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It is the most excited I’ve been about a project in years. May be worth looking into more 🙂

Found the solution if you want to see what happens. I’d be a little surprised if it builds out of the box, though.

Will look at sending him a note. 🙂

Nope. Should I?

May also be the FPS. I’m hitting a steady 100 FPS with everything maxed out and Gamebryo has some issues above 60, as we know. Most of the tools that were used to cap it in the past have been abandoned. Will need to do some digging since Radeon’s driver settings don’t provide a method to do it. May also help quiet down the fans a bit 😛

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Will put those on the list!

Finished up You Only Live Twice yesterday. Imagine my surprise when I saw Roald Dahl as screenwriter. I’m just used to his children books 😛

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Wanted to watch Colossus: The Forbin Project but it’s yet another one that’s not available on streaming. 🙁 Going to have to add it to the disc list! Looks like I can get Gattaca on disc or streaming so I’ll add that to the watchlist. Been wanting to catch it for twenty years 🙂

Finished up Goldfinger and Thunderball. Will keep going!

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Yeah, there’s nothing on the Fallout page either about it. Weird. It’s clearly heavily inspired by Fallout so I wonder why nobody tends to mention it? Definitely don’t need a Silo video game: we have Fallout 😛

Still need to watch the Fallout TV series. Can’t see Silo as that’s on Apple tv+ over here 🙁

Yep, middle of winter but it’s been a really dry one so there’s not much moisture to keep sparks from igniting. Don’t know how common it is, though.

Whelp, they’re going ahead with testing roads with radioactive waste: https://interestingengineering.com/culture/radioactive-waste-in-road-construction

Hopefully I grow a second head. Two heads are always better than one! 😀

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I know CMake has a VS plugin that integrates it with Visual Studio. Not sure about Meson about I’ll definitely take a look.

The first order of business would be to simply see if it works, making the minimal code changes necessary to do so. After that, things can be freshened up a bit, maybe with a can of Febreze.

Other than the license, what else should be in the questionnaire?

As I recall, if it’s under GPL then all future changes need to be under the GPL unless permission is granted from all parties who contributed code to change the license. Other licenses aren’t as strict about it. Not too familiar with the MIT license, even though I’ve seen it around a lot. Just never really got around to reading up on it 😛

New Vegas is running from Steam without mods or DLC (never got around to picking up the DLC)

Edit:

Tried again and it’s still crashing 🙁

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Quite possibly. I know I had installed some bits of VS over here when I first set things up, will need to look at it to see which parts. Never been good with VS, though. CMake may be a good option. In the last few years, I’ve been wanting to play around with Meson some. It’s a newer build configuration utility that the GNOME project has been switching to. As far as the image library, I don’t think so. Here’s the current repo and, while it has pull requests from last year, there’s been no real activity on the official branch in four years according to the statistics. I do wonder how difficult it’d be to swap it out for something more supported like GraphicsMagick (assuming I understand the usage of the image library in this instance; if not, there are others to choose from).

Due to its age, the code may need some additional updates to be compatible both with modern compilers and the APIs of modern systems. Quite a few things have changed in the standard in the last twenty years. Running a compiler in dry run mode would help track all of that down along with Cppcheck which we’ve used before.

It’d be nice to get working cross-platform as well since OpenMW works across several platforms. That’d require something like GTK or Qt.

Another thing missing is the code license and the headers don’t give much clue either. Should still be possible to contact Dave over at UESP, though.

Just redownloaded Fallout: New Vegas. Bit in the mood now that I’ve been reading the Silo series. I’ve also only put five hours into it so it’s time to make more progress 😛

Edit: New Vegas crashed after just an hour. Will try again another day….

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There’s also the getline function: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/string/basic_string/getline

Forgot about it but it reads console input into a string until the end of the line instead of skipping the delimiters like the other operator. Similar functions exist for files as well 🙂

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Robin keeps cranking out updates to the style pack several times a week so we may want to wait a bit longer before we apply the update. Still compatibility stuff with WordPress, for the most part 🙂

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Cool! Will need to go through it sometime 🙂

Code doesn’t seem well documented, though. It’s also missing a build recipe so would be a bit difficult to build. Interesting that it uses a lesser known image library. Why not a more common one, I wonder?

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Yep, they’ve got a lot of goodies available! Bit surprised they haven’t gotten the license for Das Boot with it being so iconic

But it’s also about hope! Sad but it gives us hope that one day we can fix things. Really needs to be taught in schools. We watched it when it first came out but never discussed it, which was a bit of a missed opportunity.

Started rewatching the Bond films the other day. The story telling gets better as the series goes on and I’m just about to watch Goldfinger. Should have time next week. 🙂

It also gave us some amazing lines!

They started doing the weird video with the credits in the second film and you can’t even read the opening as a result 😛

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The first quarter of book two deals with the back story of the Vaults. Yep, I’m just using Fallout terms for sanity’s sake. Anyways! Back story: still Fallout. 😛

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Whelp. The charging port on my ancient phone bit the dust this morning. It no longer detects a connected cable. Tried it with two different chargers without success. May be fixable but it’s probably not worth the effort of finding the part from a reputable seller. Guess I’ll prepare for the funeral! Was replacing it with the tablet anyways 🙂

For some reason, I find it much harder to type on the tablet than I do phone. May need to get an external keyboard for it

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So I started reading the Silo series. No idea how I came across it, honestly. The writing is pretty good but the world building leaves a lot to be desired as it’s pretty much a carbon copy of Fallout’s lore. In the first book, they make a big deal of the mystery surrounding the Vault (the author calls them Silos) but the big reveal falls flat since the first book closely follows the plot of the tutorial from Fallout 3, down to the revolution and escape from the Vault, so it’s no big surprise if you’re familiar with the game series. The book was written in 2012 and, due to being science fiction, most of the audience will already be familiar with the games. That said, I’ll still finish it as the writing greatly surpasses that of Fallout’s in my opinion so it does give a different view if you consider it more of a retelling.

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We used to get it more often than we do now. When I was back in high school, we’d usually get it once a year even if the flakes never made it to the ground.

Nope! That’s okay! I’ve got blankets and boxes to cover them with 🙂

Still haven’t decided what to do for my birthday yet. I’ll get it figured out 😛

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Watched WALL-E again the other day. Got it on disc now so I can watch it anytime I want! 😀

And, speaking of, the folks over at Criterion are starting to pump out 4k discs of classics. Interestingly, their shop doesn’t have a list of all films currently in print other than the 4k shop so you need to apply a filter to the master list. Bit of an odd omission

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Cool!

On our side of the pond, we have WonderWorks

Haven’t been in years and I wish I was able to. It was a lot of fun!

So we have one weather outlet predicting snow for my birthday here. None of the others have gone that far yet but we’ll see. Just supposed to be flurries but I’ll take what I can get!

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Not exactly. More like the swamps of Florida and the snow in the Midwest. Got a lot of parks and things I want to explore but never get the opportunity to 🙂

Winnebago’s are expensive! Well, most campers are. 😛

Now, if it were to include rocket engines, that’d be a little more enticing 😀

Yeah, was taking a look at the Land Cruiser but all we’ve got here is the smaller Prado variety. May not be an issue though so I won’t write it off entirely if I can get to that point. 🙂

My mom used to have a Miata that was pretty fun to ride in. 🙂 Not sure if I could handle a manual though. One more thing for me juggle may not work out all that well 😛

I keep injuring my shoulders carrying my supplies to and from the game shop. Going to need to come up with a different way of handling it. 🙁

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Thanks, will snag it! 🙂

I’d play it in German but not only am I rusty, I doubt I’d really understand enough for it to make sense. 😛

Handy for engineering, though!

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So the US government just gave AT&T the go ahead to start shutting down copper phone lines in favor of wireless. This is a huge mistake as wireless is a lot more susceptible to interference. Indeed, you can’t even use it in certain buildings. Without the copper backup, I see this as creating more issues than it solves.

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And continuing basic research, looks like there’s a toned down version called the Ford Bronco Sport that may be a better option. It’s not as rugged but it’ll mostly be for swamps and snow so it won’t need to be too terribly beastly. The Sport model improves mileage significantly at 25/29 MPG and includes several of the off-roading features of the larger vehicle

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