@lorne-kates Letters? Luxury...
(No, there's no other password or anything)
@lorne-kates Letters? Luxury...
(No, there's no other password or anything)
@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!
I wish I had taken a screenshot of the datepicker...
But to get the VIN you'd have to look at the car pretty close,
My state has a website where you enter the registration plate number and it will tell you the VIN.
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?
BTW
Whirlpool
I see what you did there.
@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!
Are they sure?
Shirley, I need to pronounce sudo
as "shoodoo
"
That's so naïve of them. Is it also a bit cliché?
Lots of people be wishing for nautical nonsense.
My three-year-old twins really love sbsp at the moment: even putting themselves upsidedown at the end of the intro.
lists in Perl have really funky behavior
Just watched the video.
That guy is an idiot. I just did a little test in Javascript:
f = (1, 2, 'a', 'b', 'c')
Do you know what my console printed out? That's right. "c"
He has lost all creditability now, since he said that every other languages would output 1.
Regarding the CGI module: We recently upgraded it and it started issuing warnings that $req->param
was called in list context, which I guess is addressing this "7 year old bug in Bugzilla". Fortunately (surprisingly?) our code was calling it in list context on purpose and was handling the case of foo=1&foo=2
by turning it into a hashref. (We use a few <select multiple>
boxes around the place).
In the "List severly abused" section: foo('a', @list, 'd')
feature is so useful and the best feature I miss in other languages!!! Declare a list and simply push stuff to it. Of course it is more useful in foo('a', %hash, paramX=>'d')
then sub foo { my $a = shift; my %param = @_; ... }
and presto: named parameters mixing optional and required/defaulting in the one declaration.
And the DBI::quote "issue" is still calling cgi param in list context - same problem... We are safe! But not much of our code uses this anyway, it uses a lot of parametised queries.
He is still confusing lists and "arrays". What he wants is arrayrefs in many places!
Our code does have other problems which I'm not going into details (it's too horrible) but they would have been created in any language given the design of that part of the system!
(So horrible that when Bernard Pilsbury examined the residual shambles of the bungalow he said it was more gruesome than anything even he had ever seen. That from a great pathologist with unique experience constitutes a warning not to be ignored.)
@benjamin-hall said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
Moose are especially nasty--they're tall enough that if you take out the legs in a small car (not a truck), the body falls on the windshield. The moose tends to walk away
Try kangaroos. One hit the side of my BIL's car and totalled it and jumped away to jump again. But sometimes they can jump into windscreen even of large vehicles. This doesn't usually end well and any involved.
@pie_flavor said in How I broke my computer at 12 years old:
I keep forgetting that Norton used to mean anything non-shit.
When I was feeling bored I used to connect to an IRC network,
Norton did used to be good, but this was disk Utilities rather than antivirus.
Talking about IRC, my university used to offer 28.8kbps dialup modem access to students, but there was a small bug in the firmware. Entering "+++ATH" would hang up their connection. The three plusses put the modem into command mode: it should have ignored them as there wasn't a time gap either side. When they upgraded to 56k this problem stopped.
Warning to Americans: "cider" doesn't mean "unfiltered rough apple juice" everywhere in the world. In Britain, "cider" without further qualification means "fermented apple juice". Drinking that before going back to the office does add a certain "something" to the proceedings...
I was wondering how they got away with drinking alcohol during a meeting...
(Our beer fridge is only to be opened after hours. It is currently empty)
@arantor said in Where’s all my CPU and memory gone? The answer: Slack:
This is why I stick to the website which doesn't have this bullshit nearly so badly.
There is (was?) a weird bug with Chrome and Firefox on Linux where Slackbot would not offer to invite someone you @mention in a channel who wasn't already present, but it works fine in other systems and in the Linux client. That's the only reason why I installed it!
My company actually pays for Slack: it's made itself a major part of many workflows in all departments. So it's kind of mandatory.
When my mother sold a house she initially used her friend as the real estate agent. I wish I'd saved some of the pictures she posted on the ad, they were the worst photos I'd seen! Picture of crap on the table, but out of focus with motion blur. Taking a photo of a brick wall with no context. General bad angles and lighting.
(Not) surprisingly it didn't end well. She ended up getting a real professional.
Though I wish she didn't sell that place: it was the house I grew up in and it has almost doubled in value since — but the place she bought instead has gone down. This is her being emotional and spiteful.
Go into an "Article" and follow a Paula Bean link?
One thing I would like is a link from the front page article directly to the discussion, instead of the stupid "Preview top 19 comments" link.
@asdf said in Linux user-facing software usability:
BluRays won't work OOTB.
Yeah, because Windows didn't (doesn't?) need extra software to play DVDs or Blu-ray!
@boomzilla said in DreamSpark, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love ThePirateBay:
Consider identity theft. Someone may have used my social security number to get a job. I didn't lose anything but it's still identity theft.
But identity theft is not theft. It's fraud.
/Pendant
Was there still a discrepancy of 7c or was that a typo that carried through?
Go them for it! On principle!
@asdf said in Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair:
A legal system which would allow one party to completely change the most important parts of a contract without consent from the other party would be pretty fucked up.
Apparently it was a clause that Telstra could change anything at any time. Of course that was deemed invalid by the consumer watchdog. But we couldn't keep the unlimited downloads for the contract term. It became "accept the 3GB cap or leave". I don't remember exactly what other changes to the contract happened soon after, definitely nothing as drastic as cutting the amount of data you could use by two orders of magnitude (this was 512kbps ADSL and we were doing about 100GB/month, which became 2.9 GB/month for a few months).
@Zecc said in What Mobile-Games do you guys play / enjoy?:
Although I'm ad-free too.
If you have any clothes with visible logos this is not true!
I remember when cacert wasn't trusted at all, so I guess this is an improvement?
Also,
UPDATE: Unfortunately the Re-Signing event had to be postponed due to shortage of manpower in the different teams involved in the process. The currently a new date is being searched. As soon as the new date is available it will be announced here.
Oops!
the function. I'm not sure if the same trick would work in GW-BASIC or not.
There's functions in gw-basic? I think the only old basic I've been is basica which doesn't have functions perse.
Old basic programmers never die. They just GOSUB and never RETURN.
I like the base64-encoded JSON link hidden in that link. Also some potentially personally-identifying information?
When generating the report, check for the file first thing. If it exists, busy wait checking filesystem without a sleep until the next minute, then make the report.Might be slow, but it is to spec.
FTFY. Save 30 seconds on average for the user.
@hardwaregeek said in Driving Anti-Patterns - Necro Edition:
one must yield to a transit bus trying to merge back into traffic after a stop
This is what I'm talking about:
(Note I'm in Australia, we drive on the left)
Am I being TRWTF here? Apple should be presented as the anti-roadmap company. right?
That's exactly the thought I had reading the topic title! I'm sure there is an internal roadmap but it sure isn't public!
I don't know about anywhere else but here buses literally have a sign with the bus indicating and "give way". It's more for allowing the bus into traffic when they have pulled over for a stop though
Ah, the superior commercial software.
Workaround
My usual workaround is to open the CSV in LibreOffice and then "Save As" xlsx so that Excel will behave. Though these days I don't usually bother with Excel anyway.
@pie_flavor said in Can you have too many buttons on a mouse?:
I use the back button all the time. It works in a lot more applications than I expected it to (for instance, IntelliJ or Windows Explorer). Forwards button is pretty useless though.
Forwards is useful to undo pressing Back. :) Like I'm doing something in IntelliJ, hit back to check the other area and press forward to go back to where I was.
I'm using an original Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer here. It's massive and has been going strong for almost 17 years. It has the Forwards/Back thumb buttons but also a nice place to rest your thumb and pick up the mouse with ease. I remember some mouses that came after were not as big or comfortable.
fvck
Those *.CNT files circa 2000 were c... [Ahem, better put my non-en-au filter on] ... annoying files.
My tv sorts channels like strings, even though it displays them with leading zeros. So 001, 010, 011, 012, 002, 020, etc.
HTTP is for transfer of data so it can be handled that way. To play a media file, like what swayde said you need to ensure the corresponding audio and video codec exist, which cannot be done unless you've opened and read the file header.
Can. You said it.
GET /some-video
Accept: video/webm, video/h264, video/avi, video/dixv3.1
Something like this.
Then the server inspect the header and sends some-video.webm or some-video.mp4 or whatever. Apache already supports this, as long as your mime types match.
@Scarlet_Manuka said in Telstra: The Inescapable Whirlpool of Crushing Despair:
in fact I didn't even know that the Telstra and Optus networks used different frequency bands for 3G
Am I a massive nerd because I did know this? Also, for a while (post Vodafail: 2010-2015ish) Vodafone used both bands for 3G but have now refarmed the 850 (the "Telstra" band) to 4G leaving only 900 for 3G. They all have 2100 but Telstra's 2100 is very limited.
My eldest is 7 and I have a SIM for him with his name in phone words, that I use for data, but still not sure when he should get his own phone! I got my first mobile when I was 19 but the world has changed since then.
Actually I did set one in Linux running on a 286 box back in the old days and with very little speed or memory.
Uh, Linux needs a 386+ processor. Unless you were wearing an onion on your belt while walking through the snow uphill BOTH WAYS. I'll get of your lawn and chase the teenagers off mine now...
@marczellm said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
This Emacs bug is ridiculous.
I would have thought Emacs was "perfect" by now: I'm surprised that it's still actively developed since "everyone" uses vim instead. And also surprised that the discussion was relatively helpful, even if following the standard pattern of "works on my machine. oh wait, it doesn't. here, try this fix".
Perl elsif
is still more verbose than bash elif
! And more concise than php elseif
.
@gurth said in Big list of software that cannot handle spaces or accents in paths:
@tsaukpaetra What does “complex hard disk setups” mean?
I would assume having more than one harddrive? (Like what was possible in old Mac Pro) Or maybe having a case-sensitive file system (even though that breaks a lot of stuff).
sprintf
I found this the other day:
$var = sprintf('%s', $var);
In perl. There are already too many other places where this idea is used but with other characters in the format string.
Why!?!?
@bb36e said in Windows 10 can't make up its mind:
@RaceProUK maybe that's an en-CA vs en-GB thing.
Because en-US can't spell aeroplane?
@asdf said in Samsung fridge standard feature: you can't open it!:
So yeah, this is a "feature" of many freezers
I've noticed there was a slight extra resistance immediately after opening, ever since I was a kid. But this freezer only started doing it after a few months and I literally can't open it for a good 15 minutes after it's been opened. You can see the seal compress and the freezer door is noticeably "in" compared to the fridge door.
So you open it to get your frozen vegies then you can't put it back before they melt?
@ben_lubar said in From the people who brought you "referer"...:
@cvi said in From the people who brought you "referer"...:
Meh. If more sites had switched to https proactively instead of waiting until it's forced down their throat, maybe we wouldn't be in this situation.
Sounds like someone has been reading a lot of Troy Hunt's retweets...
We did his "Hack yourself first" course and it was interesting. He only lives about 40 km from me.
I created a new Gmail last week for testing something. Already there's a Twitter signup with it.