shevy-ruby

This is a more general topic as such. I started playing MUDs in the middle of the 1990s and stopped playing actively in ~August 2013, with my official permanent retirement coming in 2014. I do not think I could warrant the time investment anymore. There is also the issue of oldschool text-based MUDs not being en vogue anymore (understandably so) or at the least not as they used to be in the 1990s, give or take.

In theory I think oldschool text-based MUDs can be doing fine (from 2010 to 2013 GEAS had between 17 and ~22 players peak count, for example, so that could in theory be possible if you have clever admin in charge), but it seems a bit hard.

So ... what if you could kind of offer a h

With the recent news at https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/27/google_chrome_manifest_v2_extensions/ I wonder whether gorhill or anyone closely cooperating with gorhill on uBlockOrigin have made a rebuttal yet? I remember gorhill wrote something perhaps 2 years ago, and now it happens just about PRECISELY what he predicted. Would be interesting to many folks to read a follow-up on that.

Are there KDE applications that can be used as a drop-in replacement for e. g. zoom? I am struggling with the binaries of zoom and getting them to work right now (they worked fine a few months ago), and I am getting really tired of binaries not working well. I figure with the current increase in required chat-functionality, that would be quite useful for KDE as a whole, but last time I remember, the KDE-specific applications weren't really that great.

This is now the second time moderators maliciously banned me on reddit. They do not want to discuss or apologize for their behaviour either.

Now this has to change in the long run for the betterment of society. In its present form reddit builds up a huge bubble to itself - how many opinions and users are banned because of this hostile user policy that reddit enacts?

I tend to batch compile all of KDE but sometimes things go awry or fail and then I am not entirely sure which program is working; and of which version that is. So I would like a commandline way to check for the versions of all these KDE programs.

For example:

attica: 5.60.0
kcodecs: 5.59.0

That way I can see that kcodecs could be updated to 5.60.0

Now - I can probably write such a script on my own (I did so before with mate-desktop), but it is ... a bit cumbersome, takes quite a bit of time too. So ideally my question is this:

Does anyone know of any commandline variant to query for all such KDE programs installed + their respective versions? If not then I probably have to write

Ok ... the question is partially suggestive since we'd first have to ask whether there ARE many rails-specific entries here on ruby-reddit. I have not done any statistical analysis, but from looking at the ruby reddit subpage, it seems as if about 50% of the entries are specific to rails or the rails-domain.

Do non-rails ruby users no longer exist? Or are their projects just not as interesting to talk about? For me it is the latter - I don't think any of the things I work with is interesting to many other people. Yet there MUST be people who use ruby similar to e. g. python or perl and these people must be doing something interesting.

Anyone who wants to have a look at what they may do, un

I assume the answer to the question will be no, but I'd still like to see that it is indeed no.

Is it possible to display super-text in KDE konsole? That is text that may appear slightly above the main text, such as taking 3 to the power of 3, like 3**3, with the second 3 being a bit to the top right of the first 3, and the ** not being part of the display. I assume it may not be trivial to add due to it interfering with other lines of the terminal, but we can sort of use unicode symbols already as-is, which I assume was not trivial to add either.

Recently there was a suggestion in ruby core of the following syntax:

foo.:"bar_#{baz}"

Of course I have an opinion but I'll leave it up to others to comment on it, if they are interested.

(Actually, I do have an additional opinion in regards to code changes made in ruby in general, to some extent, in the last 3 years or so, but this may come at some other time; for the purpose here, I really only want to refer to .: in particular).

To those unaware of what .: is:

It is the "method reference operator".

You can read up on it here https://dev.to/hanachin/ruby-27-new-feature-method-reference-operator-38l2 and some other places (I just randomly picked one, really).