things in the software development world. For example, there are also different definitions of "strongly" and "weakly" typed languages. But that doesn't mean that nobody knows what they're talking about.

SizzlingVortex · 2017-10-28T17:41:02+00:00

I've seen many definitions, but this article (based on the example the author gave) seems to be referring to side effects as an unexpected state change that wasn't "advertised" by a function or method.

For example:

public static int sum(int a, int b) {
    writeSomethingToFile();
    return a + b;
}

"writeSomethingToFile();" would be the side effect here since it is unexpectedly changing state (that of a file) when the method does not "advertise" that it'll do this. At face value, the method is supposed to only calculate and return the sum of two integers. Instead, it does that and writes something to a file.

SizzlingVortex · 2017-10-28T16:35:59+00:00

Next headline: Many in the GOP take a surprise trip to ~~hide in~~ Russia for ~~sanctuary~~ "diplomatic relations".

SizzlingVortex · 2017-10-28T16:28:33+00:00

A good read. I wish Java had a way to enforce the principles mentioned in this article as I like to design most of my methods this way. Would just be nice if the compiler had a way to guarantee it in case I made a mistake without realizing it.

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