@glassbottommeg Throw in a couple really obvious stock assets so you can truthfully say it's not solo but imply the assets are what you're referencing instead of your anonymous partner/collaborator? (half-kidding half not)
@teahands
If I recall correctly you lamented the loss of the Unity Scene view while the game is running in the editor. I just found today a button in Godot that does something similar. Not quite the same, but could be useful none the less!
It's called Project Camera Override and can be activated while the game is running.
I can't find any mention of it in the Godot docs, but here is a short GDQuest video on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuTKFha8QBs #godot#godotengine#gamedev
Some retailers are beefing up anti-theft measures, such as locking the wheels on shopping carts, that have raised the ire of shoppers.
Loblaw and an industry group says retailers are fighting a rise in organized crime. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/theft-grocers-organized-crime-1.7203990 .
I recently bought a hybrid car to replace my very much clapped out 2005 Corolla.
Assuming its internal fuel mileage data is accurate my comfortably sized SUV gets better combined fuel economy than a 24 HP i2 Polski Fiat despite having nearly ten times the power.
Electric drives, even just assisting things, are pretty insanely efficient.
@BalooUriza I'd probably have opted for that if my car wasn't threatening to fall apart on me.
I'm still using a regular bike for going to/from the office and groceries. It's nice being able to pick up nearly a week worth of food and get some exercise for me and the kiddo.
When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.
@mabs@Salty@shermozle@JessicaTaylor@evacide probably only works in relatively hospitable climates. Where I am a valid response would be "So I don't freeze to death" depending on the season
A post about C++ got me thinking about how I've not really seen anything quite as clean (in theory at least) as RAII.
In short:
create an object to get a resource (e.g. open a file)
delete it to release (e.g. close the file)
Multiple languages have a "using" or "with" block that works similarly but they usually require some extra work to use and can be skipped. If you design your class right RAII requires no special code in the client.
Resources automatically release as they fall out of scope
Implemented throwable bombs today. Lot of fun, but they can kill NPCs, which is interesting, but it can really screw over players. Maybe this is OK. Instead of dying NPCs run away and respawn later.
@Haijo7@YoSoyFreeman c++ can provide some useful stuff if you limit the features you use.
RAII (resource acquisition is initialization) with exceptions is a really handy way to handle stuff like memory allocation, locks, files etc more safely than in C for example. It makes avoiding leaks, double free etc easier
Getting into the weeds with metaprogramming, boost etc gets very complicated very fast though.
@aeva from reading in other science related articles/blogs (e.g. In the Pipeline discussing academic chemistry papers) this is a problem with academia as a whole.
Journals apparently don't like papers that consist of, say "1001 chemicals that looked like a new painkiller but didn't work"
@Canageek@aeva it's equal parts amusing and distressing how well that meme applies amyloid beta studies and seeing Derek's increasing levels of frustration about the literal billions of dollars it's wasted over the years
I would have a lot more respect for "tough on crime" folks if they weren't so painfully stupid. Car thieves steal cars mostly for three reasons
To drive somewhere anonymously
For funzies
To make money
None of them are going to be deterred by not having a driver's license. Actual deterrent is needed. Catching thieves quickly would be most effective. Following that, removing the ability to fence stolen cars would be next best.
@cbcworld what, exactly, is that supposed to accomplish?
Not having a driver's license isn't going to stop someone from stealing a car. If anything it'll encourage more theft since they no longer have any legal means to access a car.
Targeting the fences, chop shops and shippers would do a hell of a lot more than targeting whoever the police manage to catch and convict.
write a catchy song with a subtext that denounces the foundations of modern American life but give it a patriotic-sounding title and refrain, and you can be sure that U.S. politicians on both sides of the aisle will perform it and play it at public events for years to come
There are many qualities Russians and Americans share (some uncomfortable and others benign), but one thing that isn’t shared is Russians’ profound interest in their neighbors. In the U.S., events in Canada and Mexico barely register. (Maybe that’s a good thing, I dunno.)
@kevinrothrock Koch brother funded nonsense think-tanks (eg the Fraiser Institute) are a thing in Canada. The US government might not be as directly and overtly interested but there are definitely Americans that want to fuck things up for folks.
Trying out OpenMPT because it's open source and putting up with open source UI ugliness
Downloading the first result off Google for "rust music tracker" (this turns out to be an open source project abandoned by its owner in 2022), adopting and forking it, and spending the next two years writing features for it but never producing either completed music or releasable software?
"Damn right you're gonna use the right pronouns, motherfucker. And I better not hear you bitching about Marriage Equality again or I'll shove my sanctions so far up your ass you can taste 'em."
Tech bros love to boast about moving fast and breaking things, so it comes as some relief to find an instance where they've moved at a more stately 17 knots and yet still utterly fucked it.
In this case the "it" being carpool vehicles. Programmed to treat movement without the engine being switched on as either theft or witchcraft, they instantly bricked themselves in response.
What happened when these vehicles travelled by ferry was perhaps predictable...
