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Sitting-Duc

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    Computer Upgrade

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Sitting-Duc

    It's about time as my old setup was around 10 years old but I now have a new setup and thought I would share. I don't like flashy colours so there is little point showing a picture of the case/contents (all lights are off and it is as plain as they come). 

    I went with: 

    • Asus ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING
    • AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12c 24t @ 3.7Ghz
    • AMD Radeon RX 6700-XT GPU
    • 2x16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 @ 3600

    Benchmarks are pretty good: 

    Hasn't broken a sweat yet with any of the games/development I have been doing. Very good at the multi-threading heavy tasks I have set it.

    Also upgraded my desk to a standing desk. The top is solid Black American Walnut trim with a (English or French - can't recall) Walnut veneered board in the middle. Then added three 27" curved monitors:

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    Excuse the grubby feet marks on the wall...

     

     

    One Million in the Bank!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    52 minutes ago, GhostfaceJim said:

    I moved a million points into the XI bank.  Does anyone else do this?  Am I the only one crazy enough to even care?  Haha!  Does it give you interest and how does that work?

    I do - I currently get 1.25 million a month in interest ;)

    Mobile App Development

    in Computer Help

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Sikon said:

    That's pretty cool @Sitting-Duc! 

    I've never really tried to learn coding at all. I've thought about it often over the years, just no fallow through. I can read some source code and get the basic idea or what certain strings of code is doing, but actually typing it out myself.. I would be lost.  

    The more I'm looking into it, I'm wondering if I should look into free computer science course videos or just free ball it into some code and figure it out? lol I'm kind of thinking free ball it! Sense i've started some computer science videos and they take it back to the biblics and start talking about binary.. :pardon:However, I feel like I should start on basic code structure first? IDK

    Personally my start into programming was gaming and allot of that was XI. I somehow got involved in Crysis server mods; I think it was in looking at the mods for the previous community I was in. We were trying to solve an in-game issue with the mod and it needed some slight scripting changes, it was an easy change but that ease inspired me to look into it more. I then got involved in that modding community and ended up becoming a developer for the mod. XI allowed me to expand into messing with other types of programming and to 'solve' problems with it. My initial code was shit and I remember Steve (Ph4nt0m) telling me about threading and how to instantiate threads so not to lock up the UI etc.

    I ended up going to university and yes I learned a load of stuff about "data structures and algorithms" whilst there but the true experience and knowledge came from what I have done in XI. That is what I discussed in my first job interview to be a trainee software engineer at the UK MoD, less so the University course. My XI projects have generally been a way for me to learn a new technology/tool/stack and then use that to excel in my professional career.

    I was lead software engineer of a team (two at one point) responsible for some pretty substantial services and projects for the MoD before I left a couple of years back to start my own company and I now work on a consultancy/contract basis brought in to be an expert in certain topics.

    So my advice; find a problem you want to solve and give it a shot - choose a language that comes up in Google when you start researching around the problem. Be a polygot developer; I usually am Microsoft stack but have implemented personal, XI and professional solutions in many different languages on many different stacks.

    Mobile App Development

    in Computer Help

    Posted

    I did work on a mobile app project back a couple of years. The app wasn't anything special, just a load of forms etc. to allow users to submit data on marine wildlife. However part of the project was about building a mobile capability etc. 

    The stack has changed a little since then as Microsoft bought and open-sourced a load but it was using Xamarin: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/xamarin

    Language choice for us was C# as that is what the team used.

    For backend/web apps or APIs I usually go asp net core and host on Azure. Generally I like to keep the stack all Microsoft for ease however the solutions would also host well on AWS etc.

    I haven't done any mobile development since but still actively work on mobile-first websites etc. Same stack etc. Bootstrap handles keeping things pretty and consistent across the different device sizes.

    Duc

    Any fans of Scrabble?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Thanks for the feedback so far - has been pretty useful.

    To be fair - the fact that you are discussing the validity of words does imply that the actual 'game' is working? and you are managing to place tiles etc.

    This for sure will not meet the requirements for all and so far meet most the the requirements for which it was created. The game engine has been built in a way that makes implementation of additional 'game rules' and features such as dictionary selection/enforcement fairly straight forward. That is something I may pick up on in the future. 

    Thanks again for the feedback.

    Any fans of Scrabble?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    1 hour ago, loaderXI said:

    @Sitting-Duc when playing multi games could you add a notification as to who's turn it is from this screen 

    ur turn.jpg

    Good idea - done

    15 minutes ago, DEEJAYKEG said:

    I've signed up.  Which Scrabble dictionaries are in use?

    The brief for this was to emulate the same process as playing in person so there is no validation on words. The Scrabble club usually play the games on Zoom so there is more discussion etc.

    Any fans of Scrabble?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    12 hours ago, loaderXI said:

    @Sitting-Duc could you make the board clickable to windowed or enlarge it as is

    I have played around with the board sizing trying to be a bit more dynamic for screen size. Love the idea of being able to play on a popup without the clutter of the browser and removing navigation etc. Will push some changes this morning.

    11 hours ago, RobMc said:

    OMG Duc, create an account, passwords and email addresses to test ?? seriously?

    Account is needed for session management, ability to play against another person etc.

    Password is needed as accounts with no passwords can be messed with by anyone.

    Email address is needed for notifications and also to reduce bot impact.

    I did initially create a complete anon game system however for the target audience (elderly) having an account means that I can do lots of seamless 'magic' so they stay on a single page for the whole game and don't have to have 'special' links.

    10 hours ago, BlackRose said:

    side note,,how about hearts card game,,,4 ppl playing together

     

    I named the site... Talk with tiles.. I guess cards are kind of tiles, just really thin ones!

    Any fans of Scrabble?

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    2 hours ago, loaderXI said:

    Yes from me....I used to play via online with my mum when she was alive and we lived 1100 miles apart...Might have been on yahoo games but not sure now...I would be more then happy at testing

    Here's the link: https://www.talkwithtiles.com/

    Have at it any any feedback would be good. A fair amount of the 'standard' game is working which is what the requirements were for. Some ideas on expansion etc. Will see where it ends up 🙂

    Thanks

    Any fans of Scrabble?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Sitting-Duc

    Probably the wrong audience but thought I would ask all the same. I have been working on an 'online Scrabble' app for my mum and her Scrabble club to use as they have been unable to meet in person. A little too late as we will (hopefully) soon be out of lockdown!

    I am aware there are other Scrabble apps and websites that are around but my mums friends and her struggle with them and don't like them so I took their list of requirements and made them something. 

    Is there anyone here interested that would be up for doing some testing of what I have created to aide the development?

    Here's the link if anyone is interested: https://www.talkwithtiles.com/

    Messed up XI redirect halts play

    in Call Of Duty 4 Discussion

    Posted

    3 hours ago, DEEJAYKEG said:

    I don't know why this occurs but please explain if you do...

    When the map changes to one I don't have, there is an evens chance that the transfer rate falls to <15KBps, meaning there is zero chance of playing the map and it would take on average 50 minutes to download.

    As there is no way of breaking out of the download, the only option is to restart my PC which means at least three minutes waiting for the desktop to reappear (I use Win 10 which I hate).

    Is there any chance the misbehaving redirect could be fixed (this problem which also affects COD5 has been an unwelcome feature for many months now.)?

    Is there a repository of COD4 maps where I could download them via FTP etc.?

    I haven't heard any other issues with he redirect so it is unlikely to be an issue that end. The 'redirect' is simply a http server that allows downloading of files - super simple. 

    I can provide you a OneDrive link if you PM me for all of the files if you want?

    Medals

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    11 hours ago, Funstick&gt;XI&lt; said:

    I had a shit load of medals before the upgrade of the site.  @Sitting-Duc  fix it!!!  pretty please

     

     

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    Which upgrade? the upgrade of the site did not remove any awards.. it more looks like you have started using this profile instead of your old one...

    In either case - speak to ROCK

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