isosphere

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[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'm too early in the game to know this well, but I feel the lack of mod support. This feels like a game that would really thrive with community support, but they have no plans on supporting mods or open sourcing it. They are currently working on a new project that they haven't elaborated on yet.

Still, I got this game for $14 and if I can find some people to play with I'm absolutely going to get my money's worth - this kind of game just doesn't exist with this level of depth. I love the technical detail of how the ship works on and how the systems interact with each other.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I just got this game and I'm having a blast, this is the style of game I've been hungry for for a long time.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

500 internal errors in console, video doesn't play

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I agree, but it should still be retired regardless of intended usage - history matters; we don't have to mistakenly other people to show off cool screenshots

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I'd probably do this for a hobby project

but financial software? no way in heck!

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've read the thread; Rust-folk I recognize seem to accept that this was done to reduce compile time without suspecting bad-faith, but I can't independently verify that.

There's a post in there where sometime tries to manually compile the same binary to verify that it matches the shipped binary and they were not able to do it, but there could be a good reason for that. Reproducible builds are hard.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's "rice" because it's asian; it's a derogatory term used towards people and their cars. When I was younger, this term was used against asian drivers and their asian cars - and it was not a compliment.

Looking at Urban Dictionary I see no mention of this anti-asian side of it, but it was there when I was growing up. Maybe others can chime in with their experience, I imagine it wasn't the same everywhere.

Not implying the people using it here are being racist, I don't think they are aware of what I'm recalling here.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

A borderline racial slur about making things look good without substance behind the appearance: e.g.: "riced-up Honda civic"

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 10 points 1 year ago

Office is weird about it because of their OneDrive product

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

it crashed the first time I tried to reply to this post

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The Wicked Problem of Trading (matthewscheffel.com)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by isosphere@beehaw.org to c/finance@beehaw.org
 

I wrote a farewell to the thousand plus hours I spent on trading

I traded futures in my personal account, worked for a small trading firm, and have always been into a rational, scientific look at evidence.

I gave it as good of a try as any retail trader can, and learned a lot. Mostly that it's a waste of time, because trading is a wicked problem.

This is a plea to others that might get sucked in to run away and touch grass instead.

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love it in principal, but I found it reliable for long term operation. I was trying to use it as part of a home automation setup. Kept it updated, just had to be restarted all the time.

Your experience suggests maybe this isn't true anymore; are you aware of a time when stability was bad and now it's fixed?

[–] isosphere@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yikes. Can you imagine a more soul-crushing job than making marketing posters for the most boring soup possible?

I imagine it goes something like this:

Jim, we've got some ad space. Malls across the world. You're going to use that as a canvas to sell tomato soup. People love tomato soup. Sells itself, by itself. Don't show a grilled cheese near it - we don't sell those and lets face it, tomato soup is not the arm candy in that pairing. Oh, and have fun with it! We're a family. Please have it done by Sunday.

 

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Luckily, I had some repair tools (specifically a hot air rework station), enough experience to make me cocky, and a general disregard for the risk of destroying the thing.

It's as good as new now! Details in the attached link, I hope it helps someone else; I was flying blind.

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