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.

@joshmid747 said in Super Cow Powers: Only just rediscovered this on my computer, been ages since I have done this one. Well, well, well .... if it isn't Jo Shmid.

@Luhmann Huh. Interesting.

@Steve_The_Cynic said in Glassdoor to un-anonymise accounts (at least internally) if they can...: Ignore me. Absolutely!

@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.)

@dcon In 15 years they could go for Over 9000! Its Over 9000!!! [Original Video and Audio] – 00:17— chowderrockz

@sockpuppet7 said in Qt / CSS: setStyleSheet is slow, suggested alternative using dynamic properties in CSS even worse: @remi If I wanted to use css in the ui for a c++ thing I think I would listen to http requests and open the system browser "Electron is just a browser?" "Always was."

Looks like someone’s already done it for you Unrelated:

@Watson said in Emoji testing, and in Emoji testing, and in Emoji testing: It's WTFs all the way down. I love how intentional this sounded as I scrolled down the triple post.

@dkf said in Where has all the backward compatibility gone?: @Benjamin-Hall said in Where has all the backward compatibility gone?: @dkf said in Where has all the backward compatibility gone?: @Benjamin-Hall Can we defend the kittens and puppies anyway? Asking for a pyromaniac friend. I mean, I'm fine with them as long as they're not near me OR (not XOR) hypoallergenic. And not noisy, filthy, or otherwise unpleasant. I hold no ill-will towards even the ones I'm not fine with, just can't defend them while they're like that. You find yourself able to defend them in the abstract, but the realities of fur allergies are unfortunate. Particularly as kittens tend to go 110% into purring... Purring I'm fine with. It's dogs barking or howling that I dislike, at least if it's constant. I've got neighbors whose dog will sometimes bark like it's being murdered for an hour straight.

@HardwareGeek said in 📧 The Official Spam Emails Thread™: @Zerosquare My first thought was more along the lines of "do I look like someone willing to work with SAP," but that, too. Yeah, I'm not enough of a SAP to work with Accenture either

@remi said in How large is your, erm, M.2?: Then again, he's old enough to learn by himself that he fucks up his backups... well, though luck. Until you lose data through not having it backed up, you don't really understand the importance of having backups. It's best learnt when it is easy to fix (just with a few days of effort) rather than difficult/expensive... but don't tell him that! The acute pain is a vital component of the lesson!

@Jaime Yes, but it was part of a Big Ball o' Mud story, so that part was broken off to another story and assigned to someone else, so it's not my problem any more. He had been able to get the button to appear for another repo, so hopefully he won't have too much of a problem with this one.

@JBert said in Conversations overheard: @Yamikuronue said:"We started running a promotion on X/XX, which has now ended. We did not set it up using the Promotion Tracker. However, we now want the data. Is there some way to get the data that would have been collected by the Promotion Tracker tool had we elected to use it?" Hmmm, there was some old quote about this. I think it went something like this: On two occasions have I been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you fail to put any figures into the machine, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. I don't think it's quite as bad as that. The former was due to not having a clear understanding of how the Promotion Tracker works. (URL's with a marker, etc.) The questioner may have wondered if it was just a data analysis tool. The Babbage one seemed to have no understanding of the most fundamental grasp of how a computer works. What makes it most amusing is that the questioner thought it was a gotcha. The modern equivalent would be, "Then why are apes still around?"

Good first guess. I think*** my Corporate Environment would eliminate the second. Thank you again for the WTF.

Eric Berger  /  Mar 7  /  Space After Astra loses 99 percent of its value, founders take rocket firm private First you burn the cash, then comes the crash. If only the people getting soaked by this were venture capitalists...

If it will ever exist, I suspect it will be pricerunner. I remember integrating with them for customs data and stuff, but their web ui doesn't have filtering by economic region from what I could see from a quick gander.

As ever, wish I hadn’t said anything at all let alone something half-tongue-in-cheek over the fact that the previous conversation asserted a great deal more than the singular fact being claimed. Specifically that damn near everything was political all the time according to you and that I was in the wrong for so much as breathing an idea (not even the one I agreed with you about) Don’t worry, you can have this garage back too.

My browsers won't sync over the VPN so I have to turn it off to sync my bookmarks.

@jinpa said in Story Details and Acceptance Criteria: I expect you to respond with, "You're doing it wrong." Everyone does it wrong sometimes. Some people do it wrong a whole lot more than others.

@PleegWat said in WTF Spam!: we tend to be too hostile to them. For a good reason

@DogsB said in Video game spotlight thread: Be still my beating heart! Consult your physician first.

@BernieTheBernie said in Important announcement: It's snowing in Canada: Went to bed yesterday evening at 7:30, got up just before 10 AM, At 7:30 last night, I was struggling to keep my eyes open. I went to bed around 8:00, or so. I woke up after an hour or so; I was still sleepy and wanted to go back to sleep, but overactive brain wouldn't let me. I got up around 11, I guess, and yelled at my son. I stayed up until about 1:00, which is a typical bedtime for me, reading TDWTF and watching YT videos until I felt sleepy again. I slept until 6:30, got up, took my morning medicine, read my Bible, went back to sleep a little after 7:00, and slept until 9:00. 8-ish hours of sleep, which is well above average for me; I rarely get more than 6.

@dkf said in No Comments on Funny Stuff: There isn't in Github (yeah, github has actually always been kinda lame).

If I use Firefox's developer mode to change the useragent to Kindle Fire, I can still use messenger.com.

Artificial Intelligence can have good uses: Maker uses Raspberry Pi and AI to block noisy neighbor's music by hacking nearby Bluetooth speakers Roni Bandini, a maker and developer, has created a Raspberry Pi-powered device that detects and distorts Reggaeton music played by his neighbors. The device, which uses machine learning to identify the music genre, is a fun experiment and its legality varies depending on location. My noisy neighbors are too far away for bluetooth interference, but the project may help other WDTWTFers.

@Atazhaia said in Willy's Chocolate Experience: It is indeed amazing stuff, and meme-worthy. Feb 27 What Was The Sad Glasgow 'Willy Wonka Experience' And Who's 'Billy Coull'? The Disastrous Event Explained Scottish children were anticipating a world of pure imagination, and got a world of disappointment instead. In the wake of the disastrous event, a ... group of angry Glaswegians, currently 1,200 strong, ...Now things are gonna get interesting! In the wake of the disastrous event, a Facebook group of angry Glaswegians, currently 1,200 strong,

@Zecc Looks like duckduckgoo.se is also for sale.

Mama Rong’s Rural Life: The boy’s rural life in China makes him want to cry#GuiGe#hindi#funny#comedy – 09:50— GuiGe

@Kamil-Podlesak said in 10x, 0x, and -10x engineers: I don't know if I'm too much or something, but lots of these points are actually for -10x managers . Where engineers who weren't able to avoid promotion go to die.

@Zerosquare said in Delphi 2024: @Gern_Blaanston said in Delphi 2024: When I was first starting out, all I had access to was BASIC and assembly language. Then I got a copy of Delphi's great-grandfather, Borland Turbo Pascal, which I thought was pretty good. By the time it morphed into Delphi I had already moved on to other stuff. Wait. Are you me? You're both @boomzilla, and boomzillaness is transitive, so yes.

@Zerosquare said in German Humor Orbital Canon: @Gern_Blaanston said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: What if the earth's rotation slowed down and instead of 24 hours it took 29 hours. How would that affect society? Yay! More time to every day! Unlikely. You'd now get 9.67 hours of work per day instead of 8h. If you're on an hourly contract, great. If you're on a fixed contract, you'll be screwed over. Filed under: However, I do want a 54.4 minute lunch break. up from 45 minutes

@izzion said in Visual Studio WTfs: I wouldn't want to be on either side of the bet that Framework 4.8 is going to be available in Windows 12. I can fairly confidently bet that it won’t be; if it ships with the OS it’ll be 4.8.1 or later. (It will be… interesting… if they put .NET Framework 4.x on the standalone-component train like 3.5 but not the VB6 runtime.)

@sockpuppet7 said in Is Uber the *worst* .com currently?: in my locality it was unfair laws, with most cab licenses owned by city lawmakers, and cabs being priced as a luxury, with old cars and rude drivers the owner of the license would hire a driver to work for him, and the profit, doing nothing, was better than the average pay of an engineer like us That's the sort of situation where I'd expect Uber to do well, cracking a market where prices were massively out of line with service levels. It is the differential between prices and service levels that provides the opportunity, the competitive edge. Markets where there isn't that dysfunction will be harder (that's why they've found the UK mostly hard going, especially outside London; not impossible but very little to gain advantage with).

@Arantor said in 😈 The Evil Ideas thread: @remi 16384 columns, you’re welcome. No one should need more than 640 columns. -- Bill Gates

@dkf said in Jeffed while reading an unrelated topic: @hungrier said in Jeffed while reading an unrelated topic: Whenever this happens, it doesn't update the navigation history, so if you had any thread open in a new tab, it would just be replaced by whatever with no way to go back So it isn't (just) me going crazy. Can't go crazy when you already are.

@hungrier

@dkf Metaobjects I don't think C++ is the only language that either does not have meta-objects, or does not use them for instance allocation.

@BernieTheBernie said in Recommend a website hosting service.: When you need automatic scaling, you need at least a "Standard S1" tier, $69 per month. And surprisingly, the difference between Linux and Windows is fairly small in Standard unlike the ~4× in Basic. But it's Expensive™. You can have a much more decent VM in other clouds for that money.

@Zenith said in Recommend a website hosting service.: my blood pressure tripling when I read "Kindly hello I am being Rajesh and you are being helping today what is your IP and SSN" I wobbled my head reading this.