WTF Bites
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@mott555 Victory! The solution was to uninstall Intel graphics drivers.
This thread is definitely the right place for this post, because I can't imagine why Intel graphics drivers would freeze a system unless there was an HDMI device plugged into the AMD GPU...there's nothing Intel in this system at all.
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@mott555 I once had a stick of RAM which would hard-crash Ubuntu just before getting to the login screen.
Windows, for what it's worth, had no truck at all with the same stick.
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@Rhywden That's what you get for running Linux on Windows hardware
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The solution was to uninstall Intel graphics drivers.
Wow. This laptop is noticeably much faster now. Thanks, Linux, for giving me headaches by auto-installing Intel GPU drivers on a system that doesn't have an Intel GPU!
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It's still strange. If you don't have any Intel hardware, the driver shouldn't do anything.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
It's still strange. If you don't have any Intel hardware, the driver shouldn't
do anything.even be there.FTFY
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
It's still strange. If you don't have any Intel hardware, the driver shouldn't do anything.
The performance hit doesn't surprise me. X was probably shoving stuff at the Intel driver, and in theory the driver should respond with "Hey, this doesn't apply to me, move on," but it'll still require overhead for switching into kernel mode for the driver functions, and I could definitely see that being quite a hit on a 6-watt fanless APU.
But the HDMI issue...Intel's driver must be handling HDMI unplug events and detection in a very bad way...
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@Mason_Wheeler I’m sure he’s got many fans, though. (I’m not one of them)
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Client is having issues with Quickbooks dropping out of multi-user mode. I check in on it. There is a KB article suggesting to check the startup type for the service. It somehow got changed to manual start. Problem solved.
I read further in the article:
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Select the Recovery tab.
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Select Restart the Service from each of these drop-down menus: First failure, Second failure, and Subsequent failures.
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@levicki yeah, because fixing the issues they know cause it to crash would take time and stuff.
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@levicki
Getting rid of the users is much harder on the bottom line.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
They have a crash in the service and the solution is to keep restarting it?
Could be worse. They could set it to reboot on subsequent crash
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@mott555 Fixed by plugging in an HDMI monitor. How does not having an external monitor cause it to quit accepting keyboard/mouse input?
sings the open source software song
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
what the fuck it should be used for and when?
So much modern documentation has the same “feature”, often just restating the name of things rather than saying why the programmer ought to give a shit about them. I think it's the curse of doc comments, and the lack of proper documentation writers in most organizations that develop software.
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@dkf I document literally everything I write, even when it won't be used by anyone else.
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@levicki what's even more horrifying is it definitely sounds like their watchdog service might crash too. At least that's what
QBCFMonitorService
sounds like....
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Bought some new breakdown cover.
Password requirements are super secure.
Security answer can be longer than password but it had better not contain a space (which my actual answer to this question does)
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@loopback0 what even... Why are... Why do they have those restrictions? What possible reason could.. sigh. I give up.
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Status: Huh, apparently there's a writing.stackexchange.com. Interesting. Let's take a look and maybe I'll learn something. First question
I'm using a plain text editor (Vim) to write a fiction piece (chapter book), and ...
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@Carnage it probably also causes cancer in California.
Actually in this case it is caused by (brain) cancer in California.
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@dkf Oh man, I remember back when I started out as a programmer, and we had real, actual testers, documenters and so on. We hadn't even been inflicted with agile yet and could just opt for getting shit done instead of masturbatory meetings and boards and shit all the time.
And developers could be specialists without being asked to go full stack.
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
Why do they have those restrictions?
To keep away people from Ashby de la Zouch.
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And developers could be specialists without being asked to go full stack.
You're not full stack if you're not working on everything from the GUI down to the gate level of the hardware. Go full or go home.
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@dkf What, no mining?
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And no Layer 8 neurosurgery?!
Working on that part. Or at least on understanding what wetware is actually doing at a detailed level…
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There's a helpful WRONG WAY sign in the middle of the median between two sides of a divided highway.
This always startles me into thinking I may be driving into incoming traffic, and is of no use to anyone due to its utter ambiguity over which side of the highway it's referring to.
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@error
Proposal: replace all wrong way signs with a picture of
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This always startles me into thinking I may be driving into incoming traffic, and is of no use to anyone due to its utter ambiguity over which side of the highway it's referring to.
I've seen this too, with the same effect. I have no idea who thinks those signs' placement is a good idea.
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Yeah. I never understood why nobody ever thought "you know, this ambiguity is kind of dangerous. Why don't we just add an arrow pointing left or right to avoid it?"
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from the GUI down to the gate level of the hardware
GUI? You're not using Alexa/Siri/HeyGoogle/Bixby whatever?
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I saw a scammer selling a physical coin as a "Bitcoin" for $2500. To me, the beauty of this scam is anyone stupid enough to fall for it won't realize they've been scammed until they try to cash their investment in.
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@error I have a bunch of old useless coins lying around. Maybe I could hack them up and sell them as bitcoins? Because I technically wouldn't be all wrong calling them that...
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@Atazhaia Yes you would. If you called them "coin bits", that would be not technically wrong.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in WTF Bites:
@Atazhaia Yes you would. If you called them "coin bits", that would be not technically wrong.
nah. they're bit-cOins, see rearranging the words and adding random capitalization is a marketing gimick, and nothing else. :-P
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@Mason_Wheeler How about if you engrave them with a QR code representing a wallet (and it's key)? Maybe even put a satoshi or two in there. Call them 'bitcoin coins'.
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@Mason_Wheeler How about if you engrave them with a QR code representing a wallet (and it's key)? Maybe even put a satoshi or two in there. Call them 'bitcoin coins'.
Oooooooh! Cut the coins up into interlocking puzzle pieces! Make it like fifteen, sixteen pieces per coin with a dozen or so different cut patterns for different coins. Call them "Commemorative, Collectible Bitcoins." then sell one piece at a time in blind bags, challenge your customers to "Collect an entire coin to win a prize!" leave the prize entirely unspecified. if anyone does manage to get and assemble an entire coin send them one of those electronic greeting card things as their prize. (you know the kind your grandma always sends you that makes you download an EXE to view, an EXE that for some reason needs elevated permissions to run.... then after you run it your computer starts running all sluggish and unresponsively....)
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you know the kind your grandma always sends you that makes you download an EXE to view, an EXE that for some reason needs elevated permissions to run.... then after you run it your computer starts running all sluggish and unresponsively...
I can't say I'm familiar, but then I don't think either of my grandmothers ever touched an internet-connected computer.
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I was going crazy trying to figure out why my plugins weren't loading from my webpack.config.js.
module.exports = { // --snip-- plugins: [ new FooPlugin, new BarPlugin ], // --snip-- // apparently JS allows this property to be duplicated with no errors, // but the later value overrides the earlier plugins: [] };
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@Atazhaia Are they from the UK? You could sell them as britcoins.
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// apparently JS allows this property to be duplicated with no errors,
// but the later value overrides the earlierAllow me to indtroduce you to the best damned tool you ever found when working with javascript: eslint
works especially well if you use an already curated style guide so you don't have to think about configuring all the rules correctly. I personally recommend standardjs, it's a bit opinionated, but it's got solid rules covering all the common mistakes, like double defining object keys.
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@Vixen Yeah, I'm only not using it because 99% of the code is in TypeScript and I'm using tslint.
So it's just the webpack config that's in vanilla JS.
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@Vixen Yeah, I'm only not using it because 99% of the code is in TypeScript and I'm using tslint.
So it's just the webpack config that's in vanilla JS.
so? use eslint anyway. have tslint check the
*.ts
files and eslint check the*.js
files. :-P then you save the command line into your package.json so you can donpm run lint
oryarn run lint
to check your build process. or if you want to get really fancy define it as abeforebuild
script so the build fails if the lint fails. then you're forced to fix it and you know it's wrong before the build does nto what you expect!and if you want to go for super bonus points you can -excitedly babbles on about all sorts of esoteric things you can do to your build chain like requiring checkins to pass lint tests by the use of githooks, of changing your shell configuration to automatically flag potentially troublesome files, hooking up automated testing with code coverage, building a docker.config and a kubernetes files so that the project is containerised easily, and registering the project on the various container hubs so they automatically build new container versions whenever you push to your repositoryand onand onand onand onand onand onand onand onand onand on
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error_bot does it with an eslint plugin: https://github.com/errorx666/error-bot/blob/master/.eslintrc.json
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@Vixen I can't quite put my finger on why, but you keep reminding me of a certain other vixen.
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@Vixen I can't quite put my finger on why, but you keep reminding me of a certain other vixen.
I was thinking her alter ego. Or the one she was an alter ego of. Or whichever alter ego of @boomzilla it was. You know what I mean.
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