William Adams is the protagonist of the excellent souls-like NiOh. That's all the history I need on the man thank you very much.
Readit Newsstatic_void_ commented on William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun historytoday.com/archive/... · Posted by u/lermontov
static_void_ commented on Impostor Syndrome vs. the Dunning-Kruger Effect raptori.dev/blog/impostor... · Posted by u/dvcoolarun
You can't have imposter syndrome with out the conscious or unconscious idea that you've "fooled" all the rubes around you into thinking you're good at something.
Even in doubt you're still doing some mental gymnastics that allow you to place yourself above your peers. It's inherently self centered and arrogant way of thinking about yourself. The opposite of self aware.
static_void_ commented on Impostor Syndrome vs. the Dunning-Kruger Effect raptori.dev/blog/impostor... · Posted by u/dvcoolarun
This is a personal anecdote about this topic so feel free to ignore, but I recently had one of those epiphanies that you only see in movies that is somewhat relevant here.
Background: I'm a software developer that has worked for 30 years professionally and has used computers for at least 40. Languages and technologies range across pretty much everything popular (and many that were not).
I've always considered myself intelligent to very intelligent. I own lots of books, love learning, etc. So much so that I considered it a deep part of my self-image. Except while attending a very good engineering school, I generally considered myself the smartest person in the room (yes, insufferable, really).
Now, internally (stored in one of those places in your mind that you know are there but you just pretend isn't), I knew this wasn't the case. I have a terrible memory and have always seemed to have to work at least twice as hard in math and sciences and still only had a vague understanding of what was going on. Even to this day I can tell you a lot of findings about the fundamentals of computer science theory but I couldn't explain them to you except in broad sketches. And if you asked me specifics about a book I just read I would likely draw a blank. That said, I've had very successful career as a developer.
Recently, I began playing Go more seriously after playing casually for years with another (much higher ranked) player. I've joined a local group, play online regularly, study books, etc. While I previously thought I was a pretty good amateur I was quickly disabused of this notion. I was beaten handily by almost everyone I played. Worse, studying made almost no difference. This caused me a bit of a intellectual breakdown. It was as if what I always knew deep down was actually true: that I'm NOT particularly smart or gifted. That I'm at very best "average" if not below. Go shined a big, bright floodlight on all of those insecurities that I hide from myself. My entire self-image was shattered.
I'm still picking up the pieces of this realization but over the past few months it has radically changed how I deal with other people as well as how I perceive myself. I think I'm a little more understanding, a lot more humble, and maybe a bit more "human". I'm still a successful software developer, but now when I'm studying something new I'm not doing it out of some misguided belief that learning it will somehow make me better than other people, but because it will make me a better software developer that can help solve problems better. I don't treat knowledge as something that I can lord over people to show that I'm smarter than them. And I seem to assume better of people than I did before.
And I still play Go, poorly.
> Recently, I began playing Go
Yeah I didn't need to read the rest (did anyways) to know where this was going... I played Go with my father in law once. He said to me:
"What, I thought you were supposed to be smart?"
It was indeed humbling. I do not still play Go.
>At least the steering wheel and pedals still behave the same.
For now, companies are experimenting with drive by wire. Don't think I like that concept.
Electronic power steering already exists. It's used in a lot of cars, and has been for at least 10 years. Your car may have one of these systems in it.
In an electric power steering system there are steering angle and torque sensors that know what direction the wheel is turned an how hard it has turned, and this is connected to an electric motor that powers the gears to move the steering rack.
There are still regulations in place that require a mechanical connection to the steering wheel and rack, but try and turn the wheel with the car off and see if your wheels move... But when the car is running when you turn the wheel you're just a voting remember in the system.
There are no such regulations for throttles. Pretty much every car since the late 80s has electronic throttle control and there are no mechanical linkages from pedal to throttle body.
Fans of the FF games are very passionate about their favorite game(s). In the earlier days of the Internet, there were endless debates about VI vs VII. Those truly had an inspirational effect on people—but rarely in a good way. Or maybe it's just the perfect cross section of Internet-arguers and JRPG-obsessives that makes for insufferable, endless debates and ranking lists.
Anyway, enough beating around the bush. Here's my list (B tier and above):
1. Tactics
2. FFVII
3. Chrono Trigger
4. FFV
5. FFIII
6. FFVI
7. FFIV
Yay, love the Chrono Trigger in the top 3. People always bring it up, either to say they love it or that it's overrated. It is not overrated! its correctly rated, it really is that good.
FFVII was great but it is an interesting contrast to games like FFVI / Chrono Trigger. The SNES games came out at the end of their console's lives and made the absolute most of what the hardware had to offer. FFVII was early-ish in the PSX life cycle and pushed JRPGs forward. There were some earlier 3d-ish JRPGs, sure, (wild arms was 1996) but FFVII would go on to define how those games would work for years. It became the prototype, but it also feels like a prototype in a lot of ways. It has a lot of jank. Some of those mini games just aren't fun anymore. The good news is all the stuff they learned about narrative in the previous generations was intact and carried the game where it might have other wise faltered.
Anyways, I still loooove FFVII a ton too. But it's good for different reasons than the later SNES games. Also FFVIII was a lot of fun too, and a much more solid 'game' than FFVII even if some systems were pretty breakable / exploitable.
static_void_ commented on How to find the AWS account ID of any S3 bucket tracebit.com/blog/2024/02... · Posted by u/tracebit
Account IDs are 12 digit random numbers. They are used to identify an AWS account, that's all. Knowledge of the full 12 digits doesn't grant access to anything, prove you own the account, or enable you to authenticate to any systems (or individuals like in customer service for example) in AWS.
They are visible when ever you share something with another AWS account, they're in the ARN. For example, the 12 digit account IDs of all a vendors that vend AMIs, assume roles on AWS accounts (think datadog, for logging / metrics) or otherwise provide services have AWS Account IDs that are well known and easily discoverable. This s3 example is just sort of interesting since its one of the handful of AWS services that don't use account IDs in ARNs.
AWS account ids are not secrets and treating them as secrets or giving the impression that they are anything other than public data is a distraction from real security concerns.
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static_void_ commented on Films about virtual reality moriareviews.com/films-ab... · Posted by u/walterbell
Strange Days is sooo good.
static_void_ commented on Films about virtual reality moriareviews.com/films-ab... · Posted by u/walterbell
This website is fantastic
When the website looks like this you know the takes will be hot (thoughtful and erudite). Probably the last website standing in the webring.
https://koei.fandom.com/wiki/William_Adams#Nioh
Don't expect a historically correct storyline though ;)