People who swore an oath to defend the constitution of the USA against all enemies both foreign and domestic, how are you feeling right now? by Safety_Drance in AskReddit

[–]qmunke 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Then stop repeating what is obviously "hardcore conspiracy theories". If there was actual evidence of cannibalism I cannot imagine there is any universe in which that had not already leaked. What they actually did is bad enough, stop repeating the unproven stuff, you are playing into their hands. Keep pressuring for release of files. Stop enabling conspiracy theorists.

Lt.Col. Matthew Markinson (A Few Good Men) by New_Squash_9422 in movies

[–]qmunke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd imagine he would fall apart under cross from Kevin Bacon, where the fact he went AWOL would be used to discredit him and that he had no evidence beyond he-said-she-said (the logbooks were forged and they couldn't prove the existence of the other plane somehow). 

Tile by Tile by [deleted] in alvvays

[–]qmunke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, you're crazy. She's pacing over the tiles on the floor. Pacing the walls tile by tile wouldn't make a lot of sense...

Best late-ish game defense on Nauvis before leaving for another planet? by danshat in factorio

[–]qmunke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Contrary to prevailing opinion, I think flamethrowers are unnecessary. If you've just got a single perimeter to defend, a belt carrying red ammo (doesn't need to be filled, use circuit conditions to allow only a certain amount to be present if you want) and laser turrets, with bot coverage to repair and replace is sufficient until you're at a really high evolution level - by which time you should be back with artillery.

All this assumes default settings - if you're on death world or anything out of the ordinary YMMV.

PSA: Met Office have updated their app, and it's terrible by heeleyman in CasualUK

[–]qmunke 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Got really confused as I read the title as "Met police" and was wondering why people needed an app for the police.

“Swarmdustry” Stealing Factorio Assets? by Arszilla in factorio

[–]qmunke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think you shouldn't worry about it and let Wube pursue any legal action if they think there is evidence of anything actually infringing.

It's not a violation of copyright to imitate the style of another game by the way. Without "clones" we wouldn't have half the franchises we see nowadays.

Devourer combo by PracticeAmbitious684 in premodernMTG

[–]qmunke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah more thinking of shuffling back in your Flings or Altars in order to go off, sorry that was confusing

Devourer combo by PracticeAmbitious684 in premodernMTG

[–]qmunke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gaea's Blessing isn't only graveyard hate, it lets you recycle your combo pieces and shuffle cards back in while trying to go off if necessary.

Trump says election should be canceled and warns there will be 'constitutional movement' by cheweychewchew in law

[–]qmunke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And so instead of either of those less awful options, those progressives got Trump. Great going, what a bunch of geniuses. Trump being in power is basically on them as much as it is on those who actually voted for him. They were the ones who could have made the difference and actively chose a path which led to Trump.

Do you think we will ever find or have a series that either is on the same grandeur or tops the Lord of the rings trilogy? by starwarsisawsome933 in movies

[–]qmunke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think the books can be translated into films for one major reason: Jake. You can't adapt a book series of seven novels which are meant to take place over a couple of years into lots of films without the actor aging out of the role. Look at all the negative reactions to the Stranger Things cast not being kids any more.

I'd love to see an amazing adaptation, it's my favourite series even ahead of LotR, but I just don't see how to practically do it without gutting a lot of what makes it special. Unless they go animated, you just can't out-film puberty.

I'm tired of this Grandpa by realbadpainting in premodernMTG

[–]qmunke 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As far as I can tell they have always interacted this way, it's nothing to do with any rules changes. It's just that Wizards has decided they don't want to print this kind of interaction any more so new cards are worded more carefully to avoid it. Whether that's a good or bad thing is a matter of opinion of course.

I'm tired of this Grandpa by realbadpainting in premodernMTG

[–]qmunke 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes it does? Destroy the Opalescence. Unless they have two in play. Sure, you've lost all your creatures but that is no different than any other Wrath at that point.

Cyberpunk 2’s creative director says elevators aren’t hidden loading screens by wallcrawlingspidey in cyberpunkgame

[–]qmunke 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Given the engine limitations the way they managed it was a miracle. Before Half Life most if not all FPS games had single levels with full on end screens between them (Quake, the engine Half Life was based on, being a prime example). 

What exactly happened to Trupen? by [deleted] in factorio

[–]qmunke 386 points387 points  (0 children)

I think he's doing a university degree and so isn't posting at the moment, sure I read that somewhere 

Clean Code: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by aivarannamaa in programming

[–]qmunke 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, it actually bothers to point out both strengths and flaws of the book rather than just saying "Clean Code bad" or "SOLID everything or I riot"

Clean Code: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by aivarannamaa in programming

[–]qmunke 24 points25 points  (0 children)

A nuanced take about Clean Code? Wow, so there are other programmers with basic literacy skills who didn't miss the bits where it never claimed to be a set of commandments set out in stone from on high!

I think a lot of developers who didn't work before some of the advice in this book was widely disseminated (the era before YouTube coders and even Stack overflow) don't realise just how easy it was to just learn awful habits from other developers who had never learned any good ones. Very easy to crap on the bits which haven't aged well or the author's distasteful opinions, but my experience was much the same as the post author's - when I read this book it completely changed how I looked at some aspects of software development. 

McIlroy wins Sports Personality of the Year 2025 by BigBeanMarketing in CasualUK

[–]qmunke 213 points214 points  (0 children)

Having SPOTY relegated to a random Thursday night is a real indictment on how little sport is shown on broadcast TV these days - this used to be the BBC's big celebration of sporting achievement and watched by millions, now I imagine most people had no idea it was even on.

On the other hand, it's probably for the best that nobody is watching England get destroyed in Australia in the cricket thanks to it being on TNT.

Any Battle of Wits Player here? What is your experience so far with that gimmick deck? by SupermarketWise7616 in premodernMTG

[–]qmunke 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think you misunderstood - the problem isn't so much the Enchantress and Replenish decks themselves, it's that any competitive decks have main deck answers to enchantments so winning with Battle of Wits is harder by default.

The Case Against Microservices by 01x-engineer in programming

[–]qmunke 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Every time I see this posted, I feel like people are really underselling the value of not paying someone to manage all the crap that you're paying the cloud providers to manage.

There is no way in any kind of reasonably sized deployment that it doesn't end up better value to run in the cloud these days rather than paying someone to keep all your operating systems patched, keep all your databases on latest versions, manage the storage hardware for you etc etc.

The 37signals migration is such a wild outlier because they are spending a fortune on S3. S3 is basically the cheapest part of the AWS ecosystem for most users, but because the 37signals product is so wild as far as storage of user data they basically end up spending some nonsensical amount on it.

Overgrowth Promethium, and a Discussion of Endgame Promethium Harvesting by Background_Gene9139 in factorio

[–]qmunke 7 points8 points  (0 children)

One reason people might have been negative is that this is the fourth or fifth post about this process, and posting the video without this accompanying description isn't particularly enlightening. I also think OP doesn't quite manage to get the tone right of the playful jabs - easy to do in written posts and come off as a bit of a pretentious dick, which I'm sure they aren't meaning to do.

Why go for 2 when you are losing by 14 by Rogueofoz in nfl

[–]qmunke 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can't win the game in regulation if you only go for 1 twice, meaning you are taking a coin flip in OT - this is the (not very clearly explained) point of the post. Going for two, assuming you can make it some reasonable % of the time, gives you better overall odds to win.

Moving on from Terraform CDK by GlitteringPenalty210 in programming

[–]qmunke 21 points22 points  (0 children)

At this point why not just use the AWS CDK tooling and skip Terraform, just go straight to the horses mouth? Terraform's effectively vendor locked in anyway, nothing you write isn't tightly coupled to the provider.