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The readme says that it needs Cygwin on Windows (which is some linux programs ported to windows). I never tried the C compiler from Cygwin and for me Cygwin always created more problems than it solved so I've stayed away from it mostly.

I wish I could help, but at this time it would probably take hours for me as well since I don't even have any C/C++ compilers installed at the moment.

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Getting closer to having watched the 100 highest rated movies on Letterboxd. I'm mostly working on the first page and have now seen 41 of the 72. From the last couple of days: Modern Times - a good, funny movie, probably as good as Chaplin gets. B- Shawshank Redemption - I had forgotten that I'd seen this before. Very competently made, but ultimately I felt the story and characters didn't quite work for me. This big reveal and what followed just turned the characters into charicatures. B A Woman Under Influence - a somewhat tough to watch movie about the difficulties of dealing with mental illness. Very believable characters and behaviour. A- Seven Samurai - there are some cringeworthy moments, sound effects are occasionally pretty bad, and it could be shorter (took me two days to watch), but it is overall a really well made and gorgeous movie. A

Ok, I'm setting power plan to turn of drives after a few minutes of idleness. This eliminated the noise, because the disk is actually mostly idle when I'm behind the computer. It can go ahead and keep making that noise while I'm streaming a movie from it from the other room.

Fuck, I just may have bought a stupid noisy model. It's exactly like this one:

So I bought a 6 GB HDD and it's making a noise every 5-10 seconds, the kind I would usually associate with heavy disk activity, but it's making it even when it should be idle. Is it likely to fail soon? Should I take it back just based on a noise even if it appears to be working well? Also I had a problem where the computer wouldn't boot if this disk was connected before boot, although it didn't happen the first time. Maybe I have too many disks connected - 3 HDDs, 1 SSD, 1 DVD-drive

Lately as my watchlist is full of longer movies, I'm not always able to force myself to watch them to the end. Intolerance (1916) just seems to jump around too much. Also I get the feeling that it will end up being rather sexist, but I quit after the first hour. Repentance (1984) seems interesting, but it's done in a style that requires effort from me to watch which I didn't have at the time. The Good, The Bad, The Weird (2008) is a martial-arts + western combo but it makes all the action really boring even as it is rather beautiful to look at. Chi-Raq (2015) had some interesting things about it, but I fell asleep at half-point and didn't feel like continuing the next day. Generally from what little I've watched his movies' trailers, I'm not very interested in Spike Lee, although I did like She's Gotta Have It and Do the Right Thing.

I saw After Lucia (2012). Well made film about a girl who becomes a victim of school bullying after moving to Mexico City with her father, soon after her mother's accidental death. It was really difficult to watch, though, and made me feel somewhat depressed.

PS. Less than 2 years ago there was a film club going on here. I personally didn't participate mostly because it was tied to some american-limited service, but if we could do a brand-name-free film club I would be in. But then again I'm ok with... various levels of legality when obtaining movies to watch, but maybe for many making it tied to one service made it easier as there was one legal place that you knew had all the movies?

I already saw some amazing movies this weekend and it's not over yet. Godfather (rewatch) is really good in almost every way. High and Low is so beautiful with it's excellent composition and framing and full of suspense with a perfect pace. In the Mood for Love is perhaps the most mesmerizing color movie I've ever seen. I'm slightly worried that by going after my goal of watching the Letterboxd top 100 too agressively, I may be doing myself a disservice by seeing a lot of masterpieces close to one another that I won't have time to digest them. Maybe I should watch more other stuff between...

Zoom in to Sean Vanaman. Enhance.

My second viewing of Snowpiercer left a way better impression than the first time. This time I just gave up on the idea that the premise had to make sense and it became very enjoyable. Also, saw Harakiri today. What a movie. This is really an ageless film.

For some reason I'm not seeing in The Witch what many people are seeing. It was well made, but ultimately felt somewhat too predictable and boring.

Maybe cooking on the go wouldn't be a bad idea?

Nice. Letterboxd has a mobile app now! Maybe it was available before elsewhere, but I think it appeared for my country's App Store today. Looks good so far, I always wanted the 'hold touch on a movie' interaction.

I thought I'd give myself some movie watching goals for the rest of the year, since I have somehow developed a 400-item watchlist and it takes thought to pick what to see next. I might still pick something else any given day of course. 1. All Ingmar Bergman movies -- I'll go with the highest rated ones first, and I'll stop if I end up disappointed by more than one, as I've only seen a couple so far. I loved all of Tarkovsky and since he and Bergman inspired each other I hope I will enjoy most of these a lot. 2. Letterboxd Top 100 -- or maybe Rotten Tomatoes* Top 100, or something like that. I'm currently going with Letterboxd as it's easy to see the top with the ones I've seen dimmed out. I notice that Satantango and Shoah are on that list and I have no idea how to approach watching these 7+ hour movies. I hope they are at least divided into chapters of some sorts, but I guess random breaks would also work. It may just be like a TV series binge on steroids? 3. 1000 movies marked as seen on Letterboxd -- I'm at 835 and considering my current rate of 30+ movies a month I should hit that. Also I might still remember some movies I've seen already. [edit] * PS Actually I think Letterboxd is replacing RT for me as the go-to place for ratings. Although I haven't made an actual comparison, I feel like I find myself far more in accord with the ratings on that site. I guess it may change once Letterboxd gets more users.

I liked it, but expect the ending to be a letdown.

I'm sure there are more low-hanging fruits for massive automation than fast-food, such as transportation, supermarket registers, ??? Although for some reason in my supermarkets I see very few people prefer the automated ones. Maybe because of that they are so much faster for me to use. like I just put stuff from shelf-to-bag using a hand-held scanner and then only have to pay at the register. There's no queue and It's so insanely fast compared to a usual register queue that I really don't get why everyone isn't using that. There's a contract you have to sign , maybe that's the reason.

Much better!

I haven't played The Long Dark yet, but this comparison made me sure I want to get this.

I'm not really following politics lately, but I think there's also some rise in fascism in Europe currently.

Oh yeah, already digging the first two episodes of S2 more than any in S1.

No, I think I understood, I just think buyig food is not one of the places where you should care about interacting with humans and also in some other areas robots are making some processes faster by removing human interaction where it isn't needed and actually enabling you to have more time for meaningful interactions.