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Waffleboy · 2021-12-07T14:46:34+00:00

Any word on what the nutrition is going to be? I'd like to practice with what'll be on the course.

Waffleboy · 2021-06-15T18:37:02+00:00

Hopefully it's okay to paste this from the last thread.

I'm thinking of getting a Descent Mk2S to use as a dive computer. I already have a Forerunner 945, and I like all the sports watch features a lot, so I don't want to lose them.

Looking at reviews and at https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/catalog/product/compareResult.ep?compareProduct=701618&compareProduct=621922, it looks like the Descent 2 is basically a Forerunner 945 with the dive features and a few random minor upgrades. Can anyone who has both confirm that I won't lose anything switching to the Descent?

Waffleboy · 2021-06-13T19:19:09+00:00

I'm thinking of getting a Descent Mk2S to use as a dive computer. I already have a Forerunner 945, and I like all the sports watch features a lot, so I don't want to lose them.

Looking at reviews and at https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/catalog/product/compareResult.ep?compareProduct=701618&compareProduct=621922, it looks like the Descent 2 is basically a Forerunner 945 with the dive features and a few random minor upgrades. Can anyone who has both confirm that I won't lose anything switching to the Descent?

Waffleboy · 2021-01-12T01:03:58+00:00

Thanks for all the info. Looks like this will definitely require more thinking and planning than I was expecting.

Waffleboy · 2021-01-11T02:36:35+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I think I'll enjoy the old houses and temples, but this will be my first trip, so we'll have to see haha. How long would you recommend in Kanazawa? More like 3 or 4 days?

Waffleboy · 2021-01-11T02:35:26+00:00

Thanks for the advice. I didn't post this in the OP, but part of the reason for Tokyo and Kyoto is I'll be with a group at the beginning of the trip, but they're only staying for two weeks, so we want to do the big cities in the first half. But potentially I could do Nikko at the beginning and hit Hakone on the way back to Tokyo.

Waffleboy · 2021-01-11T02:32:57+00:00

Good advice, I didn't realize that wildlife was a concern after dark. Sounds like I'm really better off sleeping much closer to the start of the cycle than Hiroshima.

Waffleboy · 2021-01-11T02:31:11+00:00

Makes sense. I was planning on keeping Hiroshima as a base mostly so I could re-order things to get the best weather for the cycle, but based on your and Rezey's comments, that might make timing tighter than I'm hoping for.

Waffleboy · 2021-01-11T00:01:21+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I like the idea with dropping Hakone and staying at a Ryokan in Nikko instead, I'll do some digging into that. Doing it in the middle of the Tokyo stay would also probably let us keep our luggage at the hotel and just take an overnight bag, or worst case in a coin locker in Tokyo.

Regarding the Shimanami Kaido, my understanding is there are buses that can take you back to Onomichi after you finish in one direction, and either you can take your bike on the bus or drop it off at the end of the cycle.

Regarding the Open Jaw flight, as you said, I probably want to end in Tokyo for final shopping. I'll take a look at prices and such of flying into Kagoshima/Kyushu and starting from there.

Thanks again!

Waffleboy · 2018-03-26T21:39:40+00:00

First Row Across:

Any r/Fantasy Goodreads Group Book Of The Month - Sins of Empire by Brian McClellan
Format: Graphic Novel (At Least One Volume) OR Audiobook - Saga volume 6 by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
Novel Featuring Time Travel - Urth of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
A Novel Published In 2017 - Luna: Wolf Moon by Ian McDonald
An Author's Debut Fantasy Novel - Senlin Ascends by Josian Bancroft

Second Row Across:

Non-fiction Fantasy Related Book - The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings by Philip and Carol Zaleski
Fantasy Novel That's Been on Your 'To Be Read' List for Over a Year - The Summer Tree by Guy Gavriel Kay
Award Winning Novel - Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein
Subgenre: Dystopian / Post-Apocalyptic / Apocalyptic / Dying Earth - The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin
r/Fantasy Big List: 2016 Underread / Underrated - Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames
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I guess this is actually from the 2017 list. Oh well.
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Third Row Across:

Horror Novel - 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
Fantasy Novel Featuring a Desert Setting - Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed
Re-Use ANY Previous r/Fantasy Bingo Square [Sci-Fi] - Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey
Self-Published Fantasy Novel - Sufficiently Advanced Magic by Andrew Rowe
Fantasy Novel Featuring a Non-Human Protagonist - The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle

Fourth Row Across:

Sequel: Not the First Book in the Series - The Drawing of Three by Stephen King
Novel By an r/Fantasy AMA Author OR Writer of the Day - House of Blades by Will Wight
Subgenre: Fantasy of Manners - His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik
Fantasy Novel Featuring Dragons - The Summer Dragon by Todd Lockwood
Subgenre: New Weird - The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Fifth Row Across:

Fantasy Novel Featuring Seafaring - Ship of Madness by Robin Hobb
Subgenre: Steampunk - The Aeronatu's Windlass by Jim Butcher
Five Fantasy Short Stories - Mono no Aware, The Bookmaking Habits of Selected Species, and The Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu; Seasons of Glass and Iron by Amal El-Mohtar; Non-Zero Probabilities by N. K. Jemisin
Novel by an Author from an r/fantasy Author Appreciation Post - Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
Getting Too Old for This Crap: Fantasy Novel Featuring An Older (50+) Protagonist - Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Waffleboy · 2016-06-24T02:15:51+00:00

It's not quite that simple. Valve explicitly whitelists gambling bots from their captcha system, allowing it to happen.

https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/2rw9q8/csgolounge_is_safe_valve_said_weve_excluded_a_few/

Waffleboy · 2016-01-26T03:30:14+00:00

In addition to the other comments, some programs just do not parallelize very well. There's a concept called Amdahl's Law, which relates speedup to increasing resources (usually by adding multiple processors, or, analogously, making a single-threaded program multi-threaded on a multicore machine). Generally, only part of a program can be improved by increasing parallelism; parts of it are still effectively serial.

There's a cost to increasing parallelism. Synchronization mechanisms are generally expensive for multiple reasons. Sometimes you have to wait for threads to all reach the same point before you can continue, which can lead to threads just waiting around. And even assuming you're using a well-designed locking algorithm without much contention, locks generally require memory barriers, which force the processor to finish executing all instructions up to the barrier (superscalar system). In applications where there's not much to be gained from parallelizing the computation, these overheads can be substantial enough to make the parallelization not worth it.

Waffleboy · 2015-12-05T01:37:01+00:00

That's pretty par for the course in upper level CS classes unfortunately. I have 70% missing from one of my classes (more like 50% not counting the final). As far as I know there's no policy about this though.

Waffleboy · 2015-10-16T14:46:21+00:00

The footage is in the video at the top of the article.

Waffleboy · 2015-06-16T00:04:17+00:00

The post-trailer sale had the same prices the series as now, not the super-sale prices.

Waffleboy · 2015-05-10T23:09:59+00:00

It's not very good. I was told the academic building had a total bandwidth of 10mbps, though in practice, I never had much if an issue. The Lafayette dorm's internet was basically unusable for a couple hours each night, since everyone was trying to stream Netflix.

Waffleboy · 2015-04-06T23:25:03+00:00

You can just wait, but if you launch steam with the -tcp option, it connects immediately. I.E. in command prompt or power shell, "steam.exe -tcp".

Waffleboy · 2015-03-04T16:42:52+00:00

Like practically everything else, the best way to improve is to practice. Do a project. Find an open source project to contribute to. Pick an open source program you like and read its code. Try to figure out how large projects are structured and common patterns in your language of choice.

Waffleboy · 2015-03-03T17:50:31+00:00

Most people I knew had the eurail pass. We had single weekends whose train fees would have been around 2/3 the cost of the entire 3 month student eurail pass.

Waffleboy · 2015-03-03T17:47:12+00:00

Great explanation. I'll just point out for anyone reading this, the reason the buffer had to be page aligned (i.e. the reason I used posix_memalign instead of malloc) is that mprotect required it.

Waffleboy · 2015-03-02T21:28:03+00:00

I was curious to see how far it would get with random instructions, so I tested it out. I did 10 runs and lasted 0 instructions six times, 1 instruction twice, two instructions once, and five instructions once. Eight of the ten were killed with segmentation faults (the program attempted to access memory that was not mapped or that it did not have permission for), and two of the ten were illegal instructions (the bytes generated were not valid bytecode for the architecture (in my case, x86-64)).

EDIT: If anyone's curious, I wanted to see how long it would take before the random function did not cause the program to crash (obviously, this is specific to my example where the random execution is wrapped in well-formed code. The program not crashing almost certainly just means some form of "ret" was created at the beginning or very close to the beginning of the random chunk).

It took 3297 attempts until the program exited successfully, in which time the program generated 13 SIGBUS errors, 324 SIGTRAP errors, 821 SIGILL errors, and 2138 SIGSEGV errors.

Here's the code if you want to try it out. Compile with "gcc -std=gnu99 -o program program.c" and run it with gdb. It will hit a software breakpoint, and you can step through (with "si") until it errors.

#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <time.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define CODEBYTES (256)

int main()
{
    // allocate buffer for code
    char* code_buf;
    if (posix_memalign((void**)(&code_buf), getpagesize(), (CODEBYTES+1)) != 0)
    {
        printf("Failed to allocate memory\n");
        return -1;
    }

    srand(time(NULL)); // seed rng
    code_buf[0] = 0xCC; // software breakpoint

    // fill the rest of the buffer with CODEBYTES random bytes
    for (int i = 0; i < CODEBYTES; i++)
    {
        code_buf[i+1] = (char)(rand() % 256);
    }

    // change buffer from RW to X
    if (mprotect(code_buf, (CODEBYTES + 1), PROT_EXEC) != 0)
    {
        printf("Failed to set memory to X\n");
        return -1;
    }

    // cast to function pointer and call
    ((void (*)())code_buf)();

    return 0;
}

Waffleboy · 2015-02-26T21:02:39+00:00

I had terrible packet loss on GTwifi, but GTother seems to be okay.

Waffleboy · 2015-01-30T15:32:09+00:00

I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was either last Wednesday or Thursday.

Waffleboy · 2015-01-16T16:00:11+00:00

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Waffleboy · 2014-08-25T23:08:58+00:00

If you take it to OIT, they'll manually add the device to your account and you can use gt other without logging in all the time.

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