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- mynameajeff> Godot to Lumberyard Do you remember what project(s) this was? I'd be super curious on the motivations of the developers. I guess I could see it when it first went open source and Godot wasn't all it was today.
- I housesitted at a very nice house with an induction stove and it was one of the most anti-human designs I've ever experienced in a stove. If I wasn't being as clean and tidy as possible for the sake of the homeowners I couldn't imagine how much worse it could've been as the entirely touch based interface added a whole other layer of frustration on top of the extremely confusing UX. I thought this was maybe unique to this stove but every other induction stove I've seen sold at appliance stores has had the exact same layout. I truly don't understand it.
- Could you elaborate on what specifically details regarding cn-northwest-1/similar are remotely similar to what's being described in the article?
- Thanks for mentioning WMR. I was genuinely struggling to remember why I didn't install LTSC previously and that reminded me. Half the reason I'm stuck on 10 even if I wanted to go to 11 is WMR. LTSC would be perfect for me if it wasn't for that little caveat (and a few more if my memory serves correct).
Awesome that they created and then gutted a standard that just bricks my $400 device that they barely even seem to care to support on launch. There's patches that exist for 11 but they're just that, patches, and my WMR experience is already very jank. Nvidia also seems to be the target for most development so I'm not sure where I'll go once this all settles as I have my gaming PC in a nice position where I can just hop on after work and everything just works with no interruptions or issues currently.
11 is a hot mess and I already know that linux/proton simply won't work for the games I tend to quickly hop onto with friends.
- The build part was really helpful for me when I really struggled with EE. My program only ever made us build things for very first semester "build a circuit to light up the LED" type labs. Once we got to even the most basic of components it all became on paper. I really struggled with some of the mental models to the point where I made a habit of going out of my way to build a lot of circuits that I was just supposed to solve on paper. Getting everything correct felt no different to getting things completely wrong in a paper problem until I actually built out the circuits and suddenly "correctness" actually became a real thing that I was tangibly experiencing. I wish my program would've at least taught SPICE a little more to at least scratch the ability to simulate things a little better.
- Yeah I had a magic-rules-first style experience in my EE program and it really didn't work for me at all. The nebulous reasoning made it for me where I just really couldn't internalize the pretty basic "rules" because I couldn't help but mess myself up overthinking the more abstract modes of conceptualizing everything which just confused me more. I'm thankful because it gave me the opportunity to quickly learn that I was a lot better at code than circuits, I probably would've been screwed if it took me that long to get to that point in my educations, but I will say the magic rules just did not work for me personally as a way to understand things. I'm sure others would do a lot better at just jumping right in though.
- I did a lot of CS out of passion as a child but leading up to high school I was around such uniquely skilled group of friends in the field that I felt that I should pursue EE as I felt so out-skilled as a programmer. It only took me a single year of university to realize that EE was NOT my calling. I've never had so much completely fail to instinctively "click" in my brain compared to my peers. Meanwhile I was practically teaching the CS courses to my peers. I found that computer engineering was the perfect intersection for me because it let me explore so much more hardware and low level stuff without requiring analog dark magic that for whatever reason even the simplest of principles my mind couldn't grasp. I still really wish I could have gone on to make super clean headphone amps and all that but it turns out there really are just some things you can be "naturally" good and bad at, and for me it clean code not clean circuits.
edit: +1 on the "I just started bruteforcing" part of getting frustrated with everything. It was not a good way of learning but even after switching programs I found myself preferring to just bruteforce problems I had lost hope in thinking through to completion without running into a mistake that'd require me start back over from the top when I have 200 of the same type of problem to do after. So much mental effort would be wasted trying to "get" things I just wasn't getting that I started to getting more satisfaction mentally from just managing to get the solution without doing the effort of doing it "right" (ignoring that my methods of bruteforcing would probably still take far more time and energy, it was at least something that didn't hurt me spiritually on every failure).
- This is cool but I can't seem to find the best way to give a better location closer to my area when I live in a rural enough location that I don't have a good city (with a name that isn't overshadowed by a more popular version elsewhere) or airport nearby
Edit: for some reason upon trying again coordinates work, first time I tried the same url I kept getting "unknown location"
- It's a lot like how every "interesting"/pop scientific field (think quantum) has a niche community of Free Thinkers that the "establishment" just won't listen to. If you hear from the actual core scientific community you'll find out that they just already went over this 40-400 years ago and nothing being argued as groundbreaking is new or groundbreaking like it's being pitched as. That indifference can feel like rejection to the highly-excited outsiders which can develop into animosity which just further isolates them.
- I agree that's definitely the main culprit for many adult men but given this is the first mention I've seen of this idea after scrolling past dozens of comments above this one either attempting to re-invent the country club or immediately ascribe the problem to laundry list of imagined cultural enemies, I have to conclude we're either describing a different issue entirely or people generally have no idea why they're actually lonely
- "car + house + door" worked for me (interestingly "car + home + door" did not)
- I'm not saying this is the most practical or affordable solution compared to a more specialized product, but if you definitely want a hardware solution, I do know (depending on your HDMI spec requirements) this would be achievable with any FPGA dev board that has HDMI In/Out. I can't say I've worked on this exact solution, but I did some basic development with a Xilinx (Z7?) board years ago that involved overlaying and modifying an incoming HDMI signal. What you're looking for should be achievable by the same means assuming there's no signal issues I'm failing to account for.
- Love digging around projects like JOS. I had never heard of it before, and there really doesn't seem like much else online about it beyond the info that can be found from that link. There's always something melancholy about retroactively watching the activity of a project like JOS have such a swarm of activity and then just quietly and unceremoniously dying off.
- From all the attempts I've seen in the past few years, we haven't been able to get AI to successfully complete a lap of wheel to wheel racing at full speed on a real track[1], I'm not sure if they're exactly competing for a seat as a pay driver at Haas let alone racing for Red Bull anytime soon.