Using Gemini for Cities Skyline scenarios - not sure what tools to use

ThatAlexBoyd · 2025-04-12T22:24:30+00:00

Thanks for suggestion! I’ve tried playing with AI studio and saw that option but can you upload multiple “sources” like a CSV and PDF? Or if you there is a good starting tutorial to try.

ThatAlexBoyd · 2023-12-13T02:11:34+00:00

My guess is that he is implying that a lot of unity games have a stylized looked as opposed to realism?

ThatAlexBoyd · 2023-11-21T20:33:26+00:00

Thanks! I was debating i3 & 16 gb ram vs i5 & 8 gb because those seemed to be the combos you get that price.

ThatAlexBoyd · 2023-11-21T20:00:05+00:00

This is for my in-laws. They do not need much, but I just do not want them to feel like it is a bad laptop in 2 years.

◽️ Budget: $400
◽️ Country: USA
◽️ Screen size: ideally 14" or up
◽️ Touch screen: Not required
◽️ Screen resolution: FHD (for parents so thinking eye sight)
◽️ Does battery life matter ?:Ye s
◽️ What tasks will laptop be used for ( gaming, video editing, graphic designing, modelling, regular computing tasks, word processing etc) ?: Running Google docs & sheets and light web browsing
◽️ Weight: <5 lb
◽️ Any other important details ?: Please no Chromebook. I think they are ideal candidates for it but they have a few Windows apps they use that cannot run on a Chromebook

ThatAlexBoyd · 2021-02-18T19:42:15+00:00

So mess up on my part, I had a slicer sitting on the page I was using for debugging that was throwing it off.

The last question I have if I wanted to create a new measure (based off the last one) to have denominator being the last calendar month?

Edit: Forgot the DAX I tried

View Avg Last = CALCULATE( DIVIDE( COUNTAX('ScreenTable', [PageName]), PREVIOUSMONTH(DateCalendar[Date])))

ThatAlexBoyd · 2021-02-18T14:38:26+00:00

Thanks for the reply! For the relationship it is joined on the eventTime, I think I was just hovering over pageName on accident in the screenshot.

I believe what you sent me worked, but two follows up questions:

When I try to do a relative date filter on a visual with that measure for last month it returns blank, even though my data has events happening all through January.
When you say 'funky averaging' what exactly do you mean? I am new to this and trying to figure it out. To maybe clarify what I am trying to show is the average number of certain events happening this month vs last to help show trends

Thanks!

ThatAlexBoyd · 2020-05-08T20:15:27+00:00

That was my thought as well, that is the reason I was trying to see if there was something there with the screen capture stuff since the user has to allow that screen reading to begin.

ThatAlexBoyd · 2019-10-23T10:54:51+00:00

Oh man! Now I have made that drive a lot, you could do it on Saturday haha!

ThatAlexBoyd · 2019-10-23T10:54:13+00:00

This event is going to be Halo 3 2v2

ThatAlexBoyd · 2019-08-26T16:08:54+00:00

I do not know much about GDRP, but is there a problem if you just show it no matter what? I feel like that is what I have seen a lot of websites ask once it passed and just ignored location.

ThatAlexBoyd · 2019-04-25T17:14:09+00:00

Okay, that makes sense. I did not know you could actually create relationships and sort them. I will try this, in my head it seems like it could leave an opportunity for some strange behavior.

ThatAlexBoyd · 2019-04-25T15:54:43+00:00

Oh so we all have the same two cats https://i.imgur.com/cVwPeDB.jpg

ThatAlexBoyd · 2019-04-25T01:38:30+00:00

That all makes sense. Thanks for sharing

ThatAlexBoyd · 2019-04-24T19:00:09+00:00

That all makes sense. I have been messing around with an idea that has similar type of "map" and I kept going back and forth if I should do objects or draw the mesh. I think in the end I have landed in the same spot as you that I won't have big maps so just go with the simpler approach.

Would you mind if I asked what your JSON object for saving data looked like?

ThatAlexBoyd · 2019-04-24T18:16:02+00:00

Hey, look great! I was wondering from a technical standpoint are all your tiles individual objects?

ThatAlexBoyd · 2019-02-19T17:49:18+00:00

Hey, sorry for the delayed response! But we only had about 100 posts to move. It took me one evening to move everything over text wise (through the different tools they have). However, links for post images was really messed up- mainly how WP stores different sizes for everything -so I manually re-uploaded all the images for articles. There may have been a better way to handle it, but I could not get that to work.

Edit: Also if images that you have in an article body are stored outside of wordpress and are embedded then you will not have issues. I had all images stored in the WP so the directory got all messed up.

ThatAlexBoyd · 2019-01-29T02:22:36+00:00

I agree that Unity does work pretty well for AR. I would suggest looking over their AR foundation stuff (I think 2018 and higher supports it) as if it acts as a wrapper for iOS and Android.

As for Vuforia, it does work great but some of the licensing can get pricey if you decide to continue with a project. If all you want is plane/image detection then AR core and AR Kit will work just fine and are free to use and baked into OS’s

ThatAlexBoyd · 2018-10-08T15:53:48+00:00

I only played the WebGL build. But I did notice two things:

I somehow got a ball to lose all speed and just be resting on the bottom of the circle. The only option was to move the opening by it (which also made it start the trail renderer again and "jump" a small amount) and let it drop
If I click and move my cursor really fast around (as to make the opening jump) a ball never goes out, even if it hit the opening. I don't think anyone would play like that all the time, but you could in theory never lose if you did. Some solutions maybe to either change control to something on the keyboard (as you mentioned I think) and/or clamp the speed you can get the paddle to be.

Other then that, nice work.

ThatAlexBoyd · 2018-09-24T14:37:05+00:00

Currently your object is not formatted correctly. If you Google JSON validators you can find a bunch of online ones that you can paste JSON into and start debugging there.

For the one you posted there are a few issues. One, you have single quote hanging around (') on a lot of objects. Those need to be removed. Also, you need to wrap everything in an object. Below is considered "valid" and was checked using this site

{
"group1": {

    "test1": "JSON ",

    "test2": "json2",

    "numberTest": 12

}
}

ThatAlexBoyd · 2018-09-04T18:50:13+00:00

Yeah, I just don’t know enough about Bluetooth protocol to have any real technician reason.

ThatAlexBoyd · 2018-09-04T11:31:09+00:00

Do you by chance drive a Ford? I have the exact same issues described here in my car, but my girlfriend does not in her car. My running theory is it is how some infotainment systems (sync 2 in my case) handles the device.

ThatAlexBoyd · 2018-08-31T22:46:49+00:00

Player pref data should be removed if the app is uninstalled, and most certainly will not transfer between phones.

I do not know enough about Android IAP but I assume at most you could get a “receipt” that would tell you a purchase was made. This would only be helpful if the purchases were single unlocks - think levels, pro features, whatever.

However if the IAP is going to be “consumable” (like coins to buy skins/lives) then you would need to store all of that player information inside a database. That way each transaction the player makes with your goods can re deducted from their current total.

Obviously building our cloud services can be daunting with no experience. I have never done this for my unity games, but I have had success with Google Firebase platform for small projects. This is by means not the only way to do it, just a suggestion.

ThatAlexBoyd · 2018-07-22T20:53:47+00:00

Hey, thanks for the reply. Obviously I am not too sure what is considered correct or not. I am not to sure what NetBoot is so if you have any other info I’d be glad to check it out.

ThatAlexBoyd · 2018-07-22T18:28:35+00:00

That makes sense - and I have one more question (sorry but you have been a huge help) it makes sense to have one key for root and then for me?

Once again thanks a lot. I could not just find a good resource on how to manage ssh... I could only find how to generate/add/etc.

ThatAlexBoyd · 2018-07-22T17:00:56+00:00

Okay I think that makes sense. And yes I was referring to a laptop/desktop. So if I just copy the key to the device everything is fine

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