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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

You are always going to have to adjust your approach to the space you are actually mapping as they are going to have different features you want to highlight. Even with a 3d model you will often want to see from the outside or otherwise generate projections of it rather than use the actual thing. Generally I prefer schematic maps for the most part. I care more about how you move through a space than where precisely things are.

When I have done more traditional dungeon maps, the best tool I've had is using a stack of tracing paper, with multi-level features drawn on each layer they intersect. This is because most built dungeons are going to be built by human-like folk and we go sideways much better than we go up and down. For natural spaces Insuggest you look into the maps cavers draw. They care much more about distance from intersection and rate of descent than precise direction (which is actually hard to get right in caves in any case.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

There isn't much a fork can do that your fingers can't, only thing that comes to mind is extracting pickles. Of the western set I think it was the one we have gone longest without, and if we are including non-western utensils then give me chopsticks.

Simple fact is though it's the knife that you actually need. You might get served food that doesn't need one but that is because someone else has done all the cutting.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I do sometimes wonder what the world would be like if we just gave it to whoever worked hardest on their costume.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or, if you read the article 'I wasn't careful and didn't follow instructions so I dropped all my money down a digital drain.'

What are the advantages of this tech again?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

He's out doing what I am sure he thinks of as diplomatic meetings. The pope might be the leader of a criminal organisation, but he is generally thought of as a legitimate world leader. JD spoke with the Italian PM while he was there as well, and I think he has moved on to India now where he will meet with various politicians and attend cultural events.

VPs do this kind of thing all the time, it just seems weird because no one can take him seriously.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I recall being told something about two cows...

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

It's been a long time since I've done this, and as I recall they'd mark if angle ADC right, and not let you assume it to be so just because it happens to be drawn so.

For a general solution you could probably use the paw of cosines on triangles ABC and ADC to create two equations for angle CAD in terms of x and y, where y = AD, then solve them. Feels like a rather brutish method though, and I don't know how pleasant those equations would be, and ugly calculations tend to be a bad sign.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are you referring to the song or Reagan?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A lot of digital signage runs on windows or a cut down version thereof. If you are already running a Windows office, and larger orgs often do, it means you can leave it in the care of that same tech team. If all you are doing is showing a slideshow you can run it on a cheap mini pc, even multiple screens off of one, but the screen is likely the expensive part.

No idea about that program. It's the most generic-ass icon you could have these days. Google thinks it's a weather app but that AI crap doesn't know anything. It might even be a web page running in application mode.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Folk always seem to underestimate the effect of training and experience. In a match between two unpracticed players, sure, the more analytically inclined of the two will have an edge. This is true of any game with a strategic component. General intelligence helps but specialist knowledge is better.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It always takes me a thought or two to remember it probably isn't about the card game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This would be my suggestion too. If possible, I'd remove the cart handle and attach the belt with two lines as wide as possible on the steering bar (two lines, not one threaded through the belt) should help the cart to turn with you.

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