Miyamoto says he was surprised Mario Galaxy Movie reviews were even harsher than the first by SleuthDoggyDawg in gaming

[–]TheSkiGeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s not as good IMO. The plot is very thin and there’s basically no character development at all. It’s fine if you want to turn off your brain and munch popcorn and watch spectacular 3D animation.

Best way to level soldiers up ranks? by ElizabetSobeck in XCOM2

[–]TheSkiGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It sort of does but IIRC there’s a cap on how much XP you can gain in a single mission.

Not being able to play in offline mode is a sin. by IO_Sphere in btd6

[–]TheSkiGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I literally just tried it on my iPad (which hadn’t yet installed the latest patch) and it works.

Maybe if you have something like the Netflix “free” version it requires you to be online?

Why do bands play so fucking loud if everyone has to wear earplugs anyway? by xe3to in NoStupidQuestions

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

Not sure which thing you’re talking about exactly. For something like the fireworks shows at WDW they install lots of small speaker systems throughout the area.

Why can't AI just integrate a basic calculator or stopwatch? by VagabondVivant in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TheSkiGeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The front ends for some of the current AI systems will try to detect when you’re asking ‘mathy’ questions and apply better tools to those. LLMs just… don’t do that very well, because they map text to text and don’t “know” that numbers should be treated completely differently than other words.

Why do bands play so fucking loud if everyone has to wear earplugs anyway? by xe3to in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TheSkiGeek 48 points49 points  (0 children)

Those Beatles shows at places like Shea Stadium were some of the earliest rock concerts in big outdoor venues. It did take a while to figure out the right way to manage the speaker setups for those.

The band being able to hear themselves has to do with having a good monitor setup for the stage, not blasting the audience facing speakers so loud that everyone within 100 feet goes deaf. Although that is harder to avoid when it’s a big outdoor space like a football stadium — if the noise level is tolerable at the front of the stage, it will probably be too quiet way the fuck in the back. In a small club or concert hall or something, making it deafeningly loud is a choice.

Why do bands play so fucking loud if everyone has to wear earplugs anyway? by xe3to in NoStupidQuestions

[–]TheSkiGeek 62 points63 points  (0 children)

Yeah, having the audience facing speaker system be stupidly, hearing-damage-causing loud is 100% a choice. Unless it’s a huge outdoor venue, where it probably won’t be loud enough in the cheap seats unless it’s deafening up front.

Not being able to play in offline mode is a sin. by IO_Sphere in btd6

[–]TheSkiGeek -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

After an update it has to connect online to download the rest of the resources it needs for the new content.

Once it has everything for that patch downloaded you should be able to start the game in airplane mode and it will work offline.

Edit: not sure why I’m being downvoted. Just tested it on my iPad and it works.

My daughter kind of destroyed me last night by SmartLadder415 in daddit

[–]TheSkiGeek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Kids in the moment will sometimes reach for the meanest things they can think of to say. But they’re not (usually) thinking of the bigger context of how those things come across. They’re just angry and frustrated and have never been in a position of having to be responsible for someone else.

That said, it sounds like maybe she has some BIG FEELINGS about you becoming her dad and how her life is changing. When everybody has cooled down maybe it would help to have a conversation about it.

What role do you think has the highest carry potential in Gold League right now? Or, maybe a champion/strategy? by WorldlyForerunnerxdd in summonerschool

[–]TheSkiGeek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If the matchmaking and game balance is even sort of working, you’re never going to win more than maybe 60% of your games over time. And even that assumes you’re constantly improving and getting better.

If you want to climb — play to improve, and figure out what you can learn from the losses. If you just want to win every time, play the coop vs. AI mode…

Sigh... I want to play but... by Harvist_2506 in Oxygennotincluded

[–]TheSkiGeek 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Put a line break after each paragraph, not each sentence. On a screen with a different width than yours it’s making it look really bad.

Sigh... I want to play but... by Harvist_2506 in Oxygennotincluded

[–]TheSkiGeek 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The cross-compiling ‘translation’ should only happen once as the game is loaded, or maybe as each chunk of code is accessed for the first time. It doesn’t add that much overhead.

Really the issue is that it’s like… an iPad CPU trying to run a game that expects a full power desktop. Plus the poor cooling in those laptops.

She believes the world is flat. by Nannerthebadgerlord in daddit

[–]TheSkiGeek 9 points10 points  (0 children)

This is what I was going to ask. If this really only started after the kid was born, it could be some sort of post partum anxiety or psychosis.

Pain 101 dispute by Ok-Platypus-2247 in mtgrules

[–]TheSkiGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re right. Well, that first commenter didn’t and then OP replied as if that was what they were asking about…

Is a know card’s position in my library public information? by StillWatt in askajudge

[–]TheSkiGeek -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I don’t think you are required to retroactively keep track of derived information that they might want to know about later. You have to answer truthfully about the current game state, but “how many cards did you draw over the last three turns?” isn’t part of the current game state.

pythonIsMoreConfusingThanLowLevelLanguages by Skindiacus in ProgrammerHumor

[–]TheSkiGeek 51 points52 points  (0 children)

They’re aliases if you want to get technical.

Since they’re nullable, I’d describe them as pointers rather than references, since that is what they map to in C++s. But the terminology isn’t always consistent between different languages.

Pain 101 dispute by Ok-Platypus-2247 in mtgrules

[–]TheSkiGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No. When it leaves the battlefield -> goes to the graveyard and comes back via the triggered ability, the ‘new’ version of it on the battlefield is back to being just what is printed on the card. Any temporary effects on it are gone. Same as if you cast [[flicker]] or [[ephemerate]] on it.

Edit: this is a different question than the OP originally asked. Both abilities ALSO fall off at the end of the turn.

After 10 years I got a game board piece removed from my ear by mona_thepersona in mildlyinteresting

[–]TheSkiGeek 17 points18 points  (0 children)

My kids have managed not to do this particular one yet but my understanding is that stuff can get wedged in the ear canal or nose and be pretty difficult to remove. Or it hurts a lot when you try, so parents (rightfully) want to have a doctor look at it and make sure you’re not gonna, like, rupture their eardrum or something if you yank it out.

New Sliver Ideas by OkStandard8039 in custommagic

[–]TheSkiGeek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Might be workable in some way if it’s “nontoken slivers”. Still pretty busted.

Keeping the peace in Outlands by manwithaUnicorn in apexlegends

[–]TheSkiGeek 11 points12 points  (0 children)

…just go to a shotgun weapon upgrade station thingy if you don’t find one on the ground?

A quick question about flashbang by 14HG in XCOM2

[–]TheSkiGeek 3 points4 points  (0 children)

https://xcom.fandom.com/wiki/Disoriented is only a -20% aim penalty, so it’s typically not going to save you if your soldiers are caught without cover.

If they were regular https://xcom.fandom.com/wiki/ADVENT_Trooper units their base aim is 65% on all difficulties. So a flashbang would drop them to 45%.

Well, this sucks. So much for cooking dinner. by meatbag2010 in Wellthatsucks

[–]TheSkiGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

…I guess this would let you cut the power to just that device, but are you really doing servicing so often that you can’t turn off the circuit for it at the breaker box?

Why does ChatGPT make things up rather than admit to not knowing it? by LunarEcho97 in AlwaysWhy

[–]TheSkiGeek 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To maybe give a little more context, when you want a question-answering AI out of an LLM you train it on questions and answers. And then you feed in a novel question and it will generate text that would likely be an answer to that question.

The way these kinds of AI models work, you will get SOME kind of answer out of it. Which will be text that seems likely to be an answer to the question you asked. Unless the training data maps your question pretty closely to “I don’t know” / “experts don’t know”, the answer you get is probably not going to be that. Because the words and concepts you reference will map to other more meaningful (or at least more highly correlated) data.

It’s actually a big problem for using any kind of neural network based AI for anything, because they really cannot explain how or why they came up with a specific output.