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Posted by byuu
So obviously, it officially closed a few months back, but I was keeping up an archive of it for existing members to login and see. Sorry for the short notice on closing it. Kawa has graciously set up a mirror of it here, so the posts aren't lost at least.

I'm now saving the money and only running a single server instance, which I don't want to put PHP, MySQL, or phpBB onto. So for now, the board is closed.

Posted by https://www.cubanet.org/noticias/marco-rubio-advierte-diaz-canel-te-vemos-pronto/

MIAMI, United States.- Marco Rubio, the US senator from the state of Florida, has sent a message to the governor Miguel Díaz-Canel on his Twitter account, in which he says, "See you soon."

The tweet was in response to a comment that Díaz-Canel published this Saturday in support of the Venezuelan government, which is going through a serious political crisis and is increasingly isolated at the international level.

"Venezuela is not alone. Hands out of Venezuela. Enough of false pretexts to cover sinister plans. Humanitarian aid needs impoverished peoples for so many military bases and so many imperial aggressions. Enough cynicism. We are Cuba, "wrote Díaz-Canel.

Regarding the possibility of the imminent fall of the Maduro regime, the pro-government newspaper Granma recently published a "Declaration of the Revolutionary Government" with the objective of "stopping the imperialist military adventure against Venezuela," because apparently it could be possible for them to know that there is no way to save the heir of Hugo Chávez.

Maduro, unknown by more than 60 governments, yesterday burned humanitarian aid trucks that tried to enter the country through different border points from Colombia and Brazil, in addition to suppressing the protesters, while his opponent, Juan Guaidó, interim president of Venezuela, wins every day national and international support.

Posted by KoiMaxx
Google is not the only one getting frighteningly close to the singularity.

I'm getting ready to welcome our AI overlord (Lords? Is AI plural?) :P

Posted by 25:20

The state budget is a big one and there is room in it to subsidize preschools and invest in other fields. Therefore, the idea that there are more important things to spend on is irrelevant because the different subsidies are not mutually exclusive.

Posted by BearOso

Posted by MT

Pure Nearest Neighbour leads to distortion due to pixels of different size at fractional scaling ratios.

Sounds like you need the sharp-bilinear filter. Get the shader pack at https://github.com/hizzlekizzle/quark-shaders and extract all the .shader files into your user's AppData\Local\bsnes\shaders directory, which you need to create. Load up bsnes and select sharp-bilinear from the Settings->Shader menu, and voil� ! It's pixelated, but no aliasing artifacts.

Posted by Screwtape
> It should be trivial to patch Firefox to take extensions in dll/so format that interact with the internal API.

Anti-virus tools do this kind of thing all the time, and it's something like the #1 cause of Firefox crashes and security holes.

while (x == y)
{   something();
    somethingelse();
    //...
    if (x < 0)
    {   printf("Negative");
        negative(x);
    }
    else
    {   printf("Non-negative");
        nonnegative(x);
    }
}
finalthing();

int some_function(int n)
{   //documentation goes here
    do_something(n);
    if (n > 12)
    {
        printf("invalid month");
    }
    return n-1;
}

Posted by wareya
AV products shouldn't be hooking into browsers at such a low level in the first place. If you can't do it through a normal extension the user installs manually then you shouldn't do it at all.

Posted by tomman
Now that I have a new 32X emulator (PicoDrive), I feel the need to update this "thing" I did well over a decade ago:

http://mi.tsdx.net.ve/32Xbench/32XCRAShTEST_en.htm

Posted by tomman
I've never liked opening braces just before sentences. And I'm on the opinion that the closing brace should go alone on its own line.

I'll stick to the good ol' "explain what you're about to do", that is, the opening brace on the same line as the structure declaration:

Posted by jimbo1qaz
You lose the ability to use a text editor or IDE to comment out the first line (or swap the first line in an indented block with other lines).

for (;;)
{   a();
    b();
    c();
}

for (;;)
{   //a();
    b();
    c();
}

Posted by tomman

- Only multiplatform emulators will be tested since all testing would be conducted under Linux, using only native executables. Sorry, there is no excuse for being tied to a single platform in this post-PC era!

Posted by tomman

As much as I hate to admit, yes, I said that.

What I really meant to say: "we're in 2019, Windows is no longer the king of the hill, and people game on other devices that are not a 'x86-based personal computer running Windows'". This somehow includes cellphones, a platform I find completely unsuitable for gaming of any kind, yet people insist into using those, and that's a real compelling reason to avoid locking yourself as a emudev to Windows-only targets.

At least Kega and Gens had legit excuses ("x86 assembly"), but even those feature native non-Windows ports, which are Good Enough™ for my use cases.

Posted by tomman

It's called "use a competent editor/IDE that can highlight matching braces".

This sadly excludes most (if not all?) CLI-based editors and Notepad, but that's fine as I don't use those for coding.

Posted by Screwtape

Indenting, obviously:

for (x = 1; x < 10; x++) {
    if (x % 2 == 0) {
        printf("Even!");
    } else {
        printf("Odd!");
    }
}

If you tell me you can look up from "}" to find the aligned "{", but can't look up from "}" to find any other aligned text, I'm going to be very doubtful.

if (x < foo(y, z))
    haha = bar[4] + 5;
else {
    while (z) {
        haha += foo(z, z);
        z--;
    }
    return ++x + bar();
}

if (data != NULL && res > 0) {
    if (!JS_DefineProperty(cx, o, "data", STRING_TO_JSVAL(JS_NewStringCopyN(cx, data, res)), NULL, NULL, JSPROP_ENUMERATE)) {
        QUEUE_EXCEPTION("Internal error!");
        goto err;
    }
    PQfreemem(data);
}
else if (!JS_DefineProperty(cx, o, "data", OBJECT_TO_JSVAL(NULL), NULL, NULL, JSPROP_ENUMERATE)) {
    QUEUE_EXCEPTION("Internal error!");
    goto err;
}

THAT SAID, much like "which font is the most readable", the biggest factor of all is what you're already used to. If you've spent twenty years finding blocks by looking for isolated "{" and "}" characters while ignoring all the text between them, finding blocks by any other pattern is going to be more effort and feel "wrong".

One of the happiest discoveries I've made while learning Rust is the rustfmt command for automatically formatting code. While automatic formatting can never be quite as nice as manual formatting, it's great to be able to type in any old thing, hit "save" and watch it magically become neat and tidy. Less dramatically but more significantly, I don't waste ten minutes trying to reformat something "just right" because it'll snap right back afterwards. Of course, it helps that the Standard Rust Style is pretty close to my preferred style anyway, but if more people used auto-formatting there'd be fewer threads like this one. ;)

Posted by wareya
The standard rust style is wrong because it doesn't use allman braces. Fight me.