The Official Status Thread
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That wasn't much of a joke.
Consider the source. Blakey is, occasionally, willing to make a joke, even at his own expense, but what comes out of his shrivelled heart is, well, let's just say I was being charitable.
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which (IIRC) all evolved independently
There was a species that spread humanity all over before disappearing (leaving some ruins all over the place). Lack of evolutionary record for humanity on these other worlds leads to some wonkiness in the major cultures for the other sets.
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I thought I'd try Guild Wars 2, completely blind, because someone mentioned it's free.
Starts up, "BY THE WAY YOU'RE MAKING A CHARACTER NOW ALL THESE THINGS MATTER GOOD LUCK!!"
Okay, um, well, the character creation is pretty good at least, and hey, this cutscene from my character's perspective is pretty nice. My mushroom person who makes people hallucinate seems to be interesting. K, now lets get to the actual game.
Wait, nothing? I'm just... in the game. No "press this button to move" even? I hear this game is action, but it seems to just use typical wowish mmo controls... I don't know about this...
Hmm, the questing is pretty nice, and these random events are cool. Keeps up the variation. Yeah, this is pretty alright!
Oh and now I see, if I pretend it isn't wow, there's like range and dodging and such! That's pretty cool. Too bad the active controls are THE WORST THING I'VE EVER SEEN, WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS!? I need to see if I can bind it to an xbox controller. Then it might be playable...
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Status: checking my notifications
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Status: Today would make a mosh pit look like a precision military exercise.
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There was a species that spread humanity all over before disappearing (leaving some ruins all over the place).
I had a feeling that was going to be the case, but I wasn't sure.
Another setting that stole the idea from Larry Niven. (I wonder if when TNG used it, they remembered it had been already done in that animated episode.)
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Status: Resuming the quest to do the impossible!
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Phone interview in two minutes. Face-to-face interview tomorrow. Maybe I'll actually have a job soon.
chickens.count(); foreach (chicken : chickens) { chicken.hatch(); }
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Confirmed for pro-life.
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Status: Calling down fire from the arches of heaven, and yea, up from the bowels of the earth.
Confirmed for
pyromania, I guess?
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Censorship! Controlling the words of those you oppose! I am oppressed!
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Phone interview in two minutes.
That didn't go well. Face-to-face interview with other company tomorrow will go better, I hope.
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That didn't go well.
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I am oppressed!
Then you have grasped the true vision of the future of humanity.
Be the boot.
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Okay, um, well, the character creation is pretty good at least, and hey, this cutscene from my character's perspective is pretty nice.
I love how they did the cutscenes in that game. Very innovative compared to the crap in other MMOs. (THAT MEANS MASSIVELY MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMES.)
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chickens.count();
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chicken.hatch();
}What comes out when you hatch a chicken? <small>Filed under: It's the eggs that hatch, not the chickens?
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Another setting that stole the idea from Larry Niven.
Star Trek is in the Niven's Known Space universe, as anybody who's watched the Animated Series knows.
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I bet he was abbreviating for
chickens.count(); foreach (egg : eggs) { chickens.add(egg.hatch()); }
but I could see implementing this all in Chicken to avoid certain design difficulties
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Agreed. I just need to figure out how to control the game in a way that lets me take advantage of the active combat system, but isn't completely awful like the keyboard and mouse controls.
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It's the eggs that hatch, not the chickens?
There's a common saying in English: Don't count your chickens before they hatch. This is a geeky way of saying that I was doing exactly what that says not to do; i.e., my optimism is premature.
Also, according to the OED, the verb hatch can be applied to either the egg or the animal that emerges:
1 [NO OBJECT] (Of a young bird, fish, or reptile) emerge from its egg:
'ten little chicks hatched out'
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
1.1(Of an egg) open and produce a young animal:
'eggs need to be put in a warm place to hatch'
MORE EXAMPLE SENTENCES
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There's a common saying in English: Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
I always heard it, "Don't count your eggs before they hatch".
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What happened?
Awkward question about a previous job. It had been long enough since I had been asked it that I forgot my rehearsed answer and went into way too much detail.
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The WTFs about Elder Scrolls Online being designed around a Xbox Controller, and yet shipping with missing controller support?
Still apply.
Even more WTFy?
THE CONSOLE VERSION IS OUT NOW! And the PC version has received several patches and a DLC since the console version has been out. So any possible excuse for the PC version to not have controller support is out the window.
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I always heard it as chickens.
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I always heard it as xenomorphs.
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That egg must have been very cramped, or that lizard has a head twice the size of the rest of its body.
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You are lots of fun at parties, aren't you?
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Possibly the lizard's metabolism has only just now kicked in - after the egg breached for whatever reason, it triggered rapid growth to the size shown, likely also accounting for the lack of albumen observed (but not the lack of any smoke, or indeed black-body radiation, which would be expected)..
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"Don't count your eggs before they hatch".
But counting eggs is a reasonable thing to do if you are not planning on allowing them to hatch. (Hmm, omelette for lunch?) However, if you do want them to hatch, expecting all of them to hatch and survive is overly optimistic.
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Indeed, this may have something to do with the postulated preference for "chickens" vs "eggs" when stating this particular proverb.
(nods solemnly)
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Status: Wondering whether this is worth trying to optimize.
$ time coolc -o >(wc -) example.cool 774725 2434410254 12953473981 - real 4m13.794s user 1m25.964s sys 0m5.975s
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Some people prefer the middle state, it seems.
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HardwareGeek's First Law: Avoid premature
optimismoptimization unless you want to make an omelette of your code.
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Status:
echo 1 | bit -cpuprofile bit-cpu.pprof -memprofile bit-mem.pprof -- <(coolc -o /dev/stdout -cpuprofile coolc-cpu.pprof -memprofile coolc-mem.pprof -- example.cool)
I don't know what I would do without
>(foo)
and<(foo)
.
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Star Trek is in the Niven's Known Space universe, as anybody who's watched the Animated Series knows.
You ever seen a Pak Protector on Star Trek?
ST isn't in KS--Niven just changed some names and used an existing story (The Soft Weapon) when asked to write an episode for TAS.
Wikipedia says "The story includes some elements from Niven's Known Space mythos such as the Kzinti and the Slavers."
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I always heard it, "Don't count your eggs before they hatch".
Like "lock and load" or "have your cake and eat it too", it doesn't make much sense that way, though.
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You have you reality and I have mine.
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I don't know what I would do without >(foo) and <(foo).
Two (or more) command lines instead of one, I would imagine.
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have your cake and eat it too
What else am I going to do with this cake? Use it as a chair? Cakes don't make very good chairs.
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Blakey--and you, and me--are all earth humans, so by implication we're all assholes.
BTW I'm making an assumption here WRT @blakeyrat's humanity which may not be warranted, what with shoulder aliens and all.
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But then I'd need to use a name on the filesystem. Which means I also need to delete the file when I'm done with it and make sure I'm not writing to it from two different processes.
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What else am I going to do with this cake? Use it as a chair? Cakes don't make very good chairs.
Well, Ben, think about the subtle way the meaning changes if you say "eat your cake and have it too", and consider how much more sense that wording makes.
I'm sure you could tell us how to write both versions in logjam.
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I also need to delete the file when I'm done
I believe that's covered by my "or more" parenthetical.
make sure I'm not writing to it from two different processes.
How many people and/or processes are concurrently working on your files that this is a problem not solved by sequential execution, which is implicit in the solution?
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Oh, it also means that my several-gigabyte intermediate format needs to be fully written to disk before I can start parsing it.