A very long time ago I took my Uncle's old mechanical barometer. Very rustic. Very traditional. Uses mercury and watchworks.
Somewhere along the wayt it stopped working accurately. I tried to find someone to repair and tune it, but the only folks who would even discuss it were expensive watch repair people. When they learned it had mercury, they all backed off. I can't
| /* | |
| * This should work for ints too, but we only need bytes. Either way, both args | |
| * must be the same type for XOR to work properly. | |
| * https://dev.to/pauljlucas/a-generic-swap-macro-in-c-22me | |
| * https://www.hackerearth.com/practice/notes/swapping-without-a-temporary-variable-take-care/ | |
| * https://dev.to/pauljlucas/cc-preprocessor-macros-fh5 | |
| */ | |
| #define SWAP_BYTE(A, B) do { ( (A) ^= (B) ^= (A) ^= (B) ); } while (0) |
| Put the batch file in your HelloGames directory and create a shortcut to use it | |
| on your desktop or something. On my windows machine, that directory is something | |
| like `C:\Users\BrynM\AppData\Roaming\HelloGames`. | |
| You'll also need a `zip` program in your `$PATH` such as 7zip (https://www.7-zip.org/). |
| @echo off | |
| setlocal ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION | |
| REM User settgins | |
| set nmsSaveDir=NMS | |
| set outDir=%nmsSaveDir%_backups | |
| REM Automated settings |
| class ProperHelpFormatter(configargparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter): | |
| paragraph_edge = re.compile(r"(\n\s*\n)", re.MULTILINE) | |
| class _Section(configargparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter._Section): | |
| def format_help(self): | |
| if self.parent is not None: | |
| self.formatter._indent() | |
| join = self.formatter._join_parts | |
| item_help = join([func(*args) for func, args in self.items]) | |
| if self.parent is not None: | |
| self.formatter._dedent() |
| // get top-level entries exclusing collapsed | |
| var entries = $('.commentarea > .sitetable > .comment:not(.collapsed) > .entry'); | |
| var final = []; | |
| // loop through the entries recording author, score, and page position | |
| for (var i = 0; i < entries.length; i++) { | |
| var tagline = entries[i].querySelector('.tagline'); | |
| // account for which score to take depending on voted state (ug) | |
| var score = entries[i].classList.contains('likes') ? tagline.querySelector('.score.likes') : entries[i].classList.contains('dislikes') ? tagline.querySelector('.score.dislikes') : tagline.querySelector('.score.unvoted'); | |
| final.push({ | |
| "author": tagline.querySelector('.author').text, |
This is just something I whipped up to dump a listing of my own subscriptions for a particular game. Unfortunately Vavle/Steam doesn't do such a thing natively and I had to get really creative for my list of several hundred items so I could share with a friend.
So I made this little monstrosity over an evening.
| @echo off | |
| REM For use with mingw32-make.exe | |
| REM http://www.mingw.org/wiki/HOWTO_Install_the_MinGW_GCC_Compiler_Suite | |
| mingw32-make.exe %* |
| # naming gists is dumb... |