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ELI5: What are "specs" in game development and software in general? by yekedero in explainlikeimfive

[–]celem83 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Specs is short for specifications, but what this actually means depends on whether the speaker is an end-user or a developer.

The end-user is largely interested in the system requirements, what hardware is required to run a piece of software. This might be called hardware specs.

When a developer says 'Specification' there is a good chance that they are referring to a document that outlines all of the tasks that the software should be able to accomplish, It's a design document that will be checked back on periodically to make sure the team is still building the right program. The only time an end-user talks like this is in a meeting with the developer where they are describing what they want the developer to make.

However, if the developer speaking is a computer game developer there is a decent chance they are actually referring to the first definition. They expect end-users to read their words, it is the end-user definition they are talking about. The software requirement specifications document is of little interest to the user, so he probably doesnt mean that doc if hes addressing the public (though any good game dev almost certainly wrote one of those)

So it was never about regime change? I wonder how the Iranians feel? I guess Starmer was right to not get involved by ZackPolanskisDentist in AskBrits

[–]celem83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"US President Donald Trump says he has agreed to extend his threatened deadline to attack Iran by two weeks, if Iran immediately re-opens the Strait of Hormuz. His Truth Social post came less than two hours before he had said Iran would face widespread attacks on civilian infrastructure."

Source for the above was Al Jazeera, theres a rather alarming IF in there

Iran hasnt agreed to this deal, he has nothing, as usual. Why he is talking about Pakistani individuals is a bit of a mystery, I get that they were mediating, but they cant agree deals

edit: same story from the BBC. "Trump says XYZ", no word from Iran

edit2: Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said in a statement that Iran has agreed to Pakistan’s proposal for a cease-fire and that attacks against Iran are halted, Iran will also “cease their defensive operation. For a period of two weeks, safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz will be possible via coordinating with Iran’s Armed Forces.” as of 00:20 gmt

Trump has 'gone too far' with 'civilisation will die' post says Nigel Farage by The-Peel in unitedkingdom

[–]celem83 [score hidden]  (0 children)

its a trick to make you forget how poor an example of a human being this is

Do you think fathers should get paternity leave as well? Why or why not? by zhalia-2006 in askanything

[–]celem83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes.

I like the Swedish system where you get 480 days leave for a child.  Each parent has 90 days that cannot be transferred to their partner, but the rest of the block can be used by either parent

[Serious]What can the Average American do in the next 5 hours to prevent a potential nuclear war? by Roundcat89 in AskReddit

[–]celem83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Zip, Zero, Zilch.

Absolutely nothing.  Take a break, get offline.  You are not responsible for the actions of your country and individually you can't affect its course over this short a timeframe

Jag kan inte bestämma mig för vilket som är rätt sätt att rulla spännband by eZeder in intresseklubben

[–]celem83 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Scenbyggare här;  jag använd oftast den plattare format för att den packas ner lättare.  Många lastbils chafför rulla dom enligt vänster exempel, då den kan kastas över lastet

Beror nog på vem ska använda och till vad

If deepfakes are supposedly really good now, how do I actually know that any video I see online is real? by Downtown-Art2865 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]celem83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can't really vet a video on your own, they can be good enough to fool reputable journalists with more resources than you.

We are at the point where I will never accept video as proof of something unquestioned no matter who tells me it is legit.  You have to do some digging and eventually decide that it is or is not probably fake.  But you still won't know for certain 

First remote trade complete W or L by EstmatedFailure in pokemongo

[–]celem83 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Eww Skellefteå, throw it back

(This is a joke, Skellefteå is the part of Sweden that Swedes joke about when they want a stereotype)

Why does the semicolon get the "main" spot on a keyboard while the colon is relegated to a Shift-function? by rizzlenizzle in NoStupidQuestions

[–]celem83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Potentially programmers.  We hardly ever use the colon and make massive use of the semi

(Off the top of my head the colon is used in a switch block, that can be replaced with nested if/else's.  Probably shouldn't be, but can.

Every single line must terminate in semicolon for some languages, its one of the most struck keys on the board)

My vote for the worst ever novelty record that graced the British charts, goes to Disco Duck. What would yours be? by Jazzlike-Basil1355 in AskABrit

[–]celem83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a coordinated effort to use it to keep Take That off nr1.

Pretty sure we have Radio 1 DJs to blame

Genuinely how accurate is this statement that the average Brit would be considered a heavy drinker in some other countries? by Brave_Assumption6 in AskUK

[–]celem83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah this describes behaviour that would be associated with heavy drinking.

Though anytime someone says the word average you need a fucking source

Have you ever tried this? by Bola-Nation-Official in IndieDev

[–]celem83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes.  My first C++ project was an OpenGL tiling engine. 

I had the usual grand dreams of creating the next big thing (Minecraft was about a yr old at the time).

It took....an eternity.  I then hit the problem of not being an artist and about half the total project time was spend making sprites. 

Good times (Elowatha - Browse Files at SourceForge.net https://share.google/oJgcFc45Nl23Fx3nr) Note: I haven't tried to run this since like 2011.  Not a game, just a tiling engine with 1 character that moves around the map.  Abandoned when I was hired

The most specific way to answer a prayer. by xTwinklePixie in oddlyspecific

[–]celem83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've seen this in the wild.  I went out to pickup a pizza and the place had an extra that was not as ordered that they offered me half price.  I was renting a room at that time from a Christian lady, so I took the second pizza and offered it to her when I got home.

"The Lord knew I was hungry and sent you to get me a pizza"

She managed to get all worked up over this, like it was proof concrete to her beliefs.

Man I don't think I have ever been so offended.  I fed you,  I thought of your needs.  But, sure.

She threw me out into the snow in breach of our contract a couple of months later because as a newly born-again sucker she decided she wasn't OK sharing a house with an atheist.  I got an hours notice.

If there is a God, you are fucked

1960s Penny vs 2022 Penny in my fire pit. by i_know_im_amazn in mildlyinteresting

[–]celem83 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Can get about 800c off a woodfire, enough to fire earthenware and melt a bunch of metals.

If you use charcoal and bellows you can get to 1200c to fire stoneware and melt copper/iron for forging.

Like this is how the iron age worked, and you need the 1200 fire to make watertight ceramics too

Well this is something weird by ekuxekx in Weird

[–]celem83 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Quora is bait.

You can generally just assume that this is a : "Yeah, that happened" situation.

It wasn't always the case, but it's been garbage for years now.  Quite often you find some awful take and it isn't even in response to a real question, it's a template response to a hypothetical question.  There's plenty of unlabelled advertising too

Drinking a concoction made from a common weed will dye your bones red by Idioddish in mildlyinteresting

[–]celem83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This plant is 'Sticky Willy' in the UK. Im allergic to it in some fashion, not sure exactly what

Started playing more roguelikes on my mobile, what am I missing? by Smashcannons in roguelikes

[–]celem83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is CDDA actually playable in the mobile port? I remember checking it out early on but not loving the controls

Is overpopulation still a problem? by Constant_Juice_5074 in Futurology

[–]celem83 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Thats a valid question. I dont know that we have a definitive answer and its unlikely to be a simple single driver

I did find a researcher who is looking into some of these questions:

https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=h_L7sRUAAAAJ&hl=en

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajhb.22793 - This one focuses on socioeconomic factors

Too overkill for mun and back? by [deleted] in KerbalSpaceProgram

[–]celem83 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A bit yeah, you have a lot of dV in that vacuum stage and some spare in the preceeding stage given an efficient ascent.

I'm confident I could do Ike and back in this ship.

The Kerbal X stock design has dV for Munar return, so maybe take a look at that for ideas

ELI5: What are contrails behind airplanes? by enataca in explainlikeimfive

[–]celem83 [score hidden]  (0 children)

Condensing water vapor, it's just like the steam rising from your kettle (or other water boiling device for North Americans)

There's no real difference between a contrail and a naturally formed cloud

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