@PleegWat said in Travel WTFs: @Carnage Why choose between rail and ferry if you can use both at the same time? While true, we didn't build that fancy bridge for nothing.

Honorary Florida Man: Colorado man tries to pay for Burger King with meth, proceeds to go on least-successful shooting spree of all time Move over Bitcoin, there's a new alternative currency on the market: Methamphetamines.

@Zerosquare PSA: The obligation to clean up after your dog is not, in fact, limited to dogs.

How Google Search was "killed". A very long article, but nice to read. Enjoy! Apr 23 The Man Who Killed Google Search This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, then the VP and General Manager of Ads at Google, and Shiv Venkataraman, then

@topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members: @error our Prophet Sir Mix-a-Lot Of Came-alot

@izzion said in In other news today...: @acrow said in In other news today...: @cvi said in In other news today...: @DogsB Life hack to read more books: Read books while attending boring meetings. This is especially easy if the meeting is remote. E-books are further easy to hide even during normal activities. Open it up in a side window, next to other cruft on your desktop. Keep it on your phone that's on your desk. In-person meeting? Bring your laptop and read an e-book on it. Psh, amateurs. I once wrote a short story over an otherwise pointless 3-day meeting. Hopefully the story turned out at least as good as the meeting I had to keep half of my mind on the meeting just in case it veered toward anything that might actually have something to do with me, so it ended up very... stream of consciousness. Hallucinations, an abduction, a dead gimp and a (not very) daring getaway. I think I'd read Sin City: Hell and Back and watched Pulp Fiction recently. You can guess the rest.

@Arantor said in Quotes Out of Context: @Zerosquare said in Quotes Out of Context: Well, while he's doing that, at least he's not doing PHP *foot tapping with increasing urgency* I can quit any time I want But you can never leave?

@error said in The Cat Status Thread: aAyYY29_460svvp9.webm Good lord, I can smell that room through the tubes!

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@Arantor said in The Official Status Thread: Maybe I should just bite the bullet and write me a wiki platform that does what I want. That's what I ended up doing for my own D&D setting, and I've been quite happy with the result. It's only running on localhost though so security and performance requirements are rather relaxed.

@DogsB would you be interested in some over-priced magnets and healing crystals I have for sale?

Today in bus: Bus was delayed by 15 minutes by a guy who has no valid ticket, refused to buy a valid ticket and refused to get off the bus and instead argued with the driver and a passenger. : Are you really going to hold up this bus full of people? : YES! After the bus driver had called the police and then did an announcement on the PA system that "the bus wont move until the police gets here [to remove the guy]" the guy did finally give up and got off on his own accord.

@Medinoc said in WTF Bites: This week I learned (through the new pgAdmin) that someone liked the idea of Electron so much they made another. (that said, switching to an Electron-like system is still a huge improvement for the "desktop" version of pgAdmin, which badly needed it) nw.js predates Electron, though it was originally called node-webkit.

@Tsaukpaetra the difference is the “dithering” in the first picture appears to produce something that looks red despite there being no red in the picture. The other…

Wordle 1,041 4/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟨🟩⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Duotrigordle #785 Guesses: 34/37 0️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 0️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ Duotrigordle BUILD/GRAPH

@Gurth is that a picture of the notepaper that one writes Lotus Notes on?

@Gern_Blaanston said in UI Bites: How/why do you even do something like that? DESIGN

@HardwareGeek I would add that the hold appears to double as a procedure turn to align with the approach course in this case, that is any aircraft arriving from that direction has to enter the hold anyway. That might be the reason the controller expected the pilots to expect it.

@BernieTheBernie “Infrastructure-as-Code” works with things that are at least somewhat designed for it, which is very much not the case of traditional operating systems, and especially of Windows. Linux at least had package managers for over 30 years and recent-ish-ly got the cloud-init for specifying what to install and configure on first start (the documentation is a bit thick, but once you sort out how the snippets fit together, it works reasonably well). But Windows have … complicated tools involving Active Directory and Group Policies. Or, on Azure, you can provide a powershell script to run on first boot of the VM. Which behaves a bit weird—notably Invoke-WebRequest fails without the -UseBasicParsing option because it runs before the Infernet Exploder libraries are initialized or something—and is total pain in the arse to debug. … at least Chocolatey has been a thing for a while for installing software on Windows, but I am not sure it would run from the startup script due to the abovementioned quirk.

@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF: Mark Harris Texas High School Baseball Game Takes 2 Days To Play, Ends After 23 Innings A high school baseball game in Texas took two days to complete and finally ended after 23 innings with a final score of just 4-3. The 23-inning slugfest that took place over 25 and a half hours set a record for the longest game in Texas high school sports history, but somehow fell two innings shy of the American high school record for the longest game of all time Nothing about 7 runs in 23 innings says, "slugfest." Maybe the author is a Chicago White Sox fan who dreams of 2 runs in 23 innings

@BernieTheBernie said in Programming Memes Thread: @Arantor said in Programming Memes Thread: pointless Did you mean disap-point-ing to her? No.

Francis Turner LLM Considered Harmful Put not your trust in "AI" answers Nothing really earth shattering there for anyone reading this thread, but some good examples that might be convincing to less technical folks. Plus this good bit of advice: The professor suggests that you [s]imply prefix every ChatGPT4 and related GPT MAMLM ChatBot answer with “The process of scanning the internet and my subsequent training leads me to calculate that a likely response by a human, if this question were asked of a human on a discussion forum on the internet, might well take the form of…”

Does anyone here know gRPC / protobuf? I'm passing large-ish chunks of data between my own client and server and have implemented streaming because the overall dataset to pass is larger than the max message size (default is 4 MB, I know I could increase that but probably not to the point where it would cover all my use cases, so streaming it is in any case). The issue I have is how to find out what size of messages to send in my streaming implementation? Searching the interwebz I can find tons of discussions on how to set the maximum message size when starting the server, but this is not what I want. What I want is querying an existing server to find out what is that maximum size. Either my google-fu is weak, or nobody ever discusses that? Currently I need this in two places and in one I've hard-coded a 4 MB (minus a small margin for headers etc.) limit. In the other one I've been smarter and implemented a horrible hack where I parse the string from the error message (!!!) to read the maximum size.

@Zerosquare Anyways, Microsoft is technically correct !

@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread: Is it getting cold where you are? Do you have a Keurig? Mott's (I miss @mott555, when was he last around?) makes K-Cups of spiced apple cider that are surprisingly fairly good. Add a splash (or several glugs) of bourbon and you have something to warm you up in two ways. You're welcome, or I'm sorry, depending on how many you decide to drink in a night. Tonight was a fairly cool evening here where we are. Several of the neighbors ended up hanging out in my shop and I decided to introduce them to this cocktail and after this evening there's a strong possibility that many of those neighbors will not be allowed to play with me anymore.

Today, I discovered that pot can be a gateway drug to WordArt (ab)use.

@HardwareGeek Did you searching on PornHub? They got some great statistical data.

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@Atazhaia said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @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? Well, Microsoft's first submission to ISO had a lot of Windows-specific stuff (for supporting all their different versions of Word), and ISO naturally said that such stuff wasn't appropriate for a vendor-neutral industrial standard. Microsoft went away and split their backward compatibility out those 600 pages of "Legacy" @LaoC referred to, and resubmitted the "Strict" part as the standard, with the optional "Legacy" extension. ISO accepted this on the condition that all new OOXML documents adhere to the "Strict" part, with the extension only used as required for backward compatibility. Microsoft said "Okay, sure" with its fingers crossed behind its back.

@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.

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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.

@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!

@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.

@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.

english-don-lafontaine gets interesting stuff

 

@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!