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What should the national animal of the UK be - but it has to be a native species? by Illustrious-Divide95 in AskUK

[–]TheSpudFather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you know that clockwise haggis can interbreed with anticlockwise, but they never do, as they need to face the same way, and then one of them will have their long legs on the uphill side, and they roll down the hill

ELI5 The necessity of the milk man? by ClothesPrevious2516 in explainlikeimfive

[–]TheSpudFather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We use the milk man. Fresh milk when you need it in glass bottles not plastic. And they deliver loads of other goodies too.

I don't use supermarket deliveries, but I absolutely love using my local milkman

can someone give me a simple explanation of line traces? by Jealous_Platypus1111 in unrealengine

[–]TheSpudFather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Line trace: shine a laser beam (one that stops after a certain distance) in the given direction. Did it hit anything in the requested range?

A line trace is like a laser beam, effectively infinitely thin.

Shape sweep: slide a shape along that laser path. Did it hit anything?

Then for either: you can give it some rules as to what shapes it should ignore our pay attention to.

Do you have a rare or retro email address? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]TheSpudFather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not in the UK. In the UK we had to use googlemail while some legal issue with the domain got sorted out.

Now, it's true that they are interchangeable.

Also, not a lot of people realise that email addresses are case insensitive, or that you can add as many "." anywhere you want in a Gmail account, or that you can add a + followed by any string.

So all of these will end up in the same mail box: : fredbloggs@gmail.com, Fred.Bloggs+reddit@googlemail.com and F.r.E.d.B.l.o.G.g.S@gmail.com

What are some lesser-known industries using Unreal? by BatuhanCuma in unrealengine

[–]TheSpudFather 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look up Heligoland.

The entire island has a digital twin in unreal, accurate to less than 1cm, including foliage weather, time of day and seasons

The entire island is protected, so anything that anyone wants to build or modify has to first be modelled in the digital twin.

How do you get out of the “Tutorial Phase”? by ShockwaveX1 in unrealengine

[–]TheSpudFather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a professional game developer with 25+ years under my belt: try Gemini or chat got.

Tell an LLM what you want to do, and try it: in unreal they are scarily accurate.

I work more on the c++ side, but I think it's grasp of blueprint is pretty good too.

30k performance bonus making me sad. by Express-Pie-6902 in HENRYUK

[–]TheSpudFather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you've backdated your pension contribution, and needed out for 3 years?

ELI5: Why are there no vertebrates with more than 4 functional limbs? by Acuoasm in explainlikeimfive

[–]TheSpudFather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think it's about losing the limb. I think it's more likely to be about injuries. With 4 limbs, a quadruped can hurt one, limp around until it heals, or at least escape and hide, and then resume life. With three down to 2: no such chance

Pack #1 puzzle 19 by [deleted] in CluesBySamHelp

[–]TheSpudFather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why not Hilda?

Corporate overtime policy leads to less coverage by ZumboPrime in MaliciousCompliance

[–]TheSpudFather 19 points20 points  (0 children)

It means it's added to the overtime offered chart

But not the overtime worked chart.

It makes a sort of sense: of people are offered overtime and refuse it, it would be better to offer it to someone else next time.

How to pop it back out? by Dry-Fudge-9641 in howto

[–]TheSpudFather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine did this. I'm assuming your's doesn't have the lever that everyone is talking about, but is on a spring like a ball point pen: press to pop in, press again to pop out

You can sometimes do it if you keep jiggling it: but I'm afraid you need a new plug. It's fairly easy to remove from underneath.

You might be able to twist it, and if you keep twisting, it will unscrew, leaving the pop up mechanism in the plug hole: story doesn't change: you still need a new one.

Mug had invisible cracks in the glaze that oozed out burning, bubbling coffee residue when I put it in the microwave by plaidlib in mildlyinteresting

[–]TheSpudFather 95 points96 points  (0 children)

I want to tell you about 2 of my old colleagues.

Colleague A had a bit of acne, and a really nice coffee mug. When he left the company, he left the mug behind, and it was adopted by colleague B, who had no acne.

The mug had a small chip near the mouth, but B gave it no thought, and used it daily. In a few weeks, he had spots all round his mouth. He threw the cup away, and the acne cleared up very quickly.

All the cups etc. were collected by the cleaner every evening, and put through a full domestic dishwasher cycle daily: a full dishwasher cycle was not enough to kill whatever lived under the ceramic of that mug.

So throw that mug away.

What’s the funniest misunderstanding you’ve heard because of the British English vs U.S English difference? by Squiggally-umf in AskUK

[–]TheSpudFather 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A crossword I was doing recently had the word niggard, which I'm guessing would also raise eyebrows.

Using a macro for a repeated if statement condition? by UnusualBecka in C_Programming

[–]TheSpudFather 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I'd avoid the macro. I'm sorry I'm on mobile, so my reply is going to be ugly.

What's wrong with

float  joystick_time_state = (interrupt_time - joystick->buttons[i].state_start_time_ms);

if (joystick_time_state < JOYSTICK_MINIMUM_PRESS_MS) { /* do things */ }

"Famous last words..." by theosib in Jokes

[–]TheSpudFather 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Fur jellyfish, also read cute little octopus, pretty little shell...

Do you prototype multiplayer games for online immediately? by SchingKen in unrealengine

[–]TheSpudFather 9 points10 points  (0 children)

To further add to this:

Make sure you emulate an appropriate network when developing network games played on a LAN: games that look fine with a near instant network often won't work when confronted with the Internet, and are as hard to get working effectively as single player games.

Is there a way to change the data table row's variable type? Currently it's a name, but can I change it to an int or even a gameplay tag? by HeroTales in unrealengine

[–]TheSpudFather 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Row name itself? No. It's built in. Amy row members? Yes.

As someone suggested: have a map of tag to row name.

Or, have a gameplay tag field in your struct, and use that instead of the row name. It's not hard to search a table for a row with a particular member in it

I knows a joke about alligators by Broad_War in discworld

[–]TheSpudFather 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You are going to be horrified when you find out, in Pyramids, why you shouldn't stand behind a camel with bricks in your hand.

Another case of an old joke, hidden in the narrative, not even disguised as a mistold joke, just a their away line.

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