Snaps and Flatpaks auto updates automatically
Nope. Firefox does not, because either Firefox is running, or the PC is down or sleeping. So I have to close Firefox, open a shell, update that snap shit, and restart Firefox. Which pisses me off to no end, apart from the point that snaps are a waste of resources and a bad idea in general.
Absolutely. When I read the way a round is handled in 5e my first impression was: How many movie and book heroes signature move do they want to cover with this jungle of rules? “Oh, I’ve seen X in movie Y doing Z! That was awesome, and I want my character doing that move in D&D, too!”
I’m boykotting Canon and Birkenstock. The first for being total idiots, spurting “open source is theft of intellectual property!”, the second because I know the owner family (the son was in my class) and they are assholes that would make Trump proud.
I’ve read the documentation on that feature, and still don’t get over it. How can anyone with knowledge of computers be so dumb to even consider such an idea, lest implement it?
This feature is just a BIG flag waving “AbUsE mE!”
No, you bought magazines back then which had pages and pages of printed source that you typed in. And hoped that you didn’t make mistakes. That’s actually why I learned debugging before I learned to code ;)
And this also was the way I earned the money for my second computer - I wrote about 50 games on my own for my first one, some of which I sold to such magazines by saving them on casette tapes with a modified casette recorder. I wrote so many games, they published them under aliases…
Ah, ok. that clarifies it.
Quoting from memory: “Remember the times when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?”
The article is quite vague on how this is implemented. Does it require JS to be activated to work? That would be a big NO for anyone really looking into privacy, but could work for those who use TOR basically as a free VPN to escape stupid geoblocking rules.
And what will prevent DDOSers from just creating dummy requests without the intention to ever wanting to solve any PoWs? It will still allocate resources on the other side.
It was called “Water Carrier”. It was a simple labyrinth game that - because I had no way of saving it to a tape, disk, or similar - I had to type in line by line whenever I wanted to play it.
Yes, I’m a bit longer in the business than most of you.
“all those COBOL developer jobs” nowadays probably fit in one bus. That’s why every company that can afford it moves away from COBOL.
It is not exactly sudden, it’s creeping for the last 20, 30 years.
That was no failure! That was a successful lithobreaking maneuver!
Schaumzucker (German), literally “foam sugar”
Chocolate does not ask. Chocolate understands.
Counting down from 99 … 98 … 97 … Wake up after surgery.
Next time, chose a smarter client.
Not much at the moment. Trying to find out how to the table saw fixed before I can actually do something useful.
I’m the person who basically never throws a book away (I did once, but I bought a replacement after the old version literally broke apart in several places). But I would light a chimney with “Atlas shrugged”, if only to prevent it from falling in gullible hands.
In a restaurant in Brussels. At the next table, two people discussed an upcoming minister-level EU meeting. One person was in charge (or at least had influence on) the meeting agenda, and was urged by the other person to drop a particular item off that list. They argued about possible excuses for not having this item on the meetings agenda, until the bureaucrat agreed, and the lobbyist handed him an envelope.
GNU Image Manipulation Program (or Project)