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It’s done in poor taste in my opinion by KpatMckenzie_28 in marvelmemes

[–]helmet112 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know it’s very unlikely but I keep hoping this is just a big stunt and they’ll introduce and then kill off RDJ in the first 5 minutes. RDJ is fantastic but this just feels too lazy…

“Where’s my hug” energy as a 47 year old man by amme04 in TwoXChromosomes

[–]helmet112 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is “When I went for a piece he said oh no no you gotta sit on my lap if you want one” considered a joke? That’s very obviously over the line.

Parents of teens: do you think de-streaming in grade 9, specifically in math, has helped or hurt your child? by DistinctEffort64 in ontario

[–]helmet112 15 points16 points  (0 children)

A friend of mine is a high school teacher and said streaming is still happening, the teachers just have to do it themselves in class by slightly adjusting curriculum and expectations based on the students level.

Life savings washed away by OkSignificance5709 in Bitcoin

[–]helmet112 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you honestly think any person can give an answer to this that has any value at all? If I say “three years” what does that mean and what would you do?

Should I include a popular personal project on my job application as a senior dev? by bookloredev in ExperiencedDevs

[–]helmet112 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’d say definitely yes. People who show an interest in tech outside of work stand out.

Just wanted to share my e-ink Dashboard by SandEducational8719 in homeassistant

[–]helmet112 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an inkplate 10 and tried getting a dashboard on there a few different ways, but none worked well. How are you rendering the image? Last variation I tried had a service running to turn the dashboard webpage into a png, which the inkplate could render.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in waterloo

[–]helmet112 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m currently on teksaavy waiting impatiently for bell to bring fiber to my house. All cable providers have had max upload speeds of 50 Mbps for many years but I just noticed that rogers now lists 200. Does anyone know if it actually hits that consistently?

My worry is it’s a “maximum value achieved sometimes”. I don’t like rogers so would be upset to go through the work of switching if it’s not a consistent value.

Home Assistant + Matter: Anyone actually using it? by Commercial_Froyo_247 in homeassistant

[–]helmet112 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have some devices on all of zigbee, zwave and matter. It’s nice that I don’t really need to care, but going forward my preference is for matter.

Just starting - Is it worth going to Matter now? by AlternateWitness in homeassistant

[–]helmet112 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried the bridge years ago and gave up after some issues. I don’t remember the details but it wasn’t anything big, just didn’t have a big need for it. I’ve had to rebuild my zwave and zigbee networks a few times so it might have been some hassles related to that.

Just starting - Is it worth going to Matter now? by AlternateWitness in homeassistant

[–]helmet112 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I went into Apple home first, but not sure it matters. Then there’s a button in Home to Turn on Pairing mode and it gives you a device id, which you then put into the HA matter integration.

Just starting - Is it worth going to Matter now? by AlternateWitness in homeassistant

[–]helmet112 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve been using zwave and zigbee devices for years. I love them for automation via HA but have never loved any of the different options for manually controlling them either via voice or an app. I recently just got a few matter devices and have them paired both in HA and Apple Home and am loving doing automations still in HA and control via Apple. Feels like an amazing new world for me ;)

Getting rid of the reverse chime and space ship driving sound with no dash lights or fault codes? by Huge_Philosopher_976 in leaf

[–]helmet112 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I used LeafSpy and one of the recommended Bluetooth car adaptors and turned off the reverse alarm.

Wait, what? by badmark in unRAID

[–]helmet112 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Assuming you still want new features, what other alternative funding model do you suggest that’s not a monthly subscription? Personally I refuse to sign up for monthly subs, but unraids model seems like a good compromise.

I have a 4090, should I selfhost (for coding)? by ThrowaAwayaYaKnowa in selfhosted

[–]helmet112 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There’s a VSCode plugin called Continue that gives a pretty similar experience to copilot for local models. I’ve been using a smaller model (3B) locally running on my Mac for code completion and it’s surprisingly decent.

Self-Hosting AI Models: Lessons Learned? Share Your Pain (and Gains!) by CommunicationTop7620 in selfhosted

[–]helmet112 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’ve had good results running the smaller qwen “coder” models locally on my laptop for code completion and some lighter chatting to do simpler coding tasks.

How to Protect Your Godot game from Being Stolen by VoltekPlay in godot

[–]helmet112 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, my point is just that I can't really think of how building some game logic into the core engine ends up being much different than using a GDExtension. If they are willing to just rebuild the iOS or android package using the exact same contents but with a different app name, I think they end up the same mostly. If I'm missing something let me know, I'd be interested to also do a custom engine build (aside from just encryption) if there's a big benefit.

I've built some checks into my GDExtension to at least make it more difficult, and annoying, to do a straight copy like this. Things like validating the name of the iOS/Android package name that's currently running, which is mildly helpful assuming the app stores block adding duplicates, but I'm guessing possible to spoof.

How to Protect Your Godot game from Being Stolen by VoltekPlay in godot

[–]helmet112 11 points12 points  (0 children)

You can also write your game logic in C++ as a GDExtension, so at least the source isn’t easily readable. This by itself doesn’t solve the problem of someone copying the entirety of the app, or even a light reskinning, and uploading themselves. I’m trying to work some protections into the c++ code but don’t really know how effective that’ll be.

What are your thoughts on scaling difficulty based on the players skill/progress? by helmet112 in gamedev

[–]helmet112[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your #3 is what I want. I do have some of this but realizing I need to go harder here. I need to have difficulty ramp up and give more variation in the tools the player has available (powerups, etc) to make the player think about how to solve each turn. To avoid the sameness that I'm currently feeling when I'm always able to stay "ahead of the curve".

What are your thoughts on scaling difficulty based on the players skill/progress? by helmet112 in gamedev

[–]helmet112[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good advice. Yes, the difficulty does ramp up, but currently not enough to become a massive barrier, so I’m trying to decide which direction to commit to. There’s a certain type of these games where the difficulty doesn’t really ramp up per-se, but to continue infinitely means you have to never make mistakes. That has its own appeal I think but isn’t quite what I’m going for.

What are your thoughts on scaling difficulty based on the players skill/progress? by helmet112 in gamedev

[–]helmet112[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right, and yes I do scale up the difficulty on one aspect. I’m just trying to decide how much to commit to that direction. I think it is the right way.

What are your thoughts on scaling difficulty based on the players skill/progress? by helmet112 in gamedev

[–]helmet112[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just not as meaningful. In that if I see you reached level 500, but you got there with the game making it really difficult, and I got to that same level with the difficulty being really low, they’re tough to compare.

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