WTF Bites
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@mott555 come on, think of
millionsthousandsdozens of other people who could use a non-WTF spell checker too!
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I think there are spellchecking libraries available, and presumably at least some of them can work on text that doesn't live on the UI thread.
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Here's one that's either due to being outdated or being
I'm looking at Python curricula, and find Google's own "Python Education Course".
For Google's Python Class, it's best to use Python 2.7. Although Python 3.x is becoming more popular, this course is designed for Python 2.6 or later.
It's freeking 2019. 2.7 has been outdated since...a long time ago.
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@Benjamin-Hall Don't you love the internet trend of hiding or omitting date stamps on articles and such?
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Don't you love the internet trend of hiding or omitting date stamps on articles and such?
It's in the footer:
Last updated February 12, 2018.
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@dkf Which means it's a total WTF. Python 2.7 was outdated when I was doing my PhD, and I've had that now for 8 years.
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Nice way to slip your PhD into casual conversation.
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Nice way to slip your PhD into casual conversation.
He's working with truncation. That's a PHDuh.
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@mott555 come on, think of
millionsthousandsdozens of other people who could use a non-WTF spell checker too!A spell checker that uses AI to determine the wrong homophone for each word and autocorrects it for you.
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@Gąska said in WTF Bites:
@mott555 come on, think of millions thousands dozens of other people who could use a non-WTF spell checker too!
A spell checker that uses AI to determine the wrong homophone for each word and autocorrects it for you.
A forum software that lets you compose a thread while vewing the Evil Ideas Thread but instead posts it back to WTF Bites.
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@mott555 come on, think of
millionsthousandsdozens of other people who could use a non-WTF spell checker too!A spell checker that uses AI to determine the wrong homophone for each word and autocorrects it for you.
There must be a blockchain in there somewhere. Or rather, it must be in blockchain...
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@Applied-Mediocrity The blockchain preserves the list of your misspellings, immutably, forever.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity The blockchain preserves the list of your misspellings, immutably, forever.
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A spell checker that uses AI to determine the wrong homophone for each word and autocorrects it for you.
A forum software that lets you compose a thread while vewing the Evil Ideas Thread but instead posts it back to WTF Bites.
You have to press Reply on the Evil Ideas Thread, then navigate back here and quote. And now it isn't even marked as a reply to the post you quoted, so nobody reading that post will know you said anything!
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Trying to investigate an issue with a integration in a PHP application. Nifty, they included debugging methods in the app itself, so I don't have to reinvent the wheel or even setup an environment for testing. It is all non-critical, so I can work on it on the live system. This should be easy.
So what sort of debugging methods have they written in to the app? Let's check the documentation.
Goddamnit.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Which means it's a total WTF. Python 2.7 was outdated when I was doing my PhD, and I've had that now for 8 years.
Up until about last year, there was a large contingent of people who refused to use Py3. They were just not interested in updating, and some of the changes in Py3 were annoying enough to handle that they didn't feel like changing. It's changed over the last year to 18 months, as it has become clear that the support infrastructure is just going to be kicked out from under everyone left on 2.7 at the end of 2019 (or earlier). Which is basically the only way.
IME, the one change that was truly awful coming from a large and complicated math-heavy codebase was PEP 238. Everything else has been relatively straight-forward, but that one is horrid and highly alien for anyone who also works with other languages (as we and many of our users do).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
I'm looking at Python curricula, and find Google's own "Python Education Course".
For Google's Python Class, it's best to use Python 2.7. Although Python 3.x is becoming more popular, this course is designed for Python 2.6 or later.
It's freeking 2019. 2.7 has been outdated since...a long time ago.
All of the tutorial files use 2-spaces as the indent
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity The blockchain preserves the list of your misspellings, immutably, forever.
Where did that meme come from? I never had time to read through the thousands of posts of fox arguing with everyone
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Nice way to slip your PhD into casual conversation.
Madison Twatter, PhD
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I'll have to do some testing and see if this travesty actually runs in a reasonable amount of time.
It's not reasonable, but it's better. In what world is it faster to create 150,000 one-word TextBoxes and spellcheck them than to run spellcheck on 40 individual RichTextBoxes with 3000 - 5000 words each?
Seriously, at least re-use a single text box for spell checking instead of creating and discarding one for every word.
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Open-source is less customizable, insecure, and costs more money? What? Am I reading this wrong?
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@error Discourse did that.
Also NodeBB.
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Status: this fucking "migration" has been ongoing for years (only some of the emails are shown). What a joke...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Open-source is less customizable, insecure, and costs more money? What? Am I reading this wrong?
Clearly you've never heard the sales pitch for a cloudy CRM.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Open-source is less customizable, insecure, and costs more money? What? Am I reading this wrong?
The arguments are crooked, but it actually does end up cheaper for most companies in the long run.
The thing is that to run the system yourself you need a decent administrator who can configure and secure it properly. Those tend not to be cheap, and in somewhat short supply, so a smaller company that does not have anything with computers as core business probably won't have one. Then just buying a cloud service is probably cheaper, because the maintenance cost gets spread over more customers, and you may even get a decent SLA. They are not cheap, but nor are administrators ready to rush to fix things in the middle of the night are even more expensive, and setting up all the monitoring also takes some effort.
The comparison to open-source is somewhat flawed though—many of the cloud services are probably based on open-source anyway.
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The comparison to open-source is somewhat flawed though—many of the cloud services are probably based on open-source anyway.
Yeah, I mean apparently theirs is open source as well, just that their solution comes pre-configured and with exclusive modules.
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@Tsaukpaetra Yes. Because for the SaaS providers it actually makes sense to use open-source, and even contribute to it, because they get the money from usage of the servers whether the software is open or closed and by using open-source they may get some free cooperation on the core software (most keep some modules private to keep some distinguishing features).
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but nor are administrators ready to rush to fix things in the middle of the night are even more expensive
I know what you're saying, but you probably should have spent a little longer editing that sentence… </>
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A few weeks ago I needed to "take over" someone else's contracts for electricity and gas in an apartment (not mine) - I needed to get them reassigned to myself, if that makes sense. Make sure they're in my name and I'm paying them. So I went to the energy company's customer care centre to get everything sorted out.
They said they'd send me contracts to sign in the mail soon; it took them about two weeks - I was out of the country last week and found them when I got back on Saturday, so they got there sometime last week. They were also sent to the old customer's address (the apartment the contracts are for) instead of mine, even though I 1) gave them my own address, and 2) they already have my address anyway because I have a contract with the same company for my flat.
Both letters are dated June 4, which is complete nonsense because I last checked both mailboxes on June 7 and nothing was there, and it doesn't take 3+ days to deliver two fucking envelopes. This is especially funny because the cover letter says to mail these back signed within 10 days. They better not bitch at me for sending them back late.
Both letters were also sent at the same time - both contracts (for gas and power) were modified at the same time. Yet, for some fucking reason:
- Both still use the old delivery address, again despite me giving them a new one
- The electricity contract at least has the correct contact info - my cell and e-mail; the gas contract is in my name but uses the old customer's mail and cell
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it doesn't take 3+ days to deliver two fucking envelopes.
I envy you for your functional postal services.
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$ docker-compose run workstation
ERROR: Couldn't connect to Docker daemon - you might need to run docker-machine start default.
$ docker-machine start default
Started machines may have new IP addresses. You may need to re-run the docker-machine env command.
Error checking TLS connection: Error checking and/or regenerating the certs: There was an error validating certificates. You can attempt to regenerate them using 'docker-machine regenerate-certs [name]'.
$ docker-machine regenerate-certs
$ docker-machine env
Run this command to configure your shell: & "C:\Program Files\Docker Toolbox\docker-machine.exe" env | Invoke-Expression
FFS stop telling me what commands to run and just run them for me.
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@PJH Handy but I don't think it supports PowerShell on Windows.
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@PJH BRB, adding that to our dev machine baseline.
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I'll have to do some testing and see if this travesty actually runs in a reasonable amount of time.
It's not reasonable, but it's better. In what world is it faster to create 150,000 one-word TextBoxes and spellcheck them than to run spellcheck on 40 individual RichTextBoxes with 3000 - 5000 words each?
Seriously, at least re-use a single text box for spell checking instead of creating and discarding one for every word.
I tried that, too, and it actually didn't make much of a difference.
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decent administrator who can configure and secure it properly. Those tend not to be cheap, and in somewhat short supply
Do they exist at all?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Do they exist at all?
Yes, but you can't see them since they're hidden behind 3 layers of firewall
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$125 shipping fee from Arizona for a less than a pound item the size of a pack of smoke
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@TimeBandit welcome to international shipping.
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welcome to international shipping
No. That's just a way to steal money from people who don't check the shipping fee.
I order lots of stuff from all around the world and never paid that kind of money.
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@TimeBandit That seems in-line with the few times I've ever had to ship something internationally.
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@TimeBandit welcome to international shipping.
Yeah, have them send it to China first and then from China to Canada. Will take longer, but cost $3 total.
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@mott555 I can get a radiator for my RX-8 shipped from Texas (I believe) for $55
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@mott555 I've ordered stuff internationally, too, and never paid even 1/10th of that. Of course, the shipping method made the proverbial "slow boat from China" look speedy.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@mott555 I can get a radiator for my RX-8 shipped from Texas (I believe) for $55
Is it the RX-8 of Theseus by now?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity The blockchain preserves the list of your misspellings, immutably, forever.
Where did that meme come from? I never had time to read through the thousands of posts of fox arguing with everyone
It was somewhere in discussing gender fluidity. I believe he said that gender was immutable. Like a hurricane is immutable.
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A few weeks ago I needed to "take over" someone else's contracts for electricity and gas in an apartment (not mine) - I needed to get them reassigned to myself, if that makes sense. Make sure they're in my name and I'm paying them. So I went to the energy company's customer care centre to get everything sorted out.
They said they'd send me contracts to sign in the mail soon; it took them about two weeks - I was out of the country last week and found them when I got back on Saturday, so they got there sometime last week. They were also sent to the old customer's address (the apartment the contracts are for) instead of mine, even though I 1) gave them my own address, and 2) they already have my address anyway because I have a contract with the same company for my flat.
Both letters are dated June 4, which is complete nonsense because I last checked both mailboxes on June 7 and nothing was there, and it doesn't take 3+ days to deliver two fucking envelopes. This is especially funny because the cover letter says to mail these back signed within 10 days. They better not bitch at me for sending them back late.
Both letters were also sent at the same time - both contracts (for gas and power) were modified at the same time. Yet, for some fucking reason:
- Both still use the old delivery address, again despite me giving them a new one
- The electricity contract at least has the correct contact info - my cell and e-mail; the gas contract is in my name but uses the old customer's mail and cell
Universal law of nature: all utility companies will find a way to fuck up every part of anything they do. The simpler it is, the more ridiculous the fuck up will be