WTF Bites
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Also also, it's now been more than 1 week since the team lead has been back, and unless the issue has been fixed this morning (I haven't checked yet), it's still broken.
That's into revert-and-call-a-meeting-with-management territory.
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@dkf I agree... not my monkey, not my circus (I'm just an incidental user of that module that gets pulled in through other dependencies), so I'm not going to do much about it myself, it would definitely be overreach. But I've sent a less-friendly-than-before reminder to the team lead and if it doesn't get solved very soon I'm going to keep raising the issue on each and every dev channel I have access to.
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Can't tell if serious or not... Are you expecting the same code to not generate the error simply because you've deleted the object file and rebuilt it?
You accidentally the Visual Studio! Try turning it off and on again.
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@LaoC That's alright, it does that all by itself every now and then...
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No combination of Ctrl, Shift, Alt, Win and Space make the keyboard language switch, if you're thinking I mispressed keys.
Well, fuck me. Ctrl+Shift does switch the keyboard layout.
Has anyone at Microsoft ever selected text using the keyboard? Do they have programmers working there !?!?!
Or DBAs. Or technical writers. Or anyone who would benefit from being able to efficiently editing text, really.
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On the plus side I've now disabled that shortcut.
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@anonymous234
Oh! Oh! I know!The issue was you called
SomeFunction
when the function you were trying to call isSomeFuction
, right?
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less-than functionality for a
GUID
Version 1 guids, iirc, are at least partial-orderable by time.
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Bad: designing a phone charger that can only be used once.
Worse: using a rechargeable battery to do so.
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@hungrier: I guess by "safe" they mean "your trashcan won't immediately burst into flames".
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@hungrier: I guess by "safe" they mean "your trashcan won't immediately burst into flames".
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Well, fuck me. Ctrl+Shift does switch the keyboard layout.
To be fair, some people who have to live with multiple keyboard layouts sometimes prefer Ctrl+Shift to Alt+Shift because the latter, when pressed incorrectly (e.g. try pressing Alt once), triggers the menu bar, while the former doesn't change anything. Also, Ctrl+Shift - when pressed on a local hardware keyboard under Windows - doesn't switch the layout until both keys are released and unless those were the only keys pressed. I.e. Ctrl+Shift+arrows doesn't switch the layout, either.
Or is that something that they also changed between 7 and 10?
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@aitap I think they've always* had both: Alt+Shift to change input language, Ctrl+Shift to change keyboard layout.
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WTF of my day: So, this is part of an actual exam I'll have one certain class write tomorrow:
Mind, these pupils are nice, rather well-behaved and at least some of them really try to do their best - but seriously, at least for these 25 pupils several math teachers / schools dropped the ball hard.
A bit of background: This maths course is not hard-fail - you can balance it with other courses. Also, maths, while important, is not directly related to their future tasks.
As such, I'm more interested in coaxing them out of their rock-hard shells (they all know that they're not good in maths - there's really no point in driving this nail further in) and let them see that they are able to solve some maths problems if they at least try to do so.
The last thing I need to reinforce is their "I simply cannot do this!" belief - because then I might as well play fun games with them for the rest of the year. Less frustrating on them and me as well.
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Status: Hehe, Microsoft trying to be helpful ends up actually not.
What do you mean "he uses it"? he never specified anything like that!
Turns out, that's done by default on post requests (perhaps not all) made using
HttpClient
.Good jorb, uh, somebody.
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The last thing I need to reinforce is their "I simply cannot do this!" belief - because then I might as well play fun games with them for the rest of the year. Less frustrating on them and me as well.
Wait, what level is this? Is this not PEMDAS-stage?
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@Tsaukpaetra They're all between 16 and 19 years old.
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@Rhywden What's that colon notation? And is 4 multiplication?
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@Rhywden I feel like I'd need to be far better at reading German to understand the WTF here.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Rhywden What's that colon notation? And is 4 multiplication?
It's an alternate symbol for
/
. And 4 is about ordering the fractions from smallest to biggest.
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@Tsaukpaetra Please Excuse My Dumb-Ass Students
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Rhywden What's that colon notation? And is 4 multiplication?
4 is order by biggest first if I'm reading the answers correctly.
Edit: Damn, close, but reversed.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@Rhywden I feel like I'd need to be far better at reading German to understand the WTF here.
I omitted the age of the pupils: 16 to 19.
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@Rhywden they're individual problems? I thought they were multiple choice, and the problems were the answers.
The fact that the problems are actually the problems... yeah, those are pretty beginner-level.
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So, this is part of an actual exam I'll have one certain class write tomorrow:
Should you be leaking your own exam questions?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Hehe, Microsoft trying to be helpful ends up actually not.
What do you mean "he uses it"? he never specified anything like that!
Turns out, that's done by default on post requests (perhaps not all) made using
HttpClient
.Good jorb, uh, somebody.
Yeah, let's not upgrade to newfangled HTTP/1.1, it's only 19 years old.
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So, this is part of an actual exam I'll have one certain class write tomorrow:
Should you be leaking your own exam questions?
Look at the questions. If my pupils actually discover this then, by God, they earned it.
...
Also, there's a second page.
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@Rhywden True, most visitors to this forum would have more trouble deciphering the German than answering the questions.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@Rhywden I feel like I'd need to be far better at reading German to understand the WTF here.
I omitted the age of the pupils: 16 to 19.
Looks like grade 5 or 6 maths (itās been awhile, Iām not sure). What kind of school is this, Hauptschule?
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@hungrier Right. I meant setting "change language" to Ctrl+Shift and not using "change layout" at all.
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@Rhywden True, most visitors to this forum would have more trouble deciphering the German than answering the questions.
I'm not that hard to decipher, am I?
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@Rhywden I'm pretty abysmal at German.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@Rhywden I feel like I'd need to be far better at reading German to understand the WTF here.
I omitted the age of the pupils: 16 to 19.
Looks like grade 5 or 6 maths (itās been awhile, Iām not sure). What kind of school is this, Hauptschule?
It's a course after the Hauptschule.
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@Rhywden True, most visitors to this forum would have more trouble deciphering the German than answering the questions.
I'm not that hard to decipher, am I?
Well, I would have almost gotten 4 right, so, not that bad?
Again, this is beginner though, grain of sandy salt and all that.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@Rhywden I feel like I'd need to be far better at reading German to understand the WTF here.
I omitted the age of the pupils: 16 to 19.
Looks like grade 5 or 6 maths (itās been awhile, Iām not sure). What kind of school is this, Hauptschule?
My sister did a medical education for a while. The mandatory maths test included questions like:
You need to administer 25cc of (a certain medicine). How many (10cc) ampoules do you need?
I don't recall whether the size of the ampoules were given or assumed to be known, but this was apparently considered by most students to be unfairly difficult. All of them would have been 18+ by then.
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this was apparently considered by most students to be unfairly difficult
And we have to trust them to administer us medication
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@Rhywden I feel like I'd need to be far better at reading German to understand the WTF here.
I omitted the age of the pupils: 16 to 19.
Looks like grade 5 or 6 maths (itās been awhile, Iām not sure). What kind of school is this, Hauptschule?
My sister did a medical education for a while. The mandatory maths test included questions like:
You need to administer 25cc of (a certain medicine). How many (10cc) ampoules do you need?
I don't recall whether the size of the ampoules were given or assumed to be known, but this was apparently considered by most students to be unfairly difficult. All of them would have been 18+ by then.
Iām happy Iām not a teacher because Iād get quite frustrated by them calling everything āunfairly difficultā. And itās not that any of them canāt divide 25 / 10, itās that they donāt try.
Thereās a reflex of āmath is hard, letās go shoppingā that immediately shuts off their brain at the mere thought of doing math.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
this was apparently considered by most students to be unfairly difficult
And we have to trust them to administer us medication
The maths test was mandatory for a reason.
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@Rhywden I feel like I'd need to be far better at reading German to understand the WTF here.
I omitted the age of the pupils: 16 to 19.
Looks like grade 5 or 6 maths (itās been awhile, Iām not sure). What kind of school is this, Hauptschule?
My sister did a medical education for a while. The mandatory maths test included questions like:
You need to administer 25cc of (a certain medicine). How many (10cc) ampoules do you need?
I don't recall whether the size of the ampoules were given or assumed to be known, but this was apparently considered by most students to be unfairly difficult. All of them would have been 18+ by then.
Iām happy Iām not a teacher because Iād get quite frustrated by them calling everything āunfairly difficultā. And itās not that any of them canāt divide 25 / 10, itās that they donāt try.
Thereās a reflex of āmath is hard, letās go shoppingā that immediately shuts off their brain at the mere thought of doing math.Apparently to a certain class of person, the problem is not doing the calculation but extracting it from the question. Which is exactly the reason they use story questions.
Also, as I recall the answer is 3 - because you can't leave a half ampoule, and you need to squirt some back out to ensure there is no air in anyway.
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@PleegWat reading is always the hardest part of word problems. Sadly for many, life is nothing but word problems.
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@PleegWat Interesting. That makes the math even easier and the question more relevant because itās including domain knowledge they should have.
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@PleegWat My school had a mandatory math test administered in eleventh grade (created by the school). Notable questions:
'How would you write 3/5 as a decimal?'
'You have a ten-gallon bucket. Recall that a gallon is eight pints. How many pints fit in the bucket?'
There was also a mandatory English test, which was a six-paragraph essay on the joy of learning. Both ironic and indicative of where their priorities lay.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@PleegWat My school had a mandatory math test administered in eleventh grade (created by the school). Notable questions:
'How would you write 3/5 as a decimal?'
I couldn't get this to work with either inline styles nor combining Unicode characters, so here's a png.
'You have a ten-gallon bucket. Recall that a gallon is eight pints. How many pints fit in the bucket?'
That's impossible to solve without the middle sentence.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@PleegWat My school had a mandatory math test administered in eleventh grade (created by the school). Notable questions:
'How would you write 3/5 as a decimal?'
I couldn't get this to work with either inline styles nor combining Unicode characters, so here's a png.
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
@Lorne-Kates
error: unexpected end of input.
Do a "get latest".
You're so out of date you TFS using dinosaur. With Git, it's a simple matter of fetch, sync, pull but make sure you use the --chase-branch option or it might reflog the things you just got flogged properly
So that's the open source version of "I can just get my code with a single menu click".
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@Lorne-Kates I like Rust.
cargo install <crate>
, and then it's installed and added toPATH
. Completely open source, by the way.
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Was at McDonalds today. They apparently now have a "you can sit at your table and wait for your order if you'd like". I didn't indulge in that because hell if I'm going to make a minimum wage person wait on me because a corporation thinks it's "good for the brand". Anyways...
Each table has a big red circle sticker with the table number printed on it.
To be helpful, there's also the number in braille printed on the sticker.
Printed on the sticker.
Printed. Braille. Flat.
Them's some good thinkings, McDonalds.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I like Rust.
What other types of corrosion do you like? How about mold, mildew, dry rot?