Thinking about how last week's episode, with the time travel, was actually pretty good but made me feel worse about the show because via time travel it was in effect repeatedly posting the question "hey, didn't these characters and their character dynamics used to be so much more interesting?". Anyway about to watch this week's episode and kind of I kind of don't want to
@mcc I watched the first three episodes of this season before realising Fallout was out, watching all of that, and realising that I had no intention of forcing myself to go back to discovery
still, at least fallout was good. the thing that I allowed myself to stop watching a previous season of discovery for was a seth macfarlane show where most of the cast acted like they had guns to the back of their heads
@eniko being from scotland, where every single child is taught at an early age to memorise absolutely everything ever invented by a scottish person, I am now keen to pivot to being an all-dutch-inventions person
other good ones: the orange carrot, the pendulum clock, the concept of Freedom Of The Seas
@eniko a guy I went to uni with wrote the program for his thesis (which, because he was from the extreme north of scotland, was a potato management simulator) in qbasic. he is now wildly successful
So on the one hand, we have a lot of fun on here making fun of Python packaging systems. But on the other hand, have you considered: JavaScript packaging systems
@mcc a couple of years back for work I had to learn that PHP now has a rich packaging ecosystem and learning just how PHP it was all the way down gave me a warm fuzzy feeling about python for weeks
Anyone know an easy way to show a full screen image in windows 95?
I thought I could use mspaint but it turns out it adds a 1px border in full-screen mode.
I could write a simple win32 app but that seems like a lot of work for something this simple
@mcc honestly hats off to them if they have developed a shell script that can reliably and silently install docker in a cross-distro manner
is it total brain worms? absolutely. but curl-to-bash, and technology in the 2020s in general, is all about plunging one's hand enthusiasically into the pain box
@mcc I admire the commitment to idempotence ("if there is already a key, throw it away") and that despite having been in the industry for over 20 years this is the first time I've ever seen what the long argument for "mkdir -p" is (presumably because a linter complained)
@jonny I must respectively disagree, having spent three years living within earshot of this extremely silly building, which chimed every single hour of the entire year
looks at Lattice devboard dated 2019 why did they go back from micro-B to mini-B?!
what on earth would possess somebody to put a mini-B connector on a new devboard from 2019? did they run out of micro-B's and found a crate of mini-B's? did they get a kickback? so few options
@whitequark fun story: it is actually illegal to put a mini-b socket on any device which is not covered in that soft-touch rubber crap which disintegrates into a tar-like slime after three years
Today's horrible computer discovery: Github will not let you create a pull request from repo A to repo B unless there is specifically a fork relationship in github.com's database from repo A to repo B. It doesn't help for the git commits to simply be all the same. If there is a way to create this fork relationship after the fact I couldn't find one, so I wound up renaming a github repo to move it out of the way, then forking a new one, then rerunning the git push
@whitequark@mcc on the plus side, GitHub support is ridiculously good. Even free randos get better support than you'd expect from, say, a six-figure corporate AWS support contact
In recent decades we've seen stats get smaller, both in terms of numerical value and in terms of number of stats. And this is fine, but let's talk a little about larger stat ranges.
One seemingly strange thing about D&D is the way that stats "actually" range from -3 to 3, but it's printed as 3-18, right?
There so many "useless" values that resolve to the same result. 9-12 is all the same number. 13&14? Same value. 15&16? Same value.
@Craigp diablo 2 did this exactly right, and one of my favourite characters was a melee necromancer who did the job with a giant fuck-off two handed sword