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  • “Like obviously we need to make people know things exist, it makes financial and logical sense, etc.“

    Why is this obvious? I know it's so normal that me asking seems weird but, is this really how the world has to work? Can we not imagine a world without ads? I'd like to at least try.

  • Has anybody had a root canal?
  • This is how it should be!!!

    If you can feel more than nothing during the root canal (or any dental work) then you need more anesthetic. Dentists aim to give you as little as possible so it is up to you to let them know if you have any feeling. It can start to wear off too, you'll know and should tell them so they can give you more.

    Take earbuds and listen to some music during it. Let the dentist know and they will probably be fine with that.

    Edit: Read more of the thread. Don't get high, it can interfere with the anesthetics. Your tolerance to them can be higher as well. If you feel comfortable with it you can talk to your dentist about it.

  • If you haven't read "the count of Monte Cristo", do it now
  • It's been a long time since I read Dracula but I remember really struggling with the start. Nearly quit a few times and it was slow going. At some point it flipped and I think I pretty much finished the book in one sitting. Anyway, it is great and was worth the rough start I had with it.

  • Classes and objects. Just started learning, working in python.

    So I have struggled with classes and objects but think I'm starting to get it...? As part of a short online class I made a program that asked a few multiple choice questions and returns a score. To do this there are a few parts.

    1. Define some inputs as lists of strings ((q, a), (q2, a2),...). The lists contain the questions and answers. This will be used as input and allows an easy way to change questions, add them, whatever.

    2. Create a class that takes in the list and creates objects - the objects are a question and it's answer.

    3. Create a new list that uses that class to store the objects.

    4. Define a function that iterates over the list full of question/answer objects, and then asks the user the questions and tallies the score.

    Number 2 is really what I am wondering about, is that generally what a class and object are? I would use an analogy of a factory being a class. It takes in raw materials (or pre-made parts) and builds them into standard objects. Is this a reasonable analogy of what a class is?

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    Just started learning python - question about types of statements.
  • Thanks this is helpful.

    Function - probably has some limitations depending on what it is meant to do but generally I send a thing, it does it's function to that thing, and returns the result (or error).

    Method - part of the thing itself. Would have to be defined for that 'object' and if it isn't then it probably doesn't make sense to ask for that info.

    Probably have a ways to go to understand objects and why I would choose one VS the other.

  • Just started learning python - question about types of statements.

    Just started as in, I'm about an hour into a 4 hour intro video. Seeing two basic ways of manipulating things and don't understand the difference.

    If I want to know the length of a string and I just guess at how to do it I would try one of these two things,

    1. Len(string)
    2. string.len()

    What is the difference between these types of statements? How do I think about this to know which one I should expect to work?

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    what're some of your gaming hot takes? In regards to opinions about certain characters or plot points, etc.
  • Agree about the romances in BG3, they feel pretty shallow. While I can maybe see your point about the writing in general what I think makes BG3 great is that it felt like playing tabletop dnd. New bad guys every week, silly fights and absurd coincidence, maps with minimal markers and characters that are there for the party to use to progress as heros (biggest thing to me that didn't feel like tabletop dnd was having to loot every box VS just saying I searched the room).

    Haven't played other CDPR games. Guess I don't need to bother lol.

  • once in a lifetime
  • The annular one over north America? Because it was annular. While a cool event it is really a specific kind of partial eclipse. Totality is incomparable to even a 99% partial eclipse. I heard it described as the difference between mostly dead VS dead and recently I've seen the xkcd comic that does a decent job conveying the difference too.

  • Dell tells remote workers that they won’t be eligible for promotion unless they go hybrid
  • That last bit is HUGE. Part of what is great about working from home is flexibility and forcing people to be in on certain days just isn't ever going to work for everyone. Inevitably you will end up with meetings where one person has to dial in and now the rest of team is annoyed they made the effort to show up that day.

    Anyway, I don't disagree with you that a hybrid where everyone is on the office together for some amount of time could be very good for productivity and teamwork. However, it just isn't a realistic which then, as you said, makes it pointless.

    Just let people work from wherever works for them.

  • Janeway’s “Tuvix” Decision Divides ‘Star Trek: Voyager’ Cast: “It Kind Of Hurt Her Character”
  • This is true but hard to argue within the universe as we just don't have the info and there are in universe contradictions about transporters. Been a while since I saw the episode but for me - 'nonexistentance' is close enough to 'dead' that Tuvix should have been allowed to live.

  • I tried Turtle Beach’s new Stealth Ultra pro controller and the Elite Series 2 should be worried
  • If hall effect sensors used for the thumbsticks do what they say (no drift) then maybe they do. I have v1 and v2 elite controller and both have bad drift. The v2 is so bad it's unusable so I use the v1 and just deal with it because I refuse to ever spend another penny on a controller that is just gonna drift again. Hopefully MS will adopt this for all controllers though.

  • Question for those who have read them: is the whole *The Expanse* series good?
  • I read them all at once and it's been a while but overall I enjoyed them. Definitely felt like it went on longer than maybe it needed to which is probably why I didn't bother with the short stories. I would still recommend the books.

  • I don't think Seska had anything to do with ending of Worst Case scenario (Voyager S3E25).

    I think this episode is part one of the holonovel followed by the second part during the second half. The only break we take from seeing the holonovel be played is when they tell captain Janeway (where she implies that she has to be made to look good) about the first half and when Tom and Tuvok are in the mess hall being hassled by everyone who wants to help write the second half.

    Tom and Tuvok write the ending off screen (there is dialog where they argue about a logical ending or a wild twist). The Twist is that part two picks up with the player of the novel meeting Tuvok in the hallway to go to the holodeck to help write the ending. When the player gets there they then get attacked by Seska and get to help rescue Voyager while novel character Janeway helps save the day by brilliantly editing the simulation (in a holonovel simulation).

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