13815. Tim McCormack (130.44.147.140) –
01 Jun 2021 10:58:08
[ Summer! ]
My wife has a background in horticulture, agronomy, and ecology and was WTFing quite a bit throughout The Martian. Apparently the author researched the space stuff pretty well but thought "eh, biology, how complicated could that be?" and didn't invest so much in the realism there. (Someone with the protagonist's background should know better than to plant a monoculture in such dire circumstances, for instance.) |
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I have a question. Is there a real human here who can get back to me? |
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Tom, will you make it possible to play on osX Big Sur / M1 ? |
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Heads up: new season of Search Party is out.
Also I made a very stupid website you might like: www.bestbytest.net |
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That is a sexy mini cooper! |
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I do have ideas!
I butchered your makefile but got all three platforms building on GitHub:
https://github.com/jrr/tom7misc/pull/4
I'm not sure using another source control system and host qualifies as minimally-invasive, but it's one way to get Mac builds at least. Also I learned that GitHub has an automagic SVN import that slurps up all the history, so FWIW if you ever do decide to migrate it won't be hard. |
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I just found a video that mentions your reverse emulating the NES project: "https://youtu.be/dD37VRCf8eQ?t=948" |
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I tell ya, I was extremely enthusiastic to watch those 24 minutes. As a caʒ lover of both machine learning and typography, it felt like it was just for me. |
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It is still on sourceforge, but they are always changin' their URLs around:
https://sourceforge.net/p/tom7misc/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/escapex/
One of the main obstacles to releasing again on mac is that I don't have a suitable computer to compile with! But if you have ideas or minimally-invasive (e.g. I would really like to be able to compile with free tools from a makefile) portability improvements, lemme know!
Max: Fortunately it was a mix CD! I wish it had been something more poetic. |
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Is the latest source for Escape publicly available? All I see is an old tarball and a broken link to "sourceforge" ( http://tom7misc.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/tom7misc/trunk/escapex/ )
If you put it on GitHub a benevolent stranger might do the ARM port for you ;) |
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Yeah, I'm aware (and sad) that everyone has stopped supporting Flash! I have in mind to port these to HTML5 (itself a moving target, ugh) when I have some time/energy for that. This one should be fairly doable as long as I resist the urge to fix its various problems! |
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This is freaking wild, good job :) |
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Hey, the game's not functioning.
Could you perhaps convert it to HTML5? |
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Also, thanks Matt for noticing the problem on the server, something that I totally failed to notice with my speedrun uploading activities... |
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Thanks Tom 7 for making the server work again! I have just reuploaded all the speedruns I uploaded during the period. Hope I did not miss anything. |
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Thanks a lot for reporting this!
It turned out to be a bug with handling \0 characters in strings that I introduced in like September 2020 while doing some optimization/cleanup work on the language that runs the escape server code, Aphasia. Several red herrings in there since I also made some proximal changes to the escape server code relating to solution uploading *after* that.
Unfortunately the result of the bug is that solutions uploaded during this period (Dec 12 to today) were just saved as the empty string. I don't think there's any way I can recover them, so please reupload these if you want to claim records! (At least the server handles this case okay, so that's something, although I think it's important that we maintain at least one solution for every level...) Here are the records I deleted:
https://sourceforge.net/p/tom7misc/svn/HEAD/tree/trunk/escapex/missing-solutions2021.txt
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13796. Tom 7 (pool-74-109-237-238.pitbpa.fios.verizon.net) –
03 Apr 2021 09:49:47
[ Oh! WVPA ]
jonas, that's right! I clocked 14.75 miles = 23.73 km. I wish it had been a bit longer (I think there's a nicer route a little to the north) but I only had a couple hours left with the zipcar and didn't want to get in trouble.
Saeid: Awesome! Nice to meet you :) |
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13795. Saeid (5.232.76.164) –
02 Apr 2021 09:25:09
[ Oh! WVPA ]
Tom your running diary is really aspiring! BTW I am from Iran |
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13794. jonas (catv-176-63-11-151.catv.broadband.hu) –
01 Apr 2021 21:10:25
[ Oh! WVPA ]
Talk is now available at "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLRdruqQfRk", paper in "http://sigbovik.org/2021/proceedings.pdf" page 122. |
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13793. jonas (catv-176-63-11-151.catv.broadband.hu) –
01 Apr 2021 07:46:40
[ Oh! WVPA ]
If I understand that map screenshot correctly, the city on the top left is Steubenville, OH, and the run must have been about 22 kilometers long. |
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Dan B! Happy Pi day! I was just looking at those old photos (: |
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Yeah I know! I hope to port this one to javascript as soon as I get some other stuff done :) |
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