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[TD1]

Brother just did the ice bucket challenge XD

We put a very large bucket, by which I mean huge, that took maybe 15 mins to fill on top of one of the metal containers around our house. This was upended, and then two normal buckets also upended, on top of him standing below it.

It was hilarious 

[cerapa]

Passed the driving exam and will get my license next week.

Which means that I won't have to drive ever again. Unless it's important. Feels good.

[Putnam]

I made homing projectile code.

I look at it and I realized quickly enough that it shouldn't work. Doesn't stop it. I can't avoid it. I can't even outrun it even though it goes at 1/5 my speed.

EDIT: It's just as fast as I am when I'm farther away from its origin... I should probably redefine its origin regularly so that doesn't happen.

[Graknorke]

I made homing projectile code.

I look at it and I realized quickly enough that it shouldn't work. Doesn't stop it. I can't avoid it. I can't even outrun it even though it goes at 1/5 my speed.

EDIT: It's just as fast as I am when I'm farther away from its origin... I should probably redefine its origin regularly so that doesn't happen.

It shouldn't work but does? You should probably move out of Rl'yeh.

[Putnam]

Yeah, it was redefining its direction every time it took a turn like so:

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self.velocity.direction=self.origin_pos.get_argument(self.target.pos)
get_argument being this function:

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    def get_argument(self,other):
        x=other.x-self.x #x and y here being parts of a position on a grid
        y=other.y-self.y
        return cmath.phase(x+y*1j)
And since the code isn't really self-explanatory, I put documentation into my Velocity class:

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        """
        Direction is stored as a phase; speed is how far it will go from the origin (the point of release) every tick.
        If you think that's overcomplicating things... I don't, heh.
        :param direction: float between -pi and pi
        :param speed: float
        """
It works! But then I realized that its direction will be based on the direction of the target from the origin, not from the current position of the projectile, so I fixed that.

[miauw62]

I made homing projectile code.

I look at it and I realized quickly enough that it shouldn't work. Doesn't stop it. I can't avoid it. I can't even outrun it even though it goes at 1/5 my speed.

EDIT: It's just as fast as I am when I'm farther away from its origin... I should probably redefine its origin regularly so that doesn't happen.

It shouldn't work but does? You should probably move out of Rl'yeh.

Nah, that's not unusual when programming things :V

In my own programming-related happy, I finished completely rewriting a major (and old and shitty) system for /tg/station.
End result:
1,246 lines added, 1,994 lines removed, 75 files changed. Which took me 23 days, although not all of those were spent coding.
The speed increase should be significant, but it's hard to profile the system in question. Either way, it's now much more polymorphic, understandable and I fixed ten (!) bugs. this should get me some mad maintainercred.
(statistics woo!)

[cerapa]

I made homing projectile code.

I look at it and I realized quickly enough that it shouldn't work. Doesn't stop it. I can't avoid it. I can't even outrun it even though it goes at 1/5 my speed.

EDIT: It's just as fast as I am when I'm farther away from its origin... I should probably redefine its origin regularly so that doesn't happen.

It shouldn't work but does? You should probably move out of Rl'yeh.

Nah, that's not unusual when programming things :V

What also isn't unusual is when those things stop working after you notice that they shouldn't.

I swear that programming opens portals to some eldritch realm whose inhabitants try to communicate with us. But all we notice is that programs occasionally return impossible values and act in ways that are contrary to all logic and reason.

At some point in the future the Great Old Ones will be summoned, but it will not be by cultists trying to end the world, instead they will come after a programmer who delved too deep while investigating why his text printing function writes everything backwards unless the text has an even number of words.

[WillowLuman]

Listening to an NPR story about animals adapting to and thriving in urban conditions, and the host says "So maybe the next summer movie should be Teenage Mutant Ninja Spiders?"

[DeKaFu]

At some point in the future the Great Old Ones will be summoned, but it will not be by cultists trying to end the world, instead they will come after a programmer who delved too deep while investigating why his text printing function writes everything backwards unless the text has an even number of words.

I'm pretty sure there's a book series with exactly this premise. The name escapes me at the moment, though.

[Alev]

...There's a manual x_x
FINALLY I CAN ART BETTER.

That's where I learn most of my stuff. And for squares, I think there is a 'pixel' option for paintbrush or pencil tool, which you can select in the area with all the styles and patterns and whatnot. Umm. How do you get the tools bar out of the main window? Somehow all 3 windows consolidated into one, and I've no idea how to put it back.

[Arx]

Go to "Windows" in the toolbar at the top and un-check "Single window mode".

[Alev]

Go to "Windows" in the toolbar at the top and un-check "Single window mode".

Oh. I will try that.

[Loud Whispers]

FUCKING BLOOD SUCKING PARASITIC MOZZIES, DEATH TO YOUR SPAWNING POOLS, DEATH TO YOUR LARVAE! I SHALL DASH YOU UPON THE WALLS, INTRODUCE VORACIOUS PREDATORS INTO YOUR ABODES! NONE OF YOU WILL LIVE TO SEE THE DARK OF NIGHT FOR BY THE LIGHT OF DAY I WILL ROOT OUT EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!

*Post mosquito eradication success euphoria achieved.

[timferius]

"We shall swat them on the beaches, we shall swat them on the spawning pools, we shall swat them in the fields and in the streets, we shall swat them in the hills; we shall never surrender"

[Gentlefish]

So, I had a busted 2 foot USB mini B for both my phone and tablet. It worked sort of if it was held in the right way. It charged my phone all right but holding it in made my thumb tired after a little while when trying to art.

So I went out and got a six foot cable and man, that thing holds itself in nice and tight!

Also I picked up a logitech wired computer controller. Off brand, modelled after the PS4 controller, and the triggers on the back are a little sticky, but I got it set up with a mod to play minecraft and it works wonderfully! Also plays BL2 quite well. I think I'm going to try Skyrim out tonight.