It is - without the quiet zone, it makes detecting the locator pattern really difficult, especially in one’s looking for the 1:1:3:1:1 ratio.

For any not in the loop: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

I’ve mostly been spending my time working on programming tools for myself, for the experience. Last week, after multiple weeks of work, I finally finished a macro calculator for crafting, which was a fascinating project (multiple caches were needed to calculate quickly). Realized however, that the formulas now use modifiers that must be pulled from the item/ recipe database, so this week I’ve been writing an extractor for the data from the sqpack files.

It’s been a lot of fun, but boy howdy is there not a lot of information out there in documentation form. So, I’ve been dumpster diving existing extraction projects to figure out the various internal structures.

As for 7.1, I’m most interested in hearing about the raid; their combat team has been cooking well, and I’m excited to see what’s next.

Snilk perhaps?

Man, I’m sure glad I kept my Ixali gloves around, years later.

Oh fuck, more TTP2? God yes, bring it on! I will gleefully devour anything this series produces.

I don’t play Trackmania at all, but it’s been really fun to watch the daily edits that Wirtual’s YouTube has been making for the live streams. Watching someone’s heart rate shoot up ~40 bpm just after making a butt clenching jump is vicariously entertaining in the max. His video on Deep Dip 1 was also fantastic.

Coincidentally, I do work on embedded devices, but as mentioned by ferret, most embedded stuff nowadays is (I think?) an Arm variant. Most all of the device code I write is C++ though; no need to get into assembly land unless clang screws something up, but that hasn’t happened yet thankfully. That said, in the future, this may change as we optimize certain imaging algorithms further.

Proficient: Rust, C++, Python, x86-64 ASM, SSE1 SIMD, C#, C, Javascript / Node.JS
Can get by: Java / JNI, Kotlin, Bash
Been a while: Perl, Haskell, Prolog, Labview, Lisp

While there’ve certainly been some player characters faces that have been worsened by the changes, my Femezen came out pretty great, so I’m happy about that!