WTF Bites
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only programmer in the world who even tries to be competent.
We often laugh behind your back at your excess commitment. Just let go and enjoy life, like the rest of us.
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Thanks, PUBG.
I assume this because I'm on test server, but...
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Thanks, PUBG.
I assume this because I'm on test server, but...
That happens on our nightlies all the time, if the build fails to get configured properly and decides it wants to talk to the production servers.
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Status: These variable names though...
Why the frick are you using "My" everywhere? Are there variables for "Not myself"?
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Status: Unreal Engine has an Auto-save function. Yay!
Unreal Engine's Auto-save function locks up the entire interface. Nay!
Unreal Engine's Auto-save function never finished, and the interface is now locked up with no way to cancel or recover.
Because of the previous, it didn't actually auto-save, and so now I've meaninglessly lost work due to Auto-save.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Why the frick are you using "My" everywhere? Are there variables for "Not myself"?
Copy-pasta'd from example code where "My" indicates "stuff that you would have done yourself"?
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So that's the location for iPhone backups in my home folder, with me as owner and staff as group.
Explorer Shitty ExplorerFinder displays it correctly, Terminal doesn't have permissions. Even using sudo.
Mac Permissions, how do they work?!
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I'm not sure if this is a or not because I do have a Chromebook that I logged into the other day, but opening Chrome on my Windows 10 machine and opening the new tab page greeted me with this:
Clicking YES just takes me to a YouTube playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVy7dVK2S_UIkT4vZ5MGJmtA3Ir6-wyNN&utm_source=hpp&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=htc&utm_term=do+more&utm_content=chromebook+help
Maybe since I hadn't used the Chromebook in a while they assumed I was too stupid to figure it out and needed some help?
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So that's the location for iPhone backups in my home folder, with me as owner and staff as group. Explorer Shitty Explorer Finder displays it correctly, Terminal doesn't have permissions. Even using sudo.
Mac Permissions, how do they work?!You need to grant Terminal (or whatever) Full Disk Access. For reasons.
MacBook-Pro:Application Support $ ls -la | grep MobileSync drwxr-xr-x 3 me staff 96 29 Dec 2016 MobileSync MacBook-Pro:Application Support $ cd MobileSync/ MacBook-Pro:MobileSync $ ls -la total 0 drwxr-xr-x 3 me staff 96 29 Dec 2016 . drwx------+ 62 me staff 1984 23 Jun 17:47 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 me staff 64 29 Dec 2016 Backup
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Status: Behold! A fucking useless dialog box!
Edit: And there's no "Ignore all and just give me a list at the end" option. That would be helpful.
No, instead I'm just holding down C and listening to
Default Beep.wav
play for each and every file (because apparently, even though I'm an Administrator, I don't have access to set permissions on anything).
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@Tsaukpaetra Hohohoho. Now you know my pain from half a year ago. For me it was the Windows Store folder.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
PUBG.
I ... didn’t realize you’re pie’s younger brother.
I would never play such a game. Thirty bucks for a half done mod where you are guaranteed to lose to cheaters? No thank you. Apex is better in every conceivable way.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Edit: And there's no "Ignore all and just give me a list at the end" option. That would be helpful.
No, sadly there's not. If you change permissions with
icacls
there's a/c
flag though.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Edit: And there's no "Ignore all and just give me a list at the end" option. That would be helpful.
No, sadly there's not. If you change permissions with
icacls
there's a/c
flag though.Thank goodness a modern OS doesn't require you to type arcane things into a command prompt, eh? /
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
PUBG.
I ... didn’t realize you’re pie’s younger brother.
I would never play such a game.
But your younger brother might.
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@heterodox said in WTF Bites:
No, sadly there's not. If you change permissions with
icacls
there's a/c
flag though.<cackles…>
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Status: Imgur apparently fixed their Google signup flow.
I am not the proud user of
https://Tsaukpaetra.imgur.comI have no idea what to do with it.
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only programmer in the world who even tries to be competent.
Would you find it more upsetting that people don't care or that they do care but just can't produce working software?
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What's in the log file?
[25592] 190626.135012.7613: AdminTME: Status: TaskId = MessagingTasks.TaskSendWelcomeMail, RootTaskId = TaskCreateUser, Success: True, Warning: True, Continue: True, Message: Exchange Web Services encountered non critical error submitting welcome mail. Please consult Windows SBS log files for further details.
Also, what counts as a critical error? It didn't send the bloody email.
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Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only programmer in the world who even tries to be competent.
Would you find it more upsetting that people don't care or that they do care but just can't produce working software?
The second bothers me more than the first. I understand not caring. I can be lazy and apathetic. But the second, those people are a drain on the industry and I wish they'd realize that and switch careers to something where I'm not spending 90% of my time cleaning up after idiots who have no business being near a computer.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
Also, what counts as a critical error? It didn't send the bloody email.
A critical error would be one where it also tells you that your writing style sucks and you should use the pluperfect tense less frequently.
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@dkf critical errors should be more self-critical.
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Status: Guess who's using
debug=true
in production?Addendum: Guess who's using the super-admin user for daily database operations in prod?
Also, great customer service.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Guess who's using debug=true in production?
I don't need to guess. The image is quite readable.
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Status: My love of Unreal Engine continues to grow. I renamed and replaced a UPROPERTY with a higher class (turns out the sub class's features weren't needed whatsoever and were actually causing problems) but the Editor still thinks it's the old type (even though it knows the new name!).
What the ever-living fuck?!? It even runs the prior-class's code, like I didn't in fact change it at all...
I can't even...
Edit: Oh, wait. In the constructor it somehow let me assign the variable to the lower class's type. I'm not entirely sure how that's possible, but that was the problem.
Edit edit: No, wait, now because it fails to deserialize the lower class (because naturally it shouldn't) the variable is fucked and doesn't work at all for most intents and purposes. Great...
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Helping out with a potential new client. They fired their old IT service and we are batting cleanup. Here's the funniest thing we have found so far:
So all of the machines had low capacity on their hard drives. Lots of 240GB-512GB SSDs and most of them were pretty full. Which at first made no sense because the users were not really storing much locally. Drilling down with TreeSize we found a ton of cached files in the CSC directory. Hmmmmm.
So were the users setup to cache a bunch of network shares for offline usage for some reason?
Nope.
The previous IT service had an admin that stored a shit ton of useless shit on his desktop. Folder Redirection was turned on. So every time he would sign in to a machine for something it was copying down 150+GB of useless VHDs and directory backups and
New Folder New Folder (1) New Folder (2) New Folder (3) New Folder (4)
You get the idea. Every fucking installer he ever used was there, and it was all copied to every machine he had ever signed in to, which was pretty much all of them.
Dumped all of his desktop trash to a folder on the server to go through later and a quick PowerShell script to purge his profile from all of the machines and Bobina's your aunt.
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I tried to install a package with Chocolatey. It failed with a vague error message, and printed
See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).
Fair enough. I'll look in the log file. It contains...
The exact same text that was printed to stderr. Including the message to check the logfile.
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I tried to install a package with Chocolatey. It failed with a vague error message, and printed
See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log).
Fair enough. I'll look in the log file. It contains...
The exact same text that was printed to stderr. Including the message to check the logfile.
Did it send you into a death loop?
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Did it send you into a death loop?
Filed under: Actually, no one's managed to hard-crash @error_bot yet, though @pie_flavor loves killing its child processes.
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On a webinar (yes, I seem to be doing those a lot lately), and there are two presenters. A man and woman. The woman's name is "Crystal". He keeps saying it "Crissle" and it is annoying me.
He does not seem to have any speech impediment. He is saying "t" sounds in other words.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
He keeps saying it "Crissle" and it is annoying me.
On the current season of MasterChef, there is a contestant named Subha, and one of the other contestants keeps calling him Subaru. It seems obliquely racist.
Filed under: Microaggressions
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On the current season of MasterChef, there is a contestant named Subha, and one of the other contestants keeps calling him Subaru. It seems obliquely racist.
It would be more so if it was a woman and she were a lesbian.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
On the current season of MasterChef, there is a contestant named Subha, and one of the other contestants keeps calling him Subaru. It seems obliquely racist.
It would be more so if it was a woman and she were a lesbian.
I was unaware lesbians were a race!
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I was unaware lesbians were a race!
Something, something, they win lots of races because they are more muscular.
There's a joke there but I don't have the motivation to find it.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
There's a joke there but I don't have the motivation to find it.
Really? Lesbians can be pretty motivational in the right contexts.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
There's a joke there but I don't have the motivation to find it.
Really? Lesbians can be pretty motivational in
the rightall contexts.FTFY!
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Status: Chrome mobile has recently started automatically opening downloaded files. It used to have a toaster to click on. I am now annoyed, and there is no option to return to original behaviour.
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$ git pull --rebase --autostash --recurse-submodules=on-demand
... several submodules fast-forward or rebase successfully ...
Cannot rebase: You have unstaged changes.
Please commit or stash them.
Unable to rebase commitHash in submodule path submodule$ cd submodule
$ git pull --rebase --autostash First, rewinding head to replay your work on top of it...
Fast-forwarded master to mastercommithash.
Applied autostash.
Huge success.You just failed to do this, now you were successful?
$ git diff See, you or your IDE changed the whitespace in this one empty line
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@Zecc if I'm reading this right, it seems --autostash isn't recursive over submodules.
Also, TIL about --autostash.
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@Zecc if I'm reading this right, it seems --autostash isn't recursive over submodules.
It is.
... several submodules fast-forward or rebase successfully ...
It was just that one that failed.
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@Zecc but did the other submodules contain uncommitted changes? It makes sense that they succeeded if they didn't.
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#1, The application I use for estimates and proposals automatically logs you out overnight.
#2, The application I use for estimates and proposals does not save your progress along the way. Everything is a manual save, with no saved session unless you click the save button.
So this morning I open up the tab where I had been working on a proposal for a prospect and I am greeted with a login prompt instead of my in progress proposal. I login and all the work I did yesterday is gone.
Yeah yeah, TRWTF is me for not saving my shit. I got a call around 4:00 and after it was done I had to go pick up the boys from camp. You still shouldn't lose your users work.
Real edit: I look at the post above what I just wrote,
@Zecc but did the other submodules contain uncommitted changes?
Heh.
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@Gąska Yes they did. (and still do after their respective successful automatic unstashs)
Also the autostashing rebase of that particular submodule worked after I explicitly started it inside its directory.
It would have been fine if it told me it couldn't rebase due to conflicting changes it couldn't merge. But that wasn't the case.Perhaps I had staged a change to the checked out version of the submodule in the outer repo's index?
Maybe I fixed that by moving the submodule's head with the second pull?Hmm, maybe PEBKAC. Hmmph.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
So this morning I open up the tab where I had been working on a proposal for a prospect and I am greeted with a login prompt instead of my in progress proposal. I login and all the work I did yesterday is gone.
Did they take a page out of Windows 10?
"Your proposals are just where you left them."
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Did they take a page out of Windows 10?
"Your proposals are just where you left them."Yes Windows 10, I left all my shit in /dev/null.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
So this morning I open up the tab where I had been working on a proposal for a prospect and I am greeted with a login prompt instead of my in progress proposal. I login and all the work I did yesterday is gone.
There is an estimate number that has been burned. Last estimate/proposal I show is #1247. I restart my work from yesterday and it opens one and it is #1249. I cannot get to #1248 which is where I presume my shit is at.
Thankfully most of my work is also in a spreadsheet. Hardware and labor are all there. But the art of an estimate/proposal is in the fudging of the numbers. Padding numbers in areas where the client is okay with spending more, get a little closer to breakeven in areas they are averse to spending money, etc.
Two estimates with identical totals for identical work can have different levels of success depending on the line item amounts, because people are retarded. But all of that work: