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@pie_flavor Sweet.
Remaining question is if CMake/VisualStudio/whatever have opted in to that, but at least it's moving in the right direction.
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FFS, why does updating VisualStudio (2019) require a reboot of Windows? I thought we were past those dark ages already.
(Ok, minor WTF on my part. I didn't pay attention to the popup from the VS updater/installer. It had a single button "Restart", which I assumed would restart Visual Studio. Only realized that wasn't the case when I got to the "Rebooting..." screen of Windows. Guess that teaches me to not carefully read the popups.)
I can't remember the last time I had to reboot after a VS update?
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@Rhywden Maybe it forced a .NET Framework upgrade, and if that is in use by e.g. a service I could see how the thing decides to reboot the machine...
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@JBert Yeah, but that's only incidentally related to VS.
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I can't remember the last time I had to reboot after a VS update?
Same (other than earlier today). That's why I was very surprised the "Restart" button on the updater actually rebooted Windows and wasn't just restarting Visual Studio.
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So why recommend it to me?
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FFS, why does updating VisualStudio (2019) require a reboot of Windows? I thought we were past those dark ages already.
Mostly it doesn't. I've had the same update require a reboot on one machine but not another. Obviously something was running on the one that locked some file...
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So why recommend it to me?
Maybe it's suggesting you should get out of Canada?
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My first thought upon reading that is that the thing they're probably most famous for sucks balls and has for a decade or more: I don't know of many online retailers with a more shitty webpage than Amazon.
Oh, really? I've found their stuff to be pretty easy to use.
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@Zerosquare
1984Minority Report was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
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Both, if the article is to be believed.
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I was doing some multiplayer stuff yesterday, port-forwarding the traffic to the server on my desktop. Things were fine, as they tend to be, until everyone except me suddenly and simultaneously lost connection.
Turns out the ISP chose that exact moment to assign a new IP address. Convenient, huh?
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It vaguely reminds me of something...
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
"THERE ARE SIX BANANAS!"
There are actually 7 bananas: six graphical depictions and one verbal depiction.
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coriander, cilantro
IOW, the seeds and the body of the same plant...
Round here, we call those both coriander: coriander seed and coriander leaf.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
My first thought upon reading that is that the thing they're probably most famous for sucks balls and has for a decade or more: I don't know of many online retailers with a more shitty webpage than Amazon.
Oh, really? I've found their stuff to be pretty easy to use.
It's ok if you know what you're looking for and if it's available (which is far less of a problem on the US Amazon store), but if it's something niche and you have to browse to page 2 or beyond it's a garbage train wreck
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
“Rare events are much harder to predict than common events,”
"It is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future."
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Got right back from the local vehicle inspection station with a negative report and an order to get it fixed in 15 days.
I had a feeling that it wasn't going to be good when the technician called in his colleague and started pointing at several points of the car, then grabbed a different lamp and started looking at things in detail again.
Apparently one of the car mechanics in my garage mounted the asymmetrical tires wrong: they've got a side wall which is marked "inside" and should be mounted pointing to the vehicle body, but 3 of the 4 wheels have the label "inside" clearly showing up at the outside.
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The reason you can't download and install the update is because of the aforementioned copying procedure. When you download an update, your PS4 then makes a second copy of the game file, adds the update, installs this new version of the game, then removes the outdated version. In other words, your PS4 needs around double the storage space for a game in order to download and update it. For example, if you have 30GB free and a 2GB patch for Call of Duty: Warzone arrives, you won't be able to download it until you make some extra room -- enough to technically install Warzone twice on your hard drive. The old version will be deleted, which frees up some space again, but you need that extra space free in the first place.
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Status: This Wifi library has the following statuses:
typedef enum { WL_NO_SHIELD = 255, // for compatibility with WiFi Shield library WL_IDLE_STATUS = 0, WL_NO_SSID_AVAIL = 1, WL_SCAN_COMPLETED = 2, WL_CONNECTED = 3, WL_CONNECT_FAILED = 4, WL_CONNECTION_LOST = 5, WL_DISCONNECTED = 6 } wl_status_t;
You know what status would be nice?
WL_CONNECTING
orWL_SCANNING
or whatever.Am I to assume that thus repeatedly calling the
connect
method won't interrupt the connection sequence by disconnecting it then?
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Status: Apparently, one class is not fully implemented.
invalid new-expression of abstract class type 'WiFiServer'
They both subclass
Server
, so now I have to figure out why the ESP32 devs hate me so much...Edit: Yes, they specifically went against the standard definition for... no apparent reason. Fucktards.
Added a dummy line:
void begin() { begin(0); }
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@loopback0: can you cancel updates after they started downloading on the PS4? If so, I can understand why they implemented it that way. But they still should have offered the "delete then download" option when there's not enough disk space.
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@Zerosquare even with cancel it still doesn't make sense. All you need is binary diff file downloaded next to main game, not a full copy.
Anyway, that explains why it takes so goddamn long to START downloading.
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binary diff file
"What is this sorcery? "
We mentioned it earlier. Modern game studios are too to do proper patches, and their attitude to people who don't have fast connections is "sucks to be you".
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@Zerosquare but even if the developer DOES bother, it sounds like PS4 still requires a full copy of the entire game to fit in the free disk space.
Did you know CoD: Warzone, one of the latest cool games everyone plays, takes over 100GB of disk space?
Did you know PS4 originally came with 500GB hard drive?
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There's not enough info in the article to be sure. But I wouldn't be surprised if Sony chose the option, too.
We're talking about a company which took ages to implement something as basic as resuming downloads, had severe performance issues with their network implementation, etc.
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@Zerosquare my 50+GB PS4 games routinely get updates that are megabytes in size. There absolutely is some smart patching capability. But the non-download part has always been slow. Now I know why.
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But the non-download part has always been slow
Don't worry. The 12 GB/s magical SSD will fix that for you.
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Did you know CoD: Warzone, one of the latest cool games everyone plays, takes over 100GB of disk space?
And if you get the full CoD: MW it takes ~210GB of space, at least the PC version.
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@Atazhaia Thinks back to the good old days, when PC games fit on a single CD, over 90% of which was uncompressed audio
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over 90% of which was uncompressed audio
and now it’s all in case someone with an “8”K display presses up against single-use background texture #3681.
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Thinks back to the good old days, when PC games fit on a single CD
I remember when they fit on a single floppy disk.
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Thinks back to the good old days, when PC games fit on a single CD
I remember when they fit on a single floppy disk.
Yup, a 360kB floppy disk.
Of course we didn't have all that fancy stuff back then, like color, and sound (other than the beeper).
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@nerd4sale I remember playing tunes on the line printer. Not the best idea as you then had to throw all that paper away…
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Thinks back to the good old days, when PC games fit on a single CD
I remember when they fit on a single floppy disk.
I remember when they fit on single page of BASIC that we had to type in.
Just to be sure: we are doing the Yorkshirmen sketch, right?
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
Thinks back to the good old days, when PC games fit on a single CD
I remember when they fit on a single floppy disk.
I remember when they fit on single page of BASIC that we had to type in.
Just to be sure: we are doing the Yorkshirmen sketch, right?
I remember when all this were bits. Not the big bits you get these days. We couldn't afford the extra pixels for a 0 you see, so everything was 1. Fields of 1 bits as far as the eye could see
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
Thinks back to the good old days, when PC games fit on a single CD
I remember when they fit on a single floppy disk.
I remember when they fit on single page of BASIC that we had to type in.
Just to be sure: we are doing the Yorkshirmen sketch, right?
I remember when all this were bits. Not the big bits you get these days. We couldn't afford the extra pixels for a 0 you see, so everything was 1. Fields of 1 bits as far as the eye could see
I remember when games were so compact, they fit in 1 bit!
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@nerd4sale said in WTF Bites:
I remember when games were so compact, they fit in 1 bit!
I don't know about whole games, but I recall an image compression method that can compress images to a single bit.
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
I remember when they fit on single page of BASIC that we had to type in.
I actually did that as a kid.
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@nerd4sale said in WTF Bites:
I remember when games were so compact, they fit in 1 bit!
I can play plenty of games with one bit.
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@nerd4sale said in WTF Bites:
I remember when games were so compact, they fit in 1 bit!
I can play plenty of games with one bit.
No two-bit games either!
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A family member asked me for help with her MacBook computer because "her Excel files are upside down". I was skeptical, but I googled it and...
Yup. Excel in the latest OS X had a glitch that showed the text upside down, and apparently it affected most people. How on earth does that even happen?
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
How on earth does that even happen?
Fucked up transformation matrix, and that's probably there so that they can pretend that the origin of the window is in the same place it is in Windows.
Why didn't they even do a basic test of “yeah, that looks OK” is a separate question.
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Why didn't they even do a basic test of “yeah, that looks OK” is a separate question.
The Discopocalypse thread is