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@topspin Still his software has to know that when the king is moved from e1 to g1, the castle has to be moved from h1 to f1. I.e. a couple of rules need to be known.
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Moves are communicated with the source square and destination square, which I can just blindly copy one square to the other, but this fails for castling and en passant.
What do you mean by that? Source / destination still uniquely define the move in these cases.
I think it's referring to the fact that castling and en passant affect more than just those two squares.
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@BernieTheBernie @watson Yes, that makes sense now.
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peculiarities around realms
Around the what?
(I don't normally javascript and really never heard the term ‘realms’ in context)
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peculiarities around realms
Around the what?
(I don't normally javascript and really never heard the term ‘realms’ in context)
I googled it, and it seems like it's basically a JS executing environment. Sometimes certain data can be passed from one to another, but normally they're fairly isolated.
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@djls45 So, an
Application Domain
?
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Quantum is our
futureZukunft!
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Exhibit 1 of why type errors should display the fully-qualified name(s) of the type(s) involved.
Nope, this is JavaScript. No namespaces here.
It looked a lot like a Python error...
instanceof
does have some peculiarities around realms though. Maybe related.That would be a lot like the Java errors when doing slightly too exciting things with
ClassLoader
s? Yeah, those error messages are deeply weird when you see them. (With Java at least, it probably means you have the same implementation classes on both sides of the barrier and should stop trying to assume you know what they are. Or that the interfaces aren't being shared, which will totally not work...)
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Quantum is our
futureZukunft!
Why mix two languages when you can mix three?
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@Gurth It took me a little. Where is the 3rd language? And then I saw:
of
is dutch foror
.
Now, that makes an even more interesting interpretation...
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@BernieTheBernie I actually went one deeper than that :)
Quantum
is Latin, so it’s either German-English-Latin, or German-Dutch-Latin, and IMHO the latter is more interesting, like you say.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Quantum
is Latin,Do you find solace in that knowledge?
Given the choice
quantum of solace
, I guess I’d pick quantum, as being the one I’m more likely to obtain.
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FMH, daddy Satya!
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the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.
Can't do that if you're not logged into a MS account. No MS account, there's no OneDrive account it can back up to.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.
Can't do that if you're not logged into a MS account. No MS account, there's no OneDrive account it can back up to.
Why do you think they just added three more "are you reaaaaaally sure?" prompts and two dark patterns to solve in order to do setup with JALA?
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@izzion I DON'T HAVE INTERENT!!1
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.
Can't do that if you're not logged into a MS account. No MS account, there's no OneDrive account it can back up to.
Up next: AI copilot will make an online account for you. #helpful
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.
Can't do that if you're not logged into a MS account. No MS account, there's no OneDrive account it can back up to.
I’m sure that Microsoft has a feature in the works that ties your account to a license key that will helpfully autologin when you install.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.
Can't do that if you're not logged into a MS account. No MS account, there's no OneDrive account it can back up to.
Up next: AI copilot will make an online account for you. #helpful
And then lock you out because you don't know the password.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
the OS enables it by default during the initial setup without asking the user for permission.
Can't do that if you're not logged into a MS account. No MS account, there's no OneDrive account it can back up to.
In addition to not having an MS account, I removed OneDrive from my computer.
Belt and suspenders.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
In addition to not having an MS account, I removed OneDrive from my computer.
Belt and suspenders.Even better, I removed Windows
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
In addition to not having an MS account, I removed OneDrive from my computer.
Belt and suspenders.Even better, I removed Windows
But how can you use your computer without a licensed operating system? You’re not some kind of dirty pirate are you?
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:flag_pirate:
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
In addition to not having an MS account, I removed OneDrive from my computer.
Belt and suspenders.Even better, I removed Windows
But how can you use your computer without a licensed operating system? You’re not some kind of dirty pirate are you?
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:flag_pirate:Depends whether he's a statistician. Everyone knows that statisticians use R.
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I'm trying to purchase a license for some software. The CNC router I bought came with a free 3-month subscription, so the transaction amount is $0.00. I created an account, and I'm now trying to complete the transaction. Despite the transaction amount being $0, I must either provide credit card info or "pay" with PayPal. However, trying to log into PayPal, the pop-up opens and immediately closes. I guess, if the amount is $0, PayPal refuses to process it, so the site just keeps telling me to log in or provide CC info.
It kinda makes sense that they want payment info, even though it's free, because at the end of the 3 months it will convert to a monthly subscription, so they need something to bill that to, but it's rather annoying that one of the two methods they offer completely fails for the free period. A non-trivial part of the annoyance is that I have to get up and walk to the other room to get my wallet with the credit card in it.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
That and the preview in both the notification and the message list is "CAUTION this email originated from outside the business...etc"
Preview!
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I guess, if the amount is $0, PayPal refuses to process it,
Yep! Been there done that!
There is now special "free ride" logic in the site for that reason.
Shame the folks you're dealing with couldn't figure that out.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I guess, if the amount is $0, PayPal refuses to process it, so the site just keeps telling me to log in or provide CC info.
That has not been a problem before (in some situations, at some time, YMMV, may cause cancer in California, etc). A few years ago I redeemed something, but my account didn't have any payment methods set up. I added my Paypal there, and it Just Worked™
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I'm trying to purchase a license for some software
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@LaoC because running critical infrastructure on even worse, insecure crap than it already is sounds like a good idea.
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@LaoC You must construct additional pylons.
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@LaoC because running critical infrastructure on even worse, insecure crap than it already is sounds like a good idea.
Maybe Bill is planning to use MS-Linux
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@TimeBandit they already hired Poettering for their EEE attempts.
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Not new but constantly annoying me: NodeBB "collapses" duplicate alerts into a single alert. This is good so I don't see hundreds of the same alert. But it does so after pagination, so when I look at my unread alerts I see one alert per page for 3 pages for just the TDWTF Plays Minesweeper.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
MS-Linux
In case you were joking, rest assured (🫏sured) that such thing does exist:
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@Bulb I know we're not suppose to kink-shame but...
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Not new but constantly annoying me: NodeBB "collapses" duplicate alerts into a single alert. This is good so I don't see hundreds of the same alert. But it does so after pagination, so when I look at my unread alerts I see one alert per page for 3 pages for just the TDWTF Plays Minesweeper.
is having all posts notifications on for the Minesweeper thread
rushes off to spam @error's notifications list
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is
having all posts notifications on for the Minesweeper threadnot ignoring all the "TDWTF plays *" threads
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@Bulb They're really trying to replicate the Windows feel there:
toolkit/scripts/update_packages.sh
:for package in $packages; do
if (( RANDOM % 5 )); then ui_progress_backward(; fi
if (( RANDOM % 7 )); then begin_churn_CPU_and_IO; sleep 360; end_churn_IO; fi
if (( RANDOM % 19 )); then require_reboot; fi
...
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@cvi Including the syntax error, amirite?
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@dkf Err, yeah. Of course. 101% intentional.
For some reason, even with the syntax error, progress still appears to go backward occasionally.
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My iPhone is set to install app updates automatically, which I think it does at night or so.
My banking app just told me “the app needs an update now before you can use it.” I go to the App Store and check. The newest version was released 11 hours ago. The summary says “bug fixes and minor enhancements”. It is 180MB to download.Well, good thing I don’t need to use it somewhere with a slow mobile connection, or it would force me to download these extremely urgent “minor enhancements” worth 180 megs.
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My iPhone is set to install app updates automatically, which I think it does at night or so.
My banking app just told me “the app needs an update now before you can use it.” I go to the App Store and check. The newest version was released 11 hours ago. The summary says “bug fixes and minor enhancements”. It is 180MB to download.Well, good thing I don’t need to use it somewhere with a slow mobile connection, or it would force me to download these extremely urgent “minor enhancements” worth 180 megs.
At least the vigorous review process of the Apple Store means there's no way that someone could have executed a supply chain attack to inject malware into the app to steal all your money
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extremely urgent “minor enhancements”
Maybe a bug fix is not so minor and is actually urgent.
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@HardwareGeek well, if it’s fixed critical security vulnerabilities, then they’re lying in the description. Either way, they’re wrong.
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My iPhone is set to install app updates automatically, which I think it does at night or so.
My banking app just told me “the app needs an update now before you can use it.” I go to the App Store and check. The newest version was released 11 hours ago. The summary says “bug fixes and minor enhancements”. It is 180MB to download.Well, good thing I don’t need to use it somewhere with a slow mobile connection, or it would force me to download these extremely urgent “minor enhancements” worth 180 megs.
I enjoyed that kind of fun with German Rail's äpp. It did not let me buy a ticket before updating. But I could still buy the ticket at the vending machine.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
extremely urgent “minor enhancements”
Maybe a bug fix is not so minor and is actually urgent.
It could also have been something like the signing certificate had expired.