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Help with a Carbon program in General
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Returning 0 does mean success. Returning nonzero (such as true) means failure.

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Protecting Pictures in General
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It's possible to make is slightly annoying for IE-users to get at the pictures, but it's not possible to protect them well enough that there's any point in doing so.

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If you could meet one person off this board.. in General
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I'd want to meet Arctic, but I doubt we'd both survive that, so I'll say Saunders.

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Help with a Carbon program in General
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Ben: return 0 would be better.

Topic starter: It won't run on OS 9, no matter what, with XCode. If it won't run on other OS X computers, try making sure that you have set the build style to "deployment".

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Human cloning in General
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I don't really have a moral problem with reproductive cloning (so long as all the gotchas are fixed and you aren't producing malformed piles of goo that die young), but I have no idea why anyone would actually want to do it. There are easier ways to produce a human, and the only reason I can see for wanting a clone is the misguided notion that it will be give you immortality, or replace a loved one, or something.

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Say your prayers... in General
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stranger: You've made marriage religious by definition. So now you have to show why your definition is the one we should be using, otherwise you have no point.

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Favorite game... in General
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I like most roguelikes, generally in proportion to how different from Angband they are.

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What do you think of Subterra? I KNOW THIS IS OLD, BUT THIS IS NEEDED ALSO... in SubTerra
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Originally written by Ash Lael:

I did mention it to Khoth in chat once... he told Saunders, but I was suprised when he didn't tell everybody else.
Never tell me anything you wouldn't want Saunders to know (and vice versa). Apart from that, I can keep a secret.

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New Mac BoE
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What magazines do you subscribe to? in General
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I seem to still get Physics World for free, due to the generosity of a company I can't remember that did it for all physics undergraduates in my year. I suspect they'll stop sending it soon, though.

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Do you trust people? in General
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I generally trust people, although I'm a bit more careful than I used to be.

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Yet another C++ problem... in General
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Basically, yes.

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Yet another C++ problem... in General
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The problem is that a linked list is a load of pointers, and you can't sensibly write pointers to a file like that. You have to separately write each member of the linked list, and your reading routine then has to take them and join them up.

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The arrow of time in General
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I think the asymmetry is that there are vastly, vastly more states that are piles of ashes than there are states that are logs.

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The arrow of time in General
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Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. And perturbation was probably the wrong word. I'll try again.

Suppose you have a log that you've just started to burn. If you move the atoms a little bit (and/or change their velocities a little bit), then what you get is still a burning log, and it will still turn into a pile of ashes.

If you have a pile of ashes that came from burning a log, then running time backwards will give you a log. But if you move the atoms in your pile of ashes a bit first, then you will end up with a pile of ashes that won't "unburn" to a log.

And now I've said all that, I can't quite remember what, if anything, my point was. Oh well.

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The arrow of time in General
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Sorry if this has been said: I think the distinction between the log and the pile of ashes is that if you perturb the log slightly, it will burn to something that counts as a pile of ashes, but if you perturb the pile of ashes and reverse time, it won't go back to being a log.

Simple system with arrow of time: To particles in the plane, moving in some direction at some speed, starting close together.

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Mad Ambition bug in Blades of Avernum
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TM says: Yes, closing the door was a royally poor idea.

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The arrow of time in General
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If time went the other way, we'd be wondering why we could remember the past but not the future.

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Official Election Final Round Voting in General
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Thuryl.

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Drakel and Eraserhead in General
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He did tell me once that he deliberately makes things hard to understand. Draw your own conclusions.

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keygens in General
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A recent conversation from #crackers on IRC:
<Evil_dood> What will we pirate next?
<LoL_smurf> Nothing! I just heard that a bunch of people on a messageboard have joined up against piracy.
<Evil_dood> Oh noes! I repent my evil ways!
* Evil_dood is now known as Good_dood

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Ideas in General
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quote:
Originally written by I can wiggle them if you wish:

Auto-combat is good, because it can save the player from repetitive weakling battles.
Not having repetitive weakling battles is better, though.

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Best Games in General
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quote:
Originally written by Drakefyre:

quote:
Originally written by Marx' Martyr:

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Originally written by Ash Lael:

The answer, of course, is that BoE is the best game by a large margin. ;)




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Two envelopes paradox in General
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Another one:

"The smallest natural number which cannot be defined using less than fourteen words."

But that sentence is only thirteen words, so the number it defines can actually be defined in less than fourteen words after all.

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Just In Time For the Elections: Political Compass! in General
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Economic Left/Right: -4.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.31

I think I'm slowly creeping leftwards, but I'm not sure since I can't remember what I got before.

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Great Debate Live? in General
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The whole thing has now crashed and burned.

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