dejected_warp_core @ dejected_warp_core @lemmy.world

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I dunno, someone could figure out how to watch it by mail.

I'm kinda/sorta there now. The factory media console in my car "understands" mp3 files on a USB flash drive. Why Nissan decided to go with the most cursed UI/UX imaginable to navigate this is beyond me. It's practically useless. I would love to slap in a 1990's vintage Pioneer head unit - with mp3 capability - and call it a day.

The only alternative here is wireless high-power transmission for the home. Which is possible, but you'll run into issues like "what is that ringing sound?" and "why do my fillings feel hot?"

I just imagined the power bill required to do this. Now my wallet hurts.

Wires are life.

Learn to manage (route, store, wind, respect bend radius, etc) cables and reliability will be your reward.

Until the next day when they had the realisation that MSDN windows API docs are garbage, tried the supposedly not-working flag and it actually did work.

This now leaves us with an uncomfortable question: is the real bug in the docs, or the API implementation? If it's the latter, it's at risk of being patched out since it's behavior that doesn't match the docs.

This man gave us so much in exchange for a steady, lifetime diet of scenery-chewing.

My condolences on both the awful realizations and the exhaustion of your retirement funds. I feel you on the self-incorporation front. That one keeps coming up for me, especially when times are tough.

I have never been more motivated by the complete absence of a social safety-net, than each day I have spent unemployed.

As Americans, perhaps we behave this way largely to do normalization and indoctrination. And maybe some are tacitly aware of the fragility of this arrangement. But for those of us that have stared into the financial and classist chasm that sits beneath us all, it vastly exceeds any unease you might feel from not keeping up with your peers.

Sweet jebus, it really can do anything. Just put it in the kernel already. /s

This is the right answer. Life has already shown him that operating on a level playing field and being honest, really doesn't get a guy like him very far. So the genius workaround is to lie your pants off instead, and build an alternative environment around yourself where you can't lose.

Rebuilding with period-correct tools and techniques. At least, as best as can be pulled together based on archaeology and the scant documentation we have from the time. The videos make it very clear where he's taking license and where he's not, which makes his already top-shelf presentation style that much more entertaining.

This project has also taken forever due to our host taking breaks to work with people on actual peer-reviewed publications about all this. It's really an enormous project that is contributing to the intersection of engineering and archaeology in profound ways.

Now if we could just talk to some EU internet satellites...

It's worse if you have ever worked in food service. "App" is short for "appetizer".

::cries in very specific form of confusion::

Others may have different experiences, but AFAIK schools tend to be funded by the property taxes in their district. Combined with rampant, unchecked, failed desegreation, and you have some schools that are swimming in cash while everyone else begs to close that gap.

I'm all for it. Real talk though: at what point do we consider re-basing the dollar? I get that we're nowhere near that now, but I'm guessing it's at the "kill the $1 bill" mark?

I've used both. What I can tell you is that moving to WSL is like moving to Linux wholesale. Treat it like porting your toolchain.

IIRC, MinGW tools will happily take windows style paths (e.g. "C:\Usersmyuser\projects"). If your tooling/scripting depends on being able to use Windows style paths, you'll have to fix that first or you're going to have a really bad time. There may be other small differences between MinGW tools and what ships on Ubuntu (or whatever Linux you decide to use in the WSL).

All I know is that the WSL is a massive step-up from Cygwin or Mingw32. We've been here before. The most recent incarnation before WSL was a klunky VirtualBox VM steered by Packer. The idea that you can mash a few buttons and get an Ubuntu VM with filesystem mapping that "just works" is a huge improvement.

Edit: I really don't get the vitriol anyone gets for using the WSL when it's a problem the FOSS community has tried to solve three times over in the last 25+ years or so.

That's nothing. You should find the animated version...

It's from the movie Predator.

If you want to see what it would look like if the anthropomorphic incarnation of testosterone itself wrote, directed, and acted in a movie, then look no further. It's so full of vitamin-T your voice will drop an octave while watching it, and your unborn grandkids will go into puberty next week.