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That is the direct definition to the answer right there - the "sidekick" theme, but I get what you meant.
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Perhaps you are correct. Maybe because we have the theme it's ok to bend the rules a bit.
I guess just do it however you want, if people don't like it then they are free to say so 
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I did some Ky Tyrand book yesterday.
Was a fun read! 
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Seems a bit RPG'ish to me 
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Might be in the same ballpark indeed! 
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I started it up and played around in kodi a bit. CPU temp got up to 47c (well below the temp at which it would start to freq throttle).
I had a big-ass AMD heat sink (120mm radiator that usually has a fan on it), so I just set it on top of the case, and the temperature went down to 43C in a few minutes.
Since I'm using librelec, I have to ssh into the box remotely to change things. Once I have I have it setup to find the server, I'll play a couple of movies and see how it does. I may even try overclocking it if movie playback isn't up to snuff.
So far, though, so good.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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that's cool. I got tvmobili and a media manager i wrote running on archlinux which would enable the kind of thing you're doing, but i never did set it up on a phone or a pi.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I should be getting my WickedAluminum case for my Raspberry Pi 4 today. I'll finally be able to see if the Pi 4 (4gb) can make a viable Kodi box. I've already created a Librelec image on a 64GB SD card, and have already applied the BIOS update that helps the board run a few degrees cooler, but I was concerned about the excessive heat that cause the board to freq-throttle under constant load. The case in question is made from billet aluminum, and the whole thing acts as a heat sink. It's just slightly less expensive than all the other stuff (Pi board, power supply and SD card) combined, but it seems like it's going to be well worth the expense.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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i just put mine in a shoebox.
my workspace looks like the guy's from Pi.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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<grump>I'd settle for a new laptop bag</grump>
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I used an older board and ran kodi, worked great. Don't remember for sure but don't think it had heat sink, just bare board dangling in back of tv.
Technician
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2. One who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge.
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I should be getting my WickedAluminum case for my Raspberry Pi 4 today. I'll finally be able to see if the Pi 4 (4gb) can make a viable Kodi box. I've already created a Librelec image on a 64GB SD card, and have already applied the BIOS update that helps the board run a few degrees cooler, but I was concerned about the excessive heat that cause the board to freq-throttle under constant load. The case in question is made from billet aluminum, and the whole thing acts as a heat sink. It's just slightly less expensive than all the other stuff (Pi board, power supply and SD card) combined, but it seems like it's going to be well worth the expense.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Keep us posted John - they do run hot even ticking over
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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#realJSOP wrote: It's just slightly less expensive than all the other stuff (Pi board, power supply and SD card) combined, but it seems like it's going to be well worth the expense.
Sure, but TotalCost=LessThanAPairOfShoesForTheMissus, so just smile and offer a back-rub.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Visual Studio's "code suggestions" are atrocious. "Let me nag you to use all the latest language features and make actual stylecop rules get buried under spurious suggestions about not using explicit tuples"
Worse, they can change the semantics of the code.
And I'm a stickler about having *no* messages on a final build, so this stuff is just nuts. I don't want to turn it off - i just want it to be sane.
Look at this mess:
if (null == rule1) throw new ArgumentNullException("rule1");
if (null == rule2) throw new ArgumentNullException("rule2");
Kind = kind;
Rule1 = rule1;
Rule2 = rule2;
Symbol = symbol;
Kind = kind;
Rule1 = rule1 ?? throw new ArgumentNullException("rule1");
Rule2 = rule2 ?? throw new ArgumentNullException("rule2");
Symbol = symbol;
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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You can change it in Tools >> Options >> Text Editor >> C# >> Code Style under the null checking section.
I'm guessing they did this so that people would actually use the new language features they're adding to C#...
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thanks.
if the language features are good why should they need to be nagware?
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Is that a constructor, or a method?
If it's a ctor, it's sort-of OK - if the ctor throws, then you'll only ever have access to the instance from the finalizer (if any), so you don't need to worry about partially-constructed objects.
If it's a method, then it's just plain wrong, and should be reported as a bug.
"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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in this case it's a constructor but it does it in ctors and methods both. it gives no care as to where it suggests the code change.
but yeah, i take your point that for ctors it doesn't matter (much) but in general changing the order of execution from what the developer wrote is a bad thing, if it changes the semantics.
I don't believe a lot of thought was put into all this even though i basically understand why they did it.
but to go and change the code semantics... anything else i could almost understand, but this could introduce some very nasty bugs.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Who mocks the mocker?
If I were ever to write that (I wouldn't), I'd put the tests for null in an #if DEBUG .
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for public facing APIs, when a lack of a null check will result in a hard to find error later, as is often the case with constructor assignments, in my experience, I like to put null checks in.
Otherwise I'm kind of a minimalist when it comes to throwing errors. I try to delegate that to the code i call where possible. Sometimes though, I need to intervene to throw an error that makes sense, and that's when I do so.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Gawd. The VS suggestion is taking a good idea (the ?? operator) and mangling it into an aesthetic and semantic mess. Not to mention also changing the behavior of the code, as you pointed out.
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i sooo agree with this. I quite like the ?? operator when i remember to use it but in this case ugh. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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The same people who think "var" for everything is a good idea.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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guilty.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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