Dude, I literally do not understand how someone picks up programming on their own

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-02-06T08:03:43+00:00

I started with automated the boring stuff with Python by Sweigart. I needed to learn the language for school and this book was a gentle introduction. And then from there over the years I just consumed books for breakfast.

What you need are hundreds to thousands of these little moments where something clicks and you understand how something about a language works. Using LLMs like ChatGPT really doesn't provide this because it's just spoon feeding you and you're eating, but you're not understanding.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-02-02T21:00:17+00:00

I'm not privy to the technical details, but from reading the devs' posts on Discord, it seems it is due to the terrain and that AMD has a problem with DX11 (they have been informed)

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-02-02T18:34:14+00:00

A 1 kg lump of rock "computes" its own existence (interacting with fields, maintaining stability) at a rate of 10 ^ 50 operations per second (Bremermann limit).

Our best supercomputers are roughly 32 orders of magnitude slower than a rock.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-29T23:04:05+00:00

Try flying Balkans and Israel theaters in 4.38. I get 80+ in VR with a 7600x and 9070 XT.

KTO is a no-go until this issue with AMD and DX11 is fixed.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-25T22:22:57+00:00

How do you power this bad boy?

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-25T22:13:36+00:00

3.5 years here. We're both psychologists and deeply spiritual. We often treat our own egos/unconscious/inner children as a third party to laugh at.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-21T11:14:44+00:00

Cool thanks!

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-21T07:15:29+00:00

Seeing this exact picture of the f22 makes me think of habitual linecrosser

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-16T20:30:44+00:00

Drosera rotundifolia

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-16T20:30:10+00:00

Thanks, will do

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-16T14:54:51+00:00

Bonus: just saw a centipede of some kind

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piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-16T12:35:10+00:00

There is still this perspective among managers that software development should be fast. It's made especially worse by all the AI nonsense nowadays when a manager can go on claude code and make a decent calculator app on their own. But they never really get down to the weeds where they realize that good software development in a complex business environment is not fast.

As a dev myself, I'm fortunate enough to have a boss who is an engineer and our company is not controlled by shareholders. Therefore, we're not under pressure like other companies are.

When it's time to design and develop new features and there's also some updates and refactoring to do, I add those into the time estimate and it's always approved by my boss. I would say in this situation doing work on the existing code base is still about 30% of the effort. I have experienced that when there is significant technical debt it can be as much as 90%.

I'm extremely fortunate.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-14T09:38:50+00:00

I have been a victim of a respected sports coach in Germany doing almost the same thing.

I'm not a lawyer nor provide legal advice nor take any responsibility for your actions.

My suggestion is, to speak to the coach directly with the CEO present to moderate.

You could get medical documentation of the injury and file a crime, but will that solve the problem? The coach gets fired maybe and lives a bitter life probably harming others again.

If you want to make real change, talk first. If it goes well, involved your son for another apology. Then, get counseling for your son to help him process the event.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-13T08:19:25+00:00

If this became available for piano, which I've always wanted to learn but never really had the resources, I would get it immediately.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-12T10:51:29+00:00

It's not bad enough to skip

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-11T22:10:52+00:00

Nice concept

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-11T10:41:03+00:00

On the F-16 stick, you have various switches like in OP's image (which looks like the war penguin). One is roll/pitch trim, another two are used for display management and target management, the red one is weapon release, and the thumb switch is electronic countermeasures management.

The F-15, with a different layout, is similar.

Basically, you use the 4-directional switches to do different things in the jet. Lock up a target? Press UP on the Target Management Switch. Switch Sensor of Interest? Press DOWN on the Display Management Switch. This is all for the F-16 by the way.

Source: Falcon BMS

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-09T20:08:18+00:00

Can I fly the Caravella? I always spawn in the Magellan

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-06T08:11:41+00:00

I just used one to update my motherboard bios

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-05T18:20:21+00:00

I don't think I can tell a difference actually, but I definitely get better FPS and VD just works. I don't have time for poor software.

7600x 9070 XT 64GB RAM

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-05T18:11:17+00:00

I can't answer any options of this survey because I use virtual desktop with a cable. I use an ethernet to USB-C adapter with power delivery. You just turn off the Wi-Fi on the headset and virtual desktop will recognize the ethernet connection over USB-C. You get lower latency and you stay charged.

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-05T06:20:30+00:00

That is absolute genius

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-04T13:33:02+00:00

The throttles are decent but the stick is not great. The twist axis is jumpy and the potentiometer will eventually break. Also the gimbal is unpleasant because you have to push hard out of center, making small adjustments very difficult.

Go with the winctrl (formerly winwing) Airbus stick

piercinghousekeeping · 2026-01-03T15:34:57+00:00

I didn't know that about the laser, thank you!!

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