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Edit: still doing that even after clearing my cookies, local storage, session storage, and disabling browser plugins...
Edit edit: It was a redirect loop with the SSO server, which was insisting I had a valid login token, and webmail, which was insisting I didn't.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Chrome mobile has recently started automatically opening downloaded files.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/microsafex/worlds-first-patented-unhackable-computer-ever
He should get together with this guy: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/19565/4-dimensional-operating-system-kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1784334872/4-dimensional-operating-system
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How many amps?
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State business filings : We have an electronic system to do all business filings. LLC, retain certificates, etc. When you submit a form it has to be reviewed by an actual person. Upon submitting you return to your dashboard and you can check the status of filings from there. At the bottom of the screen there are several dropdowns that you can click on.
- Messages
- In Progress
- Rejected
- Documents
- Completed
- Payments
So, if you want to check the status of a filing, which dropdown do you expand?
If you guessed "In Progress", you lose. You do not pass Go and you do not collect $200.
You click on "Documents". That is where you see the status of in progress filings. I have no fucking clue what "In Progress" is for. I have never seen anything show up in there.
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How many amps?
As a guess, either port can put out 2.4A maximum, but the charger is limited to 3.1A total. So if you plug in two devices they might max out at ~1.55A/per.
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@Polygeekery Worse, the front of the package only says 3.1AMP, without clarification. That's the back of the package.
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@error the only people who lie more than used car salespeople are the marketing people who design packaging.
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They probably meant to mark it as USB 3.1 instead of 3.1 amps.
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They probably meant to
mark it asto confuse people with USB 3.1 instead of 3.1 amps.FTFY
Alternative explanation: Chinglish
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
How many amps?
As a guess, either port can put out 2.4A maximum, but the charger is limited to 3.1A total. So if you plug in two devices they might max out at ~1.55A/per.
I would guess one output gets 2.4 amps, and one gets 0.5 amps.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@error the only people who lie more than used car salespeople are the marketing people who design packaging.
I wish there would be two separate packaging kinds - one for when it's in Walmart and one for when it's in Fry's Electronics. Woo the easily cowed morons with marketing speak and woo the tech heads with specifications.
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If you watch a full-screen YouTube video and zoom out, do you also see a scrollbar sneak in from the right?
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So, there's this Starbound mod. And once again, the developer shows an ego the size of a planet. There's this tutorial mission where you have to run through a dungeon. And for some reason, some trigger doesn't catch and a door does not open which leads to a dead end. So I report the bug on their Discord and this is the attitude I get:
Basically: It's working on his machine so it has to work on all machines.
What is it with those one-man-shows which have no professional attitude whatsoever?
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What is it with those one-man-shows which have no professional attitude whatsoever?
Low barrier to entry.
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What is it with those one-man-shows which have no professional attitude whatsoever?
Low barrier to entry.
Indeed. I mean, my reaction would have been: "Ah, so you must've missed a trigger. Maybe I should rethink the position because they should not be missable."
Instead you get either "Try that again!" or "You're doing it wrong."
In a tutorial mission which you cannot avoid - i.e. the part of the game which should be tested the most,
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@Tsaukpaetra browser zoom. In HTML5 era, fullscreen video is still a webpage and behaves like webpage.
@kazitor yes, yes I do. It's gross. Though the whole concept that there is a whole page that I can access by scrolling when watching full screen video is much worse.
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It's a plain text file that says "that's fine". I created it in response to the "warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository." message.
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The Reset method is provided for COM interoperability. It does not necessarily need to be implemented; instead, the implementer can simply throw a NotSupportedException.
So how does it help interoperability if it's not implemented? Do COM programs not call it either? Is it a backwards compatibility thing that's was already deprecated in COM and then actually crossed over to the next standard?
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It's a plain text file that says "that's fine". I created it in response to the "warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository." message.
Bush hid the facts
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Saw an American ad for an MS surface laptop.
: ... it’s so easy and productive ... I have at least 4 or 5 apps open every day.That’s cute.
I have 8 virtual desktops open.Filed under: Windows 3 could do that, too
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@topspin Compared to people I know, 3-4 apps open on-screen simultaneously is a major change. Had a student who ran all programs (in his case, Chrome, Visual Studio Code, Finder, and Preview) all full-screen and task-switched between them. It was annoying.
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Found in a latex document:
Foo $et~al.$~\cite{Foo}
FFS. Using math-mode to format text that shouldn't be formatted in the first place. :cluebat.eps:
Filed under: Why not just use cleveref?
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Found in a latex document:
Foo $et~al.$~\cite{Foo}
FFS. Using math-mode to format text that shouldn't be formatted in the first place. :cluebat.eps:
Filed under: Why not just use cleveref?
Math mode instead of \emph is a WTF, putting et al. in italics is stupid but very common.
Filed under: why are you reading students' latex?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
It was annoying.
I bet if I got a tabbed file-manager and tabbed terminal, I could probably get rid of most of my windows...
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Filed under: why are you reading students' latex?
Bad life decisions?
The document is supposed to become something that's submittable for review and eventual publication in the near future(tm). I drew the short straw and became responsible for the first pass of corrections.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Had a student who ran all programs (in his case, Chrome, Visual Studio Code, Finder, and Preview) all full-screen and task-switched between them. It was annoying.
I can't do it any other way. Most programs I use aren't usable without taking at least 30cm of horizontal space - and if you already have it take more than half of the screen, might as well go all the way.
The ones that can be used that small, I snap to corners so I have 4 windows visible on one screen. Except for file explorers. I've developed this weird habit where I never maximize nor snap to edge/corner a file explorer window.
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@Gąska As opposed to just overlaying the windows, so you don't have to spend as much time flipping back and forth? The class was in HTML and CSS, so constantly making a small change and refreshing the browser. Having to flip between virtual desktops was a bit painful.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
As opposed to just overlaying the windows, so you don't have to spend as much time flipping back and forth?
#justocdthings
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I've developed this weird habit where I never maximize nor snap to edge/corner a file explorer window.
Same!
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Filed under: Windows 3 could do that, too
But some Windows 7's couldn't
You mean 8?
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I can't do it any other way. Most programs I use aren't usable without taking at least 30cm of horizontal space - and if you already have it take more than half of the screen, might as well go all the way.
This.
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@Gąska As opposed to just overlaying the windows, so you don't have to spend as much time flipping back and forth?
For me Alt+Tab takes less time that alternating windows any other way.
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
The class was in HTML and CSS, so constantly making a small change and refreshing the browser.
That's a very specific case though. I hope you taught them there was a better way.
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@Zecc I tried. I blame corruption from doing everything else for other work/life on a phone/iPad.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
The Reset method is provided for COM interoperability. It does not necessarily need to be implemented; instead, the implementer can simply throw a NotSupportedException.
So how does it help interoperability if it's not implemented? Do COM programs not call it either? Is it a backwards compatibility thing that's was already deprecated in COM and then actually crossed over to the next standard?
If you don't implement it you may not be able to
for each/foreach
with that Enumerator (VB6?) and nobody can call Reset to jump back to the beginning of whatever it's enumerating. Presumably you're implementing the rest and can still enumerate everything once; if you want to enumerate it again you have to make a new Enumerator.
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Because what I need in my rewards management App is more jokes, right?
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putting et al. in italics is stupid but very common
It's common to do with Latin bits. The exceptions are “etc.”, “e.g.” and “i.e.” which are so widely used in English that the italicisation has fallen almost totally out of favour. For the other somewhat less common terms, it's a bit fussy to italicise the Latin but I quite like doing it because it can be pleasing to the eye in typographical terms…
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Occasionally I sign up to evaluate software that either might be a benefit to our clients, or to see what potential competitors are doing to keep an eye on the market. Most of them are total turds. Occasionally you get a follow up email that shows they should maybe put one more line of code in their marketing algorithm.
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For the other somewhat less common terms, it's a bit fussy to italicise the Latin but I quite like doing it because it can be pleasing to the eye in typographical terms…
To each his own, I disagree though. Putting it in italics puts emphasis on it (after all, italics is what \emph usually does), and it’s something I absolutely don’t need emphasis on while reading. Just like I wouldn’t want to put emphasis on "etc.", as it’s the part of the sentence with the least amount of information.
I know it’s traditional for Latin words, but it doesn’t make sense.
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@Polygeekery aim very low and hit your target
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@TimeBandit your foot?
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Hmm, maybe PEBKAC. Hmmph.
It's always PEBKAC. It may be the user; it may be the developer, but somewhere there are a keyboard and a chair with a problem between them. Very possibly more than one, but at least one. Always.
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It's common to do with Latin bits.
It is, or used to be, standard typography to italicize any foreign word or phrase in English text, not just Latin. Not for emphasis, but because it's not English.
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For me Alt+Tab takes less time that alternating windows any other way.
This. If I'm single monitor I'm almost always alt-tabbing.
Multimon is great though, and cuts down on that a ton. Still almost always maximized though
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
Multimon is great though, and cuts down on that a ton. Still almost always maximized though
Maxmised on every monitor (2 external + laptop) for me. Alt+Tab to switch, or Ctrl+Up/Down and select the other window with the mouse.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
somewhere there are a keyboard and a chair with a problem between them
Given the number of keyboards and chairs in the world, probability certainly works in your favor.
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
Multimon
That sounds like one of those funny looking processes running on every Windows machine that you have no idea what it's doing but are too afraid to kill.