WTF Bites
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@loopback0
this is in a class i'm writing right now:
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@cartman82
python has an excellent scrapper framework called Scrapy, maybe that's where your boss got the idea about the connection scraper <=> python.anyway, looking forward for the inevitable
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How... does this even happen?!?!
(Note: A wooden table has been dutifully added to the above scan.)
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@anotherusername
That's either a pretty nice Photoshop job or some serious data corruption between the POS system and the printer.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
How... does this even happen?!?!
Printer over serial port, with duplex not properly set
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@izzion I added the wooden table, and blurred the information that I didn't think you needed to see, but I promise that everything else is exactly as printed on the paper receipt...
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@TimeBandit A bad serial port connection was also the first thing that popped into my mind.
TR is that, whatever the problem was, it didn't appear to affect anything above the
QTY ITEMM
line, but it affected everything below it.
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@anotherusername Now I fancy some cheee(eeee)se…
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@dkf You want Root BBeer or Drr. Pepperr with that?
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@JBert Not a big fan of soddaa (except for some weird ones) so I'll have the coffffee instead.
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I cccouldd ggo foor somme food,,
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
I cccouldd ggo foor somme food,,
You could go for a blanket too, it seems...
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
How... does this even happen?!?!
(Note: A wooden table has been dutifully added to the above scan.)
I wanted to know what a "kvs order" was and:
The title of the actual PDF is "Purchasing.pdf".
Also, Google unlike DDG does not show this result. That was disappointing.Here's the DDG link in case you want to check. You may have to scroll down a bit.
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@anotherusername that's what you get for eating at McDoonald's.
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@anotherusername Isn't it obvious? The till has a stammer.
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@anotherusername I didn't know @accalia worked at McDoonalds's IT
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@Zecc
KVS: Kitchen Video System - the monitors that are hung all over in the back to tell the staff how tomess upcomplete your order.
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Colleague who works on iOS claims that once he needed to rebuild some library, so he deleted it and XCode pulled it back out of the trash instead of actually rebuilding it.
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Colleague who works on iOS claims that once he needed to rebuild some library, so he deleted it and XCode pulled it back out of the trash instead of actually rebuilding it.
https://github.com/realm/realm-cocoa/issues/3378#issuecomment-201485891
So I'm guessing that deleting the files from my project in Xcode (selected Move to Trash), wasn't actually removing the physical files. I went into my project folder and there were all my old files, with date stamps many day sold. After manually rm'ing those files, and running a pod install again. All seems to be well.
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@anotherusername It got misaligned in the lines with double characters, so I suspect some sort of networking error. Was it a printer conected to a RS232 port?
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@fbmac ¯\(°_o)/¯
The total column being misaligned from the double characters was probably the least strange part, since it's printing in a fixed-width font and I'd have expected that it's just using space characters to line that column up properly.
Also you can tell that a few of the lines have at least one space character that's repeated, because they had no printable characters that were repeated incorrectly, but the total still got pushed over.
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@asdf yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not how you're supposed to replace the headlight bulb on a train.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
The total column being misaligned from the double characters was probably the least strange part, since it's printing in a fixed-width font and I'd have expected that it's just using space characters to line that column up properly.
That is evidence that the fuckup happened after it was aligned, so I assume it's a bad RS232 cable problem. (Because old RS232 port is the less rare thing shitty enough to do that)
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I'm a bit confused by the Azure marketplace.
I get that there are templates. Like this one:
But what is in that template? Will it make a virtual machine? An "App Service"? Will it include a database? Why am I not allowed to know? What the fuck?
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@anonymous234 If I had to guess, it'll create an App Service (Web App) with Django pre-installed.
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@fbmac what I meant was, I'd hate to think of what sort of memory corruption would have to occur for the text to get screwed up like that before the alignment was done. The connection between the device and its printer is pretty much the only place where I can even imagine it happening, so I'd expect the alignment to be thrown out of whack (that is, unless it used a tab stop instead of spaces to align the stuff in the right column).
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@RaceProUK said in WTF Bites:
If I had to guess
That's the problem though.
This Azure thing starts by throwing dozens of concepts with very specific meanings you don't care about at your face... like, you have a "directory", a "domain", a "subscription", then you have to make a "resource group" and an "App Service plan", all for the sake of accuracy before you can get to actually running things...
...and then the marketplace is like "oh yeah, that thing includes like, stuff, probably, I dunno, why do you care so much?"
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To be honest I just feel like all the concepts you keep finding in Azure are confusing in different ways... like they keep conflating "web app", "mobile app", "website" and "app service" (which is almost the same as a "server" but not really)... or why does a managed SQL database also need me to create a separate "database server"? And this 3rd party managed MySQL database provided by "ClearDB", does it run as a server, or as a SQL database, or something else entirely?
And the damn portal is soooo slooooww....
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@asdf yeah, I'm pretty sure that's not how you're supposed to replace the headlight bulb on a train.
Replace? Dammit, I was told I needed to break it!
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@anonymous234 it's a modern web framework; you're not supposed to know what it is or what it does.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
or why does a managed SQL database also need me to create a separate "database server"?
Like regular SQL databases on a SQL server? You can have one server hosting many databases, duh.
TRWTF with the databases is figuring out what a DTU is (answer is "fuck knows, but higher is better and they're supposedly linear").
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@Maciejasjmj said in WTF Bites:
Like regular SQL databases on a SQL server? You can have one server hosting many databases, duh.
OK, but that seems like unnecessary skeuomorphism. The whole point of managed "cloud" databases is you don't care about physical servers, so why bring back "logical servers"?
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@Maciejasjmj said in WTF Bites:
Like regular SQL databases on a SQL server? You can have one server hosting many databases, duh.
OK, but that seems like unnecessary skeuomorphism. The whole point of managed "cloud" databases is you don't care about physical servers, so why bring back "logical servers"?
Namespacing, for one. Good luck getting that
prod.database.windows.net
database. (Azure's SQL server doesn't support subdomains for... reasons I guess).There's also a bunch of things you can set on the server that all your databases inherit, so that's nice I guess.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
TLDR next time separate the images plz?
I believe it's been posted somewhere here before(?), but it's a chat log of a former M$ employee describing just how much of an outhouse the Windows codebase is.
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@anonymous234 I really like Rancher's interface for its similar concept, "stacks":
You can make an empty stack and add a bunch of containers, and you can ask it for the files you'd need to add that to your personal stack catalog and do so so that other people can spin up that stack later. There's also a catalog of pre-made stacks for various applications to get you started:
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Gah! Stupid java case sensitive date format patterns.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Gah! Stupid java case sensitive date format patterns.
The only ones I know of are
mm
/MM
for minutes/months andhh
/HH
for 12-/24-hour times.Fake edit: Ah, I guess there're also a bunch of others.
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@djls45 It was minutes / months that got me, as usual. Sometimes I get them mixed up with Oracle's formatting, which uses
mi
for minutes.
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@boomzilla Bu-bu-bu-bu-but, I just linked to docs.oracle.com!
WHY would they use different formatters for the same thing?!Filed under: More fodder for The I-Hate-Oracle Club
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WHY would they use different formatters for the same thing?!
Fucken legacy requirements.
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Ah, I guess there're also a bunch of others.
… and that does not even include the
j
format that you actually want to use for hours when presenting to the user. See TR#35 for the monstrosity in its full glory.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@djls45 It was minutes / months that got me, as usual. Sometimes I get them mixed up with Oracle's formatting, which uses
mi
for minutes.Better than PHP where minutes are
i
. Because.
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