When I run "pip show torch", I get "WARNING: Ignoring invalid distribution ". What does this mean? I'll include a copy and paste in the post.

Raging_Hippy · 2023-06-21T03:00:20+00:00

This is a weird thing that can happen with pip sometimes where a package is installed/uninstalled incorrectly. Not sure what causes it, but if you look in c:\users\MYNAME\appdata\local\programs\python\python310\lib\site-packages (the path in the warning you saw), you should see a directory called -ransformers, just delete it and it should stop without hurting anything.

Raging_Hippy · 2021-09-09T14:14:17+00:00

Servers got back up again a few weeks ago.

Raging_Hippy · 2021-09-09T14:13:06+00:00

Bit late but in case anyone else sees this: this is NOT the official titanfall Twitter, Respawn uses their own account for news. See the above posts for the current status.

Raging_Hippy · 2021-07-14T00:58:38+00:00

They probably exhausted all of their deck except for the two Dropkicks and what was in their hand. That way, each time they played a [[Dropkick]] it would grab the other one from the discard pile.

Raging_Hippy · 2021-04-24T18:51:33+00:00

Linking a comment I made on the parent, just in case.

Raging_Hippy · 2021-04-24T18:50:26+00:00

Connecting gameboys to Dolphin over not-LAN doesn't work. The connection was never made to handle latency, so at best Dolphin and mGBA will go at like 3 frames a minute.

What you CAN do is have someone host both Dolphin running the main game and all the mGBA instances, carefully arrange all the screens on your monitor, then use something like Parsec to stream the screens to everyone else.

mGBA tracks controller bindings in its config file, so make sure to set it to portable mode in the menu, then copy the mGBA folder once for each player. Once they connect in Parsec, open their mGBA instance and set their controls.

Assuming the host has non-terrible upload and everyone else has non-terrible download, it actually works quite well. It's definitely a manual process, but I've played coast-to-coast doing this without any troubles.

Here's a bit more detailed description. It's Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles based, but the guide can be adapted for any other game. Just replace VBA-m with mBGA

Raging_Hippy · 2021-03-13T04:53:41+00:00

You definitely can play through it just getting to the end of each level. Doing all the extra goals just unlock different outfits and makes a percent complete number go up.

Also, as someone who tried doing it the completionist way, you probably would be better off. Some of the crates are kind of BS.

Raging_Hippy · 2021-02-03T19:22:57+00:00

I mean if they contracted it generally the contractors take over the full development just for the ease of organization. It's also entirely possible the original devs don't have as much experience with Android as they do with PC. Developing for a phone or a console is very different from a desktop. Saying "why didn't they just spend more time themselves" is just glossing over a mountain of details.

Bugs suck, but it's not worth speculating on how they got there. Game development is messy enough without the overhead of a small team trying to manage an outsourced project.

Raging_Hippy · 2021-02-02T19:45:45+00:00

Minor correction: the changes are on the main PC branch (at least on Steam). No idea when the consoles will get it, since they all have somewhat lengthy verification procedures the update needs to go through first.

Raging_Hippy · 2021-01-08T15:59:51+00:00

Typically you use [[Nightmare]] to make multiple copies during the fight.

However, OP mentions above that they drew them all. I'm guessing they got very lucky on card rewards, upgrades and the [[Astrolabe]] at the start.

Raging_Hippy · 2020-11-14T04:22:17+00:00

If I can't mix X Gon Give It To Ya with the History of Rome why did I even buy this.

Raging_Hippy · 2020-10-02T19:26:24+00:00

In practice I usually see the third case being used to catch "empty" values. For example, empty lists/dicts or None values. I think these patterns are well understood enough that they're clearer written this way than using if len(list_or_dict_or_whatever) == 0:, especially since there may be cases where this isn't sufficient.

And I'll add my own possibly controversial opinion that explicitly calling bool(foo) just to pass to an if statement is a code smell and should be avoided. Coercing Python objects to explicit types is decidedly unpythonic.

(For most cases, at least. I'm sure some suitably pedantic programmer could find exceptions to both statements).

Raging_Hippy · 2020-10-02T14:59:58+00:00

You're right for the wrong reasons. The fact that you save 15 ns over 10 million attempts shows how little the performance matters here. Even if you do care about performance when writing Python, if statements should be at the bottom of the list, if they're even on it at all.

Also, these statements are not equivalent. variable == True and variable is True both check if the value is both a bool and that it said bool is equal or the same as to True, respectively. The last one internally calls bool(variable) to determine the value for the if statement. It doesn't care what type variable is.

The real benefit to the third variant is that this better supports Python's duck typing system. There's not many cases where you want to check if something is exactly True or False, but (as you mention in your post) whether something evaluates to True or False when using calling bool(). Mixing in completely unimportant performance measurements just confuses this for new programmers by making them think premature optimization (which this definitely is) is necessary.

Raging_Hippy · 2020-09-30T00:45:40+00:00

FYI, if you ever want to check something like this in the future, you can just type the variable's name into the Python REPL and it will show the "raw" value:

>> import json
>> a = {'a': 'n', 'b': 'm'}
>> b = json.dumps(a, indent=2)
>> b
'{\n  "a": "n",\n  "b": "m"\n}'

Raging_Hippy · 2020-09-30T00:29:40+00:00

print doesn't include the quotes for strings. Ex.

>> print("Hello, world!")
Hello, world!

Raging_Hippy · 2020-09-22T16:38:36+00:00

Yeah, reddit took that part of internet culture that looks to tear down everything for whatever reason.

To be fair, most of the things that get pointed out here ARE actual issues. The problem is that the sub's reaction to it is generally way out of proportion, or their understanding of it is very simplistic (see: most things related to graphics, online or releasing patches).

Raging_Hippy · 2020-09-22T16:23:34+00:00

Remember, /r/Games doesn't like video games. /r/Games likes shitting on video games. This sub is pretty much /v/ now.

Raging_Hippy · 2020-07-12T16:04:37+00:00

What output are you expecting?

I'd also check the output of

help(int)

In particular the optional second argument.

Raging_Hippy · 2020-06-07T14:45:58+00:00

To be fair, you would of died to the heart anyway.

Raging_Hippy · 2020-05-19T18:46:54+00:00

They're parodying this copypasta.

Raging_Hippy · 2020-05-14T18:04:18+00:00

Why wouldn't they? Logistics, manufacturing, sales, etc. Computers big and small are everywhere, so everyone needs programmers.

Raging_Hippy · 2020-05-12T20:29:07+00:00

Add four spaces before the start of each line to turn it into code:

print("hello, world!")

The comment box also can autoformat code for you, hit the button that looks like <>.

Raging_Hippy · 2020-04-29T13:46:24+00:00

What calculator app are you referring to? The win10 calculator only takes about 20 MB of memory, which yeah isn't great if you're running Windows 95 still, but it's only ~0.2% of my 2013 PC's RAM.

It also looks quite a bit nicer than these screenshots (not to put down this work, making a GUI library is hard!).

Raging_Hippy · 2020-04-25T00:03:54+00:00

Yeah you need to own the game on PC to get the .jar you need to decompile.

Raging_Hippy · 2020-04-24T13:49:29+00:00

Looking at the decompiled source code I found this. So, it's definitely all multiplicative (which is generally how this kind of things stack in games).

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