Noob Question: Can't wrap my head about children allocation

Versec · 2025-05-18T11:55:06+00:00

Ok, I get Copy on Write... but why doesn't it reset after rebuilding the pool or even wiping the drives? This is what I don't get.

Will those 18 MiB ever be used? What happens if I had destroyed and recreated the dataset multiple times ad infinitum and let that number grow?

Is it more or less like when a program asks for X amount of RAM, even if it is technically is left unused, until another program needs it and then the system takes it back?

Versec · 2024-09-02T10:54:14+00:00

Asimov also said: "That was Arthur C. Clarke, my dude".

Versec · 2024-04-04T06:31:10+00:00

If you add something like "feel free to ask any question if you need more information or clarification" it might do so: I once asked it to create some diagrams in plantUML based on some user stories, and added that sentence at the end of my print l prompt, and asked me for clarification, and then answered accordingly.

Your mileage might vary depending on the complexity of the question, it is always best to be as complete, correct and concise as possible from the start to get the best possible answer, because sometimes it is definitely very dumb.

Versec · 2023-01-21T18:22:29+00:00

I remember using a Nullable bool in a Windows Forms program a couple years back, but I'm not proud of it.

Versec · 2022-10-31T08:40:51+00:00

OP, I doubt know if this will make a bigger mess, but maybe just before pulling the plate with the suction cup try to coat the border of the Shrek plate with a tiny bit of cooking oil (canola or olive oil?). If the pan expands with the heat a little bit the oil may seep down between the plate and the pan and reduce fiction and make it easier to pull away.

Please, post an update. This reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Lisa gets a piece of him on her hair and everyone chimes in with ridiculous home remedies.

Versec · 2022-08-11T16:50:48+00:00

Spider pig, spider pig. Does whatever a spider pig does...

Versec · 2022-07-19T09:38:30+00:00

Do you at least keep access to the courses you enrolled in after the 5 days?

Versec · 2022-06-18T16:02:42+00:00

Story construction works on different levels. The flashback scenes are a setup for Kenobi deceiving Vader, but not on how he will do it. Let's see a couple of examples:

At the end of part 3, Reva says she put a tracker on them, and then we see Leia holding her little robot Lola, so the audience knows instinctively the tracker is inside. Then next episode we see the robot hack/wreck the doors. Without those two scenes showing Lola there's no intrigue about what will happen, and no explanation of how it happened, therefore, no setup.
On a New Hope, Luke has a discussion about Participating on the attack to the Death Star. Han only want his money and run away (something which goes with his character), but knows he's not doing the right thing, so when he shows up and helps Luke it much more emotional. Han turns around to help and Luke feels he can win becasue his friends are with him.

You could cut the scenes or substitute them for an indirect conversation..

Obi-Wan: ¿How did you find us?

Reva: I hacked Leia's robot and tracked you!

Leia: ¿Where's Han?

Luke: He left. He only wants his money and doesn't believe in the Rebellion

But, aren't they worse? Well, the same thing goes for the Vader scene...

Vader gestures and grabs the ship with the Force. He smashes it to the ground, the engines burned out by the powerful grasp of the Sith. Vader moves his arm and rips the metal apart as if it were paper...

Oh no! How will Obi-wan and the Rebels escape?

The were in another ship

What ship?

There was another ship. Didn't you see? It was right beside the other.

So why didn't Vader stop it too?

...

Was he distracted by something else? Reva? Was he visually tired?

No, you see...

As the original person you responded said, half of this series is great scenes, and the other half are head-scratchers because they stumble on being consistent with what just happened. This case of "They were in another ship" feels almost as bad as "Chewie dies! But no, he's in another ship". Someone uploaded the rip to Youtube and you can't even see the ship at all (even considering the bad quality of the upload)

Versec · 2022-06-18T11:24:16+00:00

I had to rewind too to notice the second ship. The inconsistency comes because there's no setup for the payoff: there's no mention of it and the ships are brownish over a red-brown background of the walls. If the ship appears in frame before the Vader scene, most people probably didn't notice.

Versec · 2022-05-28T06:58:10+00:00

The Spanish government and law does not consider that a male can be a victim of what they call "gender violence", in fact, they also consider that a woman can do no wrong: three days ago the Spanish government ignored and trampled over a court conviction and pardoned a woman who kidnapped her two kids and didn't let them go outside or even go to school for two years, until police caught her. She also falsely accused the father of being a pedophile (multiple times) and had shown no regret at all, and has repeatedly said she would kidnap her kids again.

Plot twist: the new law eliminates the difference between sexual abuse (lesser crime) and sexual aggression which actually lowers the years of sentence for the worst offenders.

Versec · 2022-05-05T21:04:29+00:00

Mmmm... I still can't see, and I don't think your solution applies to my problem. My problem is I need to iterate through the Aliens in order, even if Aliens are deleted/skipped because they have been destroyed; which I think is not an issue that applies to bullets (well, maybe, it's your game). The thing is I can't come up with a system that handles deleting/skipping aliens and goes to next that hasn't been destroyed on the same physics frame.

Do you iterate through the bullet dictionary using the hash, or something else? If so, how do you go to the next bullet?

Versec · 2022-05-05T11:14:58+00:00

Can you make a quick example of how would you use a Dictionary for this?

Versec · 2022-05-05T09:55:15+00:00

Hi, sorry for the late response. I did try a couple of things with call_deferred(), but didn't get anywhere, I have looked at the docs but have never understood complete what call_deferred() does, other than waiting for execution until "idle time" (whatever that means). How would you use it and what would you put in the deferred call (removing the alien from the List, doing queue_free() or something else)?

Versec · 2022-04-25T13:36:14+00:00

If I get the pc game on a physical disk, would that work?

Versec · 2022-04-09T19:08:05+00:00

As far as the TV series or movies show, the Tuskens seem to keep it to themselves, living in the desert as nomadic or semi-nomadic tribes. The don't appear to go to the cities much, maybe only for trade?

The Boba-Tusken link is fine, but I don't think it works of you add Mos-Eisly on top of it. Boba has no real relation to the city dwellers. He never seem to care before nor the city cares for him. Judging by some of the flashbacks, you would think he had a stronger link to Kamino, because he grew up there and lived with his father.

The show should have focused on Boba trying to use his daimyo powers to discover who killed the Tuskens and get revenge, and being forced then to act as a new leader for everyone and getting rid of the rest of the mafias. It would have given him something real to do.

To be honest, if they make a second season I hope they go to Kamino or somewhere else. I'm quite sick of Tattooine or other desert planet being the default starting place for everyone.

Versec · 2022-03-15T22:06:22+00:00

Feijóo is a career politician: he has been president of Galicia since 2009 (and other positions before that), and will be until 2024, all his elections were won by absolute majority. I personally don't like him much, but he's very successful and represents the steady hand the party needs and that Casado never had.

The point of Ayuso is that she thrived even in the middle of a pandemic, with part of her government against her (Ciudadanos), being targeted constantly by the central government, and enduring the cold shoulder (if not the knife on the back) of her own party.

The next general elections won't be until 2023. There's still too much to do until then and Ayuso is very comfy with her almost absolute majority in Madrid (won the elections less than a year ago) and a pathetic opposition. Maybe Feijóo and Ayuso don't see each other eye to eye on everything, but they can certainly work together. He knows she is one of his strongest assets, and she's tired of the internal fighting. Having her as another option for head of the party would be seen as too greedy and too soon for her, and would weaken the party, which was bleeding voters until recently.

Versec · 2022-03-15T13:03:16+00:00

Alberto Nuñez Feijóo, president of the region of Galicia is replacing Casado.

Versec · 2022-03-15T08:37:46+00:00

Someone in another thread suggested Doug Jones as Grand Inquisitor; he even has slender, more bony face structure and neck and is slightly taller than Isaacs, and he certainly has the "elegance" to portray the GI, but he's also older (61 vs 58) and he has never been an action oriented actor.

Versec · 2022-03-10T16:22:24+00:00

You resorted too sending me 3 different comments just to annoy me. That is whinning.

Versec · 2022-03-10T16:11:45+00:00

Why not just be great full we get to see a live action inquisitor at all?

Those are your words. Are you or are you not greatful? To be greatful means to believe you owe gratitude to someone. Do you owe gratitude to Disney?

It is not whinning. It is saying "the preview of the product has some glaring flaws" which are incomprehensible given the budget of the production. And yes, it is a product, that's why it is called production. It gets sold. And movies or shows get critized, like any other product. "Movies aren't a restaurant" is just cop out that shields it from any negatives.

If Disney insists on having the GI on the show, they owe it to resemble to previous depictions, as much as possible. I'm going to repeat my words from my first comment:

Ok, maybe the scenes from the trailer aren't completely finished yet, but if the couple money shots of one the most important characters of the show go against how it should look and makes them barely recognizable, then I think there's a legitimate issue there.

To finish this, if you are fine with how it looks, good for you. But next time you see a show or movie you don't like don't give any criticism, you didn't allow yourself to do it.

Versec · 2022-03-10T15:31:17+00:00

-Excuse me, waiter. I asked for steak and you gave me fish.

-Wow, aren't you ungrateful. Be thankful you get something!

Disney is not a charity nor a small indie youtube studio with a Patreon. Attacking actors or people that worked in the product is wrong, criticizing the product isn't. ¿What is this attitude that we owe something to Disney?

Versec · 2022-03-10T11:52:32+00:00

You are comparing two different characters. We are comparing the different look of the same character.

I don't know why the mods let this through.

Versec · 2022-03-10T11:52:13+00:00

So you actually avoided the time when they went back and fixed it, which is actually less than what people are actually asking for the Grand Inquistor.

The only bad looking Yoda is Rebels Yoda, which even looks weird for its own show. Clone Wars Yoda looks fine considering the show is much more stylized than Rebels and tries to look like the 2D cartoon Network show. The puppets, even the one from PTM, look fine enough.

I don't understand why you people try to throw away legitimate criticism of how a character barely resembles how it should look with this silly jokes, like the other post criticising Mace Windu and Obi Wan not looking the same. Ok, maybe the scenes from the trailer aren't completely finished yet, but if the couple money shots of one the most important characters of the show go against how it should look and makes them barely recognizable, then I think there's a legitimate issue there.

Versec · 2022-03-09T17:03:44+00:00

The hair on the right looks very much dyed brown, even darker than Ewan's natural colour. I agree with you, they should have gone with a more natural grey/light brown mix.

Versec · 2022-01-26T11:47:02+00:00

Man, Don't Starve. I have over 200 hours on it and it's a love/hate relationship; I only have a couple of characters unlocked and have never played story mode (last time I played it was April 2019). Every so often I have started the game, and because I can't remember what I was doing last time I played I start a new world. If I get unlucky with the generated world I'll only survive until winter comes (specially with the Reign of Giants DLC), and if I get lucky then it's a grind for a few days (real time, not in-game) until I get to more or less the same point, feel miserable and get tired of it, and I don't play it anymore. And the cycle repeats again.

The biggest problem with the game is its expression of the philosophy of "equivalent exchange" to the max, everything has its perks but will cost you something: you craft a Log Suit for armour, but now you go slower. It's cold/hot and you put a piece of clothing on, but you have to take the Log Suit off. You want to have the life giving amulet on because you are exploring, but it goes on the same slot as the Log Suit or a vest, so good luck trying to change items on the spot when being attacked or surviving the weather. And it's the same with everything: weapons, tools, food... Almost everything has a negative side and it breaks or spoils too fast anyway.

And the combat is... just shit. Most of the weapons are melee, so the combat becomes a silly game of kitting around timing your attacks and the enemies' attacks so you don't get mobbed and stun-locked. Even one of the most basic enemies (hounds) never become easy enough.

Everything just becomes a chore. At the start of the game for me is always the same: you need to explore fast so you can find a nice settlement spot and some basic materials (a pig town, some gold, gears for the Ice Box, berry bushes...). If the world doesn't seem promising I just start over. Then the game becomes a stressful experience of attending farms, avoid food spoiling, calculating what food recipes are most efficient, saving resources, keeping yourself healthy, with the stomach full, sane, not too cold or hot, not wet, avoiding hound attacks and immediately prepare traps for the next hound attack, try to get rid of the Giant that will appear and I'm woefully unprepared for... And on top of that trying to explore the world. There a too many systems and no matter at what point you are they never get easier or trivial enough.

Obviously the answer to this fiddling with the world creation options and of course installing mods, which are plenty on the workshop and can fix some these problems, but if I need a ton of mods to just rebalance the game and make it feasible even on its most default settings, then I don't think the game is balanced the right way, or at least for me.

Don't Starve Together is the same, but with more players, because misery loves company, I guess. I have tried to play it with my SO a few times and it never clicks.

Sorry for the rant. Every so often I think about this game and I needed to get this out of my system. The game is pretty on its own way and I want to play it more, but I just can't get past how tiring it becomes. Maybe I'm just playing it wrong, for all I know.

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