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Performance Mods

A list of performance-enhancing mods for 1.12.x versions.

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Mods marked as "Dangerous" might be unstable, and cause some unexpected behaviour.

androidfred

This "progressively more detail" image loading algorithm can help you do and learn anything

Summary, TLDR

When doing or learning pretty much anything, the strategy where you tackle the whole thing all at once, but starting with a rough outline and then incrementally revisiting everything to go into increasingly more detail, is often more effective than doing things perfectly little by little and missing the big picture. (pun intended)

Longer version

Back in the days of dial up internet, which was very limited in speed and capacity compared to modern internet connections, images on a web page could take very long to load. There were different strategies for dealing with that problem, and if you look hard enough (pun intended again), they can reveal some things about how to do and learn stuff.

STadas

Original posted on January 7, 2015 by Anoop Dixith: http://www.theunrealtimes.com/2015/01/07/govt-bans-stackoverflow-com-developer-takes-6-hours-to-swap-2-variables/ (see? I knew it would)

Govt bans StackOverflow.com; Developer takes 6 hours to swap 2 variables

Bangalore based software developer Rossell Bhargav, who works for HashInclude Technologies, had the worst day of his career after he found out that the company’s ISP provider had banned StackOverflow.com (a question and answer site for programmers) due to “regulations from the competent authority” (read Department of Telecom).

“I wanted to swap two variables”, said Bhargav, “but man it turned to be a daunting task! I’m not kidding, I’m a senior software developer here but we are all so accustomed to StackOverflow that we hardly write code without copy-pasting snippets from there. But I didn’t know what to do when I found that it was blocked!”

“I thought I’ll ask my overseas friends who could open StackOverflow from there and let me know the code

mcpower

Hi, I'm mcpower. I've done Advent of Code seriously for two years now in Python, placing 9th in 2018 and 12th in 2017. This year, I'm taking a break from aiming for the leaderboard - while it's fun and all, it is a bit stressful at times (the good kind of stress, though!). As such, I'd like to share a few tips for anyone wanting to aim for the leaderboard.

This is everything that worked for me. Your mileage may vary, though - don't take this as gospel, see what works for you.

Go fast

Go fast.

Pathoschild

Here are the mods I recommend. These are all compatible with the latest versions of SMAPI and Stardew Valley on Linux/macOS/Windows. See the player's guide to using mods if you're interested.

Quality of life

I think the best mods are those which improve the game while maintaining its balance, lore, and style.

• AutoGate
  Gates open automatically when you approach and close behind you.

• Better Sprinklers Plus
  Customise the sprinkler radius, with a proportional change to their cost. If you're willing to mine all the ores you'll need, that makes the basic sprinklers useful early in the game and lets you do more than just watering crops every day.

mbohdziul

monokai-blue-light #89BDFF
monokai-gray #595959
monokai-gray-darker #383830
monokai-gray-darkest #141411
monokai-gray-lightest #595959
monokai-gray-light #E6E6E6
monokai-green #A6E22A
monokai-green-light #A6E22E
monokai-grey-dark #272822
monokai-magenta #F92672

joepie91

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

• A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.
• A Turkish translation can be found here, contributed by agyild.
• There's also this article about VPN services, which is honestly better written (and has more cat pictures!) than my article.

elmogallen

--[[--
  Use this file to specify User preferences.
  Review [examples](+/Applications/ZeroBraneStudio.app/Contents/ZeroBraneStudio/cfg/user-sample.lua) or check [online documentation](http://studio.zerobrane.com/documentation.html) for details.
--]]--
editor.fontsize = 14
editor.usewrap = false
editor.tabwidth = 4
editor.indentguide = true
editor.fold = true
editor.foldtype = 'arrow'

christiangenco

require 'http'
require 'json'
require 'peach'
require 'gabbler'
require 'pry'

USERNAME = "patio11"

unless File.exists?("comments.txt")
  def get_json(url)