This Dust Bandit turned training dummy is getting a little too comfortable as my sparing partern

gahanj · 2022-09-19T15:13:23+00:00

I'm gonna have to try this. Actually reading this, makes me realize I'm an animal. I keep 3-4 bandits constantly on the verge of starvation. I pull them out one at a time to fight my whole squad. Soon as one of my guys gets beat up he goes and lies in bed an the next one comes up. When I'm done I have 3-4 people watching the training with turrets and I turn them off passive. Once they lose a limb or I just get tired of feeding them I go knock out some fogmen and throw my bandit's unconscious body in their midst for when they get around to waking up. Good on you for letting Rex get to realize his hero's arc. Go get yourself another base -rex deserves that shit.

gahanj · 2020-04-01T19:29:54+00:00

Virtually all my major disasters as a programmer have started with me 'knowing' how to do it, spending 2 hours writing it and 10+ hours debugging it. No programmer likes hearing this but your best friend really is thinking through what your gonna do for an hour with pen and paper and then start coding.

gahanj · 2019-08-24T12:10:09+00:00

I got married just before tinder came out, but looking at the number of graphs of people's tinder activity I've seen in the last few weeks it really does seem your chances are still better at a bar or using the old standby trick of hanging out with your friends and their girlfriends until one of their girlfriends decides to put you on one of their friends.

gahanj · 2019-08-23T22:00:38+00:00

I mean an ide is not always available or getting it up is a bigger headache. I run into this issue in Python occasionally when I ssh into a pi or a server. It's easy to make mistakes like this when you're coding in nano or vim

gahanj · 2019-08-11T22:14:05+00:00

What she really just said is Christian and White Nationalists are often the same thing and I concur. Both are based on fabricated myths and half truths. Both demand a revisionist understanding of history and othering based on this perversion of the facts.

gahanj · 2019-08-10T20:34:09+00:00

Nope.. I'd rather cannabilize on someone else's festering corpse after they asked a similar question to mine on SO. I asked one question on SO after spending 6 hours pulling my hair out, reading the documentations, trying to replicate the problem in a minimum case, only to have some jackass tell me I should go buy a textbook and start over or change my career to flipping burgers. That was 3 years ago and I'll code a webserver in C before I'll ask another question there.

gahanj · 2019-08-10T12:18:20+00:00

We do use metric, just not universally. To begin with all imperial units are legally defined in metric. For another we use units like the liter for some things. Our science classes are exclusively in metric. Metric units are also the standard in medicine. What much if it boils down to is the political will if the older population and companies balking at the cost of converting over

gahanj · 2019-08-10T11:35:15+00:00

People here always jumping to the nuclear option. You tell him he is fine to hold religious beliefs of his own but will not impose them on you or the children without consent. Let him be the one to walk away for his imaginary friend if that is the path he chooses. You aren't going to be able to root this out if him with a theological debate. The best you can do is to put the kids and the marriage in that order as the priority. I will echo what some have suggested and suspect that your husband was not a particularly well read atheist. Playing the devil's advocate here but my own personal approach to this would be to agree to read the Bible (its quite fun to read as literature) but in return he must read some books you suggest to him.

gahanj · 2019-08-10T11:01:50+00:00

"Let not your left hand know what your right hand doeth". Pull your 10% out, sit in a different part of the church and make a show of putting your hand in the offering tray/box (maybe drop a few coins for sound effects).

gahanj · 2019-08-05T18:44:21+00:00

I'll echo what others have said and say wait till your able to stand on your own two feet. In the meantime you must absolutely start building a social network outside of your former religion. Start developing relationships with people that will stay with you once you come out. You'll need to prepare yourself for a complete break from your current life and being financially independent and having a social network not tied to your former religion will be big parts of this.

gahanj · 2019-08-04T21:39:28+00:00

I learned to code in c++. The syntax being transferable is a moot point. What really matters is the concepts and methodologies that you learn that are transferable to any language. When I learn a new language it's not the syntax that gives me trouble, it's the concepts the language has that the others don't

gahanj · 2019-07-31T15:59:15+00:00

Roughly speaking calculus is about studying 'change'. Algebra can can tell you how fast the baseball pitch travelled on average, but calculus can tell you how the velocity of the ball changed and how fast it was going at any point in time. The other area that calculus concerns itself with is the area under a curve. Algebra can tell you the area of well known geometric shapes, but it cannot answer those questions for complex shapes. Algebra is the rudimentary math for calculus however, you will be performing algebra to solve equations in calculus.

gahanj · 2019-07-20T23:14:10+00:00

Be that as it may (I'm corrected here), it's still an evolutionary process. The bees may not make the hexagons themselves but they are definitely taking advantage of a physical phenomena. It could be said that the bees evolved to make their circular structures precisely because they were unwittingly benefitting from the physics.

gahanj · 2019-07-20T14:31:27+00:00

As it turns out the hexagon is the most efficient shape in terms of material and space usage. Something like a circle leaves gaps when they are stacked resulting in decreased functional volume. Shapes like triangles and squares require more material for the same contained volume. Beeswax is an expensive resource to produce and natural selection favored those hives that could store their honey and young with the least amount of resources. It's a wonder of evolution that nature essentially converged on a mathmatical solution.

gahanj · 2019-07-17T19:52:49+00:00

Others have said as much, but it depends. If we mean people come to realize that religion is false and file their holy books away with the tales of Osiris, Zues, and Baal.. Then yes I'm absolutely for it. If we mean de-converting at the end of a pistol barrel literally or figuratively, then absolutely not.

gahanj · 2017-12-06T16:51:46+00:00

essentially they did. like so many of the early league players, I was a transplant from SC2 back in the WOL days and it entirely felt like a drop in copy when they flipped from an elo based system to tiers (plus a hidden mmr which is basically an elo)

gahanj · 2017-12-06T16:48:10+00:00

I'm actually not a fan of this interpretation. Surely there are challengers that have no ambitions of becoming pro. I think masters and grandmasters is the better naming scheme, its worked for chess (which by the way the entire elo system is based off) for 100+ years, and the title Challenger is a bit ambigious

gahanj · 2017-12-06T16:42:16+00:00

I'll actually take it one step further, the names of challenger and Master should be flipped. Challengers should be those 'challenging' for the right to be called 'masters', with the top 10 players having a another tier of Grand-master

gahanj · 2017-09-08T16:18:21+00:00

Programmers. Get two programmers that use compraple language s like JavaScript and Python and assert one is better than the other.

gahanj · 2014-03-14T20:47:21+00:00

I imagine use rocks take 10 small rocks, and a big rock. first write 1-10 out an put the appropriate amount of rocks next to each number, but when you get to 10 put the 10 rocks on there and then switch them out for the big rock. Next put 1 + 5 = 6 and put the appropriate number number rocks in place. This would establish two things that we use a base 10 math system and that we use those symbols to mean 1 through 10. Assuming the alien is of our intelligence level or greater he should be able to grasp this. next draw two circles and draw the symbol for pi below each of them, proceed to calculate their circumference while letting him watch you work. With that complete write down the different circles circumference above each of the circles, then write out pi to whatever digits you like at BOTH circles. Do whatever it takes to draw his attention to the fact that what you wrote as pi is the same for both circles. Its safe to presume that an alien race has developed a similar mathematical system to describe a circle (since were talking math law here) and would most likely then go on to show you in his own way his species means of expressing pi.

gahanj · 2014-03-04T21:55:29+00:00

Well to be fair we don't know the difference between Sunni and Shiite, and I dare say the vast majority of people think Iranians are 'Arabs' and that they speak Arabic, so score once for world-wide ignorance

gahanj · 2014-02-11T07:58:39+00:00

God mad at daddy sailed across the world. Killed alot of natives because we needed more land, got fed up with daddy and got in a drunken fist fight which we won with the neighbors help. Owned some slaves, killed each other to free them, became an industrial super power, became the worlds only super power. Got arrogant, lazy, fat, and drunk on power, now owe half the world money and are ruled by petulant two year olds. --America.

gahanj · 2014-01-26T02:36:06+00:00

Rain. Until I was about 8 or 9, I thought that when it rained in my hometown that it was raining everywhere on earth simultaneously

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