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    Small Revelations

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    Before, I used to feel a bit sad for not studying to be a chef. Making great food seemed like the best way to make people happy, which seemed like a worthy goal. As a physicist you don't much ever make anyone happy.

     

    I recently realized that it was silly, because as a chef I would be over-aware of bad food.

    Now I can eat and enjoy pretty much anything. And if I ever feel like it, I can always learn some cooking if I feel like it. I bet it's a bit harder to go the other way, as I haven't heard of many chefs trying to learn physics.

    I felt much better when I had this 'relevation' :)

    Diablo III

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    So the idea of the game is basically you hoard better and better stuff and level up your character, so you can kill more mobs my hack'n'slashing through a dungeon?

    What a winner concept.

     

    Those that say they played through it in X hours, was there any point in the game where your decisions mattered at all, or was it all linear?

    Are we free?

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    My stance:

     

    Q: Does it matter if I don't have free will?

     

    A: No, it doesn't.

     

     

    Also a quick note on the concept of randomness. If I toss a coin, the result is unpredictable, but not random. If I toss heads, it's because of the way I tossed the coin, not because the coin somehow decided to land that way. So although it may seem like there is a lot of randomness in the world, it's not really random, only unpredictable.

    Is there a God?

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    As a side point, with complex enough math, and the tools to measure everything, you could (probably) model the entire universe and run it in accelerated time to predict the future (I think this falls under hidden variable theory which states that nothing is truly random, that everything can be predicted with sufficient knowledge and data).

     

    Not possible as far as I know, even theoretically:

     

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle

     

    What this means for determinism/ causality / free will etc, no idea. Philosophical consequences of quantum mechanics was a topic that wasn't much discussed in QM1.

    What Game(s) Did You Last Get and What Are You Playing?

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    Journey was totally worth 15, really enjoyed it. Especially the multiplayer capability was well implemented, also some awesomely memorable moments. Definitely recommend the game to all ps3 owners.

     

    Also saw that I had Infamous 1 available in my PS store downloads list from the time when sony had problems with hackers last year, couldn't download it back then and I thought the welcome back offer had ended, but now I had it in there and I could download it for free. First 30 mins seemed ok, but it's easy to see how the game is a bit old. Some graphics/ animations look awkward, but it's playable.

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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    What the next cod must have if I am to buy it:

    - no second chance

    - domination final score table must show number of flag captures

    - assassin/ ghost removed or there are other equally overpowered perks available in the same slot

    - preferably no deathstreaks or support killstreaks

    KONY 2012

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    It's kinda scary actually, he seemed like an ok dude in the campaign video.

     

    Am I gonna end up masturbating naked on the streets one day aswell? I bet he didn't expect it either. :ohnoes:

    Programming puzzles

    in Programming and Web Design

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    Ok I wanted to ask a little fast question, but realized the question was too stupid to ask. Might aswell find the answer myself since I got the pseudocode written. To make the topic worthwhile, post any small programming puzzles or problems to test one's programming abilities.

     

    I'll go first:

     

    In Java I have made my own class, that holds one property. It has a method to set that property and another one to print it to the console.

    Consider the following code. What would it print?

    Object a = new Object();
a.setProperty(5);
ArrayList<Object> list = new ArrayList<Object>();
list.add(a);

list.get(0).setProperty(6);
a.printProperty();
list.get(0).printProperty();

a.setProperty(4);
a.printProperty();
list.get(0).printProperty();

     

    Answer:

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    6

    6

    4

    4

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    Looking to learn a bit about programming...

    in Programming and Web Design

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    I had tried learning java before taking my first programming course, but had no luck getting anywhere. Now if someone had told me about IDE's, I could've had a better chance.

    I've used Eclipse, it's simple to use and free:

    http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/

     

    Oracle has good tutorials on java:

    http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/getStarted/intro/index.html

     

    Best to start with Hello world, once you've got that working move on to slowly editing the code piece by piece into more complicated things.

    variable types->a simple method->loops->arrays/ other containers-> getting input from keyboard-> etc etc

     

    and you should get a book, for reference if not anything else. Most stuff you can find on the web, but it's nice to have something you can get your hands on.

    Ace of Spades

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    Downloaded a mac wrap of the game, but there's a problem with the mouse where you can't turn 360 degrees, making it unplayable. Gotta wait till someone figures out a fix for it, but it looked like a cool game.

    What Game(s) Did You Last Get and What Are You Playing?

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    Games that I'm NOT playing:

    L4D2, since Steam decided not to work with this game. Infinite "Validating cache" or some equally annoying bull balls. All other steam games work fine. Tried all quick-fix solutions I could find on the web, none worked.

    Uncharted 3, because of the infinite loading screen bug that people first reported three months ago that still hasn't been fixed. It's a great game but playing the first 9 chapters over and over again just ain't my cookie. I'd like to progress further, but ah, black screen of game crash and infinite rotating ring defeat me.

     

    I'm stuck with piece of cabbage games such as MW3.

    MAMP and PHP

    in Programming and Web Design

    Posted

    Plain html works fine

     

    Running phpinfo();, I got hundreds of rows of information. Most peculiar lines were

     

    Configuration File (php.ini) Path => /etc

    Loaded Configuration File => (none)

     

    but most of the stuff seemed to be enabled and working.

    Oh, and phpinfo didn't work with browser, I did it with terminal to get the results.

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