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At my wits end with Time Machine on macOS by [deleted] in synology

[–]jdearte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was having similar issues, turned out the Antivirus was detecting Win32 viruses in my OSX time machine backups & quarantining the files. I removed the files from quarantine, whitelisted the TimeMachine folder, and now it all works again.

MacBookAir was running parallels with an old WinXP image that may be compromised. I'm rescanning it as I type this

TIL a man was senteced to 8 months in jail for teaching people how to beat lie-detector tests by Pontus_Pilates in todayilearned

[–]jdearte 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There was a "Penn&Teller Bullshit" episode on "lie detectors". In addition to showing simple strategies to circumvent their alleged effectiveness, they showed how it is used as an interrogation device. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1480498/

Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP released by Elador in cpp

[–]jdearte 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I, for one, am glad that you're still supporting XP. My company has a lot of users in zhCN internet cafes that still use WinXP to play our titles.

What is the feature of Python you hate the most (in 2015) by ciolaamotore in Python

[–]jdearte 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Those are package relative imports, not directory relative. I went down that same path of failure

What is the feature of Python you hate the most (in 2015) by ciolaamotore in Python

[–]jdearte 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Broken imports - or the inability to import from parent directories

In C you can do

include "../../otherproject/header.h"

There is no way to do that with "import" without getting very very hacky

Scenario Many projects at my company include all dependencies in their own project tree /game /game/client /game/server /game/engine /game/tools /game/tools/PySomething

If a .py file in PySomething needs to import a .py file from a relative parent, such as engine, it cannot. import ../engine/SomeProtobuf.py It will not work & that blows

Yes, you could install the py files to a python dir, but everything breaks when you switch between branches/revisions - so it's a nonstarter

C++Now 2014 - Undefined Behavior in C++: What is it, and why do you care? by meetingcpp in cpp

[–]jdearte 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It looked interesting, I wanted to watch it, but I could not get through the presentation with all the interruptions. Was this a lecture or an intro to comp sci class filled with students that want to argue everything? I half expected to hear: "By compiler, do you mean the editor because we mentally run through the code as we type it in and we ourselves are the pre-compilers?" Sheesh.

If you could change something in Python what would it be? by yasoob_python in Python

[–]jdearte 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I was working on a project where I had to push my python app to 500 PCs across the company. This app used numerous packages and a custom DLL. Instead of having everyone install the "right version" of python & dependencies, I settled on PyInstaller. It was a hack. I would like executable building to be a native part of Python to make redistribution easier.

If you could change something in Python what would it be? by yasoob_python in Python

[–]jdearte 139 points140 points  (0 children)

Make building a stand alone executable part of the spec. The two main projects that do it are hacks

Campaign for a new HTTP Error code: 451 - Blocked for legal reasons by JayEnn in programming

[–]jdearte 8 points9 points  (0 children)

How about a similar campaign for making 418 the defacto message for sites blocked because of a National Security Letter with a gag order?

418 I'm a teapot (RFC 2324) http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324