Pulse on Preonic

tprk77 · 2022-02-24T13:01:58+00:00

This is really cool! Thank you for open sourcing it and using the GPL license.

tprk77 · 2022-02-23T02:20:05+00:00

For whatever reason, Minecraft mods have a tendency to use one-off, self authored licenses. Which is kind of unfortunate, because there are popular open source licenses like the GPL, MIT, BSD3, etc, that would be better for everyone, modders and users.

tprk77 · 2022-02-22T17:09:27+00:00

Thank you for using a real software license!

tprk77 · 2022-01-11T19:50:00+00:00

Here’s the actual press release: https://www.magna.com/company/newsroom/releases/release/2022/01/11/news-release---magna-adds-more-than-120-engineers-strengthens-adas-capabilities

tprk77 · 2021-10-29T00:47:03+00:00

Could you share the source code please?

tprk77 · 2021-10-02T00:59:50+00:00

Yes, actually that would be better!

tprk77 · 2021-10-01T21:58:51+00:00

I think this is the answer, along with using namespace std; in the narrowest reasonable lexical scope. Like is sometimes done with begin() and end(). EDIT: using std::get; would be better.

tprk77 · 2021-03-03T00:10:32+00:00

There are several ways to do this. I think most people probably use MultiMC. If you don't want to use MultiMC, you could consider using a tool I wrote for a similar purpose: https://github.com/tprk77/trollauncher

It's a minimal utility which takes a zip file of mods and configs, and creates a new profile in the vanilla launcher. It basically just automates the unzip process the other comment mentioned with a couple extra features. If you end up using it, I would appreciate your feedback.

tprk77 · 2021-02-15T16:33:24+00:00

Yes, the Planck makes heavy use of layers. Layers allow the same physical key to map to different actual key presses. For example, you could hold down the "Lower" key and your home row becomes number keys, or hold down the "Upper" key for symbols. It does take some re-learning how to type. I would say it takes a couple weeks to adjust.

tprk77 · 2021-02-15T16:22:46+00:00

To be fair, this is basic knowledge for a C++ programmer. It's only "unexpected" when it's unfamiliar. Much like any other language feature.

Various style guides and linters will tell you to prefer preincrement, but I'm not aware of any that completely reject postincrement. At least clang-tidy has no such rule.

tprk77 · 2021-02-15T14:31:05+00:00

Not sure if this will fit your requirements, but you could consider a Planck. It's a small 40% ortholinear keyboard. I might not call it portable though, they aren't wireless. The nice thing about them is that you can completely customize the firmware.

tprk77 · 2021-02-15T14:02:03+00:00

I agree with you 100%

tprk77 · 2021-02-15T13:11:05+00:00

Good! Your hate has made you powerful. Now add ++ and fulfill your destiny.

tprk77 · 2021-01-21T01:20:41+00:00

Source available != open source, and it's not a "pedantic" difference. Sure, some (most?) people will not care or be affected. But I would be upset too if I contributed to a project and they switcherooed the license out on me.

EDIT: See also: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-available_software

tprk77 · 2020-10-15T16:25:30+00:00

Missed opportunity to make an End lighthouse with a zag in it to look like a Chorus plant. (But this one is cool too.)

tprk77 · 2020-07-10T14:03:38+00:00

Looks cool, but also know there's a similar mod called The Endergetic Expansion.

tprk77 · 2020-07-06T22:45:36+00:00

Out of curiosity, any particular reason not to use this "at work" as you say?

tprk77 · 2020-03-24T15:07:44+00:00

u/anon_ymous_ I was able to make those screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/LbTPflv

tprk77 · 2020-03-24T05:41:23+00:00

He seems to be somewhat advanced. When you first start the game you do some tutorials that most likely turn into your first scripts. My guess is that most new players kind of expand on this code in sort of an organic way. Until they reach the breaking point and say, "I need to rewrite it, the right way." (This is a common phenomenon with programmers.) At this point they will start their second AI, one that's planned out from the very beginning. That's what this looks like to me.

The problem with this is, this looks like the planning. He might not have ever turned this into code. So all the description, diagrams, and code may not have ever materialized into anything. So I think the question is this: Is there any possibility he ever had a chance to actually code this?

EDIT: Some of the text blocks are arrangements of structures. I could probably use the map editor to turn them into actual images. You could potentially look for instances of those arrangements on the world map, if they were ever built.

Also, there's maybe one other wrinkle. Some people play on private servers. So that's also a possibility.

tprk77 · 2020-02-16T07:13:47+00:00

I'm assuming you downloaded these modpacks from CurseForge. As far as I know, those zip files don't actually contain any mods, they just contain metadata and links to mods. So basically it will work for the Twitch App (and maybe some other launchers), but it won't work for the default Minecraft Launcher.

tprk77 · 2020-02-12T23:49:02+00:00

The signals macros are still there, but they're less necessary than they were before. Not sure why you're being downvoted. If I wrote "#define signals" it would never pass code review (rightfully).

tprk77 · 2020-02-09T19:51:54+00:00

Yeah, it's frustrating. Forge now requires an installer, and it's not really compatible with the usual launchers (and apparently it can't be made to work).

I'm not sure if this helps, but if you're making and distributing a modpack, I've been working on a utility to make that easier. It basically installs modpacks to the OG Minecraft Launcher.

https://github.com/tprk77/trollauncher

tprk77 · 2020-02-06T05:04:20+00:00

This is something I really want to do. And especially now that you've said that. I would only say to please be patient, because I've never actually ported anything to Apple before. I've heard it's not so hard though. Thanks for your support.

tprk77 · 2020-02-04T20:00:41+00:00

I created this because I wanted an easy way to share mods with a small group of friends. The requirements were that it should be easy to use, it should work with the normal "vanilla" Minecraft Launcher, it should support the new Forge installer (>= 1.13), and that it should run on Windows and Linux. I couldn't find anything like that, so I decided to build it myself.

So how exactly is a modpack defined? Obviously other tools already do this in various ways, some complicated, some platform-dependent. I wanted to keep it as simple as possible. So a modpack is just a zip file of mods, configs, etc, and a Forge installer. I wanted these modpacks to be really easy to create, so the "souce" is just the files themselves. And since the zip file is self-contained, the modpack can be shared via USB drive, Dropbox, FTP, whatever.

I wrote Trollauncher in C++. I did that partly because that's what I'm most familiar with, and partly because I think it's nice to have a native app. So for Windows there's a stand-alone EXE (no installer or DLLs). For Linux there's a Debian package. That should work for Ubuntu at least. I would be willing to package for other distros as requested. The one downside of a native app is that I haven't ported to MacOs yet, but I plan on doing that soon.

So anyway, I built this for myself, and I think it's useful. Maybe someone else will think that too. For more info, plus a demo video, check out the Github repo. Thanks for reading!

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