@loopback0 said in Tinder is shit: get her a library ticket we let women read now?!?! Tangentially related… Apr 3  /  2+2= █ How well do you know Orwell’s 1984? Take the quiz to find out Are you more of a blagger than a member of the Brotherhood? To celebrate Audible’s new audio dramatisation of 1984, our quiz will test your knowledge of George Orwell’s dystopian classic Audible, an Amazon company, using 1984 to advertise.

Daily Duotrigordle #783 Guesses: 35/37 Time: 06:50.11 3️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 0️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ My first guess was GREAT, but my second guess was WRONG. :)

Effing brillant: exploiting a software bug with paper coupons, to the tune of a couple M$. Apr 18 Software glitch saw casino give away millions in cash Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack {{ .Terminator.EasyMoneyMeme }}

@Watson said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @LaoC said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : Nah, just kidding, it's over 7100 pages, ...which Microsoft Word doesn't fully comply with, giving us Wait... Microsoft doesn't follow their own standard?

@boomzilla could have gone in the Reminds you users, if you imagine a can of beer on the counter top to the right

@Gern_Blaanston said in I, ChatGPT: @Bulb said in I, ChatGPT: @Zerosquare It is, of course, dumb, and was clearly shot with the soldering iron cold, but it was physically arranged and photographed. Which makes it even worse, in my opinion. SOMEONE involved in creating that picture should have had enough working brain cells to recognize the problem. Like, maybe the scorching was a bit of a hint?

@Applied-Mediocrity said in Quotes Out of Context: Couldn't agree more with @Gern_Blaanston: People really need to STFU Yeah .... but then .... this place wouldn't exist and I would have to do actual work .... so there's that.

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@DogsB said in The Official Status Thread: status I keep thinking some new fucker is stealing my schtick. No idea who this guy is, but now all my posts using an alternate emoji look weird.

@Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members: @Polygeekery I wish lactose intolerance were purely mental. Being British on the other hand is, entirely, mental. @royal_poet what the hell is going on here? First the orange juice thing and now he can’t have milk in his tea. If I was heading towards Gatwich this week, I’d consider a wellness check.

@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition: Fun bit is, keeping space to the cars in front actually helps solve congestion since you dissipate shockwave congestion that way so if more people kept a bit of space to the car in front, traffic flow would be greatly improved. Exactly! Which is part of why I'm doing it, and also why I tend to prefer staying on the "slow" lane in this setup, because that's where trucks are, and trucks tend to also do this. As a result, the whole lane tends to actually move a bit faster than the "fast" lane (though in practice that depends on a lot of other things such as the layout of the intersection a couple of miles ahead (!) that causes the congestion in the first place...). Though now that I have a car with start/stop, I'm also wondering about how to optimise that (filed under: engineers keeping themselves busy...), because this slow-but-continuous mode means I'm never stopped and thus stop & start never gets an opportunity to kick in. Then again, unless the traffic is so slow that I stay stopped for at least 10s or so, stop & start is counter-productive (of course I can always manually turn it off but where's the fun in replacing some complicated algorithm that only works half of the time, and we're not even sure of that, by a simple user-action!?? ). Then again again, maybe the slow first gear driving is actually worse (depending on the flow of traffic, again). Then again again again, there is an argument to be made that stop & start is actually useless overall. Then again... 

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@dkf if I’m drinking out the bowl, one assumes there can’t be too much of that because that would imply it was possibly too hot to drink.

@boomzilla we push on save I’m sure this is real somewhere they lost trust in me after our fourth user data cleanup - this month Sad noises.

Current earworm. Bein' a Star (Episode 2) – 03:33— One-T Music

@error I believe the phrase is “PRs accepted”.

@Zerosquare said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!): I think I've seen this car before... is that a regression? Shit that happens when you're

@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites: @boomzilla That's merely a little mix-up of Big Endian and Little Endian. It's just the latest standard™. After slot, tri-point, Philips, Pentalobe, Allen, double-square and 12-point, behold: the InfiLobe!

@dcon said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: @Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: @PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: @Watson said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: @PleegWat said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: But when presented with 018 it appears to parse it to (decimal) 1 and discard the rest of the literal without printing a diagnostic at any error level, which is bad. >php -a Interactive shell php > echo (017=='017') ? 'true' : 'false'; false php > echo (018=='018') ? 'true' : 'false'; PHP Parse error: Invalid numeric literal in php shell code on line 1 php > ? Must be a version thing. I tested on a work box running an ancient version of PHP and I forgot they've been tightening up their game since 5.x Ah, that would do it. You'll be glad to know then that these days 0=="not zero" is false, I wonder how many places that change caused things to break. edit: No I don't They deserved it.

@robo2 said in Aviation Antipatterns Thread: or has "trying to fly without fuel" always been an antipattern for jet planes? Don't know, I am not into planes so much... I'd say it's more of an antipattern for pilots.

@boomzilla Unfortunately, I was unable to find any statistics on the sales of shovels or rakes.

@Gurth said in “iPad doesn’t recognise fingerprint anymore, and the code also doesn’t work!”: France ... old No, not necessarily. France is well known for good food and good wine. That may have some effects.

Ex-White House Cyber Policy Director: Microsoft is a National Security Risk - Slashdot This week the Register spoke to former senior White House cyber policy director A.J. Grotto — who complained it was hard to get even slight concessions from Microsoft: "If you go back to the SolarWinds episode from a few years ago ... [Microsoft] was essentially up-selling logging capability...

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@loopback0 said in Today in reading the headlines...: @Arantor said in Today in reading the headlines...: @izzion said in Today in reading the headlines...: @DogsB said in Today in reading the headlines...: Apr 21 Rick Astley fans ‘absolutely fuming’ after venue cancels 4,000 tickets hour before show Attendees claim test event at Co-op Live arena in Manchester was blighted by other problems Rickrolling Rockerfella Rickrolls Revelers! I guess even Rick Astley has to give you up these days. Technically it's not him letting people down though. We're no strangers to ... You know the in-jokes and so do I.

@coderpatsy Thanks though, the follow up(s) clarify. A bit.

@BernieTheBernie said in Pay peanuts or chicken feed: How many Indian "sofwtare specialists" would be willing to take software job abroad The point isn't to pay foreigners a reasonable wage, no matter how the "Fachkräftemangel" talk makes you believe that. The point is to drive the price down with the alternatives of not paying well here or outsourcing because you "can't find anyone" here.

@HardwareGeek said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread: I'm certain this dream was entirely unrelated to watching Fast and Furious 5 just before going to bed. Ah yes, Fast and Spurious...

@loopback0 said in Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?: Check out this Studio flat for rent on Rightmove Studio flat for rent in New Street, Dudley, DY1 for £750 pcm. Marketed by Taylors Estate Agents, Brierley Hill The building's a former police station. The holding cell is left in this studio flat as a feature. Key features LARGE STUDIO WITH FEATURE HOLDING CELL Perfect for teenage daughters!

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@PleegWat said in Fun with maps: @loopback0 And then they'd been in Edinburgh/Geneva (Cross out what is not appropriate). Why would they do that to themselves? To lay down at your door, of course.

@Gern_Blaanston Interesting that you mention Barbie, whose middle name is the same as Millie's first.

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@Gurth yes because the stocks of HP ink that don't have DRM are finite.

@acrow said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot: Eurion I do not think so: I scanned all the documents myself with a vintage scanner from the early 2000ies (@Tsaukpaetra may like such hardware, too). And with LibreOffice 4.x, it just worx.

@PleegWat said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread: @Tsaukpaetra said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread: @Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread: @Mason_Wheeler err 2b not found Mount options invalid, try fsck and mount again? Dunno, it looks fine, but what is its personality like? Divergent

@Arantor For an online version, you can telnet to mapscii.me. It works with the mouse and everything!

Apr 20 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive pre-Tokyo WADA has confirmed reports that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug ahead of the Tokyo Olympics but that it accepted the country's findings it was due to substance contamination. So nice of the WADA to accept the verdict of the completely non-interested party Chinese anti-doping agency that those positives were just contamination.

@da-Doctah said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨: Now if someone can just come up with a relative who was born on 11/11/1111.... The approach to this is to redefine when year 1 of the calendar was. Filed under: Putting target markers around bullet holes

@Gern_Blaanston It's amazing how intelligent these creatures are. You can easily teach them to stroke your feathers just by handling them a brush.

@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted: any con where you are feeling excluded (intentionally or otherwise) is a terrible experience I'm sure any con will feel right at home on a crypto con.

@pcooper said in Is there a guide to certificate algorithms?: It's also worth knowing that ECDSA uses curves that have parameters hand-picked by NIST Fifty years ago, NIST hand picked S-boxes for DES, and it turned out that they tweaked them to be resistant to attacks that only NIST knew. Today, there's not so much trust that they will be as ethical, especially after they were already caught breaking Dual_EC_DRBG in exactly this way.

Google and the Forums are too controlling in what they let us see... Spectate's Swampies and others will fill the bill... Search needs results that include SPACES before and after words. Finding words in the middle of other words is not good. AND it's nearly impossible to read words, where there are no spaces! AND If MATCHES aren't highlighted and counted are they found? THE NEW FEATURE With a space in-front-of and behind for up to 6 words ... Will produce patterns and unexpected matches... AI will need someone with "eyes" to get them on their Searching way... AI will never become anything as results stand now..... Such a high % of fake news & BS on the Cloud less than 10% is SEARCHED The Search Shaman and His Swampies are here to mentor and curate the truth. Mentors always want their charges to surpass them.. Go you dumb little AIs Make Me proud Does AI need human mentors to ever escape the dumb class? Answer (1 of 4): That's an interesting question! Here's a breakdown of why the concept of "dumb class" might not apply to AI and how human input can influence its development: AI and "Dumb Class": * AI models aren't inherently "dumb" in the same way a human might be. They lack sentience and co... Redit wouldn't accept this post.. Pulls back the curtain on 'em all its a big day today.. celebrating 50 years of the tokin stone It's 4 20 EVERY Sat

Nice try, OVH, but could I interest you in [% $TemplateSystem %] written in {{ .language_of_the_day }} that will be so much easier than your current <shit>?

@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else: Recommend rebooting to see if that helps like it did this poor luser. Reboot the luser or the PC? FileUnder:

@LaoC said in Nope: @remi said in Nope: @DogsB when something is literally orders of magnitude (10x or 100x) more expensive than another variety of something, you can be almost certain that it is not that amount of times better. At that stage, the price difference is purely a marker of "I can afford it" rather than quality. The best status symbols have negative use value, like gold leaf on your dessert that tastes either like nothing or like tinfoil, a Lamborghini on a Lao city street, or a diamond ring that never leaves the safe. We had a pizza place in Sweden in an area where the affluent bought summer homes that served gold leaf pizzas, among other things. Their entire business idea was to get the kids of the super rich to come there to eat pizza for bragging rights, on daddy's dime. And they were entirely open and honest about this being the business idea. I don't know if they still exist, but they hung around for a few years at least. All the ingredients were the most expensive version of what you'd put on normal pizza. For no difference in quality. I think a single pizza was something like €11k

@HardwareGeek you definitely heard of their spin-off project even if you didn’t hear of any of their actual games. Basically, their games didn’t exactly sell massively well (probably because they weren’t particularly good) but they had the bright idea to found a little project to raise awareness of their games by hitching them to other games, and in the process founded Humble Indie Bundle, later Humble Bundle, later the Humble Store.

@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites: It's basically called stack ranking, and MS was known to practice it in the past. Make of that what you wish. Now we can do Stack Overflow internetpointzzzz ranking!

@Zecc said in Help Bites: Sie haben die maximal zulässige Anzahl an Blinkernutzungen überschritten So maybe there's a horizontal gradient atop the conical gradient? I don't think that's it as I think the seam transitions smoothly from soft to hard. But anyway, your attempt looks pretty damn close. EDIT: wait, maybe yours does that too. Doesn't quite look like it to me, but I'm not sure.