I thought this was the adoring fan from Oblivion until I saw someone linked the source.

Nice writing, I enjoyed that.

I program for a living and I think of it more as doing the interesting tasks all day, rather than the mundane and repetitive. Chat GPT and GitHub Copilot are great for getting something roughly right that you can tweak to work the way you want.

I just started playing MGS for the first time! When I was a kid MGS was one of those “grown up” games I couldn’t play. I picked up a copy from a retro game store a few weeks ago and finally sat down to play at the weekend. I see what all the hype is about, it’s like diving into a 90s espionage thriller. Looking forward to playing further!

Best of luck, get well soon

Human terminal velocity is roughly 56 m/s. Let’s say our superhero wants to decelerate the person at 10G, which should be survivable for a short period. That would be 0.6 seconds of deceleration over 48 m. That’s a short time but quite a long distance, let’s slow down faster:

20G -> 0.28 seconds, 24 m.

30G -> 0.19 seconds, 16 m.

50G -> 0.11 seconds, 9.6 m.

100G -> 0.057 seconds, 4.79 m.

200G -> 0.029 seconds, 2.45 m.

5000G -> 0.0011 seconds, 3.6 inches.

A 40 mph car crash in a modern car into a solid wall gives around 15G.

F1 driver David Purley survived a 180G crash in 1977.

In short, I don’t recommend catching someone with 3 inches to spare.

Comments like this are why I like Lemmy, y’all are good people.

As a software developer I promise you that software development is very much not an exact science.

Programs are complex and there are so many different ways of achieving the same thing that all code has problems and gets a bit messy in places. You can test, but it’s not easy to ensure that everything works the way it should.

The best code you’re going to get will probably be in the space industry, but even that will have bugs. The best you can do is make the code robust even when bugs make things go wrong.

In many cases copilot will do just as well as a junior developer. It’s very good at repetitive tasks and filling gaps in your existing code.

The book is Sacred and Terrible Air, it was written in Estonian but there are a couple of English fan translations. I enjoyed it. https://www.reddit.com/r/DiscoElysium/s/iVcX04yIRV

Me too! First game console and the only game I had for a while. I played that game to death.