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  • in reply to: Hardware Relics #3169

    So I recently came across a couple of places that do restorations of vintage turntables:

    No complaints here but I still may reach out to them at some point to see what they offer. No harm in that, at least!

    in reply to: UpperLowerProper #3167

    Console input is pretty straightforward, you just need to include the input/output library. Here’s an example:

    #include <iostream>
    int main() {
    	int x;
    	std::cout << "Enter a number: ";
    	std::cin >> x;
    	std::cout << std::endl << "You entered: " << x;
    	return 0;
    }

    Command-line arguments would also be handy but the language only has rudimentary support for them by default. There are third-party libraries that help to fill in the gaps with them, though.

    For storing the set of proper case keywords, a set may be the best container to use. In the rename loop, check the word to see if it’s in the set using the contains member function. So I think I just inadvertently wrote the entire program here. Only thing missing is the actual code 😛

    Using the built-in types like this would also make it completely cross-platform 🙂

    Sounds good 🙂

    in reply to: Random #3165

    After several years, my mom finally decided on a Subaru Outback. She refuses to own a station wagon for whatever reason so, even though it’s classed as one, just don’t call it a station wagon or she gets mad. 😛

    That aside, she’s quickly falling in love with it 🙂

    And No Man’s Sky got cross-save support last week, which is nice. 🙂

    in reply to: Cooking #3163

    New cookbook! Going to need to break out the recipes! 🙂

    in reply to: The TCG Thread #3160

    So the new deck I built that relies on more passive gameplay is okay. A bit early to tell how it’ll hold up in serious play as I just finished it on Friday but it did hold up well in yesterday’s tournament before everyone figured out what I was doing and got ganged up on. So I came in fourth place out of five players 😛

    It did well before, though. Didn’t outright win the games but came pretty close and was able to keep the pressure on so I’ll keep playing it a bit before I tweak it. Will get the decklist posted soon! 🙂

    in reply to: Samsung Tablets #3155

    What I do is long press and then drag the two cursors around the text I want to copy. Doing select all usually selects everything, including stuff outside the articles. Do you get the cursors to drag around?

    in reply to: Samsung Tablets #3150

    Not sure how many do but it’s possible using digital circuitry elements. Would be careful, though. I do know my old phone heats up a lot when using the charger it came with and it does support fast charging. Granted, it’s ancient at this point so that may have something to do with it. 🙂

    Weird. Have no issues over here. Which browser are you using? I’m using Chrome and can select things as normal.

    Yeah, mine was fixed with an update after eight months of the bug. Was pretty annoying 🙁

    in reply to: Films & TV Shows #3149

    Was digging through the horror section on PlutoTV the other day and this one near the bottom caught my eye. No idea how they sort the categories but it was pretty good! Interestingly, the RT score is 90% but the IMDB score is close to 50-60%. Granted, they use different metrics but still interesting 🙂

    in reply to: Random #3144

    I kind of miss the simplicity of Usenet and the BBS boards. Had access to some of them twenty years ago when Bellsouth was hosting them. Hard to beat a simple mailing list like browsing but with better organization.

    in reply to: Random #3143

    Other than a few books on the wait list, I’ve pretty much run out of science fiction from the library. At least, space opera. So I’m moving to horror books now. Wish me luck!

    in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #3139

    And another one came in: City Car Driving. It has VR support, which the other two do not, but its wheel support isn’t as extensive according to the reviews but it definitely warrants some additional research to see which one of the three programs is best suited to me 🙂

    in reply to: Samsung Tablets #3138

    More than likely. A higher power input means more heat if the battery can’t absorb it all so you want a charger with a lower power for those devices. Don’t remember seeing power tolerances on spec-sheets like we have for humidity and temperature, which seems like an oversight since we have chargers of several power ratings. There are some that output 300W!

    What’s wrong with copying and pasting? Don’t seem to have any issues on my A7 Lite

    in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #3137

    Put out a holler on Reddit and the peeps over there also suggested taking a look at Euro Truck Simulator 2 so I’ll add it to the list. May have me on the wrong side of the road, though 😛

    in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #3135

    Sorry! I mean CPU controlled cars other than mine. The patterns don’t need to be realistic, just need some moving obstacles to practice on. 🙂

    Thanks! Will give that a go 🙂

    in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #3131

    BeamNG Drive looks like it may be a better sim than Rigs of Rods and shares many of the same devs. I think it has ambient cars but need to make sure. Tried Rigs and, while okay, it is missing some features I need for a good practice sim

    in reply to: Software: On & Off the Web #3128

    The stuck entry doesn’t appear in the registry at that location. Wish we had a proper search function for the registry. The find option just isn’t cutting it!

    That’s a lot of whitespace! Better view would have the search bar next to the menu options like that. Assuming it’s using some sort of XML based layout (among others), they could do that with the float property in CSS. GTK, for instance, uses CSS for its theming and you can even set up the layout using Glade or directly using XML 🙂

    Yeah, BIOS updates can go either way. For some reason, they seem to be pretty finicky. But when they work, they do a good job!

    in reply to: UpperLowerProper #3127

    Still need to log in to GitHub but a C++ version doesn’t appear to be too difficult with few dependencies, especially with the filesystem library being added circa 2018. May take a stab at it and see if things start coming back to me as it’s been a good while since I did coding and I have been in the mood for more than just thinking up algorithms. 🙂

    Essentially, we can do with addition and subtraction with the ASCII values, going character by character in the string. For proper case, we’d also check each substring, delimited by a space, and compare that to the word list for proper case. Another option is to use the transform function on the string and combine it with the toupper() or tolower() functions to do the whole string in one go and add it to to the new path list. Finally, we’d take our collection of paths and apply the rename function on them. Sorry if the algorithm is pretty rough, I’m pretty out of practice 🙂

    in reply to: Random #3114

    So I know you’ve been pestering me to watch Wayward Pines. Since I can’t get it on the services I subscribe to, I decided to read it instead!

    Also, happy Halloween!

    in reply to: The TCG Thread #3112

    So I settled on Donald Duck – Pie Slinger for my late game heavy hitter as its secondary effect has good synergy with the rest of my deck. We’ll find out in a few weeks if it works well 🙂

    in reply to: Random #3110

    Begging to run out of science fiction to read so I think I may shift back to horror for a bit. Been at least a year since I’ve read horror. 🙂

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