I thought Viagra was when you already HAD those new and interesting friends and then something was going wrong.
Kiss_me_I_m_Polish
@Kiss_me_I_m_Polish
Best posts made by Kiss_me_I_m_Polish
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RE: Steam is psychic.
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My name is Backspace
I like bash. It's the closest thing to a modern command line environment one can get on SunOs. My favorite feature: the magical tab-autocomplete.
I logged in to a server today, and went looking for some files to install. "Oh, they're stored in /export/home/initech/deployments/deployment_5.0.0/" - wrote Joe, our connection with Initech. "No problem" - I thought. Let's cd to that directory.
$ cd /ex[tab]
$ cd /export/ho[tab]
$ cd /export/home/[tab] [tab]
^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hadmin initech initrodeWHAT? List please!
$ ls /export/home/
admin
initech
initrode
I must have been mistaken, let's try again:
$ cd /export/home/[tab][tab]
^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hadmin initech initrode
No. Someone *did* in fact create a directory that has backspaces in its name.
Latest posts made by Kiss_me_I_m_Polish
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RE: Mozilla Lightning
Linux People Problems:
Promote diversity.
Rant over a compression format.
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RE: So, you think you're having a bad day?
You think you're having a bad day? I've got blisters on my hands from these new golf gloves.
http://www.whitepeopleproblems.com
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RE: Change the software, but don't let anyone know we changed it
@PJH said:
@vt_mruhlin said:
I feel like a cripple without my gestures. And it hurts.I don't know why giving them a patch doesn't force a regression test
Because they didn't follow Mozilla's recent example of versioning?
4.bollocks.wank is broken, we've replaced it with 4.bollocks.piss. No regression testing needed
[someone has the bright idea at FFHQ to promote every number in the version...]
5.fuck is the new version. "Oh shit - they've incremented the major number - we need testing!!!one!@"
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RE: BioWare / EA password (un)security
@derula said:
@Hellkeepa said:
As far as my research goes, the only game with a 1bln user base is Minesweeper, and I don't think they have a dedicated forum.This time, I went for a properly secure and random password
Holy shit, is that a password or a fricken novel?
Also, if they want to limit password length, why do they allow to enter a longer one in the first place?
But no, the actual reason for limiting password length is, of course, disk usage. Imagine you have a customer base of a billion people, and you're storing the passwords encrypted (encryption usually only increases the length of the passwords. Hashes are unacceptable in our case, because they ultimately limit password length as well), and each user has a 43 characters long password, that'd be more than 40 GiB of data!! Only for the passwords!
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RE: State of laptops
@intertravel said:
Thinkpad. Next question?
Pardon me, but I beg to differ.I'm typing this on a (nearly 3 year old) ThinkPad. It has one of the worst screens ever. I'm serious, I have compared to several other laptops. The colors are bad even for the 16.3mln "standard". The viewing angle is non-existent. The GPU barely runs Portal on the lowest settings.ThinkPads are not exactly the greatest in graphics.
Otherwise it's a sturdy beast with a decent keyboard and I'm happy with it. But I would never recommend it to someone who wants a decent image.
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RE: Why? Why would they do this?
@nexekho said:
The filename's jawdrop... maybe he thought I was throwing around buzzwords for the heck of it?
Absolutely not. It's just... so much work to prove your point that the job is done ugly. -
RE: Why? Why would they do this?
@nexekho said:
@Obfuscator said:
The WHAT?
This:
It's clearly trying to imitate ambient occlusion (basically do a load of samples flying in all directions on a surface and perform a weighted average to darken it and create shadows in crevices) but doing a terrible job of it. Just thrown this together in Flash:
On the top, I've left the gamma correction turned on and it nonlinearly fades from black to white with a little deceleration either end to make it look smoother. On the bottom is what they've set it up to do instead, linear interpolation, which looks ugly as hell and isn't much cheaper given how sluggish Flash's renderer is.
Oh, and a bonus image of some AO if you don't fancy Googling it:
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RE: Prefixes - but at what cost!?
Or, you can go another way and replace the whole structure with a single table.
Of course some of the fields would be empty... but then you can reuse them! Just give them generic names (fld_1, fld_2, fld_3 etc.) and depending on the context they could contain the customer addresses, or the product color, or options on contract.
The possibilities are endless!