Best of SUBSIM noms - Post of the Year

[Onkel Neal]

Best of SUBSIM noms - Post of the Year.

[Onkel Neal]

Onkel Neal has made a Best of SUBSIM nomination.
Nomination Category:

Post of the Year

Nomination basis: Thoughtful and insightful.
Forum: General Topics

Nominated Member: Sean C
Nominated Post: Link

The pendulum swings ever more violently. Back and forth. I think that is by design.

We need calm, level heads. Strong people who can slow the swing, and who are not easily swayed from the path of true peace.

Balance is the anathema to the chaos we see. And to those who seek to keep us preoccupied and thus ignorant of what they are really doing.

It's not too late. We can still save ourselves ... if we just learn to see what we have in common.

[Onkel Neal]

Onkel Neal has made a Best of SUBSIM nomination.
Nomination Category:

Post of the Year

Nomination basis: Very cool post with some neat utility, nice!
Forum: General Topics

Nominated Member: rentacow
Nominated Post: Link

Subsim Quote of the Day Generator: https://pastebin.com/LLebwhn8

On execution, it calls the openAI chatbot API to make up a few "words of wisdom" then stores the quote, with metadata to a json.
For example: A website backend could run the script once per day, then post the new quote as a "Quote of the Day" or something.

You'll get a unique quote every day! :yeah:

Some Examples:

 

• "The sea is a good master and it teaches the duty of obedience."
• "Success comes from taking calculated risks, but never forgetting to stay vigilant and prepared for the unknown."
• "It is better to be a captain while on the surface, than a passenger while beneath it."
• "Leadership is not a rank, but rather a responsibility to those who depend on you."
• "A good captain is one who learns from the past, lives in the present and plans for the future."

And bonus points if you pass the daily quote to DALL-E's API to generate a unique art asset to go with it:

 

I've had like a billion of these kinds of ideas since I started experimenting with the API and it's sent my ADHD through the roof :haha:

Of course you can customize the prompt to get any kind of quote, funny quote, poem, song lyrics or anything you want.

EDIT: Gave the script some basic error handling and error logging functionality. Like I was saying, ADHD... Also the project is on GitHub

[Onkel Neal]

Onkel Neal has made a Best of SUBSIM nomination.
Nomination Category:

Post of the Year

Nomination basis: Major info post from the Master
Forum: General Topics

Nominated Member: Skybird
Nominated Post: Link

The good news is it is type 2, not type 1.

The good news also is that you can most likely reverse it by food adaptation.

The bad news is you need to cut down on sweets and other carbohydrates.

The bad news also is you must cut your weight if you say you are overweight.

The bad news is you shoukd better forget convencience food for quite soem time.

Topics and theory you may want to familiarize yourself with:
- mediterranean diat
- keto diet (and no, that is not a canivore diat exclusively)
- low carb diet
- intermittend fasting
- good versus bad oil and fat
- vitamine D, and supplementation in general on a wide front, in depth.

Dont let your head hang down, there is no reason to. Diabetes type 2 is perfectly treatable, managable - and can be healed. My father has type 2 diabetes, and as I already told in the last two years, he is completely beyond it, age 79 now, needs no more drugs, never took insuline anyway, and the doc is perplexed. No signs that diabetes ever was there.

So, if only you want to deal with it you have good chances to control it, probably even get rid of it.

Type 1, now, that would be bad news.

:salute:

For a start, try with this, I hold that man in high esteem:

https://www.amazon.de/Diabetes-r%C3%...ps%2C72&sr=8-3

Or if you prefer the English edition:

https://www.amazon.de/Diabetes-Code-...ps%2C72&sr=8-5

also, this:

https://www.amazon.de/Die-Schlankfor...ps%2C72&sr=8-6

https://www.amazon.de/Obesity-Code-U...005231&sr=8-20

Diabetes Type 2 is a symptom for a dysbalance in hormones, namely insuline and grelin, the way to tackle that dysbalance is via tackling consummation of carbohydrates to avoid insuline spikes, and switch energy production from carbs-based to ketone-based. If you get it right, you will eat plenty of healthy fats, must not hunger, and loose weight without falling victim to jojo effects. I dropped from 92 to 77kg in 6 months, and kept that weight for an additional 12 months, without jojo. Then I ate more carbs again, a few sweets but espeically bread - and gained weight again - my own fault. But I know that it works now. I did it, and I kept it. I see it in my father. And I read many other patient cases.

Do yourself a favour when you start to implent measures - do not even start to count calories, thats total nonsense. It leads you nowhere, only kills pleasure. Also, sports is good for many things, for the heart, blood system, lungs, muscles - but forget about trying to use sports to acchieve a calory deficit. Sport is fantastically unsuited for that purpose! ;)

Do not reduce food intake to a degree where you still feel hungry. Take in all energy your body needs - but make it switching energy production from carbs to fats. Your body knows it, it did that for many months when you were a newborn, it must only be reminded of it that it can do that way. Once you get into thismetabolic state - called ketosis - you body then will start to not only use the fat you eat to prodcue energy, but will realise that he can do the same with the fat in your fat reserves. And then you start to loose weight while eating rich and fatty!

Mediterranean diet has no commonly agreed definition, there are many variations in understanding what it actually is. But some similiarities are this: very few carbs (little or no pasta or bread for exmaple!). Plenty of good olive oil and fatty sea fruits. Plenty of vegetables. No sugars.

Avoid all unfermented soy. Avoid plant oil (rape, sunflower, soy, corn etc).

Avoid "Sättigungsbeilagen" like potatoes, noodles, rice. Eat the vegetables, meat, fish, but no carbs like noodles, potatoes, rice. If you want that, do it rarely andf then as a main dish that you do not eat often. If you nevertheless want side dishes, choose hirse or oats.

Have oats days.

If you are on a three meal schemes, reduce it to two meals, say breakfast and lunch. Try breakfast shortened to just a fatty coffee.

DO NOT SNACK between these meals.

Markus, there is much you can do about this diagnosis, and if you get it right, i am certain to 95% that you can get completely free of type 2 diabetes. As long as you have no additional health issues that I do not know.

And please - do not what the health authorities of your government advice you to do or some Danish food or diet association like the German Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung. Their advices sometimes are simply outright toxic.

BTW, plenty of vegetable - but not more than one fruit per day at max! The sweeter the fruit, the more fructose it contains. Not good. Dark berries would be best, they say.

If you do fasting, remember that you need salt. PLENTY of it. NEVER save on salt.


Vinegar helps to keep insuline lower. Vinegar or cheese before the emal is always a good idea. Apple vinegar in water, two spoons already is enough.


:up:

Last tip: do not run such a strict regime now that you cannot maintain motivation for longer time to keep it up. There is no use in doing it ultra tough for three months, and then you run out of compliance and stop it. Do it softer, but aim for the longer haul.

And some really bad news: better ban alcohol for a year or so. Body takes plenty of energy from it, sabotaging your attempt to switch to fat-based energy metabolism.

[Onkel Neal]

Onkel Neal has made a Best of SUBSIM nomination.
Nomination Category:

Post of the Year

Nomination basis: very cool post
Forum: Wolfpack

Nominated Member: ybar
Nominated Post: Wolfpack in 3D with VR head

Indeed, Wolfpack is not made for VR
But, you can use your VR headset to play in 3D
I estimate at 80% the feeling of a real immersion of a game designed for VR.

More infos on
https://discord.com/channels/5215907...31123308425286

[Onkel Neal]

Onkel Neal has made a Best of SUBSIM nomination.
Nomination Category:

Post of the Year

Nomination basis: Wow, nice reply with the information he has determined, great post!
Forum: Wolfpack

Nominated Member: Alvarez
Nominated Post: Link

I am quite inquisitive, and it turned out that the calculation is possible.
In other words, we need to convert radians to degrees.
The periscope uses a scale in degrees with divisions of 1 degree horizontally and 1/16 degrees vertically. From here you can deduce a little mathematics.
Without going into details, I found and checked the information that the range is calculated according to the formula "Apparent height / height in the risks of 1/16 degrees * 0.9168". For a periscope with an x6 approximation, you need to multiply the result by 4.

But the range can not be considered, since the current version of the game has tables that are completely sufficient for a successful determination.

AoB can really be measured by eye, which after some experience is really not that difficult, and if you have a lot of time, then there is no problem in this. In addition, there are historical reference books with examples of ships from different angles, which actually led me to very accurate results.

However, I am the kind of person who wants accuracy, because with the help of RAOBF we could get it earlier. Now this is impossible, or due to a number of mathematical operations it is completely irrelevant - it can be calculated faster on a calculator, since we do not move from one device to another)
So - the AoB formula in the new realities looks like this: arcsin(apparent length / (apparent height/16) * actual height / actual length)
The arcsine is easily calculated using a calculator or tables if we want more historicity. The actual height and length of the target is taken from the directory and is calculated once. the height that can be raised is the only difficulty - since the number of units of measurement must be divided by 16, since the vertical scale is 1/16 of a degree.

In the end, you can make a form in excel, if the goal is to quickly calculate. But it seems to me, I am almost sure of this, that the difficulty of such a calculation in my head was even made on purpose in order to keep the navigator, engine engineer, acoustics, etc. busy with work. For this can be calculated on the map, bearing the ship at regular intervals, and then, having learned its real course, find the necessary AoB on the attack disk. Yes, this is only for team play, but it seems to me that it will work, and there will be less calculations.

Hi and thanks for answering! The tool is really very cool, but it would be even more cool if the calculations were converted to degrees. If the source files of the program remain, I think it will not be difficult to transfer just one tool to a slightly different mode...

as an excel solution for AoB, I can give a formula that exactly works. =DEG(ASIN(apparent length / (apparent height / 16) * actual height / actual length))
As I wrote earlier, we are forced to divide the value of the apparent height by 16, since the vertical scale is expressed in 1/16 degrees, and each division of this scale is 10. In other words, 3 divisions is 30, and to solve the apparent height, you need 30 / 16

Well, as for the range, I already answered above - the dependence of radians (as before) and degrees is linear, so the fix would not take much time and I would be very happy if a new version of Solution Solver was released, as it is very convenient!

[Onkel Neal]

Onkel Neal has made a Best of SUBSIM nomination.
Nomination Category:

Post of the Year

Nomination basis: Nicely detailed post, this is the way it should be done!
Forum: General Topics

Nominated Member: Moonlight
Nominated Post: Link

I'm currently watching anything Zombie related these days, the western worlds population are acting like a load of bleeding zombies so I thought if I could get into their zombie infested brains I might be able to understand just where they're coming from, I mean the population, not the zombies.

Z Nation


Season 1.
Blood, gore and people fighting for their very lives, this is bleeding great I thought, just carry on with this and it'll be well worth watching. Sadly, that was a huge mistake on my part as the writers of the show began to put unrealistic scenario after scenario in each and every episode that followed, by the end of the first season I had steam pouring out of my bleeding ears.

Season 2.
oh my bleeding word, what have these bleeding idiots done to this show, the whole of the second season should have been scrapped and re-written by someone who is even slightly competent, These writers should be tarred and feathered and the useless bastards thrown into a bleeding dustbin, (trashcan) for those people who abuse the English language on a daily basis. I know it's not your fault that your "Founding Fathers" were as thick as the proverbial brick but that's another story. :O:

Season 3.
I managed to watch 2 episodes before I admitted defeat and threw the bleeding towel in, I'd had enough, I couldn't take anymore of this bollocks, the series started out so promising with season 1's first episode getting a mighty 7.2\10 and slowly but surely descending into the shambolic putrid smelling garbage that it finally became.
I have to give it an honest rating and, taking the first ever episode into account I'm going to give it an overall rating.

Overall Rating 2.5\10.

This could have been the second best of the best zombie series that there's ever been but, the writers just weren't up to the job, what a bleeding shame, at least "The Last Of Us" is a deserved leader of the top spot for now.

I'm going to watch "Day of the Dead" next, a comedy zombie series by all accounts and after that the South Korean series "All of Us Are Dead" a school children zombie apocalypse, it sounds interesting, I can imagine eating a schoolgirl throws some interesting questions up for the writers and director so they'll have to handle that one rather delicately...... :03:

[Aktungbby]

Aktungbby has made a Best of SUBSIM nomination.
Nomination Category:

Post of the Year

Nomination basis: Best "welcome aboard" post: reflecting unceasing enthusiasm for the forum. Beats my mundane 'welcome aboard' with :salute: all to pieces!
Forum: Silent Hunter III

Nominated Member: iambecomelife
Nominated Post: Link

It'll never be abandoned as long as I draw breath! And if I may disagree a little bit with Onkel Neil - I and several die hards still have a lot to say! Although it is definitely quiet compared to 2007, I am not alarmed; I would say it is just part of the natural switch from mass-market, big developer/Ubisoft supported projects (like the Silent Hunter series itself) to boutique projects kept alive by amateur enthusiasts, working for a smaller fanbase. These projects include entirely new simulators like Wolfpack and mods like GWX Knights Cross & Wolves of the Kaiser, that intend to really push the modding envelope. There are some absolutely huge breakthroughs in the pipeline; it's just that several development teams (including my own WWI modding team) are spending much more time on modding than advertising/posting. Silent Hunter 5's moddability was a bit of a disappointment, but its predecessors have actually aged quite well - thanks to the magic of Silent 3ditor and other modding tools... With a little luck, SH3 and SH4 will be unrecognizable in 2-3 more years. And the forums at subsim will be here to document the revolution. So stay tuned! And welcome. :up:

[Onkel Neal]

Onkel Neal has made a Best of SUBSIM nomination.
Nomination Category:

Post of the Year

Nomination basis: Good to see Easy Rhino back to share his expertise.
Forum: Classic Subsims

Nominated Member: Easy Rhino
Nominated Post: Link

So, kind of old thread, and this isn't an definitive answer, but a clue, i have a snippet old old source code from the game and here is the only part where the DMOH might get awarded:

    if (nScoreMax >= 200)            // High-difficulty missions
    {
        if (m_aAwards[AWARD_SILVER_STAR] == 0)
            IssueAward(AWARD_SILVER_STAR);
        else if (rPercent >= 0.99f && m_aAwards[AWARD_NAVY_CROSS] != 0)
            IssueAward( AWARD_MEDAL_OF_HONOR );
        else
        {
            if (rPercent >= 0.9f)
                IssueAward( AWARD_NAVY_CROSS );
            else
                IssueAward( AWARD_SILVER_STAR );
        }
    }

So in other words, you'd have to be in a difficult mission anyway (over 200 points total), and have already received both the silver star and navy cross in previous missions. And play at 100% difficulty.


I can't guarantee there isn't a bug somewhere preventing the DMOH anyway, even if not, this could lead to bonkers situations where you have to singlehandedly sink the Scharnhorst or Yamato multiple times to get enough medals.

[Catfish]

Catfish has made a Best of SUBSIM nomination.
Nomination Category:

Post of the Year

Nomination basis: Think this post is an outstanding example how we identify as brothers in spirit, rather than nationalities ;)
Forum: General Topics

Nominated Member: GoldenRivet
Nominated Post: Link

You know... i used to post a lot more often here than i do these days, but its not for lack of visiting, because i do visit, but more so because my online life and my real life have shifted my energies in other directions BUT

i'll tell you this - what i always loved about SUBSIM (and still do) is that while our members come from Australia, Finland, Germany, New Zealand, Norway, the United States and many other places around the globe... I always got the feeling in interacting with all of my SUBSIM brethren - that while we are here on this forum, to some degree, we were less identified by our individual nationalities and more identified by our place in this world as Subsimmers!

When discussing one thing or another here with a member from Norway for example, i never thought of myself as an American and i never thought of them as Norwegian - i thought of us as subsimmers.

When i came here today, to visit the forums and lurk, I saw this thread title thinking there would be some neat thing that applies to the referenced member, or perhaps some sort of birthday or congratulatory message... instead, what i found was this drivel. Motivated by what i cant say.

Its posts like this that contribute nothing remotely constructive to the forum and certainly do not promote any degree of comradery in the group.

I'll have to agree with Neal... tasteless is what it is.