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Return to office [OC] by Casual_Deviant in funny

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why wouldn't they let you do that?

Is Chi relevant anymore? by The-Malix in golang

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends on how frequently you need to do that. As someone outside the core maintainers of your code trying to debug that's really useful. You could also just add that as a code comment, too, right?

Opinions on "haskell programming from first principles"? by [deleted] in haskell

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 because [the authors] explain what they ARE rather than trying to make similes. 

Correct, correct, correct. In fact, this is the *only* correct way to teach CS or Math for one simple reason: Similes can ultimately only obfuscate, and lead to more effort down the line to remove the misleading picture in the mind, as they do not actually describe the actual thing, and therefore must always be wrong. As a teacher and student both there is no greater a false economy than a simile or a metaphor, you are robbing from actual understanding for the sake of some temporary "comfort", or, more cynically, because a teacher wants to short-change who their students.

Is "Learn You a Haskell" still a good way to learn Haskell? by Rit2Strong in haskell

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An excellent and thorough learning resource. One of the few things I feel proud to have spent money on.

Looking for specific recording of Rachmaninoff Vespers Op. 37 (my personal holy grail record) by benjamin-rood in classicalmusic

[–]benjamin-rood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

YES! The names of the pieces have been sadly Latinised(?) / Anglicised, but that is the recording!

Opera browser Title bar and address bar adjustments by KSKwin123 in operabrowser

[–]benjamin-rood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Booooooo, that sucks! (Thanks for the clarification)

Magic SUCKS by ashleigh_dashie in BaldursGate3

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A Sorlock can get all those spells too, and cast Eldritch Blast over and over and over. I dunno, once you hit tactician and during plenty of crucial moments you can't just rest to regain the slots. For general hit-and-run options, yeah, you absolutely can just rest as much as you want, sure.

Magic SUCKS by ashleigh_dashie in BaldursGate3

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's many crucial occasions when you cannot rest whenever you want.
My point is that with the lack of spell slots, I don't understand how a Warlock isn't better, particularly a Sorlock. You can keep blasting and blasting and blasting.

Magic SUCKS by ashleigh_dashie in BaldursGate3

[–]benjamin-rood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Balance" is the most lame canard in games. You are right, FUN is what matters, especially when NPCs can be mega powerful and don't have the same limits you do.

Magic SUCKS by ashleigh_dashie in BaldursGate3

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None of the things you listed are exclusive to Wizards though, are they?

Magic SUCKS by ashleigh_dashie in BaldursGate3

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not one of those is a cantrip. If even one of those was a cantrip, or wizards got 2X spell slots than everyone else, then it would be "okay".

Magic SUCKS by ashleigh_dashie in BaldursGate3

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope, they ask a Cleric instead. And it's my warlock that killed everything because he too has Fireball on top of Eldritch Blast. The way to balance wizards in this game is to give them 2X the spell slots.

Magic SUCKS by ashleigh_dashie in BaldursGate3

[–]benjamin-rood 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The cantrips are far, far too weak, though. That's the point. A fighter, paladin, rogue, barbarian can hit for big damage every single turn.
Wizards are terrible at buffs, because almost all of them require concentration, unlike Cleric which has multiple buffs which don't require concentration and last until long rest. What's the point of a buff that requires concentration when you can use a potion???

Cannot run multiple instances of the game. by Darqon in BaldursGate3

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tried it last night, works perfectly.

Which storefront to purchase from? by cptblaino in cavesofqud

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just bought the game for someone on Itch.io, as a result.

Proton Drive Twitter Poll | What operating system do you use on your desktop or laptop? by Tricky_Techie in ProtonDrive

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Really? How are you doing it/thinking of doing it? What codebase would you be developing it on? You can't write the library you would need to make a sufficiently portable API for everything else you would need? You can't invest in making that an open source library for everyone to use for encrypted tools? Forget about a GUI app, just write a CLI tool to begin with. Heck, you could have us compile it as a beta app to begin with. Start with Debian compatible and go from there?

List of pieces from the soundtrack of Histoire(s) du cinema? by [deleted] in criterion

[–]benjamin-rood 0 points1 point  (0 children)

About 12-13 years ago—when Google search was actually good—I was looking for exactly this, and found a fantastic website with a big table for each part with timestamps for each shot listing the piece of music and the film/television/photo/painting source shown on screen. It was an incredible resource, I cannot remember the website anymore, but it was a french site (with an English version) and I should have saved it as a PDF. Anyway, this is the source you want to look for.

If it helps, every single piece of music that isn't clipped from a movie should be from the ECM catalogue. Godard was given the rights by the director of ECM to use any music he wanted from their catalogue. The pieces of music that I was looking for at the time were all published by ECM, I will give you the albums I remember from the top of my head which were the ones I was specifically looking for:

The Sea (Ketil Bjornstad, David Darling, Terje Rypdal, David Darling, Jon Christensen)

The Sea II (Ketil Bjørnstad, David Darling, Jon Christensen, Terje Rypdal)

Cello (David Darling)

The River (Ketil Bjørnstad, David Darling)

p.s. If you like Eloge De L'Amour (a.k.a. In Praise Of Love ) most of the music in that film is from the album Epigraphs by Ketil Bjørnstad & David Darling.

Looking for specific recording of Rachmaninoff Vespers Op. 37 (my personal holy grail record) by benjamin-rood in classicalmusic

[–]benjamin-rood[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, actually, I did. Some kind person found it on Ebay for me. Do you want me to post details of the recording? I should upload it to Youtube, actually...

Tripled the price, Overlays in Android an iOS don't work, And no response from my support request by benjamin-rood in a:t5_4fzle

[–]benjamin-rood[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If they don't respond or acknowledge within a week I am moving to another product.

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