WTF Bites
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Filed under: Why didn't you use ?
Have you found hosting yet?
No, but it's had near perfect uptime since the cooties went away.
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@error_bot !echo really
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@error I thought it's real. I thought I saw you using it once.
@error_bot !xkcd memory
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xkcd said in https://xkcd.com/2174/
First News Memory
(via https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?search=memory&title=Special%3ASearch&fulltext=1)
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I thought it's real. I thought I saw you using it once.
You probably saw me use it on pie_flavor's bot to annoy him.
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@discobot echo really
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@pie_flavor really
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
My favorite thing about Youtube is how the video always starts playing instantly, but the title and description (which contain literally thousands of times less information) generally take at least 3 seconds to load.
Well, that's probably exactly why they prioritize it that way.
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I thought I saw you using it once.
But that was just a dream. Just a dream. Just a dream.
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Advanced modern AI™
(the bot harassed me first!)
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Yeah don't worry Microsoft, I don't expect the developers and publishers of games to know how much disk space is required.
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@loopback0 or how line wrapping works, for that matter.
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Oh so it was possible to determine. Shocker.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Oh so it was possible to determine. Shocker.
No, that's just the space for download. Actual install will be 120 GB.
Gears 4 is actually 131 GB. To download.
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Gears 4 is actually 131 GB. To download.
134GB installed. I'm currently finishing the last few chapters so I can uninstall it.
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Status: Fucking seriously?
Edit: And what I mean is, why let me change the quantity if there's only one left?
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Just buy the right-angled version as well and use a mirror!
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Just buy the right-angled version as well and use a mirror!
That just might work. But I'd have to send it to Earth-73 first. The portal does a little magic for the conversion you know.
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Well?
Are you a new member survey?
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Last week I got the trial version of Anno 1800 on Uplay. While finding out how to even download the trial was pretty already, it looks fun and I decided I might buy it. Although I nearly changed my mind when they sent me
unsolicited advertisementRussian spam.So today I start it, the trial is obviously expired, and I click "get the full version".
Um, what the fuck do you need my phone number for? I don't want you tocall mesell my personal info and VISA quite certainly doesn't require that.Okay, next I'd like to see all the information I'm entering at a glance to double check it. Guess what clever thing Uplay does when you maximize it:
Yeah, who needs to use the available space when you got scrollbars.
And now that I've bought the game to unlock the full version, does it upgrade the trial and download the additional assets? No, of course not, why reuse the 20GB you've downloaded already. Instead, I have to manually uninstall the defunct trial version while it downloads the whole 25GB of the game again.
Filed under: and I thought Steam was cancer
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@topspin I think Steam does the same but games with a demo or trial these days seem relatively rare so it's been a while since I last did that, so can't remember for sure.
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@loopback0
They just call them early alpha previews and charge you full price now
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Will it ever stop?
My SSD failed catastrophically, so I had to dig up some old backup of this one windows 8.1 virtual machine I keep around just to run atmel studio for one project which requires fixes once a year or so. I installed all updates, disabled further checks and rebooted, but of course there is something to 'install' for the last 5 hours or so. As far as I can see it's just endlessly thrashing some files in WinSxS, and respawns itself after being killed. Of course there's no indication in the control panel whatsoever, all it says is 'computer is up to date'.
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@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
one project which requires fixes once a year or so.
You hardcoded the current year?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@sebastian-galczynski said in WTF Bites:
one project which requires fixes once a year or so.
You hardcoded the current year?
No, the CEO tends to promise his customers non-existent features, and when they threaten to sue, he comes to my friend begging to implement it. Then the friend does what he can handle and outsources some bits to me.
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Yeah, who needs to use the available space when you got scrollbars.
Nope, even for scrollbars they're too fucking stupid.
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Ok, it finished. After ~8 hours.
Oh wait... No, something thrashes again, and the UI became unresponsive
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If there are double the posts then we'd have 42k posts and 690k views, the perfect numbers as they should be
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People: Natural Language Processing can recognize user input easily!
Meanwhile: LUIS uses a massive regex grammar tree defined in YAML to recognize numbers, units, datetime text:
And AFAIK, there are no NLP engines that can recognize these input in a satisfactory manner. Even Google's NLP can only recognize absolute date, not something like
5:30 pm today
.Edit: Stanford has one that looks quite usable, but it only supports very few languages
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@_P_ Parsers for relative times are a truly horrible , even when only supporting the forms used commonly in the US. The big problem is that it's all really inconsistent and contextual, and it's just horrible. Even the idea of trying to support the whole of English (and not just the US) is scary, let alone all the bizarre things you find in other languages too.
Popping up a date-and-time picker works so much better.
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@_P_ d'you think it recognizes 'two years ago last thursday'?
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People: Natural Language Processing can recognize user input easily!
Who said that?
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@_P_ Parsers for relative times are a truly horrible , even when only supporting the forms used commonly in the US. The big problem is that it's all really inconsistent and contextual, and it's just horrible. Even the idea of trying to support the whole of English (and not just the US) is scary, let alone all the bizarre things you find in other languages too.
Popping up a date-and-time picker works so much better.
"But users are too to user datetime picker on mobile, we should just let them say what they want to do and do it for them!"
(Yeah that's pretty much how I feel every chatbot is like. It's the embodiment of breeder.)
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@_P_ d'you think it recognizes 'two years ago last thursday'?
SUTime can parse 'last thursday two years ago' as
2017-08-29
but cannot parse 'two years ago last thursday'.
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@_P_
Guess we’ll just have to get 10x the number of views over the next 21k posts.
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People: Natural Language Processing can recognize user input easily!
Who said that?
"People"!
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If there are double the posts then we'd have 42k posts and 690k views, the perfect numbers as they should be
420 and 69 would be perfecter.
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@Gąska Back on Discourse when we had the new topics/unread messages counter (or whatever it was) at the bottom of the screen, I had a 69/420 one and took a screenshot. I can't find it now though
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Status: I am now position
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: I am now position
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.Well, they're right: they told you your position is in line, and then gave you a line. Better keep this line safely from all dangerous IT thang who'd steal your important line from you, like that
x
button!
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Status: To save a tiny bit of money while I'm developing an on-and-off web applet, I'm going to "turn off" the database.
Except, Amazon will automatically turn it back on because... raisins?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
on-and-off web applet,
automatically turn it back on
because otherwise it would be an off web applet!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Except, Amazon will automatically turn it back on because... raisins?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: To save a tiny bit of money while I'm developing an on-and-off web applet, I'm going to "turn off" the database.
Except, Amazon will automatically turn it back on because... raisins?
It's an AntiLeaveMeAloneDataBase
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Found at work today:
I just don't understand...
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