ICastFist

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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 22 points 2 days ago

Because it's Saudi Arabia. It's a fucking monarchy where law only protects "real saudis", unless it goes against the house of Saud or their friends, then the laws are wrong.

Nobody, especially the USA, dares to pressure them into being fair with their own people because they still control vast quantities of oil and can increase or decrease the price globally in a matter of days.

There's also this thing that, under normal circumstances, would scream CONFLICT OF INTEREST:

There are people who are supposed to protect these women -- government officials such as Fabian Kyule Muli, vice chair of the labor committee in Kenya's National Assembly. (...) But Muli, like other East African officials, also owns a staffing company that sends women to Saudi Arabia. (...) Members of the Saudi royal family are major investors in agencies that place domestic workers. Politicians and their relatives in Uganda and Kenya own staffing agencies, too.

No wonder, despite the vast evidence of torture and abuse, saudi officials claim most of those deaths as "natural". It'd affect business and we don't want business to suffer, eh???

What became clear was that powerful people profit off the system as it exists.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

A flagship of 2015, like the Samsung Galaxy S6, is a medium-low specs phone of today (3GB RAM, 32GB storage), but with smaller screen. For most people that only use social media and messaging, it's perfectly serviceable.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 17 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Exactly. Several limits were loosened or removed entirely. The SNES was the first console with actual pixel transparency, the PSX, despite being weaker than the Saturn and the N64, was the king of the 90s. The jump in graphical and sound quality was always night and day from the Atari era all the way to the PS3/360 era (sound probably peaked in the PS2 era, with DVD quality)

Even on the PC, the jump from 3 years' worth of advances was astonishing. Just compare the original Doom, 1993, with Quake, 1996

And here's Quake 3, 1999

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 21 points 2 days ago

Either only Fortnite, or a mix of that + Minecraft + Roblox.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Source: voices from whatever hallucinogens he's been taking

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Goudamnit, dovahkiin!

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

"She was clearly an agent of the enemy" - USA govt, probably.

Given how they treat domestic protesters and activists, it's no surprise, unfortunately.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 7 points 2 days ago

If you find it, upload somewhere, like archive.org, it's journalistic footage

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 20 points 2 days ago

Ha ha, what an idiot. Now, my totally legit online girlfriend also started ghosting me, but that was shortly before I heard about a raid in a pig butchering scam in Myanmar. Pure coincidence, I'm sure.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Surprisingly, even English does it correctly

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

The computer died and is asking us to press F. Let's do it, chat

 

Other points:

  • it's not mutually exclusive with any other neurodivergence, in which case they're "twice exceptional";
  • In an environment with unprepared people and professionals, they may be wrongly diagnosed as having some other neurodivergence.
  • It's not just a high IQ score;
  • Gifted kids can be problem students and have low grades;
  • Homework feels like torture (this is true to any child, tho);
  • They're very likely to question authorities and point out perceived hypocrisy (emphasis here on perceived, because pointing something and being right are different things);
  • As kids, they may have weird quirks for executing tasks, such as wanting to hold pencils the "wrong" way, or wanting to press against a wall to do homework;

If you're Brazilian or can understand Brazilian Portuguese, this is the podcast I listened to - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apnuIIePeeA

Aos brasileiros que acabarem encontrando esse post, o podcast que assisti é o que linkei acima

 

I've been interested in checking out some "DIY" boardgames, ones that you could just print the pieces/sheets/cards/tokens/etc and play.

I'm mostly interested in boardgames that can be played with 4+ people and require little setup or rules introduction, as I'm pretty much being the "gateway drug" for the group (everyone I've shown Blokus so far has loved the game).

I'm ok with knowing about heavy games (stuff that takes an afternoon to finish) to keep an eye on for future reference

 

I've been reading a book on the Paraguay War, Maldita Guerra, and it mentioned how Solano Lopez (then Paraguay's dictator) planned to invade Mato Grosso and possibly take Cuiabá. Trips upstream from Assuncion to Cuiabá at that time would usually take 12+ days on steam ships.

What really surprised me is that this kind of information was supposed to be taught back when I was in school.

 

Some weeks ago, I've come across Delta Chat, whose main thing is "(near) instant messaging using your email"

That left me thinking, has this been attempted before? If not, why? Also, why (besides servers' limitations as means to fight spam) isn't this solution used more often, given that e-mail has been a decentralized solution for well over 40 years now?

 

I'm thinking about making a character entirely out of Polygon2D nodes without textures. One thing I haven't figured out how to do is make each polygon cast a "permanent" shadow on top of the ones that are Z levels below it.

Below is an image of what I want to do, but using shaders/lights. I've only managed to do this by making extra polygons to fill in as the shadows.

How exactly do I have to set up a light source to achieve this effect? Using a DirectionalLight2D or a PointLight2D just brightens the polygons and I can't figure how to use a LightOccluder2D, or even if this is the correct way to get this result

(The polygons are green due to the DirectionalLight being green) - The occlusion simply applies the shadow on anything that is Z levels below it.

 

I'm looking for something that "a child would find easy to learn", possibly a virtual keyboard with an obvious "start recording" button that does that, recording your keys on the selected Track, then allowing easy playback so you can listen to it.

 

Time sure does fly, huh

 

Tennis uses multiples of 15, but only up to 45, calls other points weird names, then closes a set, which has to be repeated at least 6 times for a separate scoring, with said scoring also needing to be repeated AT LEAST 3 more times, but can be dragged out ad infinitum.

Even table tennis has the decency of using a straight scoring system where 11 points wins a set and 2 sets wins the match.

 

It's totally original, you guys!

 

I'd like to create an effect similar to 2 death animations that exist in Crash Bandicoot 3.

In one of them, Crash is disintegrated: all the triangle faces get separated and fly apart. A similar triangle separation is seen when he dies from fire, the triangles fall separately.

The second is a simple separation of the legs and torso. One enemy that exists in the 1st stage can cut Crash in half, which will cause the torso to stay in place while the legs walk away.

 

Transcription:

Text: My browser when I open the 42nd tab and beyond

A 2 panel image of Michael Jordan: Stop it. Get some help.

 

Asking mostly because I have fuckloads of video courses, plus a number of movies, that I have yet to even check if the content is as good as their titles imply and I really feel like I'm mostly hoarding this stuff because I have no fucking clue.

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