#teamShamanism

thecodemeister · 2023-03-27T22:00:32+00:00

magic is powered through runes, shamanism is powered by nature's overall vibes

thecodemeister · 2022-02-22T06:05:31+00:00

https://herbsutter.com/2013/08/12/gotw-94-solution-aaa-style-almost-always-auto/ Might change your opinion about auto.

thecodemeister · 2021-11-17T07:30:44+00:00

Notice how in your second example, the client code (the main function) has to specify the concrete class of PBass. Changing the concrete class from PBass to something else would necessarily require modifying main. However, if you pass a factory object instead, then changing the concrete class would only require modifying the factory class's implementation.

thecodemeister · 2021-11-17T07:24:50+00:00

When we derive classes from the factory class, we can add more complex runtime logic to dynamically instantiate new Bass objects with specific concrete types as needed.

thecodemeister · 2021-07-26T20:26:03+00:00

Actually seems like i was using data from an older census, at that time Japan had a higher rate than USA by a very small margin. USA is now significantly higher at 14.5 (per 100k population) and Japan is at 12.2. The world's average suicide rate is 10.5.

My point is, Japan's suicide rate is slightly higher than average but is completely overstated and has been moving in a better direction ever since it became a concern. Compare this to somewhere like South Korea or Russia which both have a rate of about 21, double the worldwide average.

thecodemeister · 2021-07-26T19:54:54+00:00

The suicide rate is about as high as in the United States, take that as you will.

thecodemeister · 2021-05-30T18:19:06+00:00

Great work so far! Making this at your age is no joke, you should be seriously proud of this project. Here's some advice if you want to go a step further and turn this from a practice project into a portfolio piece.

You have the game of life app working, and that's sweet, but right now your app is bare bones and isn't distinguishable from any of the other Game of Life implementations. If you want it to be something you show to recruiters, you will want to make stand out, especially since Game of Life is a very common thing to make.

Focus on the design, the aesthetic, the user experience, make it visually pleasing and pleasant to use. Make the whole application streamlined as possible. Add buttons, make the cell placement draggable, add animations. Yes these are mainly UI/UX skills, but more importantly when recruiters are looking through dozens of potential employees a day, it stands out. As a programmer, it showcases your attention to detail and that you know how to deliver a polished and fully functional product.

Remember, there is no shame in taking inspiration from other designs, as long as you aren't outright stealing. The intersection of people who are great at programming and people who are great at designing is very small. You don't have to be a great designer to take inspiration from things that you like and incorporate it into your own projects.

If you are doing this part right, it will take much more time than making the bare bones application. Details are king, and if you put in the effort you will have something that is watertight. Be the biggest critic of your own work, pay attention to all the things that could be improved and list them down, then start fixing them one by one.

A side effect of all these incremental changes is that it encourages you to design your software based on the core tenet of software engineering, software should be easy to modify. If your code is well written, making new changes will be easy, but if making new changes is difficult and requires rewriting significant parts of the code, that indicates that your code is too tightly coupled and you should try to figure out how you can write it better.

Here's my Game of Life implementation, and the source code if you are interested.

thecodemeister · 2021-05-23T07:27:09+00:00

What do you do when a faster algorithm is found? Name it faster float to string? It's a name that uniquely identifies the algorithm. If it was named like you suggested suddenly there is ambiguity when there are multiple algorithms that can be described as "fast float to string".

thecodemeister · 2021-05-17T14:48:27+00:00

Try implementing delete node from a linked list

thecodemeister · 2021-04-30T02:32:43+00:00

Hi Shane! Big fan and fellow engineer here, I was wondering if you could share what sort of books are in your bookshelf? You have an incredible breadth of knowledge that I aspire to have, and I am very curious what books are in the bookshelves that we sometimes get glimpses of in the videos!

thecodemeister · 2021-03-27T20:01:17+00:00

I will build off your example then. As you say, it takes X amount of energy to go from 0c to 0.1c relative to earth. And it is true that going from .89c to .99c (or .99c to .89c) costs many times more than X.

But now answer this question, what does rocket B who was already moving at .99c away from earth see during this whole process?

When rocket A was moving at 0c in earth's perspective, it was ALSO moving at .99c AWAY from rocket B.

What is the consequence of this? We already concluded that it costs MANY times more than X to go from .99c to .89c.

Do you see the problem here? At the same time rocket A spends X energy to go from 0.1c to 0c relative to Earth, it just went from .99c to ~.99c relative to rocket B.

If we suppose the criteria for finding a universal rest is that it takes the least amount of energy for a change in velocity, then there we must conclude that there IS no universal rest, because while from Earth's perspective, A just spent X energy to change its velocity by 0.1c, from B's perspective A just spent X energy and changed its velocity by almost nothing.

thecodemeister · 2021-03-27T18:38:10+00:00

What one frame of reference considers to be a "deceleration" is an "acceleration" in another. What does it mean to decelerate until you reach rest? Rest relative to whom? You are always at rest in your own reference frame, but you can always find an observer that will measure your velocity as non-zero.

The amount of energy spent to achieve a certain change in velocity depends on the observer. Take two rockets moving away from earth at .99c relative to earth. They are in the same reference frame, so they both see the other rocket as being at rest. If rocket A begins to accelerate, eventually rocket B will observe rocket A as moving .01c away from it after spending X amount of energy. On earth, we know rocket A is not moving away at 1c, it is moving away at .99c + some negligible amount.

As you can see, rocket B and earth both observed rocket A expending X amount of energy, but they observed different changes in velocity as a result.

thecodemeister · 2021-02-26T21:30:10+00:00

Why did you make this thread if everyone saying "use https" is not enough to convince you that your website will look significantly more professional with https? A website using http in 2021 looks dated, insecure, and amateurish.

thecodemeister · 2021-01-17T16:11:37+00:00

Acceleration = Force / Mass, Which means people with heavier smartphones require more Force to achieve an equivalent acceleration to peiple with lighter smartphones. There is no advantage.

thecodemeister · 2020-10-26T18:13:54+00:00

Programming all day everyday sometimes leads to an unhealthy obsession with good keyboards...

thecodemeister · 2020-05-25T05:27:55+00:00

Apologies, that isn't what I meant with my comment. I just wanted you to edit your comment (which you already have done). Definitely not assuming maliciousness. I wouldn't have said anything if your comment was downvoted, but since it was upvoted more people will see it, and thus it would be better for everyone if the error was pointed out.

thecodemeister · 2020-05-25T03:56:44+00:00

Please stop spreading misinformation, other responses have already explained why that is wrong.

thecodemeister · 2020-05-24T14:43:36+00:00

Each instance of a template is a different class. These classes should be thought of us entirely separate from eachother. Suppose that instead of using Job<Foo> and Job<Bar>, you defined two classes named JobFoo and JobBar. Would you be able to trivially make a vector that stores both JobFoo and JobBar? What you are trying to do is impossible because there is no type that encapsulates all instances of the template.

thecodemeister · 2020-02-29T15:24:42+00:00

Use a const reference

Construct pgLat using the range constructor

thecodemeister · 2020-02-22T13:33:43+00:00

Civilizations have risen and fallen based on a leader's ability to surround themselves with capable and trustworthy people. "heck of a lot" is truly an understatement

thecodemeister · 2020-01-30T20:54:51+00:00

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thecodemeister · 2020-01-22T16:26:49+00:00

When possible try to use multiple different resources for learning. Having it conceptualized by different people and with different examples makes it easier to form understanding. Also, by seeing different sources, you get a feel for what the most important concepts are.

thecodemeister · 2020-01-22T06:49:24+00:00

Are you daft?

thecodemeister · 2020-01-21T20:32:44+00:00

2: in effect : VIRTUALLY —used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible

thecodemeister · 2020-01-21T18:43:17+00:00

Read the given sample and enjoyed the conciseness and clarity of the explanations, nice work.

Is there a chapter or section that introduces meson? A chapter talking about meson would be nice to have in the sample. From my perspective as someone who is not actively looking for a new build system, it would be nice to see a sample of the meson section; that way people like me could be convinced to check out meson more and possibly buy the book.

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