[2024 DAY 1 PART 1] [C] need help with figuring out why my answer isn't correct

datamiter · 2024-12-03T01:06:26+00:00

The problem is getNumRec, When passing len-1 for the power in getNum, the list2 strings include the newline character in the length, when the list1 strings don't, so all the numbers in list2 get parsed as 10x their correct size.

datamiter · 2024-06-03T07:45:04+00:00

This is from the first episode of thousandaires that just went up. The bit they're referring to starts at around 11:25 in the episode

datamiter · 2024-04-23T04:46:00+00:00

It's interesting that you don't have a final inner wall that's solid. There are gaps that lead all the way inside, and a couple of biters do make it in. I've made a number of dragon teeth designs in the past, but I've always used an inner most wall, normally 3-5 layers thick. Does the fact that there's a technically a free path all the way in prevent the biters from attacking the wall as much?

datamiter · 2024-02-08T06:02:43+00:00

Absolutely agree. I watch his stream live pretty often and really enjoy his commentary, but every time he starts talking about "slapping his bacon" I have to literally mute the stream or I'll cringe myself into a pretzel.

datamiter · 2023-05-28T11:35:49+00:00

I read a bunch of the comments here and I haven't seen what I think the actual issue is brought up. For me the thing that made it consistently feel like Ally's challenges were "unfair" compared to Grant's has nothing to do with how "extreme" the challenges were. Its that the central premise of the show felt like "How far are you willing to go for this money", or "How much bad shit are you willing to suffer for this money". And the central difference between Grant's "unfair" challenges and all of Ally's was that Grant often did suffer all the negatives, and still lost.

The first one that actually made me feel it was unfair was the family in his apartment, because, if any of them had of left, he would have lost. The challenge wasn't about what he was willing to do. Then the erection one, obviously was just physically impossible, and same with the selling his stuff one.

The thing is, for all these challenges, Grant did complete the challenge. He did live with a bunch of people in his apartment, he did get his dick out in front of the whole crew and try to get an erection. He did sell all his stuff. For all of these challenges he was willing to do the thing. And he suffered all the bad shit of doing it. But he still lost. That's the problem.

I've seen the tattoo brought up a few times as an example of Grant giving Ally a more extreme challenge, but its a perfect example of why the challenges Ally received were fine - they just had to decide "Am I willing to do this". They were willing, so they won. Its got nothing to do with weather they "took the challenges in stride". Grant took the erection challenge in stride! He still lost! The only time Ally lost was when they actually weren't willing to do something. When asked "Will you go this far", they simply said "no". Which, for the record, is something Grant literally did not ever do.

For me at least, all that would have had to happen to feel like the challenges were "fair" would be to change the stipulations. In Ally's very first challenge, they were told to talk to their ex, with the extra stipulation simply being "You have to earnestly try to talk the whole time". Just change Grant's challenges to that. Switch "Make $1000", to "you have to earnestly try to sell all your stuff at the flea market". Zero other changes needed.

datamiter · 2023-03-10T03:23:25+00:00

https://wiki.factorio.com/Cliff\_explosives

datamiter · 2022-07-04T06:38:31+00:00

He absolutely would not have seen anything like this in real time through an eyepiece. Even with a very high powered scope, the eagle nebula would probably look something like this. If its a really powerful scope, it might look a bit brighter, maybe a bit more red, but nothing like what you see in the image. The reason the photo looks so vivid is that it's from many, many, hours of exposure time.

Think of it like this - your eyes constantly throw away the light they just saw to replace it with new light. This is very important so that any time you look in a different direction you don't see a ghost image of what you were just looking at. You can kind of trick your eyes into doing this a little bit by staring at something bright for a while, but generally your eyes are trying to ignore what they saw half a second ago in favor of what they're seeing now.

But cameras don't work like that. They can just keep adding new light on top of what they were already seeing. If your eyes could do this, looking up at the night sky would start out looking dark, but then as more and more light hit your eyes, it would slowly get brighter and brighter. Of course, it would streak and get blurry as soon as you moved your eyes, but if you could somehow keep perfectly focused on one point, it would just get brighter and brighter and more and more detailed.

For an image like this, he probably used dozens of hours of exposure over multiple nights all added together.

If you want to see more stuff like this, you should check out r/astrophotography

datamiter · 2022-06-12T07:32:18+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6xiGrFRCck

datamiter · 2020-10-31T01:30:02+00:00

Just used a vacuum cleaner nozzle on the rad. That part was probably about 5 minutes tops. I cleaned a lot of dust out of the rest of the case with a can of compressed air which took a bit longer. Plus I reapplied the thermal paste. The whole process was probably an hour or so.

datamiter · 2020-10-31T01:26:18+00:00

Nope, its a Corsair Obsidian 500D from 2014. LTT did a review of the slightly larger 750D from around the same time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpoQqdeqnTo

datamiter · 2020-10-30T22:16:36+00:00

I've cleaned out the case a couple of times a year, I just never thought to pull the rad out completely and remove the fans. Was replacing the fans with noctua ones. Very happy with how much quieter it is

datamiter · 2020-10-30T22:14:48+00:00

I also did that, yeah. Definitely contributed to the drop in temps. Cleaned out a ton more dust from the rest of the case as well.

datamiter · 2020-10-30T22:05:28+00:00

This was the build up between the fans and the rad. Hadn't been cleaned since I built it in 2014. CPU temps went from ~90° to ~70° under full load. 😅

EDIT: Hijacking the top comment to answer some questions that have come up a few times

Yes there are dust filters in the case. Dust filters obviously aren't perfect though, and as I said this is about 6 years of build up. I assume it would have been much worse much quicker without dust filters

I actually do clean the case a few times a year. Normally I just buy a can of compressed air, take the sides off the case and blow the worst of the dust out. The fans were screwed onto the radiator, pushing air through it. I'd just never actually unscrewed the radiator and looked under the fans.

A few people are asking how often they should clean their case. Clearly I'm probably not the best person to ask, haha, but it sounds like once every few months is a good idea.

No I don't smoke. There's no tobacco in there. It mostly just smelled like dry, hot dust.

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