There's a difference between posting a picture of your own house and someone else posting a picture of your house in a place where you can't see it.
Choonster
@Choonster
Best posts made by Choonster
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RE: How is it possible someone in the lounge could be an asshole?
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RE: WTF Bites
My company started using Time Doctor for tracking work hours. Whenever I search for information about it, I get results for Doctor Who.
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RE: Mozilla alienating everyone and everything
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Mozilla alienating everyone and everything:
@Arantor said in Mozilla alienating everyone and everything:
@GuyWhoKilledBear because he knows he’ll pull a shitstorm down on his head if he does. Namely because of https://basicattentiontoken.org/
More likely, he didn't speak out because he doesn't look at crypto and its environment impact and decide that crypto is evil.
Put a little bit more directly, it is weird that Peter Linss and Jamie Zawinski, who are former key players at Mozilla, can dictate Mozilla's current culture to it.
They tweeted that Mozilla is wrong to accept crypto, and assumed that everyone would correctly fill in the blanks and deduce that their issue was with the environmental impact.
That's a dumb thing to assume unless you know everyone is already like-minded. I'd assume that most Mozilla employees are FOSS types, because that's what the organization is. I'd assume that 95% of people who work at NFL headquarters in New York are football fans for the same reason.
But if you're talking to a software organization, it shouldn't assume that everyone is like-minded on environmental issues. Especially when your appeal to authority rests on how you were a key player in the organization in an earlier era, and not all the key players from your era (c.f. Eich) agree with you.
This would have been a very different post if jwz had said "Mozilla shouldn't accept crypto because crypto is bad for the environment."
He did use the term "planet-incinerating" to describe it, which I understood to mean "bad for the environment"/"contributing to global warming".
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
Also they're making another one:
Some anonymous guy on a programming humour site's forum was saying earlier that they're making 2, 3 and 4 simultaneously.
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RE: Error'd Bites
I'm looking for a new blender, and it looks like someone has been testing in production:
https://bulletbrands.com.au/collections/accessories/products/test-product-dont-order
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RE: Selecting distinct rows in Entity Framework
Someone on StackOverflow found the problem: The entity class had been configured with
ID_A
as the primary key, so EF assumed that it was unique and ignored theGroupBy
/Select(g => g.FirstOrDefault())
operation when generating the SQL.The solution was to add a
ROW_NUMBER()
column to the view and tell EF to use that as the primary key. Once I did that, EF turned theGroupBy
/Select(g => g.FirstOrDefault())
operation into aSELECT DISTINCT
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RE: How to create a hoax
But for any of my domains it just shows tons of 404 links, for some reason.
Did you delete all your webpages?
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RE: And THIS kind of BS is EXACTLY why I have NoScript ON by default, EVERYWHERE
I use a script-blocking extension (ScriptSafe) and I don't mind that much if a website requires JavaScript to work. What I do mind is when the website only works if all of its analytics and advertising crap has loaded.
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Is it possible to have public upvotes without public downvotes?
About six months ago, a window displaying every upvote and downvote for a post was made available to non-mods (see here and here) and was eventually disabled because some people didn't agree with downvotes being public.
I'm wondering if it's possible to have the same window without the downvotes so that we can see every upvote that a post has? If not, I'd like to suggest this as a feature.
Edit: This has been added in this NodeBB update. Thanks @ben_lubar.
Latest posts made by Choonster
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RE: Nope, you eat it
@Tsaukpaetra said in Nope, you eat it:
@boomzilla oh, it's a plastic bag inside a paper decoration. That's not as impressive as I thought.
Where have we seen than before?
Looks like a variant of existing wine packaging, but "green":
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RE: The Belt Onion club
@remi said in The Belt Onion club:
Even what is called here "American fridge" (i.e. two doors side-by-side, and things like cold water/ice distributor on the front -- probably not what you want, but typically the more expensive range of things) starts at 700-800 EUR:
Funnily enough, double door fridges are often called "French Door" fridges here (unless they're "Side By Side" fridges with the fridge on side and the freezer on the other):
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RE: Error'd Bites
I'm looking for a new blender, and it looks like someone has been testing in production:
https://bulletbrands.com.au/collections/accessories/products/test-product-dont-order
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RE: Mozilla alienating everyone and everything
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in Mozilla alienating everyone and everything:
@Arantor said in Mozilla alienating everyone and everything:
@GuyWhoKilledBear because he knows he’ll pull a shitstorm down on his head if he does. Namely because of https://basicattentiontoken.org/
More likely, he didn't speak out because he doesn't look at crypto and its environment impact and decide that crypto is evil.
Put a little bit more directly, it is weird that Peter Linss and Jamie Zawinski, who are former key players at Mozilla, can dictate Mozilla's current culture to it.
They tweeted that Mozilla is wrong to accept crypto, and assumed that everyone would correctly fill in the blanks and deduce that their issue was with the environmental impact.
That's a dumb thing to assume unless you know everyone is already like-minded. I'd assume that most Mozilla employees are FOSS types, because that's what the organization is. I'd assume that 95% of people who work at NFL headquarters in New York are football fans for the same reason.
But if you're talking to a software organization, it shouldn't assume that everyone is like-minded on environmental issues. Especially when your appeal to authority rests on how you were a key player in the organization in an earlier era, and not all the key players from your era (c.f. Eich) agree with you.
This would have been a very different post if jwz had said "Mozilla shouldn't accept crypto because crypto is bad for the environment."
He did use the term "planet-incinerating" to describe it, which I understood to mean "bad for the environment"/"contributing to global warming".
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RE: Game Deals Thread
I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream is free on GOG for about 32.5 more hours:
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status: Annoyed by regional restrictions.
My phone (an LG G5) is getting a bit old and some apps are starting to require newer versions of Android than the last one available for it (7.0), so I thought I'd try installing a custom OS (LineageOS) on it. There's plenty of instructions for installing it on the specific G5 model I have (H850), so I thought it would be pretty easy.
The first step is to unlock the bootloader through LG's developer website, but when I entered all the required information, it said that my device can't be unlocked. It turns out that the European H850 can be unlocked, but not the Australian one, despite being the same model.
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RE: Strange behaviour from new hard drive
@Luck-Man said in Strange behaviour from new hard drive:
@Choonster said in Strange behaviour from new hard drive:
@Luck-Man The post you quoted was the closest I came to a solution.
I've never tried enabling compression before.
Did it take a long time?
I'm going to move about 3.4 TB into it.I don't remember it that much, but I think it did take quite a while.
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RE: Strange behaviour from new hard drive
@Luck-Man The post you quoted was the closest I came to a solution.
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RE: Monitor Recommendations
Scorptec (a retailer that I haven't used before) happen to be having a Valentines Day monitor sale for some reason, which prompted me to look into this a bit more. The sale is a bit underwhelming, there's not that many products included and the prices don't seem to be much lower than Mwave's are (maybe Mwave is matching the sale prices without marking the items as on sale, but I'm not sure).
I've got a rough idea of what I'm going to buy now:
- Primary monitor: BenQ EW3280U 32" 4K
- Secondary monitor LG 27UL550-W 27" 4K
- Stand: TiXX DMM02FS Dual Monitor Free Standing Desktop Mount - 13"-32"
Does anyone have any comments/suggestions?
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RE: Monitor Recommendations
@JBert said in Monitor Recommendations:
@Choonster said in Monitor Recommendations:
either two 4K monitors,
Do check what your video card or docking station supports. If it doesn't support running two 4K monitors then obviously some compromise will have to be found.
I've got a GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, so it should be fine.
@Choonster said in Monitor Recommendations:
one 4K and one 1080p
In this case you're going to have to change the DPI of one monitor so that things remain readable, but most operating systems might have trouble with that. Not sure if Windows 10 got a lot better in that regard. I do seem to remember some Blakeyrant about moving windows across monitors might either increase the text size when going from the 4K to the 1080p monitor, or scale it down to something tiny when moving from 1080p to 4K. Of course, Blakey has moved on to greener pastures a while ago so maybe they did fix it in one of the OS updates.
I've already got the Dell monitor scaled to 125% because it's further away, Windows 10 seems to work reasonably well.