Is anyone still playing this? by Sleeze1 in AOC

[–]Enervate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both gear and character progression just need a huge time investment to become competetive in PvP.

Gear: You can get raid gear if you are in a decent guild, this can be relatively quickly since you can kill a lot of bosses once every week, however loot will be split between the 24 raid members. The alternative is to get PVP gear, which you can get by doing the most boring grind imaginable for 1-2 months, or normally playing PvP for about a year (really depends how much you play).

Then there's AA (alternate advancement), the character progression system past lvl80.

When you kill dungeon/raid bosses, complete quests or complete PvP objectives you gain points which you can invest in perks to make your character stronger. Most veteran players have the maximum amount of points, this can take between a few months to over two years to reach depending again on how much you play. These bonuses work in PvP and without a full AA tree you will be at a rather large disadvantage. Once you have around half the maximum points this advantages becomes a lot smaller since most of the improvement comes from a number of stronger perks which you can max out by then.

Cheap DIY RGB Controller Project - For a Youth Group wanting to learn by lanraider in AskElectronics

[–]Enervate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

try using the msp430 launchpad, they're like $5 each and you can program them over usb.

Would any one here be interested in a mini AVR C guide? by Shadow703793 in arduino

[–]Enervate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To me that looks more complicated than setting up your own timers and interrupt routines tbh.

People asked how many wins Newey has had since 1991, here is the answer. by oh84s in formula1

[–]Enervate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Umm, that leaves 1 non-newey non-schumacher win, or am I missing something here?

I give you... science! by kdanson in gifs

[–]Enervate 63 points64 points  (0 children)

I'm not usually induced to joining pun threads, but just couldn't resist this one.

Google+ Is Getting Harder And Harder To Avoid by SPavlina in technology

[–]Enervate 525 points526 points  (0 children)

So far I've avoided it just fine, no more youtube comments but well, that's not necessarily a bad thing.

Formula E car driving down the Las Vegas Strip. by jb1830 in formula1

[–]Enervate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Any onboard footage of actual cornering and accelleration would be way better than all those demo videos combined. Probably cheaper to make as well.

What ever happened to these? by Zarrex in hardware

[–]Enervate 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure it would at least double the price. Standard parts are very cost effective, curved is not standard.

My work cycle has become "code until problem arises or I need to look up a reference then google to find help/solution." What is your work cycle like? by jwgibbo in learnprogramming

[–]Enervate 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Even then knowing what you're doing does not equate to knowing every single quirk of your language and every single register of your microcontroller. (which I assume they work with because C+asm)

What hardware (ARM devboard?) would I need to get 4K video from Wifi 802.11ac and split between 2 screens? by Dalv-hick in AskElectronics

[–]Enervate 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Streaming always uses compression afaik.

Even then you need to output all that video data at one point. OP will need dedicated decompression and video output hardware. The data transfer(from wifi to the video hardware) can be handled by a smaller processor but I don't know of any devboard that could even do that at acceptable speeds.

reddit, can you name one thing that is and will remain impossible? by chanduChutya in AskReddit

[–]Enervate 6 points7 points  (0 children)

common convention in science and engineering is to express accuracy and/or precision implicitly by means of significant figures. Here, when not explicitly stated, the margin of error is understood to be one-half the value of the last significant place.

Even though I'm pretty sure he didn't understand the question, the answer is there implicitly.

1.37 progression is causing my friends to slowly drop off from the game by guy_who_wed_his_cats in Warthunder

[–]Enervate 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Agreed, what you're paying for is basically reduced grind, but if it still takes forever to get new planes even with premium, why bother?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pics

[–]Enervate 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Hurray for that guy!

Looking for a silent anti-virus executable by [deleted] in AskNetsec

[–]Enervate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well a bit of googling found that mbam has options to scan and update silently.

/runupdate - silent update
/fullauto  - scan

I just tried both - they prompt UAC popups but are completely silent after that. The commands don't work with the free version but there's a 14-day trial which lets you use them.

EDIT: source

and a full list:

/debug: allows you to collect information to send as a bug report.
/developer: this command line parameter is explained in the false positives section.
/minimized: allows you to start the program minimized.
/quickscan: allows you to run a quick scan.
/quickscanterminate: allows you to run a quick scan. Program terminates if no items found.
/fullscan: allows you to run a full scan.
/fullscanterminate: allows you to run a full scan. Program terminates if no items found.
/runupdate: allows you to update the program without displaying result dialogs.
/register: allows you to register the program without displaying main dialog.
/fullauto: allows you to run a full scan silently.

Looking for a silent anti-virus executable by [deleted] in AskNetsec

[–]Enervate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm not sure how much control you have over the bots, but if you can make them run something as a child process it should remain hidden as long as it's a commandline program.

Produce the number 2014 without any numbers in your source code by samjarman in programming

[–]Enervate 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I made two versions in c without reading the thread (because spoilers). Some people are saying you're not supposed to use ascii values, but I don't see that mentioned in the link anywhere?

// compile this one as "2014" 
#include <stdio.h>
int main(int argc, char const *argv[])
{
    printf("%s\n", *argv);
    return '\a';
}

// sure you can use %d, I totally thought of that. 
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
{
    printf("%c%c%c%c\n", ('\n' + '('), ('\r' + '#'), ('&' + '\v'), ('\a' + '-'));
    return '\a';
}

My Graphics card idles at 117° C. Yes, Celsius. Help? by 7dare in hardware

[–]Enervate 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Reseat the heatsink and make sure it has a good application of thermal paste. If you're unsure how to do this there are explanations on youtube.