WTF Bites
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Just found this gem:
const std::string ApplicationConstants::c_appConstantsDefaultContents = std::string("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n") + std::string("<AppConstants xmlns=\"http://wtf.inc/darkness/ariel/0.0.1\" ") + std::string("xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" \n") + std::string("xsi:schemaLocation=\"http://wtfserve.wtf.inc/darkness/ariel/0.0.1/AppConstants.xsd\">\n") + /* snip MANY more */ + std::string("</AppConstants>\n");
It actually has sane(ish) reason for being XML—it can be overridden by file, so it needs some format (and XML is really popular here). It does not have a reason to use runtime concatenation though (all of it is literals and C++ joins literals just fine).
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@Bulb TRWTF is putting it all on one line…
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@r10pez10 Apple is reinventing all the mistakes from the past few handheld game generations. No headphone slot from the GBA SP, compromised image rendering library from the PSP. It's only a matter of time before they bring back resistive touch screens.
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@r10pez10 Apple is reinventing all the mistakes from the past few handheld game generations. No headphone slot from the GBA SP, compromised image rendering library from the PSP. It's only a matter of time before they bring back resistive touch screens.
I just repaired my carputer screen. Turns out the touchscreen doesn't go from edge to edge like the LCD does.
This means I can't touch the edges (or even near edges), which is somewhat important when switching Windows or starting programs...
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In the 'there are apparently no editors left in the world' category:
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@coldandtired what site is that?
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@coldandtired I think I'm ing.
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@coldandtired I think I'm ing.
I'm not sure about the Hyper Anna thing, but if a guy was locked in a basement for 20 years, he's not a teen any more.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
if a guy was locked in a basement for 20 years, he's not a teen any more
Well, not physically anyway.
As for Hyper Anna, a cursory read seems to indicate its relationship with Microsoft is "it's hosted on Azure".
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Get your shit together, cloudfeed
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in other newswtf bites, I'm pretty sure I just saw "Uploading NaN% ...") in this compose window.Edit: at unintentional "125-million-in-vc-fur".
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I'm not sure about the Hyper Anna thing
Is the $1.25 in VC funding enough to get a coffee these days?
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@cartman82 Is the problem:
- our problem domain is complex,
- we don't really understand it,
- our requirements specification is a mess, or
- all of the above?
Funny coincidence, I asked myself this very same question just now coming out of a meeting, and I concluded that the answer is definitely
- all of the above
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@bb36e Not sure about the second one but the first is the Daily Mirror, a British tabloid.
If you mean the app, that's Windows 10 News.
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@Zecc ed by many hours, but the first was the lazy sentence construction making it read like someone locked up for 20 years is a teen (rather than was a teen at the time it happened) and the second was the missing 'billion' or whatever amount it was.
They both popped up close to each other making me wonder why they are so important that there wasn't time to re-read the headline before clicking 'publish'.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
I'm not sure about the Hyper Anna thing
Is the $1.25 in VC funding enough to get a coffee these days?
I just noticed that, some 8.5 hours later, and I haven't even had my morning tea yet. And no, it's not. It might be enough for a cup of tea, though.
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@coldandtired said in WTF Bites:
the lazy sentence construction making it read like someone locked up for 20 years is a teen (rather than was a teen at the time it happened)
There really isn't any way to make that sentence read sensibly, because no matter how old he was, if he was locked up for 20 years, he was a teen for at most 35% of the time he was locked up.
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Best viewed at 800x600 with IE 6.0 or Netscape 7.02 or Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or higher.
©2016 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. All rights reserved.that's not a joke, that's literally on their front page.
It's probably what they have to use internally as per company policy. Kinda explains how they got the Realtek cert for Stuxnet.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
if a guy was locked in a basement for 20 years, he's not a teen any more.
Also, what's with the scare quotes (and why are they single-quotes instead of double)? The style here is bizarre.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I just repaired my carputer screen.
You'd think being carput was its natural condition.
This means I can't touch the edges (or even near edges), which is somewhat important when switching Windows or starting programs...
Windows?!
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I'll grant that one, but if a Japanese woman wants to wear an authentic(-ish) Geisha costume, why shouldn't she be able to?
Why shouldn't anyone else? I mean...seriously? What about a samurai?
Should white people be offended if a kid dresses up as a cowboy? A medieval knight?
The personal should not be the political. And the political should not be the personal.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I just repaired my carputer screen.
You'd think being carput was its natural condition.
This means I can't touch the edges (or even near edges), which is somewhat important when switching Windows or starting programs...
Windows?!
Well I can't get the touchscreen drivers working under Android (the "alternate" OS), and Android DEFINITELY doesn't recognize my Garmin GPS receiver at all. So...
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@coldandtired said in WTF Bites:
the lazy sentence construction making it read like someone locked up for 20 years is a teen (rather than was a teen at the time it happened)
There really isn't any way to make that sentence read sensibly, because no matter how old he was, if he was locked up for 20 years, he was a teen for at most 35% of the time he was locked up.
What if he was born on February 29th 1944?
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@Yamikuronue said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
if a guy was locked in a basement for 20 years, he's not a teen any more.
Also, what's with the scare quotes (and why are they single-quotes instead of double)? The style here is bizarre.
Uhm, I suppose they're not scare quotes, just... quotes.
Compare these two headlines:
Trump is a stupid fuck who will run the country to the ground.
Trump "is a stupid fuck who will run the country to the ground"The first reads like an opinion piece, the second supposedly reports on someone else (or another news outlet) saying so.
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@Maciejasjmj But it's written in the abbreviated, terse language of headlines: see "locked in basement" instead of "locked in a basement", and the very convenient sound-byte juxtaposition of the two halves of the sentence. It doesn't sound like a quote. Maybe it's a quote by someone who isn't very eloquent?
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@Yamikuronue Maybe it's a quote from the teen who's "too traumatised to speak"
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@Yamikuronue Maybe it's a mix between terse headline language and actual quote, hence half-double quotes.
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oooh ooh, I know! It's a quote from a guy reading the previous version of the headline out loud!
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So, the latest Windows update has this "Active hours" thing:
Active hours lets us know when you usually use this device. When a restart is necessary to finish installing an update, we won't automatically restart your device during active hours.
Note: We'll check to see if you're using this device before attempting to restart.
OK. Sounds great! It's almost what I was wishing for in some other thread around here.
Anyway, the default is something like 08:00 to 17:00. My day is a bit all over the place, so let's bump the 17:00 to like 23:00.
Active hours can be set between 1 and 12 hours.
Ah. For fuck's sake.
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He must have died while carving it. -Come on! -That's what it says. Look, if he was dying, he wouldn't bother to carve "Aaargh." -He'd just say it. -That's what's carved in the rock. -Perhaps he was dictating it. -Shut up!
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@Yamikuronue I looked it up, they've changed the headline now:
Teen held captive for 20 years in basement of 'evil father and step-mother' is 'too traumatised to speak'
That makes a lot more sense >.>
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@cartman82
Pretty sure that's worthy of more than just a WTF Bite.
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Firefox kills my second monitor. Seriously.
Doesn't happen with other applications, but something FF is doing makes the display black out for a few seconds when I scroll or move the window around on that screen. Once I stop, it comes back after a second or two.
It's also stuck in always on top mode. I can't drag another window over the top of it, except Task Manager and even when that's in always on top, selecting the Firefox window will still put it on top of task manager.
I wonder if this happens in 22 as well?
Edit: Restarting Firefox stopped the always on top mode, but it's still blanking out my second monitor
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I've been assigned to a mandatory training class at work:
All U.S. and Canada employees and contractors are required to complete emergency response training for potential on-site, active shooter situations and other violent workplace threats. This course is mandatory. Enroll here: http://learning.initech.com/courses/AS-PS-231 You have been assigned the following course. Course Title: Run - Hide- Fight: Active Shooter Response Training
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All U.S. and Canada employees and contractors
It's going to be expensive flying in all those offshore people.
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Course Title: Run - Hide- Fight: Active Shooter Response Training
Hopefully this isn't an employer that forces their employees to disarm. If so they could call it "Run - Hide - Die While Waiting For The SWAT Team To Realize It Wasn't A Prank Call".
Filed Under: We haven't had a good firearms flamewar in too long
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Fuck off with your creepy facial recognition.
Edit: It lets me click save, but my change doesn't take effect.
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Fuck off with your creepy facial recognition.
Edit: It lets me click save, but my change doesn't take effect.
I like to think my profile picture is more recognizable than any standard face that I could put instead.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I like to think my profile picture is more recognizable than any standard face that I could put instead.
I kind of want to see if I can fool the algorithm with something vaguely facelike.
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Fuck off with your creepy facial recognition.
Edit: It lets me click save, but my change doesn't take effect.
Wow, this looks like an incredibly pointless feature.
I mean, with, say, Gmail and attachments, it's possible someone would actually forget to attach a file, and thus the hint is helpful.
But here? "Oh, dear, silly me, that's not my face, those are my buttocks! Whew, glad you warned me!"
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I like to think my profile picture is more recognizable than any standard face that I could put instead.
I kind of want to see if I can fool the algorithm with something vaguely facelike.
My friends finally convinced me to get SnapChat. The first thing I tried to do was Face Swap myself with Eddie the Head on my Iron Maiden "The Trooper" poster, but their facial recognition algorithm wouldn't pick him up. I was sorely disappointed.
It almost worked on my Van Halen poster, but it was face-swapping the VH members and ignoring me.
One of my buddies got Face Swap to work on him and a housecat though.
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Status: miffed that the assembly that controls rectum and prostate clenching doesn't have separate controls. Annoyed that most toilets and facilities didn't have a test case for erect males having to defecate and urinate simultaneously because of said control inadequacies.
Suggested workaround: methodically clenching while urinating in the recommended sitting-while-peeing-with-erection position until that finishes, then returning to normal position and fully relaxing to defecate.
I'm not mad.
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@Tsaukpaetra I suggest starting a "Too Much Information" thread somewhere for details like that...
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@Tsaukpaetra I suggest starting a "Too Much Information" thread somewhere for details like that...
We had a pictures thread somewhere, didn't think that appropriate.
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The proxy only ever seems to block things that are actually relevant to my job. All the timewaster sites get through fine.
Filed under: Webcomics? Sure. Oracle? Blocked. TDWTF: OK! Pastebin? Nope.
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A MongoDB query equivalent to:
UPDATE posts SET reply_count = reply_count + 1 WHERE post_id = 26454;
Failed with an error equivalent to:
Duplicate key error: (posts.post_id, 26454)
So now I'm restoring the backup from 20 days ago on the staging server to see if I messed something up somehow. Because I don't want to take a new backup for this.
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I've been assigned to a mandatory training class at work:
All U.S. and Canada employees and contractors are required to complete emergency response training for potential on-site, active shooter situations and other violent workplace threats. This course is mandatory. Enroll here: http://learning.initech.com/courses/AS-PS-231 You have been assigned the following course. Course Title: Run - Hide- Fight: Active Shooter Response Training
ask if you can play the shooter. bonus points: focus on specific coworkers.
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@error
Oh yeah stroke that mvc! oooh naughty boy, what are you doing to that webform?