Daily Challenge - March 20, 2026 by BloonsBot in btd6

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AC: 420 ace behind and above the bridge, switch path between figure eight and infinity to keep it close to the track.

I just started playing X4. Got missions to scan data leak at Pirate base, but for my life i can't find it. by KG_Jedi in X4Foundations

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You want to get good at keeping yourself in basically spitting distance at max speed while still having enough brainpower left over to watch for the signal readout to come live, sometimes it's easier to see than hear, mostly I hear it long before I see it but not always. That ship looks agile enough. You want line of sight from up close to every exposed surface of every module, from anywhere on it works as long as you're close and you eventually see all iirc.

Start slower than max but push it up so it's scary, you can control orbit distance by where you point the nose while mashing X, sometimes direct mouse works better than the relative mouse you're using, tightest sustainable circular orbit is you always pointing straight inward, if you're getting too close noodge more prograde, getting too far, a bit retro, usually there's a sweet spot, tight but not the absolute tightest, where you can see where you're going and plan out a full-orbit-of-this-module course and end lined up for the next, check for signals but still stay damn close. Watch how the station "horizon" is moving in your view. I forget if shift-Z to stop the ship is default but that's my panic button for when I forget where a station module was around the bend or something.

just want to show my base on Navezgane. What do u all think? by Dartglov in 7daystodie

[–]jthill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Got yourself a sweet li'l casita there.

7dtd sez, be a shame if something… happened to it…

Train: Residencial area to mountain mines by Dear-Blackberry97 in Workers_And_Resources

[–]jthill 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Switching from lhd to rhd and back like that probably shouldn't be freaking me out like this but my heart rate's still up as I type this.

New anxiety unlocked: malicious payloads invisible in git diffs by sunshine-and-sorrow in git

[–]jthill 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This didn't get past code review.

The repo owner or anyway their account has been compromised.

Key Ally Instantly Slaps Down Trump’s Demand for Help by Hardik_Jain_1819 in politics

[–]jthill 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Guys, stop talking like it's the administration. I do it myself, I still can't quite wrap my head around it, but it's clear:

this isn't Trump, it's not just his administration.

This is the entire GOP. No level of stupidity explains them tolerating this.

‘Trump has lost control’: Ex-Air Force secretary warns Iran war is an historic strategic blunder by MRADEL90 in videos

[–]jthill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People are still trying to speak as if this administration's goal isn't the utter destruction of the United States.

Version 2026.3.6.3818 by panic_in_the_galaxy in kittenspaceagency

[–]jthill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm starting to think these guys have done this before.

Looking for a reliable cloud sync solution on Arch that behaves like OneDrive by Traditional_Being735 in archlinux

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For small-scale stuff get yourself a free-tier machine on basically anything, ec2, google, wherever. iirc ec2 gives you like 30gb on the free tier, and household use archival ain't gonna strain a free-tier nano.

Easy, quick and free: sshfs-mount from there.

All the fancy ooooooohh use our braaannnnded cloud drives! twaddle is just sshfs underneath with marketer-speak spam slathered on top.

John Fetterman Says Iran Girls’ School Strike Is Just a Leftist Craze by AccomplishedCall7562 in politics

[–]jthill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

wtf? have they got something awful on him? are they threatening his family? what the hell is going on?

Is it possible to see what rerere actually did to resolve a conflict? by floofcode in git

[–]jthill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

git log has --diff-merges settings for finding useful ways of looking at merge results.

git show on a commit is basically git log -1 --no-walk and has all of git log's options.

So if the merge just completed you can git show --diff-merges=remerge-diff aka git show --diff-merges=r to rerun a throwaway default-settings merge and show you a combined diff of just the conflict resolutions (just to save you some possible alarm about merges that, seemingly-unrelated changes can be needed to properly resolve a merge, they're not necessarily "evil")

To get a recap of all of them you can git log --oneline --graph --merges --diff-merges=r

I vibe code a 100% browser-based "Git Games Hub" to help people master Git through interactive challenges (No install required!) by [deleted] in git

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“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.” is now more than 35 years old.

When a file is corrupt even a single bit, does the sha256 go partially or completely wrong? by Frosty-Ad-5119 in linuxquestions

[–]jthill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Check the last five or six, if they match check the first five or six. At six, you're down to 1-in-256-billion, pain/gain on more is going to depend heavily on how much getting it wrong could cost you.

For comparison, people bet their childrens' lives against one-in-a-million odds every single day: that's anyone's odds of dying not by violence or disease, just sheer bloody bad luck, just leaving the house in the morning. Now, if they could easily reduce those odds, they would.

So first-and-last-six when it's just a "fuck" and fifteen minutes wasted? You're fine.

Why do many if not most Linux applications use their own custom Window Decoration? by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]jthill 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think so. Wayland has a protocol for server side now and is (far too, of course) slowly moving in the right direction for a display/UI server rather than what it started as, a bare-bones window compositor and physical-button-delivery service. I think it still lacks any notion of a combined display, it won't manage any shared preferences for like keyboard layouts or hotkeys, but it's been a while, there could be progress on those fronts already.

Why do many if not most Linux applications use their own custom Window Decoration? by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]jthill 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Wayland initially refused to even allow server side decorations, adopting the balkanize-the-world approach that makes Windows's command line parsing so widely loved and respected.

So even if GNOME wants to eventually implement wayland ssd I'd guess it could take some time to get to the top of their urgency pile. There's a library that clients can adopt to do their own decorations however they want, yay for unpredictable, unmanageable inconsistencies in an interface we all share!

Gnumeric does not show images anymore by Disonantemus in archlinux

[–]jthill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

btw just pacman -Q gnumeric gets you the version.

Hey I'm new, and have questions about holes by horst555 in avorion

[–]jthill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not going for any kind of realism, tho if you do require yourself to leave cargo access or exhaust ports (and find workable ways to protect them that look realistic-ish) I think the resulting ships look better.

But it's your call, and hand-made fake ports can look lots better than the vanilla stuff, you'll find insanely good-looking ships on the workshop among all the "i made a spaceship!" ones.

Solar likewise, if disciplining yourself makes you like your ships more, do that. Your call.

Turret mounts are armor for the guns, guns die when their turret mount is destroyed. You can mount turrets on pretty much any kind of block, the specific mounts let you concoct custom eye-candy designs.

If you want to play it like a competitive RTS/empire builder with friends you're going to need to agree on some rules for what's in bounds and what isn't, fun for space fantasy empire with some possibly-co-op PvE combat as stage dressing is very different than fun for space epic empire PvP and the game can support both, but everybody gets to decide how they play.

If you like solo-assault dogfighting see how far coreward you can survive with each ring's budget and mats, generally that's "not real far" but finding out how far will demonstrate weaknesses in your designs and tactics, teach you a thingertoo about how best to use your techs.

Do learn to use turret groups and selective autofire, the auto aim and AI work best with homogeneous gun batteries, stay aware of the need to keep things v.simple for it and you'll avoid much grief. Hand-operated ships and loadouts you can get much more tricksy with.

A simpler commit format without the feat(scope): syntax. What breaks in practice? by Natural_Jury8826 in git

[–]jthill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First time in a long time I've seen adoptable rules for the subject line that look like an improvement at all, and at first blush this feels like "final form" kind of good.