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Cake day: May 31st, 2020

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  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlgl
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    5 hours ago

    I mean, kind of has to be the reason for the top image. When the door opens into the room, you’re really not helping by opening the door and then not just following through into the room.

    That’s so awkward to push down the handle and then step back to let the other person go first, especially since it’s actually slower for the other person than just letting them operate the handle themselves.






  • Oh man, in general, people be raving about aliens, but never give two looks to the ants in their garden. Or you know, the entirety of Australia. Or the deep sea. We have so much life that’s alien buzzing around us. Hell, we even have the Scottish – humanoids that speak an entirely cryptic language. It’s so much more compelling story-telling, too, if they don’t arrive here in a spaceship, but rather have been living among us all this time.




  • Ephera@lemmy.mltoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldFEAR
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    17 days ago

    Last year, I got sneakers with a canvas cover to combat my stinky feet. And they’re heckin’ excellent for that. But yeah, now rain is scary. If too much comes from above, you get soggy feet. And if too much came from above, you’ve got dirt puddles that can somehow dye the white rubber rim. 🫠



  • Hmm, for whatever reason, I’m on 2.31.4, so that might be the difference.

    That version was tagged two weeks ago, because they apparently still release patch versions for rather old minor versions of nix. So, apparently I am getting updates, but I’m on some older release channel or something. No idea why.

    I have to head to work now, so will have to debug in the evening or the weekend. Thanks for the clue, though.




  • Yeah, good point. So, I wrote that comment with an experience I had in Luanti in mind (which is basically a community-developed platform for Minecraft-like games).

    In the worlds there, I’d find a cave and it would expand down several hundred blocks. The good ores also only start to appear down there, so because you’d need to dig down a lot more blocks, and because the caves allow you to descend so quickly, it is definitely not worth digging straight down.

    But then those sprawling caves are also worth coming back to, because you will definitely not mine all of it in one go.
    Even if you do deplete those caves, it’s still worth using them as a starting point for digging further down, where you’re also likely going to run into more caves.

    All of that just means that it becomes worth your time to build out your mine.

    Ladders are worth bringing right away, because the caves are so vertical, but when the way up or down takes several minutes, it’s also a good idea to build intermediate bases and minecart rails.

    In my most built-out world, I think, I had like 500 blocks of minecart line to get to my second intermediate base. And the deepest point I reached was -3400, if I remember correctly. Found a massive cavern down there. Even just placing torches down to light it up needed several visits. Was considering building a city into there, but it was actually too large for that. I would’ve never been able to fill that cavern. 🥲


  • Yeah, my mum is like that. She’ll readily tell you that you can put dandelion into salad, but also considers it a weed.

    She’s also always very concerned what the neighbors think of our lawn (not that she ever asked), and one time she told me we had to mow the lawn, because dandelions are growing on there. When I told her that dandelions are flowers and that I think flowers look better than bland green, you could really see that she never even thought about it this way.



  • Yeah, linked lists are rarely a good idea. Modern memory optimization, where contiguous regions of memory are loaded into CPU caches, means that array-backed lists have better performance in virtually all situations.

    In a way, I’d want to argue that you should actually only ever roll your own linked lists, because you should only use linked lists when you’re not working in-memory, i.e. when array-backed lists are not an option to begin with.




  • Hmm, that sounds exactly like my setup. Weird.

    I did have the file created, with {} inside (empty Nix expression). If I git add it, it works as well:

    And yeah, I understand that it’s supposed to be a stacktrace, but other error messages look similarly horrendous and I can often only try to guess what’s wrong by reading the stacktrace top-to-bottom, so I’ve somewhat gotten used to doing that.

    But good to know that these terrible error messages might be a problem with my system. Thanks!