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[Kagus]

Christ Lite™

Zero carbs, same great salvation.


Low in transubstantiated fats!

[nenjin]

Not Gluten free though.

[Frumple]

Found out today either the library or the state's done something (cut direct collaboration with DCF, the folks that handle food stamp applications, among other things.) that's probably going to quarter or half the library's patronage numbers, i.e. the thing a lot of its funding is pegged to.

Known I've needed to be looking for somewhere else to work the longer and more blatant the mismanagement from the new director got, but that hammers it in a good bit harder, blech. Sucks for the library, sucks even harder for the county itself... it's a small place, and the library helped out several hundred people a year just on that alone, and now a lot of them just aren't going to be getting that help at all.

Lay pretty good odds we'll see branch library closures once the effects of this settles down, too, and the knock-on effects of that might kill the local organization entirely. Pretty damn unfortunate.

[Eric Blank]

That makes me think it's intentional sabotage to get the public service shut down.

[Frumple]

The thought's crossed my mind, yeah.

[Magmacube_tr]

I. Can't. Get. The. God. Damn. Dynamic Odds. Work!!!

As you may or may not know, I have this pet hobby project where I continuously improve my random world generator. I've made plenty of cool stuff in it so far. But after everything,  I've hit a sort of wall, a weird barrier in one particular space.

I need to make the probabilities of planet distance options dependant on the type of the planet they will be selected for. To achieve this, I originally did brute force coding, where I had all the possibilities preset for all planet types. But that was inelegant and elephantine, so I decided to switch to a much more compact format where the only three orbit options had different probabilities of being selected depending on an internal variable specified in the selection of each planet type.

I've done this before with other stuff. But here? It inexplicably doesn't works. And I don't get why!

Just... It just doesn't works! It works on every other place, and just not there in particular.

[Loud Whispers]

I. Can't. Get. The. God. Damn. Dynamic Odds. Work!!!

As you may or may not know, I have this pet hobby project where I continuously improve my random world generator. I've made plenty of cool stuff in it so far. But after everything,  I've hit a sort of wall, a weird barrier in one particular space.

I need to make the probabilities of planet distance options dependant on the type of the planet they will be selected for. To achieve this, I originally did brute force coding, where I had all the possibilities preset for all planet types. But that was inelegant and elephantine, so I decided to switch to a much more compact format where the only three orbit options had different probabilities of being selected depending on an internal variable specified in the selection of each planet type.

I've done this before with other stuff. But here? It inexplicably doesn't works. And I don't get why!

Just... It just doesn't works! It works on every other place, and just not there in particular.

Spoiler: it just doesn't work (click to show/hide)

[McTraveller]

We've got heavy wet snow here from the big storm going across North America right now.

I'm hearing what sounds like branches in my yard breaking...but it's dark so I can't see what's going on.  Likely lots of stuff to clean up in the spring... sad that I keep losing trees in the yard...

[Eric Blank]

Yeah, it's been awfully bad here too. A storm passed through last week and only dumped a few inches of snow, then some rain, but since then temperatures have been consistently in the negative. Woke up feeling my feet were like stumps this morning, main heater in the trailer isn't doing much because the tank is outside, and the propane is so cold it's not boiling properly, there's almost no flow.

[hector13]

Got some snow this week myself, but the only odd thing was that it’s the first snow we’ve had in about a month.

[dragdeler]

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Spoiler: it just doesn't work (click to show/hide)

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two days my ear's been plugged again, I hate life.

[Eric Blank]

Waters frozen :[

[dragdeler]

I know it's not great, but could you possibly plug on a smaller tank that you put inside? If you don't trust your ability to handle those valves forget what I said.

[McTraveller]

I. Can't. Get. The. God. Damn. Dynamic Odds. Work!!!

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Just... It just doesn't works! It works on every other place, and just not there in particular.

Did you figure out the obvious-in-hindsight bug? Index error? Or something more interesting, like a compiler optimization not realizing there was a side effect and so used a previous value for a variable?

I've been bitten in the past by something like:

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     interesting = somevalue;

     if(condition)
     {
           call_which_modifies_interesting(&interesting);
     }

     if( interesting is in a range )
     {
        do something with interesting; /* THIS conditional doesn't act as epxected;
               it appears to always just run based on 'somevalue', not the result of
                   call_which_modifies_interesting() */
     }



That's a fun one; the easiest solution (if using a C-like) is to declare 'interesting' to be volatile; that will force its reevaluation in the conditional that appears to be failing.  I think it's because the compiler/interpreter can't figure out that interesting may be modified, especially when its in another condition like above.  Other languages might have ways to hint that there are side effects.

[Eric Blank]

I know it's not great, but could you possibly plug on a smaller tank that you put inside? If you don't trust your ability to handle those valves forget what I said.

We don't have one, I'm buying water on my way home today. Of course my manager is now 16 minutes late to open. Probably problems with his truck.

It's the inlet pipe in the wall of the house thats currently frozen. Got the water tank in the shed thawed.