WTF Bites
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@cvi
But Acer promised me that if I just gave them $ALLTHEMONIES that I could have a Gaming Laptop that would work just as well as a top of the line desktop for ever and ever and ever.
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Unsurprising. I've yet to meet a (portable) laptop that doesn't have thermal throttling issues.
I've never noticed any throttling on my MSI GS43VR.
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@twelvebaud said in WTF Bites:
@medinoc Clausewitz Engine games checksum all "important" (not localization, not graphics, but anything that affects events or properties) files at startup into a four-character hash. You can only play against people with the same hash, and there's a whitelist of hashes representing an unmodified (modulo DLC) game for enabling achievements.
I think they've changed the formula in CE2 slightly so selected DLCs don't affect the checksum. You can play online with people who have DLCs that you don't own, and the game rules are determined by host's enabled DLCs.
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I've never noticed any throttling on my MSI GS43VR.
Have you tried turning it on?
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I've never noticed any throttling on my MSI GS43VR.
Have you tried turning it on?
It's plugged into a 40" 4K TV for gaming usage. The fans get pretty loud, and the thing is hot to the touch, but the CPU still always runs above the stock frequency (Turbo Boost or whatever).
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Holding it out of the window when it's cold outside will make CPU-bounds stuff go noticeably faster.
IOW, Canadian laptops are faster
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You mean you still see them in your local repo?
No I see them listed under
remote/
still. I understand that the local ones stick around even if the remote ones are gone.
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work just as well as a top of the line desktop for ever and ever and ever.
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@jaloopa The last bullet point on the top sticker says "Plus, upgrade your PC to the fastest model on the market every 2 years for only $99!". You should take them up on that.
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I've also seen similar results on my Surface Pro. Holding it out of the window when it's cold outside will make CPU-bounds stuff go noticeably faster.
I'd bet that some of the massive thinkpads are able to squeeze out some more perf due to them using larger fans and intakes than similarly-specced compact laptops.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
You mean you still see them in your local repo?
No I see them listed under
remote/
still. I understand that the local ones stick around even if the remote ones are gone.If that is in your local Visual Studio then that's the "feature" I was talking about (it can be useful to keep a copy around if you accidentally removed the branch in VSTS, but how often does that happen?).
You need automatic "fetch pruning" or a one-time
git remote prune
if you want to remove those or they'll stick around.
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If that is in your local Visual Studio then that's the "feature" I was talking about
It's "in" (whatever "in" means in this context) my local Visual Studio, but it's listing the remote branches. That's what the word
remote
means.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
That's what I've been saying.
What you've been saying is that game development is all a pile of shit with such enormous incompetence the norm that even sane developers get infected.
We're not wrong.
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@timebandit Even better for WTF Bites: That article briefly loads for me then goes to a 404. What the fuck? Even if I search for it on the site, it does the same thing. Went to another news site to view the story instead, so well done, Vice. You dumb shits.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
That article briefly loads for me then goes to a 404
Stop using Edge
More seriously, it WOMM
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
Stop using Edge
IE 11.
Don't use that either.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
IE 11.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Don't use that either.
Yes, you're right, it's my fault that Vice has some dumbass JavaScript that when the article is fully loaded turns it into a 404. Yes, silly me. That's perfectly normal behavior. I'm not allowed to be part of Web 3.0 or 4.0 or whatever the fuck version number we're on now.
Also, you assume I have a choice. Fuck off, the both of you.
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@heterodox: I almost upvoted you, but it sounds like a BlakeyRant™, so I assume you would not like the InternetPointzzzzzz.
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An old WTC brochure:
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@vault_dweller said in WTF Bites:
@jaloopa The last bullet point on the top sticker says "Plus, upgrade your PC to the fastest model on the market every 2 years for only $99!". You should take them up on that.
Hmmm...Win98, so let's be generous and assume it was bought in 2000. That's 9 two year periods, so only $891 for an upgrade!
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Don't use that either.
Yes, you're right, it's my fault that Vice has some dumbass JavaScript that when the article is fully loaded turns it into a 404. Yes, silly me. That's perfectly normal behavior. I'm not allowed to be part of Web 3.0 or 4.0 or whatever the fuck version number we're on now.
Vice was just protecting you from being exposed to a Vice article. They did you a favor.
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@boomzilla Steam has just notified me that a game (probably a game) I have never heard of or expressed any interest in has an announcement, from some company (probably a company) I have never heard of or expressed any interest in.
My privacy is apparently safe with Steam.
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
Wow...
In 2006, the same period when ES&S says it was still installing pcAnywhere on election systems, hackers stole the source code for the pcAnyhere software, though the public didn’t learn of this until years later in 2012
Around this same time, security researchers discovered a critical vulnerability in pcAnywhere that would allow an attacker to seize control of a system that had the software installed on it, without needing to authenticate themselves to the system with a password.
ES&S defended its installation of pcAnywhere, saying that during the time it installed the software on customer machines prior to 2006, this was "considered an accepted practice by numerous technology companies, including other voting system manufacturers."
[an expert confirms this and adds:] “In the case of [Diebold], many of their contracts with customers included the requirement of a remote-login port allowing [the company] to have remote access to the customer system in order to allow customer support.”
[ES&S refuse to answer most of the questions put to them]
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@tsaukpaetra Thanks, corrected.
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(apologies if this has already been posted)
https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1009014925493075969
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@mott555 Control Panel shows me around 3 GB of "Apps & Games." Problem is they're all garbage Win10 apps that I never use that also can't be uninstalled.
Have you run the 'Disk Cleanup' utility to nuke all the upgrade crap?
edit: d since you got it to upgrade...
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We had a job candidate blast a coding interview challenge for a senior node.js position.
The only problem - he did it in C#.
Why? "That's what I had available on laptop".
Well, it was YOU who brought that laptop, genius (he had an option to use our computer, if he didn't have a laptop with node toolchain).
Either way, Boss decided to send him an offer, but stipulated that, under no circumstances will there be any coding in C# on the job.
And why is boss so against C#?
"Well they are not on linux, I know there is that Mono, but that's not stable...."
So basically, outdated info from 5 years ago.
Both Boss and the candidate are WTF-s.
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@cartman82 did you end up explaining the correct info to the boss?
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@cartman82 did you end up explaining the correct info to the boss?
Yeah, I told him about .NET Core, but since my own experiences with that were less than stellar, I'll leave it to the other guy to fight that battle (if he decides to come in).
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@boomzilla Steam has just notified me that a game (probably a game) I have never heard of or expressed any interest in has an announcement, from some company (probably a company) I have never heard of or expressed any interest in.
My privacy is apparently safe with Steam.
I had a guy at Home Depot, from a company I'd never heard of, ask me if I needed a new air conditioner. Is my privacy safe with Home Depot?
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No, I meant United Kingdom
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
So basically, outdated info from 5 years ago.
5 years is good. On the sysadmin side, I get resistance from hosting providers when I say the app team wants to save time by building out one environment, cloning and reconfiguring: "Well, you can't really clone Windows servers that well... They have activation problems, and you can get multiple servers with the same security ID..."
Okay, that problem was solved TWO DECADES AGO, in NT 4.0. If you don't know how to do it, or if your base image apps are the ones that don't like being cloned, that's fine but don't blame the operating system.
"So you want three IPs for each Apache server?" "No, just one. Easier config." "... But you have three hostnames." "Yes?" "You need one IP per hostname."
No we don't, not since God invented SNI fifteen years ago. We don't care about anything that doesn't support that by this point. And you'd think network engineers would be more mindful of address space exhaustion. (Though they have a hyuuuge block of the total IPv4 space, so maybe they're just really not.)
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
And you'd think network engineers would be more mindful of address space exhaustion.
What, the folk who to this day tend to fight tooth and nail against IPv6 because it's less convenient? HAH!
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@onyx Heh. Minecraft's network library has always supported IPv6, but it did its own URL validation and stripped out 'extraneous' colons so
::1
for example was saved as1
. Only in 1.12 did the text field gain IPv6 support, and even then it doesn't save to servers.dat correctly so even if you can connect to::1
correctly, next time you relaunch Minecraft it'll load as1
.
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@onyx
But how am I supposed to remember how to log into the switch at fd01::0203... or was that fd01::02:03... and anyway, they haven't even added NAT support to IPv6 yet
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@cartman82 did you end up explaining the correct info to the boss?
Yeah, I told him about .NET Core, but since my own experiences with that were less than stellar, I'll leave it to the other guy to fight that battle (if he decides to come in).
I got excited when I learned Microsoft was adding WPF to .NET Core. After all, .NET Core is cross-platform and works on Linux, and the main reason we've avoided C# for some things is Linux support. WPF on Linux makes it the obvious choice for most of our UI development.
Then, on further research, we discovered that although they are adding WPF to the cross-platform .NET Core, WPF itself will still not be cross-platform and will continue to only work on Windows.
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Then, on further research, we discovered that although they are adding WPF to the cross-platform .NET Core, WPF itself will still not be cross-platform and will continue to only work on Windows.
The moment they released their next generation Visual Studio product on electron, I knew we'll NEVER get a cross-platform desktop UI framework from Microsoft.
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
The moment they released their next generation Visual Studio product on electron
VS Code != VS.
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LaTeX errors are a
I was getting an error on line 65 of the tex file:
"There's no line here to end".
The line in question?
500 g
(yes, that was it in its entirety).The real cause? Up in the page header there was a bad line break due to a string replacement ending up empty (so no paragraph was started at that point).
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5 posts per page, supposedly 31 posts, the final page should have 1 post. But page 7 is... empty?
The last post on page 6 is the one the topic list previews as the latest post. With infiniscroll turned on, the last post it displays is that, and a manual count to double check confirms only 30 posts, not 31. So everything about this is consistent except for where it thinks there are 31 posts (and paginates it as if there were). @ben_lubar
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Then, on further research, we discovered that although they are adding WPF to the cross-platform .NET Core, WPF itself will still not be cross-platform and will continue to only work on Windows.
Are they applying Embrace, Extend, Extinguish to their own platform?
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cross-platform .NET Core
I remember when .NET 1.0 first came out, Microsoft said it was cross-platform...
It worked on Windows 98, ME, NT 4.0, 2000, and XP
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@timebandit Well, that kind of makes sense since you still had DOS, Win9X, and NT in use at the time, and a lot of applications only ran on one and not the other two.