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Well, honestly, it reads and looks like a (not as good) 3D Factorio.
Also: really, the guys who made goat simulator? I'm sorry, but I can't just take them serious anymore, although the sanctum games were quite okay.
I might have a closer look on this when it comes out, but at the moment it looks like it will never reach the beauty and complexity of the original Factorio.
Also it seems to me that they don't really have a plan where they want to go with the game (see multiplayer and mod support in the FAQ). -
They look amazing.
In fact, they look so good, although I know that I hate jelly shots in general, I would like to try one.
Great work. -
@IllSlapU
Collecting data is not a bad thing at all. The problems rise when you collect data in a way that you can link it to certain people or so that you can identify the people by the data you collected.
As long as data is collected completely anonymously, there is no real issue as you cannot link the information to the people the data was collected from.
@topic:
Really interesting. You have some link for a read up? -
I hope after rating Devrant with 1 star because he cannot have an underscore or FB login, he is really not using this app.
Wouldn't want to have people like this around here. -
@balte
Honestly, I cannot completely agree on the language thing.
Sure, we need to acknowledge new concepts in the language, like having words for those people. But I don't see the point of changing the language to distinguish even more.
I think that makes the gaps between different groups even larger.
I'd rather try to include as many people as possible in an expression. And this is the point where I think that the current form of our language suffices. Because it is, imo, important how it is meant, not how it sounds. -
@non-binary
Nobody want you to go away. That would be cruelsome.
Maybe people just first need to understand. I for example cannot think of a fourth gender, but I am willing to learn, if someone would just tell me :-)
But honestly, I think it is no solution either to rub everybody's face in the fact that someone is different. I don't care if you are male, female, trans or a helicopter without a blade. If you are a friendly human being, great, let us talk and work together.
If you are an asshole, get out of my way. But don't get out of my way because you are different. Get out of my way because I don't like your behaviour.
We have to share this fucking dirty ball if mud. Let's make all the best out of that -
@balte
Integrate them in society as an equal member. But not by language, because that changes nothing.
Show them that they can contribute to society equally, despite being different or even because they are different.
Create jobs for people with handicaps and discipline people for joking or disrespecting transgender/black/white/helicopter people.
Really, the reason why this whole language debate makes me so furious is that I belong to a minority and I don't see how this can improve things for any minority. It totally misses the actual target: to integrate everybody equally in our society as far as possible. By actions and behaviour and not by talking.
I say as far as possible. Because someone in a wheelchair just can't be a soldier at the front and someone migrated to a country who cannot speak the language yet cannot start immediately as a teacher.
Some things take time, some will never work, as hard as it is to accept this. Believe me, I know what I say there. -
@balte
Walking away won't solve the problem either. In fact, it creates more grudge in general.
It is correct that I said there is no need to have any other gender than male, female or neutral in a language and therefore it is no problem.
But, what is the issue here? Tell me any other gender, please, which does not fit in any of those categories. Enlighten me, because I cannot think of a fourth alternative for humans. -
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Let me tell you, as a disabled person myself: I don't give a flying f. I know what the sign means, that's enough.
The problem here are rather people using the spot who are not allowed to do. Or calling out disabled people who use those spots but do not look disabled (enough).
I had all this happened, so I was at the recieving and of belogning to a minority.
I fucking know how it feels.
But to cope with it has also so much to do with your own set of mind.
Sure, one needs to raise attention to those problems. But please, to the actual problems and misbehaving of some people.
If everybody feels offended for everything then we, as a society, won't make progress either. -
@balte
You see, that's the thing.
Why is there the feeling that they are less worth just because the rules of the language are as they are, although the rules are not sexist ment in any way. It is just how the language works.
Let me tell you why: because they want to feel like that. Because people currently just want to be offended.
It is no one's fault that some people just done get how languages work.
I think there is no point in discussing about languages, as this is not the real problem. The problem is in the heads of the people. People who think women/black/disabled/deaf/trans/helicopters are inferior are the problem. Not our languages.
We need to change how people think and act, but don't start at changing languages, this is probably the least important thing in that matter right now.
Where would this lead to? Disabled people feeling offended that the disabled parking spot shows someone in a wheelchair but not everybody parking there is necessarily in one?
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@balte
Have you actually read my comment at all?
First of all, etymology is about the source of words, which has quite little to do with structure of a language itself.
Second, I am nowhere saying that this minority should not be heard. I am just saying that the assumptions which are made about allegedly male forms for a group of people is wrong and therefore there is no need to complain.
Furthermore, if you already state that someone is "quite clearly wrong", you should at least have some arguments why that person is "quite clearly wrong".
If you use this phrase without giving any arguments it is just the same as saying "your moral point of view is wrong therefore your argument is not valid", which is just another form of an argumentum ad hominem which is in no means a foundation for a discussion. -
Languages themselves are non-discriminating and not sexist in any way.
Maybe sometimes the way we use them is (or just seems) sexist/discriminating.
But if the grammatical rule of a language is, that if you refer to a group of People who are not specified any further, an expression or pronoun is used which is the same as a male pronoun/expression would be. Then this is not sexist or discriminating, it is just how the language works.
It does not mean that the expression or pronoun is meant to describe the group as male dominated, it is just that the same expression is used.
This is the same like words which have multiple meanings in different contexts.
E.g. a (baseball-) bat.
I really don't see why people have trouble wrapping their head around this fact. -
@balte
I can only partially agree to this.
It is true that it might be necessary to find appropriate words for new concepts or things we discover. But other than that, I do not see how a language itself could/should change.
What changes maybe is the way we talk, e.g. it certainly is strange if someone would talk Shakespearen style nowadays. But this concerns only the way we express ourselves. The Gramma used is still the same.
Why should it change even? How a language is build up, how sentences need to be connected, verbs are conjugated and time forms are structured is a set of fixed rules.
And there are 3 sexes in a language (at least those I know): male, female, Neutrum - He, she, it.
There is no way somebody could be referred to as something else, because it is not possible in these languages, because there is no need.
We are talking about gender, not sexual orientation.
Only because some people think, for the sake of PC, languages should be adapted, this is not necessarily true -
@raulqf
Ah, yeah, to that I agree.
But imo this applies for all kinds of information. If it is not necessary for the service, don't ask. -
@raulqf
What do you mean? Two genders, two forms. And you somehow need to refer to people or objects. So"he", "she" or "they" it is, depending on the context and the person you are referring to. -
@balte
Haha, yeah, at least somehow funny. But still, even then I wouldn't see the point for m if inventing new gender neutral forms in a language where grammar is fixed for decades and where two forms are established and working well. -
@djsumdog
You are totally right.
Except for the German thing, unfortunately. Well, in theory you are right. But with this whole gender debate people are starting to butcher the German language with some supposedly gender neutral forms which sounds just plain ridiculous.
For example: "Professor" (which refers to university teachers only in German) has a female form "Professorin" which is used if addressing a female professor directly. At some universities they wanted to introduce a form like "Professix" as a gender neutral form. Apart from the fact that this word originally does not exist at all in the German language, it looks and sounds like shit. -
@Condor
This. Exactly.
Thank you good man/woman/nginx attack helicopter for having common sense! -
@darkLord
But how would such a description look like.
What are the possibilities except for "male", "female", "both" and "none"? -
Can someone please explain "gender diversity" to me?
I really don't see a point. I mean, it is fine, if a man feels like he is rather a woman or the other way round, or that someone cannot identify with any of the two genders. That's completely fine for me and I can understand.
But: how many more choices are there?
It is a natural restriction. There are life forms without a gender, life forms which have both genders and some which are just binary. There are 4 choices in total.
What more do people expect to be able to choose from?
Honestly, this is not meant to discriminate, I just don't see any other possibility than those 4. -
@Niddam
I saw one of their promotion videos once on YouTube (in German).
They made fun of this name all by themselves.
People in the video said things like "Ich mach's selbst." Or "Auch ich wixe jetzt".
I can't take someone serious who in complete earnest starts such a marketing campaign.
Note for non-germans: translations would be roughly "I do it myself", but with a sexual touch and "I also wank now", because "wixen" has that meaning in German. -
So?
If that top search result contains the answer to your question, telling you to Google first is perfectly fine.
No need to ask a question which was already answered again.
If the result does not fit your problem, well, then it should be perfectly fine to create a new question on SO. -
@Monus @Kimmax @Michelle
Thank you all so much for your support, that's too kind.
I know not much about this kind of medicine. I have a friend who suffered from depressions. His doctor gave him some antidepressants to lift him out of the mental hole which actually worked after a few weeks. That's why I'm thinking about taking to my doctor about some antidepressants.
I was on sick leave a month ago for 3 weeks because of burnout and depressions. My physical condition worsened the last few months because of (as I know now) stress from work.
Therefore I am actively looking for another job. If I'm lucky I can start a new job at the beginning of may, but I don't know yet for sure.
So right now I can't be sure that there will be an end to the source of my stress soon enough to not fall into the same hole I was in just a few weeks ago.
Finding a psychiatrist is hard. Around here they have a waiting period of several weeks which does not help if it is an urgent problem... -
Haha. I am quite sure my boss will react similar next week (if everything goes well for me).
He probably won't even be able to imagine why I would like to leave... -
Thank you all so much.
The interview went really great. The company (small start-up) is great.
Really nice team, everybody was so friendly.
The coding exercise I had to do was great as well although I struggled a bit cause I am a bit rusty in the language they asked me to do it in.
But they were quite happy I think.
The way they work is so great and totally different from my current shitty job.
I really hope they will call me, as this would be a great opportunity to improve myself and also to do work which actually matters for the company (start-up).
So, in best case I'm gone from my current job in a bit more than a month.
Still, 1 interview at another company and a talk with a friend who started working for some kind of head hunter. -
Wow.
Just, wow.
I salute you for this.
I am not allowed to talk to clients in that, or even a far softer, way.
And our boss does not have the balls to do such talks by himself.
Guess what? Boss puts pressure from clients on the whole team instead of standing up against the client.
Why? Because there are no real contracts which could back him up. More like verbal agreements. -
@lucaIO
Even as a noob, one is better of reading some online introduction.
It's one of those "you don't need to know programming, I will give you an introduction" books. Which totally sucks. If I buy a book about neural networks I don't want to have an introduction to programming and python. -
... English anyway.
And either the author uses them, and then you could read an English book quite as well. Or they try to translate them somehow to German which usually sounds ridiculous and you don't have the English vocabulary afterwards to talk properly about that stuff.
Just my (quite long) 2 cents. -
If I might give you an advice: remove the book "Neuronale Netze selbst programmieren" from your list.
I bought it and was totally disappointed. I mean, if one never read anything about neural networks it gives an easy exclamation, but the practical part totally sucks. It just shows how to write a NN with a fixed (!!!) amount of nodes, 3 layers. All hard coded.
Honestly, you find better lecture on some blogs for free in the web.
For the other books I mostly agree with everybody else. It is burnt money to buy books specific to a language as it will be outdated a year later. And usually it is really just the documentation with a few examples which you could easily find (better ones) in the web.
The only thing which really makes sense to have as a book is stuff which will not change for the next X years.
Design patterns, algorithms and data structures etc.
And you might want to buy English books. The German ones usually are strange to be read as most of the subject specific words are... -
You need nothing if you have such great headphones as you have, which already help a lot when debugging :-)