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I watched this cool video on UV Max Speedruns and there seems to be a big issue with them in that there's a lot of chance involved, meaning speedrunners have to grind out a bunch of playthroughs for a good dice roll. My understanding though is that when Doom's rng is implemented with p_random, which deterministically cycles through a set of values to simulate randomness. Seems fine for casual players, but it seems like speedrunners have no way to say, fire a shot to manipulate the rng so the next one does more damage? What's going on here? Are there too many p_random calls to keep track of? Even tool assisted? Is there more to the rng than just this one call?

I was referring to bullet two in the other thread

Making their use even more perplexing...lol

Off the top of my head, Scythe2 was pretty liberal/egregious with them. I liked Speed of Doom for being a lot better about it.

I remember around 2010-ish that all of the best WAD'S used them incessantly to my disdain. Is this still a common trend? I haven't played a good deal of Doom in a while and don't really have the time to trough through maps, but I'm pretty curious.

There's a couple of reasons I want to do this on my own: The "home network encapsulation" feature is appealing for when I'm not home (unless you're saying those other services can do that) Having a physical device for my parents to see and recognize as an "encryptor" would probably help them in understanding how to use it I would rather pay a flat fee for the service than a monthly fee, and 5 minutes of Google says most free VPN servers aren't in my country. I Like doing this kind of stuff and it's a a good learning experience

With the whole ISP controversy I'm interested in getting a raspberry pi to set up as a VPN server, but all the tutorials end up saying "you can look at all of your private files anywhere." I know that's one of the uses for VPN but it's not what I'm interested in. My understanding is that they have something set up for network access like this. VPN (in my house) -> ISP Router -> ISP - > Personal device So if I access the Internet outside my house, I should be encrypted and secure. However, if I'm inside my house the connection would look like this, Personal Device - > ISP Router -> VPN (in my house) -> ISP Router -> ISP And I am no longer secure, because the encryption is between my personal device and the VPN, and my ISP isn't between those two. Are my assumptions correct? And if they are, how can I secure myself from inside my house?

I didn't think TeamViewer worked over a lan? Also what are the chances of ssh working for this? I don't know much about it on Windows other than it being "awkward".

I guess the thread says it all. I've programmed a video game in c# using XNA and I am currently doing systems programming on a raspberry pi in C.

Have you watched the videos? He explains everything as though it is being written from scratch. It's not just "move this file here and change this #include" For anyone that's seen my infrequent ramblings of struggling with code I on here, this is really exciting for me :-)

You can love to code and hate documenting it. Does anyone really like documenting code??

In all honestly I never thought to file a bug report. That always seemed like something left for "real" software developers to do. Are a lot of the C libraries open source? That would explain why they're less professional than something done "on the clock"

It was in the example.c file of libpng.

png_free_image()

So I've been trying to work with my webcam in C and Linux, and the API's I have been trying to use to interface my hardware are a nightmare to work with. First I had to work with l4v2 to interface directly with the webcam. The api was huge. No big deal. I figured I could search through it like I do when I worked with MSDN. Well it's all pure html, but a little google-fu fixed that. But I still found myself calling the wrong functions at the wrong times, and generally over-viewing the documents with little understanding of what's going on. I found example code that did what I needed to do with a little tweaking. So I got what I needed but didn't really learn much about what l4v2 does or how it works. Well I basically had to put the image from the webcam into memory. Done. But I want to show that everything is in there correctly. So why not make an image file out of it? Because holy crap this documentation makes no freaking sense that's why. I installed Libjpeg or turbojpeg (or whatever the hell it is) from a .deb off the official website (apt-get gave me a bunch of middle fingers trying to install the api "officially"). The install appeared to work, but when I went to make an executable, gcc gave me assloads of linker errors. Thats a cringe in and of itself, but whatever, I've gotta trek through it. Well I looked through the website and the directory it said all the api files were in didn't exist on my system. Awesome! That's probably where all the linker errors came from! I sat and thought about how to begin looking for the files and how to put them where the linker could find them. After about a week of thinking about it I finally came up with a solution...try a new api. Enter libpng. The documentation is...interesting. It's all example based. The expectation seems to be that if you need specifics, you can flip through the header files....what??? Maybe that's why all my first linux tutorials were going on about how awesome grep was when I just couldn't see it. Either way, I can't seem to find function descriptions, just their prototypes. Kinda helpful...ish. I'm pushing through getting my webcam data into a pretty picture, because at least all of the header files are where the fuck they need to be. Things are painfully slow, but moving along. Well now I'm looking through some of the example code, and when I try to use a function in the api for cleaning up the heap, I get an "undefined reference" error from gcc. So I grep through all the header files to see why this is happening (please just trust me that this isn't a spelling error). I cannot find this function call anywhere in the entire directory all the api code is in except for this one example file. And I don't remember the flag off the top of my head, but yes, I did a recursive search. Nothing. Whyyyyyyy tl;dr: When I was working with .NET I could get done what I needed to get done fairly painlessly with the MSDN. Now with these low level C api's I'm banging my head against a wall trying to find the information I need to use the api, and that information seems to be wrong when I can find it. Is this just part of the struggle with working with C, or am I working with these api's the wrong way?