WTF Bites
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WTF of last week: So, we had some renovations at our school some time back. Before the renovations, my SmartBoard was to the side and an old-fashioned chalk board was at the front. I told the people responsible that I wanted this the other way around (since they had to temporarily remove them, it shouldn't have been a problem anyway). They agreed but I promptly found after the renovations that they had forgotten to tell anyone about it.
So I yelled at them until they finally fixed the issue.Last week I went into my classroom to find this:
A holder for the sponge for a chalkboard! But wait a minute...
Yeah.
Idiots.
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@benjamin-hall said in WTF Bites:
Case sensitively. Is that a thing?
For the local part, yes. Yahoo groups' admin by email tended to get broken by MTA's that didn't respect it.
The host part is case insensitive, however.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
As much as I'd like Win32 to offer UTF-8
Get read for
CreateWindowExUtf8!!!Nah. For consistency, that will be
CreateWindowExU
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A holder for the sponge for a chalkboard! But wait a minute...
Typical maintenance people. You said move the boards. You didn't say move the holder. (Well, you didn't say you didn't say it!)
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Update: still there.
But the true hilarity is what's on the screen ten feet away from it.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Update: still there.
But the true hilarity is what's on the screen ten feet away from it.
Awe darn the picture is too blurry, else I might call in the problem...
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Why is there someone bowing to the Mighty Screen? Do you need to pray to IT to get help?
(cue various jokes on IT and quotes from BOFH)
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How the hell is this happening?!?!?!
Not quite sure what you're asking, but I've got two decent guesses:
- If you're asking about shrinkage, that usually is the fault of setting the heat too high on the dryer.
The solution would be to either hang the clothes to dry or use a lower heat setting. (This is usually only a problem with non-pre-shrunk wool, though, so I think the next is more likely.) - If you're asking about having a bunch of unmatched single socks, that is usually the problem of not keeping track of the socks when you do laundry. And by "do laundry", I mean the whole process, from the point when you remove your clothing from your body; through sorting, washing, drying, and folding; and up to putting away.
The solution in this case consists of keeping better track of your socks, having only one type of socks so you will only possibly have one unmatched sock, or both.
- If you're asking about shrinkage, that usually is the fault of setting the heat too high on the dryer.
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Do YOU have a not-a-disease?
Yes, T2 diabetes is a problem, and finding out your risk and doing what you can to prevent getting it is a good thing, but really? Treating the risk for a disease as just as bad as the disease itself?
For fun, here're the test questions:
- Do you have a mother, father, sister or brother with diabetes? (A family history of diabetes could contribute to your risk for type 2 diabetes.)
a. Yes
b. No - Have you ever been diagnosed with high blood pressure? (Having high blood pressure contributes to your overall risk for type 2 diabetes.)
a. Yes
b. No - How old are you? (You are at a higher risk for type 2 diabetes the older you are.)
a. Younger than 40
b. 40-49 Years
c. 50-59 Years
d. 60+ Years - What race or ethnicity best describes you? (People of certain racial and ethnic groups are more likely to develop type 2 diabetes than others.)
a. White/Caucasian
b. American Indian or Alaska Native
c. Asian American
d. Black or African American
e. Hispanic or Latino
f. Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
g. Other
h. Don't Want To Say - Are you physically active? (Being inactive can increase your risk for type 2 diabetes.)
a. Yes
b. No - Are you a man or a woman? (Men are more likely than women to have undiagnosed diabetes; one reason may be that they are less likely to see their doctor regularly.)
a. Select an option
b. Man
c. Woman
(If Woman is selected) Have you ever been diagnosed with gestational diabetes? (Gestational diabetes is a type of diabetes that develops during pregnancy. It goes away after pregnancy, but women who have gestational diabetes have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes.)
a. Yes
b. No - How tall are you? (The combination of your weight and height lets us know your Body Mass Index or BMI. People with higher BMIs are at a higher risk.)
a. Select an option
b. 4'10" (147cm)
c-s. [snip 1" increments]
t. 6'4" (193cm)
Please select your weight.
a. Select an option
b. < 119 lbs. (54kg) to < 205 lbs. (93kg)
c. 119-142 lbs. (54-64kg) to 205-245 lbs. (93-111kg)
d. 143-190 lbs. (65-86kg) to 246-327 lbs. (112-148kg)
e. 191+ lbs. (87kg) to 328+ lbs. (149kg)
What's mildly fun here is that the weight question can be shown twice if you select one height and then select another height shorter than the first.
Also, the non-matching range indicators on the answers to questions 3 ("younger than [x]" vs. "[x]+") and 7 ("< [x]" vs. "[x]+") slightly irk me.
- Do you have a mother, father, sister or brother with diabetes? (A family history of diabetes could contribute to your risk for type 2 diabetes.)
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keeping better track of your socks
I'm still waiting for socks with build in gps trackers ...
To the Bad Kickstarter Ideas topic!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How the hell is this happening?!?!?!
Not quite sure what you're asking, but I've got two decent guesses:
- If you're asking about shrinkage, that usually is the fault of setting the heat too high on the dryer.
The solution would be to either hang the clothes to dry or use a lower heat setting. (This is usually only a problem with non-pre-shrunk wool, though, so I think the next is more likely.) - If you're asking about having a bunch of unmatched single socks, that is usually the problem of not keeping track of the socks when you do laundry. And by "do laundry", I mean the whole process, from the point when you remove your clothing from your body; through sorting, washing, drying, and folding; and up to putting away.
The solution in this case consists of keeping better track of your socks, having only one type of socks so you will only possibly have one unmatched sock, or both.
If the problem is the unmatched socks then the answer is that they've gone to the same dimension as the biros. Conservation of mass in that dimension is why you get different unmatched socks each wash (including ones you've never owned).
Also @Tsaukpaetra needs to put some bleach in with his whites...
- If you're asking about shrinkage, that usually is the fault of setting the heat too high on the dryer.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Why is there someone bowing to the Mighty Screen? Do you need to pray to IT to get help?
(cue various jokes on IT and quotes from BOFH)
I first thought the guy was going full
though after a closer look it seems his desk is invisible.
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@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How the hell is this happening?!?!?!
Not quite sure what you're asking, but I've got two decent guesses:
- If you're asking about shrinkage, that usually is the fault of setting the heat too high on the dryer.
The solution would be to either hang the clothes to dry or use a lower heat setting. (This is usually only a problem with non-pre-shrunk wool, though, so I think the next is more likely.) - If you're asking about having a bunch of unmatched single socks, that is usually the problem of not keeping track of the socks when you do laundry. And by "do laundry", I mean the whole process, from the point when you remove your clothing from your body; through sorting, washing, drying, and folding; and up to putting away.
The solution in this case consists of keeping better track of your socks, having only one type of socks so you will only possibly have one unmatched sock, or both.
If the problem is the unmatched socks then the answer is that they've gone to the same dimension as the biros. Conservation of mass in that dimension is why you get different unmatched socks each wash (including ones you've never owned).
Also @Tsaukpaetra needs to put some bleach in with his whites...
Solution for unmatched socks is very simple. Buy 60-80 identical pairs once a year. Throw old ones out.
There, problem solved.
- If you're asking about shrinkage, that usually is the fault of setting the heat too high on the dryer.
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identical pairs
They only need to be similar enough to pass at a glance, and only the bits that show above shoes
Also, 60-80 pairs a year? At one pair per day that's 4-6 wears each. Are your feet made of sulphuric acid?
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identical pairs
They only need to be similar enough to pass at a glance, and only the bits that show above shoes
True, true.
Also, 60-80 pairs a year? At one pair per day that's 4-6 wears each. Are your feet made of sulphuric acid?
Yeah, 40-50 pairs would be more realistic, I guess. You must take into account that some will be lost, some will get torn, etc. So, about 10 wears each.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Why is there someone bowing to the Mighty Screen? Do you need to pray to IT to get help?
(cue various jokes on IT and quotes from BOFH)
I first thought the guy was going full
though after a closer look it seems his desk is invisible.It's behind the sandwich counter. He's poring over ingredients.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How the hell is this happening?!?!?!
Check your laundry bin for presence of small elephant-like creatures with broad, flared trunks.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How the hell is this happening?!?!?!
Check your laundry bin for presence of small elephant-like creatures with broad, flared trunks.
Also, don't think about it.
Especially if it's Hogswatch night.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How the hell is this happening?!?!?!
Check your laundry bin for presence of small elephant-like creatures with broad, flared trunks.
Also, don't think about it.
Especially if it's Hogswatch night.
ginglegingleginglegingle
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So, about 10 wears each
That's still ridiculously wasteful
Socks are ridiculously cheap. Thinking too much about them is wasteful.
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@mrl which is why I only buy new socks when I'm starting to struggle to find two that look kind of similar
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Socks are ridiculously cheap. Thinking too much about them is wasteful.
So hire someone else to think about them for you. You'd be supporting someone on the minimum wage, you economic hero!
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I can't even fucking reproduce this. It just happens when I'm not paying attention. Fuck you, Hangouts.
I've got an even better one. A couple of times, I've had the
cursor show up and get stuck. Never been able to reproduce it, and it's hard to even figure out which process owns it (Explorer, I think) so that I could kill it and get rid of the extra floating cursor.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
For example: 👨🏼👩🏻👧🏾👦🏻 is one character (although only Windows 10 currently renders it correctly).
How many codepoints were harmed in the making of that character?
Counting surrogate pairs as one code point, or two?
Note that the‍characters just show up as"".It's basically (person emoji + skin tone modifier) x 4, joined together by zwj characters. It should render as a "family" emoji, if the system supports the nomenclature.
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Socks are ridiculously cheap. Thinking too much about them is wasteful.
So hire someone else to think about them for you. You'd be supporting someone on the minimum wage, you economic hero!
Sigh. Industrialization, which led to mass production of socks, made sock carers obsolete. I'm sorry, if minimum wagers want my money, they'll have to change career path.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How the hell is this happening?!?!?!
Your problem is that you have more than one color and style of socks. If you only had one, that would be two matched pairs.
(More than one kind can work out okay, though, as long as the differences are all hidden by your shoes.)
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@jaloopa
I dunno, my socks smell really bad after 10 days on my feet.
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Yeah, 40-50 pairs would be more realistic, I guess. You must take into account that some will be lost, some will get torn, etc. So, about 10 wears each.
I've bought 10 pairs of socks this year. I think the last time I bought socks was >2 years ago, and I bought around two dozen pairs (can't remember if they were 10 packs or 12 packs or what).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How the hell is this happening?!?!?!
Not quite sure what you're asking, but I've got two decent guesses:
- If you're asking about shrinkage, that usually is the fault of setting the heat too high on the dryer.
The solution would be to either hang the clothes to dry or use a lower heat setting. (This is usually only a problem with non-pre-shrunk wool, though, so I think the next is more likely.) - If you're asking about having a bunch of unmatched single socks, that is usually the problem of not keeping track of the socks when you do laundry. And by "do laundry", I mean the whole process, from the point when you remove your clothing from your body; through sorting, washing, drying, and folding; and up to putting away.
The solution in this case consists of keeping better track of your socks, having only one type of socks so you will only possibly have one unmatched sock, or both.
Yes, the second. I do have procedures that literally guarantee this, at no point in time are my socks not matched to in underwear and in exact count (circle checked by folding them into each other as a set, getting dressed I merely pull a package which contains both works and underwear, and one does not get put into the dirty clothes bin without each and every part).
The only hole in this solution is that I don't monitor the washing and crying machines in operation. Perhaps I should...
- If you're asking about shrinkage, that usually is the fault of setting the heat too high on the dryer.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
How the hell is this happening?!?!?!
Check your laundry bin for presence of small elephant-like creatures with broad, flared trunks.
a Heffalump? No. But I am trying to catch mice at the moment.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I don't monitor the washing and crying machines
Does your girlfriend know you refer to her by this name?
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@timebandit said in WTF Bites:
@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
crying machines
I think your washing machine is leaking
Probably. There's probably at least one more typo, but no more than four.
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So, I just opened Google and the results were covered with this:
I guess it's some EU thing or whatever, I don't care. However it won't go away till you say you hit "I agree" on one of the subsequent pages the dialog leads to. Fine, let's take a look to make sure they're not trying to pull some shady shit and make it go away.
So I went forward to review my privacy settings. There are four links, three of them open in the same window, one is external (to google ad settings). All is good so far. What isn't good is that the link that's supposed to go to Youtube settings just results in a white box still covering the page - no back button, no way to close with it or interact with it in any way, it's 100% reproducible, and if you reload the page the whole dialog shows up again and you're back where you started.
GOOOOOOGLEEEEEEEEEEE!
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keeping better track of your socks
I'm still waiting for socks with build in gps trackers ...
To the Bad Kickstarter Ideas topic!Caution: Washing these socks in liquid will invalidate the warranty.
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identical pairs
They only need to be similar enough to pass at a glance, and only the bits that show above shoes
True, true.
Also, 60-80 pairs a year? At one pair per day that's 4-6 wears each. Are your feet made of sulphuric acid?
Yeah, 40-50 pairs would be more realistic, I guess. You must take into account that some will be lost, some will get torn, etc. So, about 10 wears each.
Holey Moley. I replace my (10-15 pairs) socks about every 3 years!
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Apple wants me to download an update from the App Store. This is not the problem.
The App Store knows my correct, current Apple ID (which I had to update recently to download some app). This is also not the problem.
When I try to download the update, Apple wants me to sign in with my Apple ID. This, still, is not the problem.
The problem is that Apple has helpfully pre-populated the sign-in dialog with my old Apple ID which is now invalid, and disabled the textbox, preventing me from entering the correct one.
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Oh, I just remembered something that started happening a few days ago: Apparently, Facebook now thinks I'm in a different time zone than I actually am, because it's showing me wrong times for events and chat timestamps. Everything is an hour early, which caused me to get to a pub we were meeting at last Friday an hour early like an idiot. (Not that I'm complaining really...) I thought I just misread the event or whatever and then we had much alcohol and I forgot about it, but now I see it again - I sent a message a few minutes ago and the chat window says it was sent 10:38 instead of 11:38.
The funny thing is that the mobile app shows times correctly, it's just that when I open FB in a browse,r it seems to suddenly think I'm in UTC, not UTC+1. I have no idea why it's inconsistent, and I don't remember fiddling with any settings in ages. I also don't see any time zone preferences in Facebook's settings, and my system time is correct. I have no idea where it's taking the timezone info from, or why it's suddenly broken. Is it GeoIP? I'm not behind any proxies or on VPN, and this locates me correctly.
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@hungrier it just works!
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Your problem is that you have more than one color and style of socks. If you only had one, that would be two matched pairs.
Stop giving away the secrets of the sockmasters!
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
getting dressed I merely pull a package
It's very convenient.
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Unsecured MongoDB strikes again
22 Data Breaches We Found and Reported in 2017
Find out more about the biggest 2017 data breaches in this MacKeeper report!
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Ai.Type
Phew, not SwiftKey. I don't think I use their network features anyway, so as far as I know all my credit card numbers and deeply personal secrets that I've never told another human, that I've saved in auto-correct, are safe on my device.
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Possibly no more modern devices for Germany
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@timebandit I really wish that lawmakers actually knew things about what they were making laws about. A backdoor, once installed, remains installed. And there's no magic way to make it so that the police can access it and nobody else. Not to mention, of course, that they want backdoors in end-to-end encryption message services, which is fucking ridiculous because you can't outlaw a mathematical algorithm.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I really wish that lawmakers actually knew things about what they were making laws about.
Don't we all ?
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@timebandit And the ransomware pirates are salivating...
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