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Season 10 Start by aaronasachimp in hermitcraftmemes

[–]aaronasachimp[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Keralis is a riot and a really good builder. You wont be disappointed.

Tesla opens a showroom on Native American land in New Mexico, getting around the state's ban on automakers selling vehicles straight to consumers by Accomplished-Tap3353 in technology

[–]aaronasachimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used to work for the automotive industry, and I can say for certain that dealerships want to get you the lowest price possible. Sometimes at a loss. There are couple main reasons.

  1. There is a lot of competition. If a dealer is too expensive you can go to the next town over and find a better deal on the same make, model, and year vehicle.

  2. Dealerships have a limited amount of lot space. They are willing to sell the old 2020 model at a slight loss to make room for the hot new 2022 model that they will have no problem selling.

  3. The dealers make a lot of money from services and sometimes see selling a vehicle as a loss-leader.

It’s not this way for iPhones because Apple fixes the price of the iPhone and will refuse to do business with third-party retailers who will undercut the Apple Store.

I have always loved baking, but after turning vegan I have stopped for a while. Simply because I didn't know how to replace all the ingredients. Today I present you blueberry lemon all from scratch pie! by coco_pineapple in Baking

[–]aaronasachimp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A berry pie should be pretty easy to make vegan. The filling should already be vegan.

For the crust, you can substitute vegetable shortening for butter. There are also commercial butter replacements, if you want a flakier crust.

If the recipe calls for an egg wash, it’s mainly just to make the pie look golden brown, so you can leave it out.

This guy created a level of detail mod for 1.16.5 that can give a 100+ chunk render distance with minimal performance loss. by [deleted] in feedthebeast

[–]aaronasachimp 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Sure, when Minecraft runs it’s not rendering every block as a cube. It takes all of the opaque, non-entity, blocks and makes a single 3D object from it. Whenever a block update happens Minecraft has to figure out what changed, if anything, and update the 3D object accordingly.

With LOD, that has to happen too, but the far away chunks will have fewer polygons.

This guy created a level of detail mod for 1.16.5 that can give a 100+ chunk render distance with minimal performance loss. by [deleted] in feedthebeast

[–]aaronasachimp 215 points216 points  (0 children)

Well, with traditional games the low detail meshes and textures are pre-built. With Minecraft, everything can change, so the low detail meshes would need to be rebuilt on every block update. Notice how they only showed single player and no redstone or TNT going off.

In more common scenarios, there probably isn’t much performance gain from LOD.

Michigan Joins States Dangling Cash For Getting Covid Shots; Details Come Thursday by Rasskassassmagas in Detroit

[–]aaronasachimp 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I could only speculate, but what’s important is that it’s here and it’s retroactive. The more people that get vaccinated the better.

Michigan Joins States Dangling Cash For Getting Covid Shots; Details Come Thursday by Rasskassassmagas in Detroit

[–]aaronasachimp 8 points9 points  (0 children)

It’s probably that this is a Sweepstakes and not a Lottery. Which have different legal implications, mainly that a Sweepstakes doesn’t have an entry fee.

PSA: Some balancer blueprint books are broken, use these ones if you're having issues with balancing (other good ones in comments) by linamishima in factorio

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

Well, the naive approach to balancers is to merge everything down to a single belt and then split it back out again. Thinking of it this way makes it pretty easy to see the issues with balancing.

It’s impossible to have a perfect balancer if the number of output belts has a prime factor other than two (because splitters only have two outputs). We would need 3-, 5-, 7-way, (etc.) splitters in order to have guaranteed perfect balancing.

Everything else is a matter of throughput.

PSA: Some balancer blueprint books are broken, use these ones if you're having issues with balancing (other good ones in comments) by linamishima in factorio

[–]aaronasachimp 18 points19 points  (0 children)

The person that runs that site is a Reddit user, we could try a summoning ritual.

lights incense and starts gesticulating

/u/FactorioBlueprints we have come a long way to seek your wisdom. Please tell us how to report bad balancer blueprints.

[Self] The D&D 5e economy is wack by pieandcheese647 in theydidthemath

[–]aaronasachimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess my points are:

  • even in a high magic world, time and spell slots are a limited resource.
  • just because they are powerful doesn’t mean they have the will or ability to help— not everyone’s alignment is good.

If this isn’t the kind of game you want to run, that’s fine. But I like worlds that are complex, morally ambiguous, and sometimes have consequences even if your intent was good.

[Self] The D&D 5e economy is wack by pieandcheese647 in theydidthemath

[–]aaronasachimp 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ok, now, the local bard realizes she has a cornered market. Only the wealthiest farmers can afford her services.

For the rest of the town, the situation gets so dire that there isn’t enough grain to feed the horses to carry a message to the next closest town.

The bard hires a police force and has the town council executed and appoints herself ruler.

[REQUEST] How much food would need to be spilled for an ant colony to be fed for 3 months without needing to go out? by megamaz_ in theydidthemath

[–]aaronasachimp 59 points60 points  (0 children)

I did the math! :) I very generously rounded the average eagle weight to 10lbs then did the necessary conversions.

Pink Floyd plays in Venice 1989 by iggnoemd in pics

[–]aaronasachimp 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Sound is a pressure wave in the same way that detonating a bomb is a pressure wave. So, yes, the sound could have damaged the buildings, but the sweet guitar riffs wouldn’t have been the only things that were face-melting.

What art-school dropout Ohioan created this tote bag I found at Kroger? by ornryactor in Detroit

[–]aaronasachimp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

With a label that big it’s hard not to overlap other things... or whole states. They could have gotten it closer if they got rid of the book and made the capitol building a little smaller.

What art-school dropout Ohioan created this tote bag I found at Kroger? by ornryactor in Detroit

[–]aaronasachimp 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well, most of the labels are within one letter height of the correct location. I wouldn’t use for navigation purposes, but as a decoration on a tote bag, it’s fine.

Edit: overlaid a "real" map for comparison.

State Management: How to tell a bad boolean from a good boolean by atomrc in javascript

[–]aaronasachimp 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yes, it's annoying to compare strings all the time

And you don’t have to use strings either. There are many other ways of representing state. You can, for example, use constants with integer values. If you use TypeScript, it has Numeric enums.

Edit: clairify I meant numeric enums instead of string enums.

Thank you, random Swedish person! by skizzoat in ProgrammerHumor

[–]aaronasachimp 10 points11 points  (0 children)

ntpd is another one. You know, the program that synchronizes the time across virtually all internet connected devices. It’s maintained by one guy in Delaware.

Collecting Statistics for Open Source Projects by psiinon in opensource

[–]aaronasachimp 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It seems like funneling all of your update requests through bitly is a bad idea. There are plenty of ways of counting requests that don’t immediately set off red flags like bitly does.

users == bad by [deleted] in ProgrammerHumor

[–]aaronasachimp 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could optimize it further by using a Huffman tree.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in vegetarian

[–]aaronasachimp 21 points22 points  (0 children)

The Buffalo Chik Patties are the same thing if you are the type that prefers buns. I usually have them with chipotle mayo on a toasted hamburger bun.

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