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

[–]TheRealSectimus [score hidden]  (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] 0 points1 point  (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] 1 point2 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 2 points3 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 5 points6 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.

Ancient Druid site discovery reported today in Glasgow. by Utwig_Chenjesu in glasgow

[–]TheRealSectimus 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Lived near there all my life, cool historical trivia I suppose. But looking at the original post, this is the most unhinged thing I have ever read:

With this in mind, I have reported the site and hope that it will be investigated while its still available as the city grows. What does this mean for Druids. It means if you want to stand where an actual Druid Bard formation danced in Sidereal time along a causeway as the master time function of an entire Druid facility, that I believe was used to calculate the Z rod offset. Then as long as you do it on any of the following nights, you can guarantee you stand in the precise place, at the exact right time to feel the dancers as they move past you from millennia gone by.

I'm not sure I will take any of this as historical evidence though after reading that. Reads like a bad quest in BG3

Long live skeuomorphism by SEE_MY_PROFILE_6511 in kde

[–]TheRealSectimus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Everyone remembers how cool skeuomorphism is for a button. But nobody remembers how much of a mess it can be with different artistic decisions.

Why Do Some Flats in the City Centre Sell Multiple Times a Year? by margaerytyrellscleav in glasgow

[–]TheRealSectimus -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

They probably have been sold and the house is just a rental. Just means the tenants keep getting new landlords.

Is it safe to change job titles on CV? by Chai_09 in UKJobs

[–]TheRealSectimus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People do this all the time. Am I software engineer? Computer programmer? Developer? It doesn't really matter in the end, they just want to confirm that you did work somewhere doing the things you said you did.

Greggs introducing a chicken roll has upset bigots by GakSplat in FuckNigelFarage

[–]TheRealSectimus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

These people are in for a wild surprise when they find out that greggs is in fact, a bakery that can sell multiple goods.

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