WTF Bites
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@error That looks like it might be a high school or college gymnasium, in which it might not be . Gyms typically have men's and women's locker rooms. If there is, say, a basketball game, the home team will use their own locker room, and the visiting team will use what is normally the opposite-sex locker room for the duration of the event. I'd guess someone was and only covered some of the signs temporarily.
No. It was a concert venue. Toyota Music Factory.
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So...it crashed and the bit that's supposed to tell me why simply doesn't exist? Thanks, you steaming heap.
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I'm not sure if this really qualifies as a , but...
TIL: imvu is still a thing. Or at least imvu thinks so, and is putting some effort into advertising itself. It's been years since I saw an imvu ad, but they're still the same, showing off the over made-up tarts that they think is appropriate for avatars.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in WTF Bites:
imvu
Oh god, it's like an even worse Second Life.
From what I've read about imvu and Second Life, I'd say that's a very good description.
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@Cursorkeys if it makes you feel better, there's a small chance the guide was correct at one point in the past...
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@Cursorkeys : expecting docs to reflect reality.
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@loopback0 unless you're coding in C++, then you should check your foot very often.
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FCEUX, a NES emulator for Windows, appears to stop working when I move its window on my second monitor.
Except in reality it's still working, the graphics simply don't get updated. If you move the window so it's half on each monitor you can see half the game move. It even shows on screenshots:
It only happens when hardware acceleration of graphics is disabled. Presumably hardware acceleration means it doesn't have to handle screen redraws, it just updates a virtual surface.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Go check the end of the gun
That seems like the worst end to check.
You just need to verify it is clear first.
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Probably old and well-known, but it made me chuckle:
(note the https)
According to Firefox, this site is dangerous and should not be visited.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Probably old and well-known, but it made me chuckle:
(note the https)
According to Firefox, this site is dangerous and should not be visited.
Yes.
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/24985/https-is-down-on-the-main-site/
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I have a wireless Xbox 360 controller connected to my gaming PC via a cheap Chinese adapter that works with the official Microsoft adapter drivers. The only difference is that rather than automatically detecting the driver, you need to manually select it.
It's generally been working fine, except for two things:- occasionally a Windows Update updates the driver which needs me to manually reselect the driver
- Metro/Modern/UWP games don't detect the controller even though Windows does and other games do too.
It turns out this was because I'd selected the wrong driver and had installed the adapter as an "Xbox 360 Controller" and not as an "Xbox 360 Wireless Adapter".
The incorrect driver was seemingly good enough for everything except the UWP games.Also when I did reselect the correct driver, Windows made me restart the computer.
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My "Watch Later" youtube list (which is currently empty) has had this message at the top for ages and nothing I do seems to clear it.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
My "Watch Later" youtube list (which is currently empty) has had this message at the top for ages and nothing I do seems to clear it.
It means that the list isn't really empty, but you can't find out what was hidden from you and you're stuck with a useless message. Because FuckYouTube…
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
nothing I do seems to clear it.
What's even more fun is that the playlist still has videos on it that clearly say "deleted"!
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@anonymous234 The message can be dismissed on the old design: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=WL&disable_polymer=1
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TL;DR: Boeing's software fix for the 737 Max issue is causing problems because of excessive CPU usage. The CPUs in question are 286s.
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@dkf: thanks. Typo.
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I had a package that was set to arrive while we were on vacation. Signature was required, and the third attempt of delivery was going to happen on the day we were to get home. So I had the package sent to one of their customer centers. Today I go to pick it up and there are two very loud women working in there. One is on the phone having a personal conversation, the other seems very apathetic about her job. I show her my ID, she goes and retrieves a package, checks my ID again and I sign for the package and head off to my vehicle.
That was this morning. Just now I open the package and it is the wrong item. At first I thought the shipper had sent the wrong thing. Then I look at the name and address on the package and it isn't me.
Fucking hell.
So I call UPS customer service and it keeps asking me to select an option and none of them fit. When I select an option it asks for info for automated services. I spam the "0" button and eventually it hangs up on me.
So I Google again for how to speak to a person. I call another number, same basic automated attendant, but this time when it asks me what I need help with I say "Agent". I get through to someone.
Said person is obviously in a foreign call center. He takes some info, asks to put me on hold and says he will get back to me. A few minutes later, I swear it was the same person, comes on the line and starts asking me all the same questions again.
Goddamnit.
So I tell him all the same shit. He asks to put me on hold and says he will be right back. I tell him this is the same thing that happened last time. He assures me he will be right back.
A few minutes later, a person who sounds exactly the same comes on the line and I go through the same shit again. My first question to him was:
"Are you just fucking with me? You sound the same as the last two people, and I am pretty sure the name is the same."
He assures me there are no shenanigans going on, takes all the same information again, and asks me if he can put me on a brief hold.
"No way. There is no way in hell I am getting put on hold again to once more circle the drain of this customer service toilet. Just stay on the line."
He says he has to put me on hold. I tell him that if he puts me on hold I am throwing this other package in the trash. Eventually he relents and agrees to not put me on hold. He does his thing, says the information has been submitted to the customer center here and to expect a call.
That was an hour ago and still nothing.
What do you think the chances are that he filed no such report?
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So I had calmed down some by the time the UPS person called me, but then my blood went right back to boiling. The woman who called me was totally shitty about everything and told me I needed to bring back the package right away. I told her that if they needed it right away that they can come get it and they know where I live. She then accused me of not relinquishing the package and essentially stealing it. I told her that I did not need the contents of that package until Friday afternoon, so I would come by Friday morning to swap them. If they needed it before then they could come to my house and get the freaking thing.
I assume that either the police will be by soon to talk to me, or a UPS person is going to come get this package and not bring me mine.
I swear I was going to be nice about it and take it back tomorrow. Then she got shitty right off the bat so the gloves came back off.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
I assume that either the police will be by soon to talk to me, or a UPS person is going to come get this package and not bring me mine.
Neither has happened so far. I R Disappoint.
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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.
Have you been cursed with UTF-16? That generally looks like text in most Windows programs, but is considered binary by the good old logic that containing nul bytes means binary.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Then she got shitty right off the bat so the gloves came back off.
I need to write a very pissed-off letter to my ISP soon, but I fear the rage has calmed down a little.
How much do you usually ask for your services?
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Then she got shitty right off the bat so the gloves came back off.
I need to write a very pissed-off letter to my ISP soon, but I fear the rage has calmed down a little.
How much do you usually ask for your services?I usually trade liquor for favors amongst friends.
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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.
Have you been cursed with UTF-16? That generally looks like text in most Windows programs, but is considered binary by the good old logic that containing nul bytes means binary.
Probably. I did
echo "that's fine" > empty.txt
in Powershell so it wouldn't surprise me if it was UTF-16
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Probably. I did
echo "that's fine" > empty.txt
in Powershell so it wouldn't surprise me if it was UTF-16When you use redirection operators in PowerShell, yes, it does result in UTF-16. If you want something else you have to use Out-File and the -Encoding parameter.
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@heterodox ... which would have been way too much work for a silly response to an automatic warning message
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I created it in response to the "warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository." message.
On a side-note, that is one of very numerous examples of Git maintainers sucking at writing messages. This one probably shouldn't have been a warning, because there is exactly nothing wrong with cloning an empty repository. The tool has to point it out in case it wasn't what you intended and you wondered where the files are, but if you intended it, it is perfectly fine, and actually reasonable thing to do. And in either case you don't appear to have done it, you simply did—the client should know whether it was empty or not.
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@heterodox Note that PS Core uses UTF-8 by default, and if you want to change the default behavior in Windows PS you can set
$PSDefaultParameterValues['Out-File:Encoding'] = 'UTF8'
in yourprofile.ps1
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@heterodox Note that PS Core uses UTF-8 by default, and if you want to change the default behavior in Windows PS you can set
$PSDefaultParameterValues['Out-File:Encoding'] = 'UTF8'
in yourprofile.ps1
.... which would have been way too much work for a silly response to an automatic warning message
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@loopback0 Well, you wouldn't use it just for that response; you'd put it there so PS always works sensibly.
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String.Empty.PadLeft(1, ' ')
I replaced this with
" "
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@Jaloopa But what if they want you to use tabs next time instead of spaces? What if the definition of
1
changes? What if left and right are inverted? ERR_WHARGBGBLGLBLGLBLGL!
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@Benjamin-Hall more of a copy, paste, leave your brain at the door thing. This is part of a load of stuff being appended to a stringbuilder, some of which is padded to specific lengths so has stuff along the lines of
SomeString.PadLeft(20, '0')
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@Jaloopa But what if they want you to use tabs next time instead of spaces? What if the definition of
1
changes? What if left and right are inverted? ERR_WHARGBGBLGLBLGLBLGL!public static class StringTools { //TODO: get from db public static char SpacerBase = ' '; //TODO: get from db public static int SpacerWidth = 1; public static string Spacer { get { return new String(SpacerBase, SpacerWidth); } } }
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@Benjamin-Hall more of a copy, paste, leave your brain at the door thing. This is part of a load of stuff being appended to a stringbuilder, some of which is padded to specific lengths so has stuff along the lines of
SomeString.PadLeft(20, '0')
I figured as much, just doing the parade of horribles in true TDWTF fashion.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
What if the definition of 1 changes?
I love the fact that this was actually a real concern in some old languages.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
What if the definition of 1 changes?
I love the fact that this was actually a real concern in some old languages.
<yoda>Wise, the old ones were</yoda>
Working in education, I'm constantly worried about such things. They've redefined everything else, why not basic physical/mathematical constants?
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Creating strings is expensive, I added caching.
public static class StringTools { //TODO: get from db public static char SpacerBase = ' '; //TODO: get from db public static int SpacerWidth = 1; private static Dictionary<int, string> cache = new Dictionary<int, string>(); public static string Spacer { get { return GetFromCache(SpacerWidth); } } public static string AdHocSpacer(int width) { return GetFromCache(width); } private static string GetFromCache(int width) { if(!cache.ContainsKey(width) { cache.Add(width, new String(SpacerBase, width)); } return cache[width]; } }
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
They've redefined everything else, why not basic physical/mathematical constants?
Doesn't this happen every so often anyway?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
They've redefined everything else, why not basic physical/mathematical constants?
Doesn't this happen every so often anyway?
Yes, but rarely so as to redefine
hbar == the sound of the color blue
, which is the closest analogue for some of the changes that happen on the education side of things.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
What if the definition of 1 changes?
I love the fact that this was actually a real concern in some old languages.
Of all the retarded things Fortran does, this might be in the top 10.
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Creating strings is expensive, I added caching.
public static class StringTools { //TODO: get from db public static char SpacerBase = ' '; //TODO: get from db public static int SpacerWidth = 1; private static Dictionary<int, string> cache = new Dictionary<int, string>(); public static string Spacer { get { return GetFromCache(SpacerWidth); } } public static string AdHocSpacer(int width) { return GetFromCache(width); } private static string GetFromCache(int width) { if(!cache.ContainsKey(width) { cache.Add(width, new String(SpacerBase, width)); } return cache[width]; } }
I think we could make another edition of OMGWTF out of it!