Saganaki

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That makes a lot more sense. Grateful for the explanation, thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It’s been 15 years, but for engineering degrees isn’t “ABET Certified” basically a requirement? Mobile doesn’t let me search, frustratingly, so that website you provided isn’t super useful.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The game is definitely not for everyone, but ProsperousUniverse kind of stands alone when it comes to people’s descriptions of niches/genres.

The game is an economy/real-time MMO with no real PvP. “Real-time” not like an RTS but as in “this operation takes many hours or days” and everyone has that same time burden.

It’s a game where planning far outperforms “always online” gameplay, so people end up learning spreadsheet software to optimize everything for themselves.

In addition, the UI is modular like a Bloomberg terminal, so it feels right—you feel like a trader.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

…did you not read the article?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Tabs for indentation/increased scope, spaces for alignment. The best answer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The reason is because a programmer at some point decide that & should indicate the start of a special symbol in HTML. In programming parlance this is a means of “escaping” characters which are reserved.

For example, in HTML, things look something like this:

<p>Hello, World!</p>

The p in the less than and greater symbol symbols means “paragraph” where the ending version with the slash means “the paragraph is done”.

However, there’s a problem. What if you wanted to actually type out <p> to the end-user and have it not be treated as HTML? You use the ampersand syntax to write &lt; by using &lt; and > by using >.

</p><p>&lt;p></p>

Yet another problem: If we use &amp; as a special character in HTML, we also need a way to display it—the answer is &amp;

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (12 children)

Serious question: Is “Directed Acyclical Graph” really an unknown term for people? The author harped on it pretty hard, but what it is…is pretty apparent, no? I mean, I’ve encountered the term often, but I don’t think I had any need to look it up…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You could try ProsperousUniverse. It’s more of a game you play while you play others, but definitely a “wait, I spent 18 hours on a spreadsheet?” type of game.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m not ignoring evidence, I just see an alternative you don’t: He wants attention and he always has. He’s “losing” and the easiest way to get validation is to get it from those that are right-wing. He wants so badly to be treated as “a genius”.

Nobody other than staunch right-wingers believe his non-sense. He only gets headlines because controversy sells.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Don’t attribute to malice what is absolutely just idiocy. Musk is not some genius. He is quite literally a man-child who made money because he came from money (and maybe a little luck).

His hubris led to this disaster with twitter—nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

That makes a lot of sense. It’s easy to forget life before DVDs & streaming, the latter being so damn normal now.

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