@loopback0 said in The Belt Onion club: @topspin said in The Belt Onion club: Seriously, though, WhoTF are Currys? They sell electronics and appliances. https://www.currys.co.uk/ Oh, good. I thought it was a nasty reference to Indians. Not that anyone would ever do something like that. Well, other than that chain of electronics/appliance stores in the area where I lived many years ago, called "Tokyo Shapiro". Tokyo = Japan = Electronics Shapiro = Jewish = Cheap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZSBwNhAev4

@Zenith said in The Official Status Thread: Do most companies make undesirable shit because they're stupid or is it a deliberate effort to make people unhappy? Yes.

@Dragoon said in In other news today...: @topspin said in In other news today...: (You just have to go through your long-ass list of throw-away mail providers to find one that’s not blacklisted.) Or, hear me out here, just have one hotmail account that you use for all the throwaway stuff. No, I have a mail account for pseudonymous stuff besides my real-name account. But if I use that for too much throwaway stuff, it allows them to aggregate too much garbage. The point is both to not care about mails and not allow any sort of connection between different throwaway things. You literally cannot distrust the tech industry enough.

@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR: try not to be fucking retarded about rooms or meals that you charge to me. Terrible news for anyone that wanted a pound of steak and pint of beer in a 200 ft² flat

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@Zerosquare Pictured: @HardwareGeek in his hobby room

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You've dreamed of making this play at home plate but this guy just made it a reality Bro, I daydreamed about this play in little league, in high school, and even during my beer league days, but I never had the chance to pull it off myself. Instead, I will live vicariously through Damian Rodriguez of UT Rio Grande Valley who might be my new hero. Legend

@sockpuppet7 Yes, but I wanted something slightly different. See, you can tell it to use four columns and it will flow over four columns, but it will still be height that it extends as necessary to fit the content. Which is fine if the content does fit on the screen, but when it does not, it means you are scrolling down to read the first column, then back up to the next one and that's not so fine. There are basically two ways out: break the content into sections that are short enough to fit the screen, then lay each into columns separately, or extend the page to the side by adding more columns instead. The reading view in Word does the later—it shows the pages side-by-side, two or three fit on the screen and scrolling shifts the pages by one, so is a horizontal scroll. But people are not used to horizontal scrolling on the web, so web mostly uses the first method of breaking it down to sufficiently short sections. Or punting and accepting the bad scrolling.

@ixvedeusi said in TIL （ａｂｏｕｔ ｔｈｅ Ｄａｒｋ Ａｒｔｓ ｏｆ ＨＴＭＬ）: otherwise it would have to muck around with the function body (or worse, the call site). Not saying it couldn't be done, but it wouldn't be as straight-forward and the way it actually works makes sense to me. But that's already what it is doing at that exact moment. It's saying here's a function which has this name, these parameters with these names (which are basically part of the call signature because of named arguments), etc., and it has the following "text" as code. Besides syntax, the function isn't evaluated, so why should default arguments be evaluated at that point? The code to execute them might as well be stored along with the other information that make up the function.

 

@PotatoEngineer said in Drug prohibition: @boomzilla about fucking time! Almost every state had some flavor of pot-permission laws, and it's a crying shame that marijuana remained on the "there is no possible medical benefit" list in the DEA. I'd be interested in watching a documentary of why it remained Schedule I for so long. Was some specific leader an anti-pot person? Was it bureaucratic inertia? DEA putting pressure on the FDA so it could keep doing civil forfeiture? Also, yes. It's generally good business, keeps pesky minorities in jail, profits go right back to the arms industry and bribes, what's not to like?

@HardwareGeek said in Killed by Google: There are a number of chemicals that could be added to the Googleplex water supply that would tend to inhibit that, although none of them are entirely reliable. However, I wouldn't worry about it too much; I think your presence would also have an inhibitory effect. His presence would probably just break the water supply.

@Bulb said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: But you generally don't care about colour of the light. you care about the colour of the illuminated things. Which is why the colour perception is adjusted for the estimated colour of the light. So you see the white thing as white in direct sunlight, when its overcast and even when illuminated by even more reddish light of a lightbulb. Which with photos and images on screen leads to the above effect. Which now makes me wonder if the room's ambient lighting where the image is being viewed can play a role in how striking the effect is.

@loopback0 said in Random thought of the day: @izzion said in Random thought of the day: I now want to see a charity Mavis Beacon Teaches Tuping competitive event. The event could be titled “Give Cancer the Finger” The spelling event can be a follow-up

@Arantor yeah...was just reading this bit, which hits those points: Rust is the type of language where wanting to do a new type of upgrade might lead you down a path of refactoring all of the systems, and many would even say "that's great, now my code is much better and can accommodate so many more things!!!". It sounds like a very convincing argument, one that I've heard many times, and one that has also caused me to waste a lot of time chasing down solutions to the wrong problems. A more flexible language would allow the game developer to immediately implement the new feature in a hacky way, and then play the game, test it and see if the feature is actually fun, and potentially do a bunch of these iterations in a short amount of time. By the time the Rust developer is finished with their refactoring, the C++/C#/Java/JavaScript developer has implemented many different gameplay features, played the game a bunch and tried them all out, and has a better understanding of which direction should their game be taking. And I can definitely see his point. I often do that sort of thing, even in not-game-development. Then throw some things away and maybe start over if it was actually too ugly and the Final Solution actually sparks some ideas about how to do it better.

"Keep it up and next time we have disemboweled matriarch pie."

TIL Sovereign citizen movement - Wikipedia Edit: partially, anyway. I'm not reading all that.

@loopback0 said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...: they're really more involved in Twitter than their profile suggests. Is that supposed to be in indication of legitimacy or a red flag? Filed under: Yes

Microsoft seemingly admits "ads" on Windows 11 Start menu are in the works Microsoft may finally be coming clean. With a new hidden change, the tech giant seems to acknowledge that "ads" on the Windows 11 Start menu are real, though it could also mean more ads are coming.

@coderpatsy Thanks though, the follow up(s) clarify. A bit.

@BernieTheBernie said in Pay peanuts or chicken feed: How many Indian "sofwtare specialists" would be willing to take software job abroad The point isn't to pay foreigners a reasonable wage, no matter how the "Fachkräftemangel" talk makes you believe that. The point is to drive the price down with the alternatives of not paying well here or outsourcing because you "can't find anyone" here.

@loopback0 said in Housing Bubbles? Is this a housing bubble?: Check out this Studio flat for rent on Rightmove Studio flat for rent in New Street, Dudley, DY1 for £725 pcm. Marketed by Taylors Estate Agents, Brierley Hill The building's a former police station. The holding cell is left in this studio flat as a feature. Key features LARGE STUDIO WITH FEATURE HOLDING CELL Perfect for teenage daughters!

@Gern_Blaanston Interesting that you mention Barbie, whose middle name is the same as Millie's first.

@Arantor For an online version, you can telnet to mapscii.me. It works with the mouse and everything!

@da-Doctah said in The bad jokes topic 🐴🍹👨: Now if someone can just come up with a relative who was born on 11/11/1111.... The approach to this is to redefine when year 1 of the calendar was. Filed under: Putting target markers around bullet holes

@PotatoEngineer said in The Fox Ideas Thread: @accalia That reminds me of Lackadaisy Cats, which is about cats rather than foxes, but is definitely about illegal activity during Prohibition. (Mind you, progress on that comic has come to a screeching halt now that the creator is working on an animated series for the comic.) That's that I was thinking of but couldn't remember the name!

@boomzilla

@izzion that’s a Bjorn conspiracy they indulge in to feel good about themselves.

@Bulb well it is a bad idea and the proposers should feel bad.

@TimeBandit said in The Official Good Ideas Thread™: @BernieTheBernie I must have a 5.25" floppy drive somewhere As for a place to plug it,

@error said in Another AI based art generator, DALL-E Mini: @sockpuppet7 Is she falling to her death? Seems oddly dark. The Matrix Neo falls – [00:13..01:06] 01:06— Alan Barrett

@kazitor I knew there was at least one such logo that I was semi-familiar with, but couldn't put my finger on it. Thanks! Now I'm pretty sure there are other(s), based on how many close-but-not-quite matches any search for e.g. "square logo" returns, including a lot of stock images (so basically "hey business owner without any graphical skills, here's simple stuff you could use"). Any other suggestions?

@boomzilla Voyager 1's distance from Earth complicates the troubleshooting effort. The one-way travel time for a radio signal to reach Voyager 1 from Earth is about 22.5 hours, meaning it takes roughly 45 hours for engineers on the ground to learn how the spacecraft responded to their commands. "Hey! Get back to work!" "Debugging!" "Oh. Carry on."

@Arantor said in Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?: @boomzilla said in Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?: @Arantor said in Is updating dependencies frequently still good advice?: @Jaime considering that I’m writing the app in PHP and got this shit foisted on me in passing, no. It’s a web app. It has web shit on the front of it. Which means I’m fucking doomed, forever, to deal with this clusterfuck of an ecosystem because every fucking thing in it relies on Node even when it’s not a Node app. Meh. No ISVM report, no problem! I did wonder at first what the International Society for Viruses of Microorganisms had to do with it - plenty of packages in the ecosystem qualify as microorganisms. Then I remembered the IT version, and left myself a note to run npm audit on Monday to see if my ecosystem has gotten a vulnerability this week. What are we going to do today, @Arantor? The same thing we do every Monday, Dashie. Oh boy, checking npm for vulnerability reports!

@Zerosquare That'd be nice. We wouldn't even need to dig up the ordnance to dispose of it. Easiest EOD work ever.

@BernieTheBernie said in What happened to...: What happened to MrL? Last Online 3 Mar 2024, 13:04 Btw, do we have a polish exodus? Polaxit

I checked out of this conversation a while ago, but since it still seems to be going, I'll just drop this link I've bumped into without further context: Visitor and multiple dispatch via C# 'dynamic'

@BernieTheBernie said in Windows Server?: @loopback0 said in Windows Server?: Azure only has Enterprise IIRC but standalone it's the same control over updates as Pro unless Azure forces them. Actually none. In order to control updates, the machine must be in a domain. I do not have a domain, so... You can edit "local" group policy (which is what I believe you're referring to) without being joined to a domain in all editions from Pro up.

I'm using TypeScript, where the enums are just a combined object of name-to-number and number-to-name. The implementation looks vaguely like this: ServerEnum = { 0: "FirstServer", 1: "SecondServer", "FirstServer": 0, "SecondServer": 1 } And I'm using an enum as the key in an object. And it's really convenient a lot of the time, because I have one of those enum values hanging around most of the time. { [ServerEnum.FirstServer]: {...}, [ServerEnum.SecondServer]: {...} } It's great, except in two cases: Object.keys(), Object.values(), and Object.entries() will all return a string key, so my enum value of 1 gets coerced into "1". I also end up sticking that enum into the URL, where it should be the string-value rather than the number-value. So for 1), I'm using parseInt(enumThing) as ServerEnum in my iterators. And for 2), I'm doing a lot of ServerEnum[enumAsNumber] and ServerEnum[enumAsString]. I should probably switch from Object to Map, but , and Map's iteration API is a bit uglier.

Mar 27 Rescued 'baby hedgehog' turns out to be a pom pom from a hat - UPI.com A Cheshire, England, woman rescued what she believed to be an abandoned baby hedgehog and took it to a local animal hospital, where veterinarians told her she had actually rescued the pom pom from a beanie hat.

@Luhmann Huh. Interesting.

@dkf said in India: @BernieTheBernie said in India: Many needful doers from India work in the IT industry in Western countries. But India is starting to experience a shortage of IT workers. heise online  /  Mar 24 Missing Link: India's Software Brain Drain Turns the Tide to Talent Shortage From India’s own digital rise to new visa dynamics to a huge demand for talent by Big Tech – there are many levers pulling IT professionals back to India. Looking forward to ny times to come. They probably really mean that they're short of people willing to do that much work over that many hours a day for that little money... Sounds ripe for a gig economy startup!

@anonymous234 said in Nintendo plans on selling the same games AGAIN: @LB_ Selling old games is a very good thing. Hell, now that digital purchases exist I'd say that there's no reason to ever stop selling a game. We've gotten too used to the absurd idea that software has to be on sale for a few years and then disappear forever. Remakes are great too (if there's a demand, why wouldn't you adapt things to newer hardware?). What's not great is: 1. Having to buy a particular machine to run a particular game, and 2. Having to pay for the same game more than once. We need to switch to a model where once you buy a game, it's associated to your account and you own it forever and can play it on any device (within technical limitations). When Nintendo figures that out, then I'll start paying for my games. (hell, they don't even sell the same games for the 3DS and WiiU virtual consoles, even though they all run on the same emulators). some Xbox 360 games would be associated with my account if I had bought an Xbox one after it broke. too little, but at least they moved in the right direction

@The_Quiet_One said in You won't agree with me. And that's normal.: Well, that just means if it's in the park, then it's not being used on a road, therefore it's fine! And there are no such things as off-road vehicles.

@topspin said in YouTube and cookie warnings: @dkf said in YouTube and cookie warnings: @Gurth said in YouTube and cookie warnings: I had more or less read the notice before pressing “Reject all” but I had not connected “personalized content and personalized ads” with “Warning: this will clear your viewing history and recommendations based on it!” — largely because I didn’t expect that to be stored in cookies. It isn't. The cookie is just the key to look that info up. : it isn’t. The cookie just contains the “official” way to track you, so that they can pretend to obey GDPR. They’ll keep tracking you in secret. I’ve had all cookies from YouTube blocked since ~forever. Yet somehow it often shows links to videos entirely unrelated to whatever I’m looking at but suspiciously similar to something I’ve watched prior…

@boomzilla said in Chess Patzers of WTF: How did you find evidence of the way I always lose to my brother???

@boomzilla this story misses the absolutely critical part of the third party repair that got crushed Andy Greenberg  /  Dec 14, 2023  /  tags McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup Kytch, the company that tried to fix McDonald’s broken ice cream machines, has unearthed a 3-year-old email it says proves claims of an alleged plot to undermine their business. (Amazing jorb, wired home page. Pop up some bullshit about subscription halfway across the screen, I dismiss. Scroll , get the same popup again. Dismiss, repeat 3 times: well, looks like you’ve already read 3 of our stories for free, it’s subscription time now. Pops up another thing full screen that can’t be dismissed.)