Best posts made by sockpuppet7
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The split
Commercial people will tell anything to sell their stuff, and this time it wasn't different. Our salesman was trying to sell our payment application for a store chain that used some hardware with only 100KiB of available memory (this was about 10 years ago).
But our MS-DOS based software required 400KiB, so he promised we would just split the program into 4 executable files. As it was such an easy task he promised it in a week and closed the contract, with a penalty if it isn't delivered in a week, because why not, it's a big sale.
Our developer managed to make it work, spliting the executable as he said, but in 13 executables. Much of the code is shared by different operations so you can't just split that.
When the code reached a split, it would save everything to continue on the next part. I still find some hacks on the code caused by this thing.
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RE: Why Windows 10 Sucks
@gąska said in Why Windows 10 Sucks:
Windows loves thrashing your HDD.
This is so vague I don't know what to say.
It means windows is enjoying it when it trashes your HDD. Other systems are more sympathetic to it and feel really sad when it happens.
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RE: TempleOS and HolyC (Again. I think there's already a thread. Oh well.)
@Zerosquare only admins have an unlimited number of downvotes. @boomzilla abuses that a lot
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RE: Fight about discourse here
@anotherusername said in Fight about discourse here:
Not many systems would even bother to try to prevent
Yes, but Discourse puts your pm visible to mods in your profile, just as normal posts, and they are proud of that. There are mods complaining they accidentally saw things they didn't plan too, that's absurd.
It should at least be work to read PMs. That will be safe enough for forums were the staff avoid work.
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RE: December 18, 9999
@Tsaukpaetra sad I won't be alive to necro this thread at 9999
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Instagram doesn't confirm e-mails and some kid created an account using mine
So I changed the password and temporarily deactivated it (because I couldn't find where to delete it).
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RE: WTF Bites
The text can be roughly translated to Ribeirão Preto's wheelchair users club
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"The Machine Fired Me"
This is a WTF story someone linked on hacker news. TL; DR; The manager missed the deadline to renew a contractor's contract, nobody could stop the system from firing him, and he had to leave work (without pay) for 3 weeks.
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RE: Ubuntu has decided to no longer support Steam
Windows 10 will soon be the best desktop linux distro available. And I'm only half kidding.
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Building the most inaccessible site possible with a perfect Lighthouse score
This post sounded something some of the inhabitants of this forum would do
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RE: Here's a phishing scam. Don't click it.
The sec guys here send us fake fishing emails. When you click it redirects to a web site that educate users about fishing.
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RE: Discussion of NodeBB Updates
The emoji popup was super helpful when I typed a
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. Maybe it thinks we should be using to express sadness. The is obviously sad because he was extinct. -
RE: WTF Bites
At code review I noticed today I implemented something twice, because I forgot I had already done that after lunch. Then I found a Jira history I created for doing it again, that would be a 3rd time...
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RE: Random thought of the day
@anonymous234 said in Random thought of the day:
Dangerous machinery should have a sensor to shut it down when it detects loud screams of pain.
OK Google, stop sawing my arm off!
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RE: Software disenchantment
@Zecc This guy just don't understand how things progress. A lot of stuff that was better in the past was also expensive. Progress bring cheaper, worse alternatives, but users are adopting it because it's cheaper, and for most people cost is important.
He mentioned the Android keyboard, and forgot that it doesn't just show key buttons, it has dictionaries, it has that slide thing that predicts what I'm trying to say, it does a lot of stuff. I would say text to speach and voice recognition, but I think it is the OS that is doing that.
He mentioned slack, but there are still a lot of lighter alternatives - for some reason users are choosing slack. And easier to code tools, with the trade-off of producing a bloated monster, may have been important for them to achieve that with whatever amount of funding they had.
Also, I still remember how buggy the old C/C++ programs in the 90s were. It's easy to get buffer overflows with that, and that screen that the program performed an illegal operation and needs to get closed was popping all the time.
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RE: A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
@timebandit "Hackers used a homograph attack by registering a domain identical to binance.com, but spelled with Latin-lookalike Unicode characters. More particularly, hackers registered the bịnạnce.com domain —notice the tiny dots under the "i" and "a" characters."
Stupid Unicode has to infect everything
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@blakeyrat said in Dawn: the SUBLEQ OS by Geri:
why do you need all these complex new fighters when you could just fly a Camel!
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RE: Intel making us slow down
As someone who worked in an Intel Validation group for SOCs until mid-2014 or so I can tell you, yes, you will see more CPU bugs from Intel than you have in the past from the post-FDIV-bug era until recently.
Why?
Let me set the scene: It’s late in 2013. Intel is frantic about losing the mobile CPU wars to ARM. Meetings with all the validation groups. Head honcho in charge of Validation says something to the effect of: “We need to move faster. Validation at Intel is taking much longer than it does for our competition. We need to do whatever we can to reduce those times… we can’t live forever in the shadow of the early 90’s FDIV bug, we need to move on. Our competition is moving much faster than we are” - I’m paraphrasing. Many of the engineers in the room could remember the FDIV bug and the ensuing problems caused for Intel 20 years prior. Many of us were aghast that someone highly placed would suggest we needed to cut corners in validation - that wasn’t explicitly said, of course, but that was the implicit message. That meeting there in late 2013 signaled a sea change at Intel to many of us who were there. And it didn’t seem like it was going to be a good kind of sea change. Some of us chose to get out while the getting was good. As someone who worked in an Intel Validation group for SOCs until mid-2014 or so I can tell you, yes, you will see more CPU bugs from Intel than you have in the past from the post-FDIV-bug era until recently.
Source: https://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/ found in a slashdot comment
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RE: The Official Status Thread
As I'm getting old, I think I should learn Fortran and Cobol. Nobody question your age when they are looking for someone to code on these
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RE: Quotes Out of Context
@rhywden said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...:
Try raising the temperature of your bed. I had to set mine to 70 °C
Dunno how one can sleep like that
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I'm done with mobile chrome because the web is unuseable without an adblocker these days
Even well recognized news sites are eventually serving ads that open that fake antivirus scam without even a back or close button. Fuck this, it's just mobile firefox with adblock now for me.
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RE: WTF is home.pl?
@cabbage dunno, I think their servers are corrupted, their page is all random characters:
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RE: Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...
@polygeekery that list is way scarier when it's @Lorne-Kates talking about it
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
@ben_lubar said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Dwarf fortress not there? What a shitty monitoring
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I think I'm creating an WTF of my own
Infra people refused to install a server for us to manage our C++ project's internal dependencies with something sane like conan, and we have azure artifacts. So I'm packaging our C++ stuff into npm packages and using a powershell script to check for version conflicts, it seems to be working well enough for our own things, but it feels a bit dirty
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RE: WTF Bites
After finding a problem I've gone from "why X doesn't work?" to "how was anything working at all?"
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RE: Fight about discourse here
@heterodox said in Fight about discourse here:
But if you compare it to Discourse at every opportunity, you should not be surprised if people lash out, engage in "name-calling" as you referred to it earlier, etc... because all you're doing is bringing up bad memories of conflict within our community.
Bad memories? That was the funniest this forum ever was. The bugs, the memes about jeff and the bugs, blakey and lorne's epic rants, topic name trolling, etc.
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RE: In other news today...
@Benjamin-Hall said in In other news today...:
Everybody hates the Jews.
[the People's Front of Judea are breaking into Caesar's palace. However, they become distracted by the Campaign for a Free Galilee, a rival organisation with the same plan, and a fight breaks out]
Brian: People, we should be struggling together.
PFJ member: [in a headlock] We are!
Brian: No, we should be rising up against the common enemy.
All: The Judean People's Front?!(https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Monty_Python's_Life_of_Brian)
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RE: Agile taken tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo far
@Bulb said in Agile taken tooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo far:
If it takes six weeks to approve a $3 purchase, it obviously disqualifies you from agile as well. Been there, done that.
That fits the company here so perfectly. Claim to be moving to agile, and had to wait more than 2 months of red tape to replace a mouse.
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RE: Intel making us slow down
@atazhaia He is angry that Intel proposal is that new chips will be vulnerable to Spectre by default, unless the kernel asks for extra safety. Because the fix will make Intel look bad at the benchmarks.
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RE: WTF Bites
still happening at https://slashdot.org/story/18/02/28/1725238/end-of-flash-its-usage-among-chrome-users-has-declined-from-80-in-2014-to-under-8-as-of-early-2018 at the time of this post
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RE: Linux on the Desktop? A long way off...
@Thief said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... :
Microsoft have also recently released / said they'll release the specs for all the binary MS Office file formats, so openoffice.org should support them properly soon enough
things people believed at 2008
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RE: The Official Funny Stuff Thread™ posted in Funny stuff
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RE: I, ChatGPT
@boomzilla said in I, ChatGPT:
I banned OpenAI because it's retarded and can't follow the rate request.
Let me help you getting rid of chinese bots too