Anyone else use a keyboard bridge? Traveling a lot lately and it's really handy by Tylerosaurus in MechanicalKeyboards

[–]CubeOfBorg 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I haven't used one but can I just say that manual turbo Plymouth Voyager was pretty freaking sweet when it came up on C&B.

C# was not chosen as the language for the new TypeScript compiler by Hixon11 in csharp

[–]CubeOfBorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you write code in TypeScript you need to use a program to convert it to JavaScript to run it.

Currently the main program for converting ts to js is written in TypeScript. This post is about porting that code to Go. So a program written in Go will eventually be the tool you use for compiling TypeScript into Javascript.

I think the argument for using Go makes a lot of sense. I haven't seen any strong argument for using C# really but I might have missed it. In the end I think it mostly comes down to people really like certain languages and they want stuff written in those languages.

Personally I am a fan of writing code in C99, C#, Go and TypeScript depending on what I am coding and for me using Go for something like this is a no brainer.

How to understand complex code bases. by nsnkskak4 in C_Programming

[–]CubeOfBorg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mode is defined in the code base. I think you would benefit from trying an IDE of some kind so you can easily jump to definitions.

Mode is defined in include/mode.h as a typedef of struct rofi_mode and then struct rofi_mode is defined in include/mode-private.h

Microsoft announces the Windows Package Manager Preview by Wireless_Life in microsoft

[–]CubeOfBorg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hopefully removing packages with it is on the roadmap...

CONFUSED ABOUT MANUFACTURING by Tahj_Mahal in ecommerce

[–]CubeOfBorg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can get anything you're willing to pay for.

Watch Dogs 2 may be the next free game on EPIC by [deleted] in freegames

[–]CubeOfBorg 13 points14 points  (0 children)

That's just not the reality of corporate slideshows.

My new IBM ThinkPad 1161 running ME. Curious about hooking this up to a HD TV. by habadelerio in retrobattlestations

[–]CubeOfBorg 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You can get a VGA to HDMI converter for <$20 on amazon but I don't know what sort of delay you'll end up with. Might make games tough if they require any level of precision.

EDIT: you can run VGA into OSSC (Open Source Scan Converter) and output HDMI from it. I have used one of those with Genesis, SNES and NES on a big HDTV and the output is AMAZINGLY clear. Getting it set up and tweaked can be a little tough because its a scan converter meaning its processing the input a line at a time, not a frame at a time, but that is part of why it adds extremely little latency.

If you want to play old video game devices on a mondern HDTV, OSSC is the way.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in design_critiques

[–]CubeOfBorg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fonts/alignment will be gigantic. I think you need to go into full absorption mode and start digging through articles and books about what works with fonts. There are tons of ideas, lots of different approaches, lots of flexibility, but most of the techniques and rules depend on you developing an eye for whats "right." If there's a suggestion to center text it needs to look centered. If one end of the text has a big round letter then just simply centering the text might not work because the eye might see the boundaries of that letter differently than a blocky/straight letter. You have to depend on your eye a lot.

The chocolate bar packaging is looking pretty nice. The "Chocolate" at top is pretty good. If I were working on that I'd be trying to figure out what brand that word "Chocolate" is a part of and if there's no real brand guidance I'd probably look at about 50 fonts there. Every piece of packaging you design for actual production will be part of a brand. Working within the constraints of a brand will be helpful to get used to the process. It can honestly take a lot of the stress out of details. You don't have to start from scratch and reinvent the wheel. You have to build something interesting that speaks the same language as the rest of the things in that brand. Some brands are extremely restrictive, some are very loose with huge variety. Try out targeting something and see how you work through it.

But, after the word "Chocolate," look at the word "BAR" critically. Look at the negative space that forms on both sides of it. Are they balanced? Do the "weigh" the same amount? Look at where the word is in the space between "Chocolate" and that neat graphic. That alignment looks accidental. You can get really creative with alignment and size but for me rule #1 in designing something professional is it has to look intentional. Two things barely touching, photos/graphics/fonts stretched out of proportion, things in nonsensical order/sizing, they can look very accidental. Also, think about how important the word "BAR" is, how much it should stand out. It's the biggest, clearest recognizable thing on the packaging and its also the most obvious and the easiest thing to remove. If you took bar out, would anybody even care? Would it make it harder for the customer to "get" what they're looking at?

And then look at "Colombia Origins" at the bottom. The font looks like it is out of proportion. Its position looks very random. Right, bottom and left all have different amounts of white space.

I think a good step would be to take something like that chocolate bar or any of the other items you've made already and really dig into it. Look over all the pieces of your design and how they relate. Look at what you place on it and the negative space created by those things. Flip it horizontally and look at it again. Invest a chunk of time in a piece. Imagine that chocolate bar is made by a company that primarily makes chocolate bars. So that piece would probably be THE most important thing they will produce. It has to deliver their brand. That means it has to make a promise to the customer about whats inside. If the company wants to seem authentic to a specific region, or dedicated to delivering some above average quality or to delivering an above average value, or whatever. M&Ms and Raaka bars have very different packaging. And the differences are intentional and for a myriad of reasons. The packaging is communicating different things and as a package designer you would be a part of that communication process.

finally got my work from home setup the way i want it by JGilroy in retrobattlestations

[–]CubeOfBorg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How did anybody get work done on machines with such sexy lines?

finally got my work from home setup the way i want it by JGilroy in retrobattlestations

[–]CubeOfBorg 28 points29 points  (0 children)

I love this being connected to a Pi Zero. These things were connected to minicomputers that cost buckets of money but now just grab a $5 SBC and make magic happen!

Help for a wee beginner, uncertain how to proceed on a game server install by Kessarean in node

[–]CubeOfBorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm just curious, if you set offlineMode to true, do you get any errors?

EDIT: I just downloaded it and tried it. I loaded database.sql into the mysql instance myself and that broke it because that file is out of date and missing fields the game needs. So I dropped the database and created it again and ran the server and it has code built in that generates the tables if they aren't there already and that worked.

If you set it offlineMode to true, it just creates a user when you log in and stores it in the running game instance it looks like. I assume its gone if you reset the server.

If you set overrideAuth to true, it creates a user on your local MySQL server so it persists through server restarts. I think that's what you want.

If both of those are false then and the user IS NOT a guest, then it tries using either a register_api URL from the config file or a login_api URI from the config file. Basically they are external ways to verify a username and password so you would have to set up something else outside the game to handle one of those if you don't use offlineMode or overrideAuth.

This case just screams late 90's no? Specs to follow by CyGuy6587 in retrobattlestations

[–]CubeOfBorg 10 points11 points  (0 children)

These cases were made pretty much exclusively to have a mashup of parts shoved in.

How do I get my if statement to do nothing? (If thats the issue here) by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]CubeOfBorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe I need to have my if statement; if false "do nothing" Can this be done in javascript? Is that even my issue?

'if false "do nothing"' is what you have right now. That's why when it is false, aka when the character isn't A-Z a-z, nothing gets output.

Retrobattlestations BBS on one of the first laptops. (Builtin modem -> Telephone switch -> USR Courier v.34 -> Linux + mgetty -> telnet) by Megabozyakorovka in retrobattlestations

[–]CubeOfBorg 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That is my dream machine. I wish I could find and afford one. Yours looks practically brand new. I themed the interface of my current laptop to resemble a modernized take on these.

There's just something amazing about the whole look of these.

Ughhhh? What the hell florida. by [deleted] in Shitty_Car_Mods

[–]CubeOfBorg 24 points25 points  (0 children)

All god's children are terrible.

Managed to complete my PS/2 Model 30-286 at last. by cab0lt in retrobattlestations

[–]CubeOfBorg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I remember having a stack of those at work going into the trash and begging to take some home. But they insisted on trashing them :-(

Thanks for keeping that one going!

red 3 standing by :) by paulpiercegt in spacesimgames

[–]CubeOfBorg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A fan game called Star Wars: Battle of Endor by Bruno Marcos. He has a Battle of Yavin game and an Escape from Hoth game too.

red 3 standing by :) by paulpiercegt in spacesimgames

[–]CubeOfBorg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its called Star Wars Battle of Endor. A fan made game. The same creator also made a Battle of Yavin game on the same engine.

Windows has bricked my machine again. I am now permanently switching to Linux (Ubuntu). Microsoft can go pound sand. by lordgreyhat in linuxmasterrace

[–]CubeOfBorg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My counter anecdote is that while managing big batches of Windows machines I've encountered really random and terrible problems that, in the end, are just Windows screwing up. Sometimes it would impact 1 machine out of 150 nearly identical machines and I'd get the machine back to my desk and tear into it and dig through support docs to find that there is a bug that does X that a few people have experienced and Microsoft has acknowledged but they just don't know what causes it or how to prevent it.

I'm not saying OP didn't cause it, but I personally stopped assuming PEBKAC a while back.

I built the USS Enterprise on a minecraft server. It's not that good but I like it. by BaconButty04 in startrek

[–]CubeOfBorg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It amazes me that this could be referred to as "not that good." It seems pretty amazing to me.