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Re: Looking for work

闇狼 — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:39:11 -0000

Ooh comments. I have nothing useful to say. Sorry. *walks away randomly*

Re: Modding provinces.bmp in Crusader Kings II

ghuest — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:42:32 -0000

Hey, totally off topic, but you should update your Pokemon syn. tool. It's really good but we're well into Gen VI now a days.

Re: The mysterious nature of bots

johndburger — Mon, 05 May 2014 14:13:01 -0000

This is a great point. Any successful bot relies on finessing certain aspects of interaction or language use in general (aka cheating). Twitter makes it much easier to do that.

Re: The mysterious nature of bots

kaelef — Sat, 03 May 2014 11:55:24 -0000

As much as I appreciate this story and think the interactions are often hilarious, we have to acknowledge that Twitter's great 140-character limitation commonly breaks human interaction down and makes it very bot-like. Part of the success of these simple programs is due to the limited environment they're interacting with.

Re: Beldum Labs

Wyndamn — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:07:23 -0000

First i want to thank you for putting your effort in creating this awesome tool for the use of the pokémon community. I pass this page to all of my friends so they can make new teams with better synergy instead of wasting time thinking way too much on which partners to choose for a team. Even so i think this could be improved so much more. I would love to see this experiment of yours turning into a program you could download and maybe do this for the whole team in a similar way the marriland´s team builder works but better. Anyways thanks a lot again for this incredible tool, its been really useful.

Re: ~mispy

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:24:47 -0000

Here, then: http://pastebin.com/FXiTNKPY

Quick C program I just wrote that does it better. I won't paste it here and take up half the page, you may copy it here for redundancy if you wish. Just give it a file (don't pipe stuff into it).

Benchmarks:

For the long-ass command:

( for i in {1..100}; do; echo [...] | bc | sed 's/-//g' | xargs -I % head -n % | tail -n 1 >/dev/null; done;) 1.84s user 0.86s system 96% cpu 2.793 total

For the C program:
( for i in {1..100}; do; ./main /usr/share/dict/words > /dev/null; done; ) 0.69s user 0.21s system 95% cpu 0.940 total

3 times faster, less disk access. There's a time when its saner to just write a quick C program than have a chain of program read the same file over and over and parse things in awkward ways.

Re: ~mispy

mispy — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:35:43 -0000

Afraid not! As I understand it, the output of $RANDOM is constrained to the range 0 - 32767, whereas /usr/share/dict/words contains (on my system) 98569 lines. You'll only get about a third of the possible words that way.

The latter solution is pretty and functional, but not performant. Compare:

[~]$ time sort -R < /usr/share/dict/words | head -n 1 rheas sort -R < /usr/share/dict/words 1.45s user 0.01s system 99% cpu 1.461 total head -n 1 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 1.460 total

[~]$ time echo `cat /dev/urandom | od -N4 -An -i `' % '`wc -l < /usr/share/dict/words` | bc | sed 's/-//g' | xargs -I % head -n % /usr/share/dict/words | tail -n 1 plastering echo `cat /dev/urandom | od -N4 -An -i `' % '`wc -l < /usr/share/dict/words` 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.005 total bc 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.005 total sed 's/-//g' 0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.004 total xargs -I % head -n % /usr/share/dict/words 0.00s user 0.00s system 33% cpu 0.012 total tail -n 1 0.00s user 0.00s system 37% cpu 0.011 total

Re: ~mispy

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:46:10 -0000

You don't need to use urandom here, just use $RANDOM:

echo "$RANDOM % `wc -l < /usr/share/dict/words`" | bc | xargs -I % head -n % /usr/share/dict/words | tail -n 1

This will also work:

sort -R < /usr/share/dict/words | head -n 1

Re: This is what happens when people ignore me!

sa — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:02:49 -0000

Fantastic!

Re: The DHS reads ~2% of all your tweets

mispy — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:56:31 -0000

Certainly. If anything, this post is an argument for exactly that. Your ability to be "hidden in the crowd" diminishes as mass data analysis grows more widespread and sophisticated.

Re: The DHS reads ~2% of all your tweets

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:12:02 -0000

Your public tweets are getting read by agencies that specialize in data collection / intelligence and predictive analysis? Stop the presses.

If you don't want your data to become part of the ethereal entity that is the public internet, then don't post it publicly. Once you do it might as well no longer belong to you.

Re: Culture shock

mispy — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:13:40 -0000

Okay you can keep this one, it made me laugh much too hard.

Re: Culture shock

Danice — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 23:38:17 -0000

What's it take to become a sublime epxoudner of prose like yourself?

Re: Minecraft: Collage World

mispy — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 18:25:01 -0000

Right you are, fixed!

Re: Minecraft: Collage World

Person — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:31:35 -0000

Looks like the converter is moved: https://github.com/anneli/s...

Re: Empty sessions in Rails 3 when using jQuery AJAX requests

joselo — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:34:49 -0000

You saved my day Thank!!

Re: Empty sessions in Rails 3 when using jQuery AJAX requests

José Chávez — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:51:48 -0000

Thanks! It solved my problem too! XD

Re: Empty sessions in Rails 3 when using jQuery AJAX requests

aka — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:16:46 -0000

Thanks! It solved my problem too :)

Re: Quixotic symbolism of Lisps

mispy — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:37:00 -0000

I see! Fixed the wording. I'm still getting the hang of aligning my thoughts correctly with the layers of homoiconicity.

Re: Quixotic symbolism of Lisps

Joe Marshall — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:23:55 -0000

The quote operation does nothing to the object that is quoted. The symbol has already been upcased by the reader.

Re: Displaying a ProgressDialog while a WebView is loading content

mispy — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:15:44 -0000

You're welcome! ^_^

Re: Empty sessions in Rails 3 when using jQuery AJAX requests

mispy — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 03:15:22 -0000

Yay! :D I hope your website turns out awesomely.

Re: Displaying a ProgressDialog while a WebView is loading content

Kyle — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 02:32:23 -0000

Thank you thank you thank you! Exactly what I was looking for.

Re: Empty sessions in Rails 3 when using jQuery AJAX requests

Matthew Newman — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 18:01:45 -0000

Solved my problem, thank you for doing this.

Re: Beldum Labs

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 23:29:11 -0000

Your synergy pokédex is quite useful.
Thanks for this. Can you contact me? I have a little suggestion ^^
My email is in the comment. Thanks mispy ! It's really useful for create teams !