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@onyx Additional anecdote:
Her teacher wouldn't accept her previous assignment because she used CSS grid and flexbox and he had no clue what those are.
I love that.
"Oh? You used something more advanced that we're not going to cover this semester? F-, you didn't follow the instructions!"
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
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Looks like it is actually something that existshttps://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/mysql-real-connect.html
, what is wrong with that language. It even ruins jokes.
You've got it backwards. Things like this are the source for the jokes. :D
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We support some eleventy-billion different operating systems. I need to get a system set up with a specific real-time OS for a customer support scenario, and I'm looking through our piles of hard drives and SSDs. Normally, I will put a label on the drive saying exactly what OS it has and what chassis it's for.
I found a drive labeled with the OS I need. However, someone else helpfully put two other OS stickers on it . Is it LabVIEW Real-Time? Is it 64-bit Windows XP (and if so, why the hell)? Or is it CentOS 5? Do my chances of getting a goat go up if I remove one sticker at random and change my choice?
is it a multi-boot drive with all three on it (is that possible)?
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We support some eleventy-billion different operating systems. I need to get a system set up with a specific real-time OS for a customer support scenario, and I'm looking through our piles of hard drives and SSDs. Normally, I will put a label on the drive saying exactly what OS it has and what chassis it's for.
I found a drive labeled with the OS I need. However, someone else helpfully put two other OS stickers on it . Is it LabVIEW Real-Time? Is it 64-bit Windows XP (and if so, why the hell)? Or is it CentOS 5? Do my chances of getting a goat go up if I remove one sticker at random and change my choice?
is it a multi-boot drive with all three on it (is that possible)?
LabVIEW Real-Time is a very special OS. I don't believe it supports any kind of multiboot configuration, and if it did it would be tricky to set up because the install always formats the entire drive and gives it one giant partition. And you have to go into the controller's BIOS boot settings and flip it between "LabVIEW RT" and "Other OS", too.
I decided to go to Best Buy and get the cheapest SSD they had and install from scratch rather than sort all this out. This drive is getting locked in my drawer when I'm done so I don't have to do it again...
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@mott555 I forgot to mention, I used to do multi-boot stuff. But it was so terribly fragile--some of these OS's will irreparably destroy every other OS on the drive during an update or reconfiguration--that it became far simpler and cheaper to just have a crate full of small SSDs with one OS each, and physically swap them out when I need to switch OS's. I tried virtualizing at one point but our hardware doesn't play very nicely with PCI Passthrough, that seems to add just enough interrupt latency that things don't quite work reliably.
This was simply a case of someone wiping the drive, installing a new OS, and re-labeling it without removing the previous labels.
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This was simply a case of someone wiping the drive, installing a new OS, and re-labeling it without removing the previous labels.
Had a bunch of floppy disks like that. Good times...
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Google Earth Pro really wants me to know I can use it to manipulate and export GIS data.
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So, my Chrome updated on my phone yesterday. The background color when switching tabs changed from black to white. I hate change for the sake of change.
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Why do you use an adblocker, anyways?
Why go to a website when you can just type
weather
into the address bar and not push enter?
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@ben_lubar Because you may want to see more than just the current temperature in F?
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@ben_lubar I'm travelling there soon so i wanted to get a general historic trend, the chrome thing is handy though
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@ben_lubar Because you may want to see more than just the current temperature in F?
You can push enter, then:
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@timebandit I don't want to think what I'll be like when I get out of college!
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So, my Chrome updated on my phone yesterday. The background color when switching tabs changed from black to white. I hate change for the sake of change.
Office just updated. All the button icons changed. I guess MS had to justify the graphic artists they've been paying.
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Eating lunch and there's a TV on in the lunchroom. Sound is off, but the caption says
Woman who gouged her own eyes out says life is more beautiful now
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
So, my Chrome updated on my phone yesterday. The background color when switching tabs changed from black to white. I hate change for the sake of change.
Office just updated. All the button icons changed. I guess MS had to justify the graphic artists they've been paying.
Hmmh? I actually saw that there was an update.
Before:
After:
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
Eating lunch and there's a TV on in the lunchroom. Sound is off, but the caption says
Woman who gouged her own eyes out says life is more beautiful now
Is that the story of the girl who was addicted?
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
So, my Chrome updated on my phone yesterday. The background color when switching tabs changed from black to white. I hate change for the sake of change.
Office just updated. All the button icons changed. I guess MS had to justify the graphic artists they've been paying.
Hmmh? I actually saw that there was an update.
Before:
After:
ITHM on his phone?
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
So, my Chrome updated on my phone yesterday. The background color when switching tabs changed from black to white. I hate change for the sake of change.
Office just updated. All the button icons changed. I guess MS had to justify the graphic artists they've been paying.
Hmmh? I actually saw that there was an update.
Before:
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After:Huh. Looks like it was maybe just Outlook that got new icons. At least I don't think it was that ugly before.
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@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
Eating lunch and there's a TV on in the lunchroom. Sound is off, but the caption says
Woman who gouged her own eyes out says life is more beautiful now
Is that the story of the girl who was addicted?
No idea, and I don't care. (By "caption," I meant the blob that says what show it is and the general topic they're discussing, not closed captioning of the dialogue.) It's a show that I try to actively avoid watching, but it's like a horrible car accident; sometimes you just can't help looking.
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I am now Turkish
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Hahahaha what???!!?!?
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@tsaukpaetra just a guess:
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@timebandit I don't want to think what I'll be like when I get out of college!
Like the rest of us.
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@topspin you too don't want to know what I'll be like?
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Iİ am now TurkishWhen was the last thread we had about thıs? İ think ıt was on Communıty Server.
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@onyx Commando?
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@topspin Indeed. I was just looking for the first bit, but eh.
For context, the conversation went something like:
Bad guy (Bennet or something): You're getting old, John, you're getting old.
Arnold: Bullshit!
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@timebandit I don't want to think what I'll be like when I get out of college!
Being cranky and angry at shitty software is a sign of a possibly decent developer. If you do not take shitty code as an affront to everything good and holy in the world, you are not a proper developer. :D
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Visual Studio Code package name for Debian is "code". Not "vs-code" or "visual-studio-code". Just "code". Better yet, this name doesn't conflict with any other package.
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Being cranky and angry at shitty software is a sign of a possibly decent developer.
Can you extrapolate this logic to "Being cranky and angry at everything is a sign of a possibly decent human being.If you do not take shitty stuff in general as an affront to everything good and holy in the world, you are not a proper human being."
Asking for a friend here.
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@timebandit I don't want to think what I'll be like when I get out of college!
Being cranky and angry at shitty software is a sign of a possibly decent developer. If you do not take shitty code as an affront to everything good and holy in the world, you are not a proper developer. :D
Some day your cynicism will transcend all of that and you'll be at peace again.
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@stillwater said in WTF Bites:
Being cranky and angry at shitty software is a sign of a possibly decent developer.
Can you extrapolate this logic to "Being cranky and angry at everything is a sign of a possibly decent human being.If you do not take shitty stuff in general as an affront to everything good and holy in the world, you are not a proper human being."
Asking for a friend here.
Being a misanthrope, I would say so. But I am not entirely objective in my appraisal. :P
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@timebandit I don't want to think what I'll be like when I get out of college!
Being cranky and angry at shitty software is a sign of a possibly decent developer. If you do not take shitty code as an affront to everything good and holy in the world, you are not a proper developer. :D
Some day your cynicism will transcend all of that and you'll be at peace again.
Well, I just stopped giving much of a damn about anything and do whatever makes me feel good or happy years ago, so I think I'm already there. But when someone inflict their stupidity on me, I do not have the bullshit zen to not get annoyed, especially when they persist.
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especially when they persist.
How come there is an asshole like that in every single fucking company? EVERY SINGLE ONE OF EM!
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BitBucket doesn't let you see closed Mercurial branches. You can still browse commits just fine - just not the branch itself.
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Visual Studio Code package name for Debian is "code". Not "vs-code" or "visual-studio-code". Just "code". Better yet, this name doesn't conflict with any other package.
After all, it has absolutely nothing to do with Visual Studio, so why should it have it in the name? ;-)
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I am sure it has already been covered, but the latest Windows updates are setting Edge as the default PDF viewer. Goddamn that pisses me off. Stop pushing your shit on us like that. Pop a window if you want and give users a choice, but if you do that then the default should be to leave things how they are.
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@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
setting Edge as the default PDF viewer
Does this even work? My work PC keeps doing this, but Edge either crashes or freezes when it tries to open a PDF.
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Crosspost from IRC:
[16:39:31] <Onyx47> just came back from fixing something for a different client
[16:40:24] <Onyx47> they are doing contracted work for a power company and input some data into power company's webapp
[16:40:50] <Onyx47> the app is a barebones ASP.NET MVC deal, probably mostly done using drag and drop
[16:41:36] <Onyx47> so, after talking to them a bit, I deduced that the backend database has a unique constraint on (first_name, last_name, equivalent_of_ssn)
[16:42:05] <Onyx47> they sometimes need to input data for people whose ssn they don't have... you can guess what happens
[16:42:27] <Onyx47> power company's official reply is "add a number to the person's name if there's a conflict"
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Does this even work? My work PC keeps doing this, but Edge either crashes or freezes when it tries to open a PDF.
Knowing Microsoft...probably not.
Edge is a fetid sack of monkey shit and no one wants it. That is why they try to force feed it to you.
Now we have to start setting up default associations config files and enforcing them through Group Policy (if anyone knows an easier way, I am all ears). There should be a much easier way to set these.
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BitBucket doesn't let you see closed Mercurial branches. You can still browse commits just fine - just not the branch itself.
There is no such thing as closed branch. The branch simply ceases to exist. Commits don't belong to branches, but exist as long as they are reachable from any of them. That's not a WTF. It is how distributed version control works.
Have you ever used Mercurial? It's quite different from Git, I'll let you know.