bugsmith

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[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

It is fantastic. The most polished and stylish monster tamer I've played to date. I strongly recommend it to any fan of the genre.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Fair enough. And I'm sure the people who volunteered were probably thrilled to be involved with the project, it really is a brilliant piece of work.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Absolutely loved this. Never heard of the artist before this (though clearly she is very popular!). She seemed to have a lot of fun making the video.

The only thing that disappointed me was learning that a bunch of people had to volunteer their time to make this. Surely this made lot of money for the artist and video producers, could it really be that the margins were too thin to compensate all the people working on this?

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

That will deduce the liar and truth-teller, but won't give you any information about which door leads where.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Let's number the dudes in your image form left to right: 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Dudes 3 and 4 have no useful information. They stay silent.

Dude 1 can see one of each hat colour on the dudes in front, but cannot determine their own colour without knowing the hat colour of dude 4. They stay silent.

Dude 2 can see the hat colour of dude 3. They can determine that either they themself or the dude behind must have a different hat colour. The dude behind - dude 1 - can see both of the hat colours in front, but stays silent. This lets dude 2 know that they and dude 3 must be different colours (otherwise dude 1 would have known their own hat colour).

Therefore, dude 2 knows their own hat colour must be different to the dude in front and announces the colour of their own hat.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

I don't even see those. What you are seeing is more in line with what one would expect from DNS based ad blocking.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I am ~~in the EU~~ in a country that implements the GDPR, so if @ljdawson@lemmy.world has set up something like that, it's possible. But I'd be surprised, as I'm pretty sure he is British and would have GDPR-compliant advertising.

Edit: Forgot that the country I live in is no longer in the EU :(

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 4 points 2 years ago

Good question. I am now a software developer, but in a previous career I was a logistics manager. In that job I had a lot of repetitive report downloading and creating. It would take hours each day. I used techniques taught in that book to automate downloading reports directly, as well as generating some in SAP by automating mouse and keyboard movements, as well as generating CSVs and Excel spreadsheets. In all cases I either cut the time required or at least the time I had to be physically present. Many jobs could have similar applications of a little Python, I imagine. Certainly not all jobs though, of course.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do, via the !s bang. I was thrown off of using Startpage exclusively after the System1 acquisition. Since then, I've also experienced more downtime with Startpage than I find acceptable. It is nice getting the Google results via another interface though.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I default to DuckDuckGo as well. I don't really like it, and I certainly don't trust it any more than I do any other for-profit organization. I just wanted something that isn't Google, Amazon or Microsoft.

It's really quite fruitless though. Maybe 80% of my searches end up having a !s or !g (really just for variety...) thrown in, as Google's results are just better.

DDG image search spits out porn as often as it does something relevant. I can change content moderation options if I want to reduce it, but I don't have to do that with Google.

Kagi has caught my attention lately. I'm going to try it and see if it feels good value for the money. I'm not opposed to paying for search, but this does feel expensive (I say that having no idea of the true cost of running a search company). Obviously, privacy is out the window as it's paid for and linked to an account. But as I feel I'm not really getting that anywhere else either, I'm more hoping that it will just provide good search results.

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 12 points 2 years ago

I think you may have misread the title (and certainly not watch the video! :P). This is about games made in Godot, an open source game engine (mostly written in C++) featuring a scripting language similar to Python (but far from identical).

[–] bugsmith@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great. I've made you mod and transferred the community to you. Let me know if you have any issues.

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