WTF Bites
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
This is a stapled packet, where the center of the staple got sent through the paper too. No idea how. Nothing wrong with the stapler.What @Tsaukpaetra said. The point of the staple that didn't go through properly didn't go through because it ended up hitting the strike plate instead of getting curved over as it should. Then the excess force had to flatten the staple somehow, so it ended up buckling in the middle.
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There's probably another topic about this somewhere (if so, please post the link), but:
Controversial Copyright Laws Approved By European Parliament
European Union lawmakers today adopted a revised negotiating position on a series of controversial copyright rules.
This is really a pile of
, but there's one point of particular that's insane:Parliament’s position will also apply to snippets, where only a small part of a news publisher’s text is displayed. In practice, this liability requires these parties to pay right holders for copyrighted material that they make available. Parliament’s text also specifically requires that journalists themselves, and not just their publishing houses, benefit from remuneration stemming from this liability requirement.
So, that snippet I just posted, or the onebox above? No longer allowed unless you're willing to pay €€€.
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Thanks!
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WTF, MS, are you looking for another EU court order?
Microsoft intercepting Firefox and Chrome installation on Windows 10 - gHacks Tech News
When you try to install the Firefox pr Chrome web browser on a recent Windows 10 version 1809 Insider build, you may notice that the installation gets interrupted by the operating system.
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Windows randomly decides to keep windows on top. Like this:
The window below is the pop-up from the combo-box. And I had to move the dialog to the other screen first, because when I had it over the main Outlook window, it was popping below that as well, so I didn't even see it.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in WTF Bites:
In my world, 80% of the time my work PC reboots for updates without me ever seeing any indication anywhere that a reboot might be required.
Even when I win, I lose.
Today I saw, for about a second, a notification that said "Your PC needs to restart in the next 600 minutes to update..." (or words to that effect; I don't know exactly what was after that because it disappeared before I finished reading it, and I'd gotten enough of the gist to not need to bother looking for the details).
So, near the end of the day, I started closing down applications gracefully. On about the third one, my computer bluescreened on me with the stop code MEMORY_MANAGEMENT. Don't know if I lost any work, one of the applications I did try to close takes a while to save so I don't know if it had finished. (Oh wait, I will have lost a SQL script I was putting together. Didn't get as far as closing down SQL Developer.)
I suppose it's slightly better than unexpectedly rebooting overnight, or while I'm at lunch or in the toilet or whatever. But not much.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
So, that snippet I just posted, or the onebox above? No longer allowed unless you're willing to pay €€€.
The article also says
So, sharing hyperlinks to articles, together with “individual words” to describe them, will be free of copyright constraints. At the same time, in an attempt to encourage start-ups and innovation, the text now exempts small and micro platforms from the directive. Wikipedia and open source software platforms will likewise not be affected.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
So, that snippet I just posted, or the onebox above? No longer allowed unless you're willing to pay €€€.
That's the less problematic article, actually. I can imagine that payments to a fund somewhat similar to how one pays for playing music in an inn or shop can be sorted out to actually work.
The more problematic one is the other one (article 13 IIRC) that makes platforms responsible for checking that users don't upload copyrighted works they don't have permissions to upload. That stands key legal principles on their head and drives them into the ground with a sledgehammer.
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Windows randomly decides to keep windows on top. Like this:
The window below is the pop-up from the combo-box. And I had to move the dialog to the other screen first, because when I had it over the main Outlook window, it was popping below that as well, so I didn't even see it.
Sounds more like an Outlook fuckup - not a Windows one.
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Sounds more like an Outlook fuckup - not a Windows one.
Either way, it's a Microsoft fuckup
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@dkf Yeah the one I've literally never been able to get used to in like 15 years of using Windows is Page Down working differently.
(Although interestingly Chrome seems to ignore the OS and use Page Down in the Mac Classic way on Windows, I never noticed that before.... EDIT: Chrome doesn't do it in Discord, maybe some custom code NodeBB added? Weird. EDIT EDIT: in Twitter, Page Down both works like the Mac Classic version and it scrolls down the page even though the cursor is in a text field. Conclusion: everything's broken all the time forever.)
What's the difference between Page Down in Windows (I'm on Win7 64-bit) and Page Down in Mac Classic? You say that Chrome does the same as Mac Classic, but I don't see any variance in behavior. What am I missing?
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What am I missing?
Put your cursor halfway through the last line in the document, then hit "Page Down" and see where the cursor ends up.
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@Tsaukpaetra Wait are you seriously saying that reboot daily is best practice? I mean sure most software is shit, but... that's just outright surrender.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@Bulb Cat burritos are fine and probably safer for both parties once the cat is secured. They work more universally too, the pinch shoulder thing relies on the cat's instincts overriding the cat's being a jerk.
Probably depends on whether the cat came from a good home with its own mother who would carry it around by its scruff until it was weaned.
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@djls45 Are you trolling cats?
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Apparently my sister's cat discovered how to activate the shredder by sticking her whiskers into the slot. Other than the constant noise from a shredder running unnecessarily, it's harmless, because whiskers are far too thin to get dragged into the machine.
This same cat used to stick her whiskers into the front fan of a desktop PC because the noise of her whiskers bouncing off the fan blades was amusing.
Ricky (he’s a black cat, his sister Lucy is an orange tabby) likes to “yodel” into the floor fan. Possibly because the fan makes it sound strange...
He’s, umm, kinda special...
Hey, my kids do that! :D
(I did, too, when I was little.)
For some reason, it doesn't sound nearly as choppy with my voice now...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Zendesk WTF:
So.... you want me to rate the service before it's been finished? :/
Isn't one aspect of Zen the acceptance of things simply as they are?
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For some reason, it doesn't sound nearly as choppy with my voice now...
Low frequences diffract around obstacles better than high frequencies do.
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@Tsaukpaetra Wait are you seriously saying that reboot daily is best practice? I mean sure most software is shit, but... that's just outright surrender.
That was so long ago I have no idea what I"m saying. But I doubt I said anything about best practice.
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@anotherusername So you're saying I should sing falsetto into the fan?
(Yes, I totally can. My dad is a pretty good cowboy-style yodeler, and I've learned a little bit from him.)
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@LB_ Those "buttons" can die in a firey pit of hell. One of them was perfectly positioned that if you moved the mouse in the click 'dismiss', the offset was just right so you clicked a setup-or-something button instead. FUCK THAT UI.
If the MOUSELEFTBUTTONDOWN and MOUSELEFTBUTTONUP events do not occur on exactly the same UI component (especially buttons and links), then the action should be ignored, unless it's a drag-and-drop operation.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar has secret sauce in the background
It'd be nice if it was like my grandmother's special meatball gravy.
Unfortunately, it's more like Thousand Island dressing.
Meh. That's not a very secret secret sauce. My grandmother's special meatball gravy was something else, and the secret died with her (well over 20 years ago) so it's one of those things that's really secret now!
My mom's gravy is excellent. You start with the grease from cooking up a bunch of bacon, sausages, or even just burger meat (beef is okay, but good venison is my preference). Then you mix in flour and whole milk and heat until it gets to the right consistency (very slow-flowing, like molasses, and a bit gloppy, but not yet gummy), and add a bunch of black pepper to taste. That goes very well on her homemade biscuits.
For the biscuits, this recipe seems to be pretty close to my mom's. Three differences, though, are that Mom doesn't add the butter until it's the last ingredient, she just cuts the butter into chunks with a butter knife as she adds them to the mix instead of using a box grater or a pastry cutter, and she just uses a regular coffee mug or drinking glass to cut the biscuits.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
How hard is it for a system to integrate/report to itself? Amazon keeps showing a jump in sales rank for my ebook this month if I look at the line graph. But nowhere else does it show that I've actually had any sales this month.
Why would an increasing sales rank necessarily indicate that there have been sales?
If there were zero sales, why would the rank go up?
Other non-performing products were added to the market. Obs.
The rank would only go up if performing products were removed from the market.
"Top 20%", when products are sorted first by number of sales in decreasing order, and then by age in decreasing order.
Only the top 20% have any sales, but then 11.1% more new products are added so that the 20% becomes 10%. Boom! Now anything that had been in the top 20% is now in the top 10%. Instant rank boost!
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Ha. No.
You're right. More people are buying desktop computers now than ever
You know, there is a type of computer between desktops and tablets, and they're quite popular.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Ha. No.
You're right. More people are buying desktop computers now than ever
You know, there is a type of computer between desktops and tablets, and they're quite popular.
Tabtops?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Zendesk WTF:
So.... you want me to rate the service before it's been finished? :/
Fun fact: there's a very complicated automated ticket closing system that I wrote for Inedo's support ticketing system that moves tickets from one closed state to another over time, closes tickets when a dev replies, and reopens tickets when they get a reply from a user.
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Sounds more like an Outlook fuckup - not a Windows one.
This was particularly weird case, but the kind of issue happens with other windows too, not just Outlook.
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Amazon Music has 668 different songs titled "Into the Sun".
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Amazon Music has 668 different songs titled "Into the Sun".
They should delete two least popular ones.
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Do code review comments really need a like button? Come on Atlassian. Also, when I click ticket description, it's usually to copy it, not edit. Don't put it in edit mode please.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in WTF Bites:
In the fridge at work is a container of so-called "rice milk" (according to the ingredients, water with rice in it, presumably finely powdered and mixed to a milk-like consistency but it's not as if I've tried opening it to verify this). No, that's not the WTF, or at least not much of one.
The WTF is that the package proudly proclaims: "Organic!"
Yeah... just like literally every other milk-substitute in existence and, of course, milk itself.
TRWTF is that this probably does increase their sales....
No, that's not a WTF at all. There's a specific legal definition of it, and it basically means you didn't use (artificial) chemical insecticides, herbicides or fertilizers. You may not distinguish between naturally-arising chemicals and man-made chemicals (or, reasonably, just "chemicals" for short), but that doesn't mean that other people don't.
I prefer "organic", but I'm not really willing to pay much extra for it. This is of course, a different sense of the word than in the phrase "organic chemistry".
Where the fail comes in is that while you (the farmer growing and selling "organic" crops) may not be using artificial chemicals, your neighbor can, and if the winds just happen to blow so that his crop-dusting drifts into your fields... well, you didn't add any chemicals to your crops, so they can still be sold as "organic". (Just be sure to submit chemical testing samples from the corner of your farm that's furthest from your "inorganic" neighbor to the certification agency. After you thoroughly wash them, of course.)
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Benjamin-Hall
I was talking more about Joe User that mostly browse the web, Facebook, send and receive emails who will not buy another desktop and use his phone/tablet instead.The market for desktop computers is way smaller since smartphones and tablets are available.
PC gaming...? Those don't perform well on a smartphone or tablet, if you can even get them to run.
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@djls45 Also, one of the main fertilisers used for organic crops is cow dung. Unfortunately, there's not enough organic livestock to provide all the fertiliser that's needed so it's mostly from non organic cows
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar has secret sauce in the background
It'd be nice if it was like my grandmother's special meatball gravy.
Unfortunately, it's more like Thousand Island dressing.
Meh. That's not a very secret secret sauce. My grandmother's special meatball gravy was something else, and the secret died with her (well over 20 years ago) so it's one of those things that's really secret now!
My mom's gravy is excellent. You start with the grease from cooking up a bunch of bacon, sausages, or even just burger meat (beef is okay, but good venison is my preference). Then you mix in flour and whole milk and heat until it gets to the right consistency (very slow-flowing, like molasses, and a bit gloppy, but not yet gummy), and add a bunch of black pepper to taste. That goes very well on her homemade biscuits.
For the biscuits, this recipe seems to be pretty close to my mom's. Three differences, though, are that Mom doesn't add the butter until it's the last ingredient, she just cuts the butter into chunks with a butter knife as she adds them to the mix instead of using a box grater or a pastry cutter, and she just uses a regular coffee mug or drinking glass to cut the biscuits.
I did not need to read this so early in the morning. Now I'm hungry and lunch is 4+ hours away. :(
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Now I'm hungry
@mott555 said in In other news today: The Garage edition:
Newer phones don't even fit in my pockets. My old S7 barely fits. I think maybe that's because I have a 31-inch waist these days and don't need to wear an Elon Musk Car Factory Tent for clothing so my pockets can only be so big.
We's just trying to help, you see, with your pocket problem.
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Do code review comments really need a like button? Come on Atlassian. Also, when I click ticket description, it's usually to copy it, not edit. Don't put it in edit mode please.
tries to double click to select word on Trello card
card went to edit mode on first click and somehow the second click selected the wrong word
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You know, there is a type of computer between desktops and tablets, and they're quite popular.
They're more popular than desktops, but even laptop sales are going down.
Personal computing devices shipments 2024-2028 | Statista
In 2024, notebook PC unit shipments are expected to amount to 186.68 million, while detachable tablet shipments are set to reach 74.02 million.
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PC gaming...? Those don't perform well on a smartphone or tablet, if you can even get them to run.
They don't perform well on laptops either
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
PC gaming...? Those don't perform well on a smartphone or tablet, if you can even get them to run.
They don't perform well on laptops either
They do as of ~2017. I have a 14" MSI laptop that does 4K gaming just fine. (Just gotta make sure the vents aren't pointed at anything flammable...)
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I have a 14" MSI laptop that does 4K gaming just fine.
You must have paid a lot for it.
And in about 6 months, your videocard will probably be obsolete and you can't change it
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Confuzzled.
This should have looped, no?
Is
Add-AzureRmVhdasynchronous?
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
I have a 14" MSI laptop that does 4K gaming just fine.
You must have paid a lot for it.
And in about 6 months, your videocard will probably be obsolete and you can't change it~$1200 I think. GPU's an NVIDIA 1060 so it's technically obsolete as of like last week or something, but there are only a few games I ever play anymore, and it does fine on them, so it'll be several years before I start to care.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Confuzzled.
This should have looped, no?
Is
Add-AzureRmVhdasynchronous?Not from the point of view of the script.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Zendesk WTF:
So.... you want me to rate the service before it's been finished? :/
Fun fact: there's a very complicated automated ticket closing system that I wrote for Inedo's support ticketing system that moves tickets from one closed state to another over time, closes tickets when a dev replies, and
reopensdeletes tickets when they get a reply from a user who is then banned.
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(Just gotta make sure the vents aren't pointed at anything flammable...)
Also, melty bits.
Gaming laptops are essentially heatguns.
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
(Just gotta make sure the vents aren't pointed at anything flammable...)
Also, melty bits.
Gaming laptops are essentially heatguns.
So are regular laptops when compiling. (My fan is currently very noisy compared to normal)
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@dcon: switch to Javascript. No compiling, problem solved.
