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Living Room / Re: Wordle: simple web word game

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2022, 10:11 PM »

I read somewhere that the best word to start with is "roate" because it eliminates more options than any other word.

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Living Room / Re: Programming/Coder humor

« Last post by Deozaan on January 18, 2022, 06:26 AM »

There are two hard problems in programming: Naming things, caching things, and off-by-one errors.

-Deozaan (August 24, 2021, 04:22 PM)

I thought this was really funny when I heard it last August, but I just reread this entire thread and was surprised to see it had been posted here seven years earlier:

...there are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.

via bottom of Martin Fowler

-ewemoa (February 24, 2014, 07:27 PM)

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022: DateAdder

« Last post by Deozaan on January 12, 2022, 11:06 PM »

Hi Tuxman,

That is not what I said, nor is it what I meant, and I think you are intelligent enough to understand the difference between what I actually said and what you are claiming I said. It saddens me to see you mischaracterize me in such a way.

Be well.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: Thank you to everyone who participated in NANY 2022

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2022, 05:04 PM »

Thanks to all who participated and especially to those who submitted a project to NANY 2022!

I was very distressed when I saw very little (maybe nothing?) for NANY last year and I thought that you had given up on it.

-lugosi84 (January 08, 2022, 01:43 AM)

I'm confused by this. There was more participation in NANY 2021 (last year) than in NANY 2022.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2022, 04:54 PM »

He committed code that did not work as expected into his own repositories containing his own free code.

-Tuxman (January 10, 2022, 08:07 AM)

This is dishonest. The code worked exactly as expected. It was intentionally and maliciously designed to break other projects that used the code in those public repositories he had stewardship over.

I don't understand why you are so insistent on defending this guy. Pick a better martyr for your cause. I'm sure there are plenty of other repositories or accounts that have been suspended or removed for more defensible reasons. But this guy is an obvious bad actor who intentionally caused harm through his actions. And this is not his first foray into intentionally harming others. He has a history of making literal bombs and booby traps.

When he released his code using an open source license, it became a public good. That's pretty much the meaning of free software. He is perfectly within his rights to intentionally destroy his own copies of code. He is not within his rights to destroy public property. Which is why his local repositories can contain whatever changes he wishes to commit. But the repositories hosted on GitHub were GitHub's copy of the code, which he had permission to push changes to under the assumption and condition (those pesky ToS!) that he remain a good steward over it. Public repositories hosted by 3rd parties that thousands of others use do not have an obligation to host or accept his malicious code, so they reverted his malicious changes and denied him access to their copies of the repositories.

A person who creates a statue and freely donates it to be displayed in a public park does not have the right to destroy the statue later if he becomes angry that people aren't paying him money for it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft to buy GitHub in $7.5B all-stock deal

« Last post by Deozaan on January 10, 2022, 01:29 AM »

Anyone here still using GitHub?
Enjoy losing access just because they don't like your commits.

-Tuxman (January 09, 2022, 09:27 PM)

Hopefully that guy, who intentionally sabotaged his code that thousands of other projects were dependent on, was using git "the right way" and has local/backup copies of all his repositories elsewhere. Also, hopefully he gets the mental help he needs.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: N.A.N.Y 2022: Desktop Maid

« Last post by Deozaan on January 04, 2022, 04:20 PM »

If you say so. I never "tasted" an application before. 

-GrumpyCoder (January 03, 2022, 10:48 PM)

You're missing out! You haven't lived until you've tasted an application.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« Last post by Deozaan on December 27, 2021, 01:05 PM »

X-Morph: Defense is free for the next two days on GOG.

https://www.gog.com/...nse_complete_edition

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Deozaan on December 20, 2021, 03:55 PM »

This really hits the nail on the head...

When You Need A YouTube Video To Fix Something

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Living Room / Re: Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2022

« Last post by Deozaan on December 19, 2021, 01:10 AM »

Merry Christmas to all!

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Deozaan on December 18, 2021, 03:16 AM »

Has Notepad disappeared for anyone else?

I noticed a couple days ago that regular .txt files have started opening in LibreOffice, showing the icon for "Calc" which is the LibreOffice equivalent of Excel. When I go to Default Apps to change it back to Notepad, there's no listing for it. And also if I press the Start/Windows button and type Notepad to search for it, I don't get any matching results.

What happened to Notepad?

-Deozaan (December 17, 2021, 04:30 PM)

Okay... Notepad is back. I have no idea what happened to get it back. I decided to go into LibreOffice to see if I could disable filetypes from within the preferences, but it just launched the Windows 10 Default Apps settings menu thingy. I had tried that earlier (before mentioning this whole Notepad fiasco this thread) but I had forgotten that it did that.

However, this time Notepad showed up in the options. And now I also see it in the start menu when I search for it.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mount a Disc Image from Context Menu?

« Last post by Deozaan on December 18, 2021, 01:58 AM »

Okay, I just solved it. It is a standard Windows 10 feature! But it seems that when I ran (not installed!) ImgBurn recently, it automatically grabbed file associations with all types of disc images, which removed the "mount" option from the context menu.

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General Software Discussion / Mount a Disc Image from Context Menu?

« Last post by Deozaan on December 18, 2021, 01:54 AM »

Hi all,

I deal with disc images semi-frequently, and one thing that I've found very helpful in the past is to be able to just right-click the ISO (or other format) image and select "Mount Disc Image" and it would automatically mount it as a virtual drive. Then I could view/copy the files I needed and then eject/unmount the drive and be on my way when I was finished.

I was under the impression that it had become a standard Windows 10 feature. But I've just noticed that I no longer have that context menu option, and I can't remember what utility I may have had installed in the past to enable it.

Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on how to get this feature back?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Deozaan on December 17, 2021, 05:33 PM »

What happened to Notepad?

-Deozaan (December 17, 2021, 04:30 PM)

I still have mine. Did yesterday anyway.
10 not 11 though.

-Dormouse (December 17, 2021, 04:53 PM)

I'm running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, version 21H2 (OS Build 19044.1415).

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General Software Discussion / Re: Windows 10 Announced

« Last post by Deozaan on December 17, 2021, 04:30 PM »

Has Notepad disappeared for anyone else?

I noticed a couple days ago that regular .txt files have started opening in LibreOffice, showing the icon for "Calc" which is the LibreOffice equivalent of Excel.



When I go to Default Apps to change it back to Notepad, there's no listing for it.



And also if I press the Start/Windows button and type Notepad to search for it, I don't get any matching results.



What happened to Notepad?

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« Last post by Deozaan on December 16, 2021, 12:34 PM »

Epic Games seems to be doing a daily giveaway, probably for the next week or two.

Today's free game on Epic Games Store is Shenmue 3:

https://www.epicgame...re/en-US/p/shenmue-3

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« Last post by Deozaan on December 13, 2021, 08:39 PM »

Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is free on GOG:

https://www.gog.com/...blades_of_the_shogun

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« Last post by Deozaan on December 11, 2021, 03:26 PM »

It says coming soon on Gog

-wraith808 (December 10, 2021, 06:42 PM)

It seems there was a temporary issue with it. It's working for me right now.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« Last post by Deozaan on December 10, 2021, 12:30 PM »

Cave Story's Secret Santa is free "for a limited time" on GOG and Steam.

https://www.gog.com/..._storys_secret_santa
https://store.steamp...Storys_Secret_Santa/

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PublicDomainVic / Re: The case for supporting Windows 7 in 2022

« Last post by Deozaan on December 06, 2021, 09:44 PM »

Your post reminded me of the Steam hardware survey. Windows users make up 96.04% of all Steam users as of November 2021:

• Windows 10 64 bit - 83.38%
• Windows 11 64 bit - 8.28%
• Windows 7 64 bit - 3.34%
• Windows 8.1 64 bit - 0.74%
• Windows 7 - 0.21%
• Windows 10 - 0.09%
• Windows 8 64 bit - 0.05%

I was surprised to see that nearly 10% of Windows users on Steam are already running Windows 11. But that's mostly because I forgot Windows 11 was even a thing.

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Living Room / Re: Nuclear missile silo keyboard repurposed for usb

« Last post by Deozaan on December 03, 2021, 02:09 AM »

I misread "usb" in the title as "sub" and thought it was put into a nuclear submarine.

Very cool, nonetheless.

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DC Gamer Club / Re: Latest Game Giveaway

« Last post by Deozaan on December 03, 2021, 01:53 AM »

Crime Cities is free on GOG until 9th December 2021, 6 PM UTC.

https://www.gog.com/game/crime_cities

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by Deozaan on December 02, 2021, 06:40 PM »

No idea how this came across my Twitter feed, but I thought this reply was hilarious.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Release: Progress Bar and Jam (PB&J)

« Last post by Deozaan on November 26, 2021, 12:04 PM »

I've updated the original post with downloads and I reformatted it to more closely follow the submission template.

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N.A.N.Y. 2022 / Re: NANY 2022 Pledge: Something Stupid This Way Comes

« Last post by Deozaan on November 24, 2021, 03:59 PM »

It seems so obvious now!

PB&J - Progress Bar and Jam