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  • in reply to: Films & TV Shows #3185

    Granted, most of the stuff I watch has terrible scores on both IMDB and RT…. πŸ˜›

    Bad movies are fun!

    Haven’t gotten much chance to watch anything really noticeable lately as they were roofing next door. May switch over to holiday mode soon, though. In which case, I absolutely have to watch classics like The Star Wars Holiday Special and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians with a little bit of Christmas Vacation mixed in. Some of those are better films than others…. πŸ˜›

    in reply to: All Things Site and Organizational #3184

    Sorry, I had forgotten to add the posts to the category so it’s showing up now. πŸ™‚

    Looks like the style pack also got an update so we’ll be having an update bonanza in a few weeks πŸ˜›

    And, yep, the Pages category in the site editor is definitely broken for some reason. Sorry, missed that part of the post yesterday.

    in reply to: All Things Site and Organizational #3182

    Sorry, I may have missed a step. I’ll take another look. πŸ™‚

    in reply to: All Things Site and Organizational #3179

    Sorry, got the new category added. Meant to do it the other day but I’ve been slow lately. Just stay on me! πŸ™‚

    Looks like mostly API features in addition to the new theme and other bug fixes mixed. Should we wait a bit?

    in reply to: Random #3175

    Going well so far. Still waiting on the third book to become available but I’m really enjoying it πŸ™‚

    I used Thunderbird! The interface for the news reader was pretty basic as I recall but that’s okay! Looks like there are some BBSs still around. As for the state of the content, couldn’t say. Just did a brief search and saw a few online but didn’t look to see what kind of stuff they host. πŸ˜›

    Been browsing Textfiles.com again, which is always interesting.

    πŸ˜€ I can certainly ask! Tow hitch gets installed today so we can use it to haul the kayaks. πŸ™‚

    A few decades ago, the Forrester was the station wagon. The current model looks nothing like it!

    in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #3171

    Looks like City Car Driving is getting an updated version in May so I may start with Beam.NG drive when it goes on sale and go from there. Or Euro Truck Simulator. Need to look into the latter more but it I think I read that it has good hardware support. It also has a ton of DLC but I may not need much of it, will need to take a closer look. Would also be nice to have something to mess around with outside of learning so I’ll take that into consideration. Will pick up the research again this weekend. πŸ™‚

    Always sad to see a service fold. πŸ™

    Weird that the Wikipedia page is so inaccurate. The issues have already been mentioned on the talk page so hopefully it’ll get changed

    in reply to: SETI #3170

    https://www.npr.org/2024/11/13/nx-s1-5189426/ufo-uap-hearing-congress-2024

    Sigh. These publicity stunts are only damaging the legitimate search. This is Roswell all over again. The difference is, in this case we don’t even have photos. Just some people making extraordinary claims. It’s all based on hearsay. I could say I’m from the Andromeda galaxy all I want but it doesn’t make it so. And, besides, I have nothing to back it up with. The end result is that it weakens the credibility of actual evidence. Unless there’s something to back it up, the US government really shouldn’t be hosting this stuff. It reminds me of the time when the FBI wasted time and money investigating Bigfoot: https://vault.fbi.gov/bigfoot/bigfoot-part-01-of-01/view

    in reply to: Hardware Relics #3169

    So I recently came across a couple of places that do restorations of vintage turntables:

    No complaints here but I still may reach out to them at some point to see what they offer. No harm in that, at least!

    in reply to: UpperLowerProper #3167

    Console input is pretty straightforward, you just need to include the input/output library. Here’s an example:

    #include <iostream>
    int main() {
    	int x;
    	std::cout << "Enter a number: ";
    	std::cin >> x;
    	std::cout << std::endl << "You entered: " << x;
    	return 0;
    }

    Command-line arguments would also be handy but the language only has rudimentary support for them by default. There are third-party libraries that help to fill in the gaps with them, though.

    For storing the set of proper case keywords, a set may be the best container to use. In the rename loop, check the word to see if it’s in the set using the contains member function. So I think I just inadvertently wrote the entire program here. Only thing missing is the actual code πŸ˜›

    Using the built-in types like this would also make it completely cross-platform πŸ™‚

    Sounds good πŸ™‚

    in reply to: Random #3165

    After several years, my mom finally decided on a Subaru Outback. She refuses to own a station wagon for whatever reason so, even though it’s classed as one, just don’t call it a station wagon or she gets mad. πŸ˜›

    That aside, she’s quickly falling in love with it πŸ™‚

    And No Man’s Sky got cross-save support last week, which is nice. πŸ™‚

    in reply to: Cooking #3163

    New cookbook! Going to need to break out the recipes! πŸ™‚

    in reply to: The TCG Thread #3160

    So the new deck I built that relies on more passive gameplay is okay. A bit early to tell how it’ll hold up in serious play as I just finished it on Friday but it did hold up well in yesterday’s tournament before everyone figured out what I was doing and got ganged up on. So I came in fourth place out of five players πŸ˜›

    It did well before, though. Didn’t outright win the games but came pretty close and was able to keep the pressure on so I’ll keep playing it a bit before I tweak it. Will get the decklist posted soon! πŸ™‚

    in reply to: All Things General and Non-Organizational #3159

    Will do. Had to take a bit of a break to get some other stuff done but I’ll try to get some more writing done soon. πŸ™‚

    Been occupied with deck building and the driving sim, mostly. With a little bit of moodiness mixed in for good measure (as we know, I tend to be moody pretty often πŸ˜› ). Ah, sounds like the ingredients of a stew! Though, not an appetizing stew. Don’t like eating paper at all! πŸ˜›

    Looks like it’s still mostly bots, sadly. Was hoping that we’d start to get some real humans once the content started coming but it looks like it may take longer.

    The solution? More content! Probably πŸ˜›

    in reply to: Samsung Tablets #3155

    What I do is long press and then drag the two cursors around the text I want to copy. Doing select all usually selects everything, including stuff outside the articles. Do you get the cursors to drag around?

    in reply to: The Thread That Broods #3154

    Tried instructors but things didn’t go all that well. Pretty much exhausted the resources available here so I’m wanting to take another stab at things but in a simulator. Having to do it myself because the local places with the sims won’t let me use their facilities even though I’m supposed to meet the requirements. Anyways! Onwards! Figure that if it doesn’t go well, I’ll at least have fun crashing into things πŸ˜›

    Only issue is that the wheels are a tad expensive. Will probably try keyboard first so I don’t need to order a bunch of equipment I won’t be able to use if it doesn’t work out.

    Yeah, sorry it took so long to share! Uploaded it last week and then got sidetracked again. πŸ˜›

    in reply to: The Thread That Broods #3151

    As you may have gathered from some of my posts lately, I’m working on figuring out the next stage of my journey through the Sea of Life. A car sim is the last thing I haven’t tried when it comes to learning how to drive, for instance. πŸ™‚

    And, as promised, here’s the video: https://photos.app.goo.gl/kYfhrw75ybonp6nv7

    in reply to: Samsung Tablets #3150

    Not sure how many do but it’s possible using digital circuitry elements. Would be careful, though. I do know my old phone heats up a lot when using the charger it came with and it does support fast charging. Granted, it’s ancient at this point so that may have something to do with it. πŸ™‚

    Weird. Have no issues over here. Which browser are you using? I’m using Chrome and can select things as normal.

    Yeah, mine was fixed with an update after eight months of the bug. Was pretty annoying πŸ™

    in reply to: Films & TV Shows #3149

    Was digging through the horror section on PlutoTV the other day and this one near the bottom caught my eye. No idea how they sort the categories but it was pretty good! Interestingly, the RT score is 90% but the IMDB score is close to 50-60%. Granted, they use different metrics but still interesting πŸ™‚

    in reply to: Random #3144

    I kind of miss the simplicity of Usenet and the BBS boards. Had access to some of them twenty years ago when Bellsouth was hosting them. Hard to beat a simple mailing list like browsing but with better organization.

    in reply to: Random #3143

    Other than a few books on the wait list, I’ve pretty much run out of science fiction from the library. At least, space opera. So I’m moving to horror books now. Wish me luck!

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