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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
It's basically called stack ranking, and MS was known to practice it in the past. Make of that what you wish.
Now we can do Stack Overflow internetpointzzzz ranking!
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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.)
@TimeBandit said in macOS 12 Localized Keyboard Shortcuts piss me off:
Every time I have to use Excel to open a CSV, I speak in French
But which version of French? American or European?
@TimeBandit said in macOS 12 Localized Keyboard Shortcuts piss me off:
FileUnder: tabarnak
Never mind, I see you have included the American French BOM.
@dcon said in .net foundation brouhaha:
@loopback0 said in .net foundation brouhaha:
cost of a license
I use the Community version. (personal and open source stuff only)
Yes but I mean at work.
@Gąska said in Gone in a single GameBoy:
@izzion anyone carrying a gameboy in 2021 is going to look super suspicious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMq_EhjeXI8
Yes, very.
Re: PARADE!! (continued) (in a new thread because the Monty Hall problem is boring once you've figured it out)
Monty figured out a way he could make his problem less easily solved:
Monty Hall on the Monty Hall Problem
From the New York Times Science section in 1991: HEADLINE: Behind Monty Hall\'s Doors: Puzzle, Debate and Answer? BYLINE: By JOHN TIERNEY, Special to The New York Times DATELINE: BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 20 Mr. [Monty] Hall [host of Let\'s Make a Deal] said he was not surprised at the experts\'...
Mr. Hall continued: “Now do you see what happened there? The higher I got, the more you thought the car was behind Door 2. I wanted to con you into switching there, because I knew the car was behind 1. That’s the kind of thing I can do when I’m in control of the game. You may think you have probability going for you when you follow the answer in her column, but there’s the psychological factor to consider.”
He proceeded to prove his case by winning the next eight rounds. Whenever the contestant began with the wrong door, Mr. Hall promptly opened it and awarded the goat; whenever the contestant started out with the right door, Mr. Hall allowed him to switch doors and get another goat. The only way to win a car would have been to disregard Ms. vos Savant’s advice and stick with the original door.
Was Mr. Hall cheating? Not according to the rules of the show, because he did have the option of not offering the switch, and he usually did not offer it. …
Which means, of course, that the only person who can answer this version of the Monty Hall Problem is Monty Hall himself. Here is what should be the last word on the subject: “If the host is required to open a door all the time and offer you a switch, then you should take the switch,” he said. “But if he has the choice whether to allow a switch or not, beware. Caveat emptor. It all depends on his mood.
“My only advice is, if you can get me to offer you $5,000 not to open the door, take the money and go home.”
I was confused at first, but then I checked dates and it turns out this topic predates the Epic Store by a year, which is why the guy was talking about Steam instead.
@HannibalRex said in Your files are right where you left them:
@LaoC said in Your files are right where you left them:
The fact that a Save dialog contains anything other than an OK button doesn't even enter their conscious awareness so shit gets saved wherever suggested by whatever you created it with and under the default name, and later you try to remember something from it that will make search find it.
This. The save dialog is usually just something to be clicked through.
It's even worse than that. Nowadays for most web browsers, by default there is no Save dialog. And for a long time, on Edge this wasn't just the default, but the only way!
@Tsaukpaetra said in Sexy Beasts:
@Zecc said in Sexy Beasts:
@PotatoEngineer Do they know there are other kinds of sex?
(answers would have to go in the Garage)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpaLFRQD090
One of my favorite songs.
@pie_flavor said in Betrayed by github activity graph:
@cartman82 I just realized I should commit bugfixes on certain days so that the activity graph spells out 'deez nuts'.
i would go for "hello hr"
@boomzilla said in Why use line when many line do trick:
@error said in Why use line when many line do trick:
@campkev said in Why use line when many line do trick:
switch(BlueJunkAPI.needsAttention(msgId))
{
case true:
switch(msgId)
{
case BlueJunkAPI.ATTENTIONREQUIRED:
socketError = handleAttentionReq(messageOut, messageIn);
}
}
FTFY
I can't help but notice a potential race condition in your code:
switch(BlueJunkAPI.needsAttention(msgId))
{
case true:
switch(msgId)
{
case BlueJunkAPI.ATTENTIONREQUIRED:
if(BlueJunkAPI.needsAttention(msgId)){
socketError = handleAttentionReq(messageOut, messageIn);
}
}
}
You still haven't locked BlueJunkAPI. And if msgId is volatile so are messageIn and messageOut, need to kill myself now, brb.
@dkf said in Bad bad software to install on an SSD...:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Bad bad software to install on an SSD...:
I cited MMORPGs because they are probably the most write-to-disky things that a lot of people see
Try your browser for far more write-to-disk-yness. The cache and the cookie store churn things a lot; the writes are small, but they're very frequent.
Fair point. I hadn't thought of that aspect of things.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in A fool and his secure criminal text messages are soon parted:
Or could it be that some action movie plot happened - said turbonerds did take a look, but "did the right thing" and said "everything's fine"? In which case I believe their lives may become... rather uncomfortable.
If the sending of the stuff to an additional address was placed in the secure enclave of the phone, it would have been very difficult to inspect.
Those are their own separate processor that manages the low level comms, and which is the highly regulated piece (so that the phone obeys telecoms laws) and isn't generally open to poke around in. The other possibility is that the tracking was done on the service side through monitoring the IMEI, and that's not possible to find via inspection at all.
The real criminals won't have been using any of this; they'll do all their part in person at their club, leaving the operational communications to lieutenants.
@dangeRuss said in I could spend hours and hours and hours just ranting about what an awful experience dealing with git is:
VSCode has a fucking pleasant git interface, at least for the basics.
I just wish the buttons to show all local and remote branches would, I don't know, show all the local and remote branches.
I keep having to revert to gitk --all or git --all --graph --oneline to show diverging branches.
Edit: never mind. I read VSStudio instead of VSCode. I don't know about VSCode.
Ben Lovejoy / Aug 20, 2021 / News
Apple’s anti-fraud chief said company was ‘the greatest platform for distributing child porn’
Apple's anti-fraud chief has stated, in so many words, that Apple is "the greatest platform for distributing child porn"...
:phrasing:
@cvi said in Alien chat rooms:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Alien chat rooms:
Its applicability to memes ... confuses me.
I stopped expecting things on the internet to make sense a long time ago.
Everything makes sense, but only all at once. Very rarely is anything made sense of.
@error said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@loopback0 said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
in the last 24 hours we spent 30 minutes of CPU time in the last 24 hours
Over how many hours though?
Half an hour.
@boomzilla said in Default Index:
@Gribnit said in Default Index:
@Carnage said in Default Index:
Just
Just
Just
The doer of initial needful, tends not to be aware of eagerness, in any form, including this one.
If you have doers of initial needfulness then lazy loading is probably the least of your problems.
It is!
@Zecc said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
@HardwareGeek said in The things you realise when browsing XKCD...:
Redundant. { cringeworthy puns } ≡ { puns }
Can you point on this doll where puns touched you when you were younger?
How detailed is the doll? Can I swap the pins for a pair of jumper cables?
@Gribnit said in Any smooth brain individuals here part of the Wall Street Best group?:
@Nagesh said in Any smooth brain individuals here part of the Wall Street Best group?:
All Mughals mixed bloods with Persians.
And you're damn lucky to have it. That's good blood.
If you read history of the subcontinent, you will know we got invaded many times by many different civilizations.
This document is pretty accurate on the number of invasions that happened. Naturally a lot of mixed blood!
7 Historic Invasions of Foreign Forces on India | History
@Nagesh said in Apple stand:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Apple stand:
I gotta say that this reminds me of a high-end audio equipment store near a place I used to live. You know the kind of thing: valve amps with the valves conspicuously displayed, glass-bed turntables, all that blah-blah.
Well, on one occasion (since I went by there occasionally for other purposes) I looked in their window, and there was a pair of speaker stands priced at £1500 each. For those wishing to speculate about the effects of inflation, this would have been in the year 2000.
Um.
Not £1500 for the pair, but £1500 per stand.
Did the stand have speakers on it?
No. It was just a stand.
@boomzilla said in Production Version Out of Context:
@Gąska said in Production Version Out of Context:
God fucking dammit WHY WOULD YOU EVEN THINK THAT I was referring to the last 15 years?
Tense:
"You'd have to wait quite a bit, since in 15 years they've only got up to 2.6."
Should have been:
"You'd have to wait quite a bit, since in 15 years they'ved only got up to 2.6."
I think you mean Linus Torvalds effected the kernel staying at version 2.x for over 15 years.
@CodeJunkie said in Browsing YouTube - I will give them credit, they never stop trying:
damn, who downvoted that?
The sniper, presumably. I wasn't joking.
@Gribnit said in Testing results up in smoke:
@dkf said in Testing results up in smoke:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Testing results up in smoke:
Methylcarbinol does it for me.
Methylxanthine and theobromine are recommended as well.
I'm looking to popularize Tylenol as a drug of abuse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD6olRJ8S3I
i did the thing and youtube said "okay we won't do the thing to you"
it's still stupid, yeah, but i think it's kind of a filter to detect people who don't care about their channels/videos enough to do the thing.
i expect second stage in a year or so to be deleting those private vids from channels that don't care.
@bobjanova said in Dolt:
But RabbitMQ (which is close to industry standard status for message brokers) is written in Erlang - if it works, nobody cares what's inside the box.
Your argument disagrees with itself. Erlang implementation is a selling point for middleware, not neutral, and far from a detractor.
@topspin said in Silicon Valley’s $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze:
@Gribnit said in Silicon Valley’s $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze:
Are those caverns in New Mexico a national park or a recognized scenic area?
National park, but Carlsberg is Danish and has no funny letters, while "Karlsbad" is spelled "Karlovy Vary" in Czech and has none either.
Phew! For a second there, I was worried.
@topspin said in FF7 remake shenanigans? Did not expect fanboi so hard.:
@TwelveBaud and if I remember correctly (hopefully I don't because I don't want to), your "base" moves around.
@Rhywden said in FF7 remake shenanigans? Did not expect fanboi so hard.:
Yes. And you've got a hard unit limit.
Yes to both. Oh, also, forgot. Here's a plot summary of the story:
We've driven off the Scrin (i.e. no third faction), but planet's still fucked. Humanity is doomed to be entombed in Tiberium within the next 50 years. We're fighting to see who dies to it last. Godspeed, Mr. Saturn.
@BernieTheBernie said in Incredible Machine Learning:
Hungarian has no passive voice.
Indonesian has "object focus" which some westeners may mis-take as passive voice.
But the full splendor of Latin grammar cannot be enjoyed without the thorough knowledge of passive voice
Greek has not only active and passive voices, but a middle voice.
Active voice: You do something. You are the subject of the sentence.
Passive voice: Something is done to, for, or on behalf of you (by unspecified someone). You are the object of the sentence.
Middle voice: You do something to, for, or on behalf of yourself. You are both the subject and object of the sentence.
@topspin Could well be that plays a part in it. I suspect the real reason, though, is NIH-mentality coupled to political decisions not based in much real knowledge about the subject at hand (which is a pleonasm, of course).
Jun 7, 2021
How I uncovered a black-hat SEO scam
I went down a rabbit-hole analysing a competitor and discovered a black-hat SEO operation involving tens of thousands of websites.
Aha! So that was what was the secret: The creators of Scorecounter also made an online HTML editor which injects links for certain keywords. The beauty of this scam is that by injecting links to their own HTML editor, they have created a wonderful positive feedback loop: the higher it rises in the search rankings, the more people use it and the more secret links they can inject.
@Applied-Mediocrity said in A phantom button appeared on my desktop:
My new hobby - reading internets without full context, as future historians, if any, perhaps would.
Most of it is virtually indistinguishable from gribnit.
Our ancestors suffered from hallucinations of small objects, evidently explained by excessively restrictive diets of fruits,
but placing blame on health inspectors who often performed surprise inspections being airdropped in sidecars.
Filed under: This sentence may very well itself be virtually indistinguishable from gribnit
Just stay out of the stock market.
@topspin said in EA improves security by ensuring nobody gets into your game:
I don't think they sell cheese cake.
Apparently, there's a vineyard close to there. That'll do.
Welsh Wines - White Castle Vineyard
WHITE CASTLE VINEYARD LLANVETHERINE, MONMOUTHSHIRE “From the land we love, Wines we are proud of” Established in 2009, White Castle Vineyard is situated in the beautiful rolling countryside of Monmouthshire close to Abergavenny. Owned and worked by wine enthusiasts Robb and Nicola, the vineyard has...
Briefly tried the whole mmap to output thing. mmap tends to fail with MAP_FAILED / ENODEV (i.e., filesystem/specified files doesn't support memory mapping). Which makes sense. Sanity restored, but wtf talk dude?
@HardwareGeek said in Amazon out to kill every WISP in existence:
@cvi said in Amazon out to kill every WISP in existence:
Bluetooth range (120 meters)
I can't always get my Bluetooth keyboard to work reliably at 120 mm.
Depends on which Bluetooth standard it uses. Most motorcycle intercoms use Bluetooth and has a range of several hundred meters.
@boomzilla said in VS Code is a steaming pile of shit. Change my mind.:
@loopback0 said in VS Code is a steaming pile of shit. Change my mind.:
I use it every day though and very rarely have issues. The SSH Remote feature is excellent.
I have not used that, but I've thought about it
I use it for all my bot development. So there's a mark against it.