Best posts made by Dreikin
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RE: Sonos bricking devices intentionally
@coldandtired said in Sonos bricking devices intentionally:
@dreikin said in Sonos bricking devices intentionally:
Translation please?
The first one says, "I will not buy this record, it is scratched."
And the second one says, "My hovercraft is full of eels."
@blakeyrat said in Sonos bricking devices intentionally:
@dreikin said in Sonos bricking devices intentionally:
Translation please?
The man pictured here will molest your children.
Y'know, I just don't think I believe you two. Why would eels use a picture of an old white guy to molest my non-existent children in a hovercraft?
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RE: Windows Update WTFs
@accalia said in Windows Update WTFs:
@Dreikin said in Windows Update WTFs:
It's like they want users to turn off Windows Update entirely.
you realize that if you stopped doing that sort of shit they'd stop fighting you.
they want you to have an up to date operating system so you are as protected as possible from malware.
Just set active hours that make sense for you and let the necessary for your security updates to happen.
No. There aren't any active hours that make sense because I tend to have long running tasks that I don't want interrupted. I update when I can - at current rates that's several times a month - but I really can't let them decide because they keep doing it at inconvenient moments. It'd be a different matter if most updates didn't require a reboot, or even if I could tell it "auto install any updates that don't require a reboot, but let me decide for ones that require a reboot".
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RE: WTF Bites
@royal_poet said in WTF Bites:
@Arantor yep. Those devs were groundbreaking for their time.
Backbreaking, too, given all those boxes.
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RE: Is ruby dying?
@cartman82 said in Is ruby dying?:
@Arantor said in Is ruby dying?:
So if Ruby is dying and .NET is dying and PHP is dying, does that mean the future is NodeJS? Because if it is, fuck that noise.
Elixir, Go Swiftly into that good night.
I think your terminal messed up your typing, so I FTFY.
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RE: The IRC quotes Thread
Oh, Jeopardy!
@Dragnslcr said in The IRC quotes Thread:
@mrguyorama said
because rampant fucking elitism
What is US electoral politics?
hipster fucking silicon valley
What is Apple?
fucking startup
What is a nascent bordello?
culture docker
What is slavery?
fucking cocker
What is a pubescent intact spaniel?
sucking fucks
What are lubricated vacuums?
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RE: Totally new software development methodology that's never been tried before
Send Gigster your app idea and it sends you back that app.
Sweet!
Hi, I'd like an app that can accurately factor integers (up to 128 MB in size) in real-time, please.
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RE: In other news today...
@scholrlea said in In other news today...:
@luhmann said in In other news today...:
@polygeekery said in In other news today...:
with chocolate sprinkles?
or as they are know locally: mouse shit
I think I've mentioned this before, but, there are some areas where ice cream sprinkles are called 'jimmies'. The looks one gets for asking for jimmies on their ice cream in places where it means something rather different can be priceless.
Do people in such areas also ask for their jimmies to be rustled prior to use?
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RE: Found my first C project
Was part of the assignment to use every C feature you could think of?
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@xaade said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
The third zelda was pretty pissed and insisted they were link.
So were they dressed in a dress or green tights? ?
sigh
Green tights.
So they were Peter Pan?
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RE: In other news today...
@lucas1 said in In other news today...:
@dreikin Well I know the chicken DNA and stuff is true.
I didn't bother much with biology at school, being a dude I wanted to know how to make things go bang.
Banging is a big portion of biology
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RE: WTF Bites
Fun read
Didn't this make the front page some time ago? I'm sure I remember a story within the past year or two with something like this going on. In particular, the reason it took longer to get something one way than another was because there was some person in a closet manually transferring all the info from one system into another...
Now that I think about it, it may have been spread across more than one article. Or maybe someone came through there looking for ideas.
Ah! Here we go:
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RE: WTF Bites
Good job, Microsoft. That gap between the two un-blocked-out apps on the taskbar is from Microsoft's new Mail app, which they inconveniently pinned there without my permission last update. So I went ahead and unpinned that, and was left with this. Yes, I've clicked "Close all windows". Several times. It does nothing. Just takes space up on my taskbar. Because apparently they never imagined someone might not want it there, or never tested it with something opened after it.
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RE: Indian Recruiters
@stillwater said in Indian Recruiters:
@hardwaregeek I take that back. Shit.
It's okay. You don't have to be nice to the old guys around here, they just want you to stay off their lawns.
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
@bb36e said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
@izzion said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
/t/1000
I'd argue that discourse really shouldn't be used when discussing how things /should/ work :p
One thing I miss about discourse is the ability to read/goto replies from the post they reply to. Discourse did get a few things right.
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RE: I fucking hate StackOverflow sometimes
@hardwaregeek said in I fucking hate StackOverflow sometimes:
@dreikin said in I fucking hate StackOverflow sometimes:
One of the few times ry actually matters
Lies!
Do you really think it's best if SO users come comment on your GitHub issues? Think about it. Just think of where they've been, who they are! Soon your pull requests will be rejected for being off-topic, your bug reports deleted because the resolution might require someone to express an opinion, and your issues dismissed for being "discussion". Is this really the future you think @cartman82 wants? Is this the future you want?
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RE: Programming mini-rants thread
@Unperverted-Vixen said in Programming mini-rants thread:
@RaceProUK You mean I'm not supposed to declare all of them as
object x;
?Iterator variables are supposed to be i, j, and k, remember? We went over this like 50 times!
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RE: WTF Bites
Redis, Memcached, and Elasticsearch are software products that many rely on. What you might not know, is that these locally running services are accessible by any website you visit, making it possible for bad guys to steal the data you have locally!
TIL.
is up with that font? Is it just me?
One of these letters is not like the others..
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RE: WTF Bites
@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
Google interview experience
9. There's an array of 10,000 16-bit values, how do you count the bits most efficiently?
Me: you shift the bits right on all the 64-bit words, the Kernighan way.
Recruiter: no.
Me: there are faster methods processing 64-bit words with masks but I can't explain it over the phone, I must write code.
Recruiter: the correct answer is to use a lookup table and then sum the results.
Me: on which kind of CPU? Why not let me compare my code to yours in a benchmark?
Recruiter: that's not the point of this test.
Me: what's the point of this test?
Recruiter: I have to check that you know the right answers.I'm lost. Apparently the answer is not
10000 * 16
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RE: WTF Bites
Oracle Photographics Experts Group
Just so y'all know, this could be worse. Imagine if Microsoft had done it. The Microsoft Photographic Research Experts Group, or MPREG for short.
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RE: Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack
@bb36e said in Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack:
@raceprouk said in Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack:
WinPhone
My DDG-fu is failing me -- what is win phone?? ?
The opposite of the fail phone, of course. Although curiously, some people consider them equivalent.
(Windows Phone)
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RE: WTF Bites
WTF of the day: Finally managed to get the Git sample repository for this cross-platform OneDrive access thing to work. Alright.
Now to plug it into my own app. Just install the NuGet package
Microsoft.Identity.Client
and I'm almost good to go... what do you mean, my project is referencing the wrong things and the package is incompatible? It's targetting UWP, iOS and Android, exactly like the sample project! It is identical in that regard.Turns out, not exactly. Because the build targets for a fresh Xamarin PCL project still include stuff like "Windows Phone Silverlight". Which is not supported by that NuGet package. Okay, so I don't need it, so I simply uncheck the box, right?
Yeah. Only there's no such box. There's a box for UWP, for iOS and Android. And a dropdown for the .NET version. But NO check box for Silverlight. So you cannot uncheck the box. It simply isn't there.
The solution: Uncheck everything (which makes Silverlight go away), click ok, and then re-check everything you want.
Jesus.
Embrace, Extend, Eternally Linger On?
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RE: Please click the blank link
Follow-up!
Please Accept Our Apologies for the Recent Email
We would like to offer our sincere apology for the recent customer survey email that was distributed without an active link to the actual questionnaire. Unfortunately, a testing error within our customer care department occurred and the email was sent inadvertently. Please understand that the email was in no way an attempt to spam or capture information from you and rest assured that we have started an initiative to make sure that it does not happen again.
Thank you for your understanding, loyalty and trust.
Sincerely,
Wacom
Let me emphasize that one line there:
Please understand that the email was in no way an attempt to spam or capture information from you and rest assured that we have started an initiative to make sure that it does not happen again.
@anotherusername said in Please click the blank link:
AKA "You can take your opinion and you can shove it up your:
blank
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RE: TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML)
@RaceProUK said in TIL (about the Dark Arts of HTML):
TIL this is what Gordon Freeman initially looked like:
Still waiting for Dwarf-life 3.
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RE: Sourceforge is bundling malware in the GIMP for Windows installer
SourceForge (properly, its owner Dice Holdings)
Oh, and BTW, Dice Holdings bought SlashDot as well.
Don't download anything from SourceForge, basically.
Yeah, they sound kind of dicey.
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RE: Startup simulator
@abarker said in Startup simulator:
@pydsigner There's always that one developer. I have come to hate Chad, specifically.
Be careful with that. It's probably not legal to convert him to a hanging Chad.
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RE: WTF Bites
You're going to terminate Estelle and Morgan at 1:00 and keep the bodies in the freezer?
No, he's doing it for ("für") Morgan. Can't you read
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RE: Steve
the third entry on a Google search for the handle, right after a Wiktionary link for the word and my GitHub profile.
I don't see what being an undead silver dragon has to do with being named "Pete". "George" maybe, but not Pete.
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RE: Fucking Recruiter dumbshittery
@kt_ said in Fucking Recruiter dumbshittery:
@loopback0 said in Fucking Recruiter dumbshittery:
@kt_ said in Fucking Recruiter dumbshittery:
This is @Lorne-Kates'a thread about stupid recruiters. If you want to talk about something else go and create your own thread (I heard they're free)! And stop spamming @Lorne-Kates's thread.
People should only be able to post in threads they created. Jeez!Who died and made you @blakeyrat?
Just a lousy imitation, actually. But you know where to get the real stuff, right?
The blak e-markrat, right?
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
@loopback0 said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
a user got confused by the
.gz
extension when dowloading their posts
i wanted.zip
but it turned out to be hard on LinuxMittineague Plugin Author:
a free tool to open the .gz file
I use a hacky (file names are edited in) DIY PHP file on my localhost
<?php ini_set("memory_limit", -1); // no limit set_time_limit(0); // no limit $readfilename = "_____.csv.gz"; $writefilename = "_____.csv"; $filecontent = ""; $filepointer = gzopen($readfilename, "rb"); while (!gzeof($filepointer)) { $contentline = gzgets($filepointer); $filecontent .= $contentline; } gzclose($filepointer); $filehandle = fopen($writefilename, "wb"); fwrite($filehandle, $filecontent); fclose($filehandle); ?>
But I guess anyone that would know how to do that understands compression formats.
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RE: Fixing morale, according to management.
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Fixing morale, according to management.:
journée de solidarité
The French Journée de solidarité (or Journée de solidarité envers les personnes âgées / Day of solidarity with the elderly) is a french law from the Code Du Travail. It was established on June 30, 2004[1] under the government of Jean-Pierre Raffarin. This law states that each year an employee must work seven hours for free for one of his or her employers, and that each year the employer has to pay a specific contribution. The contribution is defined by another law[2] at a rate of 0.3 percent to be paid to the ad hoc Caisse nationale de solidarité pour l'autonomie by the employers (0.3 percent is considered to be the approximate value of this seven hours' work). Its effect is the removal of a day's holiday.
They couldn't just say "hey, we're going to raise taxes by a very small amount for the purpose of helping the elderly"?
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RE: Testing candidate's mettle S02E02
@Lorne-Kates said in Testing candidate's mettle S02E02:
@cartman82 said in Testing candidate's mettle S02E02:
Oh God, he hardcoded offsets...
Quick, change the .txt file to use an extra whitespace while he's not looking!
Hm, couple of feature requests, should @cartman82 ever get enough good candidates at a time for it to be worthwhile:
- Have the data source automatically generate a random dataset on every call, with the same general formatting, but with white space varying with the items output.
- Possible enhancement: have the white space be a random amount between the minimum needed to separate fields (1 space after the longest item) and the minimum plus 10.
- Require the candidates to output a second table containing either:
- Only the
fieldsrecords filtered out from the first table, or - All the
fieldsrecords, sorted by a different criteria.
- Only the
Modification to the second feature request (see @Lorne-Kates' post below):
- Add an additional field, which the candidate is to sort by but not show in the second table.
- Have the data source automatically generate a random dataset on every call, with the same general formatting, but with white space varying with the items output.
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RE: In other news today...
@karla said in In other news today...:
From the twitter thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1cboen/owl_and_mouse_minnesota_photo_by_tom_samuelson/
The story is a lie. That's a house mouse not any of the species that one would find in the wilds of Minnesota. There are no tracks, just a body impression which was likely made when the mouse was tossed. This sort of set up is easy to pull off (certainly easier than getting a good photo of a wild mouse on the snow, let alone one at the exact moment an owl is attacking).
I've had a few experiences with Gray Owls and they went like this: someone saw one, word spread around, and all sorts of birders, listers, twitchers, and "wildlife photographers" all went to the spot and "happened to find" one too.
I suspect that if you imagine a bunch of people driving up and tramping around some road or trailside clearing, marsh, or hayfield with bins and oversized cameras trying to bait an owl in with non-native, tame, domestic animals that have never even seen snow before than you will be closer to how this probably went down.Something seems fishy about this..... Like why is the mouse just out in the open on top of the snow? Mice do not do that, they tunnel beneath the snow and have almost no reason to go out of it. I think this was staged with a tame mouse. Its fucking awesome, but i don't believe it.
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RE: In other news today...
@chozang said in In other news today...:
@dreikin said in In other news today...:
@chozang said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Maybe a German could explain something to me. According to the article, the employer just provided the bread rolls without spreads. Unless you were starving, I don't understand how anyone could eat bread rolls without some kind of spread (butter, jam, etc.).
Good rolls can be really tasty even without anything on them.
I guess I'm more spoiled than I realized. Or I've never had a good roll. In before:
If you haven't had a roll that good before, you're less spoiled than you realize.
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RE: New from Samsung: Fire and explosions
@masonwheeler said in New from Samsung: Fire and explosions:
@Tsaukpaetra said in New from Samsung: Fire and explosions:
Of scissors.
Just refrain from running with them and everything should be fine!
And if you do run with them, make sure they're Teflon-coated so they'll be easy to clean afterwards.
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
@alexmedia said in How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread):
I see that the DiscoDevs have found more things to bikeshed, such as the contents of posts themselves...
Ooh, that's special (yes, I know, late to the party, potentially d). What it says before clicking "Show Full Post":
As of today*, it’s been four years of Discourse! It feels like only only yesterday that we launched Discourse as an open source project. We’ve certainly been busy for the last four years: 1 official non-beta release of Discourse 7 total releases of Discourse, currently on 1.8 beta ~600 hosted customers ~8000 public installations of…
What it says after:
As of today*, it’s been four years of Discourse!
It feels like only only yesterday that we launched Discourse as an open source project. We’ve certainly been busy for the last four years:
I’m happy to announce that in our fourth year, we’ve just added two team members:
@falco aka Rafael dos Santos Silva from Brazil
@oblakeerickson aka wait for it.. O. Blake Erickson from Idaho, USA
This brings the total Discourse team size up from 9 to 11 souls.
Where do we go from here? Everywhere! Can’t stop. Won’t stop.
More Discourses, more features, more plugins, more integrations. Maybe throw a few new Emoji in there for good measure while we’re at it. And all of it, always, 100% free and open source for you, forever.
* OK technically yesterday but come on that was a Sunday!
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.discourse.org/2017/02/discourses-fourth-birthday/46Much of the abbreviated text doesn't even appear in the full post! I'm guessing that little link at the bottom is where it comes from, instead.
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RE: In other news today...
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@dragoon said in In other news today...:
I am in favor of it.
Every use of the p-value, except in the limited sense just mentioned, involves a fallacy. I prove—as in prove—this in this award-eligible book Uncertainty: The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics . How embarrassing not to own a copy!
Also see this blog’s Book Page which has links to many articles on relevant topic.
The replacement
I have an upcoming JASA paper in discussion to Blakeley McShane and David Gal’s also upcoming “Statistical Significance and the Dichotomization of Evidence”, in which I outline the replacement for p-values. Academic publishing is lethargic, so look for this in August or even December.
Meanwhile, here are elements of a sketch of a condensation of an abbreviation of the outline. The full thing is in Uncertainty. I will answer below any new criticism that I have not already answered in Uncertainty—meaning, if I don’t answer you here, it means I already have in the book.
Smells more like "buy my book!" than "Hey, there's this better thing we could be doing". And the rest of it sounds unconvincing, and perhaps not entirely thought through. Which I'm sure was intentional, because they want you to buy their book.
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RE: After reading some UX stuff on Medium
Wait, no, too obvious. Let's try again.
Hm, no, still too contrasty.
There we go.
And y'all thought you were just joking.
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RE: New from Samsung: Fire and explosions
@Rhywden said in New from Samsung: Fire and explosions:
a proper pair
Of what? Tumors? Extra digits? Semi-permanent or even permanent discolorations? Shrapnel scars?
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RE: WTF Bites
@greybeard said in WTF Bites:
I remember when I first heard of HTTP I thought "Why? There's already a perfectly good FTP."
Perhaps you should change your name to Whitebeard these days?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Status:
Reading about the "new" UHD 4K blu-ray stuff, because I just bought a movie with and wanted to watch it.
If you’ve followed our coverage of Netflix streaming requirements for 4K video and the significant hardware upgrades most systems would require, you know that content creators have gone out of their way to make 4K streaming as difficult as possible. Only seventh-generation Intel Kaby Lake hardware is 4K streaming capable, and it looks like a similar set of requirements are in place for UHD Blu-ray support.
In order to play UHD Blu-rays, your system must support AACS 2.0 and Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX). You’ll need software to play the disc itself (CyberLink has an updated software solution set to ship in the near future), and a GPU with HDMI 2.0a and HDCP 2.2 support. AACS 2.0 also has to be implemented within the GPU driver, and no current stand-alone GPU drivers have this functionality. Finally, you need a 4K TV with both HDMI 2.0a and HDCP 2.2 support as well.
This is a tall order. No Intel chips before Skylake support SGX, and just owning a Skylake board isn’t enough — many desktop boards never implemented the feature and don’t support it in UEFI. The HDCP 2.2 support requirement is also dodgy, since not every Intel board supports that standard, either.
In theory, the UHD Blu-ray playback situation should be better than the 4K streaming situation, since at least 6th and 7th-generation Core chips are both supported. In practice, it seems to be every bit as much of a muddle and a problem. Support is limited to specific SKUs and motherboards with particular features, and the dependence on integrated graphics for decode support means that you can’t use UHD Blu-ray with any Intel HEDT system (HEDT refers to Intel’s E-class chips — Sandy Bridge-E, Ivy Bridge-E, Haswell-E, etc).
For years, there’s been a push-pull between content pirates and the content production industry, with law-abiding fans generally caught in the middle. For years, the content consumption side of the business has warned that if technology became too draconian, people simply wouldn’t use it. That seems to be the point at which we’ve arrived. Given the snail-like speed of PC refresh cycles these days, 4K streaming support will take 3-5 years to establish itself in the market, while UHD Blu-ray playback may never happen at all, thanks to ridiculously strict requirements that block out entire swathes of the hardware market.
I really, truly, sincerely wish there were a way to punish the assholes who create and promulgate these DRM schemes beyond simply not buying the shit they produce. I want it to hurt them any time someone tries to use this stuff, whether or not they succeed.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
Checking out some stuff on sale on Newegg and found this in my cart:
That's not a gift, that's a curse.
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RE: 📷 Photos thread
@boomzilla said in 📷 Photos thread:
I have no idea if this is true, but it's what was said on Facebook where I found this:
A German photograher had fixed 16 cameras to get this shot for which he had to wait for 62 days. See the moon and sun together. This can be only seen again in 2035. Enjoy the shot.
I'm gonna say "not true". The moon shouldn't be illuminated like that if the sun's on the far side of it, which would have to be the case for this picture. Think of a flashlight on the opposite side of the room, with a baseball hanging between you and it, a little higher than your head. Most of it will be relatively dark from your perspective, not lit up (assuming no strong reflections or other light sources, etc.).
ETA: Astronomy StackExchange discussion of this very image, including some example photos showing approximately what the moon should look like in this instance.
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RE: In other news today...
@masonwheeler said in In other news today...:
@dreikin said in In other news today...:
He is now considering taking up the scaffolding job once ... he has permission from his probation officer.
I believe this is what's known as "burying the lede."
Related:
Mr Cropp was serving a two-year jail term for aggravated robbery when his brother did the facial art using a makeshift needle and fermented food.
The brother had apparently been drinking an alcoholic home brew made from fermented apples, sugar and bread and intended the tattoo to be smaller than it was.
Mr Cropp said: "I fell asleep and eight and a half hours later I woke up with this.
"I completely forgot about it and then when I looked in the mirror I was like 'holy sh**' so I have had to live with it from then."
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RE: WTF Bites
I work in a small shop. We only work on internal stuff. I just finished a code review for expanding a db table to include space for test data versions of some fields. This was accomplished by adding one column and serializing the new data into it. This was proposed by a senior dev and accepted by two others. In 2016. It's frickin infuriating watching people go out of their way to break strong typing.
? can you explain what does it have to do with strong typing.
Several fields getting serialized into one column.
Sure, it could be considered strongly typed under the right interpretation and circumstances, but it's certainly not the DB enforcing that.