Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "Brodie Robertson" channel.

  1.  @szaszm_  I think the laptop could request 19V and refuse to charge if it didn't get it (unless these regs say otherwise) though with that said, my Chromebook would charge with a 5V limited USB-C anyway. It's probably not that hard to implement as the cells are 4.2V anyway.
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  2. Yep. Mobile has caused a lot of problems. Should have learned from the Microsoft experience.
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  3. @FZs1 Yep. Important to remember that the path part of URLs is (almost) entirely arbitrary and it's up to the programmer to give it semantic meaning (albeit there's often a standard mapping in many web servers).
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  4. Two counter Firstly, I'm an end user and CLI is excellent for me so your generalization fails. Secondly, It's not that uncommon to have to CLI on windows if you go at all off the beaten path and then again, of course, there's regedit and it seems you don't get far without calling up gpedit.msc either. Not to mention the whole Windows configuration peculiarities. Is the setting you want in settings or control panel or both (sometimes each being slightly different from the other)? You overlook the oddities of Windows because you're used to them.
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  5. I actually kinda wish they could have loaded all the usb-c stuff into a barrel connector. Imagine having no polarity issues.
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  6.  @bullpup1337  Not sure how it would work but we have 4 conductor 3.5mm so theoretically could go higher,
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  7.  @vylbird8014  There's actually a good reason to do positive on the outside of barrel connectors. The disconnect mechanism on barrel sockets is typically on the outer sleeve. If you have a dual battery/external power device, you would typically want to disconnect/switch the positive and keep common ground. Dave from EEVBlog went into it on one of his videos. We do seem to have settled on center positive as a semi-standard in current times though.
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  8. Swap means idle stuff can be swapped out and the RAM used for even more disk cache so it's worth configuring even if you have plenty of RAM. The benefits do get a bit slim eventually though.
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  9.  @jindrichlukas3220  No. Then they just go and cause problems elsewhere. Just make sure they stick to things like naming national holidays and opening malls.
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  10. Search for "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" by Joel Spolsky. Not directly applicable but some of the points are relevant to the issues Wayland is experiencing.
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  11. Python is like that XKCD about standards applied to languages. But twice. Seriously, how many scripting languages (and all the related subsystems) does a Linux distribution have to have?
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  12.  @autohmae 10s or 100s of thousands of websites on one hosting provider is centralized.
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  13.    It doesn't have to be a single IP. In fact, I don't see why it would have to be a single provider except for security (kinda the point) and that it's possibly unnecessary.
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  14.   The IP address is not necessarily a giveaway. At that point, any eavesdropping party only sees an encrypted connection. They may know more about it from other channels but that's an issue with those other channels.
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  15. Nintendo DS also. And different cords between some models too.
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  16. Which is an issue in itself. Relative layouts are fine and good but often applications have a good reason to do these things and the underlying software should accommodate that.
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  17. X screensavers and lockers didn't really work that well in the early days. It took someone to fix it (I have no idea how X works but maybe some kind of extension) and eventually it worked.
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  18. @ AT&T in the US does. I was using an AT&T sim on Tracfone on an imported Motorola.
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  19.  @BrodieRobertson  I think it can vary by location. For example, I'm surprised, nay, astounded that I have had absolutely no issues with Comcast.
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  20. Hmm. I wonder if anyone is working on implementing an X client in the browser.
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  21. 4:14 I thought you were going to say change your grades, steal your dad's Ferrari and go to a parade in New York. Different times, I guess.
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  22.  @gljames24  True. I bought some back before 2000 to play with but never did anything with them.
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  23. Joelonsoftware, "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" - worth a read.
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  24. Is anyone working on making an X client in the browser? (yes, I know I could google it - and probably will).
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  25. There will be Wayland supporters around the industry so it's not that surprising that someone, somewhere is pushing it as an exclusive. Sometimes this kind of thing turns out to be a good idea, sometimes not. A more agnostic option would seem to be a better idea for commercial software. As someone who likes to see things tried out in the marketplace of ideas (and also who doesn't use this software), I welcome this.
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  26. No, it's not all that matters. That's "ends justify the means" thinking and leads to all sorts of problems. It does seem clear the Overstreet should have been suspended simply because he wasn't conforming to submission rules and wasn't willing to change but how this was done was the wrong way to go about it.
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  27. Higher power cables are supposed to have an ID chip. Of course, quality control is still an issue.
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  28. My underlying opinion is that a lot of the issues (and likewise with DNS) are actually caused by that users shouldn't be dealing with URLs directly anyway. Understanding this is like 'There is no spoon' from The Matrix. Unfortunately, I think it's too late to fix.
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  29. @ It almost always pays to end up using your own IDs. Even SSNs aren't unique.
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  30. Oh, have they created an automatic transmission that can select the gear I need before I need it? I must have missed the memo.
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  31. Given that I'm not going to do that, any chance you could provide a quick summary? Or is there too much there?
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  32.  @CptJistuce  Yes. All the apps I wrote for Android and put out there for free have aged out of the appstore through the various changing requirements and are no longer available for anyone. Some of them were quite liked but I have better things to do than jump through Google's hoops non-stop for free.
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  33.  @techmage89  Other than tectonic drift, longitudinal measurements relative to one port are relative to all ports. Many ships would be out of sight of landmarks other than the stars for long periods of time so accurate timekeeping was essential for navigation. The speed of the earth at the equator is approximately 1000mph so just a minute of error in timekeeping could be 16 miles error in location. A few minutes could make a port or small island very hard to find.
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  34.  @techmage89  Sorry, I'm too tired right now to process where this is going but yeah, local noon was often fine as a standard for many purposes. Especially in the UK where everything fits in one timezone anyway. I think even with trains, cities didn't really have to stay in sync. It's just simpler for the people on the train (and probably most importantly the engineer) to keep things simple. The thing I always come back to is that it's all pretty much arbitrary anyway. Often people are too fixed in their thinking that 0:01 should be the middle of the night and 12:00 should be when the sun is nearly overhead but there's nothing that says that has to be so.
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  35. That's just Bill Gates haunting you.
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  36. Reminds me when Staroffice came with a built-in desktop environment (that wasn't a good idea).
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  37. Many countries still operate that way and because of modern technology, security camera footage of what entails is often available.
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  38. Permission systems always tend to move towards people just clicking on OK to get on with it. I can't think of the last time I pondered whether UAC was asking something useful. Then again, they tend to happen at expected times. Android permissions have been whack for a while but they seem to be a little better now than they were. The location access request for something that's not inherently a location access function is still a bit odd.
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  39. It's worth learning at least the basics of it because you can pretty much guarantee that it (or at least vi) will be there on any unix-alike.
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  40.  @CptJistuce The truth is that these developers don't know what my app needs so they should let me decide that. Inform me of the capabilities, let me make suggestions for placement in as many ways as possible then honor them or not (preferably inform me if not).
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  41. You could even be really radical and look at how un*xes have done it.
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  42. Jam tomorrow.
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  43. Brodie, could you talk about the absolutely shitty security model Steam uses. That's both on Linux and Windows. I'd really like to see that fixed up.
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  44. I'd still be on win2k if it was an option. It added the needed polish to NT4 and didn't get corrupted by attempting to cater to filthy casuals like XP did.
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  45.  @paulie-g  It's still a database and the person "correcting" him was definitely Dunning-Krugering.
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  46.  @BrodieRobertson  I'm familiar and sympathetic to the concept. I just don't think it's the whole story in this case.
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  47. Who would have thought struggle sessions would come to the Linux kernel?
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  48. I'd like to see a terminal that could OOB GUI elements like file pickers and dialog boxes. The image viewing thing looks like it's in that direction.
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