@djls45 Yep, pretty much.
Posts made by slavdude
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RE: Tax Return Processing Fee
@pie_flavor Thanks. It's been a pretty hellish few months, work-wise, but in a good way, I guess.
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RE: Tax Return Processing Fee
@djls45 said in Tax Return Processing Fee:
@dkf said in Tax Return Processing Fee:
@M_Adams said in Tax Return Processing Fee:
retroactively adjust their tax laws
Is that constitutional?
No, but technically speaking, neither is the entire progressive income tax structure.
Well, there is this bit in the Constitution, too:
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states and without regard to any census or enumeration.
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RE: Polar M200 review: you need an app for that
@dangeruss said in Polar M200 review: you need an app for that:
@bb36e said in Polar M200 review: you need an app for that:
@dangeruss +1, I got a fitbit flex and only needed it for setup. That said, the HR monitor can be slightly unreliable if you're doing any sort of jogging/running.
I'm sure none of them are particular reliable ( including the apple watch IIRC). My coworker said her apple watch would not measure the heart rate properly unless you told it you were running or something.
My wife has a Fitbit. She taught herself to juggle some years ago and often uses it as a way to exercise. The Fitbit thinks she's riding an elliptical when she does.
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RE: Polar M200 review: you need an app for that
@gleemonk said in Polar M200 review: you need an app for that:
The watch is happy now. Looks like I'm dying too because my pulse dropped to 58 according to the watch.
So the M200 needs to be connected to a device that has this shit Polar sync-app installed where you have registered with Polar online so it can sync it's settings online through the browser to function. All this shit just to see my heart-rate. Fuck you Polar.
Well, how can they monetize you without a connection? You didn't really think the device is intended for your benefit, did you?
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RE: Bore
@cartman82 said in Bore:
CryptoBoss just dropped in for a little chat. Of course, Bore had to whine a bit to him about his "unfair" treatment.
CryptoBoss: I apologize, I saw you were diligently studying, I didn't want to bother you.
Bore: (his English is not top notch) Err... I don't understand... "diligently"?
Me: He means you were learning react very hard over the past two weeks.
Bore: (goes pale) Ah... yes.... of course.
Poor CryptoBoss. It seems he hired this guy because he offhand mentioned he's into crypto currencies. He should have hired for talent instead.
So does your new company have anything with "blockchain" in it? Because that seems to be where the
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RE: What the fuck can't marketing people write a proper email?
@laoc said in What the fuck can't marketing people write a proper email?:
@e4tmyl33t said in What the fuck can't marketing people write a proper email?:
No, only the black text should be the subject. The grey stuff is a preview of text in the body, and most "email marketing" places put the "View this in your browser if your email client is crap" and other useless things first before doing any of the styling so that's all you end up seeing in the preview.
Those are the worst, and I'll go to great lengths to annoy them back if they do that. If you absolutely have to include your HTML vomit in email, fucking include a plaintext part. If you're too stupid to do that, leave it out completely and my mutt will take care of extracting something resembling text from the HTML. Plaintext that effectively says "read the vomit so I can include my fucking web bugs to create PowerPoints for marketing and sell the database with your preferences sexual and otherwise to other spammers" is not acceptable.
And, now that Google wants to start including executables in email, I'm sure this will get even better.
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RE: Today in Poorly-Thought-Out Releases
@slavdude The third link is probably the most interesting, as it contains screenshots of the problem.
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Today in Poorly-Thought-Out Releases
There are several of these articles, and you may not be a fan of the site they are coming from, but this really cannot be missed.
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RE: Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!)
@boomzilla I think a lot of accidents on highways also occur when you have, say, people driving the speed limit in the passing lane rather than in the travel lane.
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RE: Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!)
@carnage said in Uber, the sociopathic company full of psychopaths, now with murder! (Because regulations aren't "Disruptive" enough!):
I would guess that her attention was entirely directed at a smartphone, instead of the heavy metal objects hurtling past as she stepped into the street.
Actually, I heard that she was walking a bicycle. Doesn't change the result.
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RE: Meow Ludo Disco Gamma Meow Meow
@atazhaia said in Meow Ludo Disco Gamma Meow Meow:
Meow-Ludo Disco Gamma Meow-Meow, which is his legal name
cyborg rights
You implanted an RFID chip into your hand. Anyone with a pacemaker is more cyborg than you are.
Fun fact: when I was at the company 50-year anniversary there were some guys there doing free RFID chip implants, listing "train ticket in your hand" as a potential use case. Dunno how well supported that actually is atm, though. May be a bit early and I'm not jumping on that train before it's fully tested, proven and in major usage.
So what happens when you're fired, resign, or retire?
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RE: Absolute Idiocy in Advertising
My experience with them is that they seem to provide their (employer) customers with algorithmic keyword screening. If your resume has ALL the keywords in the job description, you might get called for at least a screening interview. Like Hired or ZipRecruiter, Indeed is just another tool for employers to claim that there are no qualified candidates out there and justify hiring an overseas codemill on the cheap.
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RE: Google wants to make e-mail more "interactive" - what could possibley go wrong?
Yet another reason to avoid Gmail. I just hope other email providers have a way to disable this shit. I mean, come on. It's bad enough that Yahoo shows videos in empty mailboxes with no way to turn them off. This seems to go beyond the pale and provide Google with yet another way to steal your data to serve you ads.
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RE: "Le mobile multifonction"
@benjamin-hall said in "Le mobile multifonction":
@slavdude Latvian officially replaced "telephons" (telephone) with "tālrunis" (the diacritic doubles the length of the vowel)--"telephons" was too foreign. "Tāl" means "far", and "runat" is the verb "to speak". So it's basically a retranslation from the greek (telephone means basically the same thing).
That's called a calque. The Russians did a lot of that in the eighteenth century and later. One example is two different words for "horizon" gorizont (горизонт), which is from Greek, and krugozor (кругозор), which is a literal translation (calque) of German Rundschau.
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RE: "Le mobile multifonction"
@khudzlin said in "Le mobile multifonction":
Well, I know there are some other languages with normative institutions. There's a Spanish language academy, for instance, iirc. I also know English doesn't have such institutions at all.
I think there's a section of the Russian Academy of Sciences devoted to normalization of Russian. But from what I've seen most of the borrowings of English words had to do with financial terms, though these have probably been replaced by native ones. Russian computer terms, as far as I can tell, are mostly native.
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RE: Assholedesk fucks are straining my nerves and wasting my time
@steve_the_cynic said in Assholedesk fucks are straining my nerves and wasting my time:
@kian said in Assholedesk fucks are straining my nerves and wasting my time:
@blek said in Assholedesk fucks are straining my nerves and wasting my time:
@sh_code what the fuck, I've never seen anything like that before... how does the installer even see if the page is still open in your browser or not?
It may be that the site opens some kind of websocket connection to the server, then the installer asks the server if the computer it's running from has that websocket connection. If not, it fails. Explains why refreshing also breaks the installer.
That's ... beyond lame. There are so many better ways of doing it than that.
Maybe some sort of downloaded client-side JS crap?
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RE: Erie woman receives $284 billion electric bill
What, the utility company didn't blame her for the error?
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RE: Meet ‘Genies,’ the lifelike personalized avatars that reenact news
The fuck? How? Like...American dollars? It might make sense for Venezuelan dollars.
I think it's Zimbabwean dollars. So, about 2 cents.
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RE: Meet ‘Genies,’ the lifelike personalized avatars that reenact news
@maciejasjmj said in Meet ‘Genies,’ the lifelike personalized avatars that reenact news:
It's as if Microsoft took that bot that users trained to act like Hitler and called it a feature.
No, what's missing here is a resurrection of Clippy. Though that could be in the works too.
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RE: Why do people do this? Episode 2
@timebandit Needs barbed wire for extra clueness.
[/Negan]
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RE: He who laughs last...
@cartman82 said in He who laughs last...:
My Boss has so completely mishandled this project, I am astonished. He has no idea what's done, what remains to be done, what works, what doesn't.
He asks me to make an importer, I work overtime on Friday to make it happen, turns out it already exists.
He asks me to make sure a crucial 3rd party integration, on which the entire product depends, is up to snuff. I look around, can't find the code anywhere. Boss: "Ah right, we actually never finished that because we never got the account working."
Did I mention he handed over the project to the client over the weekend?
This has got to be the biggest clusterfuck I was ever involved with. And I've seen quite a few.
How long before you get blamed for this one?
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RE: Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device
@lolwhat said in Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device:
@hungrier said in Problem Ejecting USB Mass Storage Device:
Shut off all power to your house at the breaker box, it's the only way
Nah, use some thermite on the neighborhood transformer. Go big or go home.
No, best of all is to take off and nuke the place from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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RE: Blakeyrat complains about Android, because it's shit
@hungrier Yet another reason why I will never get an Android phone.
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RE: My web app died from performance bankruptcy
@sumireko said in My web app died from performance bankruptcy:
@anonymous234 said in My web app died from performance bankruptcy:
@cartman82 said in My web app died from performance bankruptcy:
Ethos of the web has always been "do not, ever, for any reason break old websites". That's why we put up with half the shit javascript has to keep dragging around.
Right, but is there any reason why websites can't just say "this page uses HTML-2017" and the browser will disable all the old ugly javascript things and enable all the new behaviors? It seems to be the cleanest way to allow breaking changes over time.
Admittedly that won't help if the Chrome team decides to retroactively change the HTML-2010 behavior to "make pages faster at the cost of just a little breakage"...
Are you crazy? That's not the JavaScript way. The JavaScript way is to add shims, polyfills, bells, whistles, and a whole host of cool sounding things to add another layer to JavaScript "compiling".
All of which breaks with the next release of whatever framework the developers are using because the maintainers can't be arsed to update their documentation.
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RE: The International Space Station is finally getting a printer upgrade
(Insert obligatory PC LOAD LETTER joke/link here)
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RE: Precisely Estimated
@boomzilla said in Precisely Estimated:
@slavdude said in Precisely Estimated:
@boomzilla Or the so-called Economics prize.
Which is not actually a Nobel Prize (maybe that's what you meant by so-called). But come on...Yasser Arafat?
That, and the fact that it's used as a means to cement neoliberalism as economic orthodoxy.
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RE: Title
@anonymous234 said in Title:
@mihi Ah yes, the confusion between nouns and verbs in software translated from English is ubiquitous.
Another favorite of mine is confusing "play" as in play a movie and "play" as in play a game, which in most languages are not the same verb.
And of course "play" as in
- a theatrical production
- a segment within a game (e.g., a play in American football)
- and others, whose enumeration is left as an exercise for the reader
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RE: "We made a new forum and we're just gonna delete the old one or whatever"
@1 That's not that bad... Be glad it wasn't 60!
Yeah, that was after they changed the Senate filibuster rule.
/lame US politics joke.
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RE: Mystery of the Facebook apps for Windows
Isn't this just another way for Facebook to keep track of what you are doing and where you are going on the web even when you aren't logged in?
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RE: In Defense of Electron
@boomzilla How long before Electron starts showing up as a requirement in job descriptions?
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RE: A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already
@timebandit said in A breed of scamming so new it's been around for at least a decade already:
@raceprouk Yes, but they'll have Bluetooth so you can see on your phone how many revolution around the world you did
And it will allow you to compare stats with others around the world and serve yoyo-related ads to your phone. Not only that, but you can subscribe for upgrades. Oh look, another IoT application.
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RE: Stanford dumps Java as introductory class
Sounds like Stanford's CS program is being retooled to produce low-paying keyboard monkeys who will create Yet Another Goddamned JavaScript Library(tm). Because we clearly don't have enough of those in the world, and no one uses desktops anymore.
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RE: Re: Re: Fuck Google
@boomzilla said in Re: Re: Fuck Google:
@slavdude said in Re: Re: Fuck Google:
@boomzilla said in Re: Re: Fuck Google:
@slavdude said in Re: Re: Fuck Google:
Having the favorites as a bunch of menu buttons along the top was really annoying.
You're wrong, of course. It's actually super convenient. Though you can turn it off in order to get non-doxxy screenshots.
Statements of fact are right or wrong. Opinions by definition are not.
It's a fact that it's not really annoying.
Fair enough. I prefer scrolling through my bookmarks vertically rather than horizontally, though, so it's a matter of taste. YMMV.
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RE: Re: Re: Fuck Google
@boomzilla said in Re: Re: Fuck Google:
@slavdude said in Re: Re: Fuck Google:
Having the favorites as a bunch of menu buttons along the top was really annoying.
You're wrong, of course. It's actually super convenient. Though you can turn it off in order to get non-doxxy screenshots.
Statements of fact are right or wrong. Opinions by definition are not.
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RE: Re: Re: Fuck Google
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Re: Re: Fuck Google:
@coldandtired said in Re: Re: Fuck Google:
Google fails to understand that there are some people who might not be using Edge on Windows 10.
Pftftftftftft. Google fails to understand, full stop. They do not understand that repeatedly suggesting that I switch to Chrome is not going to get me to switch to Chrome, nor do they get that similar repetition will not get me to change my home page to Google, nor will it get me to believe that "It's better in the app" on my phone. And there is no "Fuck off and never ask me this ever again" button.
Supposedly Chrome is the hot browser right now. But since it's a Google product, I wouldn't be surprised if it phones home as much as Windows 10 does. I tried it once. Having the favorites as a bunch of menu buttons along the top was really annoying. Plus, as I said, it's Google. I got rid of it after about 10 minutes. Instead of using Google to search, I use StartPage, which basically uses Google but blocks all of the annoying ads.
I avoid using Chrome for anything. I don't have it downloaded anywhere. Firefox, for all its issues, at least allows me to block all sorts of JS crap and ads. Since I'm using Windows 7, there is no Edge, and I want to stay away from Internet Explorer. -
RE: The Fun of Zen
*What did the Zen master say to the hot-dog vendor?
Make me one with everything.*
Thank you, I'll be here all week.
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RE: Rejected Rejection Letters
@cartman82 said in Rejected Rejection Letters:
We didn't send rejection letters to any of the people who applied during our last hiring spree. As you say, there's zero benifit. Just wasted time and potential problems.
If some of the candidates was really good, maybe it would be worth the trouble to establish good relations. But since the CVs we got ranged from mediocre to a 40 year old warehouse clerk who "took a 3 week CSS course", we didn't bother.So, if someone who happens to be a developer is making a good-faith effort at least to become familiar with something like CSS but has no hands-on experience with it on the job, how would you treat them?
I ask because I've been in this situation for 6 months (though luckily I just landed a contract that's rather far away but fits my skills).
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RE: Internet privacy is dead, redux
@RaceProUK said in Internet privacy is dead, redux:
@izzion True, but to avoid Google and Facebook et al would require me to move to Mars or something.
I personally use Startpage. A colleague at a place I used to work pointed it out to me. It's Google without the ad crap.
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RE: Because emoji are professional now
@RaceProUK said in Because emoji are professional now:
@Zecc said in Because emoji are professional now:
Does anyone even use
«»
?I think the French do.
Russian sometimes uses them as quotation marks too.
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RE: Support for commercial software
@Tsaukpaetra said in Support for commercial software:
@slavdude said in Support for commercial software:
create a library using Google Print
WTF is that? That doesn't sound like Cloud Print...
AKA Google Scholar.
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RE: I know Office so I can develop a kernel driver
And they're the same HR departments that pass on otherwise qualified candidates because the resume doesn't have all of the keywords used by their filtering algorithms.
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RE: Support for commercial software
@Tsaukpaetra said in Support for commercial software:
@dkf said in Support for commercial software:
@Grunnen said in Support for commercial software:
Why can't a company with billions in cash make sure that this work smoothly?
They've never really comprehended that people might have email accounts on systems that MS don't control, or that isn't at least running Exchange.
To be fair, I recently had this problem with a Google account. When it was created, our email host wasn't Google. Still worked fine, nothing to see here.
Then we migrated to Google Apps, and that email actually existed (in the form of a Google Group). Now, you can't use a Groups email address as a login name (for somewhat obvious reasons), so we immediately lost access to the account and couldn't sign in.
Jumping through several hoops, I managed to sign in and re-assign the login to the email address
pr+youtube@[redatced]?com
. And that works just fine. . So now the Groups account technically has a YouTube account too. But it's special.Luckily the people who actually use the account don't bat an eye when I explained the situation.
I have the same problem with my Google Mail account. I got it back in the days when you had to be invited to get a Gmail account. This was through a hosted service where the site owner had like 500 accounts he could give out. Lovely bonus:
I can't use any of the Google features (e.g., create a library using Google Print), nor can I even get into the account now, since it keeps sending the verification email to that account, and if I try to create a plain old Gmail account with my username it says it's already in use.
Bonus #2: Calling customer support for an email account doesn't work because they won't give out any of that information over the phone. I guess that makes sense, in some way. But then again, this is Google, who was once supposed to be one of the good guys.
Good thing I've pretty much abandoned that account.
Thanks, Google.
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RE: Look before you paste.
@boomzilla said in Look before you paste.:
@remi said in Look before you paste.:
Is that how you old timers called it in your days?
I'm manually downloading a blob right now.
I do that too. Fiber helps.
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RE: MUFFIN
@masonwheeler said in MUFFIN:
So what's the difference between a muffin and a cupcake?
Generally, you won't find cupcakes in a meadow (see also: road apple).
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RE: Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag
@coldandtired
Then there's Keep Pots Clean Or Family Gets Sick for biological taxonomy (i.e., Kingdom Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species). -
RE: Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag
@HardwareGeek said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
@The_Quiet_One said in Golf club X Kite = Tent Sleeping Bag:
"Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge"
I've never heard that. I learned "Every Good Boy Does Fine," but I like your version. Does it have walnuts?
The other notes in the staff spell FACE.
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RE: Fixing morale, according to management.
@nullptr Get out while you can. No one deserves such abuse.