WTF Bites
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https://i.imgur.com/zM7kxVt.png
The fuck do I need to log out of free wifi for? And what's the point of a hyperlink to the page I'm already on?
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
https://i.imgur.com/zM7kxVt.png
The fuck do I need to log out of free wifi for?
I'm assuming it's a default page for paid and free services.
And what's the point of a hyperlink to the page I'm already on?
So you can bookmark it?
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@hardwaregeek A local restaurant called Amsterdam Falafel and Kabob.
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@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
Guess I'll have to spend the additional 12 keypresses for 'en.wikipedia.org' in future
Protip: http://enwp.org/Words
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@zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@cvi: now you understand how Europeans feel when they see stuff like "Paris, Texas", "Berlin, Wisconsin" or "London, Kentucky" ;)
And there are some places called Prague in USA too. In fact, there are two—Prague, NE and Prague, OK—plus New Prague, MN and Praha, TX. However, none of them is a city large enough to have skyscrapers.
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I didn't exactly have high expectations for the movie to begin with, but ...
I'm not sure what the problem is. It's the headquarters in Prague. I mean, sure...they'd probably really be in the embassy or a consulate, but that's just normal movie unrealism.
And while Praha, CZE does have some skyscrapers, it does not have these ones. So hell knows where the shot is actually from, but definitely not any place called Prague.
Update: — apparently somebody does know
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@cvi Plus the photo is clearly Frankfurt. Thanks, easily identifiable logos.
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@cursorkeys What about registering it as a search engine of its own. Unless you usually go there to read the title page, it's even fewer steps.
Actually, it should register itself in Chrome, all you have to do is modify its keyword.
Damn good idea. Turns out it was already aliased to 'w' so I just have to remember that in future.
@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
@cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
Guess I'll have to spend the additional 12 keypresses for 'en.wikipedia.org' in future
Protip: http://enwp.org/Words
TIL thanks, that's a lot shorter.
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Main work PC Crashed last night so I just had a look at the Event Log out of interest and found this WTFery at about the right time:
That empty line really is an empty line too.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
The fuck do I need to log out of free wifi for?
Your free wifi is provided by Cloudflare and APNIC Labs?
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Autzu provides you with a fleet of well-maintained, high-end vehicles that can be operated under ridesharing platforms such as Uber. With no financial commitments, you can book a car as little or often as you'd like. Each car is available 24/7, three times a day, with each shift lasting 8 hours. If you ever have any questions, comments, issues or emergencies, Autzu is just a call or a message away with 24/7 driver support..
Is it just me or does this business model seem strange? They somehow have $25M in revenue, but how?
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@zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@cvi: now you understand how Europeans feel when they see stuff like "Paris, Texas", "Berlin, Wisconsin" or "London, Kentucky" ;)
I knew a girl in college who was from Mexico, Missouri. She was also somewhat dark-skinned, and for kicks she sometimes just told people she was from Mexico. There's also a Lebanon, Missouri. The largest county by area in Missouri is Texas County, with Houston as the county seat. And I have to finish this list with Peru, Nebraska.
Filed Under: Amusing geographic facts that nobody here really cares about
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@mott555 In Ontario (the province in CA, not the town in CA) there's a London, Paris, Athens, Perth, Cambridge, and probably some others I missed.
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@hungrier Waterloo, Belleville, Kingston, Chelsea, Huntsville, …
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Conclusion: you guys sucked at inventing original names for geographical things
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@luhmann I often suggest using GUID's to name things so there's never any confusion, but no one takes me very seriously.
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The train to 5C85D171-E30C-418A-A20F-DC8065914CC2 will be departing from platform 5.
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The train to 5C85D171-E30C-418A-A20F-DC8065914CC2 will be departing from platform
5480F8BD2-CA54-47FD-A3CD-34B16FCD44C8.FTFY
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I often suggest using GUID's to name things so there's never any confusion
That's not very optimised for humans.
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[09:33] <*****> dumbing down computers is the single biggest problem we're facing right now. the user should be elevated to the level of the OS, not the other way around
Linux will never make it on the desktop.
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@bb36e I don't know what you're talking about. I, a software developer and programmer, have been using Linux on my desktop since 2003. Linux on the desktop is a success.
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@bb36e I don't know what you're talking about. I, a software developer and programmer, have been using Linux on my desktop since 2003. Linux on the desktop is a success.
I like how you're holding an argument with yourself. Let us know who wins. :P
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
@bb36e I don't know what you're talking about. I, a software developer and programmer, have been using Linux on my desktop since 2003. Linux on the desktop is a success.
I like how you're holding an argument with yourself. Let us know who wins. :P
My money's on @bb36e
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
Let us know who wins.
I know who loses: sanity
I lost that a long time ago. It was boring anyway.
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Autzu provides you with a fleet of well-maintained, high-end vehicles that can be operated under ridesharing platforms such as Uber. With no financial commitments, you can book a car as little or often as you'd like. Each car is available 24/7, three times a day, with each shift lasting 8 hours. If you ever have any questions, comments, issues or emergencies, Autzu is just a call or a message away with 24/7 driver support..
Is it just me or does this business model seem strange? They somehow have $25M in revenue, but how?
Renting cars to Uber drivers? I know they have standards for cars (not too old, etc) and not everyone has them. Depending on the location and the demand I could see how this works out for people.
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@heterodox i'm just annoyed when someone says, 'hey this is a problem with Linux right now' and an arch user emerges* from their cave and says something like, "sounds like you're doing it wrong. You just need to RTFM and if you don't like it, write your own patches!"
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So Facebook doesn't do a good job with emojis.
Note the emojis leaking out of the post area into the next column.
Fish in a barrel, I know, but.
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@benjamin-hall said in WTF Bites:
So Facebook doesn't do a good job
with emojis.
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@benjamin-hall said in WTF Bites:
So Facebook doesn't do a good job
with emojis.Fair enough.
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@polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
That wall is just three layers of drywall. There's no structure.
Here ya go:
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a software developer and programmer
In other words, you're special.
#MeTwohave been using Linux on my desktop since 2003.
#ButNotThatSpecial
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the user should be elevated to the level of the OS, not the other way around
"Can I open Facebook?"
"Not until you can tell me the difference between a thread and a process you can't!"
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Status: unable to click button on mobile.
HTML is hard. Let's go cookieing!
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Conclusion: you guys sucked at inventing original names for geographical things
Settlers wanted to be reminded of places they came from. See also various New ... place names all over the world. This is not limited to English-speaking settlers; e.g., Nieuw Amsterdam, Virreinato de la Nueva España.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I could see how this works out for people.
It's Uber. It works out badly.
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@zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@cvi: now you understand how Europeans feel when they see stuff like "Paris, Texas", "Berlin, Wisconsin" or "London, Kentucky" ;)
I knew a girl in college who was from Mexico, Missouri. She was also somewhat dark-skinned, and for kicks she sometimes just told people she was from Mexico. There's also a Lebanon, Missouri. The largest county by area in Missouri is Texas County, with Houston as the county seat. And I have to finish this list with Peru, Nebraska.
Filed Under: Amusing geographic facts that nobody here really cares about
There's also a Versailles, Missouri. It might be named after the Versailles in France, but if you pronounce it like those snobs in France do then you're pronouncing it wrong.
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That's not very optimised for humans.
Hah, nice. Where I am now is a good one, but also doxxy since I'm at home, so instead I'll go with my workplace, in which my seat is probably at about tries.tries.purely. But I might just get into windy.swear.shout :)
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@hardwaregeek
Stop ruining my jokes with your facts!
This is why we can't have nice things
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
https://i.imgur.com/zM7kxVt.png
The fuck do I need to log out of free wifi for? And what's the point of a hyperlink to the page I'm already on?
And more importantly, why on Earth are they borrowing a non-internal IP address for their login
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@hardwaregeek said in WTF Bites:
Conclusion: you guys sucked at inventing original names for geographical things
Settlers wanted to be reminded of places they came from. See also various New ... place names all over the world. This is not limited to English-speaking settlers; e.g., Nieuw Amsterdam, Virreinato de la Nueva España.
I wonder if @Luhmann is aware of B*****m, WI; another `B*****m, IL; Antwerp, OH or Brussels, IL. A curse on his ancestry!
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Naming things is, after all, one of the hard problems.
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@anonymous234 this was one of the most annoying things I read in that channel. We don't work for our tools, we make our tools work for us.
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@jbert
Don't forget Hoboken, Antwerp.
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I often suggest using GUID's to name things so there's never any confusion
That's not very optimised for humans.
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It's probably common knowledge around here that SQLite treats column types just like most projects treat random bug reports – it ignores them ( ). But that's not the WTF bite for today.
SQLite also has a concept of "type affinity". The documentation says:
The important idea here is that the type is recommended, not required. Any column can still store any type of data. It is just that some columns, given the choice, will prefer to use one storage class over another. The preferred storage class for a column is called its "affinity".
The documentation goes on to note:
Note that a declared type of "FLOATING POINT" would give INTEGER affinity, not REAL affinity, due to the "INT" at the end of "POINT". And the declared type of "STRING" has an affinity of NUMERIC, not TEXT.
What's in a type, anyway?
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It's probably common knowledge around here that SQLite treats column types just like most projects treat random bug reports – it ignores them ( ). But that's not the WTF bite for today.
SQLite also has a concept of "type affinity". The documentation says:
The important idea here is that the type is recommended, not required. Any column can still store any type of data. It is just that some columns, given the choice, will prefer to use one storage class over another. The preferred storage class for a column is called its "affinity".
The documentation goes on to note:
Note that a declared type of "FLOATING POINT" would give INTEGER affinity, not REAL affinity, due to the "INT" at the end of "POINT". And the declared type of "STRING" has an affinity of NUMERIC, not TEXT.
What's in a type, anyway?
Yeah, SQLite is trying to DWYM with SQL written for other engines, but with the utter mess that SQL types in general are, it is bound to hit a bunch of weird cases.
If you are writing for SQLite specifically, stick to the official names of
TEXT
,NUMERIC
,INTEGER
,REAL
andBLOB
.Also watch out for when the conversions happen and when not. IIRC they happen with expressions in the SQL, but not with bound parameters. And you should generally insert with the later, so you need to already give it the type you want anyway.
And note that
INTEGER
can be safely abbreviated toINT
except in the expressionINTEGER PRIMARY KEY
, where only that exact string (case insensitively) is magic.
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NodeJS is still busy reinventing all of computer history, without applying any of the lessons learned.
new Buffer(size)
Stability: 0 - Deprecated: Use Buffer.alloc() instead (also see Buffer.allocUnsafe()).
Allocates a new Buffer of size bytes.
Prior to Node.js 8.0.0, the underlying memory for Buffer instances created in this way is not initialized. The contents of a newly created Buffer are unknown and may contain sensitive data.
Source: NodeJS documentation
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@dcoder I see nothing wrong with that. As long as it's never used directly but through some wrapper that disallows out-of-bounds access, that's the most sane behavior there might be. Would you rather the entire block be zero-filled all the time?
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@dcoder I see nothing wrong with that. As long as it's never used directly but through some wrapper that disallows out-of-bounds access, that's the most sane behavior there might be. Would you rather the entire block be zero-filled all the time?
Which one of these seems easier to implement and less bug-prone to you?
A. Perfect monitoring of all accesses to ensure there's absolutely no way to read an element that hasn't been written before.
B. Zero-filling.Remember, this is NodeJS we're talking about.