NostraDavid

Presuming you can’t get a game on GoG (which is European), check if the game is still from Europe.

Bit of a compromise, but this is for the people who can’t give up on Steam.

FFS, you could just have run gzip on it probably.

Gzip doesn’t reduce your data’s size by 2000x. Of course this could be done by other languages as well, but running gzip on your data doesn’t keep it accessible.

Even turning the data into a Parquet file would’ve been a massive improvement, while keeping it accessible, but it likely would not have been 2000x smaller. 10x, maybe.

edit: zip: about 10x; 7zip about 166x (from ~10GB to 60MB) - still not 2000x

What’s wrong with BSD?

Until you use exit codes, which flips the logic.

Multiple ones.

• Wave Function Collapse for an existing tileset (Warcraft 2) - it’s really hard to figure out how to build the data on whether a tile fits on a certain side of another tile. From the top of my head: Some 180 tiles total * 4 sides to compare * 180 options per side = 129_600 total checks I would need to do, which is just wayyy too much. Need to figure out how to reduce these checks (or automate them using OpenCV or something - not sure yet)
• Comparing dual datasets of people who worked on certain games (the games being all Warcraft games), so I can see who worked on Game A, who on Game B, and who on both. Am currently (manually) cleaning up the data, because Blizzard has been very inconsistent in how they structure their credits. At least WoW had everything available in HTML - having to manually copy over 600+ people would be no fun (per expansion).
• A cryptocoin predictor for my friends and I. One part ingestion from an API into a Postgres DB, one part Streamlit + some stats / data science stuff that I’m very much a beginner in. The platform we’re on doesn’t provide much predictive power. Using the typical Simple Moving Averages and the like simply doesn’t predict clearly enough, IMO.

Oh, and I’m also setting up a private ProxMox server, over at a friends house, and need to connect that to the NAS over at my house, so we can copy over our data for redundancy/backup purposes.

I’m bouncing between these projects.

How is Nifi? I’ve seen it pass by at work, as a generic ingestion application, but for most ingestions we’re using custom-written Python for better flexibility.

I’ve never worked with it, but it looked pretty daunting (as an initial view).

I dont know… This Linux thing is pretty great, IMO.

I get their point, but it feels like it’s more about tech being abused by large corporations, trying to squeeze another cent out of you.

white mode is exhausting on the eyes

Modern monitors can output 1000 nits, which is super bright - same with cars. When I was young I sometimes saw yellowish headlights, which weren’t bright enough, but now we have LED and Xenon lamps that burn the cornea from your eyes.

Or maybe we’re (also) getting older.

Back and forth, forever.

Years of having good controls has ruined my ability

Where my WAXD gamers at? The Chaos Engine was a fun game, but the controls were a bit weird.

As Jake the Dog said: “Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.”

Domestic violence is a huge issue, and women are more likely to suffer from it!

Yes and yes.

and scientifically literate readers won’t dismiss your credibility along with your cause.

No. If you care about women’s lives, you’ll focus on cancer instead.

Homocide per 100k capita of women (summed the separate numbers on page 9, worldwide): 7.4

Deaths per 100k capita of women just in the USA (listed under “Sex and Race/Ethnicity”): 126

Here’s your headline: Women are 1602.70% more likely to die of cancer, than of homicide at home!!!

Now… Homicide bad. very bad. Homicide very bad (self-defence does obviously not count). But compared to some other numbers that are also bad, maybe homicide relatively not that bad.