joshthewaster

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[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Get a safety razor and a variety of blades. You might need to try a bunch of blades to find the ones you prefer but what works best for you will depend on the razor and you. You don't have to spend tons of money on the razor but you can. I use an old (1950s or something ) Gillette I found on ebay like 15-20 years ago. See nicer new ones but mine works so I just keep using it. Anyway, razor barely matters, blades depend more on you than anything.

Edit: Just looked on ebay. Lol, vintage ones are spendy now - I think I paid a couple bucks for mine. Did see a new stainless steel basic version for under 15 bucks. I'd start with something like that and a variety of blades.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you don't care enough about the topic to take a few seconds to proofread and format your questions why would I care to decipher them? 12 year olds learn that taking the time to write a first and second draft will improve the final product.

Definitely some acceptable variation between informal chats and emails being sent to whole teams so know your audience.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

You and I both. But we are not the norm. And advertising works (even on us when we do end up seeing them).

It's bizarre to me to be around my parents and others who just let ads play, and watch them, and engage about them. But people just get used to them and everyone thinks THEY aren't swayed by them. We are though - which is why I would completely support banning ads beyond basic signage for businesses and outside of dedicated locations where I can go when I actually need something.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Mint is the plan lol.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Yep. Why bother learning when it won't work tomorrow. I miss software that was bought and didn't change, says the old man to the cloud.

And I'm pro learning but for most things I'm not a pro user. So my flow is learn something, think wow this is great I can do so much. Set it aside for weeks/months. Come back to it, download a huge update and and spend the time I had to work on it waiting. Come back again later and find out I need something else or whatever. Eventually it works but now I the thing I wanted to do has changed. Pretty much gave up on pcs years ago. Am looking for one for the first time in years because I actually want to try linux again.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Sure. But if you knew how to construct your scentence to make translation that easy you probably wouldn't need a translator.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, no game has done to my heartrate what pubg did. Absolutely the most intense game I've ever played. Wish I could play that again for the first time.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Super Mario World - just a fun game. Lots of little secrets and fun to speed run.

Titanfall - I played an absurd amount of this one and really wished there was a 3rd one. 1-2 remind me of the pattern seen in trilogys where 1 sets the stage, 2 deviaties pretty far and polarizes fans and then 3 uses the best of both while trying to feel more like 1. (Mario 1-3, Halo 1-3). My favorites in this pattern tend to be 3 so I'm disappointed I never got Titanfall 3.

Pubg - when it was new. Lost me years ago now but that first 6 months to a year was awesome. So many crazy games and absurd fun.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I've heard cafeteria christian for this. It really seems to apply to most religious people. They do what they want and pick and chose what doctrine works for how they actually want to live, then rationalize why that is OK. Some of that 'logic' is wild...

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Completely agree.

The landlord is a piece of shit.

The system that drives people to act like pieces of shit is a bigger piece of shit.

And I definitely think the landlord can both be acting rationally and be a piece of shit. I also don't place all the blame on the landlord, and even though anyone with a 10k plus apartment for rent has WAY more money than me they and I are likely in basically the same boat when compared to the actual capitalist class.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is a joke ntended to illustrate the sometimes absurd oversimplification that has to be made to do certain calculations. An apple falls out of a tree from 20 feet off the ground, how long does it take to hit the ground. Well, what is the drag coefficient? Assume it's a sphere. OK, what about the texture, the air temp, wind, is the ground level and flat, etc etc. And as the problems increase in complexity the number of variables increases exponentially. So your professor might tell you to "Assume it is a spherical cow of uniform density“.

Often these estimates are actually quite good and trying to account for all variables isn't needed.

 

So I have struggled with classes and objects but think I'm starting to get it...? As part of a short online class I made a program that asked a few multiple choice questions and returns a score. To do this there are a few parts.

  1. Define some inputs as lists of strings ((q, a), (q2, a2),...). The lists contain the questions and answers. This will be used as input and allows an easy way to change questions, add them, whatever.

  2. Create a class that takes in the list and creates objects - the objects are a question and it's answer.

  3. Create a new list that uses that class to store the objects.

  4. Define a function that iterates over the list full of question/answer objects, and then asks the user the questions and tallies the score.

Number 2 is really what I am wondering about, is that generally what a class and object are? I would use an analogy of a factory being a class. It takes in raw materials (or pre-made parts) and builds them into standard objects. Is this a reasonable analogy of what a class is?

 

Just started as in, I'm about an hour into a 4 hour intro video. Seeing two basic ways of manipulating things and don't understand the difference.

If I want to know the length of a string and I just guess at how to do it I would try one of these two things,

  1. Len(string)
  2. string.len()

What is the difference between these types of statements? How do I think about this to know which one I should expect to work?

 

I think this episode is part one of the holonovel followed by the second part during the second half. The only break we take from seeing the holonovel be played is when they tell captain Janeway (where she implies that she has to be made to look good) about the first half and when Tom and Tuvok are in the mess hall being hassled by everyone who wants to help write the second half.

Tom and Tuvok write the ending off screen (there is dialog where they argue about a logical ending or a wild twist). The Twist is that part two picks up with the player of the novel meeting Tuvok in the hallway to go to the holodeck to help write the ending. When the player gets there they then get attacked by Seska and get to help rescue Voyager while novel character Janeway helps save the day by brilliantly editing the simulation (in a holonovel simulation).

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