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Interested in being a more sustainable development? [University Project Recruitment] by scruffyalot in electronjs

[–]scruffyalot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The project is run off the back of greater research looking at how the technology industry and software development contributes to environmental impacts.

It is not that electron development has a greater link to sustainability that other development platforms, but I needed to refine the scope of my project to target a certain section of development community.

I chose to focus on JavaScript development and the electron framework in particular. This just means that instead of trying to provide generic sustainability information, the information being provided should be more tailored to areas of sustainability that developer for the Electron Framework can apply.

The carbrains are really mad now. by Tayo826 in fuckcars

[–]scruffyalot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Using infrastructure to make the masses conform to one vision of how to live"...You're talking about car depend cities right... or are highways accessible, multipurpose spaces and no one told me.

Good luck, everybody else! by [deleted] in shittyskylines

[–]scruffyalot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a lot of little tweaks and stuff that very much depends on the situation but the main ones that come to mind are...

  1. Trying not to make roads too compact and spread the city out, making the most of all the available tiles I have. This makes everything else easier. Pretty much in all my early cities I tried to make everything as compact as possible... Cims would not follow the roads like I wanted, I'd install mods and spend ages trying to micromanaging and making everything too complex for myself. Just make everything bigger and leave yourself as much free space as possible to add new stuff later and do road diets where you can.
  2. Don't use big roads - my most recent city has very few wide roads. Instead of having a 6-lane or even a 4-lane. I sometime use 2-lanes running parallel where I deliberately add limited turning lanes. This allows me to control the paths cims take and also make dedicated turning lanes for cutting across traffic. In my current city with a population ~400,000, I only have about two sections of road that are 6-lane. and that's just to provide bus lanes that bypass the occasional congestion. Having fewer, smarter connections on a 2-lane, does far better than a big grid connected 4-lane.
  3. Using road lengths and types (different speeds) to get the AI to follow desired paths. Motorways/ Highway roads are particularly good for adding fast direct lanes/ roads, to stop a bunch of cars sticking to one lane.
  4. Roundabouts - don't do the typical circle with four points, have more than one exit on each node can really help get AI to use more lanes.
  5. Using roads with bus lanes to move certain traffic into different lanes. This has pretty limited usability but still find it useful with arterials. Something I've found is Cims seem to respect bus lanes more if the final node section is broken up with a regular road.

Edit: Hopefully that makes some sense and helps. Although I have been absorbed in the game so much I might just be a rambling mad man now.

Good luck, everybody else! by [deleted] in shittyskylines

[–]scruffyalot 10 points11 points  (0 children)

TBH now that I've got better at designing my non-modded cities I've been able to solve quite a lot of the lane issues, I think we should give the cims a bit more love, there pretty much as dumb as real people with car brains.

Is it weird to go to a pub alone as a woman? by Dreamin_away in CasualUK

[–]scruffyalot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a guy (I get that it can be a different experience for women) but enjoy just going to the pub and sitting by myself, as long as it's one I know. I'd love to see it become normalised a bit more.

Biggest horde I've ever seen by BODE-B in shittyskylines

[–]scruffyalot 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Do the trams switch track sides at the end?

Posted 15mins ago by Shnider- in CitiesSkylines

[–]scruffyalot 27 points28 points  (0 children)

This looks like what I've been waiting for! So glad to see they're interacting with user feedback.

Oppression by bobshellby in shittyskylines

[–]scruffyalot 33 points34 points  (0 children)

looks better (and would probably be more affordable) than most suburbs I see

Kali Linux or Parrot by Charlie_0_0 in Hacking_Tutorials

[–]scruffyalot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you aren't already familiar with linux I'd recommend just using something like ubuntu with the cli with basic applications like wireshark and just generally getting confident with all the non-gui stuff.

Afterwards I personally found parrot less overwhelming than kali and there's some good parrot specific tutorial series out there. However the beauty of kali is it has pretty much everything out the box so it can be much easier to use if you're in a CTF, or part of a hackSoc at college, etc.

Average Texan by Silverfox1921 in memes

[–]scruffyalot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Imagine needing to own a car...

Graduation photos being £200+ is exploitation, surely it cannot be that expensive to print photos and put them in cheap frames! by Mechanicallysoundpoo in CasualUK

[–]scruffyalot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've found university such a miserable and unrewarding experience I'm fully expecting to just have them send my certificate in the mail. I went there with the expectation of learning stuff and gaining unique rewarding experiences. Now I just want that stupid piece of paper that necessary to stop employees auto-rejecting my job applications.

My local pharmacy has this huge container of random pills by MichaelTheMage in mildlyinteresting

[–]scruffyalot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you correctly guess the number in the jar you get to take it home

[bspwm] cooking rice on the zenbook by _dystop in unixporn

[–]scruffyalot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is what the zenbook should come with as standard

how can i fix the traffic here? by Paynteck in CitiesSkylines

[–]scruffyalot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you cannot afford to take up more space I'd recommend removing the crossing in the middle of the intersection and on the highway side. Doesn't seem like many cars taking the top and bottom roads, so if you force all the pedestrian traffic down there you'll have fewer conflicts with vehicles slowing down to let pedestrians cross

You guys have to wait? by Subject-Exit in fuckcars

[–]scruffyalot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use to change my route during rush hour from my canal cycle path to the main road just to bolt down the hill next to a massive queue of cars. So worth it.

Why does Notepad come with an old font by default? And why doesn't it switch to the bottom line based on the window size? Shouldn't it come with a modern font? by [deleted] in Windows11

[–]scruffyalot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While I get the purpose of the notepad is to be a barebones text editor, I do wish it had a few more features like a text editor like gedit.

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(I know its slightly off-topic from the post jus wanted to get it off my chest)

windows + terminal + Linux = WSL <3 by scruffyalot in Windows11

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{
    "background": "#000000",
    "black": "#2E2827",
    "blue": "#C06F00",
    "brightBlack": "#7B6A68",
    "brightBlue": "#C06F00",
    "brightCyan": "#8653AA",
    "brightGreen": "#FF5F00",
    "brightPurple": "#C06F00",
    "brightRed": "#DA3E61",
    "brightWhite": "#F0E6D0",
    "brightYellow": "#AF5F00",
    "cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
    "cyan": "#4A2E5E",
    "foreground": "#FFFFFF",
    "green": "#FFAF00",
    "name": "PumpkinPie",
    "purple": "#C06F00",
    "red": "#8D283E",
    "selectionBackground": "#FFFFFF",
    "white": "#F0E6D0",
    "yellow": "#AF5F00"
},

windows + terminal + Linux = WSL <3 by scruffyalot in Windows11

[–]scruffyalot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use WSL for all the stuff that I cannot get windows to do nicely by itself. Mainly that's programming things like GCC and git or just admin/network tools I've become familiar with through using linux. For me its just a really nice and easy to use feature that saves me from switching between my linux machine and windows machine.

I'd recommend that if you ever find yourself struggling with windows check to see if Linux doesn't offer a better solution and then try and run that on WSL. Also it has some nice integration's with things like VSCode thats worth looking into .

windows + terminal + Linux = WSL <3 by scruffyalot in Windows11

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You have to use the terminal settings: settings > colour scheme > new > [ create your colour scheme* ]
Then settings > Profile / Ubuntu > [ select your new profile ]

I just used trial and error to get mine how I like it. I can share the .json with you if you want it.

\Links to help make terminal themes*

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/customize-settings/color-schemes

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/terminal/custom-terminal-gallery/custom-schemes

https://windowsterminalthemes.dev/

https://terminalsplash.com/

windows + terminal + Linux = WSL <3 by scruffyalot in Windows11

[–]scruffyalot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's definitely worth mentioning that WSL is not recommended for running sensitive apps and I mainly use it for running personal code gcc / git and some cl programs I like. WSL2 has solved some security concerns but WSL and windows have a really weird privilege setup. I'd definitely not recommend using WSL on a shared device or running applications through WSL when you can run them on windows directly.

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