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Adorable, aren’t they? Haven’t seen too many slugs around here in recent years. I suspect our increase use of pesticides are partly to blame. Used to be a lot more common before we upped the spraying around five years ago.

These days, more and more media is simply parroted and there’s much less original reporting than there used to be. Reporters…[Read more]

Will need to check the shop for some compilations! We’re also getting alternate art cards for Magic based on FiM, too!

I realize Jodie Whittaker’s stent on Who was polarizing but I quite liked her version of the Doctor. Found it rather refreshing.

Decided to continue watching cartoons! Currently watching Courage the Cowardly Dog. Got plenty of…[Read more]

All sub-records have their data blocks as global scope with the classes having to go back and forth. We may want to change that at some point to having class-based scope. Will need evaluation.

I don’t see a reason for them to be globals as the values will change for each sub-record in play but we’ll get there.

Playing around with the cppcheck configuration some and this is what I’ve currently got for the settings:
cppcheck --enable=all -I . --inconclusive --language=c++ --library=mfc --library=microsoft_atl --output-file=cppcheck.log --platform=win64 --quiet .
I’m currently unsure about --cppcheck-build-dir but it may be useful as well with --cppcheck-bu…[Read more]

I’ve add a note about examining the icons as there seems to be several duplicates.

Still fixing up the circular dependencies and boolean types.

Just about finished with the main MLP series. May watch the spin-offs next or I may explore what else is available, will decide soon! The spin-offs, Equestria Girls, were based on fan art of the ponies as humans. The art was so popular that they decided to integrate the concept into a series of specials.

Been in the mood for old, old films…[Read more]

I just re-sleeved some old cards the other day. The 30 year old sleeves were pretty rough. 😛

May be a good idea to run Memtestbefore sunsetting it. HDDs are harder to test but the SMART information may help some

For the CPU, you’ll want Prime95

Granted, Prime95 is mostly for stress testing but could let you know if something is going belly up.

Don’t use hibernation over here and I’ve never been able to get sleep mode working on Pop. After more experimenting, I’ve found that it’s the act of fully logging out and back in that fixes the flickering that is triggered by the screen locker as opposed to a reboot.

I’m definitely going to need to sit down at some point and do some…[Read more]

Time for a new keyboard or just going to stick with a red key? No reason to discard it if it still works! 🙂

Yuck. Motherboard battery is easy to fix: just a coin cell battery. As for the rest, no idea. Data corruption, maybe?

I may start double-sleeving my records for extra protection. I already do that for my TCGs so why not records, too?

Fond memories of Skeptic. Probably should start reading their articles more 🙂

Not a whole lot of information on Disclosure Day but most things by Spielberg are worth a watch!

Most of the UFO sightings the government clams up on have to deal with military experiments or other unknown craft, such as homemade drones or the like. Our government is…[Read more]

Yeah, I’m sure some of them have fallen into disrepair by now. There may be others opening up over the course of the next few decades as the USAF builds new silos. And let’s not forget all of the fallout shelters! Atlas Obscura has a few articles 🙂

iNaturalist is currently down for maintenance so will need to read it later 🙂

Trying to find an old article about a family that converted a missile silo into a residence slash museum. Was unsuccessful in tracking it down but I did come across this one: https://recyclenation.com/2010/11/repurposed-nuclear-missile-recycle-silos/

I do miss being able to easily get interesting articles. Sites moving away from RSS has really…[Read more]

Okay, I just finished moving the macros from common/dl_base.h to the proper files. Now I need to go through the entire codebase and correct all of the includes, making sure everything is where it needs to be.

This is a downside to making heavy use of the preprocessor: it can cause conflicts due to how compilers work.

1. The preprocessor runs,…

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Oh, cool. Didn’t realize Skeptic was still around (sorry, haven’t had a chance to catch up on the SETI thread yet). Have fond memories of seeing their ‘zines on the newsstand years ago, back when they were still a thing here. Looks like a physical sub isn’t a whole lot: 36 USD annually. May be worth it 🙂

My mom has started relying on AI for some…[Read more]

Ooh, lookie. MAD is going to be riffing on DC in a few days: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mad-about-dc-1-preview-dc-universe-gets-a-comedic-wedgie/

May need to pick up that special!

British comedy is some of the best!

And while we’re talking Benny Hill:

youtube.com/watch?v=m8iWgoOxaYU

😀

FiM is a blast!

Okay, community threads have been updated 🙂

Yep, changing the include order fixed it. Going to need to fix the rest of the places where it shows up. We’ll want to fix things up at some point to make sure that we don’t run into this problem again. We’ll want to move the string functions over to the proper file, for instance.

Yep, CMake is correctly setting things up properly:
Run mkdir builddir; cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -B builddir
mkdir builddir; cmake -G "Visual Studio 17 2022" -B builddir
shell: C:Program FilesPowerShell7pwsh.EXE -command ". '{0}'"

Mode LastWriteTime Length Name
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Fixed it! For some reason, MSVC wasn’t bringing in tchar.h from common/dl_base.h. I added #include <tchar.h> to common/dl_str.h and the error went away. Looking at the new error log, it looks like _WIN32 isn’t being brought in from MSVC for whatever reason even though it’s a compiler level macro. That should be easy enough to fix: I’ll just add it…[Read more]

Yeah, it’s missing the Run() function and uses the inherited one instead. I noticed it during the initial audit a year ago but I don’t think I put it on the tracker. Sorry about that. Pretty sure that would have given us a different error, though, but it’ll need one or the equivalent anyways for GTK support since it does thing in a standard C++…[Read more]