Macha

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721.
by Macha 2y ago
Licensing perhaps
722.
by Macha 2y ago
From what I've heard from videos by Microsoft devs on why it was dropped between XP and Vista, the source code is obtuse and very difficult to port/work on.
723.
by Macha 2y ago
The official stated reason is to make life easier for modders, for the steam workshop mods in their latest releases.
724.
by Macha 2y ago
That would have been Micropolis in 2008, I think (better known as Simcity, the open source release was renamed to be super clear it doesn't include the trademark)
725.
by Macha 2y ago
> the usage of the resulting binaries are still restricted To use the binaries, you need the game assets. The only legal way to acquire the game assets is to own the game, as EA have not included them in this release. This is less a lice
726.
by Macha 2y ago
I mean, it sounds like the Red Alert code is available under GPLv3 (plus some additional "we want to be very clear, this doesn't cover the trademark" terms tacked on), but you can't build it without DX5, which gets compi
727.
by Macha 2y ago
No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C%2B%2B There's the small stuff like "class" is a keyword in C++ so not a valid variable name. There's the fact that C has continued to evolv
728.
by Macha 2y ago
oklch should be an incredibly minor to unmeasurable performance hit, even on a 7 year old chromebook. Nor should it affect the displayed output. It's just a better color picker syntax.
729.
by Macha 2y ago
It had not occurred to me that a VS Code Theme was a full blown extension, since I've never installed one. I wonder if a lot of people have a mental model of a VS Code theme as a collection of CSS files, which should be relatively safe
730.
by Macha 2y ago
Though, if you have a preferred shade of blue, you can actually use it for the HN header in your user settings.
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by Macha 2y ago
I think the problem with "friendly C", "safe C++" proposals is they come from a place of "I want to continue using what I know in C/C++ but get some of the safety benefits. I'm willing to trade some of the
732.
by Macha 2y ago
It's subtler compared to Idiocracy (most things are), but in the scale of movies, it's still pretty blunt.
733.
by Macha 2y ago
I mean, this is no different than one part of the government suggesting running laundry at night to reduce the environmental impact of energy use, while another suggests only running it while awake to reduce fire hazard. Governments and cor
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by Macha 2y ago
To two different IRC servers. There used to be a third, but Libera asked them to shut it down.
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by Macha 2y ago
> Vatsim is a great place to start if you're very serious about your radio protocol > They expect you to know what you're doing. These two statements are a little contradictory. Definitely VATSIM is not a place to start, the
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by Macha 2y ago
Shareholders demand it, even. If your costs increased but your profits stayed constant after your price increase, then a small business owner might be perfectly happy with that. But it's a decline in profit margin so investors would go
737.
by Macha 2y ago
I wonder if you rotate the camera more often than I do. I can go an entire play session of Anno without rotating the camera once, since it's a top down city builder.
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by Macha 2y ago
Note however that for the newest revision of kindles, they never had the feature of transferring files via USB, so for the newest kindles you need to do the wifi option even for non-Amazon sourced ebooks.
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by Macha 2y ago
Also people that legally purchase them and want to use them with non-kindle readers and applications.
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by Macha 2y ago
> Another one: You buy a 16 GB (real GB) flash drive. You have 16 GiB of RAM. Oops, you can't dump your RAM to flash to hibernate, because 16 GiB > 16 GB so it won't fit. Right but the problem here is that RAM is produced in
741.
by Macha 2y ago
I don't buy this really. COVID to now is less than 1 laptop replacement cycle for non-techie users who will usually use a laptop until it stops functioning, and I don't think the techie users would upgrade at all if their only opt
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by Macha 2y ago
IntelliJ has supported this for over a decade also, and having used Eclipse for PHP a decade ago, I think it's very generous to say that that was actually supporting non-Java languages as an IDE, rather than just a very slow and heavyw
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by Macha 2y ago
My understanding is that with the read error rate and capacity of modern hard drives, statistically you can't reliably rebuild a raid5/raidz1
744.
by Macha 2y ago
From the article: > The massive cut represents more than 40% of the company’s 130,000-strong workforce—including 30,000 contractors—and it will impact both BT employees and third-party contractors, according to the Financial Times. >
745.
by Macha 2y ago
Ehh, as a propaganda tool it would be more useful to not have a hard login wall, which was allegedly implemented due to engineering challenges continuing to operate Twitter at its former scale. So the engineering issues are even limiting it
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by Macha 2y ago
My home NAS drives are currently hitting the 5 years mark. So far I'm at no failures, but I'm considering if it's time to upgrade/replace. What I have is 5 x 4TB pre-SMR WD Reds (which are now called the WD Red Pro line
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by Macha 2y ago
Not any more, but who knows what's set to Tokyo timezones (or could be just pessimism about the finish date)
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by Macha 2y ago
I think they'll find they're in the minority on that opinion, so they should just set XDG_CACHE_HOME, and maybe symlink ~/.cache to ~/cache for those programs that have just hardcoded ~/.cache
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by Macha 2y ago
> If meant to prevent repeat bad behavior, then simply reprogramming the computer accomplished the same end goal. Note the bad behaviour you're trying to prevent is not just the specific error that the computer made, but delegating
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by Macha 2y ago
The extreme left are on small mastodon servers and hate BlueSky and the large mastodon servers almost as much as X at this stage. Given Elon's control of the platform, manipulation of the algorithm and petty bans, it's been a whil

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