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Never overestimate the ability of a governmental bureaucracy to be immovable except when confronted with a government bureaucracy higher in the chain, if there is one. (This is especially when extorting money from a person, company or subordinate governmental bureaucracy.)
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Change will bring smaller downloads and quicker checking for updates. Didn't they promise that years ago?
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For all their failings, I'm actually fairly impressed with their progress in this regard as it stands already. I've a number of aspects to complain about with the update mechanism, but size isn't one of them. Checking? Well, that has enjoyed a chequered past.
Anyone that's bought a brand-new pc/console game and copped a multi-gigabyte release-day patch may feel just the same way. My internet's expensive. In many cases, the patch will cost me 50% of what the game did. Elephant that - I'm not going to drop another $15k on a car because they've rushed it to market, why should this be so different?
modified 3-Nov-16 22:33pm.
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The nation state has a single point of failure fiber, recently installed in 2011, and could spell disaster for dozens of other countries. "Our rights to prove, we will o'er all prevail"
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A VSCode person can (and probably will) answer in more detail, but at heart it's... | Hacker News[^]
Microsoft publishes a list of known good declaration files for popular npm packages to npm, under the scope @types: https://www.npmjs.com/~types
The 1.7 release of VSCode helpfully tries to automatically load type declarations for any npm package you use by requesting the equivalent declaration package under @types. When the package exists this is fine, because it's cached in our CDN.
What they forgot to consider is that most CDNs don't cache 404 responses, and since there are 350,000 packages and less than 5000 type declarations, the overwhelming majority of requests from VSCode to the registry were 404s. This hammered the hell out of our servers until we put caching in place for 404s under the @types scope.
We didn't start caching 404s for every package, and don't plan to, because that creates annoying race conditions for fresh publishes, which is why most CDNs don't cache 404s in the first place.
There are any number of ways to fix this, and we'll work with Microsoft to find the best one, but fundamentally you just need a more network-efficient way of finding out which type declarations exist. At the moment there are few enough that they could fetch a list of all of them and cache it (the public registry lacks a documented API for doing that right now, but we can certainly provide one).
Marc
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Oh for the love of...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Marc, you make me happy that my problems are dealing with gcc 4.4.7 on CentOS 6.8.
(I keep trying VSCode and keep not liking it.)
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They've released v1.7.1 to disable that feature until they can rethink it.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Oops!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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"This search engine remembers literally everything that's been on your computer" [^]Quote: Though Atlas Recall is a unique product, it's similar to Google's ecosystem that saves and tracks everything you do. When you're logged in to Google services, it collects and saves your activity, from where you go via Google Maps, to appointments you make with Google Calendar. You can search these services to find personal data.
But Atlas Recall takes that behavior and applies it to literally everything you do with your computer.
"The platform wars are over, nobody won, and no one will ever win them again," Ritter told CNNMoney. "We now have diverse sets of apps and platforms and services, and we move fluidly between all of them. What we want is something that works the way we use our devices and data."
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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One of the more compelling alternatives is a particle called an axion. Axions were first proposed to solve a different problem in physics, one involving the forces that pulls quarks and gluons together to form things like protons and neutrons. But if axions exist and have mass, they would seem to have the properties needed to produce the effects we ascribe to dark matter. Show all calculations for full score
I first read the particle name as "axiom", and thought it would be appropriate that Dark Matter is just the coalesced bad premises from all the arguments out there.
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In short, Gitless promises to solve some of Git’s core issues and help ease programmers’ work. The number of tools created to simplify Git should be telling someone something
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I still have no clue how to create a branch on the remote repo. The last time I tried, I ended up renaming the master branch on the remote, and I have no idea how I did that, or that it was even possible.
Marc
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If it's not too indirect for you, create a local branch and push it to the remote.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: If it's not too indirect for you, create a local branch and push it to the remote.
Gads, if it's so freaking simple, why don't people just say so when I googled for the answer?
And whether this works with the SmartGit/Hg UI I use, well, that's another matter. I really need to create a "play" git account for testing/learning this stuff, and then documenting how it works with SmartGit.
I refuse to use the command line.
Marc
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It works great with the SourceTree Gui I'm using for the same reason you're using SmartGit. It not showing up under search suggests one of three things:
0) It has a special name and without the secret decoder ring you don't know what to search for.
1) It's actually 73 steps via the command line, so the true faithful pretend the concept doesn't exist.
2) Gits interface is just crap.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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0 | 1 | 2
(hmmm, we need a special bit for "0" when doing bitwise or'ing!)
Marc
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SourceTree is awesome.
Unfortunately, I'm using an older version of CentOS without root and can't get any Linux GUIs to run.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: In short, Gitless promises to solve some of Git’s core issues and help ease programmers’ work. So it's kind of like SVN?
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Meh.
Since I've started using Git heavily the one thing I've found myself swearing most is something that git's proponents have always insisted it does better than SVN. Merges.
Any time (or at least frequently enough that if it's not 100% I haven't noticed the exceptions) there's a merge where I and someone else have inserted something in the same place in a file (eg added a new class to a .csproj) git gives a merge conflict and requires me to manually resolve it by adding both lines to the merged file. I don't recall ever having similar problems with SVN.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Oh, how I loathe git. The number of "features" it has to work around its deficiencies seem endless.
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We know that Russia wants to give Microsoft products the boot, but now it's clearer as to why. Because Putin's a Mac guy?
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To be replaced with Russia's OS "окно"
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Marc
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Microsoft is known for being "very cooperative" with all goverment agencies.
Maybe the russian dont like to get "also" spyed out from american secret services
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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Our goal is to enable machines to better understand human communication. An important question is, what does the word “understand” mean here? "Because denial ain't just a river in Egypt"
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