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[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 17 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

Down arrow pointing to a line, box, folder, or similar. Icons like that are what I've seen most commonly in software that has an icon for saving over the last few years.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 7 points 2 weeks ago

First time I recall ever having to call 911 for what I thought was an emergency was when I heard breaking glass followed by seeing smoke pouring out of an apartment complex across the street late at night. No alarms were going off, which was weird. I was in a bit of a mild panic when I called them, and blanked hard when they asked me for my phone number. They must have gotten it from caller ID fine though since they were able to call me back later -- but I felt really stupid to have blanked on that... By the time the fire truck got there, the smoke was already long gone. In retrospect, I should've recorded a clip with my phone -- but I wasn't expecting it to just go away. When I was called back, I went out and explained what I'd saw and pointed out the location. They couldn't find anything amiss, but after discussion concluded that what I'd probably seen was someone vaping (out of sight) in the (open air) hallway. They weren't sure what the glass was, but I found shards in the street the next day -- I think someone chucked a bottle into the middle of the road.

I've had to call 911 a bunch of times since then ("911" shows up on 28 different days in my journal), including for myself twice to get to a hospital. The first time I had to call 911 for myself I couldn't find the keypad on my smartphone to enter "911" since it had gotten shuffled to somewhere I wasn't expecting in an update. I found it eventually, and thankfully the issue was just my first panic attack rather than an actual heart attack...

Most of the rest of the times I've had to call were about traffic accidents (or sometimes for people who seemed to have lost touch with reality) while living in an apartment in a downtown area. Worst was when someone was not moving, covered in blood and lying in the middle of the road after a car crash. An ambulance came and took him away about as quick as you could hope for in such circumstances, but looking at him lying there... that guy was probably already dead. Police were out there for hours afterwards with tape blocking off the road and photographing the scene and everything.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You can probably find a way to make it work as a setting, but you should try to come up with a plot if you want to tell a story. Who are your characters? What do they want? What's stopping them from getting what they want, and how do they deal with that? What will make the reader/player care about what happens to your characters in this post-apocalyptic setting?

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

As another data point for you: it's not just piefed. I'm seeing no link over here from reddthat (lemmy) either -- just an image and body text (i.e. the TL;DR).

What did mbin do with images and links?

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Hmm. I dabble in artistic programming. Would anyone be interested if I posted about stuff like how I implemented a pencil tool in my pixel editor, wrote an image stitcher, or made this trippy spiral animation occasionally? I'd probably be posting more on the mad science / math wizardry side of things if that is of interest (and in scope).

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)
[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 35 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

Yeah, that looks like Jolly Roger Bay.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

probably アレックス

Alex Louis Armstrong is アレックス・ルイ・アームストロング on the Japanese Wikipedia article about Full Metal Alchemist's main characters; so, seems like that's correct.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 4 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

"FireFox enjoyer", I think.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

I'm not aware of an already existing way to do that within Cinnamon, but you could try installing the Unity desktop instead (which is what Ubuntu was using back then). Canonical moved away from it in favor of GNOME some years ago, so it's languished, but I was running a version of it until I jumped ship to Mint and Cinnamon earlier this year; it's still possible to run it, though you might have to work around some breakage from limited maintenance.

Staying within Cinnamon, you can move the panel up to the top and re-arrange/remove elements on it. I made a few tweaks like that to my set up since I was running Unity for so long. e.g. put the menu on the right with a different icon, etc. That was good enough for me, personally.

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yes, and they're often used together.

Celery is cold tolerant and can be grown/harvested in winter, IIRC. That might also be a factor in why it's prevalent in soups?

[–] e0qdk@reddthat.com 11 points 3 weeks ago

Wait. Why the fuck are people searching for Minecraft on PornHub? O.o

Did the Creeper Girl get, uh, more explicit in the years since she was on YouTube or something?

 

Src: pixiv - danbooru

 

Src: danbooru

 

Src: twitter - danbooru

 

I had some free time this weekend and I've spent some of it trying to learn Go since mlmym seems to be unmaintained and I'd like to try to fix some issues in it. I ran into a stumbling block that took a while to solve and which I had trouble finding relevant search results for. I've got it solved now, but felt like writing this up in case it helps anyone else out.

When running most go commands I tried (e.g. go mod init example/hello or go run hello.go or even something as seemingly innocuous as go doc cmd/compile when a go.mod file exists) the command would hang for a rather long time. In most cases, that was about 20~30 seconds, but in one case -- trying to get it to output the docs about the compile tool -- it took 1 minute and 15 seconds! This was on a relatively fresh Linux Mint install on old, but fairly decent hardware using golang-1.23 (installed from apt).

After the long wait, it would print out go: RLock go.mod: no locks available -- and might or might not do anything else depending on the command. (I did get documentation out after the 1min+ wait, for example.)

Now, there's no good reason I could think of why printing out some documentation or running Hello World should take that long, so I tried looking at what was going on with strace --relative-timestamps go run hello.go > trace.txt 2>&1 and found this in the output file:

0.000045 flock(3, LOCK_SH)         = -1 ENOLCK (No locks available)
25.059805 clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, {tv_sec=3691, tv_nsec=443533733}) = 0

It was hanging on flock for 25 seconds (before calling clock_gettime).

The directory I was running in was from an NFS mount which was using NFSv3 unintentionally. File locking does not work on NFSv3 out of the box. In my case, changing the configuration to allow it to use NFSv4 was the fix I needed. After making the change a clean Hello World build takes ~5 seconds -- and a fraction of a second with cache.

After solving it, I've found out that there are some issues related to this open already (with a different error message -- cmd/go: "RLock …: Function not implemented") and a reply on an old StackOverflow about a similiar issue from one of the developers encouraging people to file a new issue if they can't find a workaround (like I did). For future reference, those links are:

 

What's in the box? WHAT'S IN THE BOX!?

(will post my own drawing as a comment after I get replies from others -- looking forward to seeing what you all come up with!)

 

Silver Spoon

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