WTF Bites
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I love it when Internet Explorer is so paranoid about everything that it needs to mention that it's blocking itself....
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Because that's where the version number comes from - the VERSIONINFO resource.
Thanks, I will remember that. Any ideas why it could be missing from Windows 10 SDK as installed by Build Tools installer?
Damn, you guys are aggressive when it comes to acquiring converters.
Wouldn't the more morbid sense of the sentence require a different sequence of tenses? Something along the lines of:
a colleague who died a few years ago because someone remember
sed him having a working converterOr did I make a grammar mistake anyway?
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@aitap You're not wrong, but it'll take more than grammar to stop me from hilariously misinterpreting what other people say.
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WTF of yesterday: I installed a freeware version of Reboot Restore RX, latest version on one of my Surfaces. And promptly wondered why Windows Updates did not work anymore.
From the looks of it, they install a watchdog process which actively monitors and disables the update service if found to be enabled. Which would be fine when the software is in "locked" mode (i.e. all changes to the PC are rolled back upon reboot) since any applied updates get rolled back anyway. But it does this even in "open" mode which you are supposed to use to install new software.
And there's no switch to disable this behaviour. At least not in the free version.
So, off to tech support I went which had this chat feature. However, this person I was talking to was either not the brightest of bulbs or incompetent or both.
So, your software seemingly nukes Windows Updates with no possibility to change that behaviour.
Our software doesn't do that!
Erm, lady, I've got the software right here and it was the only thing I installed recently. I can see the service being toggled from "automatic" to "disabled"!
You need the pro version for that!
You're telling me that your software nukes Windows Updates, you can't disable that behaviour and you don't tell people about that?
It's written in our EULA
I just looked through your EULA. It does not say that anywhere (Not said: "This would be a fucking retarded place to tell people about software behaviour anyway!")
Let me get you a technician
Uninstall our software and then, for the free version, setwindows_updates=0
insetup.ini
before re-installing.
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User has issue with network scanner yesterday. It was diagnosed to when we did a recent server replacement we did not change the DNS server on the AIO printer to use the new server. Rebooted printer, user was gone for the day so we sent her an email asking her to reboot this morning and try scanning again, which should fix the issue. We get an email this morning:
"The scanner still isn't working."
"It will be this afternoon before we can get someone on-site to take a look at things in person. Did you reboot this morning to see if that would resolve the issue?"
"I did, and it still isn't working.-checks RMM-
Uptime:
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
User has issue with network scanner yesterday. It was diagnosed to when we did a recent server replacement we did not change the DNS server on the AIO printer to use the new server. Rebooted printer, user was gone for the day so we sent her an email asking her to reboot this morning and try scanning again, which should fix the issue. We get an email this morning:
"The scanner still isn't working."
"It will be this afternoon before we can get someone on-site to take a look at things in person. Did you reboot this morning to see if that would resolve the issue?"
"I did, and it still isn't working.-checks RMM-
Uptime:
Probably restarted her computer, not the scanner.
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@Benjamin-Hall I should have been more clear. I asked her if she rebooted her computer, and that was the uptime from said computer. Her computer was asleep when we checked in on it last night or we would have just rebooted it then.
Time to make some GP changes.
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Thanks, I will remember that. Any ideas why it could be missing from Windows 10 SDK as installed by Build Tools installer?
Nope. But then I never install an SDK by itself. Visual Studio definitely does include rc.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Probably restarted her computer, not the scanner.
Yes. That switch on the monitor. It went black and then came back on.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Probably restarted her computer, not the scanner.
Yes. That switch on the monitor. It went black and then came back on.
If only. It is a laptop. I suppose it is possible that she just put it to sleep and woke it back up again, but remote support shows it being continuously on since 8:30ish, so I think she is just lying to us.
Real edit: The easiest thing to do is just connect in and suggest we reboot one more time. Ya know, sometimes the first one doesn't take. You lying cunt.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
It is a laptop. I suppose it is possible that she just put it to sleep and woke it back up again
I ran into this while working on a co-workers laptop. Shut down did not actually shut down, it put it into a deep sleep instead. The only way I could actually get the thing to reboot was to unplug it from AC power and yank the battery.
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I ran into this while working on a co-workers laptop. Shut down did not actually shut down, it put it into a deep sleep instead. The only way I could actually get the thing to reboot was to unplug it from AC power and yank the battery.
Lenovo?
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@Polygeekery I don't recall what brand it was. It was 4 - 5 years old though.
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@mott555 probably a Lenovo. They have a special procedure you have to follow if you want an actual reboot.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
They have a special procedure you have to follow if you want an actual reboot.
Does it involve the PC successfully booting first? That was the problem, it would always crash on startup with some kind of error that made it look like it was trying to run with invalid reloaded sessions or something, like it had corrupted itself while trying to sleep. But yanking all power got it to start up successfully.
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@mott555 I don't remember, you may be correct. I have always run in to it when trying to reload an OS. It never gives you any boot options unless you jump through its hoops.
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There is no real ending; we didn't discuss that ever again.
I think she owes you a Happy Ending™.
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@aitap: tips for next time:
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how to get the FTDI driver working with devices that use custom VID/PID (section 4):
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the software which allows you to select either VCP mode or D2XX mode for a device (but be careful not to change other settings, as your device may not like it):
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JavaScript function for checking whether at least one element of an array meets specified condition has the worst name imaginable.
some()
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Umm... I'm connected to you, you piece of shit! Why can't you "find" yourself?
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Status: Apparently even in FreeBSD world, Games are an expected component of the system...
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JavaScript function for checking whether at least one element of an array meets specified condition has the worst name imaginable.
some()Are you implying
any
other name would be better?
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JavaScript function for checking whether at least one element of an array meets specified condition has the worst name imaginable.
some()Are you implying
any
other name would be better?Yes, it would, because it wouldn't imply not including
all
.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
in FreeBSD world
Apparently, comparing two versions of a file, FreeBSD's upgrade script thinks it's just missing, and thus would delete the whole thing.
I think it's time to just nuke and pave...
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@Bulb Does this please you?
Array.prototype.any = Array.prototype.some; Array.prototype.some = function some(callback, thisArg) { return this.any(callback, thisArg) && !this.every(callback, thisArg); }
argh, JS's
this
WTFery makes this so much more confusing than it needs to be.And remember: senselessly gluing stuff together without considering the impact of having to iterate over the array twice is just The JavaScript Way™.
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Does this please you?
No, because whatever demented names a standard library of some language might use, renaming them only makes more confusion even if the new names are much more sensible.
(also the condition of some but not all does not seem particularly useful in practice)
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@Bulb clobbering prototypes is just The Ja— actually even that's too far for JS developers these days. Though more due to being told it's one of those goto-type "it's bad" practices than because they actually think about it, I would wager.
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JavaScript function for checking whether at least one element of an array meets specified condition has the worst name imaginable.
some()Are you implying
any
other name would be better?Yes, it would, because it wouldn't imply not including
all
.
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Are you implying
any
other name would be better?Yes, it would, because it wouldn't imply not including
all
.I disagree with the implication that "some" does not include "all".
"All" is not a strict subset of "some", but it is a subset nonetheless.∃ does not preclude ∀.
Of course then you might say "I have no issue with what you said about ∃ and ∀, I just think 'some' is a bad name for ∃. It's what I said in my post. Stop putting words in my mouth".
I guess it depends on your exact interpretation of the word "some".
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I guess it depends on your exact interpretation of the word "some".
"more than a few".
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∃ does not preclude ∀.
Indeed, they're mathematical duals of each other; ∃x.¬Px means the identical thing to ¬∀x.Px. Also, ∀x.Px implies ∃x.Px provided the universe of discourse is non-empty since any element of the set will serve as a witness of the existence proof…
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I guess it depends on your exact interpretation of the word "some".
Precisely. In some contexts, ‘some’ implies ‘but not all’. This was one of them.
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@Bulb Says you.
Can we agree to disagree?
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I guess it depends on your exact interpretation of the word "some".
Precisely. In some contexts, ‘some’ implies ‘but not all’.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Punkin?
Temptress?
Is this for real? (emphasis mine)
As an example, of the 454 girls named Precious in the 1990s, 431 were black. Of the 319 Shanices, 310 were black. There were also 228 babies named Unique, and 1 each of Uneek, Uneque, and Uneqqee.
My wife once worked for a nonprofit that did stuff for old black people. One of her fellow employees shared the story of a lady who named her daughter Female (pronounced FEM-uh-lee).
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@hungrier There's a Prime offer but it's not the cheapest one?
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@loopback0 I checked the item page and it said "Note: This item is only available from third-party sellers". But after drilling into that, I do see that some of the third party sellers are "fulfilled by Amazon" (and also expensive)
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Be me, using FreeNAS 11.3 beta
Create a brand-new jail since upgrading a current one isn't working.
Access the jail's shell so you can start installing shit
Witness madness
Filed under: Fucking hell, why does it print two characters when I press key once?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
https://www.asiaone.com/malaysia/no-selfie-no-ride-grab-tells-users-malaysia
From the headline I first thought it's some weird marketing stunt or something, but they will actually be requiring photo of the passenger for identification (which obviously does not have to be a selfie, just a photo, but presumably the application will be making it easy to use the front camera to just take one).
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From the headline I first thought it's some weird marketing stunt or something, but they will actually be requiring photo of the passenger for identification (which obviously does not have to be a selfie, just a photo, but presumably the application will be making it easy to use the front camera to just take one).
I'm having trouble deciding which is worse. Why not both.jfif
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@Bulb No, it has to be an actual selfie - from the article, they also have to provide passport or other official documentation when signing up.
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@Tsaukpaetra: you drink too much coffee. CLOSED_NOTABUG.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
too much coffee
E_VALUE_DOES_NOT_EXIST
When I start spillin, I ain't a fillin!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Filed under: Fucking hell, why does it print two characters when I press key once?
You must be holding it wrong.
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I only need black, of which I have plenty. It's set to print black and white, so even if there were color in the document, it wouldn't need colored ink.
Edit: But the gray box looks rather cyan, despite being actually gray, being told not to print in color, and being "out" of cyan.
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@HardwareGeek Or it's one of those stupid printers that, no matter what, insists on printing black by blending colors.
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At least you can still print, despite the message. Some other printer companies wouldn't even let you do that.