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@djls45 said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF is happening with Windows 10? And nothing else:
Windows Update failed with a new (to me) error message "a required component is not present in the transaction".
Did it try to upgrade to Win11 on a PC that doesn't have a TPM chip?
No. I'm dual-booting Win10/Win11. Never had a problem with updating Windows on either one.
For Windows 10 I am running version 1809 which is an LTSB** version that will still be supported and updated until January 2027. Apparently Microsoft has fucked up something in the latest 1809 update.
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**Long Term Service Branch. Sometimes called LTSC ( Long Term Servicing Channel). Microsoft can't make up their mind what they want to call it.
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@hungrier said in Visual Studio WTfs:
@dkf said in Visual Studio WTfs:
Minor WTF:
What is it about va_start that makes the highlighter do weird things with the first argument? It's a stable problem too; the rest of the file continues to be highlighted correctly as you edit things. (va_arg and va_end are also affected.)
Looks similar to what it sometimes does with Razor markup. Most of the time, it handles it fine, but sometimes it will just completely lose all its spaghetti and the code will be rainbow clown vomit with none of the symbols being interpreted as anything related to what they actually are
Well yes, the language server can sometimes lose its mind. I was more interested in how it would consistently get things to do with the va_ macros wrong despite clearly being still in command of what passes for its marbles (the rest of the file highlights correctly even when changed). This case is definitely something different from the usual code-no-work laugh track.
I'm guessing that nobody has spotted it before because they tend to use args as the key variable name...
Error'd - features fun error messages and other visual oddities from the world of IT.
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@TimeBandit office workers don't use Linux, obvs, they all use corporate Windows with corporate subscriptions to Office, why would they need a Linux version of anything?
(I jest of course but I have had a similar conversation not that long ago where it wasn't tongue in cheek, and I was told basically that.)
@Mason_Wheeler said in Reason #24,329 why modern software ecosystems suck:
@boomzilla ie. instead of "MyLib 2.0", you call it "MyNewLib", so that people don't upgrade thinking they're getting a new and improved version and end up breaking stuff due to compatibility breaks.
MyLib will end unsupported either way
@JBert said in Do people actually like poor quality user interfaces?:
@jinpa
Clicks Random button
Finds boobies
/me Is happy
My favorite is the Blue-footed Booby http://tolweb.org/Sula_nebouxii/57676 .
@Parody said in Facebook on Android:
@jinpa You can deny it access to your location. You can get there either through Facebook for Android's settings or Android's. The actual function is Android's, not the Facebook app's, which shouldn't surprise anyone.
Thanks. When I checked just now, it was already off. Maybe if I had checked before I disabled the FB app, it would have been on.
@levicki said in Procurement also has it's WTF moments:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Procurement also has it's WTF moments:
Better question: Why is it not swiped away?
Even better question: Did you take my 'roids?!?
I and'ed them all together.
@HardwareGeek said in Smile counting device:
I should perhaps also mention that this cardboard elf, for as long as I have been aware of it's existence (since day one of my job here), and for reasons even more mysterious than its presence, has been wearing a multicolored tutu.
https://youtu.be/qKFuc8CdvoA
Guess we know which one we're talking here.
@HardwareGeek said in Maryland outlaws ransomware. What could possibly go wrong?:
I generally avoid checking anything if I can avoid it, because I hate waiting in baggage claim, so I avoid taking anything that needs to be checked.
I'm exactly like that when travelling around Europe. When going to the US, I usually check a bag because then I can put a (carefully packed in bubblewrap) bottle of nice whisky in as a present, and getting that at my local supermarket is a hell of a lot cheaper than shopping in the airport duty free.
@Steve_The_Cynic said in League of Legends decides to fuck up the Linux kernel:
typically in the auction house.
Always in the auction house. It's not even one type of token: There is a token that can be bought for real money and sold on the auction house, but that can't be cashed in for game time or traded to other players. When the token is sold on the auction house it converts into a different kind of token which also can't be traded to other players, cannot be sold on the auction house again, and can only be cashed in for game time.
Blizzard also specifically made a point of not charging auction house fees on tokens, but that's an empty gesture since buying tokens for real money is significantly more expensive than buying game time directly.
@hungrier said in Students must install this GPS app to get 10% of their grade. Not creepy at all...:
el goog
Shit, I just realized I missed a perfect opportunity to do a "the el goog"
@hungrier said in Jeff'd Again:
@Zenith said in Jeff'd Again:
Until Chrome started with this garbage "let's only keep the last three tabs in memory" bit carried over from Android.
What's it doing with the rest of the memory it uses?
Leaking, obviously!
@JBert said in Slack has a new logo, and you'll never guess what it's been compared to...:
Perron (staircase) - Wikipedia
While looking at that page, I saw this symbol of Liège:
Well, that explains B*****m!
@error said in "Please uninstall our product":
@hungrier said in "Please uninstall our product":
@error Was there ever any chance it wouldn't be a Garage topic?
I didn't realize the sentiment was controversial. I just thought it was recognized generally as a problem in the US. Now that I know, I will refrain from commenting further.
I don't think it is terribly controversial in general, though individual cases certainly can be. In any case, that sort of subject gets political-like very quickly, which is why it's in there.
@jinpa From https://www.waywordradio.org/mouth_breather/:
mouth-breather n. a stupid person; a moron, dolt, imbecile. Editorial Note: The original definition of mouth-breather referred to a person that, due to medical problems (usually with the sinuses or nose), was forced to breath via the mouth. This leaves the jaw hanging open at most times, which has a tendency to make a person look dopey or spacey. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Also, medically, mouth breathing may be associated with sleep apnea or other causes of inadequate oxygen intake, which can cause sleepiness and low mental acuity. But I suspect the appearance is the primary source of the association with stupidity.
@topspin said in The Official Unnecessary Remake, Reboot, Sequel and Prequel Thread:
@hungrier said in The Official Unnecessary Remake, Reboot, Sequel and Prequel Thread:
wow, I really wish they'd remake this for TV
Has anybody thought that, ever?
I've thought that a lot of movies (often based on a book) needed something like a miniseries to treat it properly.
@JBert said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
@boomzilla said in [Dilbert] Jake Tapper:
Looks like Jim Davis
Wait, the Garfield author? What does he have to do with Dilbert?
Garfield has the best subreddit.
Spoiler
@ben_lubar said in I foolishly reported a Google Chrome bug again:
For those out of the loop, the last time I reported a bug, it was this one on behalf of @blakeyrat: https://crbug.com/845259
I reported it in May 2018. It was closed a week later and fixed this year. Yes, you read that correctly.
A minor lie on your part: it was closed not as resolution, but because it's duplicate. The duplicate was fixed (several times) this year.
@dkf said in Resources want to be free!:
Connections to Oracle databases are also reputed to be leaked nastily if not closed properly, and the leak exhibits itself as database processes that won't go away.
I haven't really noticed this, except in the case where I've written a query that is either inherently shitty or the DB shits itself and does something retarded and so the query ends up taking a long long long long time and then the connection goes away once the query finishes.
But I'd believe that this used to happen in older versions (I've been a heavy Oracle user since version 10 whatever letter).
@Vixen said in Thanks Yahoo. Glad you're on top of things:
a crippled version of FreeNAS
WTF?
Oh, and you didn't hear it from me, but iXsystems is porting much of their stuff to work on Linux!
@Tsaukpaetra said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@MrL said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
@Mason_Wheeler said in Checking mobile users in web pages, with the largest regex up to date:
*we aren't using them to choke off your revenue; we're using them as a basic tool of self-preservation.
If by self-preservation you mean not seeing ads, then sure.
No, by self-preservation I mean defense against malware delivered over ad networks.
I just had a stupid idea: Antimalware updates over ads! Pre-pwn computers to not be vulnerable!
I'm sure others have had this idea...
You joke, but that's actually a surprisingly common malware tactic: lock the backdoor behind you so that other malware can't get in and take over the computer you just took over.
@hungrier said in Recent Study Estimates That 50% of Websites Using WebAssembly Apply It for Malicious Purposes:
@acrow said in Recent Study Estimates That 50% of Websites Using WebAssembly Apply It for Malicious Purposes:
There's not enough in the first 2 Terminators to parody for a full movie. So the best you're going to get was that South Park episode.
If it was the 90s I'm sure they could figure something out. But filmmakers are only into unintentional comedy nowadays.
That too. But have you seen the South Park Terminator-parody episode? It's pretty hard to top if you want to go in the Spaceballs / Star Wreck direction.
@JBert
We’re excited to transition some of these functions off Meta, giving them the attention and focus they deserve.
https://gfycat.com/testyrapidgreathornedowl
@levicki said in Dots Per Indeterminate:
@Tsaukpaetra said in Dots Per Indeterminate:
Pfffftttt, mine is 400.53. Suck it!
I can't remember where I put mine otherwise I would have bested you all.
IBM has beaten all of us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSCX78-8-q0
@Gąska said in NetBeans vs UTF-8:
@topspin if only C++ had Rust's macros...
Well, you could always solve it with macros, but I feel dirty just thinking about that.
@hungrier said in I hate Scala, vol. 2:
@Vixen said in I hate Scala, vol. 2:
define gestalt
He was the emperor in Final Fantasy III
He was at that...... man i should play that game again....
@wft said in Today's Magic Numbers post is a Perl:
@gleemonk if they mean to use those “numbers” as strings, really, they need to use string comparison (eq)
Oh that's a I wasn't even aware of! I was just irritated by the inconsistent use of quotes which meant that it would keep comparing strings and numbers. The values are more like identifiers than numbers. Though some do have an ordering.
@Zenith said in Microsoft Tries Out New Edge Logo:
@JBert Is it supposed to be a tidal wave (of mediocrity)?
I've been summo... oh... you didn't? Carry on then.
@dcon said in UserVoice development, aka features Battle Royale:
@loopback0 said in UserVoice development, aka features Battle Royale:
There's an option to turn it off.
Maybe for some... I have 1903 (Pro) and that switch doesn't exist in my settings. (I'm betting some corporate policy has hidden it)
Yeah, same for me, on my personal (at home, owned by me, etc.) PC. And there's red text at the top telling me that some settings are managed or hidden by my organisation, except that my organisation (er, me?) didn't do any such thing. (It may be something that's hidden automatically as soon as your PC joins an AD domain, because Samba 4.6 (1) certainly isn't going to deactivate that sort of thing of its own accord.)
(1) My AD domain is managed by Samba, thanks.
@Tsaukpaetra said in Newest Scratch scam: Ubisoft release a Scratch "learn coding" game:
You can call it fuck horserr.
Edit: fucking a horse is also called having a sexual intercoursediscourse with the horse. Get it?
@acrow said in Close enough security:
@loopback0 said in Close enough security:
@acrow said in Close enough security:
For single-user systems, the main point of the separation would be that the browser binary can only be altered with admin rights.
Chrome quite happily installs itself in a directory that doesn't require admin privileges to do anything to it.
Do you mean it allows to install, or by default installs in such a location?
So long as you're not installing the "Enterprise" build, or from the one bundled with Adobe Reader, then yes, it default installs to %AppData%.
@Atazhaia said in Mr. Jetson teaches network technology:
@Steve_The_Cynic I suspected they could have the same meaning, as that happens a lot because people can never agree on one standard. Just a bit silly to not stick to the same representation in both places.
My guess--the author stole the graphic from someone else who used the ν convention and didn't bother changing it.
Also--the situation you describe is totally, 100% normal (at least in US higher education). Textbook companies and writers are the absolute scum of the earth. A more wretched group of money-grubbing, stereotypical "greedy capitalists who don't care about anything but the next dollar" I have never met. We had a physics book that came out with a new edition. We ran a diff on the contents. The only change? Some of the problems were in different orders between editions. Same problems, but just enough of a change so that you'd have to buy the new edition and the old edition would become much less valuable.
Working at a small independent school, the big publishers don't care about us. Their big buyers are the state departments of education who are ordering books for the entire state. Ordering 60-70? Not worth their time. Even if it's pure profit for them.
@kazitor said in Apple knows better than 32-bit:
Apple is wise enough to realise that none of those philistine Luddites are worth supporting!
There is probably few enough Luddites in Gaza and West Bank that they are indeed not worth supporting, but what about the other Luddites?
Also, racist .
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@topspin I have the same problem when I sleep at my parents' house: If I don't think of it before going to bed I promptly get back up to move a clock to an unoccupied room.
@topspin said in Perl Guru:
@Gąska said in Perl Guru:
@topspin oh, that kind of heap.
I had to look up the context again, but there's no sorting involved so it's not the other kind of heap.
Sorites paradox - Wikipedia
@Zerosquare said in The Most Absurd Thing You've Ever Coded/Built:
@LaoC said in The Most Absurd Thing You've Ever Coded/Built:
Very nerdy. Not as nerdy as recycling a bunch of PAL TV delay line crystals but OK, we wouldn't want to overstabilize that market, right?
PAL delay lines? Pfff. Real men™ use springs:
https://i.imgur.com/cHvpVFo.jpg
Delay line? That's not a delay line.
THIS is a delay line:
Springs have really sucky bandwidth. With the right modulation you could probably get 100 MBps across one of those piezo-glass things, hence "a bunch", to match the fiber's bandwidth.
@Mason_Wheeler said in The Star Wars Le Creuset Collection...:
@JBert said in The Star Wars Le Creuset Collection...:
The combination of Star Wars and cooking
Whip, whip, stir...
Could always borrow grandpa's VR headset and watch his psychedelic porn for the other whipping experience?
@jinpa said in TDEMSYR:
VB.Net is fine. If you can write in VB.Net, you can write in C#. C-syntax snobs don't like it, but that's on them.
I've had to look (in a "helps us @Zecc you're our only hope" kind of way) at some VB.Net code recently.
It was not a pleasant experience. Perhaps I am a C-syntax snob (though I'm fine with Python as well).
