There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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RE: The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!)
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Performing a hard reset on a Surface
https://twitter.com/dakami/status/971131871621885953 :
All this because the battery is non-removable.
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RE: HTML tag abuse thread
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RE: Do .EU have a domain registered in the UK? .EU may not have long to reregister it elsewhere...
This isn't the first time Brussels bureaucrats have been messing up the .eu TLD:
IOW, don't use a .eu domain for anything important - you can never know when they'll change the rules and remove it from you.
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RE: WTF Bites
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
We need @ender to come back and show us his really tall lowercase a again.
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RE: WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else
@levicki said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Whoever designed this dialog should be taken outside, raped while being strangled to death, and their body fed to a bunch of hungry pigs.
I think this should be done to most modern UI "designers" - looks like in the last 10 years they forgot everything about usability.
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RE: Apple stand
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Apple stand:
True, but in this case, it was £1500, not $1500, at a time when one £ was about $1.6, so think of it more like $2500 in year 2000 dollars.
Let me bring up the £15k power cord again.
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RE: Apple stand
@Captain said in Apple stand:
@hungrier
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Bu3tPaJCA8MB is still faster and better than 1.44. Why buy a Mac if you want a PC experience?
Hah, I have this exact drive (IBM-branded) somewhere. And while they might have been invented in 1998, they did not come into common use until early 2000's.
I remember lugging my parallel ZIP100 and later ZIP250 drives around.
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Mov instruction is turing-complete
Since the x86 mov instruction is apparently turing-complete, the only reasonable thing to do is to write a C compiler which only compiles to mov instructions...
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RE: Temporary paths
That doesn't seem to stop .NET installers, which unpack themselves to a randomly named folder in the root of whichever drive has the most free space - a folder which they often fail to clean up after they're done.
Better than one of the VC runtime installers, which unpacks itself to the root of the system drive, and then leaves the files there.
@blakeyrat said:That's probably this bug, which was fixed in VS2008 SP1.
No, he was talking about Windows updates and .NET installers that unpack themselves to a randomly-named directory on the local drive that has the most available space. At least those clean up after themselves about half of the time (but it's annoying when you have an USB drive connected, some update runs in the background, and you find out that you can't safely unplug the drive because Windows is using it for it's updates). -
RE: Should big digressions be split to a new topic?
Topics wander.
That's not quite right. Topics wander in other forums. On TDWTF they fly around the globe, then usually explore the nearby celestial bodies.
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RE: Mouse cursor on top
Reminds me of certain medical software that runs on Windows Server and has a service that specifically establishes a RDP connection to localhost, where it runs one program that displays an image, and then another program which takes a screenshot to convert that image to another format.
(install of said software includes waiting for Windows to inform you that a service is trying to display some UI, switching to service desktop, establishing said RDP connection [don't forget to click "Remember password"!], then disabling the Windows service that reminds you that some service is trying to display UI)
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RE: Performing a hard reset on a Surface
@rhywden USB-C supports up to 100W charging, and a lot of modern laptops usually only come with 45-65W power supplies.
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RE: Where did your user name come from?
I just finished Ender's Game, when a local gaming magazine opened a renewed forum.
There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things and off-by-one errors.
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RE: Tales from the Mortgage Monster: who are we paying today?
I forgot to mention that, went from 30-35 minutes to under 2 minutes.
How many people complained that they can't take extended coffee breaks anymore?
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
http://www.sansbullshitsans.com/ ...actually, this is probably a good idea.
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RE: WTF Bites
@anotherusername There are several combining characters that are actually letters. No, rͭeͪaͤlly.
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RE: "Just supply a PR"
And having a codebase that barely anyone understands is better how?
It's too complex for anybody to write a pagination plugin for, obviously! -
RE: Poll: how do you pronounce the prefix Giga?
It's missing With a G, like in GIF.
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RE: Counter trolling ideas
Create an app that runs as a process and switches his mouse button orientation for a period of a couple of seconds at random intervals. Alternatively, do the same with his keyboard layout. If it's infrequent enough, it'll be very confusing.
I once put a program that moved the mouse pointer around a bit every now and then on coworker's computer. It was just infrequent enough that he wasn't sure if he was seeing it happening or not for a while.
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RE: Should big digressions be split to a new topic?
I can't process information buried in unrelated topics. I can't be responsible for handling feedback about the software we wrote that I can't find.
If only there was something specifically intended for tracking bugs and features... hmmm...
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RE: Front-page Comments Idea
I would look verrrry closely at this, as letting drive-by anons post with no barrier to entry generally results in youtube level comments.
I read (and contribute) on several sites that allow anonymous comments, and I've never seen any problems (in fact, didn't youtube always require you to have an account to post, thus proving that requiring registration doesn't prevent youtube-level comments?). I actually started commenting on several sites precisely because there was no need to register.
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RE: Missing parentheses after link
I really don't understand why Markdown uses * for italic and ** for bold, when the convention has been practically forever to use * for bold and / for italic (and _ for underline).
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
Using black text on dark background in high contrast theme:
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RE: I'm A Grumpy Cat: An open letter to Alex
@Lorne_Kates said:
And I will not accept the bullshit canned response of "we only represent 1% of the whole Discourse userbase".
This doesn't matter at all - maybe we represent 1% of the Discourse user base, but we represent 100% of thedailywtf community, and half of us want the scrolling fixed.
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RE: GIMP is not bad
Congratulations, you're fucking unemployable.
I'm a sysadmin - I wouldn't take a programming job if it paid 10x what I make now. And when dealing with clients, being associated with GIMP (installer) seems to have only benefited me. -
RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
In our initial listening tests, I couldn't discern any tangible difference in sound between the two hard drives. Harris thought the Hitachi sounded very ethereal, almost out of phase, and rated it lowest; the Seagate was sharper with a more thumpy bass, slightly brighter with a slight tendency to sibilance. Both lacked much drive in presenting the Madonna track, and were certainly 'mushy' compared with the best sound quality we'd heard from the QNAP stable.
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RE: Unicode making life difficult. Again.
Ah, the BMP. Lots of software only supports that still (or uses UTF-16 to cheat past the limit, which sucks in other ways).
I tried naming my WiFi 📶, but then Windows only saw the network as hidden (Android devices had no problems), so I settled for ČŠŽ ⇋ ☄. -
RE: Valve now allows selling of mods
There's nothing wrong with the concept of DRM, what you're talking about is weak implementations of that concept.
If you can run/watch/listen to it, you can copy it, and no DRM will change that. It might make it a bit harder, but nothing that can't be worked around. That said, DRM works really well for something else: locking out competition, either by outright not allowing DRMed content to work (legally) on 3rd party devices, or by preventing implementors from innovating, because that'd go against the legal agreements they had to sign to get the decryption keys. -
RE: Your friendly local neighbourhood digital textbook industry
Wow, your high school students have to buy their own books? In the US, you don't buy your own books until college.
In Slovenia, you buy schoolbooks from 1st year of elementary school, but they're not really that expensive. You can also lease some of them through the school for a fraction of the price (of course, only those books that aren't supposed to be written in).Although I do enjoy ebooks, I'm a lover of the dead tree versions for visceral reasons: the feel, the smell, the heft, the potential use as a clue bat…
I don't miss the dead-tree versions a single bit. I've got a 2nd gen 8" eInk reader (by a now defunct company), and it's so much easier to handle than a paper book (and could still be used as a cluebat in emergency).
@bp_ said:Also, all of O'Reilly, Manning and Packt sell their DRM-free digital editions for less than the dead tree version. They even run deep discounts on their catalogue pretty frequently (they're not as deep as Steam's but they're more frequent). I'm just impressed by how much they seem to get it.
I seem to get an exclusive, time-limited offer for 50% off some or all O'Reilly e-books at least once a month... -
RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
"More responsive" just doesn't seem right.
Responsive is what they call webpages that work well on everything from phones to PCs. Probably a bad idea.and could care less about what the defaults are.
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RE: Yet another sleep
@dhromed said:
Windows 7 starts up smoothly.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Scarlet_Manuka I'm not using the same sequence - since that post was made, new combining characters have been added, so I used most* of them as of today (even the last time I posted ‧̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼͇͈͉͍͎̀́̂̄̃̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́͆͊͋͌̕̚ͅ͏͓͔͕͖͙͚͐͑͒͗͛ͣͤͥͦͧͨͩͪͫͬͭͮͯ͘͜͟͢͝͞͠͡ there were already more characters than in Michael's blog entry).
* I only used the above and below classes, and missed all the others (missing about 42 of them if I counted right)
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RE: Overheard at Work
@ASheridan said:
This is why the suggestion of using a fixed-length encoding was brought up, because then you can use array-indexes on strings with confidence that it will work as you intend.
But even UCS-4 isn't fixed-length - just search for combining diacritical marks ‧̴̵̶̷̸̡̢̧̨̛̖̗̘̙̜̝̞̟̠̣̤̥̦̩̪̫̬̭̮̯̰̱̲̳̹̺̻̼͇͈͉͍͎̀́̂̄̃̅̆̇̈̉̊̋̌̍̎̏̐̑̒̓̔̽̾̿̀́͂̓̈́͆͊͋͌̕̚ͅ͏͓͔͕͖͙͚͐͑͒͗͛ͣͤͥͦͧͨͩͪͫͬͭͮͯ͘͜͟͢͝͞͠͡ - if you have (one of more of) those in a string, will it really work as intended? -
RE: Windows 10 vs Sound
@dcon The "Speakers (Realtek High Definition Audio)" text that looks like a caption is actually a default sound output device chooser. No, really. I only know because I have to use it quite regularly when Windows decides to switch my default audio output to one of my monitors.
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RE: Discourse/Main Site Test Plan
True confession. When it comes to picking a usernames, I either go for some variation of my name....or MisterMagenta.
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RE: Should I migrate a installer away from NSIS if rewriting a large part of it?
That really depends on what you're doing - I use both Inno Setup and NSIS in various projects. Inno is much easier to use, but is slightly more restricted than NSIS (OTOH, there's built-in logging, so if something goes wrong on the user's end, it's usually much easier to debug). NSIS lets you micromanage everything, but scripting is a bit of a pain.
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RE: Open me on mobile!
Not supported on my phone. Should I consider that a good thing?
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RE: This is important - Let's highlight it ! - FF34
What does DRM even accomplish? Making more people resort to piracy because the official way to get the product doesn't work?
DRM accomplishes one thing: it stops hardware manufacturers from improving their devices. If you want the keys to unlock DRMed content, you have to agree to some very draconian limitations about what you can implement in your hardware. Nothing else - everybody knows that if it can be viewed, it can be copied.