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Amice Golden

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Aug 4, 2024, 10:19:48 PM8/4/24
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TheMaxsons are pursuing the American Dream too. They build a white picket fence in the hopes of keeping love in and danger out. The Maxsons know the game is rigged against them, but as Black folks, they have to play the game anyway to prepare a better future for their children. Troy reaches for something better in his own self interest, shoving down others for his own success and happiness. Despite all his talk of duty and responsibility to his family, his actions, his constant sacrifices to a devilish capitalist system lead to an eventual spiritual rot. Fences questions whether the pursuit of the American Dream amounts to freedom or does it wall us in, creating division in the pursuit of our own individual upward mobility.

If answer to (2) is 'yes' and assuming that sync operations are not cheap, does using memory fences slow down cores that are not used by my application? If for example I have a single threaded app running on my 8-core CPU, will it slow down all other 7 cores of the CPU, because some cache lines must be synced with all those cores?


some CPUs may decide to write B to memory before they write A. Again, a fence between the two instructions may be needed to enforce ordering of the operations. Whether a memory fence is required always depends on the architecture.


The thread that wants to receive the object, reads the pointer from the publicly know memory location, then it executes a read fence to ensure that all further reads based on that pointer actually give the values the publishing thread intended.


If core #1 uses a memory fence, but no other core accesses the memory that core #1 accesses, then the other cores won't be slowed down at all. However, if core #1 writes to location X, uses a memory fence, then core #2 tries to read the same location X, the memory fence will make sure that core #2 throws away the value of location X if it was in a cache, and reads the data back from RAM, getting the same data that core #1 has written. That takes time of course, but that's what the memory fence was there for.


1 - Is there a way to distribute icons within a fence in a custom/particular way that is not dictated by any kind of sorting pattern? See the picture in this link ( -btHB5/view?usp=sharing ) or below as an example. I don't mind the icons snapping to a grid/matrix of sorts inside the fence, but being forced to have all the icons to be sequentially aligned one after another, not having the freedom to distribute the icons with spaces in between them (like it could be done on the desktop) is very inconvenient.


As far as I know the answer to both of your questions is "NO". Item 1 was asked for by few clients before and were forward to Stardock support team. Item 2 is a new one and I have forwarded both of your request to the Stardock support team for their review and recommendations. We really do appreciate your feedback, Thanks.


Basj,



Thank you for your prompt reply. Took me a bit of time to get back to you, but I figured out a hack that would provide same visual effect as if Fences would allow me to distribute shortcuts within a fence in a custom/particular way that is not dictated by any kind of sorting pattern as depicted in my original post.



However, before I get into the hack's explanation, let me state how disappointed I am about Fences not being able to accommodate such a basic functionality. First, for decades we have distributed our icons in our desktops in a way that reflects our individual workflows and the way we all think differently. Even if provided with the same software and commissioned with the same tasks, different people will organize their desktop in a different way. I have seen this at work for decades. The way people group their icons and the spacing/distribution patterns within a group are a reflection of how we think and it helps to optimize our workflow in such a way as to make us more productive/efficient. Second, being that Fences have been around for so long and gone through several versions, I would have expected this to be a basic feature. In some earlier versions of Windows, Fences was unnecessary since you could create a folder on the desktop, then dump some shortcuts inside that folder, and you could later open that folder (or keep it always open) and your shortcuts would stay distributed inside the folder in any way you had freely arranged them (yes, including spaces in between them), so long as the auto-arrange option was disabled on that folder. Windows would automatically remember for that folder whether the navigation panel was on or off, the size of the window, etc. Some of this is still possible but it requires registry edits. See this post: -to-manually-arrange-files-in-a-folder-on-windows-10-disable-auto-arrange/



Anyway, enough of my rant.



This hack is very simple although a bit laborious (some [including myself] would even call it cumbersome).



Main Concept:

Use transparent-icon shortcuts to create spaces in between the application's icons that you would like to distribute in whichever way you want. See the image below to form an idea of what I am talking about. This is the same example I used in my original post, except I have added a faint outline to what otherwise would be totally transparent icons filling up the space between your "real" applications' shortcuts to give the illusion of empty space in between them. After implementation the resulting transparent-icon shortcuts do not show any outline and just look like empty space. In this example you would need 12 transparent-icon shortcuts.







Implementation:

1) Create a transparent icon. You can follow this tutorial ( =fkuZqJCFaog), but instead use a transparent background with no image on it. Alternatively, you can download one that I already created here: _x/view?usp=sharing

Save the transparent icon you created (or downloaded) to any folder. Remember this folder.

2) Copy the shortcut of a lightweight application (like Windows' Notepad) to the fence where you want to create a space between icons. On the properties for that shortcut, go and replace the icon for the lightweight application with the transparent icon you saved to a folder in the previous step.

3) Now we change the text of the shortcut to make it disappear too. Windows-10 uses by default a font called Segoe-UI. Use Windows' Character-Map application to find the character set for that font. See the picture below.


One of the limitations of the approach described above is that if you resize your fence, particularly if it changes the shape/proportions of the fence (even with the same area), your previous implementation would need adjustment. Sometimes you would just need to re-allocate the existing transparent-icon shortcuts on that fence, maybe add a few more or take away a few. Fun


2 it is a multi step process, just look for ale in the craft list for the needed components

3 every gathered, not harvested mushroom plant can become 3 colonies that each become a mushroom plant. Meaning infinite food source

4 farmers and maybe cooks

5 they can die from starving or getting injured, the sheperd can be szt to automaticly harvest the animals when a certain number has been achieved. Manual harvesting is also an option just leave two of a species for breeding

6 not more items but faster picking and placing, as written in description

8 pick the craftersyou want first, then add fighters if possible

9 take them with you when reembarking, or use the debug tools mod from the left most list

10 i have also noticed that fences and pens do not match very well in size


They have the ability to climb ladders, but no, they cannot normally climb fences. Assuming you don't have a mod installed that allows players to climb fences (which might work by making fences like ladders, which animals can't climb, but drifters can, so then they'd be able to climb the fence as well....) I would ask if they did this in the winter? I noticed in my game that if snow piles up next to a fence it would act as stairs and my sheep could go over and would wander out. I had to put a roof over my animal pens to keep the snow out during winter to prevent them from escaping.


Not only fences. A few days ago, I perfectly saw a drifter jumping out of the pit (depth 2) in which they fall during the night. There was no snow and no other mob, item or drifter that could have been used as a stepladder. He just escaped ! Most players already have experienced the same thing.


The animals can also walk onto the troughs which gives them block-high elevation as well... the solution in my case was just building the fences two blocks high (RIP my precious sticks). Personally I think snow piles shouldn't have collision and animals shouldn't be able to walk on top of troughs.


Not sure if this is the right forum as I'm not a beginning photographer (but very amateur) but need help with how to shoot through wire fences without getting the fence in the picture....I guess I am trying to blur out the fence somehow and still get a sharp subject behind the fence.



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