WTF Bites
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
but one is significantly more painful than the other.
Installing Windows?
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@Tsaukpaetra Yes. Although that's not the painful solution I was thinking of, it works, too.
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@HardwareGeek This is on Windows. For some reason, ever since v54 Firefox has been unable to update itself (even after a complete uninstall and reinstall with default settings). I can only update it by downloading a fresh copy and installing it manually.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Scarlet_Manuka said in WTF Bites:
which I see almost every time I start it:
There's one simple way to avoid seeing it. Well, more than one, actually, but one is significantly more painful than the other.
I can think of two that are (might be?) significantly more painful than the other two...
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@anotherusername I originally wrote it with "some" rather than "one ... the other," but I was thinking of two specific things, and I thought it made my humor stronger to change the wording. But there could be a lot of others, sure.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in WTF Bites:
This is on Windows.
I meant it works as , not necessarily that it works to solve your problem. After all, this isn't a help topic.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@anotherusername I originally wrote it with "some" rather than "one ... the other," but I was thinking of two specific things, and I thought it made my humor stronger to change the wording. But there could be a lot of others, sure.
Just in case we're not on the same wavelength...
Two ways to make sure you'll never see it again that will (might) hurt...
- kill yourself
- blind yourself
Two ways to make sure you'll never see it again that will not hurt
- stop using Firefox
- turn off Firefox's automatic updates
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A browser that is not shit really seems to be to much to ask.
May I suggest Lynx?
w3m is shit, Lynx is shit lite.
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@anotherusername We're on the same wavelength. My ideas were:
@Scarlet_Manuka said in WTF Bites:
which I see almost every time I start it
- Don't start it, or
- Blind yourself so you don't see it.
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@HardwareGeek I wouldn't start it, but using separate browsers is key for my wife and I to use a shared account, which is generally convenient. So Chrome is hers, and I CBA to try to install and evaluate an unknown number of less popular browsers in an effort to find one that sucks less than FF.
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@Tsaukpaetra He was probably thinking of poking out your eyes with a rusty prybar.
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@Scarlet_Manuka Have you tried using different Chrome profiles? Or Edge <ducks>
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Dates are hard
Edit: received 1h ago
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra He was probably thinking of poking out your eyes with a rusty prybar.
I was thinking more along the lines of stabbing with a sharp pointy thing, but that works too.
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Who the heck indents code blocks by 1 (one) space?!?
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@HardwareGeek A minimalist
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Who the heck indents code blocks by 1 (one) space?!?
When you're on an embedded system without a file system every byte counts!
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@boomzilla So that's when you'd use the .min.js
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I had an Amazon delivery today that was in a box approximately 1'x3'x4'.
It was a backpack. A normal everyday sort of backpack. Not like a gigantic backpack you would take a week's worth of supplies on a backpacking trip in the Rockies. Just an ordinary backpack.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Who the heck indents code blocks by 1 (one) space?!?
When you're on an embedded system without a file system every byte counts!
Fucking tabs. Use them.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I had an Amazon delivery today that was in a box approximately 1'x3'x4'.
It was a backpack. A normal everyday sort of backpack. Not like a gigantic backpack you would take a week's worth of supplies on a backpacking trip in the Rockies. Just an ordinary backpack.
AI at work.
: Get me the smallest box
: (correct box: empty; bigger box: empty; really big box: DING) Here
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Got an email from Steam because some games are on special
40% is a nice deal, let's check it
(Go on the store page)
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@TimeBandit Looks like a pricing error, you should buy it
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May explained in several other tweets that he was easily able to unlock the door with a pin code, and could have opened it with his phone as well, so it was no big deal.
He also explained that while he appreciates that regular keys wouldn't have locked him out of his home, he likes having the ability to remotely allow his kids in and out of the house.
We just give our kids keys when they get to highschool age.
One does hope that there's a low limit on the number of PINs you can try.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Dates are hard
Edit: received 1h ago
So it "is" about to expire at the end of last July, but you have until the end of this month (September) to use it?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I had an Amazon delivery today that was in a box approximately 1'x3'x4'.
It was a backpack. A normal everyday sort of backpack. Not like a gigantic backpack you would take a week's worth of supplies on a backpacking trip in the Rockies. Just an ordinary backpack.
The other day we got two new Cuisinart fry pans. The 8" one was just in its box all normal. The 12" one was inside its box... inside another larger shipping box with a bunch of that brown paper filler stuff.
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@anotherusername Probably someone forgot to update the date in the email template.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit Looks like a pricing error, you should buy it
I did. 3 times (for me and my 2 sons)
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@TimeBandit I don't get a copy? Pfft!
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Got an email from Steam because some games are on special
TRWTF is the title. Often I get the impression the way these games come about is that someone codes up what they think is going to be a racer or something and halfway through find out they can't get the physics right so instead of buying an expensive physics engine they buy a few cheap vehicle models that fit the comments they got from their "test players" - "Duuuude, this is crap, it plays like the cars were all stuck in the mud!"
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in WTF Bites:
We just give our kids keys when they get to highschool age.
One does hope that there's a low limit on the number of PINs you can try.
Like in any keypad.
Reading his sequence of tweets:
This is the Nest Hello paired with the Nest x Yale lock.
Several have asked about the feature itself (lock on unfamiliar face). When I first got the lock, I played with lots of IFTTT recipes to see what it could do.
I used this trigger from IFTTT and specified that it should look for notifications from the Nest app containing the keywords that indicate an unfamiliar face. Then I linked it to an action that fires the Google Assistant, requesting that the door be locked.
Google Assistant is unable to unlock the door, which is probably for the best.
So to summarize: failed face recognition device sent notification to his phone, which sent lock request to Google Assistant, which told lock to lock door. Aah, the 21st century.
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@LaoC it's actually the best off-road simulator
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https://mashable.com/2018/09/16/full-stack-developer-online-course-deal/
What's next? "Learn how to become a brain surgeon in half a day"?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
https://mashable.com/2018/09/16/full-stack-developer-online-course-deal/
What's next? "Learn how to become a brain surgeon in half a day"?
As I always say, anyone can do anything if they put their mind to it and don't care at all about the results.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
What's next? "Learn how to become a brain surgeon in half a day"?
Bob the Mad Axe Murderer managed to become a brain surgeon in under 10 minutes!
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
What's next? "Learn how to become a brain surgeon in half a day"?
Bob the Mad Axe Murderer managed to become a brain surgeon in under 10 minutes!
Are you calling him a murderer because he's black?
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Are you calling him a murderer because he's black?
Not that Bob. That's Bob the Smith. There's also Bob the Builder and Bob the Drag Queen (TIL) but none of those Bobs are Bob the
Mad Axe MurdererTotally Legitimate Brain Surgeon. You gotta keep your bobs straight.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Are you calling him a murderer because he's black?
Not that Bob. That's Bob the Smith. There's also Bob the Builder and Bob the Drag Queen (TIL) but none of those Bobs are Bob the
Mad Axe MurdererTotally Legitimate Brain Surgeon. You gotta keep your bobs straight.
Is he related to Achmed the
MadI just get these headaches?filed under: CLOSE YOUR TAGS!
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
https://mashable.com/2018/09/16/full-stack-developer-online-course-deal/
What's next? "Learn how to become a brain surgeon in half a day"?
If you read the title as a proper you'll realize that they're just saying that you'll learn how to become a full-stack developer, not learn enough to be one.
Also, learning how to become a brain surgeon seems pretty simple, too, it just depend on how in depth you want to go on medical school curriculum, how to choose an internship, etc.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Also, learning how to become a brain surgeon seems pretty simple, too, it just depend on how in depth you want to go on medical school curriculum, how to choose an internship, etc.
And the good news is you don't have to know literally anything about history, politics, culture, etc. You can finish the brain surgery classes then get on a podium and say " the pyramids were used to store grain" and it's hunky-dory.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Also, learning how to become a brain surgeon seems pretty simple, too, it just depend on how in depth you want to go on medical school curriculum, how to choose an internship, etc.
And the good news is you don't have to know literally anything about history, politics, culture, etc. You can finish the brain surgery classes then get on a podium and say " the pyramids were used to store grain" and it's hunky-dory.
I suspect most of us can agree that that seems a lot better than someone learning the true secrets of the pyramids instead of brain surgery and then cracking open someone's skull.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Also, learning how to become a brain surgeon seems pretty simple, too, it just depend on how in depth you want to go on medical school curriculum, how to choose an internship, etc.
And the good news is you don't have to know literally anything about history, politics, culture, etc. You can finish the brain surgery classes then get on a podium and say " the pyramids were used to store grain" and it's hunky-dory.
Grain is stored in the cadavers
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
If you read the title as a proper you'll realize that they're just saying that you'll learn how to become a full-stack developer, not learn enough to be one.
Reading TFA:
HTML, CSS, PHP, and Bootstrap, and get hands-on training with Lavarel
I guess it's enough to qualify as "full-stack developer". They don't say things like "well-rounded" or "good" either.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Grain is stored in the cadavers
The pyramid is just a marker for where the grain is burried
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I usually give up to five seconds of skimming attention if the embed seems interesting.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Are you calling him a murderer because he's black?
Not that Bob. That's Bob the Smith. There's also Bob the Builder and Bob the Drag Queen (TIL) but none of those Bobs are Bob the
Mad Axe MurdererTotally Legitimate Brain Surgeon. You gotta keep your bobs straight.What about Bob your uncle?
Edit: apparently HTML sanitizer is okay with unclosed tags...
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Grain is stored in the cadavers
The pyramid is just a marker for where the grain is burried
The pyramids were filled with grain but the mummies got hungry over the last few thousand years
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
apparently HTML sanitizer is okay with unclosed tags...
So are our company T-shirts. They have a
<div>
(without closing tag) on them, and explanation is that it's an open tag, because we are an open company.
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@Bulb With open heads.