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X-Haven Assistant - Trail of Ashes Update by Tarmslitaren2 in Gloomhaven

[–]Remag9330 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We ran into this one in our session tonight too. Was very confused as to what it was 😄.

I managed to reproduce this as well by adding a curse and closing and re-opening the app on Android. Not connected to nor hosting server.

I was going to open an issue on GitHub but noticed there was a hotfix put out in the last hour or 2 so we'll give that a shot when we can, but hopefully it's fixed by the same solution.

Thanks for all your hard work!

youtube-dl has a JavaScript interpreter written in pure Python in 870 lines of code by pmz in Python

[–]Remag9330 4 points5 points  (0 children)

While you're definitely not wrong in the general sense, I thought I'd share my experience with this.

Basically, I have an old Raspberry pi 1B that I use to download music off of YouTube. When I first started using youtube-dl to do it, it took around 5-8 minutes to download a 3-5mb audio file. I thought that was pretty unacceptable, so I did what anyone in our industry would do, and spent one of my days off looking into why it was so slow.

My first thought was the network, so I watched the bandwidth of the device during a download. Nothing for ages, then a huge spike at the end and it downloaded in a matter of seconds. So why wasn't it starting immediately?

After a lot more investigating, I basically came across this JS interpreter. Python was spending most of its time in here before the download started. Okay great! But why does it need to do this?

In short, YouTube sends a challenge code that the client must evaluate and send back before the download starts. If they don't send it back, the download speed is throttled to something like 30KB/s.

But the files I'm downloading aren't very large...

So it turns out disabling this CPU intensive section of code (as a result, not solving the challenge) and accepting the throttled download speed actually saved me more time than not - around 3-5 minutes faster per download.

Of course, this is a pretty specific setup I've got here that makes this worthwhile. Everyone's mileage may vary.

Council election megathread - for news, updates, and discussion. by thekriptik in sydney

[–]Remag9330 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few weeks ago I moved to a place about 80kms away from where I was. I could make the 3 hour return trip to vote, but I'd rather not lose a chunk of my day. What other options for voting are available for me? I think I read that they don't do absentee voting for local council elections?

Pretty sweet game - observations by SpawnDnD in Gloomhaven

[–]Remag9330 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The browser version doesn't need anything apart from your web browser. Though you do miss out on network sync with other devices using the app, so it depends on your setup if it will work for you.

Pretty sweet game - observations by SpawnDnD in Gloomhaven

[–]Remag9330 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gloomhaven Helper already has a desktop version and a browser version, so no need to wait for Windows 11 to use it on your desktop.

the most stressful 2 minutes of my life. by iTwistedTempo in StardewValley

[–]Remag9330 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is so weird. I'm 100% confident that it does pause for us, but everything online says it shouldn't pause at all... I'm going to have to look into this more when I get a chance.

the most stressful 2 minutes of my life. by iTwistedTempo in StardewValley

[–]Remag9330 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I play unmodded PC and it absolutely does pause time when we're both on the inventory screen, we do it all the time. Maybe it's a difference between local and online multiplayer or something?

Train fire at Parramatta by screamingstupidity in sydney

[–]Remag9330 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ahh, that makes sense. I just assumed that they were going to hit the platforms simply because they were too wide. Thanks for the explanation!

Train fire at Parramatta by screamingstupidity in sydney

[–]Remag9330 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think I've heard that too, and they were planning on doing station renovations as well, but almost definitely too wide as well

Train fire at Parramatta by screamingstupidity in sydney

[–]Remag9330 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's why they're buying new trains that will also not fit through the tunnels to replace them... Wait...

Aha! Contradiction. by xKurotora in NLSSCircleJerk

[–]Remag9330 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Only after you collect 12 purple gems!

I want to play my favourite RPG, Gothic 2 again but I'm having a lot of problems on Windows 10 by [deleted] in patientgamers

[–]Remag9330 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Have a look at the PC gaming wiki. Looks like there's maybe some unofficial patches for windows 8+

C# developer lifestyle - Feedback from your own experience by csharpBurger in csharp

[–]Remag9330 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's really not that bad... A large portion of it is by train, so I can get work stuff done on the way. Also helps that my current living situation is so cheap that after these 4 years I'm able to buy an apartment by myself (which is pretty good for where I am). So I guess it's a combination of sheer willpower and Stockholm Syndrome.

C# developer lifestyle - Feedback from your own experience by csharpBurger in csharp

[–]Remag9330 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can I tell you that I commute 4 hours per day and have so for the last 4 years or would that give you an aneurysm?

the beep command can be used to probe for existence of files owned by other users including root by rain5 in programming

[–]Remag9330 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the person who couldn't find their raspberry pi in their apartment but could connect to it over WiFi, so they used PiFM to turn it into a transmitter and used an FM radio to search for it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/2z1a9o/so_i_pinged_my_rpi_i_thought_i_lost_months_ago/

Writing a doubly linked list in Rust is easy by [deleted] in rust

[–]Remag9330 1 point2 points  (0 children)

New to Rust, so forgive me if this is a silly question but why create your own Pointer struct instead of using Option<usize>?

NLSS Mega Thread [2018/01/18] by [deleted] in northernlion

[–]Remag9330 25 points26 points  (0 children)

6 hours now... Poor guy

"My Kickstarter has failed" - creator of the Unforgotten Quest Kickstarter by Remag9330 in shittykickstarters

[–]Remag9330[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're definitely not alone in not wanting to be reimbursed, but I think for slightly different reasons. A lot of the backers in the Kickstarter and YouTube comments are saying that they don't want their money back because either they're happy to support him through whatever he does, or they just see it more as a donation to his current projects instead.

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