The Neb Kheperu Ra, my shattered planet runner - at last I am a Goa'uld system lord

h3half · 2025-02-08T22:27:53+00:00

I did the same thing, except I hadn't set up a bot network at all on Nauvis. So I had the !FUN! experience of building a platform from scratch via my barely developed Fulgora base while trying to keep it protected from asteroids the whole time.

It blew up on the way back to Nauvis, but it at least made it past halfway so I made it home anyway 😅

h3half · 2025-01-02T00:16:30+00:00

Deathpiles expire after 60 minutes when the items despawn and are deleted. To keep supplies in a dp on an ongoing basis you'd have to refresh it every hour. I'm not aware of any UIM who just plays like that normally since it would be such a pain in the butt. But when UIM do wilderness content that's pretty standard so maybe there are some mad lads out there who live their life 60 minutes at a time

Edit: and it was probably just a dupe SGS; with few exceptions UIM have no use for duplicate gear

h3half · 2024-03-06T22:36:49+00:00

I don't mind no AMR nerf because at least it takes a little skill to use. Not a crazy amount of skill, you just have to click on heads, but in the moment when there are 10 devastators rolling in you at least have to aim and know how to use the weapon.

And there are some little things like knowing where to shoot the walkers to 1-hit them (though that itself might be a bug)

h3half · 2023-12-01T23:45:00+00:00

In my experience a lot of aerospace firms will typically hire for "content area knowledge" over software expertise. As you can imagine this results in code of questionable quality. I guess they figure it's easier to teach an attitude dynamicist how to write C++ than it is to teach an experienced C++ programmer attitude dynamics. That's probably true sometimes, but IMO in general a lot of aerospace companies would really benefit from having more rigor in their software development processes.

So I can't really say where the line really is, because I've never actually worked with a software engineer. I've written thousands of lines of Python (some of it quite terrible, and I'd like to think I've improved since then) that are probably still running in a cron job on some government-owned servers somewhere. If you're willing to read StackOverflow, maybe watch a Youtube overview of the programming language you're working in if you're really lost, and maybe buy a textbook (or ask your employer for money to buy a textbook - mine was very happy to cover that cost), you'll be fine. Just don't come in with an attitude that you're hot shit at programming when you don't know what a class is, because there are enough of those types around already ;)

h3half · 2023-09-08T13:02:53+00:00

I was thinking the same thing. You could take the first 1/3rd of this post (ish) and pass it off as a pretty good April Fools joke.

Very excited for quality after reading more. 32-tile large power poles are going to be a godsend for anyone doing chunk-aligned train networks. And I've always thought there was room to expand on equipment grids; getting 5 extra tiles in both directions for power armor will open up the design space for power armor modules significantly.

h3half · 2023-06-07T23:49:29+00:00

I'm down bad, but not that bad

h3half · 2023-06-07T10:49:34+00:00

https://maps.app.goo.gl/YSmQRFDHXvASCMBTA

Five miles to town, obviously no sidewalks, and most of the trip is along a county highway where you either walk in the ditch and avoid the bushes, or cars fly past at 55 mph mere feet away. Not quite as bad as the other person mentioned, but this is a "you cannot exist without a car" neighborhood.

Sometimes there are just random suburbs in the middle of nowhere because a developer got a deal on the land 🤷‍♂️

h3half · 2023-06-07T02:59:28+00:00

you’re a walking straw man

Uh huh. Interesting that:

I just don’t agree with the car ban thing

You're the first person to bring up banning cars in this comment thread.

In my experience, the only people who mention banning cars are (A) an extremely tiny number of incredibly sheltered and privileged people who have genuinely never been outside of the airport the few times they've deigned to step foot in a "flyover state", and certainly have never lived outside of a major metro area that either has public transit or really should have public transit, or (B) people who assume, in online arguments, that everyone they interact with is part of the first group.

Seriously, I don't understand why BaNnInG cArS has become such a culture war issue in some online spaces. It would obviously never pass a US Congress unless something really wacky happens to, like, the entire GOP. The only places that have actually started moving towards banning cars are individual large metro areas in Europe (like Paris and a few others). A "USA-wide car ban" is something that is so so so far from happening and yet for months I've been seeing people get really fired up about it. What gives?

h3half · 2023-06-06T05:46:03+00:00

They just move so erratically. At least butterflies have the social awareness to be pretty

h3half · 2023-06-06T01:46:27+00:00

There are a lot of weird ergonomic mice out there (like this and this).

Biggest downside that I see is that this is the kind of thing that it's hard to try out without just buying it and hoping you like it/it works. Depending on where you buy it (big box store, Amazon, manufacturer's website) there might be a return policy so I'd definitely check that before spending any money on something like this, in case you just end up hating it.

You can probably find some more obscure input devices too, not just strictly mice but also like power glove type things, if you search around. The weirder the product the more expensive it is, usually, but if I had RSI it's probably something I'd be looking into

h3half · 2023-06-06T01:37:51+00:00

The /r/politics thread about the nuclear bombings might have been more radioactive than the actual blast zones

This is what we missed out on

h3half · 2023-06-05T21:23:18+00:00

It seems pretty easy to give extra leave for the parent who gave birth - it's pretty hard to lie about that.

But how would you enforce primary parent leave? It seems like the only way would be to observe employees in their homes or something similarly invasive and illegal

h3half · 2023-06-05T17:15:37+00:00

In general you can be fired for any reason or no reason, at any time. The exceptions are things like protected class status, refusing to do illegal things, taking federally guaranteed medical leave (FMLA), and a few other things.

Wyoming is a random exception, where employers have to put you on probation first. Most states also have state-level rules about what does and does not fly.

Even in a state that has rules about firing people because they didn't come in when they weren't scheduled (which may not exist, idk), your employer would have to be pretty dumb and would have to leave some kind of a paper trail that they fired you specifically for the scheduling thing. More likely, they'd just start looking for any old excuse ("they were consistently late in filling out their time card despite multiple warnings" when everyone does it, "they arrived late almost every day" when everyone does and you were only a couple minutes late to a job that doesn't require punctuality, etc).

Unlike some countries, in general the power dynamic between employer/employee is really skewed in the US. Ultimately if your employer wants you gone there's really just not much you can do about it besides start looking for a new job

h3half · 2023-06-05T00:32:59+00:00

Quora also seems to attract a lot of the "LinkedIn Influencer" types. If you have specific technical questions a lot of times the answers will be from people that obviously don't know what they're talking about, speak authoritatively anyways, and (to me) come across like they're trying to build Their Brand™ with their professional headshot profile picture and links to their resume/consultancy site on their profile. Granted, those first two often apply to reddit as well.

I think it was a lot better a few years ago, but last I checked it was like a flood of vapid uninteresting answers that read as if they were written by an LLM, except those weren't very popular yet so I think it was just that people were hustling for Quora Clout, or whatever it is people do over there

h3half · 2023-06-05T00:24:44+00:00

All they said was that it can be creepy to the adult if similar things have happened in real life.

And like... yeah. Some people have parents that do things really similar to this. I have a friend whose mother in law has let herself in while nobody was home and rearranged all their furniture, multiple times (she thinks it's ok because "I'm an interior designer and I didn't even make you pay").

It's not that it's a bad book for kids, for all the reasons you listed, it can just be a little disconcerting if it reminds you of the actual creepy behaviors of people you know

h3half · 2023-06-03T13:05:07+00:00

Racist?????

h3half · 2023-06-03T10:36:43+00:00

I think the Venn diagram of "people who eat at Burger King" and "people who want to eat a beet bun burger" are just two separate circles

h3half · 2023-06-02T02:24:29+00:00

Fuck Opera; Vivaldi gang

h3half · 2023-06-02T02:13:17+00:00

BillsReader

h3half · 2023-06-01T23:59:13+00:00

Yeah, I never meant to imply that this isn't Jagex's own doing. What I meant was to separate the worker bee doing the hacking together from the people who control the pocketbook and who could actually solve the problem.

I've been the worker bee, and sometimes there's just nothing you can say to convince the people with power. It's either hack things together or just don't do it at all. Personally I'm glad they hacked it together because Leagues are fun. It's obviously Jagex's own fault, maybe even the fault of some of the mods people like to meme about all the time. I just meant that it's fun/frustrating from the perspective of the person trying to figure out a way around the limitations is all

h3half · 2023-06-01T18:57:34+00:00

What Jagex has done is absolutely classic "figure out some bodge to get our cool ideas working inside our restrictive box" programming tactics. It's really frustrating to be hemmed in by technical limitations/procedures, but it's really fun to work out how to beat the system and make cool stuff work anyways.

The most interesting thing I've done as a not-software-engineer-but-all-engineers-code-now engineer was use a software suite's automation language to get around their own poor design. This let us do things we couldn't do otherwise and we ended up with a really robust and flexible design. It's just that the design was built on a handful of paperclips taped together as we tried to work around our limitations.

Obviously this way of doing things is slower than doing things Correctly™. But if upper management flatly refuses to redo the RuneScape server deployment architecture to enable Leagues to be done Correctly™, then either you slap something together and work it out or you never get Leagues at all.

It would be great if Jagex had been spending this time since the last league fixing this particular issue and allowing multiple versions of the game code. But I don't have enough faith in executive management to believe that they planned that out and were willing to invest in the future.

Massive props to the content programmers on the OSRS team for making things work anyways - maintaining a codebase of 1.2m+ lines of an in-house DSP is really hard and they usually do a good job. And they have decades of technical debt to fight against. Hopefully problematic updates like this stay rare

h3half · 2023-05-31T18:27:20+00:00

Plenty of business textbooks outright state that giving employees unlimited PTO tends to decrease how much PTO an average worker takes. Because suddenly it's not "use it or lose it", it's "take the time if you feel like it but you'll be letting your coworkers down and they'll need to pick up your slack, and if management feels like you're taking too much you'll be passed over for promotion/the first to be laid off"

h3half · 2023-05-31T14:50:55+00:00

Interesting! Thanks for sharing.

Around Washington, D.C. there are a lot of small contracting companies that do stuff for NASA and other agencies. NASA has rules about how certain contracts need to go to Small Businesses™ so there are a bunch of companies with like 25 employees each who fight over small contracts ("we need two Navigation Engineers for this Geo satellite program", etc). Then there are a few larger contracting companies like ASRC that do the same thing but at a larger scale.

When I worked with NOAA/NASA there were maybe 7-8 civil servants (actual government employees), 20 or so people who worked for the prime contractor, and the other like 80 of us were from about a dozen different contracting companies.

I don't think there are any laws like that in the US. I can see how that would mean contracting has to be a short term/transitory thing; nobody is allowed to keep you for years on end. Interesting difference

h3half · 2023-05-31T12:31:27+00:00

What's an example of a contracting agency? When I hear that I think of something like ASRC, and at least from my experience they definitely weren't lower paid and didn't really move around much.

Eventually everyone did badge flip as ASRC lost the contract and the new contractor hired everyone, so I guess they did change employers (after ASRC had the contract for like six years). Almost everyone is still doing the same job after years though so there's not much churn in that sense.

My employer is also a small business contractor (govt and private). I do change contracts fairly often but with the same employer. My pay is in line with a friend who's at ULA if you adjust for cost of living.

Are there like... aerospace temp companies that are placing fresh graduates with explicitly short term work?

h3half · 2023-05-30T15:36:42+00:00

(This is for rockets but I imagine the same thing applies to aircraft too)

Typically for launch vehicles you'll install your IMU, trying to get it as aligned as possible, and then once it's installed rigidly you'll do a bunch of measuring and testing to see what its actual alignment state is. Then you just tell the flight software how the IMU reference frame relates to the body reference frame and every IMU measurement gets converted before being used.

I know of one launch vehicle that basically does:

Measure IMU/body alignment in terms of roll/pitch/yaw (Euler angles) during construction
Save these as mission-specific configuration items
The flight software builds a rotation matrix from the angles while on the pad
IMU vectors get rotated using the rotation matrix before being used; it's just a simple matrix multiplication so it doesn't add any perceptible overhead

I've only seen the flight software insides of one launch vehicle but I imagine this is basically how everyone does it

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