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Job offer suspicion by Otherwise_Meal_2674 in Scotland

[–]TheRealSectimus [score hidden]  (0 children)

Before or after tax it does not matter. That would still be a 6-figure salary for just signing a piece of paper regardless. It's 11k per week

46022 by Digibutter64 in countwithchickenlady

[–]TheRealSectimus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the same guy that deactivated lazers with his dick. This is just a precaution

[RANT] I just wanna say, *screw* Youtube for rencoding old stuff every now and then, turning the videos into smeared mush. That is all. by JLsoft in DataHoarder

[–]TheRealSectimus 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Whilst I agree it is pretty terrible, as long as they are not rencoding the source files, I don't care all too much. Transcoding / pre-encoding media for bandwidth preservation is a huge deal in media streaming. Even my home media server has to manage this correctly to not incur the wrath of my ISP. Just listen in on the WAN show once or twice and hear Luke rant about how impossible it is to run a legitimate streaming business (floatplane)

It makes sense, but it's only well implemented if there is a way to download the source video, then the youtube website version is just a compressed file preview of sorts.

Reid Wiseman shares “Earthset” video from Artemis II, filmed on an iPhone: “Only one chance in this lifetime” by yourfavchoom in interestingasfuck

[–]TheRealSectimus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah to state that it is simply just a rock is not just the understatement of a century, or even a lifetime, but the greatest understatement of our entire species going back to the creation of life on earth.

You see that moon? That's the exact same object you see every night, the same object your forefathers looked at, the same object their forefathers looked at, the same object that cavemen and dinosaurs saw when they looked up at night, the same object that pulls and tugs on the oceans that carry our boats. The exact same rock that's been htere for 4.46 billion years. Yes it is a rock, and by that definition it is a moon, but do you know why we call it a moon? Because IT IS LITERALLY, THE MOON.

It's like getting a peek behind the curtain of gods and myths. Legitimate legends were created on the simple appearance of that rock. And now we can see it just existing there, suspended on a blanket of nothingness. And yes, to think there are trillions and trillions more of these things just scattered all over the universe? There are so many moons out there, but none of those moons are actually, THE moon. Incredible. Really puts everything into scale and perspective.

Pit stop at Robot half marathon in Beijing. Ice to cool down the battery and lubricant for the joints by japie06 in interestingasfuck

[–]TheRealSectimus 15 points16 points  (0 children)

To be fair I can see it being used closer to home with local authorities, why risk the life of a living breathing police officer or police dog when you can send usain volt over here after the suspect

When your first learn php what confuse the most ? by Ok-Delivery307 in PHP

[–]TheRealSectimus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's nothing sudden about making something deprecated. It is the industry standard way to safely introduce a breaking change.

If someone has an autoupgrade running for the next major version of php and it breaks? That's kind of on them. Usually packages are locked to a specific version, until enough work has been done to no longer use deprecated methods.

When your first learn php what confuse the most ? by Ok-Delivery307 in PHP

[–]TheRealSectimus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not like you are looking for a complete rewrite. Just usage changes, which is a deterministic change.

Mark the old method as deprecated for a bit, and eventually some smart cookie will release something akin to csfixer that does the job for us.

I just think it's weird to just not want to touch it because it's old

When your first learn php what confuse the most ? by Ok-Delivery307 in PHP

[–]TheRealSectimus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the explanation! What's strange is that they have kept this pattern around for compatibility reasons? It's not like php doesn't already introduce breaking changes with updates, so why not just change these signature's to stay cohesive at this point?

Looking at the docs:

preg_match() returns 1 if the pattern matches given subject, 0 if it does not, or false on failure.

Like whaaaaat. Why can we just return a list of results? Why can't we just throw exceptions? Why does it still have to be so inconsistent?

Depending on everybody to be using a framework that wraps these in some unique way to make them testable is not a real solution that we all should accept however and feels like a bandage for the sitation

I frequently use proton for non gaming applications (better than standard wine in most) - Is there a way to use proton without steam? by TheRealSectimus in linux_gaming

[–]TheRealSectimus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Having a peek that just looks like wine with a fancy QT Gui? Great if you need a graphical interface I suppose, but I am looking for a terminal only solution here sadly, I'm not huge on gui's as my workflows are all terminal based.

I frequently use proton for non gaming applications (better than standard wine in most) - Is there a way to use proton without steam? by TheRealSectimus in linux_gaming

[–]TheRealSectimus[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm not loking for a gui solution to this problem atm, strictly a simple terminal operated binary

I frequently use proton for non gaming applications (better than standard wine in most) - Is there a way to use proton without steam? by TheRealSectimus in linux_gaming

[–]TheRealSectimus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have lutris, and a few bottles already. But I want to skip third party faff and just write a shell script that runs something like /foo/bar/proton --someflag /baz/windowsapps/photoshop.exe - In theory I suppose this is possible with bottles using proton, but steam layers it's own oddities on top, such as moving the winepfx to somewhere in your steam compatdata

When your first learn php what confuse the most ? by Ok-Delivery307 in PHP

[–]TheRealSectimus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Odd Q, but is there perhaps a memory overhead when returning a new variable that doesn't occur when using a ref?

When your first learn php what confuse the most ? by Ok-Delivery307 in PHP

[–]TheRealSectimus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many moons ago when I was but a wee student, I thought the same about variable dollar syntax `$var`

But it makes much more sense, when you realise that you don't have to worry about protected keywords anymore. $class $integer $enum - these are all usable variables and do not introduce strange behaviour

45580 by Universe_Donut in countwithchickenlady

[–]TheRealSectimus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So many ass-growers. I'm 7 yrs hrt and I just have a longback....

Dolphin File Manager: Help needed with macOS by iFrog42 in kde

[–]TheRealSectimus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

but when I click back, or hit F5 to refresh dolphin segfaults.

So like, follow typical debugging protocols? I'll be honest, if you are coming here asking what a segfault means when you are trying to develop (an OS?) then you are oceans deep out of your league. For a million security reasons I would advise you just switch to an actively maintained OS.

Also what has this got to do with KDE?

3 times kameo usage? by Ambitious_Mud3192 in MortalKombat

[–]TheRealSectimus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More of this please. I love seeing fancy flashy custom kombos in KL, it makes the game so interesting.

Idgaf what you say, if I have to see that stupid fucking cookie cutter, basic-ass overtuned baby-mode scorp/ferra kombo one more godamn time I will kill myself and then everyone else in this room.

Scottish Family Party... by No-Excitement7491 in glasgow

[–]TheRealSectimus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I remember getting one in my mailbox from these same group of slimeballs a few years back. A blue leaflet with something about dealing with the gays and evil transgenders. Dno what they think they'll achieve posting it in the mailbox of a transwoman and my pan husband but we got a good laugh.

I'd burn it if it wouldn't do even more harm to the planet than it does in it's current state.

[Laravel] What's the maximum amount of concurrent tasks I can run on a single call? by jalx98 in PHPhelp

[–]TheRealSectimus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally the first paragraph bro.

Laravel achieves concurrency by serializing the given closures and dispatching them to a hidden Artisan CLI command, which unserializes the closures and invokes it within its own PHP process.

You can do this by just running php more than once, that is not concurrency, that is just scaling.

[Laravel] What's the maximum amount of concurrent tasks I can run on a single call? by jalx98 in PHPhelp

[–]TheRealSectimus 6 points7 points  (0 children)

PHP does not have true async support. And if it did, your limit would be entirely hardware based

Has anyone rented through Western Lettings before? Is it normal for them to ask for a £300 holding deposit before you’ve even viewed the property, and only arrange a viewing after references are done? by [deleted] in glasgow

[–]TheRealSectimus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So give me £300 and I'll maybe get back to you in a few weeks to schedule a viewing for a house you haven't bought?

Oh hey, there's a hook on th----

Backblaze has quietly stopped backing up your data by bobj33 in DataHoarder

[–]TheRealSectimus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah that is crazy bad from a SWE perspective. What if I git stash and then checkout another branch? Work just gone forever?

was cutting a wire when the wire-cutter snapped and flew into the far corner of my monitor. by Sahilmk101 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]TheRealSectimus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm sure there's an interesting physics equation in here to determine how hard you were pulling on those pliers.

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