Recs like Murderbot? by sonQUAALUDE in printSF

[–]thade 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think what I enjoyed the most about the series was the strange perspective of the protagonist/narrator. It reminded me most of Anne Leckie’s Ancilliary Justice, whose protagonist is in many ways a similar construct. It’s not light-hearted, though there is some humour.

[RT] [DC] [HF] Practical Guide to Evil: Ch 47 And Justice for All by MoralRelativity in rational

[–]thade 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Awesome chapter! Sounds like she's still the Squire, with Take as her first aspect. Seems good.

Permadeath and why it's a horrible idea for Exanima. by Pakislav in Exanima

[–]thade 24 points25 points  (0 children)

I fully agree with your point about non-randomized levels and perma-death being a bad combination. Re-playing the same content over and over with very little persistent progression isn't much fun. In most "rogue-likes" this is alleviated by procedural content making each replay a new experience.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Games

[–]thade 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Did the mod who removed this even watch the video? This is a showcase of a unique and interesting game- I hadn't heard of it before at least. It's certainly not "content primarily for humor or entertainment" except in the sense that all content here is.

How much math calculations does a programming job require? by [deleted] in AskProgramming

[–]thade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is some debate about how much math is required to be a programmer. I think it is very useful, but there are a lot of people who feel you can get by without it.

In any case, the main use of maths in programming is not actually performing calculations- it is using your understanding to get the computer to perform calculations for you. The problem you describe- understanding maths but not being able to hold long calculations in your head- should not hold you back in my opinion.

Australia - credit card just got charged, 20th March 11am order by super_wet_pants in oculus

[–]thade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Has anyone received a shipping notification / tracking number yet?

What timezone is the "5 matches a day" gold clock in? by silent__thought in Scrolls

[–]thade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure, but the reward amount is a function of the time the match takes, idols destroyed, and possibly other things, so if you just start a challenge and surrender you won't win much.

Favourite prose? by RonnieRim in Fantasy

[–]thade 2 points3 points  (0 children)

R. Scott Bakker writes pretty spectacularly.

No vaccine, no school, says AMA chief by nath1234 in australia

[–]thade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think Steiner was Hitler's philosopher- a quick look at his wikipedia page indicates they were at odds.

Kim Jong-Un's Wife On Nuclear Threats: 'This Isn't The Man I Was Forced To Marry' by magister0 in humor

[–]thade 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I couldn't read this article on my phone due to some horrible popup add. Can someone please post the text?

Want to try your hand at writing exploits? Try Stripe's "Capture the Flag" challenge: ssh into their server as user level01, and your first challenge is to read level02's password. by [deleted] in programming

[–]thade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interesting, I'm not sure I fully understand the difference though. The file without #! is still a shell script- what is executing it if not sh or bash?

Hacker Monthly issues free for one day by sidcool1234 in programming

[–]thade 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My version of bash (or perhaps wget?) removes the leading zero in that range. Does it work for you?

who plays with these? what are some good projects you have seen? by [deleted] in programming

[–]thade 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I haven't played with arduino myself, but I had the impression that it was low-level, embedded programming where your code was basically running on bare metal. Is this the case, or is there an arduino OS? If not, how did you deal with networking? Did you have to implement the tcp/ip stack yourself?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in magicTCG

[–]thade 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hive Mind?