joshthewaster

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[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

“Like obviously we need to make people know things exist, it makes financial and logical sense, etc.“

Why is this obvious? I know it's so normal that me asking seems weird but, is this really how the world has to work? Can we not imagine a world without ads? I'd like to at least try.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, this makes sense. Think the thought still holds though. Just needs to be explained with the normal distribution meme.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is how it should be!!!

If you can feel more than nothing during the root canal (or any dental work) then you need more anesthetic. Dentists aim to give you as little as possible so it is up to you to let them know if you have any feeling. It can start to wear off too, you'll know and should tell them so they can give you more.

Take earbuds and listen to some music during it. Let the dentist know and they will probably be fine with that.

Edit: Read more of the thread. Don't get high, it can interfere with the anesthetics. Your tolerance to them can be higher as well. If you feel comfortable with it you can talk to your dentist about it.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's been a long time since I read Dracula but I remember really struggling with the start. Nearly quit a few times and it was slow going. At some point it flipped and I think I pretty much finished the book in one sitting. Anyway, it is great and was worth the rough start I had with it.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We did prohibition once already. The result was that all the little guys went out of business and the big guys ended up in positions to be the only guys. I wouldn't discount that as being a possibility for weed.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Yep, this is what I was saying.

Yep.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

First, let me say that Trump is an idiot and I'm not defending him.

That out of the way... Imagine your circle landmass has a 'C' shaped mountain range around the edge. The center of the 'C' is a sea level valley that floods when sea levels rise. Then the amount of coast would increase.

Obviously if sea level keeps rising forever then eventually the total coastline will trend to zero. Really just pointing out that the circle may be a bit of an oversimplification and in some given time frame coastline could increase.

None of the this is intended to defend Trump or deny the negative affects of climate change.

 

So I have struggled with classes and objects but think I'm starting to get it...? As part of a short online class I made a program that asked a few multiple choice questions and returns a score. To do this there are a few parts.

  1. Define some inputs as lists of strings ((q, a), (q2, a2),...). The lists contain the questions and answers. This will be used as input and allows an easy way to change questions, add them, whatever.

  2. Create a class that takes in the list and creates objects - the objects are a question and it's answer.

  3. Create a new list that uses that class to store the objects.

  4. Define a function that iterates over the list full of question/answer objects, and then asks the user the questions and tallies the score.

Number 2 is really what I am wondering about, is that generally what a class and object are? I would use an analogy of a factory being a class. It takes in raw materials (or pre-made parts) and builds them into standard objects. Is this a reasonable analogy of what a class is?

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Definitely don't want the extra complexity. Guess my question is if there is a third type of statement (function, method, ____) or maybe even more. From other replies it doesn't sound like it.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Follow up question. Are there any other ways I would find the length? Or are methods and functions the only options?

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Thanks this is helpful.

Function - probably has some limitations depending on what it is meant to do but generally I send a thing, it does it's function to that thing, and returns the result (or error).

Method - part of the thing itself. Would have to be defined for that 'object' and if it isn't then it probably doesn't make sense to ask for that info.

Probably have a ways to go to understand objects and why I would choose one VS the other.

 

Just started as in, I'm about an hour into a 4 hour intro video. Seeing two basic ways of manipulating things and don't understand the difference.

If I want to know the length of a string and I just guess at how to do it I would try one of these two things,

  1. Len(string)
  2. string.len()

What is the difference between these types of statements? How do I think about this to know which one I should expect to work?

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Agree about the romances in BG3, they feel pretty shallow. While I can maybe see your point about the writing in general what I think makes BG3 great is that it felt like playing tabletop dnd. New bad guys every week, silly fights and absurd coincidence, maps with minimal markers and characters that are there for the party to use to progress as heros (biggest thing to me that didn't feel like tabletop dnd was having to loot every box VS just saying I searched the room).

Haven't played other CDPR games. Guess I don't need to bother lol.

[–] joshthewaster@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

My vote too. It's crazy, nothing can be trusted when it relies on ads. Everyone likes to think it doesn't work on them or is worth the free content but they are wrong and it isn't.

 

I think this episode is part one of the holonovel followed by the second part during the second half. The only break we take from seeing the holonovel be played is when they tell captain Janeway (where she implies that she has to be made to look good) about the first half and when Tom and Tuvok are in the mess hall being hassled by everyone who wants to help write the second half.

Tom and Tuvok write the ending off screen (there is dialog where they argue about a logical ending or a wild twist). The Twist is that part two picks up with the player of the novel meeting Tuvok in the hallway to go to the holodeck to help write the ending. When the player gets there they then get attacked by Seska and get to help rescue Voyager while novel character Janeway helps save the day by brilliantly editing the simulation (in a holonovel simulation).

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