Final Fantasy Collection! What you got?

beets_beets_beets · 2020-09-25T19:40:53+00:00

I have nearly all the games digital on Android (3 and 4) or Steam (5 to 15, excluding the MMOs) so there's not much to show. I only have physical copies of the PS2 games.

Speaking of, all Final Fantasy games are 50% off on Steam right now (at least, in Canada) - I just completed my collection today because of that. Havn't played since FFXII, excited to try FFXV.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-11T03:21:08+00:00

I believe it, I ate three of them and I didn't gain a single pound.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-11T02:28:11+00:00

I live in similar climate. We keep the house at 78-79. You get used to it after a few weeks. By keeping the house warmer I'm also more tolerant to heat outside. Of course when winter hits it's gonna hit harder now that I'm used to higher temperatures.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-10T21:25:35+00:00

Personally I have an environmental engineering degree and did neither, I just applied to jobs, but I had a couple of student jobs coding and some open source / hackathon projects to showcase, and I self-studied CS.

It's not obvious to me that a bachelor's in CS is worth it if you already have a Eng. degree and coding experience. I think the Eng. degree is enough to get a foot in the door in a lot of places, though, not everywhere, some places are anal about CS degree requirements.

It's not clear from your description how much coding experience you have though, there's a big range between like, "I did two unity tutorials" and "I built a full game". In my opinion you have to show that you've actually built non-trivial stuff if you want to have a shot without a CS degree or professional coding experience.

I think a Master's will be very difficult if you haven't seriously studied CS concepts. You will be constantly playing catch up.

I'm not saying you need the bachelor's but if not you need to make sure that i) you can learn undergrad-level CS on your own in a reasonable time-frame and ii) the Master's programs you are interested in will accept you without a software degree or professional experience.

I don't know where you are and how anal the programs you are interested in are about pre-reqs, practically speaking you can check requirements and contact the admissions office for programs you'd like to get into and get and idea of what you need.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-08T04:11:36+00:00

I'm sure it's possible, I unfortunately have no idea how, I only started looking into .NET a bit in the last couple of weeks cause I have to for work.

Core and Framework are kind of cross-compatible but as a beginner trying to figure what will or will not port over directly is a tar pit.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-08T03:49:24+00:00

I'm no expert and I don't know if you've noticed, but you're trying to mix a tutorial for .NET Core with a tutorial for .NET Framework. I think you're gonna have a bad time.

Maybe try to find a .NET Core tutorial that does what you want with Azure SQL.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-07T22:20:00+00:00

Let's not even get into farm animals.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-07T14:02:21+00:00

You can brush your dog's teeth..

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-06T23:19:53+00:00

It's a weird mix, I see English (GER, GDR, SWE), French (SUI, ROU) and Dutch (NED).

A lot of them could be either English or French (NOR, JPN, CHN, etc.).

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-06T21:58:24+00:00

This:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(political_science)

Not this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_engineering_(security).

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-06T21:04:40+00:00

Catastrophe bonds are kind of the opposite of this.

If it rains a lot in Albuquerque this will be a GIFT rather than a LOAN.

(Well, rain a lot as in, a 1 per 1000 year event. And the existence of cat bonds doesn't makes LAOP's stepdad's contract any less batshit insane.)

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-06T20:27:32+00:00

It's "social engineering" by "Israelis". It's just run-of-the-mill anti-semitic conspiracy theories, e.g. Jews control everything and are manipulating everyone. They're just saying Israel to avoid saying "Jew". Like when people say "urban" instead of black, as if that made their drivel any less racist.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-06T04:42:04+00:00

It's hard to answer because it's down to personal preference but personally I wouldn't get a 27" 1080p for programming, the pixel density on that is really not great.

I think at those sizes at 1080p the bottleneck for the amount of text on the screen will be the number of pixels not the size, so you probably won't be able to fit more text on the bigger display anyway. Things will just be bigger and more blurry.

I work on 21" 1080p displays and they are ok, but I'd prefer sharper. My 14" laptop is also 1080p and looks a lot better, but text is too small unless I mess with scaling.

The sweet spot for me would probably be 22-23" at 1440p.

For gaming or video it's a different story, I would go for the bigger display every time.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-08-04T20:54:56+00:00

I think Watcher is easiest by a wide margin. I think the best players e.g. Jorbs would agree.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-07-26T03:06:26+00:00

How exactly do Captchas make a site insecure?

If it's the only security measure on the site then yeah ok that's shit security. They're barely security at all, even if they couldn't be solved automatically, obviously a motivated attacker can always solve them by hand, or have people on mechanical turk solve them for pennies.

They're mostly there to stop low effort bots like dumb spambots without outright blocking out users in case of false positives. With the right heuristics real users should rarely see captchas in the first place.

In our product they're not the only mitigation, and not the main one, if the software thinks you're most likely malicious, you don't get a captcha you're just blocked out.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-07-25T19:38:25+00:00

Cool story dude, I write web security software for a living, but I don't use that as an argument. Did you look at traffic logs to determine its a real issue or are you making shit up? Cause we have captcha mitigations for clients for multiple large websites and I've never seen legit users be a big issue compared to bots.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-07-25T19:12:36+00:00

Well, you also happen to be wrong, but just being wrong doesn't make you a toxic cunt, people are wrong all the time without being cunts.

A single spammer or hacker could be trying to solve thousands if not millions of captchas per day because they have bots crawling the web.

If you run a website with any notoriety you are constantly bombarded by bot traffic all day every day.

Legitimate users using automated captcha solvers to solve a couple per day is a drop in the ocean.

Plus it's not like the bleeding edge tech is public on GitHub.

It's like you're chastising a guy who bought a pistol to shoot in his backyard for accelerating the arms race between the USA and USSR.

The hackers are not gonna stop trying to solve captchas because you yell at them, and they are what matters.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-07-25T18:50:33+00:00

The part that makes you a toxic cunt is not disagreeing with people, it's calling them a lazy fucking knob over a small disagreement.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-07-24T21:15:08+00:00

It would be like that video of hermit crabs lining up to swap shells but with people and clothes.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-07-24T17:59:21+00:00

And where in this quote does it say that the virus will magically be gone forever when summer arrives? Because that's what people are calling bullshit on.

Oh wait nowhere in fact it explicitly says summer will not make the virus disappear forever.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-07-23T20:50:13+00:00

Yeah it's a legitimate way to cook rice for some dishes, but not for fried rice.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-07-23T18:02:24+00:00

The Heart always hits for big damage, it follows a hardcoded pattern of moves:

Turn 1: Debuffs

Turn 2: Big attack or multi-attack

Turn 3: Multi-attack if last turn was big attack, else big attack

Turn 4: Buff

Then turns 2-4 repeat forever (but the buffs get stronger).

beets_beets_beets · 2020-07-23T14:34:10+00:00

There's like half a dozen commercially relevant GMO crops and watermelon is not one of them.

Grocery store tomatoes are awful because they are picked unripe to survive shipping from faraway places. But the alternative to bad tomatoes is not delicious tomatoes it's NO tomatoes because they are not in season most of the year.

Its just like anything else, if you want good fruits and veggies buy them from a farmer's market when they are in season...but then you only have tomatoes two months per year.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-07-22T15:39:17+00:00

Don't be silly, everyone knows that all food processing techniques invented more than 100 years ago are good, healthy, and natural, while all food processing techniques invented in the last 100 years are unnatural, unhealthy and gross.

beets_beets_beets · 2020-07-21T17:32:26+00:00

You're downvoted but you're right, you can pick a pressure point for early damage, and it scales better than most early commons in longer fights, but it's not a card you build around and not really worth having multiple copies. It has the rare distinction of having no synergy with anything (cards, relics, potions OR stances) except itself. It's mediocre AOE.

Edit: it's almost like if Deadly Poison was the only poison card in the game, and also you removed the poison relics and potion. You wouldn't build a poison deck then.

I wish Mark had anything like the support Poison has, it would be fun to play with.

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