Hiker, software engineer (primarily C++, Java, and Python), Minecraft modder, hunter (of the Hunt Showdown variety), biker, adoptive Akronite, and general doer of assorted things.
I would phrase that as “don’t count out people with tattoos.” There are definitely some people with tattoos that you still don’t want to talk to (100% agree in 2024 though, tattoos themselves do not mean someone’s a bad person and some of those folks are lovely) haha
Yeah I’m with you. Just reinforcing the cockpit doors is enough to take care of the majority of the problem.
They can bomb a plane but they can also bomb a bus or a subway.
As someone that was 6 when 9-11 happened, I think this country majorly overreacted and made the state itself one step closer to an authoritarian nightmare.
I’m not sure there’s any other good reaction than the one you had.
Maybe he was just “checking you out” and being very untactful and impolite about it (i.e. he’s just awkward).
Maybe he was looking at something else near you … but probably not.
But also maybe, he’s not right in the head and was thinking about doing more than just looking…
My advice (as a guy) is either:
I’m also going to add, that “look for help thing” includes looking for random guys that weren’t creeping you out that might be walking by. I know there’s the whole stranger danger thing that most of us were raised with, but … most guys are not rapists. If you just look for a normal looking dude (or someone that really looks like they’ve got their shit together) and ask them… I’d say 9/10 they’d be more than happy to get you out of that situation.
Gamers do this stuff – what feels like – all the time now. I don’t get the DLC hate. Not every instance of “give me more” needs to be an entirely new full price game.
I don’t think that’s an accurate statement. It sounds like he’s giving them a fortune, just not an unbelievable fortune that would give them and their children’s children’s children a fortune.
Yeah I was about to say … anyone that’s got a problem with UE5 should take a look at Remnant II.
I give you about 3 seconds. Then you’re getting the horn because you were on your phone at the light like a jackass.
I mean seriously, it’s not a big ask to not use your phone while you’re driving.
As one of those old modders … It was “blood sweat and tears” mixed with community organization that allowed Minecraft modding to shine. Later aided by Mojang’s help and refactoring.
I mean, fishing is more comparable to mining in RS2, there are other skills (typically refinement oriented skills) that have more down time between clicks.
Combat I definitely feel needs refinement. Though, I actually do like the fact that combat is not “I have a bow and I’m shooting something 1 tile in front of me and/or safe spotting.”
The skills are only trained in one area, but they have interactions across areas. You use resources gathered in the forest in town and in the mines. The weapons you make in the mines can be tuned to any other location (etc…)
Andrew does a pretty decent job of explaining the thought process here if you’re interested: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2791440/view/4442331835939160237
A lot of this is to solve the long time MMO issue of “new content is released but it’s only for high level players and long time layers in general have a ton of advantages in the new area.”
You should try Brighter Shores.
The original RuneScape developers and owners (i.e. Andrew Gower and his brothers) are back with a new game, at a new company, with an industry shattering $5.99/mo subscription price for all content.
No micro transactions, no pay to win, no outrageous DLC pricing, no bull shit … just a fun game with many similarities to OSRS but also modernizations, formula improvements, and lessons learned.
That’s the most complicated dad joke I’ve ever heard… I’ll have to add it to the dad-a-base.
The problem is a hash algorithm is exactly the sort of thing that copyright would be horrible at protecting. The source code is hardly relevant at all, it’s the operations that matter.
A big part of patents is to allow private sector research to occur. RCA failed and maybe patents should just fail too.
It’s not about logic it’s about feeling.
Yeah all that is true (at least I’m fairly sure), but because it’s a virus the “feeling” of responsibility just isn’t there.
It’s too abstract. The virus has a life of its own. Blaming Trump for those deaths is kind of like blaming Biden for hurricane that hit North Carolina.
Yeah, Trump could’ve implemented policies that he didn’t that the experts have told us could’ve saved lives. However, that’s all hypothetical savings.
That’s very different than “Trump deported my friend” or “Trump’s FDA let heavy metals into my Little Debbie’s” or “Trump’s economic policy resulted in me losing my home because I couldn’t afford to live.”
like the umbrella wedge/spring to make it open automatically.
That to me is a very specific algorithm. It’s a simple mechanism but putting it together might be a bit tricky.
That’s very similar to SHA, it’s a fairly simple set of mechanisms but the actual composure of those ideas into something that works as well as SHA does takes very specific research experience. It’s not at all an abstract idea, it’s a very concrete and specific set of operations that you invented first.
Imagine if the patent was “an umbrella can open itself with the push of button” no further details. That’s close to the level of detail some software patents are argued at and effectively what the “put a game in your loading screen” patent was awarded on.
You can’t patent the idea that “an umbrella should be able to open [somehow]” so I likewise think it’s ridiculous that someone was able to parent “your game [somehow] runs another simpler game before it runs.”
Patents should be to protect very specific research so that the private sector can do said research and profit from it. Patents should not block out broad concepts. The patent in the video game situation was and should’ve been ruled as bogus. It’s not the type of thing anyone needed to research or think about, you just literally go “what if I added a game to my loading screen” and you’re in violation.
I think software patents should really only apply to extremely tricky algorithmic “discoveries” (which I would consider inventions, as someone that’s written a SHA256 implementation from reference material, nobody is “just coming up with that”).
“Ingenuity patents” like that loading screen game are everything that’s wrong with software patents. It’s not all that crazy of an idea to add a game while waiting to play the main game. There’s no radical research required there, just an idea.
I don’t think vague ideas like “a game in a loading screen” are sufficiently creative to warrant a patent.
Or at least the bar should be much much higher. Like if you’ve invented the SHA algorithm… Fine.
However, if you’ve just invented “a way to purchase something over the network via a phone”… That is not patent worthy.
Yeah, unfortunately I think we’re at a point where people are going to need to get burned first hand to have their minds changed.
Because these are literal sky scrapers. Fire on a wood structure is a recipe for catastrophic failure. A fire in a large structure could have similar effects to those large high rise condos that collapsed in Florida from poor maintenance.
This is very likely dangerous deregulation of the fire code to cut costs being “green washed” as a new thing that needs a hell of a lot more scrutiny. Building large structures with wood WAS a thing in the past, it was outlawed because it’s EXTREMELY dangerous when one of those structures ignites.
They’re only getting away with it because these are composite timbers which have been “tested” to be safer. I’m very skeptical that those tests are comprehensive, at least to the point where I would feel comfortable spending a significant portion of my life in one of these buildings.
I’ve had friends 20 or 30 years older for well over a decade.
… your son is an adult. I think you’re being the weird ones about this personally.