IIRC, the T420 and
its contemporaries were the last ones to have a good keyboard;
T430 and onward are chiclet garbage.
-Wyatt
On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 11:35:19 UTC, Chris wrote:
Are we mad or just passionate?
Yes.
r it goes
back to the drawing board.
On what criterion do you filter applicants for std.experimental
then?
"Some people think this looks pretty good and is fit for
inclusion in Phobos; but others are on the fence and we don't
know for sure, so we need to run an experiment to find out."
-Wyatt
to report errors against it specifically rather than
generating noise.)
-Wyatt
, since we have packages
now, would std.experimental.* be an acceptable compromise?
-Wyatt
of inspiration
for the
top-notch D guys...
Is there a white paper available for FastMM? Couldn't find any.
-- Andrei
I Googled a little and found this, but nothing with larger scale:
http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/33416#27ImplementationDetails
-Wyatt
t for
doing so.
Belay that, if I wanted a compiler centipede, I'd be more
interested in targeting Haxe: community-driven and it lets me
_also_ target C#, JVM, and a number of other silly things.
-Wyatt
don't exist in my world. ASM.js is only slightly better in this
regard because it at least _runs_ on other browsers.
-Wyatt
with your interpretation...? :/
-Wyatt
I'm not seeing much in the documentation, but from what I can
tell (per the FAQ), shared in D just guarantees it's on the
global heap?
-Wyatt
[0]
https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/simonpj/papers/parallel/local-gc.pdf
ndow?
What must be collected when it runs in that situation? (Serious
questions.)
See, in the final-by-default discussions, you clearly explained
the issues and related them well to concerns that are felt
broadly, but this... yeah, I don't really have any context for
this, when D would already be much faster than the thirty years
of C navel lint (K&R flavour!) that I grapple in my day job.
-Wyatt
in the top bar links to
http://www.perl.org/cpan.html, which explains cpan ...and I think
you can see where this is going.
I love my package manager, but I'm going to have to agree with
Manu's bewilderment here.
-Wyatt
ven close to turning into code. I'm pretty certain that nothing
left on my short list that I personally *really* care about will
ever get pulled, even if I did do the work.
I know I and several other people are still interested in
std.simd... :(
-Wyatt
[1] http://lwn.net/Articles/324279/
ery discoverable
in the first place; maybe make one an alias for the other and
give people a sporting chance to find the damn thing?
-Wyatt
, one data point is not data but a lot of them is.
Every anecdote carries some weight.
And even as one person, there are probably a non-trivial number
of people who think roughly the same way and would benefit
from...err, from being proselytised? ;)
-Wyatt
) has gravity. I would generally consider literal
assignments in code to be trivially compromised anyway?
-Wyatt
e narrow dimensions).
If proper aspect ratios hadn't been killed by cheapskate panel
manufacturers, we probably wouldn't even be having this
discussion.
-Wyatt
centred, fixed-width designs are in vogue, but for a
documentation project, I would that the gutters instead be turned
to more useful purposes. Like documentation.
-Wyatt
pt to aggregate the important
news together in one place, the same as TWiR.
Huh, I've never thought of it that way. Silly languages and
their vagueness. But that is pretty much what all the
(successful) distro newsletters are like, so we agree in spirit!
;)
Cheers,
Wyatt
with lit
thermite! It's possible for Wordpress to not suck, but it takes
effort and care; it's not a fire-and-forget sort of affair. It's
true you could do much worse, but that's only because the bottom
of the barrel is truly rock-bottom.
-Wyatt
14/01/31/gentoo-monthly-newsletter-january-2014/
http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20071015-newsletter.xml (old,
weekly format)
https://www.archlinux.org/static/magazine/2010/ALM-2010-Jan.html
https://www.archlinux.org/static/magazine/2004/newsletter-2004-Dec-19.html
(old format)
https://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/
https://en.opensuse.org/Archive:Weekly_news_134
Cheers,
Wyatt
where that would be more suitable for
this? A few quick google searches didnt show anything up.
This would be the most recent discussion, I think:
http://forum.dlang.org/post/lfjcfm$2frn$1...@digitalmars.com
-Wyatt
long-term.
-Wyatt
but would I bother when I have a shell with pipes, grep,
cut, and sed? This all isn't to say I don't LIKE performance and
elegance; but I live, work, and play on both sides of this
spectrum, and I'd like to think they can peacefully coexist
without too much fuss.
-Wyatt
On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 16:18:34 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
trouble following all that (e.g. Isn't "noe\u0308l" a grapheme
Whoops, overzealous pasting. That is, "e\u0308", which composes
to "ë". A grapheme cluster seems to represent one printed
charac
pretty robust (i.e. you can do lots of things
with and to them), it feels like it just falls apart when you try
to work with strings. It honestly surprised me how many things
in std.uni don't seem to work on ranges.
-Wyatt
or cases
where it IS important. Making i18n stuff as simple as it looks
like it "should" be has merit, IMO. (Maybe there's even room for
a std.string.i18n submodule?)
-Wyatt
dep and let the distro packagers do what they do
best. The --without-curl switch is a good idea, btw.
-Wyatt
t ssl
(via OpenSSL) support:
wyatt@Yue ~ $ ldd /usr/lib/libcurl.so
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7fff7f7ff000)
libssl.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib64/libssl.so.1.0.0
(0x7ff835865000)
libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.0
(0x7ff83547c000)
libz.so.
27;ve seen several against. I think that whole idea is a
misfeature that won't be missed.
-Wyatt
ing in a huge spike every half year. This
really needs to be avoided. If you look at the movement of
active projects in the past few years, most seem to be settling
on shorter release cycles for similar reasons.
-Wyatt
ly-defined_ set
of operators that are compile-time errors unless overloaded?
#define BEGIN {
#define END }
macros used in old C code to make it look like Pascal.
A plague o' their houses!
-Wyatt
at takes you here:
https://d.puremagic.com/issues/enter_bug.cgi
On the bug tracker home page (https://d.puremagic.com/issues/),
there's also a big green button titled "File an Issue" that goes
to the same.
-Wyatt
tools.
I wonder at what point a d.eclass needs to be made to negotiate
all of this; I'm really not sure. On that note, you may want to
watch out for degenerate cases like packages trying to select a
preferred compiler, just in case.
-Wyatt
the
environment and the paths in sc.ini (and the primary compiler
symlink, if you choose to go that route). I'm not familiar with
the guts of it, but from what I've been told, an eselect module
for gcc has been tried several times, but has always met
unfortunate circumstances.
-Wyatt
h.
It's way too early for this shade of bikeshedding. Let's see
about actually getting packages in the tree, first. (The
approach may or may not be a good fit. I think we should give it
some time to settle first, though.)
-Wyatt
I've
assigned to remind me about it remembers to remind me. ;)
-Wyatt
haping up to be: they're...rather different. ;) (I'm
aware that being "the next X11" wasn't Kristian's goal and it was
originally an experiment to be folded into X.org, but reality is
weird.)
-Wyatt
[0] http://wayland.freedesktop.org/architecture.html
rereading. My bad. :V The point is properties are a
furball and need to be fixed, so I'll keep making noise about it
from time to time.
-Wyatt
re aware
of that could be "better" (like the one in the parent thread) to
direct people toward. A succinct history "why this one part
sucks".
-Wyatt
[0] http://www.x.org/wiki/Development/X12/
[1] https://github.com/FeepingCreature/fcc
[2] https://github.com/VoltLang
On Saturday, 2 November 2013 at 04:06:46 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 11/1/2013 6:52 AM, Wyatt wrote:
"We could, for instance, begin with cleaning up our language
by no longer
calling a bug a bug but by calling it an error. It is much
more honest because
it squarely puts the blame whe
On Friday, 1 November 2013 at 11:45:23 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote:
return (y)pure=x=y;
Drifting off topic a little, but how does this expression work?
I can't recall having seen the (y)pure thing before.
-Wyatt
production
of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons."
http://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula/
I would classify forcing someone to use iTunes as "psychological
warfare". Unfortunately, that's not covered by the EULA. ;)
-Wyatt
known issues is incredibly frustrating. I'm trying to
change that, but there's a lot of inertia from the people who've
been around for 20+ years.
Forget testing; just figuring out the maintainer for a tree is an
adventure.
-Wyatt
's own documentation is pretty explicit about not
catering exclusively to that domain.
-Wyatt
On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 13:16:15 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Thursday, 24 October 2013 at 12:56:53 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
Good medium/long-term plan. For the moment, let's see about
cleaning up what we've already got, but I like a lot of this.
I also wanted to mention that this is
ty I could.
This, on the other hand, will probably be very welcome.
-Wyatt
[0] http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
rmanent or comprehensive unless it's on EVERY
page).
If you're willing, I'll tell Brad to get in touch with you and
Mike Parker, and let things proceed from there.
-Wyatt
off to someone else. It's
still very high in D language search results (e.g. there are
disadvantages to simply canning it), and it still hosts planet
and a lot of other stuff.
So, as the topic asks: what should be done with it?
-Wyatt
h; I'd probably make it 256 (one less than the
max length of filenames on a whole bunch of filesystems)).
-Wyatt
On Monday, 21 October 2013 at 08:17:49 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
On 10/21/13, Wyatt wrote:
On Sunday, 20 October 2013 at 12:16:14 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic
wrote:
...it's strange how many people don't even know it exists...
No it isn't.
What isn't? I'm just reportin
; here:
http://wiki.dlang.org/The_D_Programming_Language
How do you expect people to find out about tools if they're not
even so much as mentioned in the places you'd go to find tools?
People don't know about things that aren't documented. Full stop.
-Wyatt
On Friday, 18 October 2013 at 10:03:03 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote:
portable), but you can enable treating nulls as exception in
linux if you use etc.linux.memoryerrors.
Oh. This exists. Don't suppose there were any plans to document
it?
-Wyatt
code:
http://wiki.dlang.org/Component_programming_with_ranges
Shows off ranges and some other nifty features.
-Wyatt
for Gentoo Prefix. Got it. Here you go:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/prefix/ :)
-Wyatt
remotely.
Also, a Javascript monstrosity.
Also, voting does not preclude the need for moderation.
-Wyatt
manual/en/security.database.sql-injection.php).
-Wyatt
PS: And if it wasn't clear, the idea of using Disqus or some
other external thing should be right out.
On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 11:58:35 UTC, w0rp wrote:
PHP-style documentation in general I look forward to, but I
won't push for that. I know Andrei is a busy guy.
PHP, the bad language with good documentation.
PHP? The language that has a comment peanut gallery on every
page? Oh god,
y others are stuck dealing with a CErtaiN
Terrible Old diStribution and would probably appreciate a tool
that isn't stuck mired in Really HorriblE poLicy when they're
trying to get work done. [3]
My breaking point is actually the idea of using dub to call the
system package manager, which I
On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 13:03:20 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
On Friday, 27 September 2013 at 13:00:58 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
...
afaik CPAN mixes development packages and distribution packages
too, which I doubt is desired.
It may be unfortunate consequence of Perl interpreted nature
though
os module reviews, but it's a great source of sanity
checking.[2])
-Wyatt
[0] http://www.cpan.org/modules/04pause.html Recommend reading
the whole thing.
[1] http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/perl-5.18.1/pod/perlnewmod.pod
[2] http://prepan.org/module/nXWJ8Y9sBtw A good recent example
rudged
its existence; it's usually been helpful, and never harmful. You
could say I like it because it offers proper visualisation of the
data. I didn't realise it was moving from "rare, nice perk" to
"in-demand standard feature" until this thread.
-Wyatt
the limits
of reasonable bleeding edge.
For what it's worth, even our Gentoo maintainers have apparently
gotten fed up with their crap. There are two versions in the
main Portage tree right now: 2.8.5.1 and 3.0.2-r1. Both are
marked stable. Make of that what you will.
-Wyatt
s year... maybe. :)
Ah, is THAT what was wrong when I fired up my debugger? It would
be super awesome if that were documented...somewhere. :/
-Wyatt
On Friday, 20 September 2013 at 14:05:20 UTC, JN wrote:
On Linux? hah, bad driver will lock you out of the system,
installations regularly break. Closing the system? Oh let me
just flash random gibberish that looks like memory corruption,
then some log messages where it's "FATAL ERROR" every
icker with Phantasy Star in particular, is it came
out three days _before_ Final Fantasy, yet if you compare them
side-by-side it's not even a fair contest.
-Wyatt
ven
notice the bleeding)
This seems apt:
"C lets you shoot yourself in the foot.
C++ lets you std::anatomy(std::dim::Directions.DOWN,
std::anatomy::digits<5>).shoot(this)" --@eevee
-Wyatt
e
table. I expect it's a lot of work though... they have over a
decade of catching up to do.
Per the links above, they might be closer than it initially
appears. Of course, it's also a matter of integration and
coordination across multiple projects. There are, occasionally,
advantages to monolithic vertically-integrated dictatorships.
-Wyatt
ke a
million other awesome/silly things). An rsync daemon might also
pinch hit here. But it sounds like what you really want is a
writable CIFS mount. Or sshfs.
-Wyatt
On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 14:27:14 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 03:04:44PM +0200, Wyatt wrote:
[...]
Dolphin is pretty nice, though there are cases where Konqueror
still
runs circles around it. For example, if you want a horizontal
split
or more than one split. Also
On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 18:20:42 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
Dolphin seems to have fixed it's Vista-like goofiness with the
folder view's horizontal scrolling, and it really is pretty
good for the most part.
Dolphin is pretty nice, though there are cases where Konqueror
still runs
ce,
that comes with using make. Even really ancient versions.
or incremental linking?
This is a bit harder. If you're using the Gold linker,
-Wl,--incremental sounds like your medicine, though I'm not sure
if Gold is ready for primetime, yet.
-Wyatt
/phobos/std/array.html
Though I have numerous concerns with having comments on the doc
pages, and ESPECIALLY using an external service for them.
-Wyatt
Well, as long as it works (and works WELL) without Javascript, I
guess that's a fine start. Though I have to admit the example
linked above hurts my eyes. :( (So. Much. White.)
-Wyatt
ing at the left. It
worked fairly well at all sorts of browser sizes and required
zero Javascript. (It will work even better when all the modules
have introductory text as mentioned in another thread.)
I wonder if I should resurrect that branch?
-Wyatt
On Friday, 13 September 2013 at 19:48:18 UTC, Namespace wrote:
Just out of interest.
vim. Not vi. Not gvim. vim. With TERM=xterm-256color and a
small set of plugins. Sometimes in screen.
-Wyatt
s ever.
Also, this cheat sheet is pretty much the best:
http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif
-Wyatt
t better for AMD cards.
- There's a lot of fluctuation in display prices right now, but
getting one for under a hundred bucks is probably doable.
- You probably don't even need an optical device these days.
Just boot from a USB stick.
Hope that helps!
-Wyatt
[0] http://www.pricewatch.com/
[1] http://slickdeals.net/
[2] http://us.camelcamelcamel.com/camelizer
hings? Do you use browser tabs? Do you compile
code? If the answer to any of these is "yes", more memory will
probably help. If nothing else, you benefit from OS caching to
memory and not swapping. That's a nice thing to have.
-Wyatt
On Sunday, 1 September 2013 at 13:26:32 UTC, Manu wrote:
The part that irks me most is that I have to have
yet-another-account-on-the-internet... Does bugzilla support
OpenAuth?
Haven't seen one for OAuth, but there's a plugin for OpenID:
https://github.com/jalcine/bugzilla-openid
-Wyatt
the -ggdb switches[0] (For C, I do
actually use -ggdb3 for the macro expansion).
-Wyatt
[0] http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Debugging-Options.html
On Thursday, 29 August 2013 at 19:18:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
Right now, having no way to actually update that site to add a
notice to this effect
On this point, when's the last time someone tried pinging him via
email? Is the whois for the domain not current?
-Wyatt
is fixed up in its entirety at runtime.
Having said that, now I wonder if I'm misunderstanding the
question?
-Wyatt
al releases and such. Looking, I'm even sort of
correct.
Incidentally, it may be kind of cool to aggregate release
announcements of various D-related tools into a sidebar of the
"Downloads & Tools" page or similar.
-Wyatt
ot;are you sure you want this?"
confirmation to download them.
-Wyatt
[0] http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/
make a pull request that changes the link
on the interface page to the correct URI. That's the bare
minimum.
-Wyatt
https://github.com/chadjoan/C-Survival-Kit/blob/master/survival_kit/feature_emulation/scope.h
(Been considering pulling this in at work, too.)
-Wyatt
really like this format because it's
still not especially resilient. Walter's talk about design that
eliminates patterns of human error resonated with me quite
strongly, you see. But in terms of language consistency it's not
much different from array literals, so I could accept it as a
compromise.
-Wyatt
.
If anything, I'm inclined to think the regex heritage of the
question mark improves its case.
-Wyatt
On Monday, 19 August 2013 at 16:57:35 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
Check "Token Strings" in http://dlang.org/lex.html
Didn't make it to the end of the paragraph? ;)
'd really like to get the ball rolling on this, as I think
a good syntax for these tuple operations would do D a world of
good. I'm not a compiler hacker, unfortunately, so I can't
implement it myself as proof of concept... However, I hope that
discussing it and working out all the kinks will help pave the
way for an actual implementation.
Great! After this, let's fix properties. ;)
-Wyatt
w what it's about
immediately. :)
-Wyatt
". I'd prefer just using parentheses, but I
think there were readability problems that caused the DIP to end
up with:
"Basic () syntax, perhaps the cleanest, but can't be used:"
Though there's nothing else written about that.
The DIP itself, though, looks pretty good.
-Wyatt
On Friday, 16 August 2013 at 16:53:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
+1.
/snip
s/\+1/\+2/ to everything. Might encourage me to get back to my
own doc stuff.
-Wyatt
y hilariously over-promised on infrastructural matters, looked
to have some pretty interesting tech underneath; but they claim
to have relied heavily on custom ASICs to pull it off.
-Wyatt
there are perceptual subtleties to this that aren't apparent at
first glance:
http://www.nomachine.com/documents/NX-XProtocolCompression.php
What is the latency or bandwidth threshold that X11 needs?
They talk a bit about this in the above link, too.
-Wyatt
On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 14:50:43 UTC, Joakim wrote:
Sure, but X forwarding is still laggy, as you pointed out.
I think that's only because it's a naive, uncompressed
implementation. Proper protocol compression pretty much removes
that for most use cases.
-Wyatt
On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 14:36:25 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
more// a > b
more!(5)// a > 5
moreEq // a >= b
moreEq!(5) // a >= 5
Nitpick, but I'd personally prefer "greater" rather than "more".
-Wyatt
d some big compression boosts.
I recall NX does something like this, plus a number of other neat
tricks.
http://www.nomachine.com/documents/NX-XProtocolCompression.php
-Wyatt
cape
of agony as every other build system in the world, but I can't
figure out what it might be...
-Wyatt
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