🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

Interesting Fact of the Day (tm):

The priests of the spanish inquisition were strictly opposed to bloodshed of any kind due to the biblical scriptures where Jesus abhors bloodshed.

Now any reasonable person would think this might be contradictory to the torture the priests employed. But if there is one thing we all know, an evil person will find a loophole in everything, even a religious evil person. They determined that torture was perfectly acceptable so long as it didn't shed any literal blood for this reason hanging, the rack, drowning, and many others were perfectly acceptable according to their twisted mentality.

Another little twist was with mutilation, which was forbidden by the church at the time. However the pope in 1256 (Alexander VI I think it was) told inquisitors that despite being a sin they were allowed to absolve each other of sins after each session. Effectively a loop hole allowing them to mutilate their victims during torture.

Climbing the worlds tallest antenna at 1768 feet high... I can not express the levels of anxiety watching this gave me.

https://youtu.be/INbKYq0G9nU

When I watch this i keep flipping between two thoughts "what if your hand slips! How many people die doing this"... and "Ok this is really the only big fear I havent conquered, how could i learn to do this".. not that I ever would, it might be too big a fear to get over. But I learned to scuba dive out of a fear of it (partly) and while the first dozen or so dives were very scary after that it wasnt scary at all, now I dive down to where the light doesnt reach and wont bat an eye. I have to wonder, could I maybe learn to overcome a fear of heights the same way? Maybe I should learn to mountain climb...

#Ham #Radio #HameRadio #Antenna #Climbing #Heights

Any Electrical Engineer will understand this one...

@funny #EE #Electronics #ElectricalEngineering

@mathlover

That or that if their audience is ok with seeing it that they must agree with it. Or a bit of both

@swiley

Seems my tritium is loosing its radioactivity, need to replace it... It was getting hard to find last time too.

Can you really say your free when you cant even buy nuclear/radioactive isotopes cheap and affordably?

Sadly I could not find this title at my local library...

For any ruby devs out there, wanted to share a neat little open-source module I wrote to solve a common problem. Keep in mind ruby is not my main language so if there is a batter approach here I'm all ears.

Basically right now I have a game (text based mud) and in normal and expected fashion objects in the game are created when their objects get initialized, such as a new player being created. The system then periodically saves the universe by marshalling all the object into some serialized format and saves it to a file from time to time. As tends to be the case with serialization, however, when an object is restored, such as a previous player logging out and back in, then the class is created directly without the initialize method getting called , its class and instance variables are simply populated directly.

This is where problems can arise if you change the system and add new features (such as a new variable to an object). New objects that are created will populate the new variable correctly through the initialize method however already existing players will not have that variable set at all (it won't be nil, it simply wont be set, which is a distinctly different state). This is the problem I solved.

What I did was created a mix-in module that lets you set default values for variables, once a class is reinstated from storage it checked if any variables that have defaults are unset (nil variables are considered set) and then applies the default value to them. In this way legacy objects will be able to update to new code changes automatically when it loads. To prevent duplicating code you can even intentionally leave it out of the initialize method and rely on the defaults when it is appropriate to do so.

Moreover the defaults do not have to be static values but can be determined based on the existing state of the object, which makes them dynamic and flexible... a class that uses the mixin could look like this:

require 'defaults'

class Foo
include Defaults

# @bar defaults to @baz*2
default(:bar) { |this| this.baz * 2 }
# @faaboo defaults to 178
default(:faaboo) { 178 }

def initialize
@baz = 13

#this line can be ommited
@bar = 26
# if you add this line instead
load_defaults
#either work fine
end
end

Here is a link to the module:

https://git.qoto.org/aethyr/Aethyr/-/blob/master/lib/aethyr/core/util/defaults.rb

You can see a class that utilizes this new feature here:

https://git.qoto.org/aethyr/Aethyr/-/blob/master/lib/aethyr/core/objects/game_object.rb

#Ruby #RubyLang #Programming #Coding #software #ComputerScience @Science #code #source #sourcecode #opensource #oss #game #gaming #gamedev #QotoJournal

WOA WOa Woa.... they made another stargate movie in 2018!!!!! How in the flying fuck did I miss this! Clearly I am not getting all my memos.

Stargate Origins: Catherine

Watching the hell out of this now... I cant believe there has been a stargate movie I missed and no one told me...

#Stargate #Scifi #Movies #Movie