Notices by Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com), page 13
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Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Jul-2018 04:34:11 EDT 
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@maiyannah As a rule of thumb a claim by an individual or group that it is X implies that it is ~X. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jul-2018 08:52:50 EDT
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The categories of programmers under Implementation Methods http://www.flingos.co.uk/docs/reference/Typical-Design-Routes/ is pretty funny and accurate. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jul-2018 08:52:35 EDT
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This is pretty cool: http://www.flingos.co.uk. Regardless of what you think of C# as a language for doing stuff in it's hard to argue that it's not better suited for code that's primarily intended to be read rather than executed compared to C. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jul-2018 05:45:34 EDT
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@purplehippo It was bound to happen. Ultimately businesses are about cold hard cash and if the promotional and normal value of employing somebody is outweighed by the PR impact they cause minus the PR impact caused by firing them it's really a stupid business move to keep them around. And the terrifying thing for those people is that the PR impact caused by firing one of them goes down pretty darn quickly because it loses its news value so their moat is reduced with every one of them that gets kicked out. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jul-2018 05:40:08 EDT
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Windows: really annoying when you want to shut down and it needs to download updates. Linux: really annoying when you start up and the updates were broken. :P -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jul-2018 05:38:42 EDT
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Sometimes linux feels like a puzzle game.
> Try to start Debian.
> Get a black screen when booting X and no way to switch to a terminal.
> Reboot to single user mode.
> Get a message that sulogin doesn't work because no root password has been set.
> Try to find a live cd.
> Discover that you don't have a live cd handy.
> Boot with init=/bin/sh and rw instead of ro.
> Achieve a root shell.
> Look in Xorg.0.log to find out what you've been expecting all along: nvidia driver broke during package upgrade.
> Create a root password with passwd.
> Reboot to single user mode.
> Log in with new root password.
> Run aptitude to download new packages.
> Get message that hosts can't be resolved.
> Muck about with networking tools until magically the network comes up. (Probably because of a systemd socket trigger.)
> Download updates.
> Reboot.
> Finally be able to log in. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Jul-2018 14:00:56 EDT
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So something I don't understand. After a long internal debate the UK Govt has decided to go for free trade of goods without free flow of persons. However as I understand it that's been the UK's position all along: to have the bits of EU membership it likes (free trade of goods, good for the economy) without the bits it doesn't like (free flow of people, immigrants). So I don't really see how the big compromise is going to be acceptable to the EU since accepting it would mean a hell of a lot of countries would head for the exits as it would give them a better deal than remaining in the union. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Jul-2018 02:07:02 EDT
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@purplehippo @maiyannah The quality of a game is directly proportional to its marketing budget? :P -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 09-Jul-2018 02:05:03 EDT
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@maiyannah The world of the witcher is interesting. The games, less so. I kinda like the idea of games where they don't try to hide that stuff like sex exists but the way it's portrayed is a bit of an awkward mix of teasing without showing too much and "look here, titties, isn't this game great?". Gameplay wise many other action RPGs are more up my alley at least, though that's also because I like playing a mage and the Witcher doesn't have that much magic. I think the whole concept of the games can be summarized as "Maybe the books are better?" -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 08-Jul-2018 08:17:05 EDT
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@moonman @maiyannah Rkt absolutely doesn't have the mindshare. From what I've seen their strategy is mostly to follow the "official" container standards and try to use that to be a layer in the kubernetes stack. Unfortunately that's also where the trouble starts since a middle layer in a stack tends to have less UI to work with than the top layer (which is what Docker has been aiming at, being the system rather than being a layer). But Kubernetes in my experience is the wrong thing 90% of the time simply because it's aimed at very high scalability which is very distinct from the typical container use case of running some services with some isolation (e.g. run an Apache with PHP configured in a very particular way without interfering with the rest of the system).Β Looking at the stack I used to work on and looking at current tooling and assuming no manager doing hype-driven development I'd probably try to make a systemd native tool work. Probably 80% of the problems I've had with containers have been related to lifecycle management, e.g. containers not automatically coming back up after a reboot. Networking is also a big issue though and I don't know how well the systemd tools work with that. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 02-Jul-2018 03:46:04 EDT
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It's amusing to see that the effort of Google et al to bring politics onto the workfloor in order to score Bay Area brownie points is now starting to make their workforce tell them what to do. I kinda hope this trend will continue, the more political the big companies get the more likely people will stop using them as a form of virtue signalling. This in turn would lead to other companies getting a shot at challenging the current incumbents. No guarantees that that will improve things of course but as a general rule actual competition delivers better results than (near-)monopolies.Β http://thehill.com/policy/technology/394597-trump-era-ramps-up-tech-worker-revolt -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jun-2018 04:20:12 EDT
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@maiyannah @bob Nah, it's even small businesses which I'm very confident don't have any evil intentions. It's just that people have a vision of the message they want to send and that vision is based on an idea of a website. Ordinary people simply think of HTML email as mailing a webpage. I can't blame them for that either, it's a very logical mental model which actually fits pretty well with the technical implementation. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Jun-2018 13:14:15 EDT
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@maiyannah @bob Unfortunately ideal does not cover what just about every business user seems to want: emails with bells and whistles and can we embed video's in there as well pretty please? -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 28-Jun-2018 02:03:27 EDT
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@maiyannah I know it's easy to laugh at Stallman but at least the guy is consistent. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 10:41:26 EDT
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@purplehippo And tacitly admitting that it is gambling. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 21-Jun-2018 02:33:03 EDT
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@maiyannah @bob From a particular pov 1 isn't a failure state. Conduct is the only thing that matters and as long as it's policed all is fine.Β -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 19-Jun-2018 15:08:09 EDT
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https://www.blender.org/media-exposure/youtube-blocks-blender-videos-worldwide/ Google is going from not even pretending they'renot evil anymore to putting up big neon signs. I just hope they'll kill youtube in the proces. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 17-Jun-2018 13:30:23 EDT
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@maiyannah (For reference for others, I don't mean Xenonauts is excessively hard at the easy level, I mean I really suck at these types of games.) -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 17-Jun-2018 13:29:28 EDT
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@maiyannah Can't say I'm too bothered about that, it's the usual marketing ploy that everyone understands ("buy two, get one free!"). I'm pretty pleased with the actual free stuff they had this sale though. Ziggurat isn't my cup of tea (permadeath, FPS dodging, only few RPG elements) but it looks quite good. Xenonauts is quite fun so far once I tuned it to my difficulty level (easy was a bit too hard for my tastes). -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 17-Jun-2018 13:23:43 EDT
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@maiyannah Consider where Disney is coming from: comical cartoons and cartoons about old fairy tales. Neither typically has intelligent antagonists. The comical cartoons certainly don't have intelligent protagonists either. Really the only really clever character from a Disney movie I can think of is Scrooge McDuck and that's really more thanks to Dickens.
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