I've recovered my account just to say - I'm still using Windows 7
Posts made by CreatedToDislikeThis
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
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RE: The split
@sockpuppet7 said in The split:
used some hardware with only 100KiB of available memory (this was about 10 years ago)
A computer with just 100kiB available for a critical program in 2008 (or so)?
It took me way too long to realize you didn't miss the "this was about 10 years ago" bit. :(
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RE: I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this
@Groaner said in I'm sure the Gamergaters will turn this thread into garbage, but until then I have to post this:
Because we do not live in an ideal, just world.
Then fit in or fuck off, but why are you bothered by those that do try to change it for the better?
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RE: 📊↝
Literal numbers only work if they have a period in them? Maddening.
FAKE EDIT: Oh, it's fragment shader syntax. That explains why it's so maddening in general.
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RE: Go 1.11: run Go in your web browser without compiling it to JavaScript
As a result of the addition of the new GOOS value "js" and GOARCH value "wasm", Go files named *_js.go or *_wasm.go will now be ignored by Go tools except when those GOOS/GOARCH values are being used. If you have existing filenames matching those patterns, you will need to rename them.
I have no words.
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RE: New Intel microcode license disallows benchmarking
@remi said in New Intel microcode license disallows benchmarking:
and those articles are much less baffling when you've been explained by a lawyer why claims are written this way!
Didn't you already do that in your previous post? And the answer is to be evil?
it gets to a judge, they will obviously strike down the first claims as much too generic, but they might actually grant you one of the claims more generic than what you really wanted to protect.
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RE: On the right to rant.
JWZ said in On the right to rant.:
and they say "but I don't know how to compile from source, herp derp I eat paste"
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RE: It's Broken!
@anonymous234 said in It's Broken!:
@Gurth I wonder how hard it would be to take webkit and add a "text only backend" so you can have full HTML5 support in a Lunix terminal.
filed under: probably quite hard
Most of the work can be done in a week, the rest can be done in a year.
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RE: %^&^*%*&^% Git.
@Magus said in %^&^*%*&^% Git.:
@Bulb I am not barking up the wrong tree. If we were using TFS, I guarantee this would not be an issue. At all.
Git absolutely should have an option to not allow popups as a commandline switch. It already has switches for rewriting its own history, which is an anti-feature. They could have taken time putting in actual features, but Linus.
So what should the switch do? Install hooks in all child processes git creates to disable UI system calls?
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RE: When being configurable is more important than being useful
@marcodave said in When being configurable is more important than being useful:
also this XKCD
I will note that both airplanes and elevators are susceptible to malicious attackers
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RE: %^&^*%*&^% Git.
I don't really know VSTS or whatever your environment is, but I doubt Git itself is popping up UI windows.
I bet the very thought itself is sending shivers down Beardo mcLinux's spine.Rather, I bet the .gitconfig defines a program (perhaps as the credential.helper?) which is responsible for the rogue UI.
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RE: Desktop as a service, the future of Windows
@pie_flavor Why do you need a 'Cortana' to check if the location's in a specific area and disable notifications then?
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@ben_lubar said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
The system will continue to work because it records new IP hashes automatically.
GDPR Crime?
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
@ben_lubar said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
The reason is that the admin panel page that shows which users are on instances that were recently restarted crashes the instance it's on if it gets SHA1 hashes instead of IPv4 addresses.
Or... You could have fixed the admin panel page?
EDIT: Assuming it works by collecting the IPv4 addresses on an instance and then checking them against the ip addresses of all users, couldn't it have just hashed the IPv4 addresses first and checked the hash against the hashed ip addresses of all users?
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RE: Next Windows 10 major update will use machine learning to "try" not to force-reboot at the wrong time
@topspin said in Next Windows 10 major update will use machine learning to "try" not to force-reboot at the wrong time:
I'm not sure what's more incredible. That they actually ship an "operating system" like that or that people are willing to put with it.
Each is caused by the other - a vicious circle.
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RE: Confidential surveys (or: I’m in trouble if I hit “Submit”!)
I couldn't care less about your stupid iPad games but now I want to know what the confidential survey contains, goddammit!
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RE: Google launched something called knative, but it's website won't tell you what it does
@Jaloopa said in Google launched something called knative, but it's website won't tell you what it does:
"kuh-nay-tiv"
Or just "knay-tiv".
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RE: Microsoft's Cl---ic mistake
FYI, the correct solution would've been to automatically run the filter on the source tree each time it changes and - instead of using the broken results - flag a build error if the filter had any matches.
The developers must then either remove the profanity (if genuine) or tell the censorship captain or whoever to add their word to the exception list.(Bonus points for starting with a filter that already has the common exceptions built-in)
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RE: TFW your SQL queries only compile on American computers
This is what happens when a programming language hides locale-specific functionality under a generic-seeming API.
I prefer bugs such as "your app doesn't output numbers correctly for my locale" to "your app is completely broken [on my locale]". -
RE: Exception with orderBy C#
Which thread is the stack from? The main thread?
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RE: ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE command cannot affect a row a second time
@ben_lubar said in ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE command cannot affect a row a second time:
I also see a ton of this:
2018-07-11 12:00:05.703 UTC [9711] ERROR: payload string too long
2018-07-11 12:00:05.703 UTC [9711] STATEMENT: SELECT pg_notify('socketio', $1::TEXT)postgres doc says:
payload
The "payload" string to be communicated along with the notification. This must be specified as a simple string literal. In the default configuration it must be shorter than 8000 bytes. (If binary data or large amounts of information need to be communicated, it's best to put it in a database table and send the key of the record.)Now I'm curious what these dropped "notifications" contain.
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RE: ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE command cannot affect a row a second time
@ben_lubar you aware of this yet? Looks related to the postgres migration.
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RE: ON CONFLICT DO UPDATE command cannot affect a row a second time
The bug is that the error message doesn't list the sql query and its arguments, right?
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RE: Factorio
As you probably know we have a strict no sale policy. The game will not go on sale on Steam or any other platform. This basically means that purchasing before the 16th of April 2018 is the only way to buy the game cheaper than the increased release price.
That's effectively a limited-time sale
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RE: Python - My take
@magus said in Python - My take:
Do you prefer Python 2, Python 3, Jython, or Iron Python?
No matter your answer, someone will be along shortly to tell you why you're wrong!
Downvoted for excluding pypy
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RE: Did Thanos Kill You? (probably spoilers)
@The_Quiet_One
It's okay, I'm sure it has plenty to do with narrative convenience. -
RE: Did Thanos Kill You? (probably spoilers)
So why would thantos kill or not kill me? What's the punchline?
And don't say this is a comic thing when it's clearly a movie thing.
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RE: PSA: @anotherusername has userscript recording all posts the moment they're posted
@anotherusername
You mean you've hacked into @Perverted_Vixen's edit history?! -
RE: SURELY THIS IS STAGED FOR LAUGHS?? RIGHTTTTT??? RIGHT?!!!!!!!
I don't think I've read any fiction books for xy years.
Last time I did, it was just mostly a "so bad is good" thing, which I like to think I grew out of.
I haven't been given a good reason (+ the required stipend) to read another book since.What do I win?
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RE: I had to hear this now so do you
@lb_ said in I had to hear this now so do you:
@pie_flavor I can only hear "Storm" as the second word, but the first word is easy to hear as either "Brain" or "Green".
Same, except needle instead of storm.
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RE: Possible cause of autism found
@japonicus said in Possible cause of autism found:
[and no haven't read the paper yet - is behind a paywall]
What's the hormone linked to greed, and can we remove it?
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RE: BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?"
@blakeyrat said in BBC News and the case of the "why the fuck is this news?":
Literally 3 minutes after I posted this:
Oh fuck off.
I'd say that's pretty newsworthy.
Even if such an occurrence is common in china (which it probably is), that doesn't mean news should stop reporting on it as if it had stopped occuring.
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RE: I hope Belgiumites don't like playing video games
@pie_flavor said in I hope Belgiumites don't like playing video games:
@anonymous234 said in I hope Belgiumites don't like playing video games:
I for one am sick of seeing so many people throw thousands of euros on virtual hats. I don't care if "it's their money", it's entirely irrational spending on their part and entirely undeserved money for the seller. And the market affects everyone.
I for one am sick of seeing so many people throw
thousands of dollars on cable television. I don't care if "it's their money", it's entirely irrational spending on their part and entirely undeserved money for the seller. And the market affects everyone.Just popping in to say that this is true as written.
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RE: YouTube demographic analytics
Maybe it's from anonymous users that youtube doesn't have demographic information on?
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This is getting stupid
Stop splitting different strands of the same topic into separate threads. They're impossible to follow.
Also, BUG REPORT - this topic was made as a reply to the below post, yet this is not shown in the UI! (Is it perhaps because I switched categories? Because it figured out I'm complaining about exactly this feature and helpfully disabled it?)
@boomzilla said in Grimdumb:
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RE: Source released to the original System Shock
Seems like a happy turn for the project.
Had they said they were planning to do this in the "going on hiatus" update, their "one step forward is two steps back" comment would even make sense instead of adding insult to injury! -
RE: Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!)
I don't know, it should be much easier to fix the self-driving vehicle to stop running over more people than fixing human drivers to do the same.
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RE: Sample Code Reviews....
@blakeyrat - I like using the ostrich algorithm to handle integer overflows.
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RE: HTML tags do not close across quotations
@pie_flavor Sounds like the implementation implements preserving html tags across markdown elements by closing and reopening these tags on every markdown element transition, but that's just an implementation detail.
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RE: Judge my JSON documentation
@anotherusername said in Judge my JSON documentation:
Yes... teaching programmers bad habits that could bite them later. A "favor".
The bad habit of using comments?
The bad habit of disrespecting formats by daring to extend them?
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RE: Judge my JSON documentation
@anotherusername That's only if it doesn't barf on comments because it execs it.
If it doesn't barf on comments because it specifically handles them as an extension to the json spec, then it's just doing the world a favor.
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RE: Celeste
"So if I did break the entire game for certain setups I didn't test on, it'd only take an hour to fix.
Well, an hour after the issue is reported by a customer, who may choose to get a refund or complain to his friends instead.
Plus a few days if this happens on the weekend or while I'm on vacation" -
RE: Intel making us slow down
@boomzilla said in Intel making us slow down:
@masonwheeler said in Intel making us slow down:
@weng said in Intel making us slow down:
@lolwhat Nah, I'll roll with incompetence as the root cause here.
I'll be switching back to AMD at home for the foreseeable future.
Does this even affect home systems? (ie. do you and I have any real reason to be concerned about our home PCs?) From what I've read, it appears that this is an issue that's mostly a headache for cloud servers and other shared systems.)
When your OS gets updated your Intel machine will run more slowly.
One more reason not to update my OS.