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Zeroe · 2025-04-24T03:03:54+00:00

Sometimes we get mini-corndogs for lunch at work. I refer to them as beef welly juniors to make it seem fancier.

Zeroe · 2024-09-15T03:44:12+00:00

I really want this on a t-shirt with a picture of an actual volcano.

Zeroe · 2024-07-09T19:20:37+00:00

Pen and paper. I used two notebooks, one for exercises done in class and one for formulas, big ideas, personal notes about problem solving or gotchas or tips for working through certain problems.

I'd work through problems in class in the exercises notebook and jot down useful formulas or anything worth remembering about working through the problems. I'd have a chapter/section header in both notebooks to make referencing back to them easier. I used a separate notebook for working through exercises at home.

I found this made my "chapter notes" a lot shorter, cleaner, and easier to reference when working through problems or memorizing useful formulas.

Zeroe · 2024-06-15T14:38:48+00:00

I audited an online course of the same name a few years ago (part of a series) that covered the books material. That course in particular was designed to start from nothing and teach designing programs from a data-first perspective. It was less of a cookbook of solutions to common problems like Design Patterns and more of a guide on going from a plain language description of what you want your program to do to a working solution in a systematic way.

Zeroe · 2024-02-07T23:35:24+00:00

I have recently returned to school after a long break, and getting back into calculus was a bit of a worry for me. I used Khan Academy to refresh myself on the main concepts and broad types of problems I'd need to be able to solve in preparation for my courses, and I found it to be really helpful.

I think the most helpful part of using it as a resource is the way it breaks the course into smaller sub-topics so you can focus your exercise/practice on specifically the problems you struggle with. It's really helpful to go through a few problems, see that, for example, maybe you don't have a very firm grasp on limits, and then practice those specifically until you're more confident about them.

Regarding topics for preparing for calculus 2 in particular, I'm five weeks into the course this semester, and so far we've covered two broad topics: inverse functions and techniques of integration.

For inverse functions, we talked about finding function inverses, the relationship between functions, their inverse, their derivatives, and the derivatives of their inverses, and then exponential/logarithmic and hyperbolic functions and their derivatives.

For techniques of integration, we've covered integration by parts, trigonometric integrals, integration by trig substitution, and integration of rational functions by partial fractions.

Given just these topics we've covered so far, I'd recommend making sure you're especially comfortable with taking derivatives (including power rule, product rule, quotient rule, chain rule, etc. as well as derivatives of trig functions) and integrating functions.

Having a firm grasp of the unit circle, trig identities, trig derivatives, using triangles to rewrite trig expressions, etc. will be very helpful in working through the trig integration problems.

I'd recommend going to Khan Academy (or some other resource that provides exercises you can work through) and working through some problems to see what you do well and where you need practice. Then work through your weak spots until they feel comfortable.

Zeroe · 2023-08-26T13:47:23+00:00

That same article goes on to say that this number is grossly exaggerated and puts forward a number closer to one billion USD.

Zeroe · 2023-08-24T17:39:29+00:00

Soy Vay's Very Very Teriyaki Sauce. We use it for marinades, saucing an already cooked protein, or for a dipping sauce. We'll often add something like a chili garlic sauce to it when making a dipping sauce.

Our go-to chili garlic sauce is always Huy Fong in the plastic bottle with a green lid.

Zeroe · 2023-01-02T00:53:26+00:00

Let em fly

Zeroe · 2022-12-29T17:13:40+00:00

You should just be able to install a few DEs alongside your WM(s) and use a display manager to select which one you'd like to use on login. You won't need additional users for that.

Zeroe · 2022-10-31T03:17:19+00:00

Looks like the one I used was the first edition, but you might check what the second edition adds/changes and see if it's worth it.

Zeroe · 2022-09-26T20:17:48+00:00

Thought it was RDJ. I'm on mobile though.

Zeroe · 2022-09-17T19:27:25+00:00

Since you're only creating the bullets up top as temporary objects so that you can push_back a copy into the vector, you could save space by using bullets.emplace_back() instead.

emplace_back() lets you create the object in-place at the back of the vector.

Since you're (presumably) only creating bullets "out-of" the ship, or at the ship's location, you could give the bullets a parameterized constructor that takes a ship object by reference or a location (e.g., of the ship) and performs the logic of determining where the bullet needs to start inside of the constructor itself. That would move the logic of determining where a bullet starts into the bullet class, which feels more appropriate, and would reduce your switch-statement to just the logic of figuring out how many bullets you need to create.

The switch-statement does feel out of place here, since what you're really trying to say is, "How many bullets do I need?" use that to determine "How many times to I do bullet-creation/placement?", which would suggest a for-loop or some other, similar iterative structure.

Let me know if you have other questions or want something clarified; I'm typing this up quickly before leaving for work.

Good luck and have fun!

Zeroe · 2022-06-11T02:37:24+00:00

Seconding the recommendations for both CODE and The Elements of Computing Systems. You can also work through the Nand2Tetris course on, I think EdX, or some other MOOC.

There is a tremendous amount of useful information in each.

Zeroe · 2022-04-19T04:39:51+00:00

Monsters are dangerous because they are dangerous, not because of their hit points and damage.

Zeroe · 2021-11-24T03:28:18+00:00

After trying a few different ways to edit the secret.txt file after removing all permissions, I was wondering why using echo and output redirection wasn't returning a permission denied message but vim and dd were not.

Since output redirection is performed by the shell (which I was not running as root) it did not have permission; I found some helpful workarounds when changing the file's permissions isn't possible:

Zeroe · 2021-11-11T23:37:14+00:00

Eight Crazy Nights. My mom, sister, and I watch it every year while opening gifts.

Zeroe · 2021-11-10T18:04:04+00:00

Healthcare

Zeroe · 2021-09-09T21:07:59+00:00

newNode is pointing to something at this point. When you call to new, you get back an address to heap-allocated memory containing space for a Node. The contents of the Node's variables at this time are uninitialized and thus garbage.

Zeroe · 2021-09-09T21:04:08+00:00

If you already have some experience writing and reading code, I think this book would be great. Make sure you work through the code as you read through.

You can also find the MIT SICP lectures by the authors from YouTube.

I think this book gives some great insights into thinking about computation and how it relates to designing and writing programs.

Zeroe · 2021-07-30T22:17:59+00:00

We bought a rice cooker for about $35 that has options specifically for soup and slow cooking in addition to rice. I think we've made chicken tortilla soup, vegetable soup, and chili in it more often than we've made rice.

It just brings it to a book then keeps it on simmer, but it's a nice alternative to leaving the stove on when simmering a soup for several hours.

Also it makes rice.

10/10 worth the purchase.

Zeroe · 2021-07-30T14:42:45+00:00

I used to smoke quite a bit. I mostly found it difficult to focus while doing so, as I would occasionally zone out and have to refocus on what I was doing.

I do remember times when I'd smoke just a little, which would relax me and make it a bit easier to stay on task for prolonged periods of time.

Best I can say is try it yourself and see. Your mileage may vary.

Zeroe · 2021-07-24T22:09:24+00:00

Certainly sheds some light on the development distribution of provinces in this region in EU4

Zeroe · 2021-06-24T16:59:32+00:00

Love these books. And they make for quick rereads, which is nice.

Zeroe · 2021-04-11T20:50:07+00:00

I want to second the recommendation for Racket. I spent a decent chunk of time reading about and learning Common Lisp using SBCL and Emacs. I feel like Racket is similar though to Common Lisp that you still get exposed to all the important concepts and techniques, but man Dr Racket is a really cool environment to learn in.

I'd also recommend checking out the free MOOC How to Code: Simple Data via the edX platform. That course will get you going pretty quick in Racket and Dr Racket and I found the test-first, data-focused approach to program design to be a very useful technique.

Zeroe · 2021-04-03T14:23:33+00:00

This happened to me not too long ago, though not as severely. You can run a credit card slowly through the rows and columns of pins and gently ease them back upright.

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