Checks out.

A U R. It rolls off the tongue pretty easily.

Oh god, that’s worse than I’ve seen where a SQL query joining 10 tables aliased all of the tables as a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j.

It was a mess, and as a new dev on the project, trying to figure out which where clause was for which table and how things worked was a fucking nightmare. Trying to keep a dictionary of letters to real table names in your head as you looked at the query was very taxing. In the end, I just fixed it all to stop using aliases. Or to use short abbreviations.

Here’s a mock example:

SELECT
    j.delivery_eta,
    c.cat_desc,
    a.part_number,
    h.region_label,
    f.wh_loc,
    e.emp_last,
    g.state_flag,
    b.mfg_title,
    i.ship_track_code,
    d.order_sum,
    a.created_on,
    j.last_scanned_at,
    e.emp_first,
    c.cat_code,
    g.state_level
FROM parts AS a
INNER JOIN manufacturers AS b 
    ON a.manufacturers_id = b.id
INNER JOIN categories AS c 
    ON a.categories_id = c.id
INNER JOIN orders AS d 
    ON a.orders_id = d.id
INNER JOIN employees AS e 
    ON d.employees_id = e.id
INNER JOIN warehouses AS f 
    ON a.warehouses_id = f.id
INNER JOIN inv_state AS g 
    ON a.inv_state_id = g.id
INNER JOIN regions AS h 
    ON f.regions_id = h.id
INNER JOIN shipments AS i 
    ON d.shipments_id = i.id
INNER JOIN logistics AS j 
    ON i.logistics_id = j.id
WHERE
    (b.mfg_title LIKE '%Corp%' OR b.mfg_title LIKE '%Global%')
    AND c.cat_desc NOT IN ('Unknown', 'None', 'Legacy')
    AND (d.order_sum > 1000 OR d.order_sum BETWEEN 250 AND 275)
    AND e.emp_last ILIKE '%berg'
    AND (f.wh_loc IN ('A1', 'Z9', 'M3') OR f.wh_loc IS NULL)
    AND g.state_flag IN ('ACT', 'PENDING')
    AND h.region_label NOT LIKE 'EXT-%'
    AND (i.ship_track_code IS NOT NULL AND i.ship_track_code <> '')
    AND (j.delivery_eta < NOW() + INTERVAL '90 days' OR j.last_scanned_at IS NULL)
    AND (a.part_number ~ '^[A-Z0-9]+$' OR a.part_number IS NULL)
    AND (
        (c.cat_code = 'X1' AND g.state_level > 2)
        OR
        (e.emp_first ILIKE 'J%' AND d.orders_id IS NOT NULL)
    );

I’m looking forward to the new Steam Controller to basically enable that.

Canada should change its currency symbol to 🍁399.20

It was a quote from the story. 😑

massive

I thought he was short and average weight.

Spectroscopic tests revealed ultrafast spin conversion and nearly 99% triplet-energy transfer, marking an unprecedented level of control over exciton dynamics.

Ah, yes. I see. 99% triplet-energy transfer. Good, good.

Windows is 100 layer lasagna.

https://youtube.com/shorts/QEVaIbhwTHI

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.

the one that allows you to scrap the covers for your non steam games right in gaming mode UI.

Scrape, not scrap. Your version doesn’t sound very useful. :D

Doesn’t have to be a loss, just competitive with what a self-built PC would be.

Daniel Owen does good PC part breakdowns. Especially video cards. Here’s a cheap build he threw together using PC Part Picker to see what it would be like to build a PC using comparable parts to what the Steam Machine has, but a garbage power supply and case. It came out to $706.

(This link skips to 27:24. You have to rewind 2 minutes or so if you want to hear him talk about the bad power supply and case, which you definitely shouldn’t buy.)

https://youtu.be/RTB-lP_qwc0?t=1644

If Valve can come in around $700 it will be a good deal. If it’s sub $600, it’s an outstanding deal. Especially because of the premium wifi, special Steam Controller antenna, small form factor, and stuff like that. SFF cases and motherboards have premium prices.

That’s disappointing. However, being a mass produced, single spec device, it has to be cheaper than comparable self-built PCs. Otherwise, no one would buy it.

Nazis will take any data they want and turn it evil, even if it’s only half true. And they’ll ignore data that conflicts with their belief. It doesn’t matter what science discovers.

We already have evidence that some forms of “evil” are inheritable. This isn’t new. For instance example, I saw a documentary like 20 years ago that showed how one adopted baby—in a nice suburban family, with a couple other perfectly normal kids—was a criminal at a young age. Like stealing-a-school-bus-at-age-nine criminal, and that was just one of many examples. They showed two family trees: his adopted and his biological, and highlighted people who had been arrested, convicted of crimes, etc. They used a few different colors, and sometimes colored in one person’s node with two or more colors. His adopted family had like one spot going back 3 generations. His biological family was a rainbow! Remember, he was adopted as a baby and raised with love, and the other kids were fine.

And science has demonstrated that offspring of stressed-out female mice are much more aggressive than their peers.

Now what do we do with this kind of data? Be proactive about helping certain kids if they have certain genes. Give them safe outlets for their impulses, or what have you. Extra monitoring. I dunno.

As for the stressed-out mothers… If you want to stop generational crime, give financial support and therapy to low income mothers. Because their stress is likely epigenetically producing criminal children.

What would a Nazi do? Nothing. Nazis don’t care if people are evil. What are they going to do, eugenics themselves? They’re the ones with the most colorful family trees.

Just some food for thought. I don’t think we should suppress science just because Nazis exist.

Thocks work better than long socks.

Fallout 3.

I spent the time to learn how to make action layers, radial menus, and multi-action keys. It’s great! (Emulating mouse/kb controls)

• Holding L2 for sights/scopes enables gyro aiming.
• X button presses Ctrl and Caps Lock at the same time to toggle both crouching and walking. (I will disable Caps Lock once I take the Silent Running perk.)
• Holding L1 enables an action layer that changes nearly every control:
  • Right stick becomes a radial menu for item hotkeys, 1-8
  • X presses Caps Lock alone to toggle walk-run by itself
  • Y is hotkey 8, which is my hotkey for Stimpack. It’s easier to hit in an emergency than the radial menu.
  • B becomes X (keyboard) for exiting shops
  • Right trackpad become a a scroll wheel for menus

Stuff like that. Basically, I have every important keyboard key mapped somehow. I have the E key mapped two different ways. R3 for just opening doors and such where aiming isn’t important. And L4 for when I’m using the right trackpad as mouse for carefully picking up individual items like bottlecaps, Nuke Colas and such that are often surrounded by junk. Same with landmines.

It’s not as good as a real kb/mouse, but it’s much better than the default XBox 360 controls. Steam Input is so amazing.

Sure! The only thing I’m worried about taking over the community is the Steam Frame. There’s a chance it becomes super popular. But if that happens, we can just make a new community for it. No biggie.

Yes, every distro requires a password for sudo. That’s the whole point of it. But editing .bashrc does not require sudo. You can add aliases and functions to .bashrc. A malicious script can append to .bashrc, and by doing so, it can alias sudo to be whatever command it wants. For instance, a malicious function. So the next time you run sudo it runs the malicious command, instead, which itself can act just like sudo and prompt you for your password. So now you just entered your password into a malicious function. Do you see the problem with this?

that’s the part that can keep malicious stuff out because it doesn’t have permission.

All a malicious script has to do is alias sudo in your .bashrc, and you’re fucked. The script can do that without privileges. It takes surprisingly little to go from “I’m only running this script without privileges” to getting totally owned immediately after.

I’ve been replaying Fallout 3 on Steam Deck, and I only have Gyro enabled when I hold down L2 for aiming. It’s pretty awesome because it’s so much easier to fine tune aim by pivoting the whole steam deck than it is to use a stick. Like I can get headshots with a 10 millimeter pistol at close-medium range pretty easily. I could never do that with a stick.