In other news today...
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How hot is a brain supposed to be?
It is hotter than the rest of your body:
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
A good fit for any of the "things that remind you..." threads.
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I feel this should be bigger news.
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Wow. Fortnightly trash collection sounds terrible. I can't even imagine monthly.
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@Keith said in In other news today...:
Mmm. I know how to solve this problem. With a song.
This one goes out to all the tiny crab ladies on my face. You know who you are.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
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Wow. Fortnightly trash collection sounds terrible. I can't even imagine monthly.Ever been to New York?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
I feel this should be bigger news.
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@boomzilla A collection a week. This week plastic, next week bio, the week after plastic again because people produce a lot of plastic, then a week 'gray' other waste, then back to plastic...
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If I wasn't a tight-fisted curmudgeon this might be me.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
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Wow. Fortnightly trash collection sounds terrible. I can't even imagine monthly.Ever been to New York?
Not for a couple or three decades (at least, NYC). But I have seen horrifying rat videos about that place, too.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla A collection a week. This week plastic, next week bio, the week after plastic again because people produce a lot of plastic, then a week 'gray' other waste, then back to plastic...
We have our recycling taken on Tuesdays and regular garbage and yard waste on Fridays.
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@boomzilla I'm exaggerating, but alternating weeks is common.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla I'm exaggerating, but alternating weeks is common.
You're not far off the actual schedule for the area from TFA though.
Green circle = paper recycling and garden/food waste
Brown diamond = glass recycling and garden/food waste (the only bin collected twice a month)
Grey square = Non-recyclable waste and plastic recyclingIt's not a typical schedule though IME.
In the area I live all recycling is collected every 2 weeks, garden waste every 2 weeks (the weeks without recycling collections) and regular non-recyclable waste including food is weekly.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla A collection a week. This week plastic, next week bio, the week after plastic again because people produce a lot of plastic, then a week 'gray' other waste, then back to plastic...
I'd never get that right! What do I put out this week?
Ours is once/week on Fri. 3 bins: garbage, recycling, and yard waste
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
What do I put out this week?
They used to send you a paper calendar for that. Or you can look it up online.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
What do I put out this week?
They used to send you a paper calendar for that. Or you can look it up online.
Just wait for the neighbours to put their bins out and copy them.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Fortnightly trash collection sounds terrible.
Where I am, we have a two week cycle. One week is paper/cardboard recycling and green bin, the other week plastic/metal/glass recycling, green bin and garbage.
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@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
How hot is a brain supposed to be?
It is hotter than the rest of your body:
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
If I wasn't a tight-fisted curmudgeon this might be me.
Fuck, I dress scruffy (my husband describes my style as "homeless chic") and swear.
Fuck, I hate that kind of comedy. So maybe I'm ok?
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
What do I put out this week?
They used to send you a paper calendar for that. Or you can look it up online.
Just wait for the neighbours to put their bins out and copy them.
Bins to be put out between 6am and 8am. Should most definitely not be put out the evening before because vermin. And sometimes the truck is early.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Fortnightly trash collection sounds terrible.
Ours is fortnightly, except that in the other weeks there's a recycleable materials collection. As long as you keep the lid on the bin and bag things properly, it's not too bad. No, you probably don't want to go sniffing the bins on a hot day. And you might need to take steps to prevent animals from getting into the bins (fortunately, we don't have raccoons on this side of the Atlantic).
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@BernieTheBernie said in In other news today...:
How hot is a brain supposed to be?
It is hotter than the rest of your body:
I went looking for a brain bug meme on duckduckgo and found this instead.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
(fortunately, we don't have raccoons on this side of the Atlantic)
They do exist in the wild on the left side of the atlantic, too. Some bad guys brought them to germany, for "enrichment" of the fauna... I.e. for hunting.
They are spreading over large areas of Thüringen and Hesse already.
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@DogsB That's not a Komodo Dragon. That's a Varanus salvator ssp. macromaculatus.
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
I'd never get that right! What do I put out this week?
Every year since the council stopped sending out a schedule, I meticulously run through the wall calendar marking out every second week, carried from the previous year.
I’m honestly surprised I haven’t made an error and fallen out of sync yet. Always have to be careful with those months where 30 is written up the top.
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
Six subtle signs of Alzheimers:
1 - Changes in humour
2 - Dressing scruffy
3 - Bad parking
4 - Swearing
5 - Giving out money
3 - Having no filter
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@GOG 4 - Forgetting how to count
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...:
@GOG
43 - Forgetting how to count
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Ooopusu!
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@boomzilla Better hope it was not the onry copy
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The /. summary made it seem like this was going to be something to meme on, but it actually seems like a couple of reasonable concerns to address
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@izzion Reasonable concerns, yes. But if they were the only concerns that came up, then I have some concerns of my own.
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Not news, but certainly an interesting read
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Not on GitHub it’s not open sores. Also commies.
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@DogsB Last I checked (been a while) GPL did not require source control history. Just the actual sources, as a normal user would edit them, that were used to generate a distributed build.
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@GOG said in In other news today...:
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@DogsB So others don't have to read:
- You get a per-release tarball, not commit-by-commit source access. Unusual, but by no means "limited".
- The build system is brittle. This isn't a security or open-source issue. If you want a better build, make a patch on SourceForge for a better build.
- There's a security bug that's been open for months. I don't speak Hungarian, but that looks like a (Windows) HTML Help bug, and HTML Help is deprecated.
- The distributed binaries don't use all the compiler flags. Yes, adding stack cookies, Arbitrary Code Guard, and layout randomization are nice, but ACE is possible with or without them, and not having them reduces load time, memory footprint, and disk footprint. The author picked one side of the trade-off; with the source, you can pick another.
- There was an ACE bug with RAR files. ...okay? So why aren't you screaming at Eugene Roshal? Why Igor Pavlov?
- The installer isn't Authenticode signed. Okay, yes, but then the author claims that signing "prevents software installation from bad guys." Uh, not anymore, welcome to post-2015. Also, none of the suggested replacements are Authenticode signed either.
- SourceForge is untrustworthy. And water is wet. How is that 7-zip's problem?
- War in Ukraine! Again, this isn't an action item for Igor.
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@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
So others don't have to read:
I wasn't going to anyway, but thanks, I guess.
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@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
- You get a per-release tarball, not commit-by-commit source access. Unusual, but by no means "limited".
That used to be perfectly usual. 7-zip predates Git by 6 years. It also predates Subversion by 1, and, well, Subversion was almost as useless as CVS until well after Git was created anyway.
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In today's "who tests the testers" news:
See, it's not their fault! Everybody conspired against them.
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@TwelveBaud TL;DR2
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@TwelveBaud said in In other news today...:
- You get a per-release tarball, not commit-by-commit source access. Unusual, but by no means "limited".
That used to be perfectly usual.
I think it's still perfectly usual even today, many repos I look in the releases section and there she be, a blob of junk. Gotta be careful sometimes...
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@Tsaukpaetra The release package for projects using autotools contains quite a bit of extra stuff compared to the development repository that is generated on the developer's machine when doing the release. And so it does for some other, newer, tools that may be non-trivial to set up on the user's machine, but where the build products are machine independent. So for many projects just tagging the repository does not cut it. And many newer projects started doing it, but they really should be doing much more.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra The release package for projects using autotools contains quite a bit of extra stuff compared to the development repository that is generated on the developer's machine when doing the release. And so it does for some other, newer, tools that may be non-trivial to set up on the user's machine, but where the build products are machine independent. So for many projects just tagging the repository does not cut it. And many newer projects started doing it, but they really should be doing much more.
Theoretically, that should be handled when building the (source) distribution package. Just making a zip straight from the repo is not enough, or at least not for all but the most trivial of projects involving autotools. (Java projects don't face that problem as they tend to use Maven or Gradle, which can handle the intermediate codegen easily. Not so sure about Python; a coworker handles that in our codebase.)