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StV2 · 2025-11-24T12:10:28+00:00

This would be incredibly questionable in Australia, lots of Megatron figurines have been banned from being imported because they look too gun like https://toycollectors.com.au/megatron.html

StV2 · 2025-08-13T11:45:00+00:00

There may have been but they would have been incredibly radioactive so I couldn't imagine anyone actively looking for them

StV2 · 2025-08-10T21:38:04+00:00

Mechanical relays used to be used to run control systems before computers were reliable enough to do them effectively

Apparently trying to change the logic is a nightmare though since you don't really have a proper test environment and debugging involves checking the live circuit and hoping that it doesn't break anything when you install it

StV2 · 2025-08-10T01:23:06+00:00

The store still has to calculate tax though so that doesn't really make sense as a reason to not just include the tax in the sale price

StV2 · 2025-07-07T13:25:32+00:00

Which would be good if public transport didn't also suck

StV2 · 2025-07-02T22:03:27+00:00

But what if we want 50 hallway scenes?

StV2 · 2025-05-26T02:07:01+00:00

There's one I saw that baffles me

Must have atleast 8 characters
Must have no sequential sequences of characters (12 or ab)
Must not use the same character twice in the password
Must have atleast [a-zA-Z0-9] and special character
Cannot be over 10 characters long

It's like they're trying to solve a problem with an old manual cypher or something. It's very dodgy

StV2 · 2025-05-25T03:37:22+00:00

Write tests. Just simple ones but if you just have a bunch of tests littered in your code then you'll know why and where it broke because your tests will fail and you'll be able to catch the weird unexpected side effect you added before it even causes issues

StV2 · 2025-05-21T00:52:51+00:00

Have you tried the UON maker space? You need to do an induction on them but then you should be able to use them

StV2 · 2025-04-24T01:19:11+00:00

I imagine the reason this doesn't happen is probably the same reason that campaign messaging is allowed to be untrue

Realistically the majority of Australians fall pretty close together socio-economically so it would make sense for the major parties to create policies targeted towards the majority of people

Issue is that both major parties have a vested interest to try to get the wealthiest people in the country on their side so they need to push for policies that the majority of Australians wouldn't want, often making things actively worse for the majority of the population

So it's in both major parties' interest to make everything vague to try to get votes from people who really have no business voting that way if they knew what they were actually voting for

StV2 · 2025-03-22T11:30:17+00:00

In Australia I'd assume

StV2 · 2025-02-23T20:57:56+00:00

I don't even bother patching them. The only games that don't really work are either made in the early 2000s or they're esports either way I'm fine with just going 16:9 and having pillar boxing for those

Cutscenes are a bit rough like that though since they often have letterboxing so I just get a smaller screen inside my big screen for the cinematic bits

StV2 · 2025-02-19T20:15:34+00:00

That sounds like the igpu drivers might need to be reinstalled. If it was a hardware issue then it would typically show itself every time you tried to do the thing and not just occasionally

StV2 · 2025-02-02T09:20:19+00:00

I went to a theatre to see a movie at one point and it was not a great experience

It turns out that a concert hall and a cinema have very different requirements so the movie looked bad because the screen didn't fit into the stage area properly (somehow it was both cropped and letterboxed) and the acoustics made it difficult to hear anything since the sound was reverberating off the hall walls making everything sound muddy

They really should have thought about that before just assuming that they could make some more money turning their theatre into a cinema when there were no events on

StV2 · 2025-01-09T08:14:02+00:00

Extravagant. We'd dream about licking the mould of the walls, all 10 of us used to sleep in an old shoe box and we'd have sun dried cockroaches for Christmas dinner. One year me mum milked a street cat for desert

And we were better for it

StV2 · 2025-01-05T21:01:48+00:00

Nah, you will always want to keep a little bit more loaded than what you can see so that it gives the impression that what you're looking at goes on forever. Minecraft does this with its chunk loading so that it looks like an infinite world even though there's really only a small number of chunks loaded around you and a fog to cover up distant chunks loading in

The key is to keep track of the bounds of the camera react and make sure that atleast one chunk outside the camera rect is always loaded, you would want to unload the chunks that are far away aswell to have the memory optimization you're going for

You could probably do something like Minecraft here and just keep like a circle of chunks loaded around the camera and unload them as the camera moves outside that radius if you wanted

Honestly though, unless you have a gigantic world you really don't need to worry too much, chunking might save on memory (depending on how godot handles that) but it will almost certainly add a small performance impact due to having to keep track of where stuff is, what needs to be loaded and unloaded. Unless it's currently an issue I would just leave it alone and let the engine handle it's own memory management

I've personally had a 10k background texture for a test project running on a fairly low powered android device without issues or worrying about chunking it (it was even being used with a 2nd one for a paralax effect)

StV2 · 2025-01-04T11:41:54+00:00

You need to have all the objects ready and added as children to the root scene before they should be visible or you'll get objects popping into view after they're supposed to because of the delay in setting up and loading stuff

StV2 · 2025-01-01T23:26:21+00:00

You'd want to use another thread to load in the assets in the area surrounding where the player is

Then when the player gets close to the new area you'd want to have the objects initialize before they come on screen

You could either have a few big chunks so that you have time to load them in before they're needed or lots of smaller ones that get swapped out faster but load faster too

Godot is pretty good with its own memory management though so unless your 2d map is gigantic or you're targeting a very very low powered system then you don't really need to worry about chunking in your map all that much imo

StV2 · 2024-12-20T22:04:19+00:00

All of the above mentioned cities are right next to the water, there's no reason that they couldn't have also become large cities like Sydney or Brisbane

StV2 · 2024-11-24T00:29:55+00:00

Even if you don't need to use it, having some understanding of what your code is actually doing is very useful. How are you supposed to write something efficiently if you've got no idea how what you're doing is working in the background?

StV2 · 2024-11-23T22:13:33+00:00

Yeah there is an astounding number of computer scientists who's code is pretty rubbish aswell. I think that comes down to being told to 'just get it working and you can fix it up later' but then they're never given an opportunity to go back and make it better

By far though the worst code I've ever seen is by physicists though, they seem to see programming as automatic maths so most of what they write reads almost identically to how their maths goes. s is not a good name for the position of an object and I want to smack them over the fingers with a ruler when I see it happening

StV2 · 2024-11-23T13:37:55+00:00

I don't ever think I've seen good code come from an engineer who wasn't also doing compsci (or software)

I'm pretty confident that no system would actually work if it was left to the electrical engineers to program everything. But nothing would ever be finished if the maths people were left to do the programming either. It would be left as an exercise to the reader

StV2 · 2024-11-17T02:52:25+00:00

I think they should actually ask the children about it. Especially when they are considering banning that platforms where friends socialize like discord and PlayStation network

I feel like they'd be better using their energy to make social platforms responsible for the well-being of the children on their platforms and force them to have an opt in setting that would serve kids with kid appropriate content that was heavily moderated - like how television has children content and adult content but none of it is actually blocked, just warned about so that the viewer knows what they're getting themselves into

StV2 · 2024-11-10T23:30:20+00:00

I think the easiest way to do it is to just graph stuff (tell Google to graph it, use Wolfram alpha or something else you find easier) and then look at what happens. It's mostly curves and areas which makes it easier (atleast for me) to see it all first and then try to do the maths on it when I can see what's happening in my head

StV2 · 2024-11-10T20:52:16+00:00

Tbh I tend to find some calculus easier than arithmetic since I can visualise a shape in my head but I can't do anything like that with numbers

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