@TimeBandit said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else: Microsoft knows better what you want than you do Worked well enough for Apple, they just want to get in on the ride.

@error said in The Official Status Thread: @error said in The Official Status Thread: Half the time the double jump just does not work Apparently the jump button had turbo enabled in the keybinds which was fucking up my jumps. I would have blamed the emulator.

@cvi said in In other news today...: And ... some 250k negative reviews later, Sony apparently walks back the requirements: PlayStation on Twitter   ... do we get 50 medals for completing the Snoy's Backstab order? I'm actually surprised it ended this way. *edit probably would have worked.

Update: The 3D pen is very effective at welding 3D printed items together, albeit with a lot of excess material on the joint

Facebook continues to fuck up messenger. They should change their name to Evilcorp

Passengers behaving badly: Trump Hater Refuses to Get Off Plane – 15:11— 74 Gear

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@loopback0

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@dkf said in Fun with maps: if it's words. No, it's not, but Welsh even less so.

@DogsB said in Nope: A little girl in North Carolina said there were "monsters" in her bedroom wall. Turns out she was right! Parents, take note: When your child tells you there's a monster in her bedroom, you ignore it at your own peril: I have similar "monsters" at my kitchen window: bees of Osmia genus.

@BernieTheBernie said in Azure bites: @Arantor E_OFF_BY_ONE - intended? The 365 is an aspirational amount of uptime. Pretty sure we're already on 364 for this year assuming no further outages. 360 is the record as far as I'm aware.

@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 Tokyo Shapiro TV spot audio – 01:01— Macdaddybill

@dkf said in Official forum improvement requests thread: @kazitor said in Official forum improvement requests thread: @Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members: @topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members: @Arantor can we get those merged into our instance? :yell-at-x: should automatically compose with the existing emoji for :x: But that would require writing code...

@sockpuppet7 most of my daily work consists of undoing the shit caused by such development. For the most part we do actually take our time to think things through.

Is this Medicine Stone Smiling or Smirking... dougformayorosoyoosch18a2 called out by plain clothed cops – 10:27— SpectateSwamp ALERT Caution Osoyoos Water.pdf

@Zerosquare said in Help Bites: @remi said in Help Bites: there is never any justification as to why they used n rather than n+1 for this parameter I'm betting that in a lot of cases, the answer is either "the default parameters worked, so we didn't look further into it" or "the default parameters didn't work, so we randomly tweaked their values until they did". IIRC, as the number of layers goes up, the difficulty of getting the training right goes up too. These things find all the patterns that are there, not just the ones you want; using more layers allows more complexity of patterns, and so increases the chance of something unexpected making everything behave unexpectedly...

@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

@izzion said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...: @Applied-Mediocrity said in Today in Blakeyrat is always several years behind in every tech trend news...: @Benjamin-Hall Going to print minis for your games? I see this trend picking up. Now, if only there was a machine that would do the painting... Just hire that out on fiverr. Lotsa starving artists thanks to the AI revolution https://wibble.news/content/the-artists-revenge-when-ai-takes-over-they-turn-to-3d-printing-and-caricature

@Arantor said in The nerdy jokes thread (bonus original title mode!): not knowing about Dr Horrible. I didn't know until I looked it up. I bet there's masses more low culture things I know nothing about.

@Zerosquare Pictured: @HardwareGeek in his hobby room

@CodeJunkie said in I hate printers, with a passion: You should be able to. I bought a roller replacement kit for $20 for my HP LaserJet 4100n off Amazon about a year ago. That thing just keeps on working. Yep, those had already been replaced a few years earlier, when they stopped working properly. I don’t remember the reason for getting rid of the printer eventually, but it was some other paper-feed problem that wasn’t the rollers but something more involved.

The Last Martyr - Sugar (Official Music Video) – 03:55— Spaceuntravel

@Medinoc 0 is true, and non-zero is false and && is a boolean short-circuit operator. It's the other way compared to most programming languages, but that's how it's defined in shell.

It is worth noting that Private Eye is still in circulation today, its editor has had the distinction of reputedly being the most sued man in England, and he is still just as inclined towards the same kind of answer as his predecessor. (Its current editor, Ian Hislop, has been in the role since 1986.)

@BernieTheBernie

@Steve_The_Cynic I can't speak for the others but I've seen how much internal bullshit MSF has going on and frankly I would never encourage anyone to donate to them. I know that such orgs all have some internal bullshit but... fuck me... theirs is more internal bullshit than usual by quite a margin.

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.

Google, stay Google.

@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.

@dkf said in Today in reading the headlines...: @Zecc said in Today in reading the headlines...: Exciting news! TIL that atomic nuclei are just like cats.

@blek If we're crashing back down, it's not much of a peak; just about triple the last trough.

@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?

@boomzilla I've heard of the Soundless Sound and the Codeless Code.

@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.

@PotatoEngineer said in Economics of technical debt: you just refinance it all onto the new framework! All the make-work to move over to the new framework gives you a very good reason to not spend time fixing your own bugs. Why pay down the principal when there's an introductory offer to take advantage of?

On a tangent, I did play Stardock's Star Control: Origins, and it was all right; it kept the space combat pretty much as-is, I enjoyed learning the new ships, and they didn't have that godawful Ethics Committee from Star Control 3 to limit my choices. (Granted, I usually play a good guy, but there was a moment in SC3 where you had to not shoot an actively hostile alien, because it was possible to talk them down.) There was a good variety of aliens, too: the final enemies-from-another-dimension, and the enslaved-by-software guys you eventually ally with were creative. I didn't like the planet exploration; I get that doing a 3d exploration of a planet is what you've got to do in a modern game, but the limited view meant that it would take a while to finish getting the loot from a planet. SC2's exploration, while slightly dull, was at least quick and didn't overstay its welcome. I also didn't like the fetch-quests in Origins; there were thankfully few in the base game, but the idea of "gather X resource which you may or may not have harvested and sold already" doesn't work well in Star Control. And I didn't end up getting the DLC; the base game was all right, but I was ready to be done with it when I finished the game. (And honestly, I don't remember it that well anymore; I played it a few years ago.) I expect Free Stars to be a much better game, but at least I'm not expecting it to be Best Of All Time or anything.

300 reasons to hate Southwest: Wheelchair basketball players say Southwest left a '300-piece jigsaw puzzle' after flight Teams of wheelchair basketball players say their devices were dismantled on Southwest Airlines flight ahead of championship tournament. TL;DR: Southwest baggage handlers disassembled the wheelchairs to put them on the plane but had no personnel available to reassemble them at the destination. Bonus: They left some normal baggage off the plane to accommodate the wheelchairs, so some able-bodied passengers were angry at the basketball players when they didn't have their luggage.

Bonus: got to NodeBB's disconsistency None of the threads lower down each list were in common.

$deity damnit, really?

@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.