Back on Reddit there were people who set up scripts to automatically delete comments after a set amount of time to prevent people from looking at their history. As you could probably guess, they were usually the most stubborn and argumentative sort on the platform.
Though I’ve upvoted that user before and I normally don’t do that to people being disruptive, so who knows? If only there were some sort of history that would tell me what kind of user they were…
Could be worse. At least it’s not Microsoft’s support forums:
Hey, I see you’re having problems with <copy-paste key words from OP>. Try the following and see if it fixes your issue.
Open a command prompt and enter ”sfc /scannow".
I hope this helps!
(Reply marked as solution, thread closed.)
It’s a forked up world.
CyanogenMod, which was the base of most custom Android ROMs at one point. After taking venture funding, incompetent business majors crashed and burned the project trying to commercialize it. It was then forked and LineageOS was born.
I just updated to the newest Ubuntu LTS, which puts pip into system managed mode so you can’t easily install packages outside of a virtual environment anymore.
If you (or anyone who stumbles upon this comment in the future) run into this problem, the new recommended way to install yt-dlp through pip and keep it in your path and up to date is via pipx (sudo apt install pipx). The syntax is a bit gnarly for pre-releases, so I figured I’d post an update:
To install the nightly: pipx install --pip-args '\--pre' yt-dlp
To update the nightly: pipx upgrade --pip-args '\--pre' yt-dlp
I alias the update command and run it before every download session.
I’ve never asked, but I believe medical issues cropped up and their reduced retirement funds wouldn’t have been enough, forcing them to keep working, and the situation spiraled from there.
The main problem with Java (or garbage collected languages in general) as a first language is needing to unlearn the bad habits it ingrains when you move to a systems programming language with manual memory management. Other than that it’s a pretty good first language, though I’d suggest learning a bit of C at the same time just to get a basic grip on things like pointers and stack vs heap.
Edit: it occurs to me that C# would be the perfect learning language. It’s very similar to Java and an easy first language, but you’d also learn about stack allocation through structs, and can teach pointers using unsafe (though I think unsafe code is still GCed, so this wouldn’t help with the memory management side of things. Haven’t touched C# in fifteen years so I’m not sure how it works anymore).
Magneto hates Beast?
It was lapsed for years at a time, multiple times.
I can’t run Doom, but I can run Level 9, “Fuel Station Launch”, from Dark Forces 2, down to which extra enemies spawn and what items are removed when playing on each difficulty level.
It was on an old demo disc and I must have played that level a hundred times as a kid.
Yeah, I remember my parents talking about how badly they were hit in the late 00s. They were considering retirement just as the recession struck, and they lost a huge chunk of what they’d hoped to retire on.
They still haven’t retired fifteen years later despite declining health.
I’ve owned my personal domain for five of the last fifteen years. Should I be happy or embarrassed that no squatters grabbed it during any of the several times I let it go unrenewed?
And regular mail has been basically carried by spam for decades. It’s a real problem - how do you fix an industry if it’s entirely dependent on the problem you’re trying to solve? Everyone involved will fight you and the consumers will lose no matter what, short of public funding or other options that will be labeled “socialist” and never pass in this political climate.
It makes sense Bethesda would do it. They’re owned by Microsoft, who started the trend of pseudo-currency sold in packs that don’t match prices twenty years ago.
They don’t have it for the same reason Sony later removed it from the PS3: letting users run arbitrary code on your console provides a massive attack surface for piracy and jailbreaking exploits.
That could take a lifetime!
I’ve seen code with binary data (such as icons) baked into constants. I can’t wait for the three hour narration of base64 encoded pngs.
They canceled the GTA V story DLC after seeing the success of GTA Online, and their long-time head writer and producer resigned. I have little faith that GTA6 will capture the same spark that their earlier games had.
In the early days it was an abortion-adjacent topic, which made it an easy target to vilify to rile up support from single-issue voters. Now a large portion of society will hate anything involving stem cells forever, regardless of facts. Once the culture war starts, it’s hard to get it to stop.