Minecraft - Making mobs hostile to other mobs using command block - minecraft

On our minecraft realm I am a necromancer. Using the /team command I control hostile mobs to attack other players.
I was hoping to make a way to make my wither skeletons and vex attack other mobs.
If anyone has any ideas to make this possible using command blocks please let me know.

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Is it impractical to use GNU Radio without the Companion GUI?

I have a relatively new M1-based Macbook but Companion isn't stable. It will, for example, crash as soon I as I try to choose the "File" or "Edit" menus and has crashed while I was attempting to adjust parameters.
I am able to communicate with and obtain samples from my Ettus N210 just fine but I'd like to eventually try to use the DVB-S2 receive blocks.
This is all a bit new to me, but I'm an experienced Python programmer and don't mind if I have to write some code. I don't necessarily need a Qt application to be generated--I'm fine with wiring things up and writing data to a file.
Is it practical to do this? Can someone point me to a resource, perhaps a tutorial, on writing things without using the Companion code generator?
The GNU Radio Companion (GRC) is just a design tool. It's a companion.
GNU Radio has tutorials that explain writing flow graphs in Python.
Go to https://tutorials.gnuradio.org and click on "Understanding a Flowgraph's Python Code".
Didactically, most of the things you need to learn are of the "what is the logic behind doing this DSP", which is really a math/signal processing thing, not just a Python coding excercise. Unless you've built similar signal processing flow systems before, I'd strongly discourage trying to do what you're intending to do. Get a VM in which GRC works (see comment), and do the tutorials from start to finish in the specified order. Trying to learn GNU Radio, flowgraph-based DSP design AND doing all by hand instead of having a handy graphical design tool is a recipe for frustration.

Applying Non-Standard Power Assertions & Creating Virtual HIDs

I've got a big ask here, but I am hoping someone might be able to help me. If there's another site you think this should be posted on, please let me know.
I'm the developer of the free app Amphetamine for macOS and I'm hoping to add a new feature to the app - keeping a Mac awake while in closed-display (clamshell) mode while not having a keyboard/mouse/power adapter/display connected to the Mac. I get requests to add this feature on an almost daily basis.
I've been working on a solution (and it's mostly ready) which uses a non-App Store helper app that must be download and installed separately. I could still go with that solution, but I want to explore one more option before pushing the separate app solution out to the world.
An Amphetamine user tipped me off that another app, AntiSleep can keep a Mac awake while in closed-display mode, while not meeting Apple's requirements. I've tested this claim, and it's true. After doing a bit of digging into how AntiSleep might be accomplishing this, I've come up with 2 possible theories so far (though there may be more to it):
In addition to the standard power assertion types, it looks like AntiSleep is using (a) private framework(s) to apply non-standard power assertions. The following non-standard power assertion types are active when AntiSleep is keeping a Mac awake: DenySystemSleep, UserIsActive, RequiresDisplayAudio, & InternalPreventDisplaySleep. I haven't been able to find much information on these power assertion types beyond what appears in IOPMLibPrivate.h. I'm not familiar at all with using private frameworks, but I assume I could theoretically add the IOPMLibPrivate header file to a project and then create these power assertion types. I understand that would likely result in an App Store review rejection for Amphetamine, of course. What about non-App Store apps? Would Apple notarize an app using this? Beyond that, could someone help me confirm that the only way to apply these non-standard power assertions is to use a private framework?
I suspect that AntiSleep may also be creating a virtual keyboard and mouse. Certainly, the idea of creating a virtual keyboard and mouse to get around Apple's requirement of having a keyboard and mouse connected to the Mac when using closed-display mode is an intriguing idea. After doing some searching, I found foohid. However, I ran into all kinds of errors trying to add and use the foohid files in a test project. Would someone be willing to take a look at the foohid project and help me understand whether it is theoretically possible to include this functionality in an App Store compatible app? I'm not asking for code help with that (yet). I'd just like some help determining whether it might be possible to do.
Thank you in advance for taking a look.
Would Apple notarize an app using this?
I haven't seen any issues with notarising code that uses private APIs. Currently, Apple only seems to use notarisation for scanning for inclusion of known malware.
Would someone be willing to take a look at the foohid project and help me understand whether it is theoretically possible to include this functionality in an App Store compatible app?
Taking a quick glance at the code of that project, it's clear it implements a kernel extension (kext). Those are not allowed on the App Store.
However, since macOS 10.15 Catalina, there's a new way to write HID drivers, using DriverKit. The idea is that the APIs are very similar to the kernel APIs, although I suspect it'll be a rewrite of the kext as a DriverKit driver, rather than a simple port.
DriverKit drivers are permitted to be included in App Store apps.
I don't know if a DriverKit based HID driver will solve your specific power management issue.
If you go with a DriverKit solution, this will only work on 10.15+.
I suspect that AntiSleep may also be creating a virtual keyboard and mouse.
I haven't looked at AntiSleep, but I do know that in addition to writing an outright HID driver, it's possible to generate HID events using user space APIs such as IOHIDPostEvent(). I don't know if those are allowed on the App Store, but as far as I'm aware, IOKitLib is generally fine.
It's possible you might be able to implement your virtual input device using those.

Listening for Events in a VB.Net Script?

I am in need of a solution, and I am not quite sure I have enough knowledge to properly ask the question, so please bear with me. I am working with a CAD application with it's own API which supports the .NET Framework 4.5. I wanted to develop some customized functionality for the application using VB.NET, but because of work restrictions I am not allowed to install custom programs or run custom executables. I am however allowed to utilize the CAD applications scripting environment (which also supports the .NET Framework). I am limited in what I can achieve with scripting because as far I know I can't listen for an event in a script, because the scripts run time ends so quickly. Is there a way to extend the run time of a script until certain events occur? If anybody is curious, the CAD application I am using is called Siemens NX. Any Ideas?
I do not know how far this answer help you.
When you do not have events to listen, try to depend on return variables and using assert statements (or at least if statements).
I mean, if something happens then only go to next, which is a very traditional way.
Also, if you want to prolong the run time of script you can use some thing like "sleep" or "delay" statements (may be milli seconds as input).
I mean if some thing is happening (control by a variable), "sleep" till that action is complete.
Or check for the action complete status in a infinite while loop and exit, when it is done.
In simple terms, traditional way of doing things helps in your situation.

Is there any recommended way to automate module port connection?

I'm trying to understand or research about the best practices of ASIC design in verilog. I'm working on a medium size block with ~20 sub modules (each ~1000 lines of code). It's a painstaking job to manually instantiate all the sub-module and do port connection to create top level RTL.
I want to write a script to automate this. As long as we can define the input/outputs of all the sub-modules and how each sub-modules are connected with each other, it shouldn't be super hard to auto-generate the top level. I don't have enough expertise in design automation though. I was wondering if anyone can give me some pointers about how to get started.
Is there any open source tool to achieve what I'm trying to do? I didn't find any so far.
Is there any standardize way to generate synthesizable code of this sort?
I'll highly appreciate any sort of input or advice.
Depending on what text editor you're using, you might be able to use some pre-existing tools. There is an add-on for Emacs that supports auto-instantiating and connecting signals, assuming that you follow certain naming conventions:
http://www.veripool.org/wiki/verilog-mode/Verilog-mode_veritedium
For the vim users out there, there are a couple of plugins that allow using the Emacs script, such as this one:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1875

Learning - Extensibility: Dynamic loading, and any other no-recompile software updates

I'm planning on writing a program but I am stuck in a conundrum. I don't want to start writing something and then have to rewrite it all when I find out that my program is not extensible. The other problem, is I do not have enough programming knowledge to know where to begin designing my program so that it is extensible.
I have done some reading on DLLs (or delayed loading for unix), dynamic loading, run-time library loading/deloading, etc.. but I still cannot quite comprehend what I need to do. I will give a sample program example, and if someone could lead me in the right direction for what to learn so my bigger program can begin, I will be extremely grateful!
Let's say I create a console program 'iAmDog' where you can type in commands, and the dog will respond accordingly with output to the console. Now let's assume when I create this program, the dog only has 1 command, 'bark' which produces the output 'roof roof!'. How would I go about writing this program so that while the user is still running the program, I can edit a library, or code somewhere else, to add a 'sit' command to the dogs repertoire.
Again, Ideally my plan is to have no downtime or as minimal downtime as possible, all while being able to code updates to functionality of the always running program.
Thank you for reading!
Russell aka SgtPooki
Are you using .NET? Then MEF, Managed Extensibility Framework, is probably suited well for you.
There is a podcast on Hanselminutes about MEF. You find an mp3 as well as a PDF transcript, that lets you search the show. They even discuss the possibility to continuously watch a folder for updates, to achieve what you descripbe, although they discourage to do this.