We have several Community Market arrangements in my town. People who make homemade stuff, like decorations, knitwear, art, crafts, jam, soap etc can book a stand for a day or several. It's extremely exhausting to sit on a shitty chair for 8 hours straight in a crowded place, and especially in the Christmas market when you are half outside and temperatures are close to freezing, so most people book two days in a row at most.
This one group of people just books end-to-end for the entire market duration. Like, weeks. They show up, fill their stand with TEMU crap, and take turns to sit at the stand and consistently sell nothing to nobody.
The quality of a work lies not in how it makes you feel, but in how many polysyllabic words it allows you to use when talking about it.
In order:
- Overscoped
- Wrong people in charge on all levels
- Unfocused
- This turned out ok?
When did I say I was talking about the definition of a woman?
At what point did I say you as a centrist am saying that trans people don't exist?
The centrism fallacy:
A: I want B to be erased.
B: I want to exist. Fuck off.
Centrist: Now now don't be rude. Let's find some middle ground. A wants B to stop existing and we must respect all opinions. B, do you have a compelling and reasobable counter-argument for your right to exist? Be civil.
As a computer dothings maker, absolutely! I'd request a sketch or make one and ask if it fits the client's intention as the first step of any such project.
That should be enough to get started. It can be easier if you clarify a few things:
- remove "Very simple user experience". It means nothing.
- Mobile-friendly is fine, but you may intend "mobile first"? See it that feels right to you.
- Draw sketches of the customer's UI, your UI, and the cleaners' UI. It may feel like a lot of work but trust me it's going to save ten times the effort in communication total.
Be prepared to spend at least 3000-5000 USD on this. Anyone offering less is not able to do the job.
I'm still too afraid to try deathworld, haha. What sort of strategies do you use to manage it?
That's interesting! I normally play the opposite, and rush to get cliff explosives and all the landfills before scaling up. In this playthrough I was forced to scale up without any of that, and mostly with yellow belts, so this was a fun opportunity to play along with the landscape.
Oh wow, "neat" was the last word I thought would come to mind. :D Walls pushed out as far as I was able, and everything else just placed wherever there was space, connected by train.
100x Marathon update
Update on https://lemmy.world/post/26605581
Playing on modified Marathon setting: 100x science cost instead of 4x
I think I'm finally over the challenging part of the challenge. Until now it was extremely uncertain whether my base would both survive biter evolution on Nauvis and manage to claim enough resources to get to space and Vulcanus for "unlimited" iron and copper.
At some point the biters evolved past my tech: I can't assault behemoth biter bases with only low damage tech red bullets, effectively making any unclaimed resources unavailable until I could tech up (which would need resources).
I can, however, guard against behemoth biters with walls of red bullet turrets and flamethrowers.
Vulcanus also turned out to not be as straightforward as I hoped. While I do get a lot of resources in the starting area, the initial tugsten patches are guarded by small demolishers. Fortunately, 100 turrets of red ammo and spamming poison capsules proved enough to clear out a significa
"Waterfall process" is a curseword in software development for a reason.
To me it proves the person is thinks that a game can be created without prototyping and iteration. In addition to only doing 10% of the work, they are under the illusion that they have done 80% and completing it is just a rote exercise. They have also overdesigned untested features and mechanics which makes any iteration harder. I'd have to break their thing down and iterate over the parts with them while also explaining this to them.
It's just double worst.
No. Learning anything is hard. It is important to accept this. There is no special explanation or trick that gives a shortcut to learning.
When people say "learning to code isn't hard" they are also correct, but they are speaking relatively. Learning to code isn't hard as learning things go. Compared to playing piano, guitar, doing skateboard tricks, juggling, etc... it's just practice and focus and reading and watching and practice and time.
I have even bigger aversions to anyone coming with "I have this fully specced Game Design Document"
Things that can affect it, with some wild estimates on how it reduces the 800kh:
- Processors are 10-100 times faster. Divide by 100ish.
- A common laptop CPU has 16 cores. Divide by 16.
- GPUs and CPUs have more and faster math operations for numbers. Divide by 10.
- RAM speeds and processor cache lines are larger and faster. Divide by 10.
- Modern processors have more and stronger SIMD instructions. Divide by 10.
- Ray tracing algorithms may be replaced with more efficient ones. Divide by 2.
That brings it down to 3-4 hours I think, which can be brought to realtime by tweaking resolution.
So it looks plausible!
They look angelic compared to democratically elected americans /shrug
There is a viable strategy with it, but it requires a specific infrastructure from the start: Build a huge science platform with 40 grabbers to get going, and ship water up via launches. After Vulcanus for carbon, all fuel can be shipped up.
Protip: Customizing the "Asteroid Density" slider to Low makes the game harder, not easier
Going for the speed achievements. I had the great idea that fewer asteroids meant I could race to planets and Solar System Edge with lighter ships.
...turns out it also applies to asteroid chunks. My ships needed a full hour to refuel, and space science took several hours to get the research for getting to Vulcanus.
RESTART
Not fractions, but a series yes. It's an obfuscation of a famous unsolvable problem in math.
I wish! Would net me $500.
Game Name Help
Played it on Commodore 64. It was a space rocket/shuttle sim where you launched into space on a rocket amd progressed through some minigame-tasks.
(I am fairly certain it was not a good or widespread game.)
One of the tasks was about grabbing a satellite using an arm or a cable. You would try to extend it pixel by pixel to grab the satellite and it was super finicky. I only ever managed it by luck.
I try Google every few years and can't get anywhere. Tried stuff with spacey names in emulators and looking on youtube. List of close-ish games it was not:
- Project Space Station
- Space Shuttle - A Journey Into Space (but this has really close vibes)
- Space Shuttle Challenger
- Apollo 18 Mission To The Moon
- Samantha Fox Strip Poker (i mean it could have been - had to check)
100x Marathon mode
Decided I wanted a run that forced me to scale up instead of just "winging it" because hey after a few research steps I will be able to make it better anyway.
Thought to play "marathon mode", which is vanilla except research cost is multiplied by 4, but ended up going for a multiplier of 100 instead.
To give an example of what this means: Researching solar panels costs 25000 red and green science.
I found this to be an interesting challenge! I not only have to build large and optimized builds with low-tier tech. I also need to be extremely careful with managing biter evolution and pollution. Just red ammo is locked behind several thousand science packs, and I have expanded to 8 ore patches and my perimeter is just tightly packed turrets, because I have not let myself afford researching walls yet.
When your AuDHD spouse wears a smart watch in a long and boring meeting
They were stress-bored and were fidgeting by tapping their watch so much that it accidentally triggered the emergency mode and sent me this SMS.
Alert not intended but also in some way accurate.
"How do you manage a full-time job with AuDHD?"
From the comic "Girl Genius" by Phil and Kaja Foglio
Custom soap mold from hobby clay
Just for fun!
Made a shape out of gray self-drying hobby clay, took a (very clumsy) silicon mold of it, and now I have a fun shape to pour excess soap into if I make too much for the main mold.
On the left: clay thing. On the right: lavender soap.
5th batch and pretty pleased! 80% olive, 20% coconut
Almost got a full gel this time, which felt nice.
The olive oil was marinating with shredded lemon peels for a week prior to processing, so it got a really strong natural lemon aroma. Hoping it holds up once done curing. :)
Apart from that, no additives.
Orbital Potato's top 10 basebuilders of 2024
Orbital Potato is one of my favorite channels to keep up on management/factory/strategy games. He usually covers one game at a time and tons more of them than I can keep up with, so I was happy to see which ones turned out to be favorites. :)
Cataclismo I have played, and its honking brilliant, but the others are new to me.
Rogue Command and Diplomacy is Not an Option look really interesting.
Is this a "glycerin river"?
Still new, and trying to learn all the things and terms :)
Came over this (store bought soap) and was wondering why it becomes sorta layered after use. I read today about "glycerin rivers" which can happen both during hot process soap, or cold process where the soap gets very hot during the gel phase.
Achievement Hunting
Mostly only the two timed achievements left.
Having completed the first run in 200 hours, it seem pretty safe to manage 100 hours now that I know what to expect, but the 40 hour one is probably going to need some thought.
Nefrum has started speedruns on it, and set a baseline of 15 hours.
Has anyone managed or tries it? What is your strategy?
Today's mystery: Do I have a cold, or did I socialize too much this week?
- Saturday: Event in town, with small kids, socializing
- Sunday: Teambuilding event
- Monday: Work strategy meeting
- Tuesday: Held a presentation and socialized
- Wednesday: Work strategy meeting
- Thursday: Course w/group sessions, parents over for dinner
- Friday: Work event, work event
- Saturday: Museum trip, family visit
Throughout the week, slow buildup of joint pain, feverish feeling, lack of appetite, swollen throat, buzzing head, torpor, lack of focus. Today I am just broken.
These are all (for me) normal physical reactions to overextending myself socially or spending time in sensory intense environments for any amount of time. They are also symptons I would get if I caught the head cold that is going around.
It feels extremely silly that I have literally zero idea if I have a cold or not.
Anyway, treatment is same either way: Take it easy for a while. Mostly wanted to share my frustrating confusion and maybe hear if others have similar experiences and how they man
Fern Brady's book "Strong Female Character"
This is part strong recommendation and part wanting to know thoughts of others who have read it. :)
Fern Brady is a scottish comedian who grew up with undiagnosed autism in a very catholic small town.
It's a brutally honest and personal story, and she manages to write everything in a way that I found captivating. She can describe situations of absolute torture in a way that makes them seem both heartbreaking, and almost funny in their absurdity. Like a scene where she got recommended an app to help her with meltdowns and describes how she is crying and punching her fist bloody against her living room wall, while with her other hand opening an app and seeing suggestions like "think of a puppy!", "count to ten and think of the last nice thing you ate!"
For me, the description of a years long struggle to push through a medical system with little and outdated understanding of autism resonnated deeply.
Norwegian Sesame Street Was Insane!
ILJ at det ikke går repriser fordi NRK lisensierte konseptet og ikke har fulle rettigheter til showet. :(