I mean, unless they are ferrying weapons across the great salt lake, I don't think it applies to me XD
But if Californians wanna disrupt all trade on the west coast I wish them all the luck.
That is very reasonable take. I mean I don't have kids so a rifle in a gun safe probably is harmless. If it never gets used, it'll just be a funny story of that time Ericbomb got paranoid and bought a gun because of encouragement from some weirdos off fake Reddit.
Owning a gun scares me since it's been decided that if a cop sees you touch a gun they can kill you and it'll almost certainly be ruled fine. Maybe I'll get something for home that stays here and just keep taking my pepper spray around.
2A so important right?
But, good points.... I ahh, may or may not already be housing some friends that were kicked out of their houses for life style differences. Such as you know, not being Mormon.
But wonderful points!
You know what? That does help, thank you. This feeling you get when something goes terribly wrong that says "do something" can be good, but also very stressful because WTF are we supposed to do about an election like this?
I mean I hope they investigate, considering you know, the whole attempting to over throw the government thing. For all we know there already is evidence and they just are collecting. But yeah, not holding my breath for that one. I always knew we were bad at punishing criminal billionaires, but I would have never guessed "Rich man attempts to over throw government, is found guilty of various crimes and rape. Is handed government for his trouble."
But sounds like we do have to wait and watch for at least the moment. I do hope maybe a few republican senators will want to slow things down, or at least want to pretend to be the sane ones.
"Surely the company that sells a product for $100 will keep selling the product for that price once tariffs mean that it costs a $125 to produce and import!" - crazy people.
Wanna bet that the search trend spikes again when/if they come into affect?
Some folks were a little late to figuring out what tariffs were okay!
Now is the time to see who might run for house/senate seats and encourage those you like, insult those you don't, and volunteer. See if we can replace some of the spineless DNC members.
You're not wrong! Alas I am an admin, not the host. Also we wanted it to be very obvious that it's a game jam about blind accessibility. Could he have picked a different name? Probably, but at this point we're kinda committed!
"Oh, jokes just normally have a punchline and aren't just stating something really backwards"
If you end up working in the medical/insurance field in the USA, you don't even need basic math! The numbers the programs output are just all made up!
I had the audacity the other day to ask in what order we apply deductibles. (YOU want a deductible applied to something covered at 10%, not 100%. The insurance wants it applied to something covered at a100%) I was told it just picks some at random and hopes for the best, so we use the word "best effort" when it comes to estimating what insurance will pay, since they'll make that up anyway.
So yeah, just another throwing in that it super matters where you work. At my job we plug in what is industry standard for medical accounting, and say it's just an estimate on everything else.
Help me spread the word for our 4th annual blind accessible game jam!
The fourth iteration of a game jam all about accessibility is now open for registration, a month long jam about creating blind accessible games that starts in February! The page was just created today, so if you want to join a team they are just starting to form so you have plenty of time!
Sign up here!
https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-4
Over the last 3 iterations we as a community have created over 70 blind accessible video games, and we would love if you all signed up and helped make this the most successful jam yet!
https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3/entries https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-2/entries https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers/entries
Never considered making a blind accessible game? Join the discord linked in the jam pages, where not only do we have accessibility veterans, but blind community members who are happy to help people putting in the effort to make more accessible games.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you sign up to Help make gaming accessible for all!
I'm an admin on the discord and help out, so feel free to ask any questions!
4th annual Game Jam about making blind accessible games has been announced for Feb! Join or help spread the word to help make gaming more accessible!
The fourth iteration of a game jam all about accessibility is now open for registration, a month long jam about creating blind accessible games that starts in February! The page was just created today, so if you want to join a team they are just starting to form so you have plenty of time!
Sign up here!
https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-4
Over the last 3 iterations we as a community have created over 70 blind accessible video games, and we would love if you all signed up and helped make this the most successful jam yet!
https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3/entries https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-2/entries https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers/entries
Never considered making a blind accessible game? Join the discord linked in the jam pages, where not only do we have accessibility veterans, but blind community members who are happy to help people putting in the effort to make more accessible games.
Thanks for reading, and I hope you sign up to Help make gaming accessible for all!
Sign ups for the Games for Blind Gamers 4 Game Jam is open! Help make this the best accessibility game jam ever!
The fourth iteration of a game jam all about accessibility is now open for registration, a month long jam about creating blind accessible games that starts in February!
Sign up here!
https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-4
Over the last 3 iterations we as a community have created over 70 blind accessible video games, and we would love if you all signed up and helped make this the most successful jam yet!
https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-3/entries https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers-2/entries https://itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-gamers/entries
Also I will say programming accessibility for a game is an interesting challenge for anyone thinking about it. I had to learn a lot about API and screen readers to make my games usable for my entries!
Not the part about giving away your riches or loving your neighbor though.
He had no comments on "which" teachings though, I'm sure.
Ahh man all I got was a disabled mom and prison dad.
Think I can trade him for a rich dad to a rich person who wants to claim they had a rough child hood?
I remember 14 years ago in high school I was kicking around the idea of becoming a court reporter (type out everything said in court) , but was told "nooo look at Siri, that'll totally replace all that soon!"
No, no it's not. We don't want things like that making choices like that.
Also was told "C and C++ is too old, learn something newer"
People get too excited about new tech, not thinking about why the old tech stands the test of time.
Perfection can never be the enemy of progress! Cleaning out nazis will always be progress, if not "always" perfection.
What will be this generation's "If you want a good job just go to college!" career advice?
When I was in school, I was always told "If you get a college degree you'll on average make 500k more over the life time of your career regardless of what you get your degree in!"
Then as I finishing school, it was all about "If you get into tech you'll make big bucks and always have jobs!"
Both of those have turned out not great for a lot of people.
Then whenever women say they're struggling with money online, they get pointed to OF... which pays nothing to 99% of creators. Also very presumptive to suggest that, but we don't even need to get into that.
So is there a field/career strategy that you feel like is currently being over pushed?
(My examples are USA, Nevada/Utah is where I grew up, if maybe it's different in other parts of USA even.)
Ooh and how many women apparently wear the HIGHEST quality water proof make up at all times!
Realistic hacking scenes would be funny.
"Okay I'm in"
"Wait... how?"
"Oh I figured out the default passwords and naming conventions for new employees awhile ago."
Funnily enough I got my college to change password policies because for a report for one of my classes I wrote about how stupid it was that all new users passwords were First intial + last initial + last four of social security number, with usernames being firstname + lastname + year. Since they had no max number of attempts on logins, and didn't prompt you to change password on logging in, it took a few minutes to get into anyone's account once you knew their name. (That school was very incompetent, and they are closed now)
OR
"Give me 20 minutes, I'm on hold with IT. They'll reset the password and tell me it if I give them an employee ID, dob, and name. Which I see clearly on this guys facebook picture where he has his badge visibile."
Or a hacking guy trying to brute force for days. Then the "no nonsense" guy goes out for 20 minutes, and comes back with it and refused to answer questions. Oh wait... that's just XKCD.
Hehe that scene was the one that made me think of this post.
NCIS should just dive into self parody at this point.
Drop your most "wtf that's not how the world works" from movies/tv shows.
I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?
Does limiting things you actually enjoy help?
So my entire life has been extreme boredom, followed by finding a book/videogame/hobby I find interesting, doing nothing but that for awhile, then never touching it again.
I'm debating maybe trying to make a rule of not doing something two days in a row. Like I just found a video game I liked and played it all day yesterday and today, and while I still wanna play I already feel its shininess wearing off.
Curious if anyone else has tried to space out their dopamine buttons and if it helped. So maybe like instead of just playing the same game tomorrow, I'll need to try other games, or maybe try to find a new book series to hyper focus on...
What is symbol resolution (home work help)
So I'm a database engineer taking some computer science courses and got an assignment to write about symbol resolution. The only reference to it I could find was this https://binarydodo.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/symbol-resolution-during-link-editing/ then a stack over flow of someone asking a similar question to this. I took that to mean "Linking names of any variable, object, etc. in a program to the object in memory" and rolled with that. Hoping someone can clarify if my understanding is correct! Would ask teacher, but weekend and wanting to get this done today.
Here is what I wrote so far.
Symbol resolution is the task of taking something that was referenced by name in a program, and connecting it to the specific item in memory. In a program you can call functions in the program, functions in other programs, objects already created, variables, or even variables created by other objects. All those items are going to exist in memory, on the hard drive, or might be moved to the registrar of the CPU. Symbol resolution is the converting of the names of the items in the program to pointers the computer can use to modify it whenever that name is referenced. When you update a variable, it will need to know where in RAM it is stored, and converting the name of the variable to that address everywhere it is referenced is the process of finding it. Effectively binding an address in memory to that reference.
By doing this, software can work with the exact same variables multiple times, as it it looking in the same place. If a variable is updated, it will know as it’s looking in the proper place in RAM. When working with Object Oriented Programming, it is what defines the differently named objects of the same class as separate parts of memory. Object A of Class Object1 will be bound to a different bit of memory than Object B of Class Object2.
When it goes through resolving symbols, it has to do it in the same order every time, otherwise the programs would run inconsistently. In python for example, it follows the LEGB rule (Scope Resolution in Python | LEGB Rule, 2018). So when trying to find if a variable is the same as another variable, it goes in order of Local, Enclosed, Global, Built In. So it tries to match the reference to anything local, anything in the function, anything global, then tries to match any reference to built in keywords or functions.
As an example: ```
Global variable
greeting = "Hello"
Function that uses global variable
def say_hello(name): return greeting + ' ' + name
Another function that has its own local variable with the same name
def say_hello2(name): # Local variable 'greeting' shadows the global variable greeting = "Good day" # Here, 'greeting' resolves to the local variable instead of the global one return greeting + ' ' + name
Main block
if name == "main": print(say_hello("Alice")) # Resolves 'greeting' as global print(say_hello2("Bob")) # Resolves 'greeting' as local within greet_formally ```
We can see we have two variables both called “greeting”, but they hold different values. In this case using symbol resolution it is able to resolve the “greeting” inside of say_hello2 as having the value “Good Day”. Then it resolves “Greeting” inside of “say_hello” as “Hello”, because when looking for where to link it followed the LEGB rule. In say_hello2, we had a local “greeting”, so it connected to that one and stopped looking for a connection, never making it to the Global “greeting”. If we had an external file we connected with “import” it would then check inside the imported file to try to resolve the names of any variables, functions, or objects. By doing it in this order it will always get the same result and have consistent outcomes, which is essential for programs.
Scope Resolution in Python | LEGB Rule. (2018, November 27). GeeksforGeeks. https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/scope-resolution-in-python-legb-rule/
I know it's a longer post, but thank you for your time!
What is favorite character that insists they are evil, but clearly aren't?
My favorite is Bog king from Strange Magic - Has a song talking about how evil he is. But all he does is prevent the spread of dangerous mind control magic, and quarantine people under the effects of said magic. Yes he greatly annoys people doing so, but honestly? If I get hit by a love potion, please quarantine me.
YSK about Darkpatterns.games, a website that rates mobile games on their "Dark patterns"
Game reviews to help you find good games that don't trick you into addictive gaming patterns.
Definition: A gaming dark pattern is something that is deliberately added to a game to cause an unwanted negative experience for the player with a positive outcome for the game developer.
Learned about it from another lemmy user! it's a newer website, so not every game has a rating, but it's already super helpful and I intend to add ratings as I can!
While as an adult I think it'll probably be helpful to find games that are just games and not trying to bait whales, I feel like it's even more helpful for parents.
Making sure the game your kids want to play is free of traps like accidental purchases and starting chain emails with invites I think makes it worth its weight in gold.
EDIT: Some folks seem to be concerned with some specific items that it looks for, but I've been thinking of it like this:
1 mechanic is a thread, multiple together form a pattern. It's why they'll still have a high score even if they have a handful of the items listed.
Like random loot from a boss can be real fun! But when it's combined with time gates, pay to skip, grinding, and loot boxes.... we all know exactly what it is trying to accomplish. They don't want you to actually redo the dungeon 100 times. They want you to buy 100 loot boxes.
Guilds where you screw over your friends if you don't play for a couple days because your guild can't compete and earn the rewards they want if even a single player isn't playing every single day? Yeah, we know what it's about. But guilds where it's all very chill and optional? Completely fine.
Games that throw in secret bots without telling you to make you think you're good at the game combined with a leader board and infinite treadmill, so you sit there playing the game not wanting to give up your "top spot"? I see you stupid IO games.
But also, information is power to the consumer.
Best mobile games with 0 microtransactions?
I do like having games on my phone, but it's always a struggle looking for games with 0 microtransactions. So would like a game I can out right pay for, or one with ads. The ability to disable ads for $5 is chill though.
I've played a lot of games that you can "have fun being f2p" but some days I just get really sick and tired of games I play trying to sell me things every 30 seconds.
So do you guys have any?
If not I may go back to playing GBA games on my phone XD
EDIT: Oh selling like expansions is probably fine if it's legit like a full other game. I'm on android
How much should I expect to pay to have 40 feet of fence installed?
New home owner who has never had to hire a contractor before. Want to have chain link fence replaced and want to have put in white vinyl fence to match connected town home.
It is just a 40 foot length I need replaced and will need to have one gate. As I get quotes, what kind of price should I expect to pay? What's considered fair and what's considered a rip off?
EDIT: Thanks for all the feedback! I think I'm not in the right tax bracket to hire people to do this, so probably going to try to do it myself.
My new counselor told me to go to my doctor and ask about starting the tests to see if I have ADHD
So I went to my doctor and was like "yeah my counselor said I should ask about the process to get tested for ADHD because of XYZ"...
He then had to gently explain that a year ago he had referred me to a local pysch for testing because I already took the ADHD assessment.
Anyway, long story short, after doing testing (which I showed up for on the wrong day the first time) I got an official ADHD diagnosis.
Graph of food based on cost per 100 calories and calorie density!
Stolen from Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1ftmkwt/oc_foods_cost_vs_caloric_density/
But I loved it. Also this has Shrimp removed, because it was on the OG chart due to an error and this is an updated version.
EDIT: Here is one for protein! https://www.reddit.com/r/budgetfood/comments/1fp2ytb/foods_cost_per_gram_of_protein_vs_protein_density/#lightbox
I'm the trainer, and just realized I might be a monster.
After months of reminders in team meetings on how to do this properly, supervisors have sicced me on the department.
I have been informed that if the issues continue, supervisors will start pulling people in for chats on why they can't follow directions that were laid out.
Pray I am the only monster you meet, for I am the kindest.
2$ meal off amazon - Madras lentils
Ordered some off amazon and wanted to share cause I was impressed
https://www.amazon.com/Tasty-Bite-Indian-Lentils-Microwaveable/dp/B0007R9L4M?ref_=ast_sto_dp&th=1&psc=1
I do one cup of dried rice worth of rice mixed in with one package, which is either two meals or dinner for two. Wanted to share cause I was impressed for the quality/price. They have a bunch of other flavors slightly more expensive as well.
YSK: About The Sad bastard Cookbook, when time, energy, money, or skill is preventing someone from cooking their own meals!
by Rachel A. Rosen and Zilla Novikov || Food you can make so you don't die.
Eating the proper amount is hard. Eating when you have low time, money, mental energy, or education on cooking is even harder.
This book assumes nothing. Do you know how to turn on your stove? You are properly prepared to use this cookbook.
Just want to share it with more folks!
Build guides made by current top 10 players!
Find the best pro build orders for your god! Become an age of mythology expert with our expert guides.
Game goes into full release in less then a day, so why not learn build orders to be the ultimate try hard??
What hobby was easier to get into than you thought?
My two are:
Making sourdough. I personally always heard like this weird almost mysticism around making it. But I bought a $7 starter from a bakery store, and using just stuff in my kitchen and cheap bread flour I've been eating fresh sourdough every day and been super happy with it. Some loafs aren't super consistent because I don't have like temperature controlled box or anything. But they've all been tasty.
Drawing. I'm by no means an artist, but I always felt like people who were good at drawing were like on a different level. But I buckled down and every day for a month I tried drawing my favorite anime character following an online guide. So just 30 minutes every day. The first one was so bad I almost gave up, but I was in love with the last one and made me realize that like... yeah it really is just practice. Years and years of it to be good at drawing things consistently, quickly, and a variety of things. But I had fun and got something I enjoyed much faster than I expected. So if you want to learn to draw, I would recommend just trying to draw something you really like following a guide and just try it once a day until you are happy with the result.