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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 5th Oct 2015 03:23
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AH HA page again thanks guys

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Dar13 wrote: "Most of the time in these libraries you have to explicitly serialize the DOM in order to write it to disk."

TheComet wrote: "Sure, but it's definitely not stored as a string of XML in memory. It's going to be some internal tree-like data structure."

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Quote: "Whilst I was doing this I also thought of a brilliant idea. In order to save time and resources, I am designing the sprites at 64x64, but I may need to blow them up to 128x128 since 64x64 is still pretty tiny. One way to do this, I realized, is it to just zoom in on the image to 200% in GIMP, and then take a screenshot. That simple! Since GIMP doesn't blur it when you zoom in, you don't get that horrible artifact effect that would from doing a normal resize/stretch operation. Yes, I am that smart."


Or you could be smarter and just select None as the interpolation...



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Also! Also! My 3D printer is going now! I've been printing tonnes of little test objects for about 2 days and it's much faster and more accurate than I thought it would be! Pictures coming later.

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Posted: 5th Oct 2015 04:57
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Quote: "Or you could be smarter"
Mmm nope cool the insults there turbo.
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Quote: "Mmm nope cool the insults there turbo."


Does that sentence make sense? Regardless I see the word "insult" in there... to be clear, I mean no offence, just joking. To be even clearer, the zoom-in-take-screenshot method IS clever, and I've used it many a time before, just not in Gimp because it has scaling interpolation options.

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No offense intended, but this should just remind us how funny it is to replace all instances of a word with the word 'fart'.

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Posted: 5th Oct 2015 05:31 Edited at: 5th Oct 2015 05:38
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Quote: "Does that sentence make sense?"
A sentence makes sense if it doesn't or not.

Quote: "to be clear, I mean no offence, just joking."
Ah. Just the little emoticon looks serious.

I now see that you meant no offense to Yodaman Jer, it's just that the emoticon really threw me off. I have never thought of it as an emoticon used in jest.

Beh. I hate it when I call people out on silly little things due to my own misunderstandings. It seems only to happen over internet conversations, too.

And in your defense, while Yodaman's method is indeed clever, setting interpolation to none is most definitely the more efficient option!

Quote: "My 3D printer is going now! I've been printing tonnes of little test objects for about 2 days and it's much faster and more accurate than I thought it would be! Pictures coming later."
Sweeeeeet! Lookin forward to those pics.
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Yodaman Jer
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Clonkex wrote: "select None as the interpolation"


I could, but this still causes some weird distortions to appear, particularly if any of the edges have sharp edges. This is why I was talking about my earlier idea.

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Could you not just load it up in your application and scale up without distortions? like disabling mipmapping and blending etc.?

I could be wrong there but oh well, will be looking more into this area soon...
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Many farts headed your way! Stay strong!
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Posted: 5th Oct 2015 12:39 Edited at: 5th Oct 2015 16:34
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So I learned some Asynchronous and Parallel Programming today... SO FRICKEN EASY!

Me hungry now... DERP...

EDIT

My apps show it as Nearest Pixel...

Notice anything interesting about this image?

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MrValentine wrote: " So I learned some Asynchronous and Parallel Programming today... SO FRICKEN EASY!"

If it's that easy then I assume you're using locks or some other form of mutual exclusion? ( at least with regard to the parallel programming part of your sentence, asynchronous is pretty easy if you can split up your work cleanly).
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Quote: "So I learned some Asynchronous and Parallel Programming today... SO FRICKEN EASY!"


Until you begin to do anything even moderately complex, and then it's a pain.
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Valentine, you do make me laugh.
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My life goal is to make life fun for others, so Thanks for the compliment there Indiana... [which bit made you laugh though?]

Dar13 wrote: "If it's that easy then I assume you're using locks or some other form of mutual exclusion?"


Huh? what is that? Is that some sort of C++ related thing? I am using C#.NET...

Sodium wrote: "Until you begin to do anything even moderately complex, and then it's a pain."


Well, one problem is the order of work being completed, however there is a neat trick to placing data in order regardless of how it is completed, Arrays

But to be honest the only thing at the moment that I can see myself using Asynchrony or Parallel Processing for is things like Saving Data or Image Manipulation at this moment in time... and maybe some video encoding on my servers... but who knows as my projects progress, maybe some things might pop up that need these features...

So nobody noticed that image then... DERP...
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Quote: "Thanks for the compliment there Indiana... "
Now who is indiana? Shall they require a welcome to the forum party?
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Posted: 6th Oct 2015 04:43 Edited at: 6th Oct 2015 04:46
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I find typing Indiana easier than copy pasting his username...

^^

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Also maybe watching an Indiana Jones movie last night might have something to do with it ^^
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Quote: "I find typing Indiana easier than copy pasting his username..."
...why not just type his name??

Quote: "Also maybe watching an Indiana Jones movie last night might have something to do with it ^^"
Yes it would. Or living in Indiana, as I know you do.
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Quote: ""But to be honest the only thing at the moment that I can see myself using Asynchrony or Parallel Processing for is things like Saving Data or Image Manipulation at this moment in time..""


Why are you capitalising those words?
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xD[sup][/sup]
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MrValentine wrote: " Huh? what is that? Is that some sort of C++ related thing? I am using C#.NET..."

Hmm, if you haven't learned about mutexes (aka mutual exclusion locks) yet then you're not very far along in learning parallel programming. The real interesting but quite challenging stuff comes from trying to minimize those locks or eliminating them entirely (lock-free or wait-free).
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Pffft, why didn't it hide those tags? Test123[sup]

EDIT Interesting, I guess super text is broken? Let's check sub text...
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Dark Java Dude 64 wrote: "...why not just type his name??"


I only put effort into things or people I care about...

The Same Guy From The Quote Above wrote: "Or living in Indiana, as I know you do."


I have never set foot in the states yet... I keep thinking about it, but then remember it is near the bottom of my list of places to visit... No but seriously, I would like to visit NY and California... as well as Alaska and Hawaii...

Sodium wrote: "Why are you capitalising those words?"


Because I can, DERP...

Dar13 wrote: "Hmm, if you haven't learned about mutexes (aka mutual exclusion locks) yet then you're not very far along in learning parallel programming. The real interesting but quite challenging stuff comes from trying to minimize those locks or eliminating them entirely (lock-free or wait-free)."


I Said wrote: "So I learned some Asynchronous and Parallel Programming today... SO FRICKEN EASY!"


I have heard someone on here talk about Mutexes before... Umm I don't understand Lock-Free, but is it something to do with reconnecting the information back to the invoking thread? Thanks btw!

Dark Java Dude 64 wrote: "Pffft, why didn't it hide those tags? Test123[sup]"


Yeah I was surprised to see that too... but it has occurred before on the old forum too... I think when a new tag is added like when SoundCloud was added... maybe he just forgot to add it to the list for filtering...

Time to finish this 718 page book off... just 100~ pages to go... and yes I am a page-by-page reader
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Dark Java Dude 64 wrote: "...why not just type his name??"


I only put effort into things or people I care about...

The Same Guy From The Quote Above wrote: "Or living in Indiana, as I know you do."


I have never set foot in the states yet... I keep thinking about it, but then remember it is near the bottom of my list of places to visit... No but seriously, I would like to visit NY and California... as well as Alaska and Hawaii...

Sodium wrote: "Why are you capitalising those words?"


Because I can, DERP...

Dar13 wrote: "Hmm, if you haven't learned about mutexes (aka mutual exclusion locks) yet then you're not very far along in learning parallel programming. The real interesting but quite challenging stuff comes from trying to minimize those locks or eliminating them entirely (lock-free or wait-free)."


I Said wrote: "So I learned some Asynchronous and Parallel Programming today... SO FRICKEN EASY!"


I have heard someone on here talk about Mutexes before... Umm I don't understand Lock-Free, but is it something to do with reconnecting the information back to the invoking thread? Thanks btw!

Dark Java Dude 64 wrote: "Pffft, why didn't it hide those tags? Test123[sup]"


Yeah I was surprised to see that too... but it has occurred before on the old forum too... I think when a new tag is added like when SoundCloud was added... maybe he just forgot to add it to the list for filtering...

Time to finish this 718 page book off... just 100~ pages to go... and yes I am a page-by-page reader
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Well, we can all agree, forum is kaput tonight

Had a message stating something went wrong or some such...

Might as well make this a triple post lol
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Quote: "I only put effort into things or people I care about..."


Ouch!

Quote: "No offense intended, but this should just remind us how funny it is to replace all instances of a word with the word 'fart'."


I don't find that offensive or funny. Just weird

Quote: "Ah. Just the little emoticon looks serious."


Oh, I just see it as a facepalm type thing.

Oh hey, emoticons are actually inserted at the cursor location now! I've wanted that for years!

Quote: "I could, but this still causes some weird distortions to appear, particularly if any of the edges have sharp edges. This is why I was talking about my earlier idea."


Really? Pics or it doesn't happen! (Seriously, though, I'd try it again and make sure you have interpolation selected on None and the resolution doubled exactly. I've never once had issues with that, and as far as I'm aware the exact same code is used to zoom in as to resize with interpolation on None. I'm sure you know what you're talking about but I'm one of these people that's super confident I know how the program works and won't believe it doesn't work until I see proof - all too often someone will try it once but make a small mistake and then assume it's broken)

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Posted: 6th Oct 2015 07:13 Edited at: 6th Oct 2015 07:15
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Clonkex wrote: "Ouch!"


No need to fret

Same guy quoted above wrote: "Oh hey, emoticons are actually inserted at the cursor location now! I've wanted that for years!"


Totally!

Seriously nobody noticed that image?

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Hate the quote button now, also it does not leak quote blocks
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Quote: "Not to be offensive, but..."

The famous words of an offensive statement.

@Mr. V let's see some code.
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TheComet{AKA Pony Man} wrote: "let's see some code."


Of what? I am not coding anything right now... just studying C#... nearly done with one book, will be reading another soon after a 891~ page detour into two other books ... sadly the coming months involve a lot of travelling :/
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You're reading a 891 page book without writing a single line of code? That's stupid, you'll immediately forget everything if you don't apply the knowledge.
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+1

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MrValentine wrote: "I am not coding anything right now"


I don't think he meant that's he's not coding anything anything, I think he just meant he's following the guides in the book, so probably silly stuff that isn't worth posting., like copious amounts of the hello world program all of us are tired of seeing.


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Finally read the newsletter, good thing I did, will meet Rick again and hopefully Lee Bamber too on the weekend...

Should be fun! as they will feature the new AppGameKit stuff there first hand!

YAY!
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A lot of my friends refer to me as "comet" instead of my actual name.
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Yeah I get a similar problem. At Uni, I used to be on their forums as were some of my friends, so picked up Seppuku and I ended up using it as a DJ name when I did student radio. Though it did phase out and I am referred to by my real name. Except now, I run a roleplaying group and my character's name is Saefinn, so I am pretty much known as "Sae" now, even though people know my real name, even my friend of 8 years, who I met at uni, who is in the same roleplay group calls me Sae now.

Sign of the internet age I suppose, we get known by our avatars and not our real selves.
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Hmm so Paul released an alpha of AppGameKit 2.0.15, so I am currently downloading it and shall test it out!

I can't get GameMaker Studio to work on Windows 10, it appears I'm not the only one either. I guess that $149 I spent on it two years ago is just going to have to be a loss.

I think I only paid $49 for AppGameKit 2 back when it first launched last year, but I can't remember for certain. All that I know is that I want to get the most bang for my buck and I guess AppGameKit is the answer!

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This is the best visualisation of classical music I've seen.
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Wow almost 48 entire hours have passed since the last post in this here thread! Crazy!

Anyway, I have some updates on my mother. Some really great updates!

They did a few tests and it turns out that her cancer actually produces a rare protein that they can essentially "program" the chemo to directly target. This greatly increases the effectiveness of the chemo, as well as the speed of treatment, and means she will hopefully not need to undergo nearly as much of it as we originally thought. It works because rather than administering the chemo in a general all-over fashion, they can tell it to look for "x specific cells/proteins" and it will. Fancy!

She's also already halfway through radiation, which they were doing because they did an MRI a few weeks ago and discovered some tumors were trying to regrow in her head (not surprising, really, and something that we will have to deal with for the rest of our lives but regular MRIs will help prevent them from doing any real harm), so they were doing whole-head radiation. They told her she would almost definitely lose her hair by the first week of October. So far, she hasn't lost a single hair, which is really rather peculiar but they say sometimes people manage to retain their hair.

So, yeah, we're feeling really very encouraged by all of this. Cancer is scary, but the treatments they have these days is insane. I don't even think half of the treatments they've suggested for her existed even five years ago!

EDIT:

Hey look what my girlfriend got me for an early birthday present!

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This was such a weird episode

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Yodaman Jer, Epic News

Yodaman Jer, Epic News

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Oh yeah I just got back from PlayExpo and met Lee Bamber and RickV and two others from the forum, fun day!

Saw some interesting things about GameGuru!
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Awesome news Jeraman Yod! (like your new name? )

Holy drubbles, I just found that my phone's 4G LTE upload speed is 78mpbs. And the download speed is like 4 (still not bad, just drastically lower). Probably just because uploading isn't popular compared to downloading, but man that's fast!

Does anyone else experience this? Often, when I wake up from naps (not waking up from nightly sleep), I have very short feelings of incredible profoundness regarding everyday things and concepts. For instance, I often nap next to my cat; when I wake, I have often found it incredibly profound that there is this animal, just in my house and on my bed right next to me, also sleeping. Or just now, I woke up from a nap and first laid my eyes on a burning candle; I found it incredibly profound that there was just this little flame burning in a jar right next to me. The feeling of profoundness is always strong, nearing awe, but then it goes away quite quickly after I have fully awoken, and I return to thinking of everyday items and concepts as just that. Anyone else experience this?
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Quote: "Holy drubbles, I just found that my phone's 4G LTE upload speed is 78mpbs. And the download speed is like 4 (still not bad, just drastically lower). Probably just because uploading isn't popular compared to downloading, but man that's fast!"


Yea, 4G is incredibly fast. at my home I have 22 mbps down and 4 up on my home network while 4g is almost 150 up and down. And then they have datacaps which means I can't really use it
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This kind of stuff blows my mind. HOW can the cell know how to do all of this?
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God made it that way.
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Obviously.
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On a related note (and perhaps why it was mentioned by TheComet), scientists have made artificial self-replicating cells:

http://www.popsci.com/researchers-make-artificial-cells-that-can-replicate-themselves
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Posted: 11th Oct 2015 21:02
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That's cool. I really do find it hard to believe that "chemicals came together" and suddenly "cells are born and start reproducing". That's a HUGE gap, there's more to it than that.

Also on a related note, here's something about aliens.

Eukaryote organisms (such as ourselves) have very large portions of "nonsense" sequences in their DNA strands called introns. As far as today's standards in science can tell, these sections of DNA are useless. In fact, they are even discarded from the RNA strand after transcription by splicing the relevant parts together before being expelled from the nucleus.

There are many theories as to why introns even exist. The most commonly accepted theory is that introns allow for alternative splicing, which enables a single gene to encode multiple proteins. The order of the relevant sections just needs to be switched around.

There are also theories that claim aliens have encoded messages into those sections of our DNA. This sounds ridiculous at first, but if you really think about it, DNA is one of the longest lasting mediums for storing information. If aliens did encode messages into the irrelevant sections of our DNA, those messages would be past on for as long as humans exist (or at least as long as that family tree of humans reproduces).
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Posted: 11th Oct 2015 21:28
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So many theories, so little time

But hey! Should I go ahead and save up for a newer AMD card or should I just get another 280x and CrossFire them?

I could get another 280x for as little as $185, after a $30 rebate from newegg.

In the end, it will come down to what I can afford, not necessarily what the "best" option is. I think I'm leaning towards grabbing this card, unless there's a significant price drop in the newer R9 Fury X by the time my taxes come around in January...


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Posted: 12th Oct 2015 00:59
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Oh I missed Yoda's post. That's some good news dude! At first I thought I read "regrow her head" which would have certainly implied a much more serious situation.
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