@Arantor I guess it's better than trying to oxygenate water and ending up with H2O2.

@Zerosquare I did notice that there were order-dependent effects on test grading, but I didn't grade alphabetically but in order of receipt. The effects weren't always negative. In fact, I found myself naturally being harder on the first few until I settled into a rhythm. I then tried to go back and regrade the earlier, harsher ones to adjust. So

@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread: Now it's one of my top priorities, which is causing all sorts of downstream issues! Of course, since it's never filled, everything else is never taken care of

@HardwareGeek said in In other news today...: I'm almost tempted to think Not the best of plans...

@Zerosquare I read that, too, but I am still thinking which word he meant. All words I found with that range of meanings have at least 150 characters.

@Zerosquare I read chapter 1. I'll go back and read the rest of it at some point — if I remember, so probably not.

@remi said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: 'tank' (the one that goes boom) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz95_VvTxZM

Apr 16 How many bathrooms have Neanderthals in the tile? A Reddit poster finds an ancient jaw in his parents' new travertine. It may be more common than most people imagine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vguo2fT1YjE

@LaoC said in Hacking News: I see no reason to switch. Supposedly the algorithm is faster (which doesn't matter at all in SSH), but DJB & Tanja Lange say it's crap and quite a few things coming out of NIST turned out to be smelly so I would prefer not to. The https://safecurves.cr.yp.to/ (by DJB & Lange) lists the NIST P-256 and P-384 as manipulatable, because they include an unexplained pseudo-random constant, but it does not list the P-521. It does list “E-521”, which someone said is the same curve here, but https://neuromancer.sk/ doesn't seem to agree (P-521, E-521).

@Parody Before creating the backup? That could severly speed up the process. I'll try that next time.

@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

@Bulb For general "web" TLS usage, use ECDSA P-256 if you can. If you need compatibility with old systems for some reason (like an email server, or old embedded systems, or whatnot) then stick with RSA 2048-bit. For things like SSH and GPG, use Ed25519. (Web stuff doesn't generally support it, or I'd recommend it there too.)

Oof. Barely made it. Daily Duotrigordle #778 Guesses: 37/37 Time: 12:42.59 3️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ Duotrigordle

@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!

@boomzilla I low-key maliciously dislike that song.

Basketball joins the Pete Rose club Apr 17  /  00:52 NBA bans Raptors' Porter for gambling violations Raptors center Jontay Porter has been banned from the NBA for violating gambling rules, the league announced Wednesday.

@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.

@boomzilla said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!: @Gern_Blaanston said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!: The other part of this meme that isn’t obvious is how it demonstrates Microsoft’s ongoing campaign of aligning interface consistency.

@Tsaukpaetra said in Random thought of the day: @da-Doctah said in Random thought of the day: anyone who assumes them to be engaging in an incestuous relationship. How do you know they're not? Because canonically they’re two different families that happen to have the same last name which isn’t always a sign of being a relative.

For some strange reason, wind turbines are not very effective at harnessing the wind power of tornadoes. https://youtu.be/G6yL0tWXZMs?t=25096

@cheong Glad to hear you got your glasses back before you woke up. And the correct passport color too.

@BernieTheBernie said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else: @Zecc said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else: I'm glad they think this computer isn't supported. At least I won't get any surprise upgrades. Surprise! Surprise! It is supported! And we've just provided you with the Greatest Version of Windows. Enjoy! Releasing in 2025… Windows_Final_Updated_v2!

A Martian rock with holes Martian tokers?

@Atazhaia said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: the man turned into a woman before my very eyes. There's a thread for that.

@HardwareGeek OK, George.

@Arantor said in responsivenes with vh and vw: @dkf said in responsivenes with vh and vw: @Arantor said in responsivenes with vh and vw: Right click, inspect element, add overflow-x: scroll, job done. On my phone? Well, not with that attitude, clearly! No, for a phone other strategies are called for, namely bookmarklets that can operate on the current page. Yes this approach works, I have a “view source” bookmarklet on my iPad for shit like this. I use Kiwi browser, which is basically mobile Chrome with extensions and developer tools.

@Arantor said in Shipping Antipatterns: Snarry I can only guess, but yuck.

@Bulb said in TIL （ａｂｏｕｔ ｔｈｅ Ｄａｒｋ Ａｒｔｓ ｏｆ ＨＴＭＬ）: I did a couple of times. It ain't hard.

How else is she going to know?

@PotatoEngineer said in The Fox Ideas Thread: @accalia That reminds me of Lackadaisy Cats, which is about cats rather than foxes, but is definitely about illegal activity during Prohibition. (Mind you, progress on that comic has come to a screeching halt now that the creator is working on an animated series for the comic.) That's that I was thinking of but couldn't remember the name!

Florida police officers complete a grocery delivery after they arrested the driver in the middle of his trip A family in Titusville, Florida, was recently surprised to find a police officer knocking at their front door. Their minds were quickly put at ease when the officer informed them that she was only there to deliver some groceries after arresting their delivery driver.

Ron Amadeo  /  Apr 12  /  Tech Google kills “One” VPN service, says “people simply weren’t using it” Did anyone want a VPN from the Internet's largest data collector?

@dkf this is true.

@Steve_The_Cynic I guess you like your instructional videos to be younger.

@sockpuppet7 said in The Wibble: @Tsaukpaetra do you think gemini writes more interesting than my current gpt-4-turbo-preview thing? I did this test in on the free web thing: It appears to produce a sequence of coherent-at-face-value text related to the input.

Apr 11 We never agreed to only buy HP ink, say printer owners Complainants smack back after hardware giant moves to dismiss lawsuit

Look, there is a Boeing flying. How can you identify it?

A few months ago, I applied for a job at %company%. Today I received an email from them telling me that they still have my data, and would delete them in 2 weeks. But I may extend that for another couple of years by clicking blah blah blah. Noting unusual, GDPR crap. But the subject line of the email was more interesting: Deine Bewerbung als %jobTitle%

@DogsB I wonder how the connection to sexy glasses turns out.

@Steve_The_Cynic said in I Hate Jira Because ...: @dkf said in I Hate Jira Because ...: And yes, JIRA encourages this by its design. I wouldn't necessarily say, "encourages this," but "facilitates this" or "makes this too easy" are definitely on the cards. Atlassian absolutely encourages you to use JIRA in these ways if you can stomach any of the marketing shite they serve up.

What am I here? Projection file disappears in WPF project · Issue #1543 · microsoft/CsWinRT Describe the bug I would like to use CsWinRT in WPF the same way I use it in a WinUI project, but it doesn't build. To Reproduce See my minimal repro at https://github.com/mmarczell-graphisoft/...