I completely agree with that sentiment. I think the d20 itself is flawed in that it provides linear probability. I'm more a fan of 3d6 for the bell curve it provides.

When it comes to the damage, I can agree that a degree of success should play into it. I do like how white wolf systems carried the success level over into the damage roll.

Conveniently, clicking through to the actual data returns a 404.

I generally agree. For one shots, there are much slimmer systems out there.

I'm not sure I agree about splitting hit and damage feeling weird, but it definitely is slow. But overall, yeah. DnD is generally one of my least favorite systems to play in.

That first chart isn't even trying to hide that is fake. It's depicting a perfect mirroring.

The post isn't claiming perfection. It's claiming production ready. Very different things.

The confusion there is the claim that good/perfect means done. It means ready for use and extensible.

Note: I'm not agreeing/disagreeing with the claim. Just clarifying the point

You sure? You seem rather confused by the math, my friend.

I'm gonna take a slightly different approach on this one.

If you live in an area which gets to sub zero temperatures and didn't consider the impact that has on batteries before buying electric, this one's on you.

Hey now, they aren't Nazis. Nazis at least believe in something, even if it's something terrible.

The only thing making his life difficult is his constant need for attention

I'd bet it's less simple input sanitizing and more 2 mistakes made separately because they don't know any better.

1. The input field converting everything to a string indiscriminately
2. Because they did 1, converting everything back to the assumed type

If the front end Dev makes the first mistake, null would be sent in the body as "null". Then on the backend, somebody might even be binding the variables correctly, but before hand realizing they have to deal with the market and rather than just have a conversation undoes it in their own code.

Also, Pepsi Max is a zero calorie drink, so 1 a day is hardly a lot. Three artificial sweeteners aren't the best for you, but OP shouldn't feel like they are ruining their health on that.

To this point, for me, it was all about the bubbles. So replacing with a seltzer water did wonders. Sometimes I still have a craving to pound bubbles real quick.

Real talk, what is the real barrier to somebody creating a competing publishing firm for these things.

I'm not a scientist, but I always hear about how expensive it is to either publish or get access to scientific papers without contacting the author directly. Why does that reputation exist? Why does it seem like the scientific community is so dependent on stuff like this?

There should 1(5), and preferably only 1(5), really obvious way(s) to do it.

"After our District officials shared public statements, we learned that the agents who visited the school were from the U.S. Secret Service," the spokesperson said. "Two individuals showed up at the school door and presented identification that includes the name Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency that oversees ICE. School officials proceeded to respond to the agents with the understanding that they were from ICE, amid rumors and reports that the agency was in the community."

Source

It appears that the school officials assumed they were ICE. Everything else is awful about this but I'd ask that we be mad about the correct things. This does not appear to be a situation where the Secret Service attempted to mislead anybody. They didn't identify which department of HS they were with, just that they were with HS.

The fact that the Secret Service showed up to a school to go after a teenager for paying a video is terrible, though.

It's interesting because I didn't have any game breaking bugs and I had a 5950x, 32GB, and a 3080.

That launch was a serious YMMV situation.

The bugs were not experienced by everybody. On my PC I ran into no critical bugs and very few minor bugs on launch week. I was definitely lucky, though.

It's possible many review sites were running rigs similar to mine. I personally had a blast with it even at launch and played it 3 times in the first 3 months. Though, it's definitely much better now, it wasn't a bad game on its own before, if not for the stability issues must people had.

I'm not going to tell you you shouldn't do that, I think everybody else has done enough telling others what to do. I'll try to focus more on what you'd need to accomplish and why what you're asking hasn't been done.

Building an OS involves a lot of complex work using very low level calls. The easiest way to think about it, IMO, is that whatever language you use needs to be able to communicate directly with the hardware without any abstraction between the code and the hardware after it's compiled.

Basic Python, out of the box, requires multiple levels of abstraction to run.

(I'm simplifying here) You write code which is run through an interpreter. The interpreter is a compiled application that translates Python into code the operating system can understand. Then the operating system translates that to calls the hardware can understand.

In that process, the python code is translated to byte code, assembly, and machine code. The Python virtual machine handles memory management for you. It also handles some processing concepts for you.

You'd need to start by finding (or inventing) a solution that compiles Python to assembly without the need of an interpreter or OS in between you and the hardware. It's worth noting here that Python itself isn't even fully written in Python and is instead written largely in C because Python isn't a compiled language. You'd then need to extend Python with the ability to completely manage memory and processor threads without the VM. You'd need to do that because that's really the main purpose of an operating system.

Something we learn in programming is choosing the right tool for the job. Python isn't a great option for this type of project because the requirements just to get to where you can start are so high that it's not really considered worth while. Is it possible, yes, in theory. But without the python interpreter and VM, you'd have to ask if you're really developing Python or something else that just uses pythons syntax.

I think the headline is poorly worded. Apple paid $20 a person to not have to respect their privacy. They did that because our lack of privacy is worth much more than $20 to them.

The Riftwar Cycle might fit. The magic system starts off with the users having a hard understanding of how magic works only to learn how soft and pliable it really is.

That said, this series is like 30+ books and is put it at half of them being really good and half being a grind while nearly all of them are dated in fantasy style.

I think that argument gets made by people who don't really know what producers do. It could be anything from managing the people on set to putting their name on it for cred. I'm this car, Baldwin was partially responsible for the story.