lime

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[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 3 days ago

meh, i'm ambivalent. s&box will probably be a lot more flexible than gmod due to deeper access and a higher performance language. that will most likely lead to some very high quality mods.

besides, i was active on the fp forums between 2006 and 2012ish, some people just refused to take money. we asked them for donation links and they said no.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 11 points 4 days ago (6 children)

i mean i get it. they've set it up so that people can get money for the things they develop within the game, which makes it a viable platform for modders to survive on. it's basically paid mods again, but more direct.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 42 points 4 days ago (2 children)

buildings with upward-facing spotlights, especially single-family homes with façade lights. it's like nobody cares about light pollution.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

it was nothing official, just a toy file sharing thing using the chord dht algorithm. it consisted of a single binary that you fed with a directory and the IP of an extant member, and it would sync everything on the network into that directory.

no edge cases handled, so the 90% remained.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

i can chime in with some actual experience!

my current problems with KDE are

  • the greeter only accepts my password on the secondary monitor
  • the compositor shuts down whenever something uses the GPU even though the setting is off
  • my primary desktop randomly shunts itself to the right, plopping on top of the desktop on the secondary display and leaving a big black void on half my primary until plasmashell is restarted
  • my panels keep collapsing their content down to the width of a single pixel until i resize them
  • Wayland just crashloops and is completely unusable (no, i don't have an nvidia card)
  • i still can't get the acrylic transparency to work :(

and what's fun about this is, the issues are so intermittent and random that i never know what i'm going to get on a given day!

[–] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 6 days ago

as i understand it, the money goes to the foundation, and it's the corporation that develops the browser. so it's probably not strictly forbidden, but it does imply that the money is not for browser development.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 6 days ago

good point, ruby is a good comparison. although, ruby is very different under the hood. it's magically dynamic in a completely different way, and it also never really got the penetration on the system level that python did.

none of this is to take away from the fact that python packaging is bad. i know how to work it because i've been programming in python for 14 years, but trying to teach people makes the problem obvious. and yet.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 7 points 1 week ago

in the health sector specifically, IT is a mess because you can't stop people from working or there will be deaths. one thing you should take away from this is that their jobs are important and it is crucial that they can do them. it is your job to support them; anything that stops them doing their job or makes it take longer, even once, is dangerous. improving infra for its own sake is not a good idea because it comes at the risk of peoples lives. the details don't matter in the face of that.

if this stresses you out, you can absolutely change jobs. i did.

if you think you can work within those parameters, and you think you can find ways to improve the system in-place while mitigating the risks, then you will be highly respected.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

sure, do that. and good luck with this, i did something similar for a project once and as usual its those last 5% that are going to cost you 90% of the time.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

mozilla takes donations, but they don't fund Firefox development with that money. that's usually what people have against it.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 1 week ago

i've seen something like this before, where the kernel holds the file handle open for the process so that it thinks the file is still there. i think it's related to how the program closes the file but i don't remember the details. restarting qbittorent will most likely fix it.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 3 points 1 week ago
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