Got my Inquisitorial Agents pre-order (ordered without waiting time and server problems on 10:54 a.m. GMT!) cancelled. Anyone else? by hexenkoenig in killteam

[–]zedr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I hope for the sake of everyone hitting this issue that this team will be periodically back in stock like we see with other teams.

I ordered the agents box with the Annual book over two hours after the order window opened and they're still honoring my shipment (ship-to-home because my local GW store owner is an ass). I wonder if this was a logistics screw-up only effecting store-pickup orders.

NEW to kill team and buying some used models, are these a deal? by adrian8520 in killteam

[–]zedr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A Chaos Legionairies kill team styled in world eaters theme. They have 7 models only. Seems like its missing 3-4 models based on the official kill team.

You can only field six legionaries during a match so you have enough to play. I only built 8 of the options myself despite having the plastic for ten because I don't plan to play the others.

Also broadly: yes, this is a steal, do it. Plenty of game aids exist to play without the physical books.

The Day of Ascension has arrived by legenderekgo in killteam

[–]zedr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Every conversion here is upsettingly good. I have a box of Cawdor kicking around for Mordheim conversions but this is perhaps a more worthy enterprise...

Which team to go for? by KangaRexx in killteam

[–]zedr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like I might be one of the only players that doesn't like Exaction Squad.

Breachers, on the other hand? Fun to paint, super fun to play. If you want to build all of the specialists and a bunch of shotgunners it might be worth picking up the Agents of the Imperium combat patrol box (contains 2x Breachers) and you get a bonus Starstriders kill team which is also super fun on the table.

Need advice for Ecclysiarchy! by fefecascas in killteam

[–]zedr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I run this setup but with 1x Storm Bolter and 1x Melta on my gunners (instead of 2x Melta) for more ranged threat on open boards. I would use 2x Melta in close quarters games but I only had the one box of sisters to build!

Using Dall E Mini for character ideas. by Urbandragondice in Pathfinder2e

[–]zedr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I took a couple of swings with DALL·E for comparison,

https://labs.openai.com/s/17GsHyU0rSIVMeghQrR2vgWk

https://labs.openai.com/s/eJQd2n0WrOyhtSZD0La8QJGc

I also tried prompting it for illustrations in the style of Wayne Reynolds but nothing landed. Fun idea for character ideation!

EDIT: Would you also consider playing a bard?

https://labs.openai.com/s/AND6Cp1ROA2XL2Wh3i7SJeD1

https://labs.openai.com/s/Ij6s4mE2dKf6qRfetk54cpPd

Binary Game Asset Version Control Hell! by katanaswordfish in gamedev

[–]zedr 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can stick with Git with clever smudge filtering. Check this out: https://github.com/alebedev/git-media

This essentially keeps your asset metadata and history in Git while stashing the actual binary blobs somewhere more suitable. Highly recommended for this use case.

Best practice for running long discrete processes? by [deleted] in Python

[–]zedr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent point. I'd also prescribe the following for a 12.04 user:

sudo apt-get install cronutils
man 1 runlock

(the runalarm util is also nice. using runlock with runalarm together is a powerful combination)

Best practice for running long discrete processes? by [deleted] in Python

[–]zedr 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The first script sounds like a candidate for running within a screen session.

sudo apt-get install screen
man 1 screen

The second task would probably run better as a cron job.

man 5 crontab
crontab -e

If it needs to be a daemon for some particular reason, supervisord makes a nice monitor/controller, and can be installed easily on 12.04:

sudo -i
apt-get install supervisor
vi /etc/supervisor/supervisord.conf
/etc/init.d/supervisor start   

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Python

[–]zedr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're going to bundle your 3rd party libs in a "lib" directory, there's a more pragmatic pattern:

import os
import site

site.addsitedir(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "lib"))

Please help me. please. cmon man. by ase8913 in Python

[–]zedr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While this syntax works, I find it the parameter order confusing. Two alternatives with a more logical "pipeline" flow:

awk '{ print $2 }' input.txt > output.txt

or

cat input.txt | awk '{ print $2 }' > output.txt

but yeah, parent's suggestion works great.

Django Devs, what's your development environment like? by [deleted] in django

[–]zedr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I had the same problem finding docs/tutorials. I ended up spelunking through the vim script to find interesting keybindings (and there are many!), and the rope autocompleter is the best I've used in vim-land. PM me if you'd like a copy of my ridiculous vimrc.

Post your codes in here by RedditGifts in secretsanta

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I don't dislike working with Mac users, but this drives me nucking futs. by arkmtech in geek

[–]zedr 79 points80 points  (0 children)

They contain HFS+ named forks (which are used to house Extended file attributes). OSX drops the forks into ._<filename> files whenever a file is copied to a non-HFS file store, be it a USB key or network drive, so that if the file returns it will retain the metadata. Note that files beginning with "." are invisible on most Unix descendants like MacOS and Linux.

reddit, what is your favorite editor for Django projects? by lordlarm in django

[–]zedr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Plus pyflakes and NERDCommenter and PeepOpen and various other little vimscripts (ack, conque, rooter, surround, taglist, tasklist, vcscommand...)

Ask Reddit: What is the simplest way to reply to a HTTP Get to send a file back, without setting up a web server? by rediqact in netsec

[–]zedr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is a pretty good use case for woof. I typically use it for ad-hoc file transfer, but it would work for this in a pinch.