ekky43 @ ekky43 @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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You're not making a generator either. The tool itself is already the generator, you just make content packs for it. The result will then be a generator for your content pack.

I guess an analogy could be an industrial harbor which loads ships with containers. Can the harbor say that it made the loaded ships? (yes it can, but people will rise eyebrows.)

Perhaps the generator can be seen as a very high-level programming language, so OP can call themselves a programmer, but I wouldn't go boasting about it.

Dictionaries or lexicons. Who reads those from start to finish?

Wanted to be an inventor since I can remember, kinda like George Gearloose.

Managed to set fire to my dad's Lego train by bypassing the controller and sticking the rails directly into the wall socket at age 4. Told ya fuckers that the cable for the radio matched the cable for the rails! But would you listen? Oooh no, you wouldn't. Had to wait all the loooong time for mom to go to the toilet to try out my idea. And yes, I did cry a lot afterwards.

Currently I'm an engineer on master level working with startups, but haven't gotten around to get a doctors/PHD yet, if I ever choose to attempt one.

Now, my sister was different, didn't have any real idea what she wanted to do, probably something with art? So back when I just started learning about C I made a simple project with her, where I did the programming, and she decided on the user interface and did some simple copy pasting. Contrary to me, she very much likes making and solving patterns, such as sodoku, and since has become a frontend engineer, combining work with people, arts and design, and programming.

What I'm trying to say is, that you might find your interests reflected in unlikely places. It can be hard to find them, but keep looking until you find something that catches your fancy. And don't expect this choice to always be sunny and fun. Even those who have their work laid out for them at birth struggle and question themselves every now and again. :)

Aliases are just bloat! You can do just fine without them. Heck, why not remove the ASCII conversion and read everything in hex or binary?

It's all about SPEED and efficiency here!

Oh, so it is just unfunny, pointless, and not even a meme. Whelp, that's what I get for trying to have everything make sense.

• That was an antijoke, as there is no joke, it just summarizes what has already been said.

Might be about straw shortener? Seems to somehow have become a hot topic again in some circles.

For those not i the know, popular growth regulators used to shorten straws, as to prevent lodging during rains, has been known to cause hormone imbalances in humans, such as reduced fertility rates of men. Not sure if the growth regulators still are this dangerous, but they have been, and still are, banned in some countries.

It was a message along the lines of "Your friend Ekky has started using Telegram, say hello to them".

Not sure if it was a notification or a message, but that was very uncanny and definitely felt scammy and abusive. It's not the first time I've seen an app behave this way, though usually the app asks first.

Wait what? I thought Telegram pretty much was Discord but for people who prefer phones over computers.

Wasn't there also a controversy where some people believed that telegram was private and secure, but that only was for a very limited subset of their features?

Disclaimer: I've only ever installed telegram once for one single person, but promptly removed it afterward for sending out messages to some of my contacts on its own, so I have no clue how it actually works. Feel free to correct or educate me.

Are you this dense and uninformed on purpose, or are you just trolling us? I'll apologies for that remark, it does not contribute to the discussion, though your points are rather misinformed.

France has a lot of old plants who will be at their end of life after some 50 years of service.

The exact same thing you just said also counts for windmills. Contrary to popular belief, windmills do not last forever and will need to be rebuilt or deconstructed at the latest after some 30 years.

Does this mean that windmills do not work because they aren't perpetual machines? No! There's a myriad of problems with wind and solar, but them having a finite lifespan is very normal.

You do realise how much space windmills would need to produce as much power as a single nuclear plant, right? That is also the reason we try to build them in the water.

And when did I write anything about nuclear waste? I specifically pointed out that I was talking about deconstruction waste, where cooling towers turbines, and general facilities can be reused, and only the core shielding of the nuclear reactor has to be specially disposed of, versus the wings and foundation of windmills, which we don't really know what to do with right now, so we kinda just bury them wherever and hope it doesn't come back to bite us later.

Half of those aren't even relevant.

The actual construction takes about 4 years, but legal issues such as rules changing and politics, legal issues, and additional planning tend to push this up to 6-15 years in extreme cases. To draw a parallel: building a 1GW windmill farm, such as the Thorsminde off shore windmill farm is estimated to take 5 years of pure construction time, and politics and legal issues have so far added 4 years to this from the day it was announced, giving a total construction time of about 9 years without delays.

Cost wise, Thorsminde is projected to cost 2.1 billion USD, and that's without running costs, possible delays, or deconstruction costs at its 30 year end of life. The construction of a nuclear plant usually ( as in the projects that have been finished and we know the total construction costs of) costs anywhere from 6 to 9 billion USD. So yes, nuclear is more expensive, as you said.

Of course windmills don't just pop out of the ground, so heavy machinery will also be required, and the sound of the hammers building the foundation will likely drive away any sound sensitive life in a 100-200 km radius, such as whales. This can be partly mitigated by running the hammers at lower power, adding about 30-50% (might be more, foundations take a long time to build) additional construction time and driving up the price.

The windmills will also change the life of the area dramatically throughout its life, VS nuclear, which requires mines that cause decent damage, but do not pollute in any significant way at the reactor site (unless you pump the waste water from the usually closed first loop directly out to the rivers and sea, or swear on running the power plant without cooling towers during droughts).

Also the resources needed to make a 1GW wind farm are immense, and contrary to nuclear, we can't currently reuse the waste from deconstruction, which there also is quite a lot more of. Furthermore, maintenance will be hell, as you have much more moving parts (not per windmill, but per farm, which has multiple windmills) as a nuclear plant.

... And cause a lot of pollution and ecological stress, unless you funnel a LARGE amount of money and time into it.

Undetermined has a lot of English content, but also holds all the "undetermined" content.

While a lot of content disappears when disabled, I think this is exactly what OP asks for.

An alternative would be to block communities from non-English Lemmy instances, but that isn't foolproof either.

Yamato is pretty nice, very unique and playfully design.

I'd also like to add The Mothership from Homeworld. Also awesome story, and the game had revolutionary gameplay for it's time.

TBH, Win10 was a skip version too. Don't think I've ever had THAT many problems with a Windows system I willingly used. Even Vista was better.

I'm saying that I'm an advocate for equality. :)

Edit: Perhaps I should say "fair treatment" instead of "equality", as "equality" is rather loaded and can mean different things depending on context. My bad.

And besides, now that I am editing anyway and haven't received any answers to this comment. I do not think that everyone needs to be tolerant or needs to be tolerated, as that is a fallacy. Tolerate those who tolerate you, respect those who show you respect. And yet, one should at least try to tolerate those who disrespect one, unless they cause you significant harm, as there will always be those with differing opinions.

We can't make everybody happy, and I personally despise both extremes of this argument; those who tolerate nobody, and those who advokate to tolerate everybody, but themselves choose only to do so when it's comfortable. Of course this includes those who are so tolerant that they go on 'witch hunts' against those who are 'intolerant', with little or no aggression from the other side.

I'm a hypocrite myself so I don't mind much, but why should your rules apply to me if they don't apply to you?

And also, great explanation. You could make a Ted talk, I'm sure.

That sounds pretty intolerant to me. Can you find the door by yourself?

Could be worse, could be snaps.

Nothing big, but I like to make colored cards with NPCs, treasure, mobs/minibosses, and small quests. Sometimes you just need a random mob, so shuffle the mob deck and draw one, if it doesn't match the situation, draw another.

Regarding tabletop, we started with P&P and used erasing rubbers and such as figures and a square notepad as battle map.

Nowadays we have proper painted figures and nice battle maps, but sometimes we don't even bring all that up for small battles, as we just do them verbally instead of visually.