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[Ellie]

I remembered my studio mx 2004 keys :data:

 

[StrawberrySmiles]

I partied until 2:30 am. Good times. Good times.

Back to dull life!

 

[Ellie]

Deus Ex is 15 gigabytes. Bloody hell.

 

[coyotecraft]

I babysat my niece and nephew. Tried teaching them how to play video games but I don't have lot of games for 5 year olds and they're not very coordinated. Classic Sonic and Crash Bandicoot Racing.

Idk, maybe it's the controller. Teaching them how to jump over a pit was impossible. They kept playing with the joysticks and all the other buttons.
So I stuck in the racing game. Just hold 'x' and steer. Simple right? No. They were driving in circles. Getting stuck against the wall. Going the wrong way. Took 10 minutes to finish 3 laps.
They'd be picking their nose like "why am I not moving?" So I tell them they have to hold the x button. "Oh" and they press X with the same finger they were picking their nose with.

kids are gross.

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

I. Can't. Keep. Living. With. My. Parents.

Edit: I mean, they're great people, but honestly they just make me think about killing myself. They're so goddamn unhappy.

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

Also, I have a question. I'm making a database for a set of items that can happen multiple days a week. I decided, in order to save space, I would make 7 boolean-type columns, one for each day of the week. Is there a better way to do this? Originally I thought of using a single string-type column containing a character for each day of the week. Would this be a better choice?

 

[Injury]

7 bools vs a int that goes 0-6? idk...

 

[Xilef]

Also, I have a question. I'm making a database for a set of items that can happen multiple days a week. I decided, in order to save space, I would make 7 boolean-type columns, one for each day of the week. Is there a better way to do this? Originally I thought of using a single string-type column containing a character for each day of the week. Would this be a better choice?

What platform?

I'd say the best option is to store them as a single 8-bit char type and using 7 of those bits as a mask for each day of the week.

Monday would be 0x01, Tuesday 0x02, Wednesday 0x04, Thursday 0x08, Friday 0x10, Saturday 0x20, Sunday 0x40

You'd use a logical AND & to test for days of the week and a logical OR | to set days of the week and to remove a day you'd AND & it with the NOT ~ of the day you want to remove.

days = 0 // Initialise to no days set
days |= ( 0x1 | 0x2 ) // Monday and Tuesday set
isMonday = ( days & 0x1 ) // check if Monday is set
days &= ~0x2 // Remove Tuesday

That would be the most efficient method. Unless your database software automatically uses integer bit masks for booleans (which would be awesome) - in which case might as well use 7 booleans.

 

[MysticTrunks]

Did I just eat an entire bag of individual packaged varied chips?... Sweeto's was awesome...

 

[Ellie]

Steam is having a lot of trouble today.

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

Also, I have a question. I'm making a database for a set of items that can happen multiple days a week. I decided, in order to save space, I would make 7 boolean-type columns, one for each day of the week. Is there a better way to do this? Originally I thought of using a single string-type column containing a character for each day of the week. Would this be a better choice?

What platform?

I'd say the best option is to store them as a single 8-bit char type and using 7 of those bits as a mask for each day of the week.

Monday would be 0x01, Tuesday 0x02, Wednesday 0x04, Thursday 0x08, Friday 0x10, Saturday 0x20, Sunday 0x40

You'd use a logical AND & to test for days of the week and a logical OR | to set days of the week and to remove a day you'd AND & it with the NOT ~ of the day you want to remove.

days = 0 // Initialise to no days set
days |= ( 0x1 | 0x2 ) // Monday and Tuesday set
isMonday = ( days & 0x1 ) // check if Monday is set
days &= ~0x2 // Remove Tuesday

That would be the most efficient method. Unless your database software automatically uses integer bit masks for booleans (which would be awesome) - in which case might as well use 7 booleans.

I did a little bit of reading and found out it doesn't really matter, since I'm using SQLite3. But I'm still going for the char type.

 

[Xilef]

I did a little bit of reading and found out it doesn't really matter, since I'm using SQLite3. But I'm still going for the char type.

SQLite3's CHAR type looks a bit different to a C/C++ char which is what I was trying to get at. INT8 is the type that masking would be good for.

 

[Injury]

we are super close too 800k posts. I wonder when we will hit 1mil?

 

[Jason]

Never.

 

[Ellie]

At this rate, 40 years. I wish that was a joke.

 

[Juan J. Sánchez]

At this rate, 40 years. I wish that was a joke.

Did you calculate it?

 

[Injury]

Let's not think about that. Plans! We must make plans to embrace MV and Unity and push hard to get active members back.

<3

 

[Jason]

Or burn it all down.

 

[Jason]

My post count has dropped below five posts a day, oh dear...

 

[Perihelion]

Let's not think about that. Plans! We must make plans to embrace MV and Unity and push hard to get active members back.

<3

That's the spirit. I'm posting all about making a game lately. You guys should make something too!