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Wictorian got a reaction from Mark Kaine in TEkken 7 NVIDIAGfeSDK Error
ıt was abou tthe crack, I downloaded a different crack
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Wictorian reacted to IPD in Heritage
When I die, I want people to forget I ever existed within 6 months. Fuck leaving a legacy. Every 2 bit schmuck thinks they're going to leave a legacy behind.
p.s.
If you are a billionaire and aren't leveraging the wealth to do things that are unavailable to the less wealthy--then I hate you. And I don't mean luxury purchases. The best thing to do is pull a Musk and open new ventures and new business segments that would otherwise remain untapped. The next best thing to do is go racing or buy a sports team--something that would be prohibitively expensive--and improve it. The worst thing to do is pull a Bezos and sit on your wealth and expect people to demolish 500 year old bridges so you can have a Mega-Yacht.
Charity is a terrible idea. I'd much rather set up an endowment to cover the cost of vocational schooling for thousands--or something to that effect.
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Wictorian reacted to manikyath in Run Python Scripts on startup
you can just make the shortcut run python with that script as a launch variable.
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Wictorian reacted to Ryuikko in Calculate Age Based on Radioactive Decay
So for example, if I was given that a substance has a half life of 350 years and it has retained 64% of its original amount, I'd write the equation being something like this
Expected amount=initial(1/2)^t/half life
So written out would be
64=100(1/2)^t/350
Your initial being 100% since that's the whole, and you can express percentages as out of 100, so 64% of 100 would be 64
Divide both sides by 100 to get the function by itself
64/100=(1/2)^t/350
.64=(1/2)^t/350
You can then log both sides, and by the power rule you can move t/350 to the front such as
Log(.64)=t/350×log(1/2 or .5)
Then divide log(1/2) from both sides to get
Log(.64)/log(.5)=t/350
Then you can multiply each side by 350 so you can have
Log(.64)/Log(.5) × 350 = t
t(in years is =225.35)
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Wictorian reacted to mariushm in Counter Strike maps in Half Life.
Jesus dude.... did you even do some research? Did you at least even TRY to open a ready made map in a map editor?
Maybe there's some transparent sticker / spray / object on the floor and the game scripts search the map for those transparent objects and spawn weapons there.
Maybe there's a transparent/ invisible cube / object / something that tells a game script " this is one of the locations where terrorists can spawn" and then the game script once it picks that location, will find flat empty areas around that invisible object and spawn the weapons and the players there.
I don't know ... but as a programmer it makes sense to me to be something like that.
Either way, the "game scripts" are not inside the maps, so without those game scripts the half-life engine has no idea how to interact with the maps.
Do some research, read some documentation. Don't expect "type xyz in console to spawn weapons" from anyone here.
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Wictorian got a reaction from TheCoder2019 in [Political] Documentaries
Omg I can’t imagine what political and religious debates look like.
And these wall of texts are still too hot to ignore..
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Wictorian reacted to Needfuldoer in Standing Desks
I hate them.
I do plenty of standing and running around as it is; If I'm at my desk, I'm sitting.
Some joker thought they were being funny by raising my desk when I was off-shift, so I unplugged it. Then they'd plug it back in, raise it, and unplug it again. Now it's the height I want it, and its power cord is pinned under a heavy cabinet.
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Wictorian reacted to Takumidesh in How to get into programming? - Resource Thread
I totally read this whole thing, yep all the way. Great work!
I want to add that industrial automation and similar fields are always looking for people. Robots (fanuc, abb) PLCs ( siemens, allen-bradley)
This kind of falls into the embedded category but is a little broader.
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Wictorian reacted to C2dan88 in Python SQLite Auto Increment - 3 columns needed but 2 supplied
Specify the column names you are inserting values into
INSERT INTO drugs (column1, column2) VALUES(?, ?) ..... -
Wictorian reacted to LogicalDrm in [Political] Documentaries
And that exactly why politics is under site-wide ban. Cleaned and locked. Please learn from your mistakes.
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Wictorian got a reaction from Needfuldoer in [Political] Documentaries
Omg I can’t imagine what political and religious debates look like.
And these wall of texts are still too hot to ignore..
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Wictorian got a reaction from RockSolid1106 in [Political] Documentaries
Omg I can’t imagine what political and religious debates look like.
And these wall of texts are still too hot to ignore..
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Wictorian reacted to wanderingfool2 in Implementing Sha256
Step 1 was essentially creating a 512 bit chunk (or rather things divisible by 512) from your input data.
Step 5 is processing a 512 bit chunk. So you shouldn't be able to have "more blocks"
The 512 bits gets divided into 32 bit sub-chunks (16 total). It is saying add 48 more totals of 32 bit sub-chunks....so you end up with 64 total sub-chunks that are 32 bit.
So you can't have more than that.
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Wictorian reacted to Akolyte in Python mysql.connector - how am I supposed to use it? (Mac)
Hey, so for context - here's how it works:
You setup a mysql database or whatever database you're using. This needs to be set-up as a server, and then you log into it and create a database. You can create a user to access MySQL on the server you set up.
The MySQL connector allows the Python application to access your MySQL database server and send queries to retrieve or post data.
This makes the beginning of a 3-tier architecture to allow for scalability, it's quite old and probably won't be used outside of development but it's great to learn for sure as it leads onto more complex system decoupling. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitier_architecture if you want to learn about it.
Now, if you want to set-up the database - you have a couple of options:
Set up one yourself, this could be in a virtual-machine or a docker container. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-mysql-on-ubuntu-20-04. You will need to set up a virtual machine using virtual box or something and connect to that btw, I wouldn't do this on your own machine unless it's in a container. Rely on a Cloud Provider like AWS and set-up an RDS Database using the free-tier. Remember that you'll have to make sure it falls within the free tier before you deploy it (I'm not responsible for any incurred costs of course), but if you're just creating your AWS account you should get 1 year of an RDS database running on a small EC2 instance for free. https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/free-tier-rds-launch/ Finally, make sure if you do opt to use the cloud option you secure your database by using strong credentials and setting your security group to only allow connections from your IP address (make sure /32 bit netmask).
If this sounds complex to you, I'd take a course or follow a tutorial on setting up and using MySQL first so you can know what you're doing. Taking a course on a cloud platform like AWS or GCP will be helpful as well so you can spin up development resources such as databases quickly.
This site looks like a great starting point for the basics: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/mysql/index.htm if this does sound complex.
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Wictorian reacted to Akolyte in Learning Programming - I'm lost
I know this is probably a little bit different than what others are telling you, but I'd suggest just picking one language and building some demo applications with it. You can find good courses online that guide you through building real-world applications.
Any framework, any language - just pick one. Whether it be javascript/node, C#/.NET, or Python/Flask/Django. You need to stick to one thing, build some demo applications.
Being a developer these days, languages and frameworks change so much that you need to continuously learn on the go anyway, and you'll use multiple languages on the job anyhow. Make sure to learn the fundamentals of object oriented programming, and actually build something.
If you're interested in becoming a developer, then you'll want to learn about event-driven architectures as well. You'll be expected to learn many different databases and how to optimise them, you'll be expected to learn how to integrate different authentication providers, design and build REST APIs, and completely decouple your services, making use of intermediary queues. Not to mention, many services utilise different languages and each need their own datastore.
I'm not saying this to intimidate you, but to emphasise the fact that you should just pick a language and build some stuff, persist - no matter how lost you feel, keep persisting and you'll make it. Pick a language, because in the end you'll be expected to learn multiple languages, databases, frameworks, and once you learn one it will get easier and easier.
Good luck and hope you achieve it.
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Wictorian got a reaction from shadow_ray in Learning Programming - I'm lost
Yeah as far as I see I have to get good at Java because it seems like app development is based on that. Also do you think dart can be substitute for Java?
What do you mean by database programming? As far as I know it shouldn’t be hard.
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Wictorian reacted to wasab in Learning Programming - I'm lost
He mentioned in the past he won’t be going to college tho so I assume he plans to just self studies into a faang job. He will need to do a lot more and work a lot harder than those going through traditional college to pull it off that’s for sure.
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Wictorian reacted to LapsedMemory in Learning Programming - I'm lost
I see the technical side of your questions are being answered pretty well, so I'll go with the career development perspective:
If you really want to work for a FAANG company, and you need a roadmap to do it, then the surface answer is pretty simple. Go to their "Careers" page, find a few job openings you think you'd be interested, then write down all the requirements for that job posting. Do this for each of the FAANG companies you want to work for. Now you have a determinate list of exactly what they are looking for and exactly what you have to become an expert in.
Update this list every 6-months, focusing first on the stuff that doesn't change much, and as you get closer to the job market, focusing on the new stuff they're asking for. The market is constantly shifting, and if you don't keep up, all your work won't mean much.
Most importantly, get yourself into a highly ranked college or university, and work to get high marks.
Follow all of this, become an expert, and you may have a shot at not having your resume immediately tossed by the automated sorting algorithm.
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Wictorian got a reaction from Jtalk4456 in [Political] Documentaries
Omg I can’t imagine what political and religious debates look like.
And these wall of texts are still too hot to ignore..
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Wictorian got a reaction from dalekphalm in [Political] Documentaries
Omg I can’t imagine what political and religious debates look like.
And these wall of texts are still too hot to ignore..
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