Random Chitchat 2012-2016

[xoft]

Minecraft has gone cuckoo. It started showing the "Minecraft Realms" button on the client welcome screen, but when I clicked it, it first said to upgrade my client (I'm using 1.7.2 because WECUI), and then that the Realms are not available in my country. Then why show me the button at all?

[gv1222]

Minecraft has gone cuckoo. It started showing the "Minecraft Realms" button on the client welcome screen, but when I clicked it, it first said to upgrade my client (I'm using 1.7.2 because WECUI), and then that the Realms are not available in my country. Then why show me the button at all?

Because mojang!

[NiLSPACE]

Wow. I didn't expect it to be this easy to create a cFastRandom class for Lua:

local cFastRandom_SeedCounter = 0


function cFastRandom()
  local self = {}
  
  local m_Counter = 0
  local m_Seed = cFastRandom_SeedCounter
  cFastRandom_SeedCounter = cFastRandom_SeedCounter + 1
  
  function self:NextNumber(a_Range)
    assert(type(a_Range) == "number")
    
    assert(a_Range <= 1000000)
    assert(a_Range > 0)
    
    Counter = m_Counter
    m_Counter = m_Counter + 1
    
    local n = a_Range + Counter * 57 + m_Seed * 57 * 57;
    n = ((n * (n * n * 15731 + 789221) + 1376312589))
    
    return ((n / 11) % a_Range);
 end
 
 return self
end

[worktycho]

When writing tests:
What's wrong with allocating a chunk buffer on the stack? Allocating 50MB on the stack in the main's function prologue = stackoverflow.

[xoft]

worktycho, not necessarily, at least on windows you can set the stack size for a thread, in the linker's executable options.

[xoft]

Greetings from the Tatra mountains.

[NiLSPACE]

Wow that looks awesome :O

[xoft]

Yeah, it was. Except for the cold and the sun. My hands nearly froze off while my head was getting sunburnt.

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I think I shouldn't be reviewing any PRs now, can't think straight.

[worktycho]

You have to set it dynamically in Linux as it uses ELF binary's which date back to system V unix. So if you're doing the allocations in the prologue for main there's no time to change the size before you stackoverflow.

[xoft]

Driving 700 km has really squeezed all my life-juice. I feel like a zombie The weekend in the mountains was great, but at this price, I'd rather stay at home next time.