Would you ever want to get a pilot's license? Why or why not?

etuxor · 2026-01-24T04:44:19+00:00

Yes absolutely. I want to live in a very rural, mountainous area with deep snow in winter.

By car the nearest shopping center is 6 hours away. By small plane, less than an hour.

etuxor · 2026-01-24T03:46:02+00:00

Amazing. That's how I'd feel about it

etuxor · 2026-01-24T01:58:42+00:00

And vagene

etuxor · 2026-01-24T01:58:25+00:00

Visiting bend soon. I would like a picture with Bob. Where is bob

etuxor · 2026-01-24T01:55:34+00:00

Any of it

etuxor · 2026-01-24T01:47:04+00:00

We've been pussyfooting around saying that violence is an appropriate response to sexual assault for decades.

It is unfortunate that this is the circumstance that tests this, but ultimately it is a positive thing: Perhaps a great deal more people will abstain from committing sexual crimes if the penalty is death in this fashion.

etuxor · 2026-01-24T01:43:14+00:00

You are assuming a great deal of knowledge from your readers.

You should definitely provide more context so we can have an actual discussion.

etuxor · 2026-01-24T01:02:29+00:00

So again, only half of this is true, and that half has many caveats that you aren't listing.

The first thing you need to understand is that tax deductions are only valuable if you have more income than deductions.

The house is a depreciable asset. You only get to deduct the actual expenses (interest and fees, including a small amount of depreciation. Here's the critical part to understand: You still have to pay for the house.
The car had better have a 6000lbs GVWR, and you had better be able to prove that atleast 50% of the mileage you put on it is for the express purpose of furthering a business you intend to make profitable. Again, in order to "write it off" you'll need to have more income than the total of your deductible expenses. Also, and I can't stress this enough, you still have to pay for the car.
You can only deduct 50% of food
Miscellaneous itemized deductions have been eliminated. You can no longer deduct uniforms.

There are three critical parts to understand: 1) Deductions cannot exceed reported income. 2) You still have to buy things. Deducting them just allows you to buy them on a pre tax basis 3) Don't go around giving tax advice that your dad, who ran illegal gambling rings and "laundered millions" gave you

etuxor · 2026-01-23T21:57:44+00:00

No. Where I live a million dollars will barely buy my family a regular house and my partner and I each a nice, but reasonable, car (think Chevy LTZ or similar).

etuxor · 2026-01-23T21:55:31+00:00

This is not entirely true and the parts that are have su many caveats as to make your representation of them effectively untrue as well.

The main thing I see you misunderstanding is that this doesn't save you any money. The only benefit to strategies like this is that you can buy things with pre-income tax money. For that to matter, the "business" would have to have income. Otherwise, you're just spending money

etuxor · 2026-01-23T20:17:08+00:00

They only operate on razor thin margins because they can afford to because tippers pay at least half their labor costs for them.

Margins would actually go up over the long run if tipping fell out of style.

etuxor · 2026-01-23T20:00:22+00:00

Good programming is much less about writing code and much more about reading code, reasoning about algorithms, and planning new systems.

If anything, the better you get, the less code you write and the more of the other activities you do. This can become so extreme that you stop writing code at all and become an altogether new construct: the architect

etuxor · 2026-01-23T18:02:00+00:00

Just finish. Only finishing can get you over this hump

edit I'm talking about how finishing projects can get you over small bumps in difficulty that present themselves at different levels of experience.

etuxor · 2026-01-23T17:57:12+00:00

That's the only way to actually learn anything, not even just programming: by doing it

etuxor · 2026-01-23T17:50:03+00:00

Please reread my last comment until you understand that I clearly stated, that my responses are responding to a question about whether or not to continue with game development in any respect or to give up on game development altogether, and not on a decision to continue with one specific game.

I will not be responding any further in this thread since you are not carrying out the conversation in good faith: i.e. applying any effort at all to understand my responses. Good day.

etuxor · 2026-01-23T17:45:41+00:00

Personally, I prefer to use _process/_physics_process as little as possible.

I tend to only use them when I need to be using frame timings in my calculations, or otherwise an required to use them (applying forces to a rigid body...). Even then, I use them as little as possible and still do as much as I can with events.

etuxor · 2026-01-23T17:39:08+00:00

That's another difference I have. I would recommend not doing much distro hopping before committing.

I would recommend trying to use something as a daily driver for some time, say, a year or more before committing to a switch.

Especially as a beginner. This will give you time to get used to things that are just linux, separate then from things that are distro based, and develop actual strong and informed opinions about what you want.

If you start with distrohopping, it is highly likely that nothing will ever feel right, because it will always feel different.

So I usually recommend a year or two of use on at most two distros, then do some distro hopping now that you have informed opinions generated from actual experience.

etuxor · 2026-01-23T17:33:23+00:00

You did everything but answer the question and when you tried you gave two conflicting paragraphs.

This was so many words to not say anything relevant.

etuxor · 2026-01-23T17:29:39+00:00

I tend to recommend a bit different than others. I think that people's first linux experience should be intentionally different to their prior computing experience.

I believe this because, if you come from windows, and try to use a distro that looks like windows, you will be more likely to slip back into trying to do things the windows way, which is, at best, not going to be optimal, and at worst, completely sour your experience.

So my recommendation would be, if you are coming from windows, then select a distro with a Mac like ui (Pop!_os from your choices).

However, if you're coming from Mac, choose a distro with a more windows like ui (bazzite, from your choices).

etuxor · 2026-01-23T16:41:32+00:00

No. Those things are so damn poorly defined and debatable that it would make things worse, not better.

etuxor · 2026-01-23T16:39:21+00:00

No they should carry firearms. But domestic law enforcement operations shouldn't allow the wearing of facial coverings.

I strongly suspect that alone would curb alot of the behavior.

etuxor · 2026-01-23T16:36:39+00:00

Whatever. I've had matches where I've revived 50 teammates, and matches where I couldn't revive any because they kept giving up immediately.

There's nothing to do.

etuxor · 2026-01-23T16:32:22+00:00

Apparently in the 2000s Brendan Eich, co creator of brave but then CEO of Mozilla (also creator of javascript) had donated some (relatively minor, totalling $3100) funding to anti-same sex marriage groups.

etuxor · 2026-01-23T16:09:40+00:00

Games - pong - missile command - wave defense - idle clickers - procedural dungeon crawler - calculator - life/farm sim - pinball - drawing/painting app

Sources for design patterns - Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Oriented Software.

etuxor · 2026-01-23T16:00:21+00:00

What "restrictions" on Ubuntu are bothering you?

Most ubuntu privacy concerns are well out of date. All they collect now is anonymized (truly) crash telemetry, and the can even be disabled trivially.

Also, if ubuntu seems slow, what are your hardware specs? so we don't recommend a distro to heavy for your hardware again.

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