@anonymous234 You're forgetting that this is the new, damned to die like the turgid AAA studios they're foolishly imitating improved Nintendo. Now with DLC!
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RE: This is how a Nintendo Switch game is packaged
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RE: Someone poked Blakey about Git again
@anonymous234 said in Someone poked Blakey about Git again:
These are not things inherently caused by Git being a DVCS, they are simply because Git is doing something better than SVN.
I never said that these desirable features were because I was using a DVCS.
@anonymous234 said in Someone poked Blakey about Git again:
The obvious solution for everyone is to use a fast, centralized VCS that has local checkpoints (I think TFS calls that "shelving"?) and uses whichever algorithm Git uses for merges.
Why? How is that better than just using git as a faster SVN with nice history rewriting and real tags? What about git makes it unsuitable for this simple use case? And what about the locking features of the various git servers make it unsuitable for the case where you need file locking?
I used Visual SourceSafe (Safe? ha!) for a year or so. I used SVN for about five years. I've stuck with git for the past ~seven because once you get over the initial jargon and concept hump, it's by and large a good tool.
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RE: WTF Bites
They've added online payment, but you still have to physically scan your card after "filling up"
That's probably not crazy. Scan the card with Farebot (or some other NFC farecard reader) and you'll probably see that the card stores "fare product" purchases. So you have to get the record of that fare product on to the card somehow.
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RE: WTF Bites
@dse Docker is associated with and his buddies, from what I remember.
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RE: Video rental stores
@marczellm said in Video rental stores:
I guess that means I need to connect my monitor with HDMI.
HDMI, DVI, and DisplayPort all can support HDCP. If you're using a VGA connector, you're probably SOL.
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RE: Re: How Windows broke my computer at 42 years old
@blakeyrat said in Re: How Windows broke my computer at 42 years old:
Like... even if you're not using the USB ports, what did you think you'd gain by turning them off entirely?
IIRC there had been a minor fuckup in the low-level way the USB interface presented itself to the OS, which could cause spurious memory corruptions in USB-unaware, previously unaffected OS's (and god knows how many DOS drivers!). So disabling the whole controller thing was a plausible action at the time. Can also explain why the Win98 driver could better handle the, back then, probable 'USB controller missing or disabled' case.
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RE: Microsoft: IE fucked up everything and wasted untold billions of man-hours. Maybe don't use it anymore?
@Lorne-Kates said in Microsoft: IE fucked up everything and wasted untold billions of man-hours. Maybe don't use it anymore?:
Ah, right, Firefox extensions are now just glorified userscripts that rely on Javascript. Man, if only Firefox had some sort of Language that a User could Interface with-- maybe make it XML based for ease of use-- and then that could modify browser behavior rather than just page behavior.
At least for the Content-Disposition thing nothing much has changed. The add-on has no UI. In older Firefoxes it used to be a JS "component" and now it is a "web extension", but fundamentally it is the same thing: Run some startup code (called automatically by the browser), register a listener for HTTP response events, and modify stuff.
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RE: WTF Bites
on a very low power version of an ARM core
They're all asynchronous logicwoah... is this like AMULET!? Will clockless logic finally conquer the world and bless us with glitch prevention, digital design terror, and built-in EMI suppression?
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RE: Products for Dumb Suckers
An SSD is pretty close in speed but then you're constantly writing to the SSD and who knows how good that is?
For a modern SSD? Probably just fine: http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes
The first sign of unreliability popped up in one of their six drives after ~300TB of writes. The first out-and-out failure occurred in another drive at ~728TB of writes. Two of their six are going strong after 2PB of writes.
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RE: Application prefs, the Adobe way
BUT YOU DON'T TELL YOUR BUILD SYSTEM TO COPY THE PLACEHOLDER FILES TO THE OUTPUT!
If your packaging and deployment system uses tar or a vaguely tar-alike, you don't have a choice in the matter.
Except this oneβs not 0 bytes but has some contents to explain why itβs there...
I chalk that up to the lower average competency of Windows users.
Wouldnβt it be better to have the installer create the necessary directories, for example?
Yes.
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RE: More stupid Git errors THIS TIME IN FIRST-PERSON!
The conflict resolution can take place in a virtual repo separate from the (completely intact and working) actual repo.
Blakey! Baby! That's exactly what 'git stash' is for. Stash your uncommitted changes, fool around with whatever operations you have to make, and 'git reset --hard $BRANCH && git stash pop' if everything blows up in your face.
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RE: It's official: the Nokia 3310 is back
@accalia No. That would require them to spend money on quality control and superior materials, and then the CEO wouldn't be able to buy his third Porsche of the year.
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RE: In which Mott555 gets confused by Github
Clone via ssh didn't work and I don't remember why.
Did you upload your SSH public key?
If you have an SSH keypair, skip to step four: "Add your SSH key to your account.": https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys/
If you don't have an SSH keypair, and don't know how to create one, feel free to ask anyone but Blakeyrat. If you're on a *nix system, and you follow the instructions in that Github help article, IMO Step 3 is completely optional. I don't use an SSH agent on my machines.
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RE: In which Mott555 gets confused by Github
Which is probably why every single place that uses Git has a centralized server that keeps track of your data.
Nah. That's a convenient common source for that data. Everyone who has checked out a copy of that repo is also now a source of that data.
If Github dies today, the only things lost are a bunch of now-broken links and Github Issues. If -say- SourceForge decides to take their SVN servers offline, the two people who still have active projects there will lose all of their history.
Apples and oranges, man.
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RE: In which Mott555 gets confused by Github
The only way that works is if your work is so isolated that no one else cares.
Just as @sloosecannon said, when I say "rebase twice a day", that means when I roll in to work in the $MORNING, I merge in the latest changes from the dev branch into my own, resolve any merge conflicts, run the test suite, then keep working. Then in the $EVENING, I do the same thing.
It works really well, actually; the process doesn't need much modification for the case where you have multiple devs working on a single branch.
If it makes you feel better, you can think of it as working on a feature branch that's destined for eventual merge into the dev branch.
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RE: π Quick links thread
@Jaloopa Encyclopaedia Dramatica. Being a site all about Internet drama, they've got boatloads of information about how TV Tropes is a horrible place run by horrible people to appeal to the neuroses of even more horrible people. (That's only barely an exaggeration.)
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RE: In which Mott555 gets confused by Github
How often does that actually happen?
This particular case? Not often.
Look. I went from using SVN for four years, to using git for two. I knew nothing about git going in, but -after I learned the basics and played around with it for a week or so- I found that I no longer had to refrain from making the otherwise-perfectly-reasonable changes I would avoid because I knew that SVN would choke on them, and leave me with a mess to manually clean up (at best), or roll back and start over (at worst).
I can't give specific examples, as this shit has been lost to the winds of time (and drink). Just know that I'm not a software zealot, and that git made software development with a VCS as close to a hassle-free experience as I think is possible.
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RE: In which Mott555 gets confused by Github
In every group, there's always one guy who goes into his cave for a month at a time and sucks up everyone else's code, while never committing anything.
Holy Christ, dude. I hate that guy, too. I pull the drive out of his PC to get his code.
All I'm looking for is to not be forced to commit WIP code that breaks the test suite. Some features take more than eight hours to build, you know? Some features take more than a week, too. It's nice to not worry about scrutiny when you've a long, difficult heads-down project ahead of you.
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RE: THE 700 CLUB
@ben_lubar said in THE 700 CLUB:
The thing is I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS IS ABOUT.
but it's apparently important.
Looks like they're mainly copypasting a lot of gameplay and visual elements from League of Legends in an attempt to attract converts slash lower the game's vaunted skill floor. (And some genuine changes, improvements, and experiments, mind you.)
Oh, and outsourcing development of the bot AI to volunteers like with practically everything else Valve releases.
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RE: In which Mott555 gets confused by Github
Is it better than it was a few years ago?
I've been using Gentoo for -fuck me, I'm old- a decade. If you tell me what you hated, I can probably tell you if it's no longer there.
...SVN with Github seems to work just fine and doesn't require ANY shenanigans whatsoever to make things Just Work.
It's good that you found something that worked. From your OP, it sounds like the only problem you had with git was a misattributed commit (as found by accalia here) , which was a huge pain to fix. Do I have that right?
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RE: I don't think Google really understands images. [Contains potentially NSFW images]
i would have suggested the WEB NC17 panda...
This is the first three results for a GIS of "Web NC17 panda": http://www.mabsland.com/Adoption.html
OTOH, I'm not at work.
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RE: The Sad State Of (Atwood's) Web App Deployment
So, my Thinkpad is a real server, but its Dell twin is not. One out of two ain't bad.
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RE: I sure to converting
Weeaboo is a word for "wapanese", i.e. a person that's obsessed with japanese things like anime, anime girl body pillows, and... other japanese stuff I guess.
Originally found in this comic strip as a random nonsensical word, it started being used when moot (the owner of 4chan) added a filter to replace "wapanese" with it, as a failed (or successful depending on how you look at it) attempt to get people to stop using the word.
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RE: TIL that in C++, you can declare variable in if statement
Whoa. It gets stranger:
$ cat blah.cpp #include <iostream> #include <stdlib.h> #include <time.h> bool doFun() { return rand()%2; } int main() { srand(time(NULL)); if(bool thing=doFun()) { std::cout << "thing " << thing << "\n"; } else if(true) { if(doFun()) { std::cout << "df 0, thing " << thing << "\n"; } else { std::cout << "df 0, thing " << thing << "\n"; } } return 0; } $ g++ -Wall -pedantic -std=c++98 blah.cpp && ./a.out df 0, thing 0
It's also valid C++11.
I did C++ for years and never knew that this existed, let alone its scoping rules.
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RE: TIL that in C++, you can declare variable in if statement
...all I know is rand() is going away eventually and you should use the <random> header instead.
For real code? Fuck yes. For one-off posts to "lively" programming forums? Ehhhh.
Edit: Hmm. Neither clang(3.6.2) nor G++(4.9.3) complain about the use of rand when I compile with --std=c++14. shrug
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RE: Spaces in file paths, part 7.38*10^89
What bothers me about both Eclipse and NetBeans is that they seem tremendously overengineered.
They both actually advertise themselves as general-purpose platforms.
I can only speak to Eclipse, but that's why it seems tremendously overengineered. I was once working on a project that built a non-trivial GUI application on top of Eclipse... We should have used anything else. Even writing our own GUI library from scratch to base our software on would have been faster and less painful.
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RE: Spaces in file paths, part 7.38*10^89
@Lorne_Kates said:
Can you emulate a 64-bit machine (VM) on a 32-bit host?
Yes.
In the distant past I decided to this with a (non-KVM) qemu. I had accidentally downloaded the 64-bit version of some Linux LiveCD. I had the idea that using qemu to run the code in the LiveCD might be faster and/or easier than downloading the correct ISO.
Turns out that this was dog slow. I could have downloaded the correct ISO in the 1/10th time it took to get to the KDE load screen.
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RE: Cable ISP and IPv6
Bah. Too bad about your DNS woes.
I know that the world of router and DNS server administration is immensely thrilling, and you're waiting with bated breath to hear some other neckbeard talk about his router setup. ;)
I've had substantially better luck with OpenWRT than DD-WRT (perhaps the definition of abandonware) or the Tomato forks.
I was using some Tomato fork (maybe Tomato-USB?) a long time ago. The thing was really easy to use, but the moment you stepped outside of whatever was provided in the firmware image, you were in for a bad time. IIRC, everything except for config files was stored in "ROM". (I'm fairly sure that it was impossible to install new software on the thing without making and flashing a new firmware image. ) Config files were catted into various NVRAM variables, rather than doing something sane like storing them as text files in a partition the device's onboard flash.
Maybe your fork is more sane than mine was, I have no idea. But, if your router is supported, and you get the time and gumption, maybe give OpenWRT a try.