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The name appeals, a melding of MySpace and Facebook = CodgerSpace? Rodger that!
The Science section e.g. this provides links to well-known sources e.g. cosmic jousting at Reuters. Do you get those – it appears to be region based, so we get a lot of Mirage content over here.
The Disney Fun-Fact-Fantasy-Fiction collection arrived at the shop, so…[Read more]

Is it possible to refactor code to run from custom operators? So define operators f+ as float plus, d+ as float double, f- as float minus, d- as double minus etc.. This obeys the usual arithmetical precedence rules in converting the surrounding operands to the type specified by the operator. Bound to be messy and slow in large expressions of mixed…[Read more]

Ugh, even the science category on Google News is overrun by click bait. The algorithms have gotten totally useless 🙁

Going to need to see if the main sites I get my science news from still have RSS/Atom feeds. Then I’ll need to find a web reader since it looks like Feedly has mostly moved away from them….

Yep, we also have the old joke, “Two plus two equals five for large values of two.”

cppreference has a section on it here under “Floating–integral conversions”. Interestingly, the code mixes the double and floating point types in some places. The only difference between the two types as far as C++ is concerned is memory related so we may be a…[Read more]

Vector might be a viable alternative to array of structs, even better, just an array of key/value pairs.
Fine, just watch for certain add/subtract operations in floats, there’s a cautionary note here.

There are some casts that can be removed. As an example:
if (pEffectData->HasDuration() && pEffectData->HasMagnitude()) {
Cost = (float)(BaseCost / 10.0 + BaseCost * Duration * Magnitude / 5.0);
} else if (pEffectData->HasDuration()) {
Cost = (float)(BaseCost / 10.0 + BaseCost * Duration / 5.0);
} else if (pEffectData->HasMagnitude()) {
Cost =…[Read more]

Armadillos are the biggest issue around here as they like to tear everything up. We also have a few feral pigs in the swamp but, fortunately, I’ve never seen them in the neighborhood.

I’d like to get some blackberries going to replace the ones that the city cleared out from the public lands a few years back but I’m not sure I have the right kind…[Read more]

Oregano is really tough, there’s a patch of it which has been regenerating each spring for many years now, at least 15 IIRC.
That’s a pity, an idea is to intersperse the cover with something slightly unpalatable, the nightshades for example. The younger leaves on a local species (probably this) growing under the pines here are actually quite…[Read more]

It was a lot of fun! Not sure how to follow it up. Maybe watching A Boy and His Dog again? 😛

Finally got around to Galaxy of Terror. Mostly jump scares but did have some good scenes of the alien planet.

And the Crab Monsters were a blast!

Deus wasn’t bad. Took a bit to get going before it really gets interesting but once it does, it’s pretty…[Read more]

Got one of them downstairs, we simply had to diversify. 😛
So the CyberPower is in place, runs nicely – apart from a bit of a hiccup on boot probably from the loose USB connector plug.
Another thing, the PC rebooted immediately after shutdown last night, do recall an adjustment of voltage thresholds cured this a while ago on a downstairs rig. In…[Read more]

There’s another typo in a file name: ESMSubBase.h should be EsmSubBase.h to match the convention used with the other files. Will add it to the list to adjust later just in case the includes also need to be fixed. Not an issue on Windows as the file system isn’t case system but still good practice to line everything up. That and we hope to get it…[Read more]

Took a quick look at .gitignore and it may need some additions, such as *.o to ignore object files. Will get it taken care of at some point 🙂

mlox is actually for load order management. It’s similar to BOSS but uses a completely different syntax and its code is much simpler. 🙂 I think it stands for Morrowind Load Order Executable. When I was poking about recently, it looked like maintenance was handed over to rfuzzo. They’ve been working on Rust versions of various tools such as one…[Read more]

Dragon32 bowing out after all this time, wow. Is mlox a better alternative to Mash these days?
A scripter wanted to know How to detect if webcam is being used?
No answer, looks like each implementation of the USB Video Class (UVC) camera has its own virtual space from which one can hardly see into, other than through Windows Settings, as seen in Wh…[Read more]

Codgerspace is a pretty fun read. It involves a collection of short stories to tell a larger story so there’s not a whole lot of depth to it but still a good one 🙂

Cool! Unable to get the database to load at the moment so I’ll try again later. Always fun to poke through that stuff, especially the older stuff. 🙂

15 billion and growing! That’s a lot of cat videos! 😛

Also need to figure out which version of Mash is recommended these days as there are quite a few forks of it. May not be a bad idea for a…[Read more]

Ah gotcha, it’s here, and yes, OpenMW is on the list! 🙂
Have you seen this one for Usenet, more than a billion posts in there apparently.
And there are almost 15 billion videos on YouTube, – no walk in the park for your average video archivist. 😛

Haven’t gotten to the usage yet but those arrays are arrays of structs using the names as the keys. Additionally, it uses accessor functions to convert the index to the string and back again. Based on this, there’s a very good chance that they’d be better off as a map of structs. I’m a big fan of using data types that semantically make sense as…[Read more]

It also has some cool taglines:

From Outer Space They Came – Meteor Borne, Meteor Strange!
Stranger Than Anything Science Had Ever Discovered As Thrill Crowds Upon Thrill!

Looks like a fun crowd, could this have been the official trailer for it?

Rogue Agent is one of those flicks equipped with a potent…[Read more]

AT’s newest entry looks pretty slick too!

Still using the Thorens 165 I picked up a couple of years ago. It’s completely stock, which is cool. The previous owner took really good care of it so the springs aren’t even worn out! 🙂