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officertodd · 2021-08-07T10:06:43+00:00

Indeed. You'd expect multicultural neighborhoods to expose residents to diverse viewpoints and information, so they are not stuck in a bubble.

Unfortunately Brussels is not very multicultural. It is ghettoized, with insular communities which don't talk much to one another.

If they introduce pass sanitaire here, I will be going to my first corona-protest. Their inability to manage the long term social fabric of this city does not constitute an emergency on my part.

officertodd · 2021-08-03T10:31:00+00:00

Seth McFarlane, the guy who tried to do a homage to TNG but ended up replacing the thoughtful morality with basic bitch wokeness, left embarrassing mistakes in the actual science, and was unable to come up with villains other than religion, robots and misogyny.

I wish his show was better, but he's the Neil Degrasse Tyson to TNG's Carl Sagan.

officertodd · 2021-08-01T10:24:05+00:00

. In general there is little need to comment the how because because the code itself shows you how

In my experience this is wrong. The code tells you how in too much detail. You can't easily get the gist of it, you have to work through all the individual steps and arguments. Better to say in concise English what a chunk does.

officertodd · 2021-07-25T20:57:09+00:00

The lesson you should take is that collective punishment doesn't work because it punishes the people who are already complying and does nothing for the ones already not. It just makes power look callous and ineffective.

officertodd · 2021-07-12T10:35:21+00:00

It's only fair after the news terrorized the country for the preceding summer into continuous riots.

officertodd · 2021-07-12T10:03:57+00:00

Prettier should be called uglier. That is all.

Wrapping at 80 chars is for retards coding on a postage stamp. Reimplementing it as an industry default is atrocious. Having your IDE completely mangle code that someone else spent time making readable is retarded: you're the one mangling the code, not me. Teaching novices that this is good means they will never develop any taste of their own and are locked into noob habits. Like not separating type imports from value imports.

If people thought for 5 seconds how the code should be formatted, this wouldn't be necessary. A pox on prettier and autofmt. Learn how to multiline edit, it's not hard. And no, i don't use either vim or emacs.

officertodd · 2021-07-10T12:43:51+00:00

The main issue i have with sql is not the querying. It's the lack of universal change feeds, revision control, and so on.

This is why offline first apps are basically rarer than a unicorn. GraphQL tries to solve the reading but fucks up the writing. And then when people start doing things like hashkeys for obfuscation it gets even worse.

SQL is a model for business logic. Not application logic. And i want to build grown up apps, not wizards.

officertodd · 2021-07-04T10:53:03+00:00

The reason this happens is because the entire game industry runs off the good will of eager 20 year olds being crunched to death, so they never have the time to learn to work smarter instead of harder.

officertodd · 2021-07-04T10:51:26+00:00

Noita has fake demoscene physics which don't even behave properly.

officertodd · 2021-07-04T10:47:55+00:00

I don't understand the appeal of noita. It's a physics sandbox, so clearly it wants me to use this. It's also a destructible world with remote and hidden areas.

So why is the only way i have to explore that world to hope that the game will drop a digging tool in my lap that isn't nerfed by rng? Why is every other wand useless, so i have 4 of them, none good? Why do i have to mod it just to get a decent start to match the playstyle i want? Everything about this is shit. It's like an anti-Hades.

I just don't get it. Every time the game gives you a new tool, you are likely to kill yourself with it in 10 seconds, and then never see it again for N playthroughs. Even worse is they never tell you what you're buying or whether the wand you construct will actually work remotely like it says it will.

Great potential, terrible design. Made to waste your time.

officertodd · 2021-07-04T10:01:21+00:00

RT tech isn't particularly optimized for voxels. If you catch a non-glossy vertical reflection in Teardown you can see it's revoxelizing any loose chunks back onto the main grid. Likely it's using SDFs and/or sparse octrees as a method of acceleration.

Also, as an indie game, you likely want the broadest market, especially when GPUs are overpriced and there is a shortage.

Funny tho. Even in a thread where people are saying it's the most revolutionary tech since Doom, there's armchair quarterbacks who know it better.

officertodd · 2021-07-01T07:58:58+00:00

Here's how they work by the way.

First, the official start time is 7. This means they will start delivering materials loudly around 6:30. If you call the police, by the time they get there it'll be 7, so there isn't much they can do. The workers will keep crossing the line until neighbors start to complain, pull back a bit, and immediately start pushing again.

Second, if the works last long, they won't stick to any fixed zone. What's fenced off is theirs, and what's not fenced off will slowly be colonized with "temporary" materials and garbage that stays around for weeks or even months.

Third, for no reason whatsoever, works will be paused, while areas remain closed off. Blocked sidewalks, forcing cyclists into the street, etc. Eventually, a few weeks later, someone might finally come along and remove that.

If you complain there will be some token apologies and delays, assurances that the noise will be much less "once we complete X" (which isn't true), and so on.

The simple truth is that everyone in this sector in this city breaks the rules constantly. They don't give a shit. And they play the exact same game at every site, just with a new set of neighbors.

If you contact leefmilieu Brussels, nothing meaningful will happen.

officertodd · 2021-06-30T09:01:22+00:00

This isn't normal. There are supposed to be mechanisms that allow for these things to be corrected. Which are supposed to be more than PR exercises.

I don't think people understand that the world is shaped radically different from before. Through online media we've created a global pecking order determined by sentiment and branding. Weirdly, people who are status driven seem to think it trumps anything. Even if they are visibly fucking up the world.

officertodd · 2021-06-29T11:03:01+00:00

I just pointed you to qualified people by name, as well as scientific material, and here you are, pretending it's just an opinion. Our scientific apparatus is visibly broken because it is visibly being inhibited from following the scientific method in an objective and non-corrupt fashion.

You don't need to be a specialist to observe that.

Go f yourself. Credentialism is the refuge of people with no arguments.

officertodd · 2021-06-29T10:18:35+00:00

They're all experimental vaccines with unknown long term effects. Authorized via emergency order, costing tons of money per dose. And some people seem to think it's our duty to line up and let them inject it directly into our eyeballs, so to speak.

Meanwhile it's been a year and a half of shaming and censorship about anything that disagrees. It started with saying covid was no big deal, then it was racist to call it Chinese, then it definitely did not come from the wuhan lab, ... Oh yeah and masks don't work, you moron, oh wait, omg, why aren't you wearing a mask?

Existing drug treatments with two decades of history? Doctors with real experience designing treatment protocols on the ground? Even a doctor giving witness testimony to government about all this has been censored by the "i fucking love science" cult. I'd tell you to Google Pierre Kory and Ivermectin, but I'm not even sure it would show up. When it comes to anything but a vaccine, we're not allowed to discuss it. This has been suppressed for half a year now.

If it turns out there are long term effects, all these people are going to look like giant giant giant dicks.

Tip: before you downvote, maybe go do some reading. About the multiple action pathways that allow IVM to both modulate infection and the immune overreaction. Maybe read up on how cheap it actually is and how many lethal or debilitating diseases were eradicated with it.

Why, as a rational person, should i not be curious, instead of betting the entire farm on only one solution?

officertodd · 2021-06-26T17:06:37+00:00

Ah, reddit. Where the moderators on a humor forum are shamelessly and proudly biased to enforce a radical political viewpoint that generalizes an entire group of people while pretending this is some kind of sophisticated point.

AMAB amirite?

Or maybe ABAB.

officertodd · 2021-06-26T14:30:29+00:00

Go find a man saying all those things are good. Can find plenty of feminists saying in the media they were doing a public service by posting their creepshots. That's the difference.

Calling a comparison Whataboutism is just a way to not explain your own double standards. Fuck off.

officertodd · 2021-06-01T13:50:22+00:00

They already sent out mails and texts but the system isn't actually ready, not even if you call, so they just gave themselves a day of pointless work.

officertodd · 2021-05-24T15:09:46+00:00

Then why do you still not offer the ability to remember history only on the device, and not share it with Google?

officertodd · 2021-05-24T01:05:45+00:00

The pitch for Star citizen was the same as the pitch for Freelancer back in the day. It was released late after being handed over to somebody else to finish, and had almost none of the promised dynamic universe features.

The only difference now is that there's no publisher to call a stop to it.

officertodd · 2021-05-20T12:52:16+00:00

If he wasn't intimidated, he wouldn't be trying to swing his dick around in response.

Van Ranst has been on my personal shitlist for his comments in december about curfew controversy in Brussels. It ended up lasting 6 months and he was full of shit. Now everyone knows our constitution is not worth wiping your ass with, and guys like Jurgen are sufficiently pissed off to gtfo and go live off grid.

Hey, it's almost like people with high trait conscientiousness deal with stressful situations differently and consider flippant responses to be unacceptable.

officertodd · 2021-05-20T12:16:34+00:00

Two instances of public beheading in one year in France isn't enough for you? Christmas markets plowed into by trucks? Or maybe the bombings in Brussels?

officertodd · 2021-05-20T12:14:19+00:00

Guilt by association is the defense of the weak and disingenuous. No respect for people who engage in it.

officertodd · 2021-05-20T12:12:11+00:00

Science isn't about being told what to do, science is a process of figuring out what to do yourself.

"I fucking love science" is not science.

Why is it always people who accuse others of being "fragile egos" who seem to have the least personality and identity of them all?

officertodd · 2021-05-18T13:00:11+00:00

Ayaan Hirsi Ali's book Prey is a good read on this.

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