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Posted on 19-10-27, 02:52 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.

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The mingw libraries are probably statically linked with the mingw runtimes, whereas the msvc libraries can assume the runtimes are going to be there and dynamically link them. The debug libs are including all the statically linked debug symbols, too, so they’re huge.
Posted on 19-10-27, 18:10 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.

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Posted by CaptainJistuce
Not actually a lot to mess with in there.
It'd somehow be LESS annoying if the TV just straight-up didn't support full color resolution. That it DOES, but I can't enable it on HDMI, is infuriating.

Sometimes it has to be a specific HDMI port on the TV. It seems like you did your research, but maybe you didn't try that?

I'm familiar with the HDMI->DVI trick, and that's often used to trick a NVIDIA card into behaving properly and sending the correct signal. You could try using onboard video or an AMD card if you've got one, just to test. If you're already not on NVIDIA, that's why the HDMI->DVI dongle doesn't do anything.
Posted on 19-10-28, 20:57 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with. (revision 1)

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Posted by CaptainJistuce

I'm using an AMD card. I'd seen reports of it helping in some cases, but most of the tests and results are years out of date(the display is an LG 32LD450 television, from way back in 2010). And folks trying to sort it out back then were finding a lot of solutions that worked sometimes, or worked for one person and not another. The VGA port was the only thing that consistently behaved right. (Maybe component ports too, I'm not sure.)

Coincidentally, I've got an old 42LD450, and 4:4:4 only works on HDMI 1, and the input label needs to be set to PC (changing it also makes the sharpness control work differently).
Posted on 19-10-31, 23:50 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.

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Posted by wertigon
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Vim is antiquated garbage.


* wertigon looks at his emacs setup containing evil, magit and org-mode

... *sigh*

* wertigon feels old and antique

The biggest thing I love with newer editors is Language Server Protocol support, or "Intellisense." Nothing saves time like having the API documentation pop right up without having to look it up, or having your compiler parse everything as you go and correct typos. It's even standardized and can be included in basically any editor you want.
Posted on 19-11-17, 05:04 in Anticipating near future [politics] (revision 1)

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Posted by kode54

The entire so-called Brexit election was a total sham, and people were literally lied to. Half the population actually proved that they want isolationism, and that immigration is bad. Or at least, over half of the voting population.

While some of that group are hateful xenophobes, some believe immigration is bad because “conservatives” told them that immigrants are responsible for their problems. The truth is that those conservatives would quickly give up immigration restrictions in a Brexit deal so long as they ensure the UK is removed from EU trade regulations. They’re supported by corporations, and US corporations, too, because they’re afraid they’ll eventually be forced to match the EU’s stronger consumer protections.

Politics is a shit-show right now, with British Trump and American Boris Johnson doing most of the stinking. We need to eject those buffoons and get back to being truthful and respectful to each other again.
Posted on 19-11-18, 01:38 in Anticipating near future [politics]

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Posted by sureanem
I think you dislike these figures because they go all-in and obtain results.

Trump. Results. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Oh wait, you're serious? Trump has provably done the least of any president in modern history. You can't blame it on congressional stalemate--he had two full years with support of both houses and accomplished nothing. He had to steal money from emergency response funds to start building his "wall," and it's been calculated that putting the money towards hiring more border control workers and increasing patrols would have a significantly greater effect, as well as creating jobs. They couldn't come up with a health care plan that was feasible, so they settled on reversing previous legislation, but that didn't pass because even the Republicans couldn't shine a good light on it.

Trump: "But no one wants to do anything but impeachment hearings!" Well, then, since you claim to have nothing to hide, pass along all the requested information and get it over with. Tax returns have been released by every president in the past, so why fabricate excuses to not release them? It's dragging on so long because nobody is complying with subpoenas and are violating the law on the White House's orders (and because of vague threats). It's not going to pass the Senate. The Republicans there have already confirmed they don't care what Trump did and will vote against his removal. Impeachment was a political mistake, forced because of outrage from the far-left. So just pass the information on and we can have it finished quickly.
Posted on 19-11-18, 17:59 in Anticipating near future [politics]

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Posted by sureanem

I still maintain that he revitalized the Republican party.

Please explain. How has he revitalized the Republican party?

As for the impeachment, why finish it quickly? As they say, never interrupt your opponent while he is making a mistake.

I don't think it's a mistake that benefits anyone. It just wastes time and energy.
Posted on 19-11-19, 02:14 in Anticipating near future [politics]

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Posted by sureanem

What, you haven't read all the stories about the "new Republican Party in the age of Trump" and whatnot?

Before Trump, it was essentially sliding into convergence. It had caved on issue after issue, and on many points was already indistinguishable from the Democrats. This is the first time it reverts this decline, however slowly. If it doesn't, then it's doomed to fall into irrelevance as a national political force. With the current state of affairs, such a development would likely be permanent. That is what I mean.

No, I haven’t read any stories like that. Please elaborate or point me to those. Your last paragraph doesn’t say anything but “it declined, then resurged.” What specifically did this entail?

Posted by sureanem
Surely you at least agree on Trump being a staunch social conservative?

He cheated on his wives with porn stars and has been married three times. He’s definitely not socially conservative. The budget deficit has been increasing, so he’s not very fiscally conservative, either. What kind of conservative is he?
Posted on 19-11-19, 17:38 in Anticipating near future [politics]

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Posted by sureanem

Him drawing the alleged conservatives' ire shows my point - he stands up for what they'd abandoned, and does so well, unlike e.g. the 1964 attempt, thus forcing the GOP (who being politicians
are invertebrate) to go along.

Maybe they abandoned those values when they realized they were hateful and not for the good of humanity? Being conservative doesn't mean never admitting you made mistakes in the past. The intent is to conserve what is good.


That's a strong defense of gender roles.

Do you agree with him on this--that women are inferior?
Posted on 19-11-19, 21:34 in Anticipating near future [politics]

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Posted by sureanem
I have never once stated in this thread that I agree with the current American president, just that he was effective at rejuvenating the Republican party. Those two aren't the same thing. For instance, I freely admit–and I sure hope this doesn't get me banned–that the other politician with whom he is often compared was very skilled at politics. This does not necessarily imply that I agree with him.

Furthermore, it is not even necessary to agree with someone to support them. I have never voted for a centrist party in my entire life. You find the most extreme candidate, and then you vote for them. Takes fifteen minutes at most. Even if you're a centrist, the end result will be an average between you and a few million others, so you best make your ballot count.

Support is affirmation of actions. A parallel would be a 1940s German man saying "I don't agree with Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jews, but I support him because he's really effective at getting it done!"

Acknowledging Hitler's control of the populace in a retrospective manner is also completely different from allowing and approving negativity and hostility in the present.
Posted on 19-11-20, 01:38 in Anticipating near future [politics]

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Posted by sureanem

Right, poor use of words there. Support not used to mean "being a supporter of," but rather "giving support to".

A google search defines support as: "give assistance to, especially financially; enable to function or act."
The word choice doesn't matter, though. "Giving support to" him enables him.


The accurate comparison would be a man looking at 1930s Germany, thinking, "OK, this is a bit too left-wing for my tastes," and then voting for Hitler since he's the furthest right candidate you can find and you want to shift society rightward.

No, an ethical person would look at him and realize that, even though he shares the same political alignment, his views are crazy, and it doesn't boil down to casual politics.

If you look at it mathematically: your ballot is just a number n you select between -1.0 and 1.0. The electoral outcome is the average of all ballots. Assuming you know the projected outcome, why would you ever cast a ballot where -1.0 < n < 1.0? Either your desired outcome is below the projected outcome, and then you vote 1.0, or it's above, and then you vote -1.0.

That assumption of yours won't pass muster. There are an electoral college, districts, and gerrymandering to deal with. It's winner-take-all. The resulting president isn't going to change alignment based on the voting average.
Posted on 19-11-20, 18:11 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.

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Posted by Kawa
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Video drivers have gotten a lot better in the twenty-first century.
*chuckles in black OpenGL*

I dunno. I'm very impressed with AMD's open source drivers. Apparently their Windows OpenGL drivers aren't so good, so that may be your point, but that could eventually be fixed by using the OSS ones there, too.

NVIDIA has stuck to it's archaic driver with lots of "technical debt" in it, and they've neglected open source and can't do Wayland because of it, so I'm not impressed with them. The driver works OK for games, though, and they've added options to get rid of their terrible input lag. So that's a plus.

Vulkan is looking like it could fulfill its objective and actually unify everything, even if just as an underlying base.
Posted on 19-11-20, 18:33 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.

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Posted by tomman
Does the ATiAMD blob still sucks?

Yes, the OpenGL part does, but there's no reason to use it unless you're a corporation and want "support."

The Vulkan part of the blob is basically just the open-source AMDVLK, and its binary is literally just a library and spec file that you can drop anywhere, which makes it easy to try if RADV isn't working.
Posted on 19-11-20, 22:09 in Anticipating near future [politics]

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Posted by sureanem

Look man, I'm an ESL speaker. Do you understand what I'm saying or not? I think it seems pretty clear anyway:
"To back a cause, party, etc., mentally or with concrete aid." (emphasis added)

Your English is perfect, probably better than mine. I meant that supporting someone in any way is going to help push their agenda unless it's completely passive.


Doesn't matter, if he's a better choice than communists. Anything else, wasting your vote.

I was talking about Hitler. Many voting for him knew he was all for extinguishing certain races. Even among those afraid of the communists, those who knew of Hitler's insanity and didn't agree did not vote for him. Trump's racism may be more subtle, but I think the present situation now parallels it. They didn't vote for classical conservatism. His supporters voted for him because they shared his beliefs, or they believed his lies.


Only for populations - the net effect of my vote's pretty gradual, taking into account courts, news, overton, etc. Furthermore, FPTP is only in USA and UK.

It's the US and UK we've been talking about.

Regardless, you've stated that you're just a conservative, not a supremacist, so I won't question you any further.
Posted on 19-11-23, 20:34 in Stupid computer bullcrap we put up with.

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There be diminishing returns. My old diamondtron could go up to 140hz, but past 85-100 it didn’t look any smoother to me. 120hz being the LCM of 24, 30, 60 makes a good stopping point.
Posted on 19-11-27, 19:30 in I have yet to have never seen it all.

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An interesting thing happened yesterday. My cats love to jump onto desk in front of me to demand attention. One of them will lean heavily into my monitor to “snuggle” with it. Well, a tuft of her fur managed to get inside it between the backlight and the LCD, leaving fur scattered throughout. I managed to open it up and clean it out, but I somehow damaged the panel’s data connection, so the display is spuriously corrupted.

I honestly expected displays to be more resistant to ingress than this. This is a Dell p2715q, for what it’s worth. I’m hoping my chosen replacement is sealed better.
Posted on 19-11-28, 05:22 in I have yet to have never seen it all.

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Posted by ndiddy
CRTs may have a few downsides, but I've never seen hair getting stuck in one.

That’s thanks to the fact that a CRT is a big vacuum tube.
Posted on 19-12-05, 19:55 in New Realtek website... where are the audio drivers!?? (revision 1)

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Posted by funkyass
Upon reflection of several months of owning a 3700x, you're better off with a 3600 or a 3900x. The 37/3800x only exist simply to match against Intel 8 core products. Amd doesn't need the number of skus to compete against Intel. Maybe for zen 3 they'll tighten up that product stack.

The core complexes chiplets top out at 8 cores, so it’s only natural. Do the 12 core parts still need NUMA? That might be a reason to skip those.

It’s often said that the 3700x is the price/perf sweet spot. What makes you think you’d be better off with a 3600, for instance?

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Posted by funkyass
you get a bit more thermal headroom, and well, is 4 more threads worth 200 cdn dollars?(250vs450 cdn)

In the US ATM it’s 3600 for 195 USD and 3700x for 300 USD, so the price ratio is much better. If it’s like that in AUD I think franpa’s choice is probably ideal.

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Given his post history, I think he’d be happier with the 3700x. He’s going to want to have the extra single-thread performance.

I would have gone for a x470 motherboard because I know the stupid tiny chipset fans on the x570 would annoy me, and the b450’s choke buzzing would be more audible, too.

I’m looking at RAM prices, and 16gb 3600MHz is only about $5 more than 3200MHz right now, so the bump is worth it.

Posted by Nicholas Steel
Diablo 3 is laggy when a lot is going on xD

That’s partly down to Diablo 3’s poor frame pacing. G-sync or freesync will allow it to catch up and stay smooth when Diablo stupidly passes over the vblank interrupt in its timing loop.
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