[-] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 4 hours ago

But totally different from the original movie

[-] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 12 hours ago

At least he didn't have to listen to what a whale sounds like

[-] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago

Not nearly as much as in gaming. It does I music a lot but mostly small productions like a single person making a blue grass cover of a metal song, not here's 100 million budget and a full nationwide ad campaign.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 7 points 13 hours ago

I hate when they remake classic games as a totally different genre. Imagine if they did that in other media... "We are making a new breakfast club movie... It will be a space opera!"... "everyone loved hit me baby one more time by Britney Spears, we are remaking it as a mumble rap"... "the taming of the shrew by William Shakespeare was successful, what if we made as an animated TV show like Rick and morty?"

I'm all for remaking starcraft but keep it as an rts with updated graphics and modern features.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 3 points 13 hours ago

Hey it's not my fault chat gpt didn't generate background test systems... That would have been too many tokens

[-] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Reminds me of the old video from the BBC showing people picking spaghetti from the trees and talking about the size of the spaghetti harvest.

If you haven't seen it: https://youtu.be/tVo_wkxH9dU

[-] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 14 hours ago

There was no punchline

[-] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

I know there is a similar scene in there. I just want a game version with personal agency. If there is something else similar please let me know

[-] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 3 days ago

It's similar to an early chapter of snow crash by Neil Stephenson

[-] vrek@programming.dev 27 points 3 days ago

Most of those breakers are not even connected to anything and seem to be randomly placed in hot or off position.

[-] vrek@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago

A racing game where you deliver pizza. It's in a city with cars driving around doing their own thing. Issue is, you are a poor pizza delivery person and gas is expensive so you don't have a car. You have a skateboard and a electro-magnet harpoon gun. You shoot it at cars which pull you behind but have no control over where they go or how fast they go. They could stop randomly and you slam into the back. When they take a turn you could retract the cord and get closer for a tighter curve but less time to react to anything around the corner. You could extend the cord but risk slamming into the building on far side of the intersection or ending up going head first into oncoming traffic.

There are no "tracks". There is a starting point and a ending point in a city. How fast can you get there? Do you go most straight path there? Do you take the highway for safety but have to loop back to destination? What if the car dragging you takes a turn you didn't want? Do you just follow or release and try to coast till there's another car to pull you?

[-] vrek@programming.dev 23 points 3 days ago

The fact that the earth is round vs flat doesn't really matter in everyday life, that is true. But it shows a lack of critical thinking and a lack of desire for knowledge. That's the problem. We should encourage critical thinking and encourage understanding how the world works.

Reminds me of the final scene in that "beyond the curve" documentary on the flat earth series. Thus group designs their own experiment. They run their experiment. They get the exact result they stated would prove the world was curved. Their response? "something must be wrong with our equipment". Thinking like that is the issue. You can have a theory but when tested and proven false you should disregard that theory. If other people share knowledge which proves your theory wrong you should disregard that theory.

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Stuff like deliver a calzone to a Somalia warlord in active fighting area. An inner city gang leader really wants some authentic Raman before his enemies find his safe house. A South American revolutionary really has a craving for taco bell but is in a small base in the Amazon rain forest.

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Don't mean this sexually just curious about people's preferences. Are you the bath robe type? Underwear and a T shirt? Nothing? Fully dressed? Sweat suit?

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I believe I have a good understanding of what is stored on the stack(for example primitive data types) and what's stored on the heap(for example an instance of a class. But is there anyway to verify this for educational/verification of my expectations reasons?

It can be in a debugger(gdb or rad debugger or worst case vs) or directly code based(thinking something like gettype(variable) but like isstackstored(variable).

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Do not give out any personal information. This is like do you have a girl who cries at the smallest inconvenience? Do you have someone who is a parent and that alone is now their personality? Do you have a guy who you hide from Monday mornings so he doesn't tell you about the fish he caught on Sunday that was THIS BIG!

Keep it light hearted!

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We were talking about what to have for dinner and she wanted a wrap. I made a comment about not having any beets. She barely reacted... So I am lighting the dad-signal, give me some good recipes for wraps with beets! 😋

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Not talking about the people themselves just how awesome some names are. My favorites is Stephan Wolfram and Matt Goldbolt!

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Last night I dreamed I was having some sort of oral surgery but the surgery ward was also an unrelated production floor. They gave me anesthesia(six different chemicals all given orally) and told me to sit down and wait. As I sat down a nurse told me to "I got your soup for after surgery since you'll probably be hungry". I then had to move to let production continue and some kid in a red shirt ran over came over took my soup and ran away, I chased him but before I caught him he poured the whole thing out onto the parking lot. I finally caught him and asked why he stole it he said "so you can't have it". I went back inside and looked for the nurse to get more soup. I couldn't find her, I kept looking at the door, a bunch of people kept coming in but never the nurse. I woke up before I ever found the nurse to get more soup.

It was pretty weird, what's your weirdest dream?

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I bought a sandwich yesterday which was a hot sandwich (in this case it was a Cuban but could be cheese steak or meatball or chicken parm or whatever). I only ate half and put the other half in the fridge. What's the best way to reheat it?

Microwave seems to destroy the bread. Stove top seems to be uneven and burn the bottom before the top is warm.

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Nothing serious, this is for fun. My example was a friend told me you get computer viruses if you use disks that were dropped on the ground outside. His logic was he was told you get sick if you eat stuff off the ground. Sickness is caused by viruses. Computers can get viruses. Computers "eat" floppy disks. So if you put a dirty floppy into a computer you will make it sick by giving it a virus.

Yes it's mostly wrong but you can sorta see the logic...

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by vrek@programming.dev to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

What I mean is everyone wants both. And I'm not talking huge differences. I don't mean go from 30k per year to 120k per year or going home sweating everyday to watching Netflix most days. What brought the question up was I was in hospital and the computer the scanned all the medication and machines into was on my right side of bed and Iv pole where all medications were on my left. Nurses also had to deal with wired scanners which they had to hold up above the bed to walk around. Not a huge problem but cover 30 rooms with 4-16 different medications to swap out per day was probably a major pain(nurses can chime in disagreeing).

Another thing I've seen is people in a warehouse with systems logging all locations a product could be in and saying yeah we have some of that in one of these and they have to walk around to check several locations to find which still has some.

So you want a 2k-6k raise... If your job was easier how much would that make you stay instead of just demanding a raise?

Edit: this is not a real situation but say I have 4 employees under me and an extra 25k in budget. Would you prefer a raise or to improve your job?

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Unrelated to topic but I was in hospital recently and nurses came around to do vital,blood pressure oxygen temperature.i was having a high blood pressure. Often I lay with crossed legs but a nurse told me to uncross my legs and blood pressure went down. Why why cross legs increase blood pressure ?

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I don't mean like I fantisize of it. I literally dream of it in sleep. Like last night I dreamed about inspecting welds under a high magnifying microscope. Then a woman comes up and asks a unrelated question so I get up and go help her fix an electrical test system. I don't really know the solution so I just list off two people who probably know and helped with similar issues I had and then I woke up.

God damn it brain if I'm going to work for you then I should get paid by you...

Other day I was making a spreadsheet in excel. After a while I got up to go to coffee machine. A former Co worker comes up and tells me about his daughter going to school that morning. I just wanted some coffee but it didn't matter. I had to listen to this guy's daughter school drop off. Then I woke up in real life...

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