WTF Bites
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
when you're logged into a Google account
Lol yeah, fuck that. I'll keep the illusion of always being logged out.
Not that it makes a difference. Years ago I had a youtube account (with some throwaway name and email address) which I rarely used to watch stupid vids that had been flagged as "mature", but still almost never logged into it. Then at some point google helpfully declared they've combined my throwaway youtube account with my gmail account (which has my real name in it). I'm still not sure exactly how they did that, since I swear at no point was I ever logged in to both at the same time, but whatever they do definitely works well enough they can pull that shit off without asking.
Since then, I've never logged in to youtube again, even though they obviously track me already. Technically means I'm missing out on some features and they don't actually care but, you know, I hold grudges.
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@topspin They have my work Gmail linked up to my home PC which isn't logged into Google at all. On the very rare occasion that I go to YouTube at work, all the suggested videos link up with the kind of things I watch at home on my not-an-account.
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@mott555 Yes, which is obviously what any sane person would want.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
First of all, that's "normal". Google's being a dick and it's doing that to you on purpose. You'll even notice, if you pay close attention, that the "Next" button changes to "Verify" on the last set of images.
Whenever I have to solve this one, 9 times out of 10 after going through the two or three images, it fails me. Hence I have no idea what parts of the signs actually count.
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12 years of development and it STILL makes horrible mistakes on fixed phrases.
Explanation: this is Polish to English translation with Google Translate of a phrase that means a required school reading. Not sure they're the right English words - I mean books that students are required to read for their primary language classes. In particular, it absolutely doesn't mean a book that anybody sane would declare a must read.
I wish there was some place where I could check what the right English words are for a given fixed phrase.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
First of all, that's "normal". Google's being a dick and it's doing that to you on purpose. You'll even notice, if you pay close attention, that the "Next" button changes to "Verify" on the last set of images.
Whenever I have to solve this one, 9 times out of 10 after going through the two or three images, it fails me. Hence I have no idea what parts of the signs actually count.
I click the sign parts (as opposed to the signpost parts).
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12 years of development and it STILL makes horrible mistakes on fixed phrases.
Explanation: this is Polish to English translation with Google Translate of a phrase that means a required school reading. Not sure they're the right English words - I mean books that students are required to read for their primary language classes. In particular, it absolutely doesn't mean a book that anybody sane would declare a must read.
I wish there was some place where I could check what the right English words are for a given fixed phrase.
It'll probably do better if the phrase is used in context.
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I wish there was some place where I could check what the right English words are for a given fixed phrase.
There is - and we charge quite reasonable amounts! ;)
The website I usually recommend is www.diki.pl (despite the stupid name). It's not always right but it seems to have a good success rate.
Connected: this was in an email from Google yesterday:
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@coldandtired rather then mixed Latin and Cyrillic scripts, I'm more bothered with doubled "year" after 2018.
BTW - "related" works much better in this context than "connected".
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@scarlet_manuka Also, 90% uptime? Excluding maintenance or "technical reasons" (i.e. stuff breaking)?
That's more than a month of downtime they allow for themselves.
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@rhywden Yep. It's a very lazy target even if you include maintenance and so on, so they're obviously just setting the bar so low that it's impossible not to pass it. I don't know why they don't just go the usual route of "we aim for x% availability, but we don't guarantee any particular level", where x% is some reasonable number (99+%). And I still don't know what's left after you exclude maintenance, technical issues, and reasons beyond your control! Pretty sure you should be running at 100% without those.
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I just woke this thing up from fuckin' sleep, man. How much trouble can you get into waking a computer up from sleep?
https://i.imgur.com/aCbszN8.jpg
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I just woke this thing up from fuckin' sleep, man. How much trouble can you get into waking a computer up from sleep?
https://i.imgur.com/aCbszN8.jpgVideo scheduler error? What, FPS dropped too low so it just gave up?
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I just woke this thing up from fuckin' sleep, man. How much trouble can you get into waking a computer up from sleep?
Historically, sleep has been the single most problematic feature of every PC running Windows or Linux. There are so many things that can go wrong both in software and hardware, and they have to work perfectly all at once because there is no recovery once sleep has been initiated.
Video scheduler error?
INTERNAL error. This usually means access violation reading null pointer. Almost all software gives up when this happens.
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Not sure they're the right English words - I mean books that students are required to read
"Required reading [for $class]"
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@scarlet_manuka said in WTF Bites:
so they're obviously just setting the bar so low that it's impossible not to pass it.
Hey, gotta guarantee those executive bonuses somehow! And the only guarantee IT gets is extra mandatory overtime.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
It'll probably do better if the phrase is used in context.
Definitely. Google Translate relies on context even more than traditional, more rule-based translators, because it's all statistical. And English with its many homographs and homonyms gives it a particularly hard time, even though it usually has the largest training corpora.
In this case "obligatory reading" would have been my first guess just looking at the words. Somehow Polish seems to consider l and w to be quite similar.
BTW, @Gąska, look what I found while looking up your fomer president:
I don't think it's too far-fetched to speculate they'll have invited him for the opening and he came and didn't say "pierdolę cię" or something along that line.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I just woke this thing up from fuckin' sleep, man. How much trouble can you get into waking a computer up from sleep?
If my son is anything to go by, I'd prepare for the worst.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I just woke this thing up from fuckin' sleep, man. How much trouble can you get into waking a computer up from sleep?
https://i.imgur.com/aCbszN8.jpg
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
I don't want to deal with this shit, I just want my freaking headphones I've paid fortune for! Is that too much to ask!?
And your government is to thank for this shit. All of it, including the outrageous shipping cost probably, because DHL has to deal with this shit too and bills it to you.
I wonder whether it would be possible, and cheaper, to get things shipped to Croatia and drive over there to pick it up. Around here we have a service where some random shops act as delivery points for the e-shops, so if they have something similar in Croatia and with a bit of luck you wouldn't even need any friend there.
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And English with its many homographs and homonyms gives it a particularly hard time, even though it usually has the largest training corpora.
British, American, Australian...?
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Somehow Polish seems to consider l and w to be quite similar.
Que? Are you referring to the fact that the two completely unrelated words that came up separetely, "obligation" and "obowiązek", have similar beginning?
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he came and didn't say "pierdolę cię"
: while this is accurate translation of "fuck you", in this context he'd rather say "pierdol się", which is more like "fuck yourself". Also, he'd probably use plural: "pierdolcie się".Fun fact: during his election campaign, before one of debates, he was asked if he's going to shake hands with his political opponent - to which he responded, "with him, I will only shake a leg, at most!" This sounded just as bizarre in original as it sound in English.
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Somehow Polish seems to consider l and w to be quite similar.
Que? Are you referring to the fact that the two completely unrelated words that came up separetely, "obligation" and "obowiązek", have similar beginning?
I thought it was ł and w that are similar...
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@pjh they're not. They are very distinct sounds - w is like English v.
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@pjh they're not. They are very distinct sounds - w is like English v.
Ah - misreading the thread; I meant I thought Polish ł was similar to English w.
But that's nothing to do with this...
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As long as the question doesn't specify heavy concurrent traffic, I think this is safe enough.
And 640kB ought to be enough for anybody.
That's a slur, he never said that.
Notice how I didn't attribute the sentence to anyone?
Kids these days and their reading comprehension…
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I don't think it's too far-fetched to speculate they'll have invited him for the opening and he came and didn't say "pierdolę cię" or something along that line.
Presumably they all speak Polish so they wouldn't need to Google translate anything.
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Somehow Polish seems to consider l and w to be quite similar.
Que? Are you referring to the fact that the two completely unrelated words that came up separetely, "obligation" and "obowiązek", have similar beginning?
"Obligatory" came up because I'd have associated that with "obowiązek". The W/L thing may be a coincidence; one of the very few things I know in Polish (but I looked it up to be sure, which is how I found that airport picture) is how to pronounce Lech Wałęsa's name which is always ASCIIfied "Walesa" but sounds more like Wawẽsa.
The two words seem to be remotely related, although the conspicuous "ob-" appears to be conincidence, too. While I can't find anything on the Polish, the Russian обязать is obviously related and according to Wiktionary it's somehow related (don't ask me how, I can read that just via Google Translate) to Greek περιπλέκειν and Protoindoeuropean *leig- (to bind) which is also the root of Latin "(ob)ligare".
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I don't think it's too far-fetched to speculate they'll have invited him for the opening and he came and didn't say "pierdolę cię" or something along that line.
Presumably they all speak Polish so they wouldn't need to Google translate anything.
But the ASCIImperialists that they are called the damn thing "Lech Walesa Airport". His name is Lech Wałęsa.
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Somehow Polish seems to consider l and w to be quite similar.
Que? Are you referring to the fact that the two completely unrelated words that came up separetely, "obligation" and "obowiązek", have similar beginning?
"Obligatory" came up because I'd have associated that with "obowiązek". The W/L thing may be a coincidence; one of the very few things I know in Polish (but I looked it up to be sure, which is how I found that airport picture) is how to pronounce Lech Wałęsa's name which is always ASCIIfied "Walesa" but sounds more like Wawẽsa.
I guess it doesn't help that Ł is a completely distinct letter that doesn't sound at all like L. In speech, it's way easier to confuse D with T than L with Ł.
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I guess it doesn't help that Ł is a completely distinct letter that doesn't sound at all like L. In speech, it's way easier to confuse D with T than L with Ł.
Yeah, come to think of it, it looks like L if you haven't learned it as a separate letter but just in the same way O and Q look alike. So I was led down the right path ("looks kinda like obligatory") by a totally wrong assumption :)
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how to pronounce Lech Wałęsa's name which is always ASCIIfied "Walesa" but sounds more like Wawẽsa.
It sounds like Vawɛ̃sa¹.
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@dkf I can see a certain amount of mischief possible with a roll of black LX tape...
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I guess it doesn't help that Ł is a completely distinct letter that doesn't sound at all like L. In speech, it's way easier to confuse D with T than L with Ł.
Yeah, come to think of it, it looks like L if you haven't learned it as a separate letter but just in the same way O and Q look alike. So I was led down the right path ("looks kinda like obligatory") by a totally wrong assumption :)
To further complicate matters, the Russian language has a single letter Л for both L and Ł, and the sound changes depending on what comes after Л (due to palatization).
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Fun fact: during his election campaign, before one of debates, he was asked if he's going to shake hands with his political opponent - to which he responded, "with him, I will only shake a leg, at most!" This sounded just as bizarre in original as it sound in English.
Maybe he meant shake a turd down his pants leg? Slightly less bizarre, although it's not really a saying even in English.
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@mott555 if he did, it definitely didn't sound like it. The Polish expression for shaking hands is "podać rękę", which means something like "give a hand", "pass on a hand". The words he used were "podać nogę", which doesn't really have any meaning other than literal.
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he came and didn't say "pierdolę cię"
: while this is accurate translation of "fuck you", in this context he'd rather say "pierdol się", which is more like "fuck yourself". Also, he'd probably use plural: "pierdolcie się".Fun fact: during his election campaign, before one of debates, he was asked if he's going to shake hands with his political opponent - to which he responded, "with him, I will only shake a leg, at most!" This sounded just as bizarre in original as it sound in English.
"Shake a leg" is an idiom in English, although not one that makes sense in that context. It means "hurry up, get a move on".
The words he used were "podać nogę", which doesn't really have any meaning other than literal.
Is it possible that he meant give a foot, e.g. in the seat of the pants?
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
The words he used were "podać nogę", which doesn't really have any meaning other than literal.
Is it possible that he meant give a foot, e.g. in the seat of the pants?
Everything's possible when you make an electrician without GED your presidential candidate. His other memorable quotes include "everyone will get 100 millions" and "we'll make Poland a second Japan".
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Am I alone in thinking it's a bad idea to name two different things the same?
Also: Fuck you, I specifically made that damn dropdown because it was fucking terrible to add shit to vendors by DBID! I wish there was a ticket on that so I could shove it in your face right now...
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Russian обязать is obviously related and according to Wiktionary it's somehow related (don't ask me how, I can read that just via Google Translate) to Greek περιπλέκειν
That doesn't make sense. Περιπλέκειν would be transliterated periplekin, so there's no obvious similarly in the letters, and it means "complicate," so there's no apparent relationship in the meaning, either.
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"we'll make Poland a second Japan".
- remove land surrounding the center of Poland to make the center of Poland into a roughly Japan-shaped island
- replace Polish government with anime
- catch all of the Polandmon
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@gąska [aggressive jazz hands]
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
catch all of the Polandmon
In Polandballs?
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
Russian обязать is obviously related and according to Wiktionary it's somehow related (don't ask me how, I can read that just via Google Translate) to Greek περιπλέκειν
That doesn't make sense. Περιπλέκειν would be transliterated periplekin, so there's no obvious similarly in the letters, and it means "complicate," so there's no apparent relationship in the meaning, either.
I find it translated as "to weave/tangle" which fits "to complicate" but is also obviously related to "to bind" (as in "ligare" or "обязать") and to what seems to be the modern use -- Google's first hit for the word is a knitting website. The letters—beats me, Russian etymologists seem to consider it related. No idea, it really doesn't look similar.
Edit: fix spelling
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"we'll make Poland a second Japan".
He wanted to be bombarded with a few atomic bombs?
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Am I alone in thinking it's a bad idea to name two different things the same?
Also: Fuck you, I specifically made that damn dropdown because it was fucking terrible to add shit to vendors by DBID! I wish there was a ticket on that so I could shove it in your face right now...
What does BP stand for? I can guess the P is for product?
