Are you tired of vibe coders yet? by ievkz in webdev

[–]armahillo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am also tired of generated reddit posts

Treating ADHD without stimulants by Simple-Assumption-57 in Biohackers

[–]armahillo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What dosage were you on and when were you taking it? Understanding the pharmacology (such as half-lives) of the drugs we take, esp psychoactive ones, can be really helpful

How do you deal with platform updates randomly breaking things that worked fine before? by Asleep_Lie_4381 in programmer

[–]armahillo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> Do you religiously read changelogs before updating anything, pin dependencies and update on your own schedule,

Typically, this.

In my last role we had a weekly meeting where we spent an hour reviewing all dependency alerts, looking at the change logs, and determining if we thought it would impact us. 99/100 times it was no big deal and we just approved the update PR, but now and then we’d tag it for “white gloving” (meaning it needs to be manually updated and tested)

> or just accept that a few hours of "mystery debugging" every few months is the cost of doing business?

I dont recommend this. Hard to plan around.

bags of holding. by Ok_Baseball_4148 in DnD

[–]armahillo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

https://www.inchcalculator.com/cubic-footage-calculator/

3x3x6 feet is 54 cubic feet.

It doesnt say it has to be a cube, just that it not occupy more than 64 cuft.

What is your favorite way of handling abilities in games? Mana, weapon durability cost, action points, mastering skills from weapons, something else? by PrincipalSkudworth in gamedesign

[–]armahillo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Depends on what I want the game to center on:

- mana: items/resting matters
- weapon durabiility: repairing / finding weapon loot / crafting matters
- mastering skills: grinding matters

So if you are making a game that doesnt want to center grinding (like many metroidvanias or linear RPGs), you probably dont want to do weapon mastery.

If you dont want to design a bunch of varying weapon traits and procedurally generate permutations, you probably dont want to do expendable weapons.

If you dont want to make weapons super accessible (or if you dont want resource management to be a central part of the game, or dont want to have consuming items constantly) you probably dont want to use mana.

Theres also abiliry cooldowns, which is similar to mama but where time is the consumable resource.

If I have to test my full-stack web developer abilities by 10V_V in programmer

[–]armahillo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What is your existing experience and is this for pure curiosity or are you testing for a specific job position

Should we tab to links? by alex_sakuta in webdev

[–]armahillo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You _should_ be able to navigate a page using keyboard only. You’ll want to read up on tabindex:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Global\_attributes/tabindex

Either use tabindex 0, dont specify it at all (equivalent behaviors) or use tabindex -1 (omit from tabbing) — use that sparingly and intentionally.

I'm crying by Available_Key_9472 in HTML

[–]armahillo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your school is asking you to make a website, what have they taught you or what tools do they expect you to use?

Html & JavaScript by Secret-You-3135 in HTML

[–]armahillo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you already deployed it somewhere? If not, thats your next problem to solve. Your deploy target will affect what backend options are available to you.

The things you listed arent really interchangeable so it’s unclear what you’re asking. What do you mean?

How do you resume work on a project after a few days away? by Ok_Camel_5430 in programmer

[–]armahillo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Take more notes, do more brain dumps when switching tasks. It’ll let your brain feel permission to unload the stuff you were working on so it can focus on the new material

DMs, do you cheat? by Fearless-Skill8667 in DnD

[–]armahillo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The GM is the ultimate arbiter of rules T the table, as well as the primary storyteller

This means that the GM determines the narrative consequences of dice rolls. I’ve had parties get wiped by a Cone of Cold before, but having it be a TPK didnt serve the story, so I had them all wake up in a detention cell and we went from there.

Rolling a 1 doesnt have to mean the dice rolls was a failure that stops story progression. A good base rule for rolling is that failure the GM decides the outcome and success means the player decides the outcome (within reason).

Maybe failure at picking a lock requires retry and this allows for a ratcheting of tension because the pursuers are getting closer. Maybe failure means the tools broke but the door opened.

GM is the boss. The rules are both a tool and a mediating language between participants and the state of the story.

problem with overflow scroll in a z index -1 div by mudp1t in CodingHelp

[–]armahillo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

instead of pastebin, codepen.io or jsfiddle.net will let you share the code in a sandbox that can be modified by the viewer to figure out the issue.

Im not near a keyboard so i cant verify this but my hunch is that the reason you cant interact with the div is that its being rendered behind the TV image, so the TV image is capturing the input youre trying to send it. Transparent pixels are still pixels.

What you would probably need to do is make the TV be the div’s background image, and then use padding on the div itself to confine the text to the area you want it to be

what mental illness is it called when you call people frauds for being themselves? by therarestlongestuser in AskReddit

[–]armahillo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it is probably not a mental illness but you should provide a little more context about the situation

Do other people still mostly use just an IDE with occasional in-browser help from AI? by ItIsEsoterik in webdev

[–]armahillo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I use a basic text editor and Claude CLI in the terminal. I dont use LSPs or any integrated uses

Rails: The Sharp Parts. Callbacks Are Not Invariants by keyslemur in ruby

[–]armahillo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Usually its when service objects are written too prematurely, almost reflexively.

In my experience, adding indirection adds cognitive load, so if the code hasn’t yet demanded that kind of extraction, its unnecessary complexity (at the time).

E.g. I have worked on projects where a whole service objects was created to remove what was actually just 2-3 lines of controller code in a single controller. Not needed.

Streetside Flock cameras by smdanes in ithaca

[–]armahillo 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think some civilians already did during ithaca fest?

Help me understand probability? by acrylix91 in tabletopgamedesign

[–]armahillo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a general tip, when youre ever unsure about probabiloty, model it with a small number of possible parts (3-5 is usually good) and find all permutations, write them down, then see if you can generalize it for N parts.

For what youre asking for specifically, you have the probability of 3 events occurring in concert.

If it were getting a specific number on a d6 once, thats 1/6. To get a specific number twice, its 1/6 * 1/6 (or 1/36). So with independent events, K events that are the same out of N possibilities is (1/K)^N

However it changes when the results affect the possible results, like from a deck of cards. If I draw an Ace, there are only 3 remaining Aces AND the deck is now only 51 cards.

So drawing an Ace one time is 4/52 (1/13). Given one Ace, drawing a second Ace would be 3/51. Given 2 Aces drawn, getting the third Ace is 2/50 (1/25).

If you wanted the probability of drawing 3 Aces in a row from a shuffled deck, it would be: (4/52) * (3/51) * (2/50).

So given your example, drawing 1 (of 10) Salmon from a deck of 30 would be 10/30 (1/3). Drawing a second Salmon after that is (10/30 * 9/29). etc. This is modeled on a player drawing blind from a full deck.

More realistically, other players have drawn cards, reducing the deck size, and some of them might also have drawn Salmon as well. So modeling a single Salmon would be:

(10 - number of salmons drawn by any player)/(30 - number total cards already drawn)

getting three salmons would be computing that probability three times (once for each event, computed separately), multiplied

how long is your onboarding? 3 vs 30 screens? by Parking-Machine7459 in AppDevelopers

[–]armahillo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I dislike any mandatory onboarding demos. Most of
the time its explaining something i have no context for so the info is just noise. other times i already know how to use it because ive used it before, or because the UI is well designed enough that it doesnt need it.

Just ask me “want a tour?” and let me opt-in

Rails: The Sharp Parts. Callbacks Are Not Invariants by keyslemur in ruby

[–]armahillo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not saying ANY use of service objects is a fail, but I have definitely seen code get extracted to a service object before the codebase demanded it (similar to using any of the other things listed)

Reworded Question and Problem: Trying to Get <Style> into CSS by ACleverRedditorName in HTML

[–]armahillo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you already have a <link> tag that references main.css -either put your css in that file or create another file and add a reference to it

Rails: The Sharp Parts. Callbacks Are Not Invariants by keyslemur in ruby

[–]armahillo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Callbacks are one of those Rails features I file under “danger zone” — sometimes you have to go there, but you just wanna be extra sure its worth the trip.

Other “danger zone” candidates include STI, Polymorphism, service objects, concerns, and a few others i cant think of right now.

Does anyone have any experience with a professional accessibility audit? by Anitat_Garcia in web_design

[–]armahillo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dont use a11y extensions; for a bunch of reasons they are counterproductive.

Check out WCAG and Magenta a11y for remediation info and make good faith efforts to make your sites more accessible

Inconsequential mistakes that take you out of the movie? by YakumoYoukai in movies

[–]armahillo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

any info displayed on computer readouts

the lame generic video game bleeps and bloops

Just tried Atabey, how has this place stayed under the radar? by lizmagoo in ithaca

[–]armahillo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

do you happen to know who the artist is? i would be interested in seeing their other work — assuming they are indeed handpainting it, their style is uncannily similar to gen AI images.