WTF Bites
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@pie_flavor So? Don't diss on my fun, man! :D
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@pie_flavor said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
Was just randomly logged out.
Never mind, that's not NodeBB. That's literally every site. What the fuck.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
Was just randomly logged out.
Never mind, that's not NodeBB. That's literally every site. What the fuck.
All your cookies were eated?
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@pie_flavor Did you by chance visit https://superlogout.com/?
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
Was just randomly logged out.
Never mind, that's not NodeBB. That's literally every site. What the fuck.
Well, it's good to know that either there's no bug in NodeBB or there's a horrifyingly large bug that affects every site on the internet in NodeBB.
I guess I can sleep now.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
All your cookies were eated?
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Well, I guess it's a place to do your business...
The guy who thought this up must be of the opinion that no publicity is bad publicity. No other explanation is within a billion light-years of reasonable or sensible.
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Taylor Jennings doesn’t want people to do their business at home. Instead, he wants them to go to an OutHouse
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You know those annoying business websites that after you browse them for 10 seconds, automatically pop up a (generally fake) chat window with one of their representatives on the lower right so you can "ask us any questions you have"?
This one apparently opened a real chat window... complete with an emoji selector and a "send animated gifs" feature.
Because that's how I want to open a conversation with a business representative, with a cat gif.
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Needed to look up some info on a paper (removed the DOI because mildly doxy). Took forever to load and I ended up at the following URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/DOIGOESHERE/abstract?systemMessage=Please+be+advised+that+we+experienced+an+unexpected+issue+that+occurred+on+Saturday+and+Sunday+January+20th+and+21st+that+caused+the+site+to+be+down+for+an+extended+period+of+time+and+affected+the+ability+of+users+to+access+content+on+Wiley+Online+Library.+This+issue+has+now+been+fully+resolved.++We+apologize+for+any+inconvenience+this+may+have+caused+and+are+working+to+ensure+that+we+can+alert+you+immediately+of+any+unplanned+periods+of+downtime+or+disruption+in+the+future.
The system message isn't shown anywhere on the page. But I suppose that it's featured in a rather prominent location right above the page...
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@djls45
I'm getting the feeling that you also are not a fan of the Winter Olympics' best sport.Adds another name to the "replace house with skating rink" list
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@jaloopa
Hm, I wonder how much harder it is to replace a house with a luge track...
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@cvi I had to deal with Wiley for my CS class. There's nothing quite like the panic of a downloads page that says 'no downloads available' after you have spent $130 on a downloadable textbook.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Well, it's good to know that either there's no bug in NodeBB
I think we both know that this is not true
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in Discussion of NodeBB Updates:
Was just randomly logged out.
Never mind, that's not NodeBB. That's literally every site. What the fuck.
All your cookies were eated?
No, that's the thing. It was only logins, not the rest of the site data.
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@pie_flavor Ouch. $130 for a digital course book? I used to (at least) get the dead-tree version for that amount of $$$.
Then again, in order to read the article mentioned above, you'd have to pay somewhere between $6 (you get access for 48 hours via some sucky web reader) or $38 (you get the actual PDF), unless you're on an university network or something similar with access (i.e., where somebody else pays).
As one of the co-authors of that article, I can assure you that it's not worth $6. ;-) And I still consider it better value than most articles out there, but I might be a tad biased.
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@pie_flavor @cvi Textbook companies are among the worst rapacious, grasping, exploitative companies around. It makes sense to hear academics rail against capitalism a bit--that's the kind of company they have to deal with on a regular basis.
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@benjamin-hall Yup. Online textbooks and looseleaf textbooks are how they're getting rid of textbook resale/renting (which the bookstore actually offers its own service for). A lesser evil, but still very present, is the monopoly Texas Instruments has over calculators used in exams - I could buy a Chromebook for less than I paid for my calculator.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@benjamin-hall Yup. Online textbooks and looseleaf textbooks are how they're getting rid of textbook resale/renting (which the bookstore actually offers its own service for). A lesser evil, but still very present, is the monopoly Texas Instruments has over calculators used in exams - I could buy a Chromebook for less than I paid for my calculator.
And those calculators haven't improved significantly (and have regressed in many ways, at least for me) since my Ti-85, two decades ago (ouch). The TI-86 is still, in my opinion, the best one they ever made for sciency/engineery types.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I had to deal with Wiley for my CS class.
I'm sorry. But at least they're not Elsevier!
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@benjamin-hall The TI-84 Plus CE is decent (the numbering scheme is of course TR), but I got the Nspire just for sanity's sake. Apparently it has an actual file system. Also, for whatever reason they didn't sell it at the bookstore even though they sold the 84 Plus there (for about $50 more than you can find it on Amazon for).
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I had to deal with Wiley for my CS class.
I'm sorry. But at least they're not Elsevier!
Elsevier is the Oracle of the publishing world. Except worse.
Which reminds me--I know someone in Disney's hotel side IT department. He said they're trying to implement one of Oracle's products and decided to go uncustomized. Oops. Many of the features are just plain not implemented/broken in the base version.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Well, it's good to know that either there's no bug in NodeBB
I think we both know that this is not true
But is there cannibalism in the Royal Navy?
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@benjamin-hall said in WTF Bites:
Disney [...] Oracle
A match made in
heavenhell. But at least they deserve each other.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
The TI-84 Plus CE is decent
Any idea what the differences are to a "plain" TI-84? I had that one almost two decades (also ouch) ago. Maybe it was even a TI-84 Plus, IIRC the distribution between those was close to 50-50.
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Going for a tripple post because
@benjamin-hall said in WTF Bites:
Textbook [and academic publishers generally] companies are among the worst rapacious, grasping, exploitative companies around.
deserves to be QFFT.
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@djls45
I'm getting the feeling that you also are not a fan of the Winter Olympics' best sport.Adds another name to the "replace house with skating rink" list
Someone throws a rock sliding on the ice, and a couple other folks sweep the ice in front of it to try to get it to stop where they want it to. That's not terribly exciting to me.
I prefer the sports where people get to show off their own athletic prowess. Half-pipe (snowboard or skis) and figure skating are probably my top favorites. Slaloms, luge, speed skating, and even bobsled are also interesting. Oh, and winter biathlons, because shooting. :D
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@djls45
I'm getting the feeling that you also are not a fan of the Winter Olympics' best sport.Adds another name to the "replace house with skating rink" list
Then they can play hockey at home, your plan is perfect
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
The TI-84 Plus CE is decent
Any idea what the differences are to a "plain" TI-84? I had that one almost two decades (also ouch) ago. Maybe it was even a TI-84 Plus, IIRC the distribution between those was close to 50-50.
There is no such thing as a TI-84, it started at Plus. You did not have a TI-84 Plus two decades ago, as it was only released in 2004.
And the CE had a color screen (Color Edition) with a bit of extra memory. Still pretty garbage compared to the Nspire, though.
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@pie_flavor Hmm. Seems like you're right. The TI-83 precedes it, so it was probably that one? Kinda makes the question superfluous though.
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I have to use this website https://codecheck.it for my CS homework; it checks that the code works and signs a zip which I then submit to the assignment.
/assets/codecheck.js
has a syntax error, an extra closing parenthesis on one line of a function. The page is now unusable and I cannot submit my homework. Yay.
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@pie_flavor Fix the web page using the browser tools for extra credit.
Assuming you can still reach it, that is.
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@zecc Well, I emailed the guy, so I'll bet he's fixing it immediately.
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@pie_flavor Guess not; the server's back up and the error's still there. Must have been just a weird coincidence.
Edit: Wait, no, caches. Works now. That was some prompt response, I must say.
https://i.imgur.com/K9N5cZ5.png
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I think I just witnessed a crash of YouTube's video processor. Initially it was stuck at 1% or 2% for several minutes, then it finally started processing. I was watching the processing percent go by in the video manager when it got to 83% and just stopped, while the time estimate kept swinging between seconds and several minutes to finish. Refresh the page and it had jumped back down to 50% and was processing again. It got past 83% this time and is now at 94% with 2 seconds remaining for the past several minutes (as I was writing this it finally changed to the 95% mark where they stop showing progress or time estimates). Not sure what I did, it's just a regular video. YouTube normally processes my uploads in a matter of seconds, I've never seen it this slow.
EDIT: I can watch it at 360p even though it's still at 95%, weird. That's normal for when it's just finished processing, maybe they changed how the processing progress is displayed to people?
EDIT: well it's not making any progress, I reuploaded the video and the reupload processed fine, so I'm gonna just delete this weird failure of an upload...
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VSTS requires a nuget.config package when creating builds; current versions of Nuget (and Visual Studio) don't use a nuget.config and don't generate one.
WTF.
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I think I just witnessed a crash of YouTube's video processor.
Might be instability in their back-end cloud. When you see that sort of thing slip through, you start thinking “am I going crazy here?” when the answer is just that something not under your control (and which you were previously unaware) is broken.
Heck, that sounds like the definition of distributed computing:
You know you have a distributed system when the crash of a computer you’ve never heard of stops you from getting any work done.
– Leslie Lamport
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Don't forget @kt_
@LB_ was the one that we tested it out on, though.
Yeah, you were always racist against me.
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No. No. I give up. I'm not "fixing" this shit, no importing CSV files produced by Office in my application:
What you're seeing is:
- I created a new sheet with that first row filled in as you can see it on the screen
- Saved is as CSV
- Went to import tools to import the same file back in
None of the encodings work! NONE! It's not UTF, it's not Windows-1250 as I'd expect it, it's nothing. It's just broken. Excel cannot handle its own fucking file, I'm not handling it.
Fuck this shit!
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I prefer the sports where people get to show off their own athletic prowess. Half-pipe (snowboard or skis) and figure skating are probably my top favorites.
I am not a huge fan of all sports where scoring includes a note given by judges, because when you get to Olympic levels all performers (or at least all the top contenders) are so good that it becomes very hard to see for yourself who's better. So you're left with appreciating the show, and then waiting to see who is decided by the judges as being the winner, which somehow isn't how I enjoy watching sport. I know that this isn't really rational and that waiting for a replay or a timing to see if someone is 1 ms faster than the other is not that much different, but still, somehow it does not feel the same. Maybe somehow I can never shake the idea that the scoring might not be objective (and the fact that there has been scoring scandals in the past in some sports doesn't help here), which offends my idea of a sports competition?
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@remi I was redpilled on that one when McKayla Maroney did an absolutely perfect vault, and the judges did not give it a 10.
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@lorne-kates said in WTF Bites:
FFS, when the fuck are the .Net web developers I work with going to learn the fucking .Net Page Lifecycle.
Good news: this won't be a problem anymore in two weeks...
Bad news: ... because said dev forgot to take backups before deploying to production, then deployed to production in a fucked up way, and lost some customer data.
(Only saving grace being we managed to restore 99% of that data, and the customer isn't worried about the remaining 1%, buuuuut--)
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I have to use this website https://codecheck.it for my CS homework;
Your professor is an idiot.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor Guess not; the server's back up and the error's still there. Must have been just a weird coincidence.
Edit: Wait, no, caches. Works now. That was some prompt response, I must say.
https://i.imgur.com/K9N5cZ5.pngPlease don't publish strangers' names and email addresses like that.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Your professor is an idiot.
As seen in the emails, the professor himself wrote that "experimental service" thing. So it's only fair to assume that he'd handle things gracefully if it goes down, e.g. accepting email submissions.
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VSTS web site deployment agent requires .Net 3.5 to function. .Net 3.5 was taken off support in 2011. Have fun putting it on all your servers anyway.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Your professor is an idiot.
As seen in the emails, the professor himself wrote that "experimental service" thing. So it's only fair to assume that he'd handle things gracefully if it goes down, e.g. accepting email submissions.
Good one!
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@blakeyrat See, that's why you should always use commercial software designed by actual software engineers from a company with a real QA department that gives a shit about usability. Not some open-source-piece-of-shit thing
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@topspin What, the one that's right on the website?
https://i.imgur.com/ETQByBP.pngAs seen in the emails, the professor himself wrote that "experimental service" thing.
A professor, not the professor.