@Mason_Wheeler The Jedi weren't celibate.
Best posts made by Carnage
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RE: Why the MCU is succeeding where the DCU is failing
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RE: Can you even escape from Hades?
@coderpatsy said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
Another fall to Redacted. But Blown Kiss fucking finally decided it could exist, so I got that out of the way. Also, my 2 door temple streak continues. Does it only do 2 until the epilogue or something?
The third time I got up there, I had to do all but one of them.
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RE: Oh God not again
@Gąska said in Oh God not again:
@Steve_The_Cynic if people I meet in real life were also so pedantic about this stuff, I swear I'd stop using acronyms altogether.
I wonder how many people cringe when they hear "Volkswagen car".
Not nearly as many as when you say Volkswagen wagen...
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RE: Can you even escape from Hades?
@hungrier said in Can you even escape from Hades?:
Last night, I got a record setting one win streak
This morning, I got to the boss crazy fast (compared to my previous runs), but by that time I had used up my death defiances and couldn't do the needful
I beat it the first time yesterday too, with the fists, and a crapton of damage reduction and lots of health. I just stood next to Hades and pummeled him constantly, and he managed to nuke down 1/4 of my health bar before he went down. Didn't even have to use death defiance once.
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RE: Nope
Laptop and phone chargers don’t have switches. The sump pump that was playing up and needed controlled testing doesn’t have a readily-accessible power switch. Far easier to flick the switch than to pull the plug and drop it somewhere mostly-convenient.
I’ve spent a few consecutive weeks in countries without switches on the walls and I’m pretty sure I didn’t die. But I can’t comprehend why you’d rally against the potential convenience, besides the usual WHARRGARBL THIS RUNS CONTRARY TO MY USUAL EXPERIENCES AND MUST THEREFORE BE TERRIBLE. Reminds me of pie’s retarded case against blind-accessible banknotes.
You can always just not turn the switch off, you know.
Don't the UK wall outlets also have a built in fuse?
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RE: C&C Remastered Pre-Order?
I'd never buy anything EA preorder, I'd probably wait a few months as well so they can fix all the game breaking bugs
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RE: how can this virus be declining on SK?
@sockpuppet7 said in how can this virus be declining on SK?:
@acrow if it is 50% asymptomatic isn't enough to make it not catastrophic, I had hopes for something like 2 or 3 orders of magnitude (unrealistic I know)
I think Vò had up to 80% asymptomatic tested.
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RE: Out of the loop: Where did Blakey go?
@stillwater said in Out of the loop: Where did Blakey go?:
I’ve been super out of the loop. I know Blakey went off
a long while ago but what happened afterwards where did he go? I need some closure.I think he hung around in the chat for a while, not sure where he is these days.
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RE: Sportsball WTF
@PleegWat said in Sportsball WTF:
@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
@boomzilla Sure, I've done that lots of times with my kids or at family parties or whatever. But a World Cup sport? That's dumb. But then I think "e-sports" are dumb, too.
No more so than chess.
Or basket or soccer or a whole host of shit that there is a world cup for.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@hungrier said in The Official Status Thread:
@Carnage said in The Official Status Thread:
SEK24000
$3300 CAD, or $2500 USD. That sounds like not quite an order of magnitude too high for four tires, but still unbelievably expensive.
Four rims and TPS sensors as well, not just tires.
She's a petrol head and drives a jaguar, so she refuses to put ugly rims on it even if it's for winter tires. -
RE: The Official Status Thread
@Vixen I plan on being the male equivalent when I get old, gray and crippleder. Unless I manage to kill myself before then.
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RE: Nope
@tsaukpaetra said in Nope:
My guess is that my long, and flowing dark hair with natural curls fools people.
Looking forward to your post in the Garden thread!
What is this garden thread people keep hoping to see me in?
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@Zecc It's decades ago, but I think it was just plain Sam.
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RE: United Airlines: the airline we love to hate, but we can't agree on why
@boomzilla said in United Airlines: the airline we love to hate, but we can't agree on why:
@lukfi said in United Airlines: the airline we love to hate, but we can't agree on why:
@greybeard said in United Airlines: the airline we love to hate, but we can't agree on why:
Wait, wouldn't they say "let's have public healthcare, public transport, and public guns?"
Yes, only we call the public guns "the police".
Do you not get to use the public healthcare either?
It's generally frowned upon if regular people start cutting others up, rather than let the professionals do it, yes...
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RE: Place Your Bets: How Will Microsoft Screw This Up?
@acrow said in Place Your Bets: How Will Microsoft Screw This Up?:
@TimeBandit Finland. And it is (or was) available with 1.0l, 1.2l and 1.4l gasoline engines, and some selection of diesel engines, if my memory serves.
I have just become uncertain whether I have the 1.0l model after all. The sales document says its a "1,2". I am, however, certain that it is a 3-cylinder. Unfortunately, the only tangible proof I have for that is a receipt from the auto repair shop that replaced the spark plugs.
Open the hood and count the pipes on the header going out of the cylinder bank? The displacement also used to be displayed somewhere in the engine bay.
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@izzion said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
Population tested: 500
Positive results: 88
Symptomatic cases: 0Really makes you wonder how accurate the CFR numbers are, given that those 88 cases wouldn't ever be confirmed but for the homeless shelter doing a broad surveillance test.
Every single time there's been an outbreak in a closed group, this has been shown. Not quite as low percent of symptomatic cases as this though.
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RE: Half-Life: Alyx
@Gąska said in Half-Life: Alyx:
@hungrier said in Half-Life: Alyx:
@Carnage said in Half-Life: Alyx:
And a glove controller or two.
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RE: Half-Life: Alyx
I bought and started playing Alyx today, and a few hours in I think it's one of the better polished VR titles to date. I wish I had a VR controller in the shape of a pistol, with proper weight to it. And a glove controller or two.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@boomzilla said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Out of curiosity I looked up ostrich penis. They sorta look like long tongues. Not the worst penis of the animal kingdom at least.
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@sockpuppet7 said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Carnage looks too soon to say that in the worldometer graph
Plot the data logarithmically and you'll see it.
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RE: In other news today...
@topspin someone at the top of any large company has plenty of experience in politics, just not the public office kind. I don't give a flying fuck about the lives of actors, so I have no idea if Jolie is actually involved in any companies in any capacity like that.
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RE: Advanced Trolly Logic
@Atazhaia said in Advanced Trolly Logic:
@dkf For some reason, they scrapped that system here and the coin slots have been disabled on the carts that had them.
The training of the population was complete. You rarely see any carts standing sadly in the middle of the parking lots even if there is no monetary reason to put it back.
Also, everyone had plastic fake coins for them, and cash is pretty much gone so there wasn't a yuuge reason to keep it around anymore. -
RE: Immediate impact of a default?
@Polygeekery said in Immediate impact of a default?:
@Carnage said in Immediate impact of a default?:
The USA defaulted on it's debt before and it didn't end the world, the nation, or the use of the dollar as a world trading currency.
When?
1979 was the latest time the US defaulted on debts afaik.
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RE: Searching in shops across 🇪🇺
If it will ever exist, I suspect it will be pricerunner. I remember integrating with them for customs data and stuff, but their web ui doesn't have filtering by economic region from what I could see from a quick gander.
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RE: In other news today...
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA () and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
It means their game controller hardware was defective, systematically, which they (at first) refused to fix. EULAs don’t affect the hardware and “you can’t sue us” forced arbitration is insane, either way.
From what I understand, arbitration in purchase agreements isn't entirely uncommon in the US.
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RE: In other news today...
@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
And I think that a lot of politicians would like to do this to a lot of reporters.
This case, however, looks like an agreed demonstration of a (very useful defensive) grapple.
Yeah, somewhat agreed. The reporter had no idea what the PM was gonna do, or how hard he'd do it.
It's somewhat useful in a 1v1 scenario at least. I've never done jiu jitsu, but it does look like his form is a bit meh. -
RE: How large is your, erm, M.2?
@remi I have vague memories of the 2242 form factor being for something specific in the beginning, like cameras or some such crap, might be why it's cheaper? Or the form factor is just more common than 2230 these days? Or it's just simply that the manufacturer had more of them around so they got rid of them for less? Or some salesdroid just made it cheaper for no reason at all.
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RE: In other news today...
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA () and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
Congratulations on your so-far either joystick-free, or very high quality joystick, existence. I haven't ever seen one not do it eventually.
My switch is several years old, and still hasn't developed it. Nor has my two 10+ year old F710 controllers. I had an off brand switch controller go wonky in a year though.
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RE: In other news today...
@acrow said in In other news today...:
@Carnage said in In other news today...:
@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
In “how the fuck can this be legal” news:
"Switch Joy-Con Drift"
I dunno...I mostly find legal jargon to be word salad.
EDIT: And I clicked through several links in TFA () and still have no idea what "joy-con drift" is.
Congratulations on your so-far either joystick-free, or very high quality joystick, existence. I haven't ever seen one not do it eventually.
My switch is several years old, and still hasn't developed it. Nor has my two 10+ year old F710 controllers. I had an off brand switch controller go wonky in a year though.
Might depend on the kind of games you play. Some of them require you to hold the joystick to one side so much that some people use a rubber band to assist keeping it there.
The real is that Switch didn't fix this in software early on. If the stick is slightly off-center, that's a calibration issue. Even Windows has a joystick calibration utility, so I find it surprising if consoles don't. I wouldn't know though, because .
You could "fix" it with making deadzones larger, but larger deadzones makes controllers shittier. And there are joysticks that will not develop drift, by not using resistive elements.
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
@Mason_Wheeler said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Carnage said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!:
@Zerosquare Such as virtually any other kind of programming.
... Even PHP?
Or modifying an entire system written in perl. By system admins.
Nope thread is
I actually did that very briefly.
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RE: Incredible Machine Learning
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Incredible Machine Learning:
@cvi said in Incredible Machine Learning:
just because some people misunderstood a stupid style guide from about 100 years ago isn't quite the right thing either.
The key thing they've misunderstood is that the said guide is a guide (a set of recommendations), not a rulebook.
That's how guides tend to work. Lots of examples in programming.
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RE: The Belt Onion club
@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
@PleegWat said in The Belt Onion club:
@DogsB said in The Belt Onion club:
You need facial muscles to extend your arm?
For the most effective slap you need to be using your whole body. Using only arm muscles is just not going to cut it.
And make the slap have a slight upwards angle, and hit at the rear of the jawline. With sufficient force, it will topple the slapee. And leave a nice, red handprint all over the side of the face.
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RE: Breach in the defenses
@ben_lubar said in Breach in the defenses:
Challenge: Write a C compiler that injects a virus into any program it generates, and also any program generated by a compiler compiled using the evil compiler, recursively
This has been done, and there is a research paper on it.
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RE: Dolt
@loopback0 said in Dolt:
@HardwareGeek said in Dolt:
@sloosecannon said in Dolt:
My biggest question here would be "is this even remotely performant?"
Mine is how much storage does it use? If permanently preserves every modification to a large, rapidly-changing database, that could chew through storage like mad.
It'll absolutely do that if the records change often.
If being able to retrieve the state of a record at any point in time is a requirement then however that's implemented will do the same.
At scale storage is (relatively) cheap though.The systems I've seen that had such requirements simply use monthly database backups and a query log.
Apply the most recent backup to whenever, and apply the part of the query log up to the moment, and hey presto, database the way it looked at that specific point in time.
Didn't use insane amounts of data. Not that it was particularly lightweight either, but the query log was highly compressible at least.Another way is using DRs that can be replayed. I've seen that in other systems to get back up to date after a restore from backup.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@Zecc said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@El_Heffe said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
just use multiple monitors
Yep, I just need to get a bigger desk.
And for that I just need to move to a bigger house.I wonder if there are laptops with retractable extra monitors?
Yes, multiple different solutions.
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RE: The Revival of Great SQL Ideas
@Gąska mostly just because I'm in a completely different state of mind than database, and it takes a while for my brain to do the context switch, even more so now since it's been a while since I had to dig into the finer bits of database design.
I don't want to give be advice on the topic because I misremembered some edge case. Especially since when you get down to a low level, the answers can vary substantially with different databases.So I'd say that optimistic looking probably solves the issues described, and if there are problems they are esoteric and rare
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RE: The Revival of Great SQL Ideas
@Gąska said in The Revival of Great SQL Ideas:
So now that we've cleared up what everybody meant.
- @JBert, is this optimistic locking thing still "major pain in the ass" scale, or was it just misunderstanding?
- @Carnage, is this optimistic locking thing still vulnerable to sudden power outages, or was it just misunderstanding? In case it was misunderstanding - how exactly does it work that a power outage at DB client at the precise moment the second read is occuring doesn't halt the entire system?
I'm asking because it's very interesting topic that I know next to nothing about and would like to know more - and I didn't exactly get a straight answer on those.
No, optimistic locking should make things a lot less troublesome. Sometimes you don't want do do optimistic locks, but for most situations it works well.
If you have a hotspot that a lot of stuff writes to, you may want to start using pessimistic locks to prevent ending up in a nasty cycle where everything is spending inordinate amounts of time redoing work because someone updated the same thing since their last read. Sort of live locking a lot of threads/workers. -
RE: The Belt Onion club
@dkf said in The Belt Onion club:
@Carnage said in The Belt Onion club:
it's control characters in names that cause fear
Why?
ls
is hardened against that stuff.Yeah, then there is everything else. Not that I'm prone to fear either way.
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RE: PingFS
@anonymous234 said in PingFS:
Nintendo could have given us a way to clone TV remote buttons, in 1998.
That already existed eleven years earlier:
Casio also had a programmable remote control watch in the early nineties. But because they still have a few such models, finding information about the early one is to much work for me to dig up a link.
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RE: Dolt
@loopback0 said in Dolt:
@Carnage If you want to restore an entire database from a backup, sure.
If you want to instantly see a previous version (or versions) of a record then applying a backup somewhere and replaying queries isn't exactly meeting that requirement.
YEah, well... I've never really come across a time where that need existed, but cant various big data systems do that as well?
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RE: What gaming monitor to get?
@xaade said in What gaming monitor to get?:
@izzion said in What gaming monitor to get?:
@xaade said in What gaming monitor to get?:
Looking to upgrade to 120+ hertz.
24 or 27 inch
1080p is fine.However searching on Amazon keeps turning cheap low quality stuff with bad reviews of ghosting and whatnot from the people who actually make use of the specs.
Also I don't need to push graphics so hard and would prefer fps over more pixels so 1080p is plenty.
What should I be looking for?
I have no idea what brands are good right now, and every search is just an article trying to earn referrals. So my confidence in advice out there is low.
I've been using BenQ branded 4k 28" widescreen monitors (EL2870U) for some time and no complaints on them. Myself, I find the better resolution to be more useful for gaming than higher refresh rate, but the only thing I've trialed 120Hz refresh rate on is my TV so I may just be really missing out with my boomer belief that the human eye can't see more than about 30Hz anwyay.
From what I can tell we can't fully see that fast, but we can get cues, like movement and timing, so there is a sense of fluidity.
Yeah that's way over what I'm looking for.
I can see the flicker in old flourecent lights, and the flavor images movies sometimes use.
I can still play games at 30 fps but if it falls much below that it quickly gets unplayable to me, but it feels significantly more fluid at 60 fps.
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RE: Enter the Monorepo
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Enter the Monorepo:
@Carnage said in Enter the Monorepo:
@Arantor said in Enter the Monorepo:
@boomzilla this feels like, “shit using a mono repo was a bad idea and now whatever will we do because there are no other options open to us?”
Like submodules don’t exist, for example. (They have their own pain but it sounds like fucked us than their current world.)
Libraries are hard, let's go monorepo!
The problem is that by going from monorepo to libraries / submodules, or vice versa, you trade one kind of pain for another.
Yeah, there is always going to be pain. But the reason for libraries are akin to the reason for higher level languages, reducing freedom to gain structure. Of course, not everyone can make a good language, and not everyone can make a good library design, but doing the equivalent of going back to assembly or c to avoid that pain isn't really an overall gain.
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RE: Lambdas everywhere!
@Bulb said in Lambdas everywhere!:
@dkf said in Lambdas everywhere!:
I suspect a lot of Java programmers haven't had the experience with other languages to really understand how important the change was.
I suspect the reason is that most Java programmers who did get experience with other languages never wanted to come back to Java.
I've done PHP, Python, Perl, Kotlin and C++ professionally, apart from Java. And possibly a few more. I can't say that there is a huge disadvantage of doing Java development, aside from the idiots that can't grasp anything more advanced than the featureset of Java 1.4 but all platforms have idiots.