WTF Bites
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Better than PHP where minutes are i. Because.
minutes. That's why
AH! Like intedger in C, right?
Wait...
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Better than PHP where minutes are i. Because.
minutes. That's why
AH! Like intedger in C, right?
Wait...
Possibly determined like how Paul played a hand of poker in Weapon Hunter? (Cards pinned to target, 5 shots)
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Monday:
: We'll be needing final signoff testing for this server upgrade starting Wednesday, I'll let you know when we're ready to start.
QA : Sure. we can do that.Wednesday:
1000 hours:
: hello, we're ready for final QA signoff testing to begin for deployment this weekend.1650 hours
QA: what are our login credentials to this environment?Thursday:
0700 hours
: your login credentials have not changed, if you need them reset please let me know as soon as possible.0900 hours
QA: that won't be necessary. is there anything that is not ready to test?
: (thinking: wtf? it's final signoff testing) The entire system is ready for testing, if anything goes sproing when it should go beep i need to know about that before deployment this weekend1300 hours:
: Are we on track for completing final signoff testing by EOD so we can make our go/no-go decision in our morning meeting tomorrow
QA: Unknown, there are two other projects in the QA queue ahead of you.
: (thinking: you couldn't have told me that when i told you we were ready for test? or when we told you monday this was coming?!)
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Better than PHP where minutes are i. Because.
minutes. That's why
AH! Like intedger in C, right?
Wait...
decimal integer
hexadecimal integer
octal integer
unsigned integer
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
decimal integer
octal integer
hexadecimal integer
unsigned integerDOX.... U?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! ILLUMINATI REDDIT ANONYMOUS THREAT OF DOXING DETECTED!
RUN AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
/flee
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
decimal integer
octal integer
hexadecimal integer
unsigned integerDOX.... U?
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! ILLUMINATI REDDIT ANONYMOUS THREAT OF DOXING DETECTED!
RUN AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
/flee
floating point real number in most reasonable formatg
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And so does the page source. (Yes, the ENTIRE source is one line. Not just the ~25% shown in the screenshot.)
Removing the navbar and the general info parts, here is the actual content:
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@Atazhaia and people wonder why mobile browsing (or any browsing on a shitty connection) is so slow...71 requests! That's 142 HTTP requests/responses! My computer has to ask Sweden for 71 different things before it can show that page!!
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@Atazhaia and people wonder why mobile browsing (or any browsing on a shitty connection) is so slow...71 requests! That's 142 HTTP requests/responses! My computer has to ask Sweden for 71 different things before it can show that page!!
Your disk cache is located in Sweden?
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
decimal integer
hexadecimal integer
octal integer
unsigned integerOne of these is not like the others.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
minutes. That's why
AH! Like intedger in C, right?
No, more like βshortβ.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
decimal integer
hexadecimal integer
octal integer
unsigned integerOne of these is not like the others.
Plus, numbers don't actually have a base, expressions of numbers do. We could say instead:
integer in decimal
integer in hexadecimal
integer in octal
unsigned integer
short integer
long integer
floating-point number
floating-point number in general format
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@accalia do you work for WTFbank too?
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Probably a long integer in decimal.
Not to be confused with a Long floating-point number in float format.
And you've forgotten the floating-point number in exponential format.
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@accalia do you work for WTFbank too?
no, if i did our QA dept would be more than one person
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@accalia ours have 2 (a company owned by a company owned by WTFbank)
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Now PHB wants the head of a phone-support girl because she may have admitted to a customer the system wasn't working instead of bullshitting him.
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The PowerShell commandlet
Add-DnsServerResourceRecordCName
will gleefully overwrite an existing CNAME with a new value, without any confirmation prompt, warning, or error.Add-
... overwrites without confirmation
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
decimal integer
hexadecimal integer
octal integer
unsigned integerOne of these is not like the others.
Yep. Signed, unsigned, unsigned, unsigned.
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@anotherusername unsigned is not a modifier. x and o are always unsigned, and it is not possible to print signed other than in decimal (at least with standard printf)
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@PleegWat fixed.
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@izzion
Repeat after me: PowerShell solves all the problems of traditional shells and prevents you from accidentally shooting yourself in the foot.
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@asdf
Judging by this seeping bullet wound in my foot this morning, I'm not sure you're being forthright
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Judging by this seeping bullet wound in my foot this morning
You were Holding It Wrongβ’!
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@asdf
Judging by this seeping bullet wound in my foot this morning, I'm not sure you're being forthrightHe said
the foot
, notyour foot
.The foot
is currently located atE_LOCATION_NOT_FOUND
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The foot
is currently located atE_LOCATION_NOT_FOUND
Surely some US institution is storing the standard foot (of length) in a vault somewhere?
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@asdf /me shivers
How long did the guy (s?) in the picture survive after it was taken?
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@asdf /me shivers
How long did the guy (s?) in the picture survive after it was taken?
Damn you... I was quite happy in having not seen the person in that photo until you mentioned that...
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@anotherusername Sorry... I could have made some kind of "ghost" joke, given what the picture looks like, but it really would be bad taste.
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How long did the guy (s?) in the picture survive after it was taken?
Looks like he was still alive in 2014, at least
Artur Korneyev, 65, a radiation specialist, at his home in Slavutich. After the accident, his job was to locate radioactive fuel on site and determine radiation levels to limit the exposure of other workers.
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Surely some US institution is storing the standard foot (of length) in a vault somewhere?
Seems like (what was) the standard metre is still in . It's not needed since 1960, so if wants to take it (?) and split it in 3.28084 for their weird system, they're welcome.
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@remi Isn't the meter the one that's still relevant, and the kilo the one that's been obsoleted by some specific quantity of carbon atoms?
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@groo Hey, I was reading that!
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@PleegWat no, that's the other way round. The meter has been redefined from the wavelength of something, I think. The physical artefact was initially supposed to be roughly equal to a fraction of the earth meridian, but there are some funny (for some geeky definition of fun...) stories about how it came to be.
And the kilogram is still the only unit being defined by a physical artefact, although I think this is in the process of being changed for some gravity related thing (some kind of torsion balance), or maybe a number of atoms, yes (although I'm not sure about the experimental setup that would make this a usable definition?). I'm sure someone will me to death with the details.
Historically, I think there were initially attempts to define it as the mass of a cubic decimeter (1 L) of water, but that was too dependant on the conditions (water purity, temperature etc.), so they used an artefact that was intended to be simply a physical embodiment of the abstract definition as the reference. There are also funny (yeah, in the same way) stories about a time towards the end of the 19th century when they wanted to make copies of it, and ended up changing which one was used as the actual reference, if I remember correctly.
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@JBert For once, I can actually see why he deleted it.
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or maybe a number of atoms, yes (although I'm not sure about the experimental setup that would make this a usable definition?). I'm sure someone will me to death with the details.
Well, there are actually 4 different attempts, three of which didn't pan out (yet) for various reasons. They're currently going for the Avogadro method which, as the name implies, does indeed involve counting atoms. For that you need an X-ray LASER interferometer and a monocrystal, however, which in turn requires Si-28 of the highest purity.
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Please contact me by email and SMS but also don't contact me.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@JBert For once, I can actually see why he deleted it.
Potential doxing? I must not be seeing something.
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@JBert it was about an email that mentioned "Ubutun", "Red Hart" and "Slackaware".
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1321
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ban rinse-off cosmetics that contain intentionally-added plastic microbeads beginning on January 1, 2018, and to ban manufacturing of these cosmetics beginning on July 1, 2017. These bans are delayed by one year for cosmetics that are over-the-counter drugs.
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1321
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ban rinse-off cosmetics that contain intentionally-added plastic microbeads beginning on January 1, 2018, and to ban manufacturing of these cosmetics beginning on July 1, 2017. These bans are delayed by one year for cosmetics that are over-the-counter drugs.
This is a real problem.
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1321
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ban rinse-off cosmetics that contain intentionally-added plastic microbeads beginning on January 1, 2018, and to ban manufacturing of these cosmetics beginning on July 1, 2017. These bans are delayed by one year for cosmetics that are over-the-counter drugs.
This is a real problem.
http://time.com/4033917/facewash-microbeads-fish/
Hmm... TIL. I guess it really could be an issue, but that particular article comes across as a propaganda piece.
The Wikipedia article does a better job of providing info, IMO.
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https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1321
This bill amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to ban rinse-off cosmetics that contain intentionally-added plastic microbeads beginning on January 1, 2018, and to ban manufacturing of these cosmetics beginning on July 1, 2017. These bans are delayed by one year for cosmetics that are over-the-counter drugs.
This is a real problem.
http://time.com/4033917/facewash-microbeads-fish/
Hmm... TIL. I guess it really could be an issue, but that particular article comes across as a propaganda piece.
The Wikipedia article does a better job of providing info, IMO.I have to see if a German documentary called "Plastic Planet" is available in English as well. If you watch that one you'll be very leery of plastics in general.
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Ok, so TR is me following one of those click-bait "8 things..." links at the bottom of a news article I was reading.
But bonus in this article:
During a visit with his parents in Sarasota, Florida, Reubens [the actor who played Pee-wee Herman] was arrested for indecent exposure at an adult movie theater, with sheriff's deputies claiming that they spotted him masturbating during the movie.
Uh, isn't sexual release the point of an adult movie? If you're going to have an adult movie theater (which is a in and of itself), shouldn't it be kind of expected that the patrons are all pervs who don't mind who observed them whacking it in public?
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Ok, so TR is me following one of those click-bait "8 things..." links at the bottom of a news article I was reading.
But bonus in this article:
During a visit with his parents in Sarasota, Florida, Reubens [the actor who played Pee-wee Herman] was arrested for indecent exposure at an adult movie theater, with sheriff's deputies claiming that they spotted him masturbating during the movie.
Uh, isn't sexual release the point of an adult movie? If you're going to have an adult movie theater (which is a in and of itself), shouldn't it be kind of expected that the patrons are all pervs who don't mind who observed them whacking it in public?
I apparently need to get out more...