I love VtM:B but I never had high hopes for this one. Direct sequels made by unrelated developers rarely work out.

But that’s a specific optimization where you can no longer read the numbers left to right, the original intent of RPN.

Actually:

2 <enter> 5 <enter> 8 <enter> 5 - x +

10 keystrokes

I use RPN on my phone calculator for fun but it can also be annoying sometimes.

On my CASIO FX-260 Solar II calculator (super cheap, really nice and simple but also powerful) that would be:

2 + 5 ( 8 - 5 ) =

9 keystrokes

I really should just put a full block on lemmy.ml. Thanks for the reminder!

If you can eat well for $1 then it is definitely a poor country relative to the US. Differences in purchasing power are a direct result of differences in wealth.

I see this a lot and GM definitely deserves a large share of the blame but we also need to look at ourselves, our culture, and the way we decided to evolve our cities.

Redlining, white flight, car-centric suburbs, HOAs, wide streets, 2-car garages, Hollywood movies like Rebel Without a Cause. The list of factors goes on and on and on.

A lot of people like to blame boomers for all our ills but I think the trend started earlier with people who were teenagers at the end of WW2. They were too young to fight in the war but they were old enough to get sucked into this brand new marketing and cultural phenomenon known as the teenager.

Prior to WW2, marketers targeted only older adults and their messaging was very practical and family-oriented. After WW2 there began a movement towards teenage independence, rebellion, and rock & roll. The centre of all this independence was the car!

Sure, though interpreters have already been written for the bytecode language that this source code compiles to. It shouldn’t be too difficult for the community to write a compiler when the back-end interpreter is already there and usable for testing.

You don’t have to have nostalgia for the game to appreciate how wonderfully crafted and expansive it is. It has one of the best soundtracks of any game, period, and its art is highly detailed and numerous. It has a ton of secrets (including one MAJOR secret) and a couple of extra game modes that enhance the replayability.

I would say the game seems to get better every time I play it. Is that nostalgia or something else? There are a lot of games I played before I had ever seen SOTN, yet I don’t feel the same desire to keep replaying them. I think it’s like a piece of classical music or a great movie. The more you replay it, the more details you come to appreciate. The original Deus Ex is like that for me as well.

Learn how to stir fry. It’s the ultimate vibe cooking technique. You can stir fry pretty much any protein, veggie, or carb (or any combo) and create awesome meals easily and cheaply!

Wow! I’ve been using the internet since 1995 and I’ve never heard of this site. Thanks! I’m actually interested in learning about mixing drinks!

Do you have an example of some games that use small neural networks for their NPC AIs? I was under the impression that most video game AIs used expert systems, at least for built-in ones.

All models are wrong. Some are useful.

— George Box

If you want lowest possible cost then canned stuff is out. Buy beans and rice in 20 lb bags. Hard to beat that!

What is this? An argument to bring back capital punishment?!

I think it’s susceptible to the same problems we have now. Elites gonna form and do their thing. Whether they’re in the party or on the board of directors, the effect is the same.

I think we’re just way too naive about systems. We expect them to work for us without putting in any effort. We should stop focusing so much on systems and start focusing on communities and cultures.

The best societies have tight-knit communities and a culture of cooperation. You can’t achieve that by passing laws or writing a new constitution or whatever. You have to get buy-in from everyone.

If you like this you’ll love Chinese! A language where books were printed with literal blocks of wood!

Yes, and the language works this way too:

电 (diàn) : lightning

脑 (nǎo) : brain

电脑 : computer

Anyone else find that praying hands emoji very condescending when used like that? I would destroy the backend DB if they tried to send me that!

Yep! And people have different sized feet, so measuring distance in feet is silly and arbitrary!

This is why I stopped buying games. I still have a massive backlog (like everyone else) but it’s a list, not a Steam library.

Don’t get sucked in by Steam sales. You’re not saving money by buying games you’re never going to play!

This one is it for me. The game really does so much with so little. The reality of the game is that it is a roughly linear sequence of closed levels (with some hub levels thrown in) that feels like a cohesive, connected world. It’s absolutely incredible!