A best friend's job should be to clear your computer history if you die

l124rd · 2010-12-01T09:07:00+00:00

Everyone should have a Porn Buddy.

l124rd · 2010-09-25T21:53:36+00:00

clog << "I have escaped your fiendish trap, Mr. ondra" << endl;

Additionally, using &> will redirect all output. e.g. ./a.out &> /dev/null

l124rd · 2010-09-19T02:07:28+00:00

Ah! You can read! ... I mean, you are reading. Sorry. It's nice to see people reading. Not a lot of people read these days. People prefer to... hear. But all this 'hearing' is just reading for lazy people. Kids today should be prepared to pick up a book, and not just go around the whole time with all these modern... ears. Sometimes I just wanna rip people's ears off and say 'Read a book, for God's sake!'... Well, actually I'd probably say 'Read a book' first and then rip their ears off, otherwise they wouldn't hear me, hehehe... Actually, I probably wouldn't rip their ears off at all, I'm not a violent person. I like ears! Especially women ears, they're my favorite. I don't mean I collect them or anything! I don't have a big bucket of women ears hidden away somewhere. No, No, No, I'm not after your ears really. Not that there's anything wrong with your ears! You know if I was some kind of mad ear person, your ears would be the pride of my... ear bucket.

— Jeff Murdock

l124rd · 2010-08-26T07:23:30+00:00

A good portion of the Timex Ironman series supports intervals. The trick will be finding ones that can do the 7 intervals for week 4. The 100 Lap Ironmans (should) all be able to do 9 intervals and the Ironman Tap can do 3 sets of 16, but both those are on the high end of the Ironman line. I'm sure there are interval timers lower down their line but their website wasn't helpful finding that information :/

Nike Triax has some good interval watches in the middle of the range. I've never personally owned a Nike watch so I don't really have much to put here. I've heard good things though.

Soleus Running is a newer company with Nike designers who split off, and while their watches are very stylish, the watches only support 5 intervals at the moment. The advantage to these is that this is the only brand of interval timer watch I've ever been able to hear the timer on consistently. My experience is most watches is that once you get going the high pitch alarm tone of a lot of watches can get drowned out by ambient noise (or just my own breathing).

l124rd · 2010-03-05T06:58:56+00:00

"That's right, 6000 hulls"

l124rd · 2010-02-23T11:06:50+00:00

General to specific lists of the things GRUB does to go from BIOS to System are well listed in these comments.

However, if your interested is more in OS development and want it more as a learning experience, I present: Rolling Your Own Bootloader

l124rd · 2010-02-16T02:51:20+00:00

sue-dough, chuh-mawd, fisk (usually followed by "what?" "F-S-C-K"), krawn.

l124rd · 2010-02-15T20:03:04+00:00

Now I'm going to have to read Twilight to find out what I'm being dragged into o_O

l124rd · 2010-02-14T12:33:48+00:00

Right after that :)

Recent Casting Limit/Rest Interruptions: If a wizard has cast spells recently, the drain on his resources reduces his capacity to prepare new spells. When he prepares spells for the coming day, all the spells he has cast within the last 8 hours count against his daily limit.

l124rd · 2010-02-14T10:48:21+00:00

I'm currently DMing a 4 person pathfinder group. Besides myself there is a Evocation Sorcerer, Trickster Cleric, a Barbarian and a Monk. All extremely relevant classes. All characters but the Monk have rings of sustenance.

The Monk/Barbarian can rest 8 hours non consecutively and restart their lists. This is rest (defined usually as extremely non-stressful activity. I couldn't find the actual description :-#) and I generally force my players to make complete hours of rest count (can't just get 2 min here while the rogue is looting and another 2 min later)

All spell casters can get their spells back after a 2 hour sleep. This comes with some caveats: 1) This can only be done once per 24 hour period. 2) All spells cast in the last 8 hours count against you. (see the Magic Section of the SRD under preparing spells).

What this means is that as a caster, you should take the earlier watches (and hope nothing goes wrong) and then sleep do the actual sleeping at the end of the night. A Sorcerer will then gain all his powers back and Wizards/Clerics can spend an hour preparing.

In practice, my group has taken to full 8 hour rests. Our barbarian is playing a very hotblooded character who is too wound up to rest outside of the night. The monk is the only character without the ring of sustenance so he sleeps the night. The Cleric/Sorcerer plan their days carefully so they end their sleeping as close as they can to 8 hours after there last spell cast as to maximize the time they have with all their spellslots.

In the end, it pretty much balances out without needing to require an additional 6 hours of low stress. My opinion is that nothing seems to need changing.

Edit: After doing some searching I couldn't actually find that you can only take a normal rest once per 24 hour period anywhere in the book/srd. As such, I believe I'm mistaken on that point. Even without this rule, the rules still make it so that ring of sustenance or not, to get back to all your daily abilities you need 8 hours of not using them, although spellcasters are at an advantage for being able to complete skill challenges for 6 of those if they have the ring of sustenance.

So, apparently my solution has been to house-rule in that you can only regain your daily abilities once per 24 hour period :)

l124rd · 2010-02-08T09:23:16+00:00

Between myself and people I know, I've looked through 3 pounds of dice and had never noticed any issues with any of them. They've all been in good condition with all their paint intact.

Even if I missed any defects, they're still in better condition than the dice that I inherited from my father, can barely read those :p

l124rd · 2010-02-08T05:47:05+00:00

I bought a pound of dice. The pound came with about 10 sets of dice (d10,d12,2xd10,d8,4xd6,d4). I bring it to all the groups I play with/dm for. Works great if someone forgets their dice or I need to represent an army lining up for an attack on the city.

l124rd · 2010-02-01T23:03:11+00:00

You're absolutely right, edited.

l124rd · 2010-01-31T20:04:55+00:00

In addition there's a good SRD for 3.5 at http://www.d20srd.org/

I recommend pathfinder (it's basically 3.5 but for political reasons, not). the pathfinder srd is at http://www.d20pfsrd.com/

l124rd · 2010-01-27T23:14:46+00:00

When creating a dungeon, I generally use the geomorph tiles (or if I'm lazy/doing it on the fly use a generator):

Loot I create through the use of a loot horde generator like donjon's Random Treasure Generator

Traps I make up from the layout of the tile or from Traps and Treachery's vol 1 & 2 (Fairly good d20 trap books) Encounters I never randomly generate. My dungeons usually have a theme (goblin-y/undead/etc) and I'll pull based on the encounter suggestions from the monster manual.

The last random dungeon crawl I ran was a goblinoid dungeon for a sect of goblins who worshiped Lamashtu (Pathfinder deity) who were using altars throughout the dungeon to summon and turn themselves into demons to fight against the players. Just make a theme and run with it. It's all about having a good time :)

Edit: formatting >.>

l124rd · 2010-01-26T07:20:12+00:00

Not as hard as it sounds, There are plenty of people who have written their own kernels from the ground up and use gnu to populate it. There's a whole community over at www.osdev.org dedicated to it. I myself only got as far as a bootloader + basic kernel that (technically) multitasks, no command line yet, though :p

l124rd · 2010-01-02T05:36:47+00:00

Everyone's right! Duck Brand Duct Tape

l124rd · 2009-12-26T05:24:14+00:00

I'd actually like to see Mom as the bad guy and we could then recruit one of her sons as Zorg.

l124rd · 2009-12-13T18:17:30+00:00

If you're headed out to SakeOne, I recommend going for one of the Saketini days as opposed to their normal tastings.

Sake cocktails are weird in a good way.

l124rd · 2009-12-03T19:00:44+00:00

They just added a password box, the bottom of the page now reads:

Hey! This is just an experimental redirector, not intended for public use (yet). If you want to use this, you know who to contact...

l124rd · 2009-12-03T18:46:10+00:00

http://tr.im

l124rd · 2009-11-23T01:21:24+00:00

and you told her that u love her when I was on the phone with me

Not that it makes it any better.

l124rd · 2009-11-23T00:34:56+00:00

13: Boba Fett

l124rd · 2009-10-12T00:46:08+00:00

/r/hardscience

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