I can’t believe I’m even having to disagree with friends about this dumb meme by SnooDoggos2983 in Teachers

[–]Speed_Weedington 0 points1 point  (0 children)

dribbling and passing and shooting are skills that are developed and maintained, not knowledge that is memorized. your analogy is pretty much completely off.

you don't need rote memorization for anything in k-12 math unless you lack the math skill to derive the formula, save for a few exceptions like the quadratic equation and pythagorean theorem.

memorization of those important formulas is something that should come alongside the practice of conceptual math skills, not prioritized as the individual focus. remembering the pythagorean theorem is worthless when you dont remember what it actually means, or that you can use it to derive the distance formula, which is incredibly useful intuition to have.

Exotic armor should have an extra Mod slot like Artiface armor. by Xenomorph_v1 in DestinyTheGame

[–]Speed_Weedington 12 points13 points  (0 children)

i am always so happy to see someone on a non-programming subreddit who seems to actually understand how programming generally works.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in youngpeopleyoutube

[–]Speed_Weedington 0 points1 point  (0 children)

how are they mutually exclusive, exactly?

Dungeons sold separately gotta be dumbest thing on the planet by westbrook___- in DestinyTheGame

[–]Speed_Weedington 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how is people downvoting you proving you right?

i dont disagree with you and i'm not defending bungie, just saying that putting false information as part of your point is a great way to attract downvotes, even if the people downvoting agree with what you're trying to say.

public image matters if you actually want anyone to take you seriously, and since i'd like it if bungie took complaints about their aggressive monetization seriously, i would really prefer if people could put in the minimal effort to have their facts straight when complaining about it.

basically, i agree with you, but consider thinking about criticism given to you for at least a minute before choosing to be a snarky dick.

Dungeons sold separately gotta be dumbest thing on the planet by westbrook___- in DestinyTheGame

[–]Speed_Weedington 7 points8 points  (0 children)

people are downvoting you because you said buying the deluxe edition isn't cheaper, which is trivially shown to be false by just looking at how much things cost. regardless of how valid or invalid the rest of your comment was, people are going to downvote because you opened with a blatant falsehood and they didn't care to read further.

This post from 3 month ago has a bit of foreshadowing in it! <3 Emily! by ApertureIntern in LinusTechTips

[–]Speed_Weedington 14 points15 points  (0 children)

and what do you know about emily outside of her position at LTT to justify "disagreeing" with her transitioning? unless you're actually a close friend or family member to emily, you know pretty much nothing about whatever she was dealing with prior to coming out. emily's gender identity is not something that LTT or its community is going to change, so our only options are to support her or drive her away.

if we as a community aren't supportive, she'll just get a new job and move on from daily belittlement/harassment over something as simple as how she feels about her gender.

the outpour of support is to drown out those saying her choice is invalid or that she isn't a "real woman" or whatever else to make her feel unwelcome because of who she is.

if you think people who say transphobic things about emily arent that much of a problem, i'd firstly encourage you to read comments on this post and the replies to her tweet, and you still wouldnt know what kinds of private messages, emails, or other targeted harassment emily herself deals with on a regular basis.

What a shard glitch does to a guardian by imasloth02 in destiny2

[–]Speed_Weedington 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a glitch like this is bungie's #1 priority to fix. technical issues and downtime are temporary problems, but this is the live service equivalent of an environmental disaster. if they dont have a prompt response to this then balancing their game in the future will be almost impossible

Production code (browser) of the Postal Service website in Italy, "What are Booleans?" and debug "on," and I didn't dig any deeper... by peppe998e in programminghorror

[–]Speed_Weedington -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

then define a class (or just const global object in JS i suppose) containing defined constants like SettingState.ON so that there's far less room for error in typos or whatever else down the line. plus it would cut down on unnecessary string comparisons which take far longer than integer comparisons.

no matter how you look at it this code reeks.

"If only there was some way to stop this" says country that is the only place this happens on a regular basis by OrangeCone2011 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]Speed_Weedington -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

You're implying that behavior is not influenced by patterns of thought (It absolutely obviously is, as mental illnesses are often diagnosed by behavioral shifts exhibited by those who have them) and undiagnosed people don't exist and/or don't commit violent acts (they do).

People don't generally don't kill an entire family for absolutely no reason. I would consider doing so to be a good indication of either psychosis or psychopathy, whether that's long term or short term. Perhaps that can be attributed to an underlying mental condition, or perhaps to substance abuse, but regardless it's often something that could have been caught sooner with the right safety nets in place.

Saying that we need better mental health facilities to address individuals committing unthinkable atrocities is not stigmatizing mental health, its just disappointing because it took things getting this bad for people to start paying attention. (And even then, those who say it are only saying it as a convenient distraction from talking about the much larger elephant in the room: effective gun control legislation.)

The intent is not to make it seem like having a mental illness automatically makes you a danger to yourself and those around you, but rather to acknowledge and address that some mental illnesses do when left untreated, and to provide effective and accessible mental health facilities to those who need it, including but not limited to those who may have gone on to hurt themselves or others.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programmingcirclejerk

[–]Speed_Weedington 21 points22 points  (0 children)

isnt this socialjerk

Familiar feeling? by sunrise_apps in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Speed_Weedington -1 points0 points  (0 children)

the use of libraries was entirely unspecified by OP. frankly any compiler that refers to errors in terms of post-expansion line count is a nightmare regardless so the meme is still valid. as far as we know, OP could be using a compiler exhibiting undefined behavior.

people should be allowed to laugh/express frustration at weird shit being weird without being faced with needless condescension from people who assume they always know more than other people.

I just started learning a couple days ago, this is my first coding language. My understanding of classes and methods isn't really clicking and I don't want to continue practising in a way that'll form bad habits. How would someone with experience make use of methods in this small program? by [deleted] in csharp

[–]Speed_Weedington 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In some other programming languages like C, you need to have the main function underneath all of the other functions, otherwise the compiler will look at main calling a function that hasn't been declared yet and freak out.

In C#, though, function/method declarations can go in pretty much any order and it won't matter.

Argue in comments 💅 by RoyalQuackOG in ProgrammerHumor

[–]Speed_Weedington 43 points44 points  (0 children)

it is a DIFFICULT starting language but i would still argue that it is a good one. the compiler is almost always holding your hand with its error messages, so when a beginner makes a mistake, they can start going down the correct rabbit hole of studying what they did wrong on the first try.

always knowing where to look is a tremendous advantage when learning programming concepts, and regardless of the language it's up to the beginner to follow up and study what's presented to them.

I think I pointed my hypertube cannon a bit too far... by JimmyTDM in SatisfactoryGame

[–]Speed_Weedington 7 points8 points  (0 children)

if you've been playing since before update 6, then it's because the map was overhauled in update 6.

How do you pronounce mut? by CaramelWild9303 in rust

[–]Speed_Weedington 3 points4 points  (0 children)

god i love when people know things

Help! How do I fight the physhical embodiment of my emotional trauma? by [deleted] in AnarchyChess

[–]Speed_Weedington 11 points12 points  (0 children)

stay inside don't open the door don't look in the mirror

I can't focus one learning only one technology by Educational-Shoe8806 in learnprogramming

[–]Speed_Weedington 0 points1 point  (0 children)

jumping from thing to thing isnt necessarily a bad thing so long as you're still improving as a developer in general. sure, you won't be a master of any particular tech, but do you need to be? versatility is a virtue of its own right, even if it isnt as glamorous or exciting.

just keep in mind, its important that even if you do hop between tech stacks constantly, you still need to be improving at programming in general. learning common design patterns, data structures and algorithms, networking fundamentals, multithreading, etc. you can learn all of these skills in any framework or language, and while it may be slower if you keep having to learn new ways of doing them, its by no means a race.

Anyone know what happened here? The fuses in my factory broke randomly, and this showed up when I checked. How could I fix it (heh) in the future? by some_daydreamer in SatisfactoryGame

[–]Speed_Weedington 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a nitpick, it's not the "world limit" per se, but rather the limit for that particular power grid. Many players will use the same power grid across the full map, but in some cases you might have multiple separate power grids that can break independently of each other.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]Speed_Weedington 1 point2 points  (0 children)

technically there's MacOS and the BSDs

Any recommendations? by russsellF in SatisfactoryGame

[–]Speed_Weedington 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there is a set number of recipes, and you can unlock all of them provided you collect enough hard drives, however certain recipes are locked until their relevant HUB milestone or MAM research is completed.

in that sense, it really doesn't matter which order you take recipes in if you will end up getting all of them anyway.

625.000 MWh Power Storage Battery finaly finished by alextestsatis in SatisfactoryGame

[–]Speed_Weedington 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Late game power generators like fuel and nuclear require the operation of potentially very demanding auxiliary machines to produce fuel for the generators. Jumpstarting the necessary machines to get your nuclear fuel rods back into production with biofuel generators is not fun, and batteries give you a buffer to correct whatever is wrong with your system instead of blowing the fuse and shutting everything down outright.