WTF Bites
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
if a big update is going to take an hour
No SSD? Win updates are gonna be real annoying…
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We selected 56 Kbps as an intermediate bit rate
Hey, at least that guy can now stream it:
The linked page is a treasure trove of error'd.
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@Maciejasjmj said in WTF Bites:
We selected 56 Kbps as an intermediate bit rate
Hey, at least that guy can now stream it:
The linked page is a treasure trove of error'd.
I am endlessly annoyed with Google's decision to disable complete buffering even when they can clearly tell I need it, but instead pop up a blue bar talking about why I might be having connection problems.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@Rhywden I think what the title tries to say is not "MP3 files sound bad", but rather "MP3 compression is emotionally perceived as this". So obviously they had to pick a low bitrate in order to cause the noticeable compression.
Still a bad title and a pretty pointless study.
Yes, I understood that part. However, if nobody ever listens to that low a bitrate (hell, even back in the nineties 128 kbit were the minimum standard) then this study is largely ...
*dons sunglasses*
... academic.
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I live in California where all the grocery stores have a "rewards" program where you have to sign up to get anything close to reasonable prices on food. I just went to the Vons website to sign up for their program and this is what they give me.
http://www.vons.com/CMS/includes/docs/Club_Card_App_VON_052410.pdf
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I live in California where all the grocery stores have a "rewards" program where you have to sign up to get anything close to reasonable prices on food. I just went to the Vons website to sign up for their program and this is what they give me.
http://www.vons.com/CMS/includes/docs/Club_Card_App_VON_052410.pdfwooden table not included.
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@Rhywden
Should have used premium, audio approved ethernet cables
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I just uninstalled OneDrive from Windows 10. It was right there in the "uninstall programs" list.
Which is weird because according to every website I can find, including Microsoft's own, you're not supposed to be able to do that.
I had to download the Windows 8 installer to be able to sync files back.
I also discovered that there is a OneNote app in the Windows 10 store (which obviously lacks sync). Why have that if it's already built in?
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@RaceProUK said in WTF Bites:
@dkf Call me old-fashioned, but I prefer partners with two legs rather than eight.
It's not the number of legs that counts, it's the boo... I mean PERSONALITY!
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
I also discovered that there is a OneNote app in the Windows 10 store (which obviously lacks sync). Why have that if it's already built in?
That app is more intended for phones and tablets than desktops and laptops, though it works on all of them equally well. Also, I'm pretty sure it has the same auto-sync as the full-fat OneNote that's part of Office 365 (and other packages). Certainly, the version on my phone auto-syncs.
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@RaceProUK said in WTF Bites:
full-fat OneNote that's part of Office 365
MS is screwing itself over again by giving non-similar things the same name. So the OneNote you killed might not be related to the OneNote that you are trying to kill. Same goes with OneDrive. Also multiply by the number of supported Windows versions (7,8 & 10) and the number of supported Office versions (2013/2016) multiply by 2 because the local office versions are not created equal to Office 365.
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@Luhmann While you have a point with OneDrive (the business version is a completely different product to the home version), the two different OneNotes aren't actually very different at all. Feature-wise, they're pretty much equal (though the UWP version is tailored better for touch devices), and they can both operate on the same notebooks.
Think of OneNote Desktop and OneNote UWP as like Chrome for Desktop and Chrome for Android: same product, slightly different UI. Because that's pretty much what they are.
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@RaceProUK The UWP OneNote is sadly missing a bunch of crucial features.
For example, being able to change the language of a bunch of text OR disable the spelling suggestions.
No, really, go ahead and see if you can manage to do that.
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@anonymous234 Sure: you just... erm... OK, so it's not there. Maybe... no... huh.
OK, so the UWP version has about 10% of the features of the full version.
May as well not bother, really.
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@RaceProUK said in WTF Bites:
OK, so
theUWPversionhas about 10% of thefeatures of the full version.usefulness of real Windows applicationsMay as well not bother, really.
FTFY :P
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The “Permission denied” error. There are two errors, EACCES and EPERM. They should be called “Permission denied” and “Operation not permitted”, but on some systems they were or are called “Access denied” and “Permission denied”. And even without that, the names are just confusing.
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@RaceProUK said in WTF Bites:
OK, so the UWP version has about 10% of the features of the full version.
TIL: UWP means Unfinished Windows Program
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@anonymous234 I also uninstalled onedrive after it was hijacking ctrl-o to restart itself
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public enum Years { _2008 = 2008, _2009 = 2009, _2010 = 2010, ....
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So I was browsing Wikipedia and see a page with some spammy looking irrelevant link at the bottom.
Being a good citizen, I decide to remove it.
I click "edit".
I scroll down to the end of the page source.
The editor finishes loading and automatically scrolls me back up to the top.
I scroll down to the end of the page source, again.
An annoying message pops up asking me if I want to use the visual editor.
I click no.
The page scrolls me back up to the top, again.
I scroll down to the end of the page source, again.
I remove the link and click save.Fucking web developers.
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@coldandtired Somewhat related:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/shoker-rediculous-chocker-trump-attaks-and-dishoners-english-with-ever-dummer-spellings/2017/02/07/9556faf4-ed58-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882_story.html?utm_term=.6caaa9aa64dfMy favourite bit:
Soon after the latest honer boner, Trump received his first international visitor, the British prime minister, and the Trump White House, in its official schedule, spelled her name wrong not once and not twice but thrice. Theresa May became Teresa May. Britons noticed the gaffe, as well they would: Teresa May is the name of a British former soft-porn actress and busty nude model.
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Ummmm... Vivaldi, that is not how you open MP3 files! I mean, look, just look at the damned
Content-Type
! Look!... at nothing... Ok, you are technically correct then.
Fuck.
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Ok, you are technically correct then.
Early IE versions actually opened anything that looked like HTML as HTML, regardless of headers, which could be quite the security problem (given some website that allowed you to upload text files).
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
EarlyIEversions actually opened anything that looked like HTML as HTML, regardless of headers, whichcould be quite the security problem(given some website that allowed you to upload text files).FTFY
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Yamikuronue said in WTF Bites:
Windows 10 does not allow users that are local admins to use built-in apps, such as calculator – there is currently no work-around for this.
....what?
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On a related note, UWP apps don't seem to appear on the volume mixer, including Edge and the music player. Very annoying.
There is however a workaround for the calculator: just get calc.exe from Windows 7 :P .
Edit: OK, I actually got calc.exe from Windows 7 and it doesn't seem to launch at all?
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@coderpatsy A calculator that needs admin access? Thanks, but I don't need it that much. I'd sooner make my own in Visual Studio.
Surely whoever made it can just explain how they did it? I tried replacing the calc.exe in System32 with the old one but it still doesn't work. Maybe I should try the Windows XP one.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Thanks, but I don't need it that much.
One day I might try to get
compile for Windows and/or for WebAssembly (there is some unusual dependency that does not build in mingw).
Until then, use
(at least as long as you have internet)
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(at least as long as you have internet)
Ctrl+⇧Shift+J in Chrome, Ctrl+⇧Shift+K in Firefox, or whatever the keyboard shortcuts are for opening the developers tools in IE, Opera and Safari.
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@Zecc True. I am currently usually using Python.
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@Zecc Or just use
bc
, which like all Linux command line tools built in 1975, is totally usable and intuitive.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@Zecc Or just use
bc
, which like all Linux command line tools built in 1975, is totally usable and intuitive.echo /bin/false
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@Zecc Or just use
bc
, which like all Linux command line tools built in 1975, is totally usable and intuitive.Let me guess: some type of Polish notation?
a = 3 < 5
Most C programmers would assume this would assign the result of "3 < 5" (the value 1) to the variable "a". What this does in bc is assign the value 3 to the variable "a" and then compare 3 to 5. It is best to use parentheses when using relational and logical operators with the assignment operators.Ah, so they Belgiumed-up the precedence instead. Points for creativity, maybe?
Examples
In /bin/sh, the following will assign the value of "pi" to the shell variable pi.
pi=$(echo "scale=10; 4*a(1)" | bc -l)
The following is the definition of the exponential function used in the math library. This function is written in POSIX bc.
scale = 20 /* Uses the fact that e^x = (e^(x/2))^2 When x is small enough, we use the series: e^x = 1 + x + x^2/2! + x^3/3! + ... */ define e(x) { auto a, d, e, f, i, m, v, z /* Check the sign of x. */ if (x<0) { m = 1 x = -x } /* Precondition x. */ z = scale; scale = 4 + z + .44*x; while (x > 1) { f += 1; x /= 2; } /* Initialize the variables. */ v = 1+x a = x d = 1 for (i=2; 1; i++) { e = (a *= x) / (d *= i) if (e == 0) { if (f>0) while (f--) v = v*v; scale = z if (m) return (1/v); return (v/1); } v += e } }
The following is code that uses the extended features of bc to implement a simple program for calculating checkbook balances. This program is best kept in a file so that it can be used many times without having to retype it at every use.
scale=2 print "\nCheck book program\n!" print " Remember, deposits are negative transactions.\n" print " Exit by a 0 transaction.\n\n" print "Initial balance? "; bal = read() bal /= 1 print "\n" while (1) { "current balance = "; bal "transaction? "; trans = read() if (trans == 0) break; bal -= trans bal /= 1 } quit
The following is the definition of the recursive factorial function.
define f (x) { if (x <= 1) return (1); return (f(x-1) * x); }
Oh. I see. It's like C for math. With worse precedence rules.
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This program is best kept in a file so that it can be used many times without having to retype it at every use.
Why don't you record it on a datasette while you're at it.
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Let me guess: some type of Polish notation?
To be honest I've never used bc, I just saw a random occasion to bash Linux and took it :P .
Blakey is gone, someone has to do his job.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
someone has to do his job.
Well, I guess we can strike @anonymous234 from the list of potential additional WTDWTF mods.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Or just use bc,
Why would you use
bc
when you could usedc
instead?
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dc
OMG there's two of them.
dc is a reverse-polish desk calculator which supports unlimited precision arithmetic. It also allows you to define and call macros.
Figures that the worst would be named after a seat of government.
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OMG there's two of them.
One is implemented as a front-end to the other, AIUI. I'd much rather just write my own programs in a language that doesn't upset my stomach. Or failing that, C, if I need it to be especially fast.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@coderpatsy A calculator that needs admin access? Thanks, but I don't need it that much. I'd sooner make my own in Visual Studio.
Surely whoever made it can just explain how they did it? I tried replacing the calc.exe in System32 with the old one but it still doesn't work. Maybe I should try the Windows XP one.
Download a calculator from here: http://omg.thedailywtf.com/
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a pc game, sold out, i mean, those bits wear out really fast from being copied so much
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@coderpatsy A calculator that needs admin access? Thanks, but I don't need it that much. I'd sooner make my own in Visual Studio.
Surely whoever made it can just explain how they did it? I tried replacing the calc.exe in System32 with the old one but it still doesn't work. Maybe I should try the Windows XP one.
Download a calculator from here: http://omg.thedailywtf.com/
jupyter qtconsole &
Done. Fancy:
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a pc game, sold out, i mean, those bits wear out really fast from being copied so much
If it's a Steam game, there actually are limited stocks, since you can only request a finite number of Steam codes at a time and they need to be approved by a person.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
If it's a Steam game, there actually are limited stocks, since you can only request a finite number of Steam codes at a time and they need to be approved by a person.
:wft:? Why do they do that??
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
If it's a Steam game, there actually are limited stocks, since you can only request a finite number of Steam codes at a time and they need to be approved by a person.
:wft:? Why do they do that??
Artificial scarcity?
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@coderpatsy A calculator that needs admin access? Thanks, but I don't need it that much. I'd sooner make my own in Visual Studio.
Surely whoever made it can just explain how they did it? I tried replacing the calc.exe in System32 with the old one but it still doesn't work. Maybe I should try the Windows XP one.
Download a calculator from here: http://omg.thedailywtf.com/
Holy crap, that website! And the logo!
It's like finding a Geocities site, but without feeling so old after recognizing it!
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