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Re:How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a dev... by evanjrowley on Sunday September 21, 2025 @11:30PM (#45328829)
I followed this tutorial but ran into an issue where shamrock portal kept crashing. When I checked the logs, I found it would start a beep but never finish a boop. After a few hours of Googling I discovered my Debian 12's Klingon troglodyte emulator had a known centipede reported in 2013 that's never been squashed because hoobastank 34.100-6x00 actually requires it, and Debian can't move to the newer version of hoobastank without a major gLibc upgrade. I got shamrock talking after compiling the compatibility shim for single-threaded pintafore and migrating from Debian to Fedora 75bit, but then the fistifunk socket closed! A few more hours troubleshooting and eventually figured out the root cause: The Snarfus node's DNS resolver was down. Turned it back on and everything worked perfectly.
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Re:How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a dev... by qnleigh on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:00AM (#45328987)
Wait really?? I also wound up migrating to Fedora 75bit for basically the same reason (TopHat doesn't even support hoobastank). But then I couldn't find `file` in the specified directory. I have

`library/Lib/library/llibrary/liiiiiibrarrrary/llllliiiiibrary/hidden/hidden/hiding/you can’t find me/hidden/nope/never/hahahahereiam/file` and `/hahahahereiam/file.`, but neither of these boop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Re:How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a dev... by Waraqa on Monday September 22, 2025 @03:23AM (#45330115)
It was moved to a new path so you have to create symlinks in both locations to the new path under /usr/lib/newlib1.2/newfile.so otherwise, You can download a script that will make that for you but it will only work if you have all the dependencies for that script installed and their version numbers match the ones that the script owner had when he wrote the script.
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Re:How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a dev... by annienotadev on Tuesday September 23, 2025 @12:00AM (#45342706)
This answer is correct but it only works under a new moon if you implement while smoking a joint rolled in pink paper, which should be doable.
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Re:How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a dev... by card_zero on Sunday September 21, 2025 @11:34PM (#45328842)
Not emulator, emulater. This technical term may also hyphenated, emu-later.
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Re:How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a dev... by cheschire on Sunday September 21, 2025 @11:46PM (#45328908)
Emu-laterrrrrr… and Doug.

I would bemoan the effectiveness of the advertising on me, but it’s just nice to see somewhat traditional advertisement styles working in the age of 5 second ads.

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Re:How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a dev... by ShroudedNight on Sunday September 21, 2025 @11:37PM (#45328860)
Oh please, this is why it's _clearly_ superior to run Catenary or P. Papua
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Re:How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a dev... by Nition on Monday September 22, 2025 @12:21AM (#45329073)
It's easy to blame Hoobastank, but in my experience with these issues, most of the time the reason is you.
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Re:How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a dev... by robertlagrant on Monday September 22, 2025 @05:12AM (#45330885)
Perfect HN comment parody and music reference at the same time.
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Re:How I, a beginner developer, read the tutorial you, a dev... by annienotadev on Monday September 22, 2025 @11:57PM (#45342695)
So sorry about that. I should have mentioned the DNS resolver as a potential issue because it’s always DNS. Terrible oversight on my part, probably because I am not a developer.
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