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

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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

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

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Quoting: Spud13yIn 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: 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/ 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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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/ 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 :)

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In tangentially-related news, Bandcamp is giving all sales proceeds to the artists today only to support them during this wave of cancelled tours. It’s a good time to pick up game soundtracks and support other artists you love.

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Spiritfarer is wonderfully sweet and I wholeheartedly recommend it to anyone feeling stressed out :)

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There’s a few games there that I’m curious to try via Proton while they’re free. Spiritfarer will come first, though, since it has a Linux build :)

Surprised to see that Le Donjon de Naheulbeuk has a video game coming out too. I’ll have to give it a look. I loved that audio series as a teenager, back in the days of downloading individual mp3 files on a 56k modem.

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Seriously though, what is it with browser games and their utter inability to say or show anything about the game until you’ve signed up for it? It’s like they don’t want people to be interested. There’s even less information on this game’s landing page than on the back of a board game box, and that’s saying a lot.

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