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...Amazon? Are you drunk? Why do you think I need a microwave?
ESPECIALLY A SAMSUNG wtf?
(It sent me an email full of microwaves. @cloak15 anything I should know about happening at home today? The bloody thing was fine yesterday...)
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@Yamikuronue said in WTF Bites:
...Amazon? Are you drunk? Why do you think I need a microwave?
ESPECIALLY A SAMSUNG wtf?
(It sent me an email full of microwaves. @cloak15 anything I should know about happening at home today? The bloody thing was fine yesterday...)
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Catching up on this thread...
is it impossible to stay logged in to Samsung's site?
Why would you want to?
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
since when is the business plan cheaper than the personal one?
What would be the point of having it if it wasn't cheaper than buying everyone a personal licence?
[stuff about Dominos]
I can't be bothered pulling up a picture of the Dominos .au site but it does have the big red button ("Order Online"). I don't really care about that and I never log in (I do have it set to remember my pickup details). What does annoy me is the way every time you go to a new page it shoves a window in your face asking you to buy something, which you have to dismiss so you can order the thing you actually want to buy.
On Google Maps
Parsed as "On Google Macs". Not sure that's a product I want to see.
Weird. I tried scrolling around the applications list and opening folders, but typing still immediately opened up search. Are you doing something more than that? Or maybe it's a settings issue?
I have the same problem as @Atazhaia, if I want search back I have to go out of the start menu and open it again.
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Part 1: Yeah Android, thanks, that'll help with the battery life
Battery save is quite good IME. It reduces the processor maximum clock, turns off animations and almost kills background data usage
I wasn't complaining about that. Look again. It's on. Then, when my battery reached 5% Android offered to turn it off.
It turned on automatically when your battery reached 5%. That message informs you of that, and lets you turn it off if you want to for some reason...
It's like a
We're automatically frobnicating your widgets
Disable frobnicationdialog
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
It turned on automatically when your battery reached 5%. That message informs you of that, and lets you turn it off if you want to for some reason...
Nope. I turned it on manually some time after it went below 15%
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
It turned on automatically when your battery reached 5%. That message informs you of that, and lets you turn it off if you want to for some reason...
Nope. I turned it on manually some time after it went below 15%
Oh. Huh.
Well that's a little stranger, although I think that notification button is still a "on/off" toggle.
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@sloosecannon The battery saving mode can be turned on in various steps. By default, some things are turned off when battery charge drops below 15% and then more things are turned on when it drops below 5%. What turns on when should be configurable.
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Just found a python class in our codebase with a name 192 characters long. FML…
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Just found a python class in our codebase with a name 192 characters long. FML…
Are you sure you're not writing Java?
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Are you sure you're not writing Java?
I'm certain. I'm also certain that the perpetrator of this crime against sane naming no longer works for us.
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Just found a python class in our codebase with a name 192 characters long. FML…
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Part 1: Yeah Android, thanks, that'll help with the battery life
Battery save is quite good IME. It reduces the processor maximum clock, turns off animations and almost kills background data usage
I wasn't complaining about that. Look again. It's on. Then, when my battery reached 5% Android offered to turn it off.
It always allows you to turn it off. Not doing so would make more users complain. I mean, when was the last time you appreciated the system doing something that decreased the speed of the device?
No, the real problem is that the action isn't context-sensitive. At that point it should be "turn off" or "kill all apps but Phone".
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Clearly Microsoft's answer forum interface isn't intelligible enough for that entity to recognize the "answer" button from the "reply" button.
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I used to use Chrome browser at work. Recent changes to corporate websense have made chrome so slow it takes 30 seconds to a minute to load a tab.
Spend 2 seconds thinking which browser our retard IT won't know about.
Installed Vivaldi. Problem solved. Except I now have Vivaldi on me.
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@royal_poet Could be worse: you could have Edge on you
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@RaceProUK tried that as it is installed on company laptop. It gets screwed over even worse than Chrome by this websense monitoring shit.
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Is this a trick question?
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@anotherusername Isn't that from the Secret Hitler thread?
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1: Log files for Windows upgrade: 309MB
2: Earlier Windows install(s): 30.7GBWhy do the Windows upgrade logs take up over 300MB? Why does the earlier Windows installs take up over 30GB? Why does this laptop that came with Windows 10 even HAVE an earlier Windows install? No wonder the free disk space was so low.
I should talk to the computer tech support guy at work and ask if he can fix the imaging disk they use for the laptops. Apparently someone created the system image from an upgraded version of Windows without clearing out the old useless files. Of which there apparently is a ridiculous amount, as the disk cleaner has managed to free up
3424GB which is a substantial amount considering the SSD is 256GB.
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1: Log files for Windows upgrade: 309MB
2: Earlier Windows install(s): 30.7GBWhy do the Windows upgrade logs take up over 300MB? Why does the earlier Windows installs take up over 30GB? Why does this laptop that came with Windows 10 even HAVE an earlier Windows install? No wonder the free disk space was so low.
I should talk to the computer tech support guy at work and ask if he can fix the imaging disk they use for the laptops. Apparently someone created the system image from an upgraded version of Windows without clearing out the old useless files. Of which there apparently is a ridiculous amount, as the disk cleaner has managed to free up
3424GB which is a substantial amount considering the SSD is 256GB.Your imaging disk is probably fine. Those old files are probably from the Creators Update.
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@dcon Oh, right. The laptop did get that one recently too. Although I can't understand why that would be 30GB of old Windows files.
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@dcon Oh, right. The laptop did get that one recently too. Although I can't understand why that would be 30GB of old Windows files.
Because that's about the size of a complete Windows installation? Which is what the CU is.
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@dcon In my experience a complete fresh install is ~15GB. So it kinda looks like two old installs in that case. Hmm. So unless Windows got even more bloated I cannot understand why one install would be 30GB.
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@Atazhaia it's everything required to downgrade in the event that you want to undo the upgrade. Considering you were using the computer for some time it includes a lot more than just fresh install.
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So it kinda looks like two old installs in that case
CU and AU. IIRC those were both in-place full upgrades
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@sloosecannon just wait until the Fall Creators Update happens.
Then we can say FCU and allow people everyone else to mimic Lorne...
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@sloosecannon just wait until the Fall Creators Update happens.
Then we can say FCU and allow people everyone else to mimic Lorne...
Nah...
Fall Update, Creators Update, Anniversary Update
FUCU A(ll)U
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@sloosecannon while that is more awesome that way... MS themselves seem to be calling it the Fall Creators Update - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/upcoming-features
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@sloosecannon while that is more awesome that way... MS themselves seem to be calling it the Fall Creators Update - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/upcoming-features
Gah! Foiled again!
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@sloosecannon something something FCU.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Is this a trick question?
What scale are they using that puts (positive) 13 that far to the left?
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@djls45 0 - 100?
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@Vault_Dweller said in WTF Bites:
@djls45 0 - 100?
So I can only feel either ambivalent or positive towards the image?
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@Vault_Dweller said in WTF Bites:
@djls45 0 - 100?
So I can only feel either ambivalent or positive towards the image?
Isn't that a picture of the guy who killed Hitler?
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@djls45 All the numerical scales I have encountered is either 0 - 5, 0 - 10, etc. I can't recall ever coming across a negative scale when asked to rate something. The only exception is non-numerical scales, i.e "strongly disagree", "strongly agree", etc.
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So I can only feel either ambivalent or positive towards the image?
On a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is very negative and 100 is very positive...
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So I can only feel either ambivalent or positive towards the image?
On a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is very negative and 100 is very positive...
But zero isn't negative, and all the rest of the numbers are positive, so how can I register a negative response?
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@djls45 By that logic, if IMDB rates a movie 0 out of 10 you consider it "average"
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@Vault_Dweller No, because IMDB uses a number of stars. That image asked for a positive or negative response, and labeled them with "positive" and "negative", but then apparently doesn't allow a negative value to be entered.
Maybe it would have helped if I had realized that this is not in the garage and had remembered to include a
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Maybe it would have helped if I had realized that this is not in the garage and had remembered to include a
Could be, could be...
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How is this drawing glitch even possible?
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Goddamnit, Firefox!
And before you ask: firefox.exe is using 1.88 GB of memory, and overall the physical memory load is only 59%. So no, it shouldn't be having problems.
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@anotherusername
Didn't you get the memo? Minimum specs for Firefox or Chrome these days is an Intel X299 system with 128GB of RAM... :P
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I have been seeing that as well. It is usually caused by a faulty graphics driver.
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including other irrelevant data
Pretty sure all Google APIs let you tell them what data you actually care about. At least, the ones I've used did.
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@ben_lubar huh, well I guess I'll have to wait for YouTube Data API v4.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Goddamnit, Firefox!
And before you ask: firefox.exe is using 1.88 GB of memory, and overall the physical memory load is only 59%. So no, it shouldn't be having problems.
The big reason I eventually stopped using Firefox as my go-to browser was its memory problems, to the point that I even started occasionally putting Oompa Loompa songs in the crash report comments. So I can definitely believe that it would start faulting before the 3.whatever GB 32-bit limit had been reached.
IIRC, they used to have a custom malloc; I wonder if that's still the case.
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3.whatever GB 32-bit limit had been reached.
I switched to the 64bit version. Now it can use all my memory!
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3.whatever GB 32-bit limit had been reached.
I switched to the 64bit version. Now it can use all my memory!
Since I'm pretty sure I've seen Firefox freeze to death on <= 2.something GB, I wouldn't bet on it. (It often had a slow walk of death where it would increase and decrease memory used by small amounts, but gradually growing larger, while interactivity was frozen or iffy). IIRC.