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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Or I might chuck them in the trash then set it on .
FTFY
Helping to revive the Fireball brand, I see.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Seagate is on my shit list. A while back they silently switched all of their Compute series to SMR.
does that include Ironwolf NAS drives? I would be quite sad, as I just got those half a year ago...
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@Tsaukpaetra I said "Compute series". You're fine.
Well, your drives are fine. I mean, you're still pretty fucked up, but normal is boring and for a bronie who thinks he is a cyborg you're pretty okay.
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@topspin luckily @Tsaukpaetra should know by now that I like him and that I only say such things in jest.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Helping to revive the Fireball brand, I see.
No one should ever drink cinnamon whiskey.
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@Polygeekery You're an IT guy and he's a machine. You get along like a house on fire.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
, it's 2019 (bro) and we still have websites for major companies that only work with Internet Explorer.
So, this came up because the company in question is RingCentral. Some of our clients use them for their fax service.
Come to find out, one of those clients has a Metrofax account that they never shut down. So we decided this morning to port the numbers from Metrofax and consolidate to RingCentral.
The "x" key stopped working on the keyboard on my Windows machine. So my current workflow is to do the Metrofax stuff from my iMac, and the RingCentral stuff from my Windows machine because I have to use IE.
Time to order a keyboard. I need to anyway. Several of the keys have the letters worn completely off and there is a trough worn in my spacebar on the right side.
This was 17 days ago. I ordered a new keyboard that day. It would have been delivered 2 days later. So for 15 days I have been using my iMac pretty much solely because I was too lazy to unbox the new keyboard.
I did so today and it seems that if I stop using it for more than a few minutes I have to unplug the dongle and replug it to get the keyboard working again.
Shitballs.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra I said "Compute series". You're fine.
Well, your drives are fine. I mean, you're still pretty fucked up, but normal is boring and for a bronie who thinks he is a cyborg you're pretty okay.
Aww!
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I just woke this thing up from fuckin' sleep, man. How much trouble can you get into waking a computer up from sleep?
Historically, sleep has been the single most problematic feature of every PC running Windows or Linux. There are so many things that can go wrong both in software and hardware, and they have to work perfectly all at once because there is no recovery once sleep has been initiated.
Video scheduler error?
INTERNAL error. This usually means access violation reading null pointer. Almost all software gives up when this happens.
Status: Identical issue again!
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery You're an IT guy and he's a machine. You get along like a house on fire.
On occasion some IT people love their house machines!
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@Tsaukpaetra And @Polygeekery loves houses on fire. Exactly.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@topspin luckily @Tsaukpaetra should know by now that I like him and that I only say such things in jest.
You only say you like him in jest? That's harsh man
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Great. What's the show?
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Great. What's the show?
Doesn't matter. Conversely: if it does, you're not our primary target audience
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
unplug the dongle
Wireless sucks. I only get wired keyboards now.
Yeah, but the Microsoft Sculpt keyboards are super comfy.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Great. What's the show?New Arrival, obviously. Presumably a show about first day of school.
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Status: Um, no, 3.5 feet is not 0.15 meters...
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@Tsaukpaetra Accidentally their 3 key? .5 feet is 0.1524 meters.
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@coderpatsy said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Accidentally their 3 key? .5 feet is 0.1524 meters.
3 is usually pretty far to reach from 0. Even using the numpad, it's pretty odd to either accidently punch in 3.5 instead of 0.5, or attempt to punch .5 when they clearly punched 0.15.
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Status: Apparently my newfangled dashcam (Rexing V1LG) records GPS inside the video. Neat! But, how to access it? Their own App, naturally!
What kind of app is it?
.Net Winforms! With... Entity Framework? and... SQLite? What?
Is it possible to actually embed an SQLite database inside a movie file?!?!
I'm really curious now....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Is it possible to actually embed an SQLite database inside a movie file?!?!
A read-only one, probably. But it's more likely that the DB is for storing application information (on the grounds that it's less awful than some home-baked hellstew format).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Is it possible to actually embed an SQLite database inside a movie file?!?!
A read-only one, probably. But it's more likely that the DB is for storing application information (on the grounds that it's less awful than some home-baked hellstew format).
The application doesn't store information though (as far as I can tell). It opens the video file, tracks into Google maps, and that's basically it...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
The application doesn't store information though (as far as I can tell). It opens the video file, tracks into Google maps, and that's basically it...
It's possible that it's static data that it's dealing with (embedding a read-only DB is very much possible) or it could be using a DB to handle things like the cookie store for working with the Google Maps API without persisting it to disk.
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@dkf
Or it could be they needed the application ready "last week" and got a bunch of "all you got is a hammer" guys to do it. O' instruments of fate, tell me...DnSpy, anyone? Maybe there's a
FileMetadataItemListElementFactoryProvider
somewhere.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@coderpatsy said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Accidentally their 3 key? .5 feet is 0.1524 meters.
3 is usually pretty far to reach from 0. Even using the numpad, it's pretty odd to either accidently punch in 3.5 instead of 0.5, or attempt to punch .5 when they clearly punched 0.15.
Looks more like 15cm than like 3½ feet on the image.
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I just saw this on Amazon
An unofficial NES with 621 games built in, and it's a sponsored ad? I'm surprised Amazon would let this blatant copyright infringement slide.
But then I clicked and read the product questions and reviews. I translated some stuff for you:
- Q: "Will this support a 4 year old kid?" A: "the one I had broke when a 3 year old kid used it, it probably can't stand more than 15kg"
- "Very good quality, has good hair, resistant joints and a beautiful face"
- "My kid had lots of fun putting it together. Good to let kids 10 and up build an animatronic and understand simple mechanisms"
- "Very lightweight, fits in any pocket, good to carry around and fidget, almost addictive"
- "We bought one for our kid, and he loves the rattle noise, can't ask for anything else"
- "Low quality, but I only wanted it for a costume so it's OK. It passes for real and has a lot of lights and stuff"
- "I bought it for my dog, he doesn't like normal toothbrushes so I decided to try this, it works perfectly"
And they just go on... there's 29 and each of them seems written for a different product.
Either Amazon is glitching on me, or this seller is editing his products somehow to sell different things under the same slot.
(product link in case you don't believe me, it's all in Spanish though)
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
unplug the dongle
Wireless sucks. I only get wired keyboards now.
Yeah, but the Microsoft Sculpt keyboards are super comfy.
And unlike the Sculpt ergonomic mice (I may have mentioned this a few times recently) the keyboards seem to be rock-solid reliable. I've had two of the mice break on me, but I'm still on my first Sculpt keyboard.
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My last Microsoft wireless keyboard lasted 9 years, and the mouse that came with it is still going after 11 (I use it with my work laptop when WFH) although the rechargable batteries have long been replaced with normal AAAs.
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@anonymous234 This shit's hilarious. My Spanish is rusty but there aren't a lot of ways to misinterpret "orgasmos increíbles".
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Yeah, but the Microsoft Sculpt keyboards are super comfy.
Indeed. Wish they had it in a wired version, though.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Um, no, 3.5 feet is not 0.15 meters...
Ever notice how pools are labeled for depth?
3ft - 0.9m
4ft - 1.2m
5ft - 1.5mNone of the conversions work out. The 3ft - 0.9m one is pretty close, but 4ft is almost exactly 1.1m, 5ft is almost exactly 1.4m.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Ever notice how pools are labeled for depth?
3ft - 0.9m
4ft - 1.2m
5ft - 1.5mNone of the conversions work out. The 3ft - 0.9m one is pretty close, but 4ft is almost exactly 1.1m, 5ft is almost exactly 1.4m.
Google tells me that
3 ft = 0.9144
4 ft = 1.2192
5 ft = 1.524Maybe you have small feet
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And unlike the Sculpt ergonomic mice (I may have mentioned this a few times recently) the keyboards seem to be rock-solid reliable.
Also, unlike the Sculpt ergonomic mice, the Sculpt keyboard is actually ergonomic.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Apparently my newfangled dashcam (Rexing V1LG) records GPS inside the video.
The one I have stores a third stream (in addition to video and audio) that's just plain text. Maybe yours is also doing something simple? What would
mediainfo
say?
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Maybe you have small feet
It's possible. Also, I was doing the conversions in my head while swimming. Also, rounding errors. 3.6 * 1.4 is 5.04, 3.6 * 1.1 is 3.96.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
And unlike the Sculpt ergonomic mice (I may have mentioned this a few times recently) the keyboards seem to be rock-solid reliable.
Also, unlike the Sculpt ergonomic mice, the Sculpt keyboard is actually ergonomic.
FWIW when the mouse worked it was pretty good.
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My energy company has an online portal that allows you to check a bunch of things - make sure that your bills are all paid, change your tariffs, that kind of thing. It's pretty useful.
Or was, because I just went there and login is disabled. All you can do is get links to PDFs to a couple of commonly used forms, and there's a note explaining that the portal is currently unavailable because they're deploying a new version, and "they'll be back in September". It's the 15th of July. TWO MONTHS TO DEPLOY A NEW VERSION?!
Oh my fucking god. I thought it was just the web interface but apparently their internal system is down for weeks as well, because I just got a mail that roughly says:
Dear Mr. Blek
We have received your request to cancel our service at location blah blah.
However, we are currently not able to process it as we are switching to a new system. Your request will be processed during August when our systems are back online. Don't worry, we won't forget about you.
Thank you for your understanding and have a nice day.What the fuck is wrong with these people? This isn't a mom and pop shop, this is a massive multinational energy company, one of the largest in the world according to Wikipedia. 30 countries, 33 million customers. It's German too, aren't Germans supposed to be competent? They just shut down their system for months! What happens when someone wants to start using them, are they just telling potential new customers to wait for weeks or go pound sand?!
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What the fuck is wrong with these people?
The answer is
this is a massive multinational energy company, one of the largest in the world
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
3.6
Uhhm, 3.3 would be more accurate (3.281 if you want to be really accurate)
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@blek energy companies are all completely useless. It seems to be one of the requirements for setting up business.
The single best experience I've ever had with an energy company was the one where their estimated usage for me was significantly more than the estimated usage they used to set up my direct debit, both of which were significantly more than my actual usage. To talk to them I had to go looking specifically for an outdated browser because the web chat was incompatible (even with faked UA strings) with anything actually available at the time (windows 7, maximum versions were something like IE7 and Firefox 4)
Best utility company I've ever dealt with
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@TimeBandit Right.
You'll be pleased to know that these people apparently run multiple nuclear powerplants through a subsidiary. I wonder if they shut down the control systems for months at a time too.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
was doing the conversions in my head while swimming
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I wonder if they shut down the control systems for months at a time too.
I see you have learned about Belgian nuclear plants ...
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@Luhmann Suddenly I understand the push to abandon nuclear power in western Europe...
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@blek makes you wonder whether they remembered to shut down the plants after getting them off the grid.
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@Vault_Dweller said in WTF Bites:
(3.281 if you want to be really accurate)
12.2595436124655476412357 if you want to be really inaccurate (but really precise)