I'm now getting notifications completely randomly (and only some of them). Eg. in the DARPA autocomplete thread (which I started), I got notification about @blakeyrat's post, but no others.
Posts made by ender
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RE: E-mail notifications (don't work)
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Next for DARPA: Autocomplete for programmers
DARPA is trying to make copy-and-paste coding easier:
http://news.rice.edu/2014/11/05/next-for-darpa-autocomplete-for-programmers/
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RE: Temporary paths
I downloaded the 6.8GB ISO of the new VS Community edition or whatever it's called, and tried to copy it to a USB3 drive with 20GB free. It said there wasn't enough space left on the drive. O RLY?
Your USB drive is formatted with FAT32, which doesn't support files larger than 4GB (-1 byte). Reformat it as UDF, and you'll be able to copy the file. -
RE: Temporary paths
That doesn't seem to stop .NET installers, which unpack themselves to a randomly named folder in the root of whichever drive has the most free space - a folder which they often fail to clean up after they're done.
Better than one of the VC runtime installers, which unpacks itself to the root of the system drive, and then leaves the files there.
@blakeyrat said:That's probably this bug, which was fixed in VS2008 SP1.
No, he was talking about Windows updates and .NET installers that unpack themselves to a randomly-named directory on the local drive that has the most available space. At least those clean up after themselves about half of the time (but it's annoying when you have an USB drive connected, some update runs in the background, and you find out that you can't safely unplug the drive because Windows is using it for it's updates). -
RE: Discourse is slow on Android. Why?
Try the Ember benchmark (linked many times above) on Firefox vs. Chrome and see. Last time I checked on N7 FF was quite a bit worse.
The browser on my Jolla is apparently based on Gecko. I posted the results a few posts back.Any idea why the benchmark page doesn't work on IE on Windows Phone?
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RE: Unicode making life difficult. Again.
Besides, how long until somebody wants to be able to use different colors in a single code point? Eugh.
You know, I just wanted to suggest to use the codepoints several times, and apply them to different parts of the glyph (skin, hair, eyes, lips...). -
RE: Discourse is slow on Android. Why?
I just tried to run the performance test on Lumia 920, but the page doesn't work (it's blank in landscape mode, and only displays title in portrait mode).
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RE: E-mail notifications (don't work)
Again e-mail notifications don't work - I'm only getting the weekly summaries to the account I thought I've deleted...
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RE: Unicode making life difficult. Again.
Ah, the BMP. Lots of software only supports that still (or uses UTF-16 to cheat past the limit, which sucks in other ways).
I tried naming my WiFi πΆ, but then Windows only saw the network as hidden (Android devices had no problems), so I settled for ΔΕ Ε½ β β. -
RE: Discourse is slow on Android. Why?
I ran the Complex List test on my Jolla, and the results are as follows:
Geometric mean: 3482.82ms, Mean: 3476.6ms, Std. Dev: 161.07ms, Max: 3746msI can test on a Lumia 920 later.
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RE: Ergonomic keyboards
Performance MX. I liked Revolution more, but I wore out the wheel button, and they weren't available anymore.
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RE: Ergonomic keyboards
Cherry Browns. My office keyboard is no louder than normal ones. My home keyboard, on the other hand, has Cherry Blue switches and sounds like the lovechild of a jackhammer and a typewriter, but I live alone so it's all good.
Same for me. Brown at work, blue at home, and this is the keyboard I use:
The first week was a pain, but after a month I was already typing faster than on my previous keyboard. Personally, I dislike laptop-style keys (with limited travel), and I especially dislike Apple keyboards, since they feel like typing on a calculator.
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RE: Poll: how do you pronounce the prefix Giga?
It's missing With a G, like in GIF.
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RE: HTTPS support
You can get free domain-validated certificates at startssl.com, and setting them up in IIS7 and up is a breeze.
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RE: Not receiving any e-mails (again)
...great, it's like they really don't want their e-mails delivered.
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RE: Not receiving any e-mails (again)
Yup, started getting e-mail again.
Is there a list of the IP ranges mandrill uses, so that I can whitelist it? I'm seeing some wildly different IPs, and since each individual message has a unique sender, the policy service isn't automatically whitelisting any of them.
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RE: Not receiving any e-mails (again)
Why do e-mails go through Mandrill anyway? It caused problems before.
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RE: Your friendly local neighbourhood digital textbook industry
But you don't get that satisfying combo Thump!Wack! but you do get to take a shopping trip afterwards.
Like I said, my reader is a bit older, and fairly sturdy (well, except the screen - apparently some people managed to shatter the glass).
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RE: Not receiving any e-mails (again)
10k or 100k? Because I'm pretty sure I received more than 10k e-mails before they stopped arriving.
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Not receiving any e-mails (again)
I haven't received any e-mails from Discourse in weeks (at least not on the address this account is tied to - for some reason I still get digests on the address I registered temporarily during the beta testing; it's on the same server as my primary e-mail, so it's not a server problem).
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RE: Your friendly local neighbourhood digital textbook industry
Wow, your high school students have to buy their own books? In the US, you don't buy your own books until college.
In Slovenia, you buy schoolbooks from 1st year of elementary school, but they're not really that expensive. You can also lease some of them through the school for a fraction of the price (of course, only those books that aren't supposed to be written in).Although I do enjoy ebooks, I'm a lover of the dead tree versions for visceral reasons: the feel, the smell, the heft, the potential use as a clue batβ¦
I don't miss the dead-tree versions a single bit. I've got a 2nd gen 8" eInk reader (by a now defunct company), and it's so much easier to handle than a paper book (and could still be used as a cluebat in emergency).
@bp_ said:Also, all of O'Reilly, Manning and Packt sell their DRM-free digital editions for less than the dead tree version. They even run deep discounts on their catalogue pretty frequently (they're not as deep as Steam's but they're more frequent). I'm just impressed by how much they seem to get it.
I seem to get an exclusive, time-limited offer for 50% off some or all O'Reilly e-books at least once a month... -
RE: Comcast not-at-all an abusive monopoly with not-at-all deceptive business practices!!!
I'm paying 62β¬/month for 100/100 internet, TV, phone and mobile (plus around 30β¬ for 3 more mobile phones, which include 500 minutes to other providers [calls local to my provider are free]).
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RE: Hard Drive Encryption
The particular VM I am encrypting will be an 'always on' type of hardware,
Encrypting a VM is mostly pointless unless you also encrypt the host. Remember that anybody who has access to the host while the VM is running can extract the encryption key from the VM's memory. -
RE: The 'Work Around Discourse Bullshit' thread (2)
Huh? It works for me, though it isn't quite as smooth as in Opera Presto.
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RE: The 'Work Around Discourse Bullshit' thread (2)
Only if you want to let your computer sit for about 1.5 hours to make the video.
Will do that when I get back home. And I'll just make it scroll faster, so it doesn't tie down the computer for that long. -
RE: The 'Work Around Discourse Bullshit' thread (2)
...so you're saying I should do another one?
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RE: The 'Work Around Discourse Bullshit' thread (2)
@ender made one of the fa-spin thread using a (at a guess) video capture combined with the middle click scroll thing, which he turned into GIF.
I also made a video of the Official Likes Thread. -
RE: We need a graphic to describe this
In Update 3 you can choose whether to display Visual Studio menu bars in all caps or in title case.
They finally exposed that setting in the GUI? -
RE: We need a graphic to describe this
At first I thought it said Hindsight...
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RE: "Just supply a PR"
The fact that Git seems to require drastic measures like rebasing does not endear me to its reliability.
As far as I understand it, rebase fetches a remote branch, then puts your local changes over it (basically does a diff between what you checked out initially, then applies that diff over whatever branch you're rebasing to).
@blakeyrat said:I've never had a bike go more than 250 or so.
What kind of crap bikes do you buy? I don't have anything fancy, but can easily do 250 miles in a week on mine (or could - I've been a bit lazy this year). -
RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
O MYSTERY
The mystery deepens - I tried plugging an USB cable in the ethernet jack on my ancient Acer laptop, but I'd need considerable force to do it. Of course, the ethernet port is also in the back of the laptop, while all USB ports are on the sides, so there's no way that I'd ever plug a USB-something into it by accident. -
RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
You can turn that off now, I've implemented it!
I'll keep using it, the forum is still too white.
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RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
I personally miss tab grouping and Dragonfly (dev tools) the most. Oh, also, still no releases for Linux since 12
Err...
@PJH said:Anyone else think that removing the href underline creates a barrier to figuring out how many links are there?
I'm using custom CSS, my links are underlined! -
RE: "Just supply a PR"
And having a codebase that barely anyone understands is better how?
It's too complex for anybody to write a pagination plugin for, obviously! -
RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
I've got one of these on my desk - wanna borrow it?
Mine is stuck under the desk:
@dhromed said:On motherboards, the ethernet port is a tiny tiny fraction too small to admit USB.
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RE: Are there 'CPU Only' computers?
Maybe but you still need to dig around the back of the rack to plug a monitor in, or use a rack with a monitor shelf and KVM, and that's an annoying time-sink PITA and/or a waste of space.
Huh? Every machine I've seen so far boots off network by default if it doesn't find any other bootable device (as long as PXE ROM is enabled, and except on laptops, they usually are).
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RE: Are there 'CPU Only' computers?
Used as a presentation machine pretty much, since cramming a full PC in the space it occupies proved a bit... difficult.
Have a look at Intel's NUCs. They're tiny, pretty cheap, and you can put any size SSD in them.
@blakeyrat said:You buy one $5 USB memory stick, shove your crap on there, and live the rest of your life free from worrying about configuring the netboot crap correctly or ever having to plug in a monitor to see the BIOS screen.
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RE: βπ THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
So we all know that PMs are just topics on Discourse, right?
Discourse isn't unique in that - another forum I'm on treats PMs as topics as well, and even allows multiple users to participate (there's a fun bit in the rules about this - if more than 5 [IIRC] people participate, thePMtopic may be subject to moderation). -
RE: Happy Sysadmin Day
How did you make them?
GIF Construction Set Professional. It'd take too much work with GIMP (since I'd have to manually convert every image to indexed). -
RE: Happy Sysadmin Day
Well, it looks like I should ditch Gimp and just use ImageMagick's convert:
I'm pretty sure that GIMP doesn't handle local palettes. Also, GIMP 1.2 has much better colour reduction algorithm than 2.x.Here's what I came up with:
- With dithering:
- Without dithering: