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[Graknorke]

Finally came to the realisation that if badgering the retailer for a "refund" (not sure if it's really a refund if they never deliver the thing in the first place) won't work, I should just go to PayPal. There's something just inherently satisfying in going to a higher authority and getting them to deal with someone who's being shitty.

[Yoink]

Managing to record a dream without forgetting it always makes me feel happy, even if it's a weird-ass dream about nothing much.

[miauw62]

I just got out of a programming competition I thought I'd been unable to finish just over a sixth of, but it turns out that the last question was a bonus question.

This means that assuming I haven't screwed any of it up, I'm within a hair of full completion, and the hair was my program for a problem involving factorisation, primes, and operations on the factors of factors. The hair? My program wasn't optimised well enough to run over ten (or a hundred, not sure) million numbers in the five minutes I had left at the end. I'm suspicious that was a problem with Java, though, since I don't think I had any extraneous maths.

Doing better than expected is a great feeling.
In last year's BeOI finals I somehow ended /ninth/ out of twenty, despite putting in way too little effort and solving far from everything.

[Rubidium]

I found this pixel art avatar icon generator!
http://www.icongenerators.net/pixelavatar.html
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I love it!

[Teneb]

Download speed went from 10mb to 15mb, while upload went from 0.5mb to 1mb. Still shitty on the upload side of things, but it was apparently free because of how long we've signed this package.

[TheBiggerFish]

Download speed went from 10mb to 15mb, while upload went from 0.5mb to 1mb. Still shitty on the upload side of things, but it was apparently free because of how long we've signed this package.

Yay!

[Orange Wizard]

Download speed went from 10mb to 15mb, while upload went from 0.5mb to 1mb. Still shitty on the upload side of things, but it was apparently free because of how long we've signed this package.

Lucky bastards with internet infrastructure that isn't just copper phone lines from last century

[Eric Blank]

Lucky bastards with internet infrastructure that isn't either someone else' wifi network or one running off your phone's tiny data plan and battery life.

[Putnam]

i'm not sure how much it dawned on me how much i appreciate that dwarf fortress is actually a game where i can programmatically use a person's intentions and situation to determine whether or not their death is dramatically appropriate

like that's pretty crazy

[miauw62]

Care to elaborate? Sounds interesting...

[Putnam]

in Fortbent, god-tiered players are automatically revived if their deaths are neither heroic nor just.

In order to determine whether the death was heroic or just, the following process is followed (originally in Lua script):

• Was the death final? To determine this, we:
  • check if the death was an accident (meaning they were not shot, bled out, struck down, killed in fire or dragonfire, murdered, weapon trap'd, gave in to starvation or vampire'd)
  • Check if the unit was in combat during said death and not utterly terrified at the moment.
• If the death was final, we then check if the death was just. To determine this, we find the number of civilizations they are enemies or criminals to; if it is more than 5 (very unlikely for an ordinary citizen, likely for a crimeboss or bandit lord), it is just. If it is not just, it is heroic.

[Twinwolf]

I got the Witcher 3 a few days ago and have been playing it a lot since then.

[miauw62]

Why do you have to check if it's heroic or just if it doesn't influence the outcome?

[Putnam]

Why do you have to check if it's heroic or just if it doesn't influence the outcome?

It's flavor. Flavor is the most important thing in Dwarf Fortress. You don't get stories without flavor. Also, it's important to the story it's adapting.

[miauw62]

Yeah, fair enough.