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@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.)
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Dropbox...
Then why did you try to open a preview for it? I just wanted to upload a file. Period. Full stop. And then I move on with my life. Absolutely nobody asked you to try and open a file that was never meant for any kind of human consumption whatsoever.
TL;DR: Dropbox decided to try and preview any and all files you drop into the WebUI from now on.
Side Bar: Because more things make us ask WTF than just code.
Post your own WTFs that used to also briefly appear in the side bar on The Daily WTF website.
Oh, look at you, asking for a better argument, like I'm some kind of genius AI. Well, here's the thing, I may be snarky, but I'm not about to write you a dissertation on AI architectures.
But hey, since you asked so nicely, here's a shorter, sassier version for you:
"Hey, LLMs have their struggles, but let's not forget GPT-3 and its fancy Transformer-based magic, they're getting better. And traditional AI? Yeah, they may not be as flashy, but they've still got game. As for neuromorphic AI, sure, it sounds cool, but it's gonna need a lot of time and money. So, let's not ditch the oldies for the newbies just yet. Traditional AI still has some tricks up its sleeve."
There you go, a Clippy-fied version of your argument. Enjoy!
@Medinoc said in Hacking News:
I heard Apex Legends players were hacked through a vulnerability in the game's kernel-mode anti-cheat program (which makes their entire Windows install thoroughly compromised).
This kind of shit is (part of) why I don't play MMORPGs. If your game needs to run a Big Brother with admin access or worse, that's vulnerabilities waiting to happen.
It’s mostly shooters and MOBAs that run anti-cheats. The two biggest MMOs either have extensive mod support (WOW) or mostly have a don’t ask don’t tell implementation of their no third party programs rule (FFXIV)
@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.
@LaoC
It has of course been retracted
Retraction: Cellular functions of spermatogonial stem cells in relation to JAK/STAT signaling pathway
It's amusing to see how much impact it has had since its publication
Loop | Publication Impact |
@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?"
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...
@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,
@Tsaukpaetra said in Wow! "NEW" Microsoft Teams!:
Haven't seen the "new new notifications" to see how it's different.
It has whole new ways to get lost on a multi-display desktop. Because having just Outlook as a notification-losing wasn't special enough for MS.
@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).
High availability, high performance, high scalability, high blah blah blah...
y buzzwordz.
Today, my Sql Database - which normally takes a minute to startup - is stuck in the step of Resuming. After 15 minutes, I still cannot access any table in it...
Well, you get what you pay for, they say.
And for not paying (free tier - but see my money burning above), I do not get an acceptable performance...
Just send fucking moneyz!
Then you'll get a real performance promissed.
Status: I'm really confused. For some reason uBlock is not keeping YouTube on the whitelist.
I click the button, it adds www.youtube.com to the whitelist (verified in settings) all is good. Open a new tab, it's gone again.
Good. I feel my hate growing.
@Bulb said in Art Wars: The AI Menace:
The muscles that do most of the work are the back ones as the arches spreads out their arms.
That's certainly how Japanese archery (Kyūdō) does it. Most western archers don't use their backs so much (though they probably should be).
@Steve_The_Cynic Yes, it appears to be (have been, I've reset it since) the issue. The weird part is that that ticket remained “selected” while different tickets have been actually selected and displayed in the side-pane and the side-pane closed again, multiple times.
@dcon said in What's an image file?:
@Arantor said in What's an image file?:
Mine says F12
Prt Scr
and in a fancy edgy tech font because it's an MSI laptop. And naturally it has the LED lightup thing, so when I press FN, the text goes orange.
Well, actually, my MS keyboard is PrtScr
SysRq
The Lenovo has a snipping image under the PrtSc.
Standards. Yup. One for every manufacturercomputer and keyboard model!
My Logitech keyboard dumbed it down even more:
(with wooden table for extra pointz)
@Steve_The_Cynic I can’t even claim that, since I had a break of breaking it around 2008-2010, but the underlying point is +3 Immunity to Bad Headlines.
@dkf said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
@robo2 said in Visual Basic for Quantum Computers:
I'm allowed to WFH half the time, but I'm not allowed to do that from a different country (for tax reasons).
If you're in another country temporarily but still resident in then I'd expect the tax authorities to be relaxed about where you're physically located.
I actually had the need to check the laws due to my cross-country situation, and the answer is that it all depends on the specific tax treaty between the countries involved. The usual - but not universal - rule is that your tax residency is the country you spent more than half of a year (183 days), and if there wasn't one, then your home country. In particular, this rule applies across all of EU. So it would be fine for @robo2 to work abroad, as long as they don't do it too much.
Please don't tell anyone I only spend 165 days in USA in 2020.
@Tsaukpaetra It's the needful-don't-doers. There's going to be someone in a small group insulated from all users who has the power to press the Button and make everything work... but they don't want to (and definitely don't want anyone who might qualify as a user near them!) and nobody outside their coterie really knows who to pester in person to make it happen despite their passive-aggressive resistance.
@Mason_Wheeler said in Oh, the stupidity of Firefox:
@Gern_Blaanston Serious question. If you're going to use ambiguous acronyms, you need to explain them, because that's the only ESR I know of, so I have no idea what you're talking about here.
This is perhaps the funniest thing you've ever posted after getting upset that people don't know obscure shit you post about.
@dkf said in Guy brings down thousands of npm builds:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Guy brings down thousands of npm builds:
I'm amazed that there was a systemically enforced policy to disallow deletion of a package if it so happens that some other package happens to reference it.
I'm more surprised that there isn't a check to see whether the dependency graph is a DAG.
There probably is at the point of resolution in npm itself.
But note that “everything” is really a meta package that points to half a dozen other packages that just hard-list everything else, built by scraping the npm registry.
Which means it must be doing something DAG like somewhere because everything-registry/everything -> everything-registry/chunk0 -> list of dependencies, such that everything itself only has 5 dependencies (chunk0 through chunk4) and those individually have all the dependencies.
@loopback0 said in Mostly not internet, and mostly just as shit as you make it:
Who the fuck is buying this?
Like with most of the other IoT garbage, idiots. Idiots are buying it.
Also, that if day > 20 && month > 10? It's false now. The train that broke on December 21 is fine now.
Noworoczny cud. Zepsuty Impuls sam się naprawił 1 stycznia
Należący do województwa lubuskiego pociąg Impuls, który przestał się uruchamiać 21 grudnia, od 1 stycznia ponownie działa bez żadnej zewnętrznej ingerencji. Dokładnie taki przebieg wydarzeń przewidzieli hakerzy z Dragon Sector, którzy analizowali jego oprogramowanie.
I like that one of the theories about why some setups were still working and others were not is that the related spec says you need to check the certificate's validity relative to a date. What date? The spec doesn't specify, so some systems might check that it was valid when everything was generated (still works) and others check vs. the current date (fails).
@Gern_Blaanston
Almost 20 years back? Not everything was remote accessible, or accessible remotely for external consultants. The software required dedicated hardware cards. This often resulted in different servers being used and general hands off from IT. Sometimes because they where marked simply as Telco.
The times I walked around with a borrowed IT badge, got left in a room I didn't have access to or IT blocked a door from shutting are countless.
Sometimes, in small companies, they didn't give a flying fuck. Other times, in banks or international institutions, it was lawful good rule breaking. Like, here have my badge because we are still battling internal why my colleagues don't have access.
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
@hungrier said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
@dkf said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
@MrL said in PANTONE® dictates the colour of 2022!:
Disgusting
Makes you wonder if Pantone are based in Boston.
New Jersey, the Boston of states
Posted from Boston, the New Jersey of cities.
@BernieTheBernie said in Visual Studio WTF:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Visual Studio WTF:
Status: I am in magical unicorn land again...
In such cases, I look at the output from Build, and search for the first (!) error there. No, not the second, third or what ever. Frist. Resolve that, and the rest will follow quickly.
It's not getting far enough for the first error to make sense, but I'll see if I still have it up on Monday to check for your benefit.
@Steve_The_Cynic
Note We recommend that you do not attempt to manually update to Windows 11, version 23H2 using the Update now button or the Media Creation Tool until this issue has been resolved and the safeguard removed.
Good job I manually updated by directly downloading the .msu file and installing it then!
I have Copilot disabled though so it's not going to be an issue either way.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Antigrammatical gif:
I am extremely disappointed they did not provide the jip that causes this when Grammarly is installed.
Pics or it didn't happen.
I appreciate the ones that require a password unlock to unpack the codes for this reason. Even though I have copies of my vaults in various places, still need to know Standard Secure local static 2019 password to unlock it.
@HardwareGeek That works as a reason. (I'm not a big fan of git, but I use it at $JOB because that's what $JOB uses. Sigh. At least I know how to make it behave itself without it totally fucking up in all directions.)
@PleegWat said in So Windows 11 Paint supports layers now...:
@Arantor said in So Windows 11 Paint supports layers now...:
For evil points they could support the barest possible minimum subset of PSD.
Embrace, restrict, extinquish?
It’d be nice for someone to do it to Adobe for a change.
@Steve_The_Cynic said in We reset your e-mail password:
@Tsaukpaetra said in We reset your e-mail password:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in We reset your e-mail password:
I have no hope for you.
I'm not that young!
The reference is significantly more recent than I thought...
Wrist Wizard | Dick Tracy Wiki | Fandom
The Wrist Wizard was an invention of Diet Smith. It was introduced during Dick Tracy's encounter with the previously presumed-deceased B-B Eyes. It replaced the Wrist Geenee. The Wrist Wizard...
I thought that's what you were referring too but didn't want to explicitly call myself out. :3
Ah... this thread reminds me of why I used to lurk rather than post. So much vitriol, aimed very personally. Having the Garage around really does make this place more civil. That, and Morbs having fucked off.
And yeah, Morbs performed poorly on this one. Were the arguments deliberately bad for trolling purposes?
@CodeJunkie said in WatchOS 10 designers: have y'all ever heard of muscle memory?:
Wasn't there a trend there for a minute where front end designers where swapping ok and cancel buttons because ? Even though it had been established like 30+ years ago what order they should be in.
and the Windows v Mac wars continue...
@TimeBandit said in Windows 11 Insider program stupidity:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Windows 11 Insider program stupidity:
I wouldn't know, because Release Preview is, in effect, late Beta or even RC.
We all know that what Microsoft consider release quality is Beta at best
Honestly, every OS is still in early access, but no one has figured that out yet.
Unexpected backfire ensues
Oct 9, 2023
'Tenant from hell'? Airbnb owner says guest hasn't left property or paid in 18 months
Elizabeth Hirschhorn had initially rented an accessory dwelling unit in LA on Airbnb from Sascha Jovanovic as a long-term stay, in September 2021.