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@Gurth No. Subtitled versions also exist. As do the subtitles for the dubbed version, this time for the benefit of the deaf. And digital TV can even stream both audio streams and you can often choose which one you want.
Also I never said that there can't be any other version than dubbed. The question was why dub it, and that's what I answered.
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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.
@Kamil-Podlesak said in The Cheatpocalypse:
@Dragoon said in The Cheatpocalypse:
@Zerosquare said in The Cheatpocalypse:
It reminds me about a possibly-apocryphal-but-credible story.
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The explanation was that the manufacturer had ed him, and sold the resistors close the center value as ±1% precision for a higher price. And the lesson was: don't rely on characteristics that are not explicitly documented, even if they seem natural. After all, the resistors were only advertised as being within ±5% tolerance, and they were.
This is essentially what chip manufacturers do.
Also, power distribution. In some places in Europe, voltage is still 220V even 20 years after it was officially raised to 230V.
The way I heard it, that was a compromise to accommodate the difference between the UK (240V +/- 10V) the rest of the EU (220V +/- 10V), with the compromise being 230V +/- 20V, so that nobody needed to change. Now that we in the EU are rid of the UK, there's no need for this nonsense any more.
EDIT: forgot the icon.
On paper (), yes.
In practice, no. You only show the paper to a person for a few seconds, and they don't make a copy of it, or show it to a camera. Massively collecting data from this would be difficult.
Meanwhile, recording every scanned code along with the time and the location is trivial.
@Tsaukpaetra said in VS Code Autoerase:
@Kamil-Podlesak said in VS Code Autoerase:
I have no idea what happens if you use mouse, though
It closes the context menu, doing nothing.
Well, as the old proverb says: He who does nothing, does nothing wrong!
@Shoreline said in Contrachrome:
@Gribnit said in Contrachrome:
@Shoreline we pentaprimii, of course, constitute in ourselves an ethics council. The fatal flaws in the mehum understanding of ethics are your problem. Not ours.
Write that SCP story.
Every day, man. Every day.
@Gribnit said in How do I deal with people who throw away my work?:
Try making it be rocket science, that has well-established solutions.
Didn't know you're a mathematician.
@dkf said in Another day, another escalation of privilege bug:
@Bulb said in Another day, another escalation of privilege bug:
D-Bus is not at fault here. Anything would be vulnerable if misconfigured.
But if it is easy to misconfigure, is it blameless?
I don't think you could make anything less easy to misconfigure in this case. If the name should be reserved even when the service providing it is not running, someone has to remember to register it, and would have to remember to register it no matter what IPC was used.
@Bulb said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in NEW SKYPE SUCKS BIG GREEN DONKEY DICKS, hows that for a longer title????:
but that's only marginally Zoom's fault
It is Zoom's fault. Zoom should be able to properly prioritize the subchannels, making the video drop out as needed to get the audio through.
True, but it only needs to do that stuff because of the aggressively asymmetrical and not very large bandwidth available. When I'm at home, I apply the "solution" proposed by @dkf of hugely over-supplying bandwidth. (With 400Mbps up available, Zoom cannot come close to saturating it...)
And of course the other bandwidth hog in Zoom is if the ADSL user is also sharing his screen, double points for having a fast-updating GIF on-screen.
Nope, because Cobra missiles miss because they're Soviet built. Also remember, the Joes get 5 moves per turn because capitalism is 5 times better.
Now let's get out there and make sure they don't move Italy to Sicily!!!
@topspin said in Music database considerations:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Music database considerations:
@Benjamin-Hall Braaaaaaaains...
Zombie Jesus day isn’t until 3 days from now.
10 days, papist.
@Steve_The_Cynic said in How to Burn Bridges and Gain Unemployment:
@acrow said in How to Burn Bridges and Gain Unemployment:
Then why did it do that? I mean, I can imagine Windows rebooting from right under you for updates to Candy Crush or something.
If it does that, you have your "hours of inactivity" set incorrectly.
I don't leave the computer on if it's not actively being used.
But merit where it's due, Windows has been a lot better lately about waiting until I'm finished with the computer first.
ETA:
And I don't have something like regular hours of usage for my computers anyway. I need them when I need them.
@JBert said in Random Rant of the night.:
@Luhmann said in Random Rant of the night.:
filled udder: FBMAC'ED
I don't think so, the thread wasn't ripe enough.
7 years is plenty old (inb4 law enforcement)
@Arantor said in STOP SNIFFING USER AGENTS:
new generation of browser indication parameters
[nobody] cares
It's not capability testing or graceful degradation, so it's about as useful as a UA string.
@topspin expensive? CloudFlare offers it out of the box on their $20/month plans and up and caches the results on their CDN. Other services may offer it - our managed hosting (CloudWays) also offers it out of the box.
The actual conversion can take a few seconds the first time depending on how aggressively you’re doing it but you store the cached version after that. Or if you’re me, you handle that in your asset management process so you can tune how aggressively you want the conversion to go (and can tweak which images get lossy vs lossless WebP for extra must-go-faster)
Note that Google PageSpeed will ding you for not using “next-gen image formats” (I.e. WebP/WebM/AVIF/JPEG XL)
@Kamil-Podlesak said in What is the meaning of OR?:
Even if this happens once every few months, the bugs found this way are definitely worth it. YMMW
One additional point: sometimes we hear a question "How do you test your tests? Do you write unit tests for unit tests?"
The answer is: no, we validate unit tests by the real code and its coverage. Plus, of course, other tests (including manual ones).
Re: I would like to unsubscribe from this trainwreck
i am reminded of an e-mail exchange I had many years ago, one of the first times I bought something on eBay.
Me: I sent you payment for my item. Here is my address.
eBay Person: OK. Great. Monday is a holiday so will ship on Tuesday.
(2 weeks later)
Me: Hey, just checking in. Is there a problem with my item?
eBay Person: I've been waiting for you to send me your shipping address.
Me: (thinking) WTF? I sent him my address, AND, he got an e-mail from Paypal that includes my address.
Me: OK. Here's my address.
eBay Person: Good. Will ship tomorrow.
(2 weeks later)
Me: What the fucking fuck? What is going on?
eBay Person: Hey!! Don't get nasty with me!! I've had your item sitting here in my shop, packed and ready to ship for two weeks, and I've been waiting for you to send your address.
Me:
(2 weeks later)
Item finally arrives. In the box is also an invoice for shipping charges.
Me: I don't think so
@nerd4sale said in Only have one device? No logging in for you, then:
TL;DR: it works as designed on my Android phone.
Odd. Could be the i(Pad)OS version doesn’t get the message, though I still consider it a possibility that it was me who overlooked something. But I haven’t seen a need to go back and check :)
@Atazhaia said in Only have one device? No logging in for you, then:
on my phone the bank app skips the QR code and uses regular code login.
My bank app on the same iPad does that too, which is part of why I find it odd that the ID app didn’t.
@error said in WTF (What-the-Fun) Project: Dust Sucker:
@error said in WTF (What-the-Fun) Project: Dust Sucker:
SuckCoins
I think we need to involve the blockchain here.
Indeed, and why start small. Consider the semantic difference between dust and a particle of dust. As what was fungible dust is sucked, the system could not only collect them, but also create an NFT from each distinct grain just prior to destroying it.
@dkf said in Argh, phpDocumentor 3!:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Argh, phpDocumentor 3!:
although you do have to know what the numbers in the () mean...
The common notation for manpage crosslinks? You pick that up pretty rapidly once you start really using Unix documentation.
Agreed, but you do have to pick it up. That's all I was saying.
@Circuitsoft Oh well. Ours is actually FLIR. There seem to exist some combinations of computer and USB port where it seems to work in a relatively stable fashion, like when we plug the camera in a USB2 port
Microsoft notifies customers of Azure bug that exposed their source code
Microsoft has notified earlier this month a select group of Azure customers impacted by a recently discovered bug that exposed the source code of their Azure web apps since at least September 2017.
Granted, not the most common of ways to publish a website, but still… yikes
@Gąska said in The official framework of One Man Bands:
@Carnage top racing AND top programming. Can't think of two fields more different than that, and yet he's successful at both. At this point, "one person can do everything" is a simple interpolation.
The joke is that I made it sound like there's hope.
Ah, you meant that one person is capable of excelling at wildly different things, not only one person is needed to complete task. Mea culpa as they say in French.
@BernieTheBernie said in Beyond CodeSOD:
the service at one customer remained in status "Stopping" and was still so 3 month later. And the securtiy critical (!) service was not doing what it was expected during all that time.
If it takes 3 months to notice that the service doesn't work, it's definitely not critical.
@Arantor said in The most idiotic idea about types ever:
Which is basically a revamp of ini files, but slightly worse and achieves none of the (alleged) goals of “human readable” by daring to mandate quotes around strings. (I submit that I find it easier to mentally parse TOML than I do YAML because I’m never sure if a thing is a number or a string even though YAML is allegedly strictly typed on the matter.)
TOML has one advantage over JSON, YAML etc. - nested data structures don't have to be physically, syntactically nested. This has two major benefits:
You don't have to scroll up and down constantly to see which part of the object you're in. The INI-style section name has the full path. That also makes searching the file much easier.
Splitting data into multiple files/network messages is very natural and doesn't require you to create a whole new patching protocol on top of your actual protocol. You can arbitrarily concatenate files and the result will be a single object with all the data in the right places.
For anything human-writable, TOML is my go-to format. It just makes so much more sense than JSON and derivatives, once you get people over the "everything I'm not familiar with already is the worst thing ever" mentality (it's the same problem as with convincing people to try functional programming). Also, diffs are easier to read (because no syntactic nesting).
@PleegWat said in Denial of Senses:
First reinvent the wheel, then prove it's just as good as the wheels you've used in the past.
Usually you're trying to make a better wheel that can turn a few degrees further before falling apart.
@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.