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Posts made by Magus
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@anonymous234 that particular one looks like a reasonable character for a web comic, rather than what furry characters usually seem to be for.
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
I'm not looking forward to whatever we end up doing here. I kind of hope they tell us all to work from home, but for now it's still nothing at all.
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RE: In other news today...
@hungrier I remember in high school, one of my friends was super excited to have installed Vista on his terrible laptop, and was super excited to tell us about the face unlock. He tried to use it for the next year or so, where every day he'd stare at it and make faces and it wouldn't let him in. We would just look at him strangely as he took 8x as long as he could have if he just logged in normally.
I bet it's improved since then.
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RE: Modern "Hello World"
@powerlord and even then, only when the need for one of those things comes up. Definitely not up front, or when trying to make the words "hello world" display on the app the IDE spits out for you.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Tsaukpaetra they have some pretty good support for directories in the Taskbar.
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RE: Modern "Hello World"
@anonymous234 while I'm with you entirely on the identity component, and EF can admittedly be complicated, all the rest of that is pretty straightforward. It's only if you want to change routing and such that it starts getting weird, but you really don't need to do that.
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RE: Modern "Hello World"
@anonymous234 you don't need to know any of that stuff though, because they do it all for you. You might have to go into some of that stuff occasionally, but it's not like you have to know how to construct all of that manually.
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RE: Is Object Oriented Programming the worst thing since the Spanish flu?
@sockpuppet7 or they tell you to read the giant textbook on ddd like they did.
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RE: Path of Exile
Decided to write up some build guides on my usual no-details way, good for new players who just want to try things:
Delirious Destroyers: I'm gonna basically explain some builds to try. Use: https://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree to search for passives. 1. Chieftain of Blades - You start as a Marauder - You're gonna be using green skills, so you'll need a lot of dex - You're gonna want to stay on the left side of the tree mostly, so check where the dex is carefully - Lots of life around - Area of Effect is super good - FIRE ~ SKILL OPTIONS ~ - Blade Vortex - Spins around you - Ludicrous damage - You have to get kind of close though - Bladefall - Massive area - Insanely cool looking - Ethereal Knives - Strong - Long range - Cone shaped - Can chain or fork - Blade Blast - Works with any of the others - Strong debuff ~ IMPORTANT POINTS ~ - You will only deal fire damage. - You need the Avatar of Fire node on the skill tree - Also Constitution - Divine Fury - Amplify - Once you become a Chieftain in act 3, your goals with your ascendency are "Ngamahu, Flame's Advance" and "Hinekora, Death's Fury" Then anything that sounds fun. 2. Essence Drain Trickster - You'll be a shadow - Your damage spreads everywhere ~ SKILL OPTIONS ~ - Early on, grab Blight. - Strong - Boring - Has a good slow - There's a pair of gloves that make it totally viable if you love it - Contagion - The most important skill you get. - It spreads Essence Drain when it spreads - It's damage is good - Essence Drain - This is how you kill bosses - Just spray, then WALK AWAY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4ibFq1aup8 - Bane - You need multiple curses for it to be strong - Super high max damage - Simple playstyle - Decent alternative if you hate the other stuff, but it won't spread. - Soul Rend - Long range - Autotargets - Easiest playstyle of all if you hate the other stuff - Not as good as other things ~ IMPORTANT POINTS ~ - Your damage is all chaos - Casting more just refreshes the duration, so don't keep shooting - You still need to take Constitution - Find life, as much as you can get - Get Arcane Expanse, Atrophy, and Corruption - Area is OP, get more - When you become a Trickster in Act 3, go for Patient Reaper first, the best node on the Trickster ascendency - Next Trickster point is Prolonged Pain. Then Ghost Dance. Your choice between Swift Killer and Escape Artist for the last one. 3. Cold Assassin - You start as a shadow - You're gonna be a crit boy! - Use any cold skill! - Clear screens instantly! - Dangerous on-death effects don't exist! ~ SKILL OPTIONS ~ - I can't be bothered explaining them all, just don't use Cold Snap or Vortex or Arctic Breath. The rest are great. - Herald of Ice - This is the skill that matters. It blows up things that shatter. ~ IMPORTANT POINTS ~ - Get Doom Cast - Your damage is your crit multiplier, so focus on that - Get Constitution - Life is hard in the shadow zone, so spread out and find some. Maybe take an edge jewel socket and use one of the new cluster jewels for more life. - As an Assassin in act 3, take Unstable Infusion. Next is Deadly Infusion. Take whatever you want after that, just not the poison ones. 4. Bleediator - You start as a duelist - All your enemies will EXPLODE. Megumin is pleased by your selection. - Enemies who do not die immediately will die from the bleed when they chase you ~ SKILL OPTIONS ~ - Sunder - Area Line Skill - Echoes on enemies it hits, and the echoes can overlap - Super fun - Earthquake - MASSIVE - STRONK - I don't like it personally - Lacerate - Good range - Good damage - MODE CHANGE - Bladestorm - Hangs around - Moves sometimes - Good - MODE CHANGE - Double Strike - Has a cool vaal version - Crazy strong - Single target only ~ IMPORTANT POINTS ~ - If you want damage, you need to fit in Pride, Flesh and Stone + Maim, and some way to cause Vulnerability - You're in the tank zone - You can use a shield - Leech is the best - Get Vitality Void, Dirty Techniques, Bloodletting, and Golem's Blood - Path through shield nodes when you get the chance. They're awesome for damage. - Ascend in act 3 as a Gladiator, then take Blood in the Eyes - Your next ascensions will be Gratuitous Violence, Painforged, and then Versitile Combatant. You are now OP.
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RE: Foot shooting
@levicki I think you might be running a little too fast, though.
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RE: Hashing algorithms are still evolving apparently
Someone should branch it, so they can name the branch BLAKE3-rat
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RE: Foot shooting
@Mason_Wheeler who are you to tell him how often to check in? If he wants to wait a month to check in 10000 files worth of interop written to avoid calling framework functions, you can't blame him for not noticing the file the malicious hacker inserted into his most important of projects.
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RE: Path of Exile
@Dragoon bv, especially as a chieftain, is always a safe choice for league start. And blade blast looks amazing, so you'll likely have a good time with it.
I worry about mines and minions this league, with how fast and aggressive the enemies seem this time. But that might be a good thing. We'll see.
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RE: Path of Exile
Still trying to decide what to play for the new league. Sunder gladiator is going to work, but it's expensive to take it far into endgame. A crit cold spell assassin would probably be a lot of fun, but for some reason I have a hard time picking it. I'm convincing other people to try essence drain, since this seems like a good league for it. And toxic rain mines is probably still the cheapest build for its power in the entire game...
We won't really know until we get the patch notes, which they like to save for as long as they can so they can keep going over the balance. But my current plan is actually an Abyssal Cry berserker: sure, that new Cry Wolf notable is basically useless for it, since it's more a rallying cry type node, but there's only really one good notable for the skill anyway, and there's probably some nice chaos stuff out in the clusters. Or honestly, even just area would be nice. But I figure it'll be cheap, and I can use breath of the council, which no one cares about anymore, for both high damage phys hits and the chaos damage. And my tree is going to really be compact.
I can't come up with anything else I really want to try as a starter, but I'm definitely of the opinion that proliferation of some kind is going to be king.
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RE: Foot shooting
I can't help reading this thread's title as if it's devoted to @showfeetguy
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RE: Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada
Last time I complained about the sun in this thread, it went away for a few days. Now it seems to be back. So:
πβοΈ πββοΈ. βοΈ
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RE: Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada
@Tsaukpaetra now that there brings me back... I probably still have two of those books even...
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RE: Is Object Oriented Programming the worst thing since the Spanish flu?
@Bulb yeah no.
For the first part, design patterns are meant to be a descriptive thing: some guys solved s lot of problems, and named some styles of solving some of them. This made them easier to talk about. The second design patterns become scripture, you have problems.
But as for the second part? Designing large, complex systems is hard. OOP is a good tool to have for dealing with some of them. If you don't know what you're doing, you'll make any system unusable.
There are people who believe they can just stick to some books and not plan their architecture, or that doing the same thing everywhere will work. They reach for abstraction when they don't need to. If you aren't one of them, and could write a simple app in an OO language, you have just proved that the problem isn't OO. The problem is what it always is.
The source of every
HUMANS
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RE: Is Object Oriented Programming the worst thing since the Spanish flu?
@topspin yeah, but that way people can't just go implement it like it says on the page.
There's a reason half the programming articles on the internet are "x is not a silver bullet"
That principle in particular should be abstract: sometimes, you may have to break it. But you should at least TRY to design your system such that adding stuff is easy, and making random sweeping architectural changes is rare.
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RE: Is Object Oriented Programming the worst thing since the Spanish flu?
@Bulb As a C# dev almost exclusively, I of course cannot fully agree with you.
I've seen what you're talking about many times, especially at my last job, but I honestly don't think object orientation is the core of the problem.
I think the biggest problem is books about architecture and design patterns. You yourself touched on why, but at my last job we had a product written by a group of people who read a book on domain driven development, and they managed to create a system that could take hours to process 5mb of json, using 30 microservices.
I'm still in awe of how incomprehensible and incompetent that mess was.
I will say that while object orientation is a tool that can be used for horrible things, the core of the problem is focus: I seriously believe that you should focus on making things as simple as you possibly can while minimizing the chances that changing them ends up destroying the entire system. Not on implementing some stupid pattern.
I like SOLID quite a bit, and recommend that people read the Wikipedia page on it, but at the end of the day, you keep that thing simple, you write tests, and you make sure you understand the scope of your problem, and you don't build in some stupid webscale database when your maximum customer count will be in the hundreds ever.
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RE: Florida Man goes to...
@boomzilla inb4 victim's only response was reportedly, "I hate manure."
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Applied-Mediocrity I've probably reached around there in path of exile, but I actually did find a Mirror of Kalandra, something I never expected to see.
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RE: In other news today...
@Rhywden I don't see any problem at all until around the fourth one, assuming they're using your personal steam account for it all.
But also, they aren't some random unrelated third party: they made the game, and agreed to the ways it can be distributed. Valve can't just change that because it will make them money.
On top of that is the argument they themselves made: the draw of the service is the library of titles. No one will buy into it otherwise. If they advertise or even namedrop people they haven't paid for this advantage they're reaping, there's definitely something bad going on.
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RE: In other news today...
@loopback0 they're... right, though.
I'm not sure Nvidia could even be said to be acting legally, depending on how this works. But if they're going to be distributing games, they definitely need to pay for it, and if they're not, removing the game is the only option worth even considering.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Threadβ’
@obeselymorbid here they told us working from home is a privilege that they don't intend to give out unless you schedule it ahead of time, or in the long term only if you have a specific plan for getting work done in a home environment.
So far the only real at this place. Everything else is minor.
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RE: Infiniscroll is three times as fuckered
@pie_flavor Kid, Discourse is where we coined the word for this behavior.
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RE: Foot shooting
@Mason_Wheeler we were quoting smart people saying smart things, Wesley.
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RE: Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada
@HardwareGeek not quite, but I do value the shade far more.
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RE: Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada
We only got the lightest powdering on like two days. And now to my eternal horror, the days are getting bright and the horrible sun shines in my eyes when I try to commute. Please come back, clouds π
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Happier Status: I went to Disneyland early this year for the first time in a few years, and managed to leave with extreme foot pain, a custom green Lightsaber, and a cool black robe I'll probably never wear but had to have (and don't regret!). The light saber ceremony was awesome, if a bit cheesy.
I'd heard you could buy other crystals in the shops at the park, but I thought you could only get the green, blue, red, purple they gave you at the ceremony.
Apparently if you buy red ones, you have a chance of getting blue ones that sell for $250 on Amazon. But you can also get white or yellow (the latter being the original color I'd wanted). Those are only $25 on Amazon, so now I have ordered cool pieces of plastic that will make my cool toy glow different and maybe make different sounds!
Woo!
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RE: Procurement also has it's WTF moments
@Rhywden said in Procurement also has it's WTF moments:
Well, due to bureaucratic shenanigans we had to go through a different department. The "normal" department already had been bludgeoned into submission by science teachers from other schools. This department however didn't have the faintest of clues about the requirements for Physics and probably thought that it'd be the same as ordering a stack of printer paper or something.
Luckily, my vice principal came to the rescue and told them in no uncertain terms that they were stupid. The requirements thusly shrank rapidly to the number one(1) - I mean, there are only two sources and we still had some older, partly repairable equipment from one vendor which made that particular one more cost-efficient.But, yes, functional and performance requirements would be a good idea - however, it's still a bit of a nightmare when you're talking about equipment for school Physics. Because one single set of equipment is usually good for a double-digit number of experiments. And I was buying 20+ of such sets
Not to mention that the combination of sets is also possible and yields yet different experiment possibilities...Sorry to fbmac this, but I couldn't find the more recent time you talked about getting new stuff that you only have two vendors for:
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: okay, time to fix some tests! Yeah tests! Woo!
Hey wait why do these tests have update on their name. Wait they read from the config? Wait that's a customer's server. Wait that says production!
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But luckily it only interacts with things currently scheduled, and the date range is static and in the past, so it seems like it does nothing.
I've made these tests not run when you try running all tests now.
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RE: Infiniscroll is three times as fuckered
Definitely happened to be downward in a thread with lots of one boxes.
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RE: The Official First World Problems Threadβ’
I was driving home yesterday, and was trying to get on the highway from an on ramp that was quickly becoming an exit, so I signaled, and suddenly there was no gap beside me anymore. I waited for a bit, edged over a bit, but they kept rushing jerkily forward whenever a gap appeared. I looked in at the young girl driving, and she started blankly into my eyes while keeping that gap closed. So I cut in front of the guy in front of her.
I know some of you are in places where this kind of thing is worse, but seriously.