A couple Windows games in my wishlist have put up a demo for the occasion, so I’ll probably give them a go and see if they deserve to hold their spots. Between this and XCOM 2, it’s not looking like a productive weekend ahead ^^

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Quoting: TehFreek

Quoting: no_information_hereI am curious, as someone who has never used the daemon: Does anyone here use this much? Are there any non-Feral games you have found that benefit significantly from GameMode?

At the very least it disables the screensaver for games only being played with a controller (since they usually aren't considered "user input devices" by the display).

Hmm. I almost exclusively play with the steam controller and have only ever had proton games start the screensaver. That seems to have been fixed for a while, though. Is the screensaver still a problem for many people?

Can’t say for sure with Proton but I still had it on Mint two months ago playing through Lutris/Wine.

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Quoting: DuncLimiting the number of quarantines and travel bans seems a little unrealistic, although the opposite is obviously the case for treatments and vaccinations. Maybe they could be unlimited, but with a stat for citizen dissatisfaction or economic damage that forces you to limit the length of confinement, or something.

There could also be a rate of compliance, and it would decrease over time.

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I like that it’s encouraging developers to make demos of their games. Too much paid early access, not enough post-release demos out there.

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I have too much of a TRPG backlog to get this anytime soon, but I might check out the demo over the weekend :)

Quoting: BrazilianGamerHey folks, is anyone else having trouble with the "Like" button here? It vanished. Can't like anything anymore

No problem here. Maybe you have an ad-blocker that’s being overzealous?

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWeird. The definition sounds like a straightforward, fairly intuitive thing. What makes them so hard?

Unlike programming languages, you don’t have meaningful variable or function names to rely on. It’s just symbols and a lot of nesting of rules and patterns. So it’s about a legible as minified code, if not less.

For example, this very simple pattern will match semi-colons that appear at the start or end of a line, or are followed by another semi-colon (I use it to clean up a list after removing duplicate entries):
^;+|;(?=;)|;$

Every single character has significance, a purpose of its own. Namely:
<start of line><semi-colon><1 or more><OR><semi-colon><start of group><look ahead (without including in results)><match><semi-colon><end of group><OR><semi-colon><end of line>

It’s very hard to come up with the exact pattern you are trying to match (without getting false positives), and often as hard to remember what it’s trying to match if you come back to it after the fact. If someone else made it and you don’t even know what it’s looking for, you have to decipher it piece by piece.

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The link in FAHControl does nothing for me, but you can type it in on this page:
https://apps.foldingathome.org/project?p=13830 [External Link]

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Quoting: dudeThere's also a game to help discover an antiviral, programmed by the University of Washington Institute for Protein Design in Seattle: fold.it [External Link]

I must be missing something obvious, but how do you run the executable?

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Quoting: GuestIn the settings you can set it up to contribute to other projects (like cancer and Alzheimer's). I don't see such an option for covid-19/coronavirus. Can I assume the default is sufficient as long as I'm part of the GoL group?

"Any" includes COVID-19 work units, and those are currently handed out with the highest priority, so if you want to focus on that, "Any" is the way to go for now. I believe they want to add a specific category in the next client release, but that could be a whiel

The team you’re in is irrelevant, it’s just a vanity thing that tracks points.

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: scaineJoined the team - great idea, Liam!

I wish there was an actual client/shortcut as part of this build though. I had to visit the Arch WIKI to realise that you have to visit http://localhost:7396/ [External Link] to see your progress and turn Folding on/off.

There should be one, it’s called FAHControl but I don’t remember the steps involved in installing it. Should be explained somewhere on their website :)

I downloaded the client only, which has no interface. I've now downloaded control and viewer, both of which are fat-clients. Strange approach, but it's all working now, although FAHcontrol doesn't recognise my GPU (Nvidia GTX 1080, running 440 driver). I'm looking into it now, appears I'm not the only one to have this issue.

I had the same problem on default settings, so I set the GPU slot’s opencl-index to 0 manually instead of -1:

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