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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@loopback0 said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
Of course!
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RE: Tales from Coronavee-rooss Italy, mamma mia!
The good thing about Corona is, that a lot of meetings at work are now cancelled since they are "not essential". Makes me wonder why they were planned in the first place.
But I now finally have time to get things done.
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RE: In other news today...
@cvi said in In other news today...:
Mr Bray said: “I do not have an explanation for what this specific object is.”
Uhm, isn't that exactly what UFO means (other than that it is flying)?
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RE: In other news today...
@DogsB said in In other news today...:
More than half (51 per cent) of 11 to 13-year-olds have encountered pornography online
Shocking!
49 per cent of 11 to 13-year-olds have no access to the internet? -
RE: Programming Memes Thread
@remi said in Programming Memes Thread:
@PleegWat I'm not a DB guy, but is MongoDB really that bad?
It depends.
On what you use it for.
On if and how you implement your datamodel.
On your level of knowledge of and experience with MongoDB.Reality is that MongoDB is often used by nitwits, to store perfectly relational data in a non-normalized way, whilst totally lacking any knowledge of Mongo (or any other database for that matter). Because raisins.
The same actually as with relational databases.
Bonus word of the day: whilst.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
When I checked it had, properly formatted, a time to completion of "22,287 years, 7 months, 1 week, 4 days, 11 hours and 22 minutes".
Did you wait for it to finish, or did you get a cup of coffee first?
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@MrL said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
So they are used in Europe.
When I wrote it I noticed it wasn't exactly correct, but I figured people would know what I meant.
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RE: Unit of Measurement WTF
@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF:
Incidentally this situation is why Napoleon was supposedly short - being 5 foot whatever in French feet is taller than 5 foot whatever in Imperial feet, but it suited the English to spin it as such.
And Napoleon did have two imperial French feet!
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RE: WTF Bites
@Rhywden It is good to be careful. You don't want something like this to happen, where apparently they hit a gas line while installing a car charger.
The people across the street have a NEST doorcam.
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RE: Random Thought of the Day
@kazitor said in Random Thought of the Day:
I have reputation amongst my family for cutting cakes into stupid numbers of slices, like 7 or 13.
Must be prime cake then.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@HardwareGeek said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members:
@error Per month? Per hour? Sounds good to me.
In what currency? Zimbabwan dollars?
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RE: WTF Bites
Rice grains are countable. Rice is not.
Yes it is.
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RE: In other hostile takeover Tweets...
@HardwareGeek said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...:
@dcon I've used commercial software like that. Rebranded from ABC to XYZ years ago, but there are still remnants of the old name, like abc.dat files, scattered around.
In the codebase I currently maintain, there is still at least one reference to the name of the original company, that was bought in 1989!
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RE: The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨
@Gąska said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨:
Another good one: what do you call someone from Crete?
A liar.
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RE: WTF Bites
Thankfully, I don't do anything Azure, which I guess is also fucked.
Not anymore, but it was earlier this morning.
For "some" customers in Western Europe, between roughly 3 and 5 UTC.Guess who got rudely awaken by an effing automated call because several databases were down?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@Parody Every car I've ever owned came with a manual, and among many other things that manual would describe basic servicing items, like where the battery is, how to change a burnt-out headlight (possibly after admonishing you to get the dealer to do it) (except in the latest one which is all LED), and how to check or change the oil.
I once had a car where the manual made it look simple to change a (front) bulb.
Except it conveniently forgot to mention that there was no way to access the lights assembly, without taking apart a significant part of the car.The dealer showed me how they managed to do it: lift the car up, remove the front wheel, find a small access hatch and remove the cover, and then someone with quite small and flexible fingers could access the lights assembly.
The alternative was to disconnect a bunch of hoses including one for the cooling system partially draining that (and refilling it afterwards).I never bothered trying to change a bulb myself afterwards.
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RE: The Official First World Problems Thread™
@DogsB said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
I can't figure out how to turn off the stopwatch so I can't tell the time on my smartwatch.
Easiest solution: wear a second watch to tell the time.
I had a similar issue yesterday. My music (played from my watch to my bluetooth headset) just stopped midway my run. The only way to resume the music that I knew of, required to stop the run (stopwatch and gps track) to access the music controls.
Took me quite some time googling this morning, to find out that it is possible to control the music during a run. Garmin appears to be big on "long presses" of button. -
RE: Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?
@remi said in Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?:
the Netherlands is going to struggle there as well
It does now.
The name "Holland" (western part of the Netherlands) comes from "holt-land", meaning wood-land, as it was totally covered in forests.
But by the 18th century, most forests had disappeared after centuries of building houses, ships,tulips,windmills and - of course - wooden shoes. -
RE: The Official Status Thread
@topspin said in The Official Status Thread:
@Gąska said in The Official Status Thread:
Yes. Wait, kids?
You know, everyone more than a few years younger than yourself.
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RE: In other news today...
@Arantor said in In other news today...:
@Watson given that Mail is somewhat of a Russian ally, you’d think this would be more… important to get right.
Especially as if you’re able to forward it to the correct places you must have registered various domains at .ml to mirror .mil in the first place. Forwarding on 117k items is perhaps not the most generous act they could be doing for the USA here!
The guy is the toplevel country domain administrator for the .ml domain. Until
tomorrowFriday.
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RE: The Belt Onion club
@dkf said in The Belt Onion club:
I've tried to make a career out of being a repository of useless factoids.
Been there, done that. And then I moved on from being an Oracle developer.
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DoctorJones Wait, shit, the video cuts before he explains how to open doors that swing inward, or doors with the handle on the opposite side! We're doomed!
I think that was planned for season 2, but the show was cancelled after 1 season.
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RE: WTF Bites
@Vault_Dweller said in WTF Bites:
Everybody should learn Afrikaans. It does away with everything you are all complaining about:
- No gendered words.
- Does not conjugate differently depending on the subject. Everything is "is":
- "Ons is": We are
- "Ek is": I am
- "Hy is": He is
- Only 3 tenses: past, present and future. No "perfect past" or "simple past", only "past".
The only difficult part is the double negative.
So Afrikaans is basically Dutch for dummies?
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RE: Best anti-SQL-injection protection
@PleegWat said in Best anti-SQL-injection protection:
@Cursorkeys said in Best anti-SQL-injection protection:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Best anti-SQL-injection protection:
That's a shop.
And not a very good one.
One could only hope that this was a shop too. Unfortunately....
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RE: Internet of shit
@cvi In the late 90s/early 0s I used to work in a building where there was a fully operational paternoster. It was the "Scheepvaarthuis" in Amsterdam, then the main office of the municipal transportation company GVB.
The office is now converted to a hotel (Amrath), and the paternoster still works,. However, it is not in use anymore, it's behind glass.
I think it even has a monumental status.This is the one:
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RE: Fun with maps
@Arantor said in Fun with maps:
@Gurth well, Australia does get to participate in the Eurovision contest these days…
Participate yes. But in order to win, you'll have to come up with something special. Like being invaded by your neighbour.
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RE: Nope
@nerd4sale How many times do you have to take "drugs" that don't have any visible (immediate, short-term...) effect before you start wondering about those "drugs"...?
I guess that depends on how much braindamage you have from previous use. But I'm not an expert in that matter.
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@PleegWat said in The Official Status Thread:
@PleegWat And it arrived.
Now wait to see if you get a new timeslot from DHL a day or two after the package has arrived. I usually do.
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RE: 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD
@da-Doctah said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
@Karla said in 🙅 THE BAD IDEAS THREAD:
My a/c temp setting will never be 71, 73, 77, or 79.
Jeebus in flaming heck! I can't even turn it up past 26
I saw another defense of the non-metric system a couple of days ago. Seems there's some lottery thing where the prize can be as much as $1000 per degree of the day's official high temperature. I don't know about you, but $45,000 for a really hot day doesn't even come close to impressing me like $113,000 does.
A metric 1000 dollars?
Surely you mean 952 guineas and 2 shillings per degree. Plus variable sales tax and mandatory 18% tip.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@Applied-Mediocrity said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@boomzilla Both things in one post, poorly separated.
Doing the car thing is not legal. Cars must pass each other to turn in their respective directions. You could call it poor stoopid, but evidently it's perfectly legal elsewhere, so
Over here in the Nether Regions, it is not only legal, but the law!
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RE: The Official First World Problems Thread™
@HardwareGeek said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Official First World Problems Thread™:
@Arantor No language can possibly hope to be any kind of universal if it has any kind of funny-looking letters.
Ναι, αυτό είναι πολύ αλήθεια.
That's Greek to me.
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RE: 🔗 Quick links thread
“That’s a hacky way of doing this, but I don’t have time today to come up with a better implementation”
This seems to be an accurate description of software development.
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RE: Nope, you eat it
@remi said in Nope, you eat it:
@boomzilla said in Nope, you eat it:
IDGI.
Or rather, I see the obvious
nope
thing, but what was it supposed to be instead?It should have been "hors'd oeuvres" apparently.
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RE: The Cat Status Thread
@DogsB said in The Cat Status Thread:
My mother was talking about how her mother solved the problem with their cats having fleas when she was little. Apparently my grandmother washed them in DDT. Never had fleas again.
how long did live?
they died of old age. One of them lived until they were 15 or 16.Which one, your mother or your grandmother?
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@Carnage said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
@aitap sounds like either the master or slave cylinder is fucked up. Given that it's a hydraulic system, which the leaky brake fluid suggests.
If the clutch is leaking brake fluid, there is something terribly wrong anyway.
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RE: Things that remind you of WDTWTF members
@Zecc So AI doesn't really change anything?
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RE: The Belt Onion club
@izzion said in The Belt Onion club:
@nerd4sale said in The Belt Onion club:
You had a remote? Oh, the luxury!
The big problem with having a TV changing remote back in that day was when they became teenagers.
Yes, in the 70s and early 80s I was the remote.
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RE: Florida Man goes to...
@Bulb said in Florida Man goes to...:
@acrow Yes. The weather reports, routing, NOTAMs, passenger manifests, cargo manifests, weight & balance sheets and such are the main thing that need to be printed at the gates, and you'd want each of those to be a continuous strip of paper so you can't lose one page of it or get them out of order.
Most of these are not printed at the gate. The pilots need them for their flight preparation, most of which is done way before getting to the aircraft at all.
TBH: most of this is done on iPad nowadays, but there is (always?) a paper backup.What is printed at the gate, is the definitive passenger manifest, for last-minute changes (now-shows etc.).
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@PleegWat said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@HardwareGeek I have heard (without proof) that in NL protestants tend to have far better knowledge of the bible than catholics. I also know that when my uncle started going out with a catholic woman she ended up borrowing our children's bible.
True. Traditionally, the Catholic church did not encourage people to read the bible themselves. Doctrine was that the bible would be explained by the church (i.e. the priests) to the people.
This is probably also the reason why long after protestants translated the bible in local languages, the catholic bible was still in Latin.[source: 14 years spent in Catholic schools, which made me the atheist I am today]
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RE: A software abomination for y'all
@Jake-VanWagoner said in A software abomination for y'all:
a model based software engineering tool from the early 2000’s. One of the early attempts at “no code” development.
Nah, that's at least the third of fourth generation of failed attempts at "no code" development.
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RE: The Belt Onion club
@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla "My internet used to come through the phone, it made a terrible noise until I looked up the Hayes modem command to not have the noise routed audibly."
First thing in my mind was "ATM0".
Looked it up and I was correct, after all these years.
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RE: WTF Bites
@nerd4sale That's what I said, they're uncountable. They don't pluralize. Like rice.
Is rice not plural, from the singular rouse? Like mouse-mice?
Dutch may be weird, but English is weirder still.
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RE: Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition
@PleegWat said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
In NL, the lights are usually (but not always) on the entry side of the crossing. Nevertheless, the location that is illegal to cross when the light is red is the entire crossing area, starting at the line ('stopstreep'). You should not enter the intersection if you are not certain you will be able to leave it before the light turns red.
Such formulations are common, as they prevent gridlock from cars stuck unable to leave the intersection due to traffic.That is actually not correct.
It is illegal on a red light to cross the white line, which is just before you would enter the crossing. Once you passed that line (on a green light), you're good.
However, there is another law that makes stopping on a crossing illegal. So even if the light is green, but there is so much traffic that you cannot cross in its entirety, you are not allowed to enter the crossing.
Except nobody seems to care about that law.
There is one crossing on my route from work back home, which is always packed during rush hour. If I would not enter until I could cross, I would probably be sitting there until the end of rush hour. -
RE: WTF Bites
@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
You got a short stick on A/B testing.
Or rather handling of decimal comma () vs decimal point ()...
Don't think so:
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RE: IT departments of the world
My experience is that the culture in an IT department usually reflects the company culture.
If the IT department treats their customers (the business) like shit, there is a good chance that the business doesn't care much for their customers either.And it doesn't help if departments (IT vs. business) have different - often conflicting - targets.
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RE: Mobile goes into bottom
Is it just me and my sick imagination, or did anyone else also read the title and thought this thread was about something else entirely?
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RE: The Official Status Thread
@Zecc said in The Official Status Thread:
I saw the first swallow of the year today.
Was it an African or a European swallow?