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Sander Rossel wrote: Is Jill kind of hot or have I been single for too long? A total babe!
And pixillated proof that fantasy is best left to the imagination.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It's a great game, probably still the best game I've played this generation. It fails in a few RPG elements, mainly that your progression through the game is very strictly controlled, most enemies respawn but there's no grinding (you'll work out why) and obviously your character is quite fixed, equipment and types types fairly limited. That's the bad stuff though, the game is great and where it rises above other games is that there are no boring generic side-missions. Even the non-main quests are interesting with interesting characters and situations and often decisions to be made. The main quests are even better. There's also a game within-the-game called "Gwent" (don't quote me on that) which you'll be playing along with the main game.
Compared to Skyrim it's less RPG, more action-RPG, but it's the better game.
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I read the books some years ago, so I grabbed the first game when it came out - but the control system drove me crazy, everytime I tried to hit something the view spun round and I couldn't see the baddies anymore.
I'll probably try again once I'm done with Skyrim.
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Thanks for the link. I've just found an old favorite from about 20 years ago. It worked great on the mac I had back then, but was always flaky on Windows. I gave up mac almost 20 years ago when I bought my first Windows '98 PC for college. I still remember the excitement when I got VS6 on it, realizing that I no longer had to write and compile my code in the school computer lab!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I'm sitting at my desk when my mobile phone rings. I look over to see who is calling me. It was...me!?!? Right there on the screen was my name and mobile number. Anyone know what this might be?
Reminds me of a phone trick we used to do back in the 70s where you could dial a certain set of numbers on your landline phone, hang up, and it would call you back. 'twas a neat trick.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Well, don't leave us hanging on, did you answer it?
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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No, I was busy on another call.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Constantly bombarded with spam calls. They may just have spoofed your number - they usually try to spoof a number with your area code in the hopes that you are more likely to pick up. I never do if I don't know the caller and will block if they don't leave a message and sometimes if they do!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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I've heard it called 'neighbor spoofing' where the first x digits are the same as yours, usually the first 3 (or 6 if you include area code) in my experience. Sounds like David hit the trifecta and all the spoofed digits matched.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I got one of those recently. It was my "service provider" wanting to contact me about some service. Hung up before they got to the press x to speak to a customer representative.
New scam I think.
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What would have been weird is if you had answered it an it was you
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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I imagine that your analyst is happy that you've stopped talking to yourself.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Just a glitch in the Matrix, nothing to be worry about.
Also, don't mind the gentleman in the suit and shades who looks exactly like Elrond and who's going to ring your bell in three seconds.
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Sander Rossel wrote: ring your bell One of the phrases that I wish people would never use.
Why should I suffer alone?[^] (youtube)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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From the description: "song about kids talking on the telephone"
Kids today: "Why would you talk on a telephone?"
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Perhaps it was time traveling you with suggestions on what stocks to buy. Or warning you to not post this on Code Project.
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Very common trick by spam callers to spoof the first 6 digits to match your phone, so you find the number familiar and tend to answer. The last 4 are randomly generated, and coincidentally they matched your real number's last 4
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At least I presumed it was a hardware switch. The iPhone 8 has a switch on the side to mute all sounds. Only, it does not mute all sounds. There have been a few cases where the sound still played even with the "hardware" switch set to off.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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So, Apple gets to decide what gets muted and what doesn't?
Surprised?
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ZurdoDev wrote: There have been a few cases
LOL. you have examples of those few vases ?
I think you can set favorites in your contacts that will override the switch.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Maximilien wrote: LOL. you have examples of those few vases ? I don't know why that's funny; however, yes, one was during an ad.
Maximilien wrote: I think you can set favorites in your contacts that will override the switch. Quite possibly. But that proves the point, it is not actually a hardware switch.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I'm working on a website for a client and at some point a visitor is going to have to pay.
I've never done this before, so I was kind of saving this for last.
Then the customer said they wanted to use Mollie, a payment platform.
So I just took a look at it, created an account, and within an hour I created a test payment.
They even have a test token so I don't have to transfer real money and instead I can pick my payment method and select the status I want returned (failed, pending, done, etc.) so I can test all scenario's.
Here's something I never thought I'd say, but their documentation is actually pretty useful and they return meaningful error messages.
Switching to real payments should be as easy as changing the token.
I'm in no way affiliated with Mollie and as a consumer I hate these kind of platforms because they usually make me pay to pay, but this has been the easiest third-party integration I've ever had.
Of course I've only used it for an hour and they haven't suddenly changed their entire API without notice yet, but so far I'm genuinely impressed
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Cool - thanks - been looking for a simple way to take payments for a web site.
Any gotchas at all?
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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This is what I found, nothing serious, but it'll get you started.
Before you start, make sure you actually set at least one payment method in your profile or you'll get an exception from the web API "no payment methods found" (which is fairly descriptive, except when you're completely new).
Also, when you create a payment you get a response with some URL's, one of those is the URL that your users should visit to complete their payment, but you're responsible for redirecting the user (which makes sense, because their web API can't do it for you). The docs don't mention this very explicitly.
And you get updates on your payments through an optional webhook. I haven't tried it yet, but I do want to implement it, but the problem is that your localhost can't accept HTTP requests from Mollie, so you'll need to run this code on a server that can. I plan on creating a simple Azure Function that updates my dev database, so I can make a request on my localhost, get an update on Azure, but still see the change on localhost. The docs do mention this problem with webhooks.
Here's my very first try-out code for Mollie, almost worked on the first try. Without the webhook for updates.
public async Task<IActionResult> Pay()
{
using (var client = new HttpClient())
{
var id = Guid.NewGuid().ToString();
var request = new
{
amount = new
{
currency = "EUR",
value = "1.00"
},
description = "Test payment",
redirectUrl = $"https://localhost:[port]/OrderCompleted?id={id}",
metadata = new
{
id
}
};
var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(request);
var content = new StringContent(json, Encoding.UTF8, "application/json");
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", "test_[your code]");
var response = await client.PostAsync("https://api.mollie.com/v2/payments", content);
var responseContent = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
if (response.IsSuccessStatusCode)
{
string url = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<dynamic>(responseContent)._links.checkout.href;
return Redirect(url);
}
}
return Ok();
} There's also an third party library, but for me it doesn't get much more difficult than this so I don't need it
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