@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites: There's your problem.Gif Not my idea, unfortunately I lost the debate to such powerful arguments like 'This is how everyone does it in the current year' and 'It's easier to hire JS developers'. Now we have 37 services (not counting databases and kafka brokers) mostly written in typescript and maintained by ~4 developers. From what I understand, most of the time they're fighting with the toolchain or downloading new frameworks.

@robo2 said in Aviation Antipatterns Thread: or has "trying to fly without fuel" always been an antipattern for jet planes? Don't know, I am not into planes so much.. Since this Developing Story from CNN is already 10 years old: yes.

@dkf said in Quotes Out of Context: @Gurth You might want to take a little time to explain why these are such heinous crimes against humanity. House walls are generally thick enough to put waste pipes inside — they have been since the invention of cavity walls at least. Though I would not be surprised if British pipes break often enough that you need good access to them. British home owners seem to regard a downstairs toilet as a luxury (“so guests won’t have to go upstairs” says it all, really), but en-suite bathrooms in at least some of the bedrooms as a must-have. I just don’t understand this: I consider a toilet on both inhabited floors of a house to be a much greater necessity than for everyone to have their own bathroom. Just the amount of extra cleaning you have to do with the latter speaks against it for me. Never mind that they even seem to install en-suites in houses where only one of the bedrooms is actually in regular use. Asphalt roads in a residential area already feels wrong, asphalt pavement even more so, let alone asphalt in a garden. (This said, I also very much don’t like the gardens full of paving slabs you see everywhere in the Netherlands.)

@Zerosquare Anyways, Microsoft is technically correct !

@Carnage it makes noise. Ergo, it does something. Ergo, that something can be optimised, once an objective function has been defined. I'm an engineer with nothing to keep my mind busy. Of course I am pondering about optimising stuff, which means pondering various possible objective functions, their relative fitness-for-purpose, which means pondering purposes and getting into weird mental tangents. Such as whether an helicopter (generating its own noise) would be able to detect by flying above a congested highway which proportion of cars have their engine stopped. And that's probably the saner of those tangents.

@Arantor said in Programming Memes Thread: pointless Did you mean disap-point-ing to her?

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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread: Is it getting cold where you are? Do you have a Keurig? Mott's (I miss @mott555, when was he last around?) makes K-Cups of spiced apple cider that are surprisingly fairly good. Add a splash (or several glugs) of bourbon and you have something to warm you up in two ways. You're welcome, or I'm sorry, depending on how many you decide to drink in a night. Tonight was a fairly cool evening here where we are. Several of the neighbors ended up hanging out in my shop and I decided to introduce them to this cocktail and after this evening there's a strong possibility that many of those neighbors will not be allowed to play with me anymore.

@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™: https://youtube.com/shorts/iHcEC7gjHnY I actually had this idea a dozen years ago, but lacked materials to prototype. This implementation is lacking many features my own unpublished version was intended to have... I think a fleshlight will give you the rest of the features you were looking for.

Wordle 1,040 3/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟩 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Daily Duotrigordle #784 Guesses: 35/37 2️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣ 2️⃣8️⃣ 1️⃣7️⃣ 3️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣ 2️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 2️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣9️⃣ 0️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣4️⃣ 3️⃣0️⃣ 2️⃣2️⃣ 3️⃣1️⃣ 3️⃣2️⃣ 1️⃣5️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣ 3️⃣3️⃣ 3️⃣4️⃣ 2️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 2️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 2️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ Duotrigordle BUILD/GRAPH with KNOWS on the 4th guess

@Watson no. But...plot twist...that other thing actually doesn't work for my case so I made my class. Though by tomorrow it might, since I mentioned it to the guy who made it, and it will need to be made to work for my case or it will be obsolete soon, so... Maybe tomorrow I'll go back to using that, but at least it's not holding me up right now.

@error said in The Official Status Thread: @Parody said in The Official Status Thread: I find "Text files in a folder" to be a pretty good substitute. I could've sworn there was a CMS based on text files, appropriately named CMS.txt, that generated Wiki-like content from plaintext files. I must have hallucinated or dreamt it, because Google turns up nothing. Filed under: Mandela effect I once set up Rejetto's HFS to do effectively that. Problem was implementing revision history if memory serves, as that's definitely not a thing in HFS...

We have two gator-wrangling videos out of Florida this week and it isn't even Wednesday yet This is the quintessential chaotic-good Florida Man right here.

@dkf said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members: OJ from cartons tends to be grim. Well, he did finally meet the Reaper, but I don't think his picture was ever on cartons.

Today, I discovered that pot can be a gateway drug to WordArt (ab)use.

@HardwareGeek Did you searching on PornHub? They got some great statistical data.

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@Atazhaia said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @Watson said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @LaoC said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : Nah, just kidding, it's over 7100 pages, ...which Microsoft Word doesn't fully comply with, giving us Wait... Microsoft doesn't follow their own standard? Well, Microsoft's first submission to ISO had a lot of Windows-specific stuff (for supporting all their different versions of Word), and ISO naturally said that such stuff wasn't appropriate for a vendor-neutral industrial standard. Microsoft went away and split their backward compatibility out those 600 pages of "Legacy" @LaoC referred to, and resubmitted the "Strict" part as the standard, with the optional "Legacy" extension. ISO accepted this on the condition that all new OOXML documents adhere to the "Strict" part, with the extension only used as required for backward compatibility. Microsoft said "Okay, sure" with its fingers crossed behind its back.

www.facebook.com/martin.h.hodas iPhone 16 might abandon mechanical buttons but don't bet your bottom dollar on it A new supply chain report claims Apple has contracted a supplier of capacitive buttons with haptic feedback to replace the mechanical buttons for the iPhone 16. But how realistic is that? It could be sunny today but don’t forget your umbrella because there might rain, cats and dogs, sleet or snow too. I might change back my avatar. I think some of the in-jokes have broken down.

@loopback0 said in Tinder is shit: get her a library ticket we let women read now?!?! Tangentially related… Apr 3  /  2+2= █ How well do you know Orwell’s 1984? Take the quiz to find out Are you more of a blagger than a member of the Brotherhood? To celebrate Audible’s new audio dramatisation of 1984, our quiz will test your knowledge of George Orwell’s dystopian classic Audible, an Amazon company, using 1984 to advertise.

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@dkf if I’m drinking out the bowl, one assumes there can’t be too much of that because that would imply it was possibly too hot to drink.

@Zerosquare said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!): I think I've seen this car before... is that a regression? Shit that happens when you're

@BernieTheBernie said in Error'd Bites: @boomzilla That's merely a little mix-up of Big Endian and Little Endian. It's just the latest standard™. After slot, tri-point, Philips, Pentalobe, Allen, double-square and 12-point, behold: the InfiLobe!

@Gurth said in “iPad doesn’t recognise fingerprint anymore, and the code also doesn’t work!”: France ... old No, not necessarily. France is well known for good food and good wine. That may have some effects.

Ex-White House Cyber Policy Director: Microsoft is a National Security Risk - Slashdot This week the Register spoke to former senior White House cyber policy director A.J. Grotto — who complained it was hard to get even slight concessions from Microsoft: "If you go back to the SolarWinds episode from a few years ago ... [Microsoft] was essentially up-selling logging capability...

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@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.

@HardwareGeek said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread: I'm certain this dream was entirely unrelated to watching Fast and Furious 5 just before going to bed. Ah yes, Fast and Spurious...

@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 £750 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!

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@PleegWat said in Fun with maps: @loopback0 And then they'd been in Edinburgh/Geneva (Cross out what is not appropriate). Why would they do that to themselves? To lay down at your door, of course.

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

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@Gurth yes because the stocks of HP ink that don't have DRM are finite.

@acrow said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot: Eurion I do not think so: I scanned all the documents myself with a vintage scanner from the early 2000ies (@Tsaukpaetra may like such hardware, too). And with LibreOffice 4.x, it just worx.

@PleegWat said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread: @Tsaukpaetra said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread: @Benjamin-Hall said in The unofficial offical bad pun of the day thread: @Mason_Wheeler err 2b not found Mount options invalid, try fsck and mount again? Dunno, it looks fine, but what is its personality like? Divergent

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

Apr 20 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive pre-Tokyo WADA has confirmed reports that 23 Chinese swimmers tested positive for a banned drug ahead of the Tokyo Olympics but that it accepted the country's findings it was due to substance contamination. So nice of the WADA to accept the verdict of the completely non-interested party Chinese anti-doping agency that those positives were just contamination.

@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

@Gern_Blaanston It's amazing how intelligent these creatures are. You can easily teach them to stroke your feathers just by handling them a brush.

@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted: any con where you are feeling excluded (intentionally or otherwise) is a terrible experience I'm sure any con will feel right at home on a crypto con.

@pcooper said in Is there a guide to certificate algorithms?: It's also worth knowing that ECDSA uses curves that have parameters hand-picked by NIST Fifty years ago, NIST hand picked S-boxes for DES, and it turned out that they tweaked them to be resistant to attacks that only NIST knew. Today, there's not so much trust that they will be as ethical, especially after they were already caught breaking Dual_EC_DRBG in exactly this way.

Nice try, OVH, but could I interest you in [% $TemplateSystem %] written in {{ .language_of_the_day }} that will be so much easier than your current <shit>?

@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF is happening with Windows 11? And nothing else: Recommend rebooting to see if that helps like it did this poor luser. Reboot the luser or the PC? FileUnder:

@LaoC said in Nope: @remi said in Nope: @DogsB when something is literally orders of magnitude (10x or 100x) more expensive than another variety of something, you can be almost certain that it is not that amount of times better. At that stage, the price difference is purely a marker of "I can afford it" rather than quality. The best status symbols have negative use value, like gold leaf on your dessert that tastes either like nothing or like tinfoil, a Lamborghini on a Lao city street, or a diamond ring that never leaves the safe. We had a pizza place in Sweden in an area where the affluent bought summer homes that served gold leaf pizzas, among other things. Their entire business idea was to get the kids of the super rich to come there to eat pizza for bragging rights, on daddy's dime. And they were entirely open and honest about this being the business idea. I don't know if they still exist, but they hung around for a few years at least. All the ingredients were the most expensive version of what you'd put on normal pizza. For no difference in quality. I think a single pizza was something like €11k

@HardwareGeek you definitely heard of their spin-off project even if you didn’t hear of any of their actual games. Basically, their games didn’t exactly sell massively well (probably because they weren’t particularly good) but they had the bright idea to found a little project to raise awareness of their games by hitching them to other games, and in the process founded Humble Indie Bundle, later Humble Bundle, later the Humble Store.