The Belt Onion club
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@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
make stuff vibrate unless it's well-secured
Emphasis added
for claritybecause dumb .So where are you getting all these surface-mount security wells so cheap?
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The IoT sex toys thread is
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@Zerosquare
sadNamesByCategory.addAt(0, "security well")
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I'm pretty sure it's been posted before, but CRS itself is a thing, so...
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@Zerosquare said in The Belt Onion club:
CRS itself is a thing
Not necessarily. I CRS when I was in my 20s.
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@Zerosquare said in The Belt Onion club:
I'm pretty sure it's been posted before, but CRS itself is a thing, so...
My biggest problem is remembering where I saw something in particular. I've got multiple shitpost input / output streams. Sometimes they get crossed.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
I CRS when I was in my 20s.
If you can still remember that now, then you definitely don't have CRS
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
Sometimes they get crossed.
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@Zerosquare said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
I CRS when I was in my 20s.
If you can still remember that now, then you definitely don't have CRS
I can never remember whether CRS is the life saving thing or the child services thing. Too many TLAs start with C.
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@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
My biggest problem is remembering where I saw something in particular.
As evidenced by your coding problems.
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@Zerosquare I am in this picture and I don’t like it.
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
@Zerosquare I am in this picture and I don’t like it.
Me too, it’s the beach one.
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@topspin I was always between the robot and the castle. Was the beach one animated? I remember the robot was, the hand with the cards was, and I can't remember if my memory is failing me or whether the bats in the castle one were.
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
Was the beach one animated?
IIRC the sun would wink or stick its tongue out or something periodically
@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
whether the bats in the castle one were.
Yeah, the castle one animated too
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@boomzilla she may as well hold her hand, the damage is done.
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@Arantor they were all animated, some just had very low occurence rates.
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@Zerosquare I almost clicked the OK button.
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@topspin I had a favorite, but I can't remember what it was.
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@HardwareGeek same.
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@boomzilla I actually had a set of Walkie Talkies that looked like that. Didn't work for shit though.
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@Gribnit [citation needed]
I found an online source that seems to confirm only the robot (constant animation), the castle (constant animation), the beach (sporadic) and the poker hand (sporadic).
This does tally with my memory.
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gribnit [citation needed]
I found an online source that seems to confirm only the robot (constant animation), the castle (constant animation), the beach (sporadic) and the poker hand (sporadic).
This does tally with my memory.
Like I say, very low occurence rates for the remainder. Most people probably never saw the rest of them.
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@Gribnit the sources I found suggest occurrence rate of zero.
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gribnit the sources I found suggest occurrence rate of zero.
That's very low. I would opine that they haven't put the time in.
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@Zecc said in The Belt Onion club:
I still can't finish one while dealing three at a time :(
Draw Three in Vegas mode was definitely tricky if I remember right.
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@dkf There are a zillion solitaire card games, and IIRC, that's Klondike, or something similar, and the theoretical winnability, if you play it perfectly is less than 1/3. OTOH, MS
SpiderFreeCell Solitaire included only one unwinnable hand out of 32k combinations, although some of those required some really counterintuitive moves. My personal average was somewhere around 95%.
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@HardwareGeek the manual for FreeCell stated that theoretically every hand is winnable. I call bullshit. I played it hundreds of times and only won once.
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@Gąska said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek the manual for FreeCell stated that theoretically every hand is winnable. I call bullshit. I played it hundreds of times and only won once.
Back when I was playing I would win the vast majority of the time. I remember it kept track of streaks...not sure I ever got my winning streak up to 100 but it was usually in the double digits.
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@Gąska In the original MS FreeCell, only one seed was absolutely unwinnable (as well as one of the easter egg negative seeds iirc). In later editions they expanded the seed range by several orders of magnitude, and the number of truly unwinnable games is still really, really low.
Of course just because a solver can beat a given layout doesn't mean a human can. Especially if you don't like to use undo and give up when you have no moves or are otherwise in an unwinnable state.
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@coderpatsy In later versions, you could load games by I'd. And if you gave it a negative id, it'd give you an unsolvable game back. And that was documented. My dad was a free cell addict for many years. His win streak was in the 10k+ range.
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@coderpatsy said in The Belt Onion club:
In the original MS FreeCell, only one seed was absolutely unwinnable
My bad memory. That's the one I was thinking of, not Spider. It's been 10+ years since I played any solitaire.
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@HardwareGeek spider solitaire is fairly easy too.
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@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
@Zerosquare I am in this picture and I don’t like it.
Me too, it’s the beach one.
I alternated between that and the castle.
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@Gąska said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek the manual for FreeCell stated that theoretically every hand is winnable. I call bullshit. I played it hundreds of times and only won once.
I used to keep an excel file of pass/fail games (since each was numbered). I forget my pass rate, but it was pretty high.
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@dcon said in The Belt Onion club:
@Gąska said in The Belt Onion club:
@HardwareGeek the manual for FreeCell stated that theoretically every hand is winnable. I call bullshit. I played it hundreds of times and only won once.
I used to keep an excel file of pass/fail games (since each was numbered). I forget my pass rate, but it was pretty high.
(hmmm, looks)
Holy Carp. I still have that file.
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@dcon this is definitely diagnostic of something, and although I don't know what it is I am entirely sure that it is incurable.
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@Gribnit said in The Belt Onion club:
@dcon this is definitely diagnostic of something, and although I don't know what it is I am entirely sure that it is incurable.
Gotta love files with created times that are later than the last modification time. Just moves between machines...
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I'd like to nominate the two developers I had an interview with today who have been in their project ever since it was started all the way back in 1986. It's still in active development.
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@Gąska I assume at this point they speak entirely in a new language used only by members of that product team, so who translated?
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@Gąska said in The Belt Onion club:
I'd like to nominate the two developers I had an interview with today who have been in their project ever since it was started all the way back in 1986. It's still in active development.
Their "project" should've long moved out and started their own family by this time.
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@topspin in Shanghai no less! The old guys don't code much themselves nowadays.
Also, "do you know how to navigate between functions with Visual Studio?" is definitely one of the weirdest interview questions I've ever had. And they were completely serious about it. For them, having code for a single feature split between multiple files is still a new concept (most of the business logic lives in stored procedures).
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@Gąska said in The Belt Onion club:
For them, having code for a single feature split between multiple files is still a new concept
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@Gąska said in The Belt Onion club:
@topspin in Shanghai no less! The old guys don't code much themselves nowadays.
Also, "do you know how to navigate between functions with Visual Studio?" is definitely one of the weirdest interview questions I've ever had. And they were completely serious about it. For them, having code for a single feature split between multiple files is still a new concept (most of the business logic lives in stored procedures).
Run.