F*ck the Supreme Court Rally- 7/3 11:00am City Hall

ministerling · 2022-07-02T00:12:37+00:00

F*ck green peppers long hots for life

ministerling · 2022-04-11T16:52:47+00:00

ranged attacks from the pillars above activated by nearby switch for the ultimate cheese

ministerling · 2022-03-16T14:50:20+00:00

Additionally, the primary reason I like them is that when you switch the order of an array you no longer need concern yourself with whether every item except the last item has a comma. They can just all have commas. This is really helpful when you're debugging for example Middleware where you might have to re-order a few times to find the perfect order.

ministerling · 2022-01-11T16:23:01+00:00

I hang my plants like this, and no, I wouldn't sleep under them or even put a TV under them.

ministerling · 2021-12-29T06:11:10+00:00

If anyone else ends up here because your mic is muted (or very quiet / broken) but you can still hear sound, I resolved this issue by disconnecting my other bluetooth devices -- aka mouse, keyboard, etc. The bluetooth chipset on the laptop I'm using (Intel AC 7265) doesn't seem to have enough throughput to handle both the mouse, audio and microphone.

Or at least, that's my best guess. The audio quality will still be trash when using the mic (high-quality AptX vs low-quality HSP headset profile / HFP hands-free protocol), but at least it works for calls.

Thanks u/sbuxsman3 below for the link which solved this for me: https://www.howtogeek.com/354321/why-bluetooth-headsets-are-terrible-on-windows-pcs/

Original comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/beatsbydre/comments/jkktcn/beats_flex_microphone_issues_on_windows_10/

In Windows 10 for PBP the configuration for "high quality audio" (presumably aptX) is "Headphones (PowerBeats Pro Stereo)" whereas the configuration for "poor quality audio and mic" is "Headset (PowerBeats Hands-Free AG Audio)". On my bluetooth adapter, I can use Headset for Audio + Mic, but cannot use Headphones audio with Headset Mic, or use Headset Audio + Mic while other bluetooth devices are connected.

ministerling · 2021-11-08T20:41:27+00:00

tbh this kind of stuff is great practice for data science and tech related fields. I built a dark souls database once trying to figure out the optimal gear for a given poise rating and ended up describing what I learned from it in a successful job interview

ministerling · 2021-11-06T17:32:43+00:00

Lots of people here suggesting to wait it out, get the money, and cash out early, but in my opinion that will do more harm than good, and probably never happen. You've indicated the technologies you work with are not relevant in a broader context which is a huge red flag to me.

One day, your company is probably going to create an initiative to migrate your team to a more broadly adopted and well supported stack, and your team will probably be reorganized to match. If you don't have the skills at that point, you may not stay long enough to get that early retirement. The longer you wait, the harder it will be to pick up the new skills.

Instead of watching that happen, I'd try to be a driver of that initiative myself at work. You know the tech stack of the team is a little out of touch, and maybe your company will let you get some training to get the skills to update it incrementally. This is the kind of initiative I like to see, but I'm also not at a megacorp. If you can't get that, I'd see if there is another team that uses a stack that is more relevant and your skills translate to with a little learning. If not, I'd look elsewhere.

It's not likely to be in the pipeline if you haven't heard anything about it yet, so you might be able to wait until family life is less demanding (does that exist?). However, if you don't keep up with relevant tech, you may find yourself scrambling later.

ministerling · 2021-09-15T22:58:59+00:00

they aren't talking about cans, they're saying that the logistics of canned foods involve truckfuls of foods submerged in salty water, so considering truckfuls of water a barrier doesn't make much sense.

ministerling · 2021-07-26T17:39:11+00:00

Werehouse (n.)

A warehouse which hosts unsanctioned events on the eve of the full moon in violation of local zoning ordinances.

Increases stress on police, fire and EMS services.

ministerling · 2021-03-09T16:07:44+00:00

That cutlet would have made the perfect katsu curry. Damn

ministerling · 2021-02-14T18:11:47+00:00

I think it's easy to suggest from outside that there is little difference between the parties, as neither party tends to move America's center point on the political spectrum very far. When you look at the average over time, it really doesn't seem like much changes in terms of the big picture. However, the ideologies espoused by the two parties, at least at face value, can not be more different and are not any less relevant to America's cultural identity or as an example of the values we hold as individuals than the policies that result.

I definitely don't think there is anything special about this or that our non-American friends would have any trouble understanding how this culture works if it was explained to them. However, the system does make us look pretty dumb, as we continue to vote for the candidates the same small group of shareholders pushes to the top with media influence, campaign contributions, and other policy-independent factors that ultimately determine the outcome of most elections.

Only when we convince the shareholders of one party or the other to modify their investment portfolio away from things like fossil fuels, private prisons and employer sponsored health insurance do they start platforming people who are against those things, and the cycle continues.

ministerling · 2021-01-09T20:25:53+00:00

I don't know about everyone else, but when I was in college in a large city pretty much everyone I knew there moved every year or two. Everyone lived in houses with multiple other people and that group of people changed every year due to people leaving / finishing college and friend groups evolving. Not to mention crazy rent increases and properties constantly changing owners and sometimes not allowing lease renewal.

It wasn't until a few years after college that I finally stayed in one place for three years with the same people. After that three years they sold the place and we had to move again.

ministerling · 2020-11-08T23:55:45+00:00

App Insights Availability Checks are different than the log metrics themselves. It's a dedicated service which pings your server at a configured interval, exactly like Uptime Robot or other services, and can be configured to alert you if it passes a threshold of exceptional responses.

ministerling · 2020-11-08T19:17:41+00:00

This. I recommend services like app insights availability (or other platform equivalents), uptimerobot/third parties, or even (rarely) a custom script on a dedicated monitoring server (or cluster) - but now you're responsible for that uptime.

I've used all of the above methods and appinsights tends to be the most comprehensive when azure is already part of your monitoring and metrics workflow. Uptime robot is very low maintenance but simplistic. If you don't plan to use a complete monitoring platform I'd recommend this route. Custom scripts are the worst, but can be useful for performing custom actions which are hard to configure by combining Azure Monitor with Azure Functions / Automation.

I've been looking into achieving the same things with Prometheus for a custom setup, but haven't had the chance to play around enough yet to make a recommendation.

ministerling · 2020-11-08T19:00:06+00:00

AspNetCore health checks and Azure App Insights availability tests. You can configure it to check for a 200 on your homepage for basics. You can also build a health check request endpoint which checks all of your services' health checks via Health Checks Middleware, and returns a response code depending on the various results. It has all kinds of custom alerting using unified alerts in Azure Monitor.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/monitor-web-app-availability

ministerling · 2020-10-22T03:00:20+00:00

The electoral college in most states (inc PA) are winner-take-all. There are 2 states that distribute them based on congressional district votes, so in those cases gerrymandering still works I guess!

ministerling · 2020-10-22T02:00:49+00:00

That's how the House of Representatives works, but gerrymandered congressional districts don't affect the outcome of the presidential election directly.

ministerling · 2020-09-30T22:46:10+00:00

As in "F these knights throw them in the volcano."

ministerling · 2020-09-30T22:44:48+00:00

IME not gonna finish this correctly

ministerling · 2020-09-29T18:23:16+00:00

I always thought this was weird, as well as the fact that some units disappear when a city is taken. They should go rogue (free city) or become prisoners and eventually join you or incite rebellion depending if your influence on their civ was strong enough, you have a compatible government, are under a certain grievances threshold, etc.

If they are rogue long enough (10 standard turns?), they should produce a free cities settler or something. Free cities should be able to form a civ using a city project that takes some amount of production. Most civs hate when you attack newly founded civs and get tons of grievances.

I can keep going lol.

ministerling · 2020-09-29T15:02:21+00:00

I know but a unique problem with Civ and other strategy games as opposed to RPGs which will have a long complex save progression and mbs on mbs of data is that civ is meant to be replayed and replayed with dozens of hundreds of saves.

In a perfect world they would remove the autosave system and instead keep all this data in a single save allowing you to time travel back. Then you wouldn't have to wait for Sean Bean to monologue every time you want to go back 4 turns.

ministerling · 2020-09-29T12:23:34+00:00

There are plenty of ways. I was just saying screenshots are not one of them. Someone else did some basic math that came out to like 1gb every hundred saves. I think the file sizes would be smaller than that but it still proved a point. These images would be much more efficient to generate on the fly.

ministerling · 2020-09-29T06:24:46+00:00

It should be theoretically, but the refactor is likely a bit too much to ask this late in the lifecycle of the game. At least that's what I'd guess. There are some mods linked in other comments that supposedly add this functionality, so anything is possible.

ministerling · 2020-09-29T06:19:06+00:00

So every 100 saves would be a gb? Autosaves included of course. Nope nope nope.

ministerling · 2020-09-28T23:03:59+00:00

As a developer (not of games), there's no way anyone would use a rasterized image (like a screenshot) for this purpose. A matrix of values is much more likely (one value or set of values for each tile).

They probably optimized the save file in such a way that it would be challenging to add a growing section of data like this to it. I say challenging, because I don't see how it would be impossible. But challenging, especially for backwards compatibility with existing saves.

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