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Whoops! So Archazia’s Island for Lorcana launched on March 7 for small shops. The big guys will get it on the 14th or 21st. The set contains a lot of goodies. It’s got a board wipe for your ink well as well as a weaker version of Half Shark in the Form of Ratigan along with a host of other useful cards. 🙂

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It’s the culture of corps too, many of the denizens in existence within their hallowed walls have no choice but declare there is no such thing as life outside, before, or after the corp, therefore the corp is seen as the provider and maintainer of all the means of existence and sustenance for the present and incumbent. So why (on earth) do those poor sods have to elicit any concern about this other thing called “world” at all?
Nice! 🙂 What once ground these gears was why pay $32.99 for $20, and why they never came up with a version 2 of the sweet roll plush? Their not so gender specific Daedric Prince is on special. 🙂

And so another No Brainer Day passed, would anyone be the wiser for it?

In the past, it was pretty common for large corporations to manage their locations as small cities. Ford notably did this a hundred years ago. Nowadays, it’s not as common but we still see it in Asia and on oil rigs. Especially on rigs where they’re pretty much cut off from the rest of the world.

Thought about grabbing the sweet roll plush but sweet roll thefts are always an issue…. 😛 Wish they had more ES stuff in general. Love Fallout but variety is always a good thing!

Cool! Will definitely be celebrating the holiday in the future! And good site! We have Pi Day coming up this week. I always try to celebrate Pi Day!

Do they have a full list of holidays or is it just on a per-date basis?

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Geany’s all ready to go. I’ll make more tweaks to the settings as I need to. All I really need is a text-editor with syntax highlighting 🙂

Fun fact, I used Notepad for Java initially as I hated the IDE we were made to use and I wasn’t allowed to install Notepad++ on the school computers. 😛

Found out this morning as I shutting down Linux that my EDITOR environment variable isn’t set so I’ll need to fix that when I configure Git. Probably forgot that when I had to reinstall last summer. Sorry, been a while since I set things up from scratch.

Windows development is completely foreign to me so I’ll probably need some help on that front until we get things working cross-platform. Speaking of which, that reminds me that I still haven’t installed MinGW so I’ll need to fix that so that I can make Windows binaries on *nix.

Supposedly, clang can do it all but I’ve never been able to figure out how to use it

I may also reach out to the OpenMW team. Since there’s quite a bit of overlap, they may be interested in chipping in. 🙂

Once the Windows GUI library is swapped out for gtkmm, the GUI should go more smoothly. Still not sure how much work that’ll be, though.

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We also should add documentation to the files to say what everything does as we figure it out. Some of the names are weird

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Over the course of the series, you can see how technology advances in their Stone Age society. For instance, cars are initially powered by running and are powered by critters in a hamster wheel by season 4. There are other bits too, such as the advancement of arms.

I believe it was due to Lucas never being quite happy with the result and wanted to perfect it but never reaching the perfection he envisioned. Could be wrong, though, but it would make sense with how many times he changed the films. He also blocked The Holiday Special from ever being released after the first run on TV since he was not at all happy with how it turned out

Will try to catch those! Looks like only the original 1969 version of The Swimming Pool is available Stateside but I’ll try to catch it! Still haven’t gotten around to giving Twin Peaks a viewing 🙁

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Here’s the updated run on rfuzzo’s repository: https://stearnvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/cppcheck-cpplint.zip

cpplint is much better while cppcheck hasn’t changed at all. However, the cpplint changes look due to it actually respecting the braces filter this go around. The first time I ran it, it ignored me when I told it to ignore the style of braces. Still something to look at improving though, I just didn’t want it to clutter up the log with brace suggestions when that was going to be done anyways 🙂

Other than that, the output is mostly the same

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After several bad starts, I think I’m getting the hang of OpenTTD again. Right now, I’ve got a basic network of four trains and two coal mines all connected to a power plant. Nothing fancy but it works. I’ve also got a few buses and a mail route between two towns.

Not sure how I want to expand it but I’ll do some more reading of the help files. 🙂

Also beginning to install more content. I’m going with a dirty look for the mines and pure concrete for the power plant. I may also install an AI that drives basic cars around to add eye candy but I’m a little concerned about congestion

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Yep, flushdns is pretty useful. Used to use it often back in the DSL days when the network information changed but the cache didn’t update for whatever and resetting the network connection didn’t do the trick. Pretty sure it was a Windows bug in XP at the time. Looks like they suggest trying the Pi Hole in the GitHub issue, which has come up before but is lost due to the broken search function 🙁 But, yeah, splitting the blocking out to a different device may help take the load off the system. 🙂

Still haven’t gotten around to experimenting with a Pi. I really should one day. Always been curious about the Pis

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Ah, okay. Sounds good 🙂

Don’t forget about WinDbg! Pretty helpful to track down driver issues. And it’s also helpful to turn off the automatic restart on STOP errors so that you can better see what’s going on. Of course, Windows has become much more resilient in recent years so, fortunately, BSoDs don’t happen as much as they used to 🙂

And that led me to Detours, which led me to this cool list of projects and papers: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/search/?facet%5Btax%5D%5Bmsr-content-type%5D%5B%5D=msr-project&q=

Most of the recent stuff is AI-related but they’re playing with bringing TypeScript to embedded devices: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/devicescript/

It’s interesting. TypeScript is a lot more readable than JS but never really took off. Sort of like the D programming language, Go, and Dart.

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Unlike The Simpsons, The Flintstones doesn’t contain a whole lot of satire so I’m not sure that is entirely accurate. It was a carbon copy of The Honeymooners at first, however. Fred definitely starts to mellow once he decides he wants a child in the third season but his abusiveness still rears its head from time to time. Interestingly, the animators couldn’t decide on the color of Dino. Early on, he was red, while he was blue in the title sequence before they finally settled on purple.

So someone screwed up recently and accidentally put the unedited Star Wars up on official streaming services: https://gizmodo.com/original-star-wars-streaming-roku-george-lucas-2000572064

Sadly, I wasn’t able to catch it. 🙁

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In honor of this product, here’s some AC/DC:

And in related products, here’s a unique design: https://www.techradar.com/audio/turntables/this-wild-turntable-plays-vinyl-without-a-tonearm-automatically-detects-the-rpm-and-is-a-solid-lump-of-aluminum

Will be interesting to see how it works in practice. The comments are absolutely brutal. I can see how resonance will be an issue with the location, along with potential contaminants since dust likes to settle on the bottom and in creases.

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Forgot to mention that they also confirmed that their changes were to mostly satisfy changes to the Windows API over the last twenty years.

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It’s wonderful! I’ve been playing it off and on on Linux and Windows for years 🙂

It also has a hidden sandbox mode that lets you remove most of the limitations. I forget the key combination, though.

It’s definitely taking time to relearn it and not go too fast at the beginning but I’m getting better. I don’t really care about the scoring, I just like building things up. Will need to look at the more advanced settings in case I can remove some of it. Once I get the hang of it again, I’ll be flipping it over to more realism by adjusting the map settings and other things. 🙂

It also has a lot of add-ons to give it a regional feel. By default, it is mostly inspired by the UK but you can do Australia, Japan, and more by using the right content packs 🙂

Cool! What are you using it for?

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So I reinstalled OpenTTD the other day and it’s still just as relaxing as it was last time I gave it a whirl. Now, though, there are a lot more add-ons for better graphics in the online content menu. Haven’t tried those out yet.

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Okay, my finger is healed enough to work now so I’ve reached out to rfuzzo about the warnings 🙂

For reference, this is how I ran cpplint:
./cpplint --filter=-whitespace,-readabiltiy/braces --recursive ~/Code/mwedit/

rfuzzo says they had trouble with the script-editor so we may want to look at possibly adding in Scintilla support. Absolutely no experience with it but we can certainly add it to the list.

They also say that there’s some wonkiness with the GUI with how the modern Windows controls handle it.

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Another note:

We’ll want to make sure we compile the Windows executable as a static executable. This is important as, unlike *nix systems, Windows doesn’t have a central repository on system for libraries so each program needs to bundle its DLLs with them if built dynamically. The distribution can get a bit messy. Makes it harder to update libraries but the end users aren’t likely to simply download an updated library file anyways

With CMake, this is easily done by checking to see if it’s being run on Windows. Will need to check about Meson.

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This what Meson uses: https://mesonbuild.com/Compiler-properties.html#system-information

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Part of the issue is also the hoarding of resources. Instead of investing it back into new markets and advances, corporations are simply letting the resources accumulate. This kills growth as there is little to no incentive to continue purchasing more services and products so things tend to stagnate over time. It also does harm to general society. We’re also reaching an oversaturation of similar companies and products. This is actually a relatively recent trend. A hundred years ago, there were only a handful of large corporations, so they were better able to advance their market as resources were more concentrated. As it was early days, they were focusing a lot on production advancements such as conveyor belts and factory automation. We need to focus more on the people than on the hunt for profits. Society will be much happier. If the world as a whole combines its resources, it will help make up many regional shortcomings but I don’t see that happening anytime soon sadly.

I recently found Beth’s gear store (surprised I didn’t know about it earlier) and wound up getting a Fallout themed backpack. It’s really nice!

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Wiki’s got a pretty extensive list, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft Lots of stuff in there!

Haven’t used Watcom before but I’ve definitely run across it. Can’t forget about Borland, either! It still lives as C++ Builder 🙂

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Yeah, I’ll keep an eye out. Did an ISO conversion once using the built-in tools on Windows when I was having some issues with the CD drive twenty-years ago as requested by tech support to test out the drive. Turned out to be a failing drive at the time and the process wasn’t pretty. Had to use a weird xcopy command 😛

Sounds good. I’ve had my copy for a while and there’s always OpenMW as well. Haven’t tried it myself yet 🙂

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Looks like he may have disabled new comments some years ago. Maybe he had a spam problem? He’s got some good information!

Have you looked into Hyper-V? Never used it before but it looks like it may be a good native option, even if it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles. Sadly, it only supports back to W7 from the official list.

I can’t remember if I used VMWare or Virtual Box when I was playing with VMs. Didn’t use it for much, just playing about 😛

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While I do have Fallout 3, it’s on disc and I don’t have an external optical drive and would need to buy it again 🙁 I suspect there will be similar problems with 3, though, since New Vegas is mostly a modded 3. I do plan on picking up Fallout 4 at some point but that depends on a sale 😛

Right now, I’m not going to be able to be all that helpful with the Fallout games. 🙁

Sorry for the late response!

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