This is similar to a previous life here too. But after the "PM"s "party" a few of the developers left, never to be replaced, with the entire company eventually making more money selling Vietnamese sandwiches than making software! (True story)
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RE: The "Project" "Manager"
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Samsung fridge standard feature: you can't open it!
About six months ago we had to replace our refrigerator due to it being 12 years old and not being cold. So we got a nice new Samsung model from a suggestion of a friend and getting a good deal from some good guys. We even paid for it to be delivered and installed. It's been working well.
Fast forward to a few weeks ago where there was a 40+°C heatwave. Open the freezer compartment to get some ice-blocks for the kids, go to put the packet back and can't open it. What!? The suction is so great it's impossible to open. Even trying to wedge a plastic knife in the seals is difficult. I'm not a weight-lifter or anything but I can carry both my 5-year-old twins at the same time so I have some strength! After a while the suction reduced and it was able to be opened again. The fridge section was not affected during this time.
Putting it down to the really hot day we let it go. Putting the knife in as it closes lets the pressure equalise so is a good temporary workaround. But because it's still happening we decide to call Samsung to get it fixed under warranty.
My wife called and after wrangling the IVR got some scripted low-level drone in Elbonia. I'm not sure if there was a language barrier but she was twice told that the seal and suction was a standard feature to keep the cold in, even after explaining that it was so great I couldn't open it.
In the end they said to turn it down a little bit and see what happens. Still happening now though. If they can't fix it I'll have to take it back under Australian Law because it was advertised as being able to open!
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How much data did I use in 1970?
472 bytes apparently
Nice of Android to go back 42 years before this phone was manufactured to use some data on a network that wouldn't exist for almost 40 years!
Bonus WTF: I went back to check something and discourse ate my draft. More mobile data to upload the screenshot again...
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RE: Sometimes I am TRWTF.
@toon said in Sometimes I am TRWTF.:
Unfortunately, I'm stuck with PHP 4
Four years later and someone used a
??
in our PHP code. The dev boxes are officially running PHP 5.6, with production on 7.0 (don't ask), so some devs upgraded their manually. This dev then proceeded to use a 7.0+ feature. But it was used likereturn $something['val'] ?? null
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RE: From the people who brought you "referer"...
@gąska said in From the people who brought you "referer"...:
Except the general public is currently conditioned to look for green padlock specifically. Not institution name. Green padlock.
The general population thinks that icon is a handbag.
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RE: Warning: Contains nuts*
@sh_code said in Warning: Contains nuts*:
Step 1: Make a company named "Warning, contains:"
Step 2: Start producing foods, specialise on the allergen ones.
Step 3: Package front and center will be "Warning, contains: Peanuts", "Warning, contains: Honey", etc...
Step 4: $$$, primarily those you'll save on lawsuits with american stupidity.You can hire my company "Nine of out ten experts" to recommend your product.
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RE: Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair
@Douglasac said in Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair:
Also, Australia Post are involved so they'll find new and interesting ways to screw up the simple task of delivering mail.
Don't get me started on Australia Post! We constantly get wrong mail, including once to something completely wrong. Name, address, suburb, postcode, state (!) were all wrong. The only common thing was the street number. Even putting it into the postbox, scribbling out the routing barcode and writing "misdelivery" on it got it back. Luckily there was a phone number in the return address so we called them to tell them that they couldn't rely on Australia Post to do their One Job.
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RE: What is the deal with "Your ____ ran into a problem"?
@Onyx said in What is the deal with "Your ____ ran into a problem"?:
In the same vein, this just popped up:
Changes? What changes? I did nothing! What do you want? WHY?
Windows has detected that you have moved your mouse. Please restart your computer for these changes to be applied.
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RE: Easier Than Fizz Buzz - Why Can't Programmers Print 100 to 1? (article)
Edit, also forgot the "no two loops" rule.
Add another loop in there. It says you couldn't have two loops, didn't say anything about three!
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RE: Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair
When I cancelled a business service they told me over the phone I'd have a small credit, under $3, so I didn't worry too much about it. Six months later and I got a call on my mobile from a debt collection agency demanding why I didn't pay my ~$60 bill and there was going to be all kinds of repercussions to my credit history and possible legal problems. What?
Luckily for me when I called Telstra back I actually got a competent person, eventually, and she saw a charge on the account that was in error so I indeed had a credit of $2.something. I guess since it was a business account they actually care. I did have have a phone line at home (HomeLine Budget FTW, just for ADSL) so that credit could be transferred. Looking back, I should have accepted the cheque so I could have framed it.
Why would they send such a small debt to a collection agency? How much in water time and effort did that small billing error cost everyone? Why didn't Telstra actually send me the bill in the first place?
I can't wait for NBN at my place for similar reasons to OP. But I'll be on Uncle Rupert's network so time will tell how much the current government has screwed it all up.
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RE: Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair
@cartman82 said in Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair:
scream at tech support to go fuck themselves and then destroy their equipment in retaliation
That happened in 2001 when "unlimited" cable and ADSL plans were changed to a 3GB/month cap mid-contact. And overage fees of 20c/MB from memory. With a history of metering problems this could be disastrous.
Telstra told everyone they had to suck it, until they were advised that they'd have to let anyone who wanted to leave leave without break-contract fees. But you had to return the modem. Lots of stories of people returning ash remains of the Alcatel Speed Touch Home or packing the modem with fish or banana skins. MMM lovely after a week in the post.
Eventually Telstra saw the light (flickery candle light) and allowed breaking contract while keeping modem. There were actually three get-out-of-jail-free events that year and my group of friends actually had to move so that was convenient. We used that modem with another provider until it died in a thunderstorm, but that is a story for another day.
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RE: Price Rollback WTF
dealing a 100-lire bag of popcorn
I read that as "100 litre bag of popcorn" and wondered what a 7 year old would do with such a massive bag. Paired with "dealer" also suggested he was buying something you'd better call Saul about.
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RE: Do nothing without doing anything
At least they're not hided in dead code.
A previous programmer liked being able to "collapse" code in his IDE, so the way he did that was wrapping functional bits in an
if (1) { ... }
. Yeah this is terrible. What is worse is the occasionalif (0) { ... }
. I did find oneif (2) { ... }
.And we don't dare to remove it because we can neither prove or disprove noone is using the routine.
YOLO!
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RE: Anyone posted the Lenovo malware news yet?
The sweet spot in the middle exists, but is hard to hit.
Why do you think I call it the clitoris mouse?
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You haven't installed updates for 8300 years
In the process of migrating to a new computer at work. Took it out of sleep today and was greeted with the banner. "That's strange, it was only a few days ago I did all the updates," thought I. "Plus the whole system was only reinstalled less than two weeks ago."
So I took a screenshot and Win-R to paste it into mspaint. Then the banner reappeared and I noticed something strange in the bottom right corner so I took the following screenshot.
http://squornshellous.com/wtf/wtf-10315.png
I'm not sure who's WTF this is (I'm probably betting HP more than Microsoft) But the Microsoft WTF was that the banner kept reappearing every 5-10 seconds, stealing focus and preventing me from changing the date.
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RE: Javascript gotchas thread
The real WTF here is not JavaScript. The real WTF is people not learning about the language's rules and taking their initial interpretation as canon.
Your examples are a little extreme and outside how most people would use the language.
But you missed some:
{g:"F"} "F" {'g':'F'} SyntaxError: Unexpected token :
These are the expression vs statement comment again. It is treating g: as a label so the first one is effectively a return "F". Second one chokes on the unexpected colon, since it is a string then bad syntax.
Of course:
({g:'F'}) Object {g: "F"} ({'g':'F'}) Object {g: "F"}
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RE: Because there's so much wrong with iTunes
TRWTF is still iTunes on Windows
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RE: Popular Gmail-address
because of all the problems with + (and the sites stripping it anyway)...
I found out this week that our own site strips
+
signs. But by accident.Turns out an original coder had a (un)healthy dose of NIH syndrome. So of course of a normal form post, it overrides onsubmit (return false) and manually grabs the data using jQuery (literally things like
data['email'] = $('#email').val()
) and then string concatenation likefor (k in data) { str += '&' + escape(k) + '=' + escape(data[k]); }
and then setting that string in a jQuery ajax call. So we trust jQuery to get the data and post the data, but not to
serialize()
the data? Or, we trust jQuery!?Of course
escape('+')
produces a+
instead of%2B
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RE: Tales from Stack Exchange - Coworker is lying about having kids. What should I do?
@PJH there's a seven-legged spider living in my bathroom (yes this is Australia) and every time I see it I think of 27b/6.
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You must use at least two forbidden characters
I needed to change the password to a certain hosting provider.
I tried changing my password to
g.QN}2kJtZ^?.dMt
Where are the forbidden characters?
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RE: BAs are harder than BScs (:giggity:)
@RaceProUK said in BAs are harder than BScs ():
@Tsaukpaetra said in BAs are harder than BScs ():
@RaceProUK said in BAs are harder than BScs ():
@Tsaukpaetra said in BAs are harder than BScs ():
mounting a swapfile over nfs
Three words: 32mb of RAM.
When that video was taken that reaction would have been "wow that's a lot of memory" not "OMG how do you do anything with 32MB RAM?" Especially since it was later revealed this was early 1990s hardware.
Better place for your swapfile instead of nfs: on a RAMdisk. Much faster... Oh wait.
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RE: Link broken? Reboot your machine, that'll work.
Next time tell them it's 0118 999 881 999 119 725... 3
Someone actually set up that number as an extension on our pabx so if you call it you get a recorded " Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
If you call 666 you get Rebecca Black...
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RE: Does anybody actually use this site on mobile :fire:
@sloosecannon said in Does anybody actually use this site on mobile :
his cheap Linux hardware
Plus Apple tax, which these days is very hefty!
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RE: [NSFW (not really)] Naked photo session with a giant fish helps the environment? Somehow?
I saw this thread title and didn't want to look as I was on the train. Then I put my phone away and opened the commuter paper. I saw a picture of a woman with a fish and thought "that must be that alleged nsfw picture." Indeed.
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RE: USPS.com requiring modern browsers starting back in April
@ben_lubar said in USPS.com requiring modern browsers starting back in April:
Maybe they're dropping support for IE 4?
Seriously, IE 10 doesn't support TLS 1.2 without a tweak
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RE: NodeBB misfeatures (BIG PICTURE STUFF ONLY)
@cartman82 said:
One of the best decisions Jeff made with Discourse was getting rid of [signatures]
I haven't noticed how much I hated them until they returned. So annoying, especially when the signature is longer than the post sometimes.
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RE: Samsung fridge standard feature: you can't open it!
Well apparently this is too hard and they are replacing the whole thing. Noone has even suggested defrosting!
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RE: `s/www\.//g`
@levicki said in `s/www\.//g`:
Now I want to register vanity www.www TLD and have an invisible domain!
If the title's regex is correct then something like googlewww.com would be interesting...
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RE: From the people who brought you "referer"...
@hungrier said in From the people who brought you "referer"...:
@zemm said in From the people who brought you "referer"...:
@gąska said in From the people who brought you "referer"...:
Except the general public is currently conditioned to look for green padlock specifically. Not institution name. Green padlock.
The general population thinks that icon is a handbag.
Security is hard, lets go shopping.
More like: this website is safe to go shopping! Also, when you see the broken handbag it's warning you to stop buying cheap knockoffs from China.
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RE: California attempts to add a uniqueness constraint
@pie_flavor I have had a site that didn't allow my .id.au domain. This was for a site specifically designed for non-US people, though I guess it was for people pretending to be in the US but they could have made that clearer you should use a Gmail account or something!
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RE: In other news today...
@Gąska said in In other news today...:
It's Canada. The land is as big as entire USA, but they have less people than Poland.
You know what country is also approximately the same size and even less population, while being much more isolated from the rest of the world? Australia. And our mobile prices are much better. I am on a $59/month plan with the "best" network which includes unlimited call/SMS and 20GB data, and includes repayments for my Google Pixel 2XL. (So going by the RRP at the time my monthly plan cost is under $1 over two years).
Of course my plan was wildly good value, (without the deal I got it should have been around $100/month) even if it the highest monthly fee I've ever paid to a telco. More common plans are around $40 without a handset and better inclusions.
For ~$10/month there's heaps of options with unlimited calls/SMS and ~1GB data. There's also prepaid PAYG plans (minimum cost about $10/year) where it's a few cents per minute/SMS/megabyte. Incoming calls and SMS are always free.
The most expensive plan I know of is $199/month and that includes truly-unlimited data (reports of people using terabytes) and the high-end phone of your choice, as well as international calls and roaming inclusions.
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RE: Confession: Proactive wiring
Of course now I'm wasting time reading the stories...
The customer had cleaned his keyboard by submerging it for a day in warm soapy water in his bathtub.
I once cleaned my iMac aluminium keyboard by soaking it for about 10 minutes in the bath before putting the kids in. They had split some kind of conductive oil on it so it was basically wrecked anyway. I did dry it for a whole week before plugging it back in and it works fine!
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RE: Representative ticket
It's happenstance if it happens once. It's a coincidence if it happens twice. If it happens a third time, then you have enemy action.
FTFY
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RE: Google knows what you want
Some misguided idea to make the forum look like an app, I guess. Because fuck people who can't see very well, zooming messes up the layout!
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RE: Sometimes I am TRWTF.
@dreikin said in Sometimes I am TRWTF.:
No? It issues a notice when you use the undefined index without the null coalescing operator (as expected), but the ones using it are silenced.
Whoops. https://3v4l.org/Qvb3C - I now understand my misreading. :)
@pie_flavor said in Sometimes I am TRWTF.:
Yeah, but that's wrong-associative.
You're talking about the ternary operator
? :
. There is a literal?:
in PHP called the elvis operator (which is||
in Javascript or Perl) that will return the left side if it's "truthy" or the right side if the left side is "falsey".So it's similar to null-coalesce but false values in the left side like
0
or''
will return the right side.a() ?: b() ?: c()
short-circuits sob()
will only be called ifa()
returns something that is false in PHP (likefalse
,0
or''
, etc). Same:c()
will only be called ifb()
is called and is falsey. Ifa()
returned say a5
then the other two functions will not be evaluated and the expression will return 5.In PHP
||
will always return a boolean. Soa() || b() || c()
has the same associativity. But in the case ofa()
returning5
the expression will betrue
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RE: Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair
BTW
Whirlpool
I see what you did there.
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RE: Hey, PHP can has hip job ads too!
And if we're getting really critical, where is $interested defined?
They are looking for PHP3 developers and it comes from register_globals.
Nightmares!
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RE: Javascript can't reverse strings
For example, English has ough, which is the orthographic equivalent of an extended middle finger.
It's even more fun in British English with some archaic spellings like hiccough (hiccup), hough (hock) and lough (loch) and places like Loughborough (Luffburruh).
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RE: "Sleep" is a relative term, apparently
I've never seen any problems with rebooting or crashing with my 2009 iMac (funny you quoted me there) but it has developed a weird thing where if you manually put it to sleep (Apple menu > Sleep) it will sleep for a few seconds and come back to life. Letting it sleep "naturally" works properly. Doesn't matter what software or hardware is in use.
But the updates procedure is quite polite. One of the options is "try tonight" which asks for your confirmation password immediately and it installs the updates after you stop using the machine that evening. I've found this works well for my workflow.
I've posted a screen shot of windows (8.1) rudely asking me to install updates by placing a full screen app over the desktop. This was when the RTC had a hiccup and it thought it hadn't installed updates for 8300 years so it was quite urgent.
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RE: Unsuitable for double decker buses
My school bus used to go under a low bridge as part of its normal route. One day the bus driver (owner of the company) bought a new bus which was taller than the old buses. He took the normal route but realised that he wouldn't fit under this bridge before hitting. But not before going past all the alternate turn-offs. He had to reverse several hundred metres before going down tiny side-streets to avoid doing a many-point turn. Luckily for him taking a route without the bridge wasn't really out of the way.
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RE: You haven't installed updates for 8300 years
I wish I had taken a screenshot of the datepicker...
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RE: YouTube's new logo
@julianlam said in YouTube's new logo:
I, for one, look forward to the resurgence of the web-safe colour palette.
216 colours ought to be enough for anyone. Hell if YouTube is using FF0000 then they are using one of them!
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RE: Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada
@heterodox said in Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada:
I'm starting to think it's all about humidity.
Which is why it's useful to use a temperature scale based on the freezing and boiling points of the thing that is humidity!
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RE: FTP is just as good
@RaceProUK said in FTP is just as good:
@Medinoc said:
The real WTF is that some hosting services only allow plain FTP unless you pay them more to enable more secure protocols.
SSL certificates aren't free
letsencrypt.org ...?
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RE: Internal IP Range
Companies doing things like this is why a few chunks of 1.0.0.0/8 can't be used. Iirc 1.2.3.0/24 and 1.1.1.0/24 are the main offenders. When they were writing rfc 1918 why did they choose 10 over 1, anyway?