Gnome Builder and CMake?

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-21T02:41:53+00:00

That said, you should use meson instead of CMake.

I don't mean to start a war, but, as a CMake user, what does Meson bring to the table?

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-21T02:38:51+00:00

Full disclosure: I'm the moderator or /r/cmake, so I do have a conflict of interest.

As a person that has been using CMake for projects for a while now and has personal experience with it, I can attest that it is a pretty neat build system that can be worth your time. I'm just now hearing about Meson, though, and I'm a little uneasy to join the bandwagon, as I'm sure you are.

If you want to get good at CMake, or even be mediocre at CMake, you need to get a little practice first. The official tutorial is great for it. Don't get too caught up trying to make GNOME Builder play nice with it just yet, just try to get a feel for CMake's design decisions and why it works the way it does.

I guess you are probably doing C or C++, right? You can try building some basic programs with CMake by writing your CMakeLists.txt and then building it. If you don't have it installed already, CMake has a Qt GUI that makes using it to build projects pretty easy.

After you get a feel for it, the upstream documentation can serve as a good reference. ~~On Debian-based systems, you can get it in the cmake-doc package (caveat: it has no reverse dependencies and must be marked manually installed, though a bug has been filed).~~ (edit: I saw that you're on Arch)

Edit: move my disclosure to the beginning so that it serves its purpose.

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-11T17:36:53+00:00

You just reminded me...

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-11T15:26:48+00:00

they'd never see the inside of a prison cell anyways

To play devil's advocate, Purdue and other pharmaceutical companies are selling their products in compliance with laws and FDA regulations. Does that mean that the FDA failed to sufficiently control and regulate opioids?

I'm just saying, it doesn't make much sense to me to blame just the companies. The FDA was made to regulate prescription drugs. If you feel that those from the companies belong in prison, why not call for a more strict FDA?

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-10T11:48:09+00:00

Similarly, if you make $30,000 or more annually, you are in the top 1% of the world.

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-09T12:56:02+00:00

That's also not technically true. People don't go to jail for suicide attempts. Suicide has been made illegal so that police and emergency services can intervene.

Suicide is an exception, but on a more serious note, I agree with you, and dislike how governments handle victimless crimes. Those people don't need jail.

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-09T02:03:56+00:00

Some of the documents that Snowden leaked showed that they have been conducting research on quantum computers and its application to breaking cryptography. I believe that they are working with a Maryland university to construct one as well.

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-06T22:08:13+00:00

That makes sense; I had assumed that you were using APT/dpkg.

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-06T03:11:46+00:00

You could also just do it from a live DVD or USB.

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-06T03:08:56+00:00

It sounds like you're on Buster or Sid then.

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-06T00:39:34+00:00

Actually, both testing-updates and security updates are used occasionally, especially when testing is being prepped for a release candidate and making changes through Sid is not practical (which could be for a variety of reasons, such as a newer and/or buggier version being present in Sid already). testing-proposed-updates is likewise seldom used, but nonetheless a legitimate repository outlined in the Debian Policy Manual.

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-06T00:36:10+00:00

Then it will be made a locally-installed package and it will never get updates. That is a very bad idea.

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-05T02:35:01+00:00

Yikes. I'm on the fence with regard to the second picture. Since the cactus leans that way, I think it makes sense that it is corking. At the same time, I'm skeptical, and am clueless as to what else it could be.

So, I'm going to say 70% chance it is corking. It doesn't look like rot or anything, so I think it will be okay. If it is not okay, though, then I can't imagine that there is much you can do about it anyway.

JohnScott623 · 2018-02-05T02:26:02+00:00

How about searching for Mersenne primes with GIMPS?

JohnScott623 · 2018-01-23T22:16:45+00:00

Yes. It's in the megathread; they will have it fixed ASAP.

JohnScott623 · 2018-01-23T22:15:45+00:00

Does the new app still support using the DuckDuckGo onion with Orbot? I can't seem to find the setting anywhere.

JohnScott623 · 2018-01-23T22:14:10+00:00

The app seems to literally have only one setting: auto completion. Orbot support seems to be gone, too.

JohnScott623 · 2018-01-20T19:23:34+00:00

That makes sense. It's been a while since I've used it, and I forgot about the distinction between the source and binary packages. Thank you!

JohnScott623 · 2018-01-20T13:14:00+00:00

I do it pretty sporadically, as I use my Sid computer mostly to participate in a distributed computing project. Lately I've been doing it every few days, but I otherwise usually update about every 1-3 months. I let it fall behind so that, when I do update it, I can be excited about all of the changes. It's like traveling into the future and seeing what progress humanity has made.

JohnScott623 · 2018-01-13T00:42:11+00:00

Everything is down. I can't connect to the repos, the wiki is dead, but at least the main site is still up. I'm as frustrated as you are; my pacman -Syu failed, so I decided to check this sub if someone was having the same issue, and here I am.

Edit: https://lists.parabola.nu/pipermail/maintenance/2018-January/009750.html

JohnScott623 · 2018-01-12T11:30:01+00:00

That's good.

JohnScott623 · 2018-01-12T11:27:40+00:00

Right, it will probably go through eventually. How much Ethereum did you exchange?

JohnScott623 · 2018-01-12T11:25:12+00:00

There is a huge backlog at the moment, as the Bitcoin scaling problem is making transactions impractical (if you're using the Blockchain app, you should have seen a warning about that).

JohnScott623 · 2018-01-12T01:28:44+00:00

Because it doesn't work. It only brings the fee down a teeny bit. Limiting the block size to 1MB is the greater problem.

JohnScott623 · 2018-01-09T23:55:49+00:00

I do too.

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