A Hard Days Knight

After many hours I've succeeded in reverse engineering a small part of the old DOS game Moonstone!I plan on posting all the gory details, but it's a bit late at the moment but just running the image viewer script I hacked together and seeing the working result is so pleasing.

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Digging into python memory issues in ckan with heapy

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So we had a report about a memory leak when using the ckan datastore extension, where large queries to the datastore would leak large amounts of memory per request. It wasn't simple to get to the bottom of it, at first I couldn't recreate it the leak at all. The test data I was using was the STAR experiment csv files, which I found when I googled 'Large example csv files'. The reporter Alice Heaton, had kindly written a script that would recreate the leak. Even with this, I could not recreate the problem, until I upped the number of rows fetched by a factor of ten. I suspect that Alice has more data per column with perhaps large text fields instead of the mainly numeric data of the STAR experiment data I was using. Once I could reliably recreate the problem, I ended up poking around using heapy , which I've used previously to track down similar problems and inserted some code to setup heapy and an ipdb breakpoint from guppy import hpy hp = hpy() heap
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Randomising traitor numbers in Trouble in Terrorist Town

A while back a group of friends and I went through a spate of playing TTT(Trouble in Terrorist Town), to the point where we ended up playing during that Christmas day post dinner lull. For me, TTT scratches the traitor game mechanic that you can find in board games like The Resistance, Battlestar Galactica and Shadows Over Camelot which you don't really get in any other computer game. Unlike these games, the number of traitors is rigidly defined by the total number of players by a formula. local function GetTraitorCount (ply_count) -- get number of traitors: pct of players rounded down local traitor_count = math.floor (ply_count * GetConVar( "ttt_traitor_pct" ):GetFloat()) -- make sure there is at least 1 traitor traitor_count = math.Clamp(traitor_count, 1 , GetConVar( "ttt_traitor_max" ):GetInt()) return traitor_count end This means that for a given number of players, the number of traitors/innocents is the same each round. This i
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Translating ckan extensions using the ITranslations

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