1·
17 days agoYeah… I’m an idiot
- 0 Posts
- 47 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
Cake day: July 1st, 2023
You are not logged in. If you use a Fediverse account that is able to follow users, you can follow this user.
Cool. Now do quantum bits so that they’re all simultaneously calculated. Wait… don’t
2·21 days agoIt may be easier to supply DC power directly to the soldering joints (at the right values after the converter) or even replacing that one component as using the jack itself.
A bunch of tiny lightbulbs that use twisted light and quantum mechanics to turn on or off.
And if you want to tank it without overtly tanking it.
“We will need to establish a review and governance board to establish standard data structures and reporting that can be used to drive the initiative.
It will need to be cross team and cross specialty so we should start by establishing a group to identify those people so we can proceed”
A year later and you’ll be lucky if they’ve even picked out who can be part of the review process let alone agree on some convention and adjusting their tooling and processes to make that work.
3·29 days agoI don’t write games but a lot of people that do often say something similar. Do play tests for the concept/mechanics.
This way you don’t spend time/energy and resources on art and assets that won’t be used, etc.
Similar to a minimal viable product in regular dev or, perhaps a better analogy, technical demos.
You want to write a site or app that fetches API data for GPS, calendar and Weather and show them together? You don’t start with the UI. You start with:
- Can I get the GPS coordinates
- Can I call another API and get the weather for those coordinates?
- Can I get the coordinates or other info for some future location?
- Can I send that to get the weather?
Once you know you can and that it “works” you build around it.
So like you said. I have boxes, and this other box (or static PNG of a cat) moves around them and when I move this way it drops the box down on another box.
Does that work? Does it feel “fun” to arrange them? No, it feels tedious or can’t get the collision right? Then let’s try a different angle or taking the part that did work and iterating on it.
This also leaves you open to random bugs that end up being “fun” when you lean into them.
Game Makers Toolkit has some good videos on his journey making “Mind over Magnet”. Here’s the playlist.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLc38fcMFcV_uH3OK4sTa4bf-UXGk2NW2n
There’s also PirateSoftware whose entire stream is devoted to “go and make games”
Windows when you can activate it without giving MS your info. Of course, like so many final bosses, it tends to come back harder the next phase.
Using iOS photo editing tools I take it?
That’s not an easy medium to work around, well done.
You sir, what’s your name?
“Hammer… Jackson Hammer.”
[Scribbles]
Ham…mer… that’s with two M’s?“Yes… why?”
Mr. Hammer, here’s your citation for destroying the bench. You can call this number here to inquire about court dates and fines.
Or praying the space ship flies true.
I remember there was an Easter egg but I can’t recall if it was related to no disc and then loading an audio cd or something else. You’d have a small space ship flying around and towards and away from the screen almost like a screensaver.
It’s been almost 30 years though so I’m a little hazy on the details.
It’s bugging me that I can’t find it online anywhere.
If I had to guess there would be, at the very least, some businesses that used their business continuity insurance.
Those companies, after paying those claims, will probably be expecting reimbursement or preparing to sue crowdstrike to recoup those costs.
They’re sure you will, or some will, but the number of customers they lose will be offset by the revenue gained.
Since that’s the only metric they really care about at the end of the day it makes “sense” to them to do it.
I see a lot of good answers here but let’s try it from another angle.
How do we get randomness from a function or formula?
For starters let’s setup a few simple rules.
Every time our random function is called we’ll
- Take the last output from a variable we call LAST_RESULT
- If there’s no value in LAST_RESULT we’ll assume the value is 1
- We run a set of calculations storing the value in a variable we call X
- We store the result of these calculations in LAST_RESULT
- We return this new “random” number.
So let’s call it.
> Random() Since LAST_RESULT is undefined SET LAST_RESULT to the value of 1 Set X to the result of this calculation (LAST_RESULT+1) * 3X is now 6
Set X to the result of this calculation (X + 7) / 2X is now 7
Set X to the result of this calculation (rounding to the nearest whole number) X/LAST_RESULTX is now 7
Set LAST_RESULT to the value of XLAST_RESULT is now 7
Return the value of X as the resultResult is 7
Ok. So let’s call it again
> Random() Set X to the result of this calculation (LAST_RESULT+1) * 3X is now 24
Set X to the result of this calculation (X + 7) / 2X is now 16
Set X to the result of this calculation (rounding to the nearest whole number) X/LAST_RESULTX is now 2
Set LAST_RESULT to the value of XLAST_RESULT is now 2
Return the value of X as the resultResult is 2
And if we call it again we get seemingly random results
Random() Result is 4
Random() Result is 3
But the next time you run it you’ll get the same results in the same order. 7, then 2 then 4 then 3
So what you need is something to “seed” the random number calculation.
Something like
SetRandomSeed Set LAST_RESULT to the current second of the day
Then when you call Random after this it starts with that as the prior results and gives seemingly random results.
Of course my calculations are rough and probably fail/repeat after so many calls but it gives you an idea of how this works.
So the trick is to get noise for the seed. That could be the number of non leap seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on Thursday, 1 January 1970 (Unix epoch)
Or the temperature reading of a CPU chip.
Maybe it’s the ratio of red vs yellow from a camera feed looking at lava lamps.
Or the current users average typing speed.
An additional note. Many of those would not be “cryptographically” secure for encryption because they can easily be determined by a third party. We all experience the same “Unix epoch” within a few milliseconds if our system clocks are properly set for example. Or monitored from afar and reproduced (hacked webcam shows they had just typed the following letters in the previous 27 seconds that we know the “algorithm” uses, etc.
A great channel for topics like this.
This video goes into the expansion of spacetime as well as cover how internally those forces don’t affect local spacetime because of the mass/spacetime curvature.
Space DOES NOT Expand Everywhere
Although I have to agree with the top comment regarding this being my favorite channel I don’t understand. But the more I watch it the more I start to get a sense of a lot of it and I actually am understanding some of it
And yeah, we don’t know what, if there’s anything, it’s expanding into.
7·2 months agoWhat’s that noise? I’m sure I heard something.
-Last recorded words of Rodney Jenkins before he was attacked by Howard the Duck
Crazy Tuesday… the day we eat at Crazy Joes Taco Palace.
Cat: this is a nice place and I like you. I want to make sure you’re eating.
Here, take this
What a mess… sounds like the devs got burned by various Unicode edge cases RTL, etc
I used to be an avid reader but as I got older and busier I just couldn’t find the time.
Then when I did have time there was always distractions, or other things I could be doing.
So now I read primarily via audiobooks through Libby and my library.
I read 130 books or so last year that way.
Mowing the yard? Audiobook.
Long drive? Audiobook.
Waiting at the doctors? Audiobook.
Dishes? Audiobook.
And then when I’m really invested I’ll relax by playing some mindless game while I listen. Think match 3 or bejeweled.
Just engaging enough to keep me from getting bored while listening but not so much that I can’t do both.
Balatro, BABA is you? Bad candidates for playing and listening.
The last couple of years I burned through the wheel of time series, all of Brandon Sanderson’s books (except skyward which I haven’t gotten to), a lot of Adrian Tchaikovsky, and others.