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Adorable, aren’t they? Haven’t seen too many slugs around here in recent years. I suspect our increase use of pesticides are partly to blame. Used to be a lot more common before we upped the spraying around five years ago.
These days, more and more media is simply parroted and there’s much less original reporting than there used to be. Reporters are greatly preferring quantity over quality which is leaving important context out of news in general. I’ve seen some articles that claim such and such is closing but the article leaves an important point out: the closing is temporary. Just an example. I think the increase of access to reporting platforms is to blame as it lets anyone be a reporter with a large audience so there’s not much incentive to make sure the quality is up to par.
Our drought continues and fires are starting up around the state. People need to learn to be more careful!
In the mood to shop for unique decor, just not sure where to look :/
All sub-records have their data blocks as global scope with the classes having to go back and forth. We may want to change that at some point to having class-based scope. Will need evaluation.
I don’t see a reason for them to be globals as the values will change for each sub-record in play so it all sounds rather inefficient but we’ll get there.
Playing around with the
cppcheckconfiguration some and this is what I’ve currently got for the settings:
cppcheck --enable=all -I . --inconclusive --language=c++ --library=mfc --library=microsoft_atl --output-file=cppcheck.log --platform=win64 --quiet .
I’m currently unsure about--cppcheck-build-dirbut it may be useful as well with--cppcheck-build-dir=.It doesn’t seem as though
cppchecksupports config files, which would be nice as we’ll need to ultimately run it against multiple platform configurations but that can be fixed by adding shell scripts to the repository if we feel that it would be helpful.--enable=allturns on all of the checks, including the ones not turned on by default-I .tells it to look for the include paths relative to the root directory--inconclusivetells it to turn on additional checks that it can’t necessarily confirm (useful for catching functions that use different parameters in the declaration and defintion)--language=c++ensures that headers are being parsed as C++ instead of C, which is important as sometimes very little C++ is used in headers so C is detected instead--library=mfcand--library=microsoft_atltells it to load the configuration files for dealing with MFC and the ATL stuff.--output-file=cppcheck.logsaves the run to a log file to make it easier to sift through--platform=win64tells it to load the configuration for Windows (which, as we know, differs from other, more standard compliant platforms) and to check to make sure everything is 64-bit compliant--quiettells it not to report anything in the terminal
I’ll update the threads soon with a progress update 🙂
I’ve added a note about examining the icons as there seems to be several duplicates.
.icofiles can handle the PNG type but we’ll also want to see what’s supported by Linux and the GUI toolkit. It’s probably something that needs to wait.Still fixing up the circular dependencies and boolean types. Slowly making progress but progress is progress.
I just re-sleeved some old cards the other day. The 30 year old sleeves were pretty rough. 😛
May be a good idea to run Memtestbefore sunsetting it. HDDs are harder to test but the SMART information may help some
For the CPU, you’ll want Prime95
Granted, Prime95 is mostly for stress testing but could let you know if something is going belly up.
For GPU’s, you’ll definitely want FurMark. 🙂
Sorry, I mean the function that simply turns off the display while keeping the rest of the system on
After more experimenting, I’ve found that it’s the act of fully logging out and back in that fixes the flickering that is triggered by the screen locker as opposed to a reboot.
I’m definitely going to need to sit down at some point and do some troubleshooting and possibly open a ticket with the official support team as I’m also using their hardware. That said, I probably should have waited even longer to upgrade as COSMIC is definitely not ready for primetime. Too late to worry about that now, though. If it gets too obnoxious, I’ll probably go back to XFCE or Cinnamon and hope they work better.
Yuck!
While we’re mentioning Chrome, they finally added vertical tabs back to the feature set after removing them fifteen years ago without fanfare. Yay!
Split view can be handy but I do feel that its current design is rather clunky and, as a result, I rarely find myself using it
Yeah, I’m sure some of them have fallen into disrepair by now. There may be others opening up over the course of the next few decades as the USAF builds new silos. And let’s not forget all of the fallout shelters! Atlas Obscura has a few articles 🙂
iNaturalist is currently down for maintenance so will need to read it later 🙂
Really enjoy nature articles like that. There’s also Mammoth Cave and the Hoh Rainforest in Washington, which is impressive for its location.
Okay, I just finished moving the macros from
common/dl_base.hto the proper files. Now I need to go through the entire codebase and correct all of the includes, making sure everything is where it needs to be.This is a downside to making heavy use of the preprocessor: it can cause conflicts due to how compilers work.
- The preprocessor runs, doing full text replacement in the order that things appear
- The compiler runs, converting everything into an AST and object code
- Code is linked together into a single unit
Ultimately, we’ll want to pare things down to limit the potential for bugs in the future. I don’t have an issue on the tracker but I did mention it sometime last year in the thread, it just hasn’t made it over to GitHub yet. Will get it added at some point.
I also need to go through and remove the boolean macros and swap them out for
bool,true, andfalse. Going to take a bit as the UI makes heavy use the macrosOh, cool. Didn’t realize Skeptic was still around (sorry, haven’t had a chance to catch up on the SETI thread yet). Have fond memories of seeing their ‘zines on the newsstand years ago, back when they were still a thing here. Looks like a physical sub isn’t a whole lot: 36 USD annually. May be worth it 🙂
My mom has started relying on AI for some writing tasks. I haven’t seen the results so I can’t comment on it. I did experiment with it the other day for some research and wasn’t overly impressed. It just gave me a generic overview that I could have gotten on my own and with more insight had I done the research myself in the same amount of time that it took to read the overview.
Yeah, we’re doing the same thing: increasing biofuel output to make up the shortfall. Not a bad idea, honestly, and hopefully it helps spur R&D in that field, which has been sorely lacking. Electric is great and all but there are cases where it just doesn’t work out, such as during a grid failure (especially problematic here in Florida with our hurricanes). Unlike with other fuels, it’s hard to store enough power in batteries to charge things up to usable during an outage. I’ve long said that we need dual fuel vehicles where we can use either or. Different from hybrid as you still need both instead of being able to choose how the vehicle is powered.
Had this come in this morning: https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/the-most-beautiful-places-in-the-world
It does have what I’d consider some major omissions, such as this cave complex, but still worth a read.
Ooh, lookie. MAD is going to be riffing on DC in a few days: https://bleedingcool.com/comics/mad-about-dc-1-preview-dc-universe-gets-a-comedic-wedgie/
May need to pick up that special!
British comedy is some of the best!
And while we’re talking Benny Hill:
😀FiM is a blast!
Okay, community threads have been updated 🙂
Got more details on the syntax highlighting bug that was mentioned in issue 10. Went ahead and added the screenshot and post link to help us keep track of it. It should get fixed when we overhaul the GUI 🙂
