mrcarrot

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by mrcarrot 6mo ago
I've started using Linux recently after not touching a desktop distro for 20-odd years, and I was surprised how good both Gnome and KDE look these days. It certainly doesn't feel like there's a trillion-dollar-company differe
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by mrcarrot 7mo ago
It's available on Prime Video (at least on amazon.de). For a long while they would only sell access to season 1, but I've just checked now and all 4 seasons are available at the moment.
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by mrcarrot 1y ago
In a similar space, I'm pretty sure the recent remake & remaster of the two System Shock games were really well received, so that's hardly a given.
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by mrcarrot 1y ago
Yeah, I've been trying it recently and I'm not entirely convinced I want to keep using it. My biggest annoyance at the moment (and this may be me missing something), is that I have two directories: "thing" and "thin
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by mrcarrot 1y ago
yes
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by mrcarrot 1y ago
Thanks - this does make sense in isolation. I think my actual issue is that the "most package managers do something like this" example code snippet at the start of [1] doesn't seem to quite make sense - or doesn't match
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by mrcarrot 1y ago
The "Optimized Tarball Extraction" confuses me a bit. It begins by illustrating how other package managers have to repeatedly copy the received, compressed data into larger and larger buffers (not mentioning anything about the buf
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by mrcarrot 1y ago
Also not available in Austria
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by mrcarrot 1y ago
Or alternatively (assuming that's true) he fired the people who thought about what they commit and kept those whose commit logs look like: "push feature WiP", "fix", "more fixes", "push", "m
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by mrcarrot 1y ago
> The POST in the README is going to send the params in the request body "url form encoded" like a form in a web page. Is there a different POST request in the readme or are you saying that this example is going to send the &qu
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by mrcarrot 2y ago
I really enjoyed watching Jon Gjengset work through this here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0VotuGzD_w
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by mrcarrot 3y ago
I think the parent was agreeing with you. If the “local” SSDs _weren’t_ actually local, then presumably they wouldn’t need to be ephemeral since they could be connected over the network to whichever host your instance was launched on.
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by mrcarrot 3y ago
“And management’s priority for Q4 is feature Y, so we’re just going to leave feature X like it is for now”
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by mrcarrot 3y ago
None of those places are especially sunny in the winter though!
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Towers’ remains may rewrite history of English civil war(theguardian.com)
6 points by mrcarrot 4y ago|1 comments
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by mrcarrot 4y ago
> And what if I don't want to have my constructor parameters as properties, maybe because I process them somehow in the constructor, and set some other properties instead? Then you don't use property promotion. It's option
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by mrcarrot 4y ago
Only if you're using a US keyboard layout.
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by mrcarrot 5y ago
Not since PHP 7.3![1] If you indent the closing identifier, then the corresponding indentation will be removed from the content of the heredoc string. [1]: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#la
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by mrcarrot 6y ago
https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/88
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by mrcarrot 6y ago
Also not on iPad, but they do load, on a stand-alone page, if you click on them.
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by mrcarrot 6y ago
You could just sign up for a month of Game Pass and get the game for 1 £/€/$.
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by mrcarrot 6y ago
Also the default controller profiles don’t include any dead zone, so at least on my setup, the control inputs were way too sensitive. Once I added some dead zone, and reduced the sensitivity curve in the options, it became much less twitchy
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by mrcarrot 6y ago
Valve have said they will (somehow) not count the time taken to download the game content against the 2 hour refund clock [1]. [1]: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-08-20-valve-assu...
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by mrcarrot 6y ago
I have "Search Engine Suggestions" and "Safari Suggestions" both enabled, Google as "Search Engine" and I see the same behaviour as you (typing "sketch" RETURN in safari address bar takes me to the Go
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by mrcarrot 6y ago
Yeah, 400000 deaths over 4 months would be in the ballpark of the casualties from an Omaha Beach landing every day.
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by mrcarrot 7y ago
A postcode (or local equivalent) isn't necessarily particularly specific. For example, here in Austria the equivalent of a postcode might cover a whole city district.
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by mrcarrot 7y ago
Everything apart from the initial reset command in that ‘recipe’ is stuff that a command line git user would be doing all the time anyway. There’s not really anything to remember here, other than that ‘git reset’ lets me undo commits that I
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by mrcarrot 7y ago
This table might help explain: 00 01 10 11 00000 NUL Spc @ ` 00001 SOH ! A a 00010 STX " B b 00011 ETX # C c 00100 EOT $ D d 00101 ENQ % E e 00110 ACK & F f 001
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by mrcarrot 8y ago
Not if you're British :)
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by mrcarrot 8y ago
It's only a few months since a motorway literally collapsed in the middle of Genoa.

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