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What? Don't you think this is a fair warning?
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@Zerosquare It's just, really... Not the first thing I would show a newbie how to use.
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@Zerosquare It's just, really... Not the first thing I would show a newbie how to use.
For those who already have experience with Javascript, starting with a
makes them feel at home. And for those who don't, it's a good introduction to what they're gonna have to deal with.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
False.
By "using" I meant "signing in", in which case everything you do in the browser while signed in is tracked in your account.
Why? I use plus-addressing all the time on my own Postfix. Additionally, I don't set up any addresses containing a dash on that box, so that doubles as a separator for where morons wrote the address verification regexen.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
False.
By "using" I meant "signing in", in which case everything you do in the browser while signed in is tracked in your account.
Why? I use plus-addressing all the time on my own Postfix. Additionally, I don't set up any addresses containing a dash on that box, so that doubles as a separator for where morons wrote the address verification regexen.
I wonder how many spam email address generators have a "If
foo+bar@bazis a target address, thenfoo@bazis also a target address" rule.
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@Zerosquare It's just, really... Not the first thing I would show a newbie how to use.
It's the only thing that works reliably in the whole framework. It's the least bad first impression they could make.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I distinctly remembered several XP installations managing to get themselves installed under WINNT.
Upgrades from Windows 2000 or Windows NT.
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@TwelveBaud said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I distinctly remembered several XP installations managing to get themselves installed under WINNT.
Upgrades from Windows 2000 or Windows NT.
Your files really were where you left them.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
What keyboard has this key on it?
A keyboard that uses binary numerals?
Let's face it, somewhere out there somebody was nerdy enough to do this.
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@Zerosquare It's just, really... Not the first thing I would show a newbie how to use.
It's the only thing that works reliably in the whole framework. It's the least bad first impression they could make.
Speaking of first impression - my own first impression with React was that the very day I've decided to pick it up (because I was forced by college to make a web app using a framework of choice - I'd never do it of my own volition), it just so happened they've pushed a minor update to stable that broke every single React app ever made. It took me a while to figure that out.
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the very day I've decided to pick it up (because I was forced by college to make a web app using a framework of choice - I'd never do it of my own volition), it just so happened they've pushed a minor update to stable that broke every single React app ever made.
Sometimes, fate gives you a very big hint that you're doing something terrible and that you should stop...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
ut it is still work
And maintaining a password database isn't?
I thought the whole point was that DRM was forcing him to create more accounts (thus creating entries in his password DB) so he avoids all that crap in the first place.
Maybe you need to reboot your shoulder robots?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
the very day I've decided to pick it up (because I was forced by college to make a web app using a framework of choice - I'd never do it of my own volition), it just so happened they've pushed a minor update to stable that broke every single React app ever made.
Sometimes, fate gives you a very big hint that you're doing something terrible and that you should stop...
Believe me, I've had an enormous urge to stop the entire semester.
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Maybe you need to reboot your shoulder robots?
Maybe. For me, I just tag the name of the site on the end of both email and password. Seems secure, nothing yet has pwned that!
Sadly, not so much for passwords out of circulation...
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React is one of those libraries I'm learning because it's a mandatory resume skill, not because I plan or hope to ever use it.
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mandatory resume skill
Nah. Just tell them, "I'm a backend developer. I know enough HTML and CSS to 'fake it till you make it', but it's not my strong point." Worked for me.
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A keyboard that uses binary numerals?
Let's face it, somewhere out there somebody was nerdy enough to do this.
My keyboard's numbers are in hexadecimal. True story.
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I don't set up any addresses containing a dash on that box, so that doubles as a separator for where morons wrote the address verification regexen.
Some morons also reject hyphens in email addresses. (I know this because there's a hyphen in my domain name.)
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@Mason_Wheeler said in WTF Bites:
mandatory resume skill
Nah. Just tell them, "I'm a backend developer. I know enough HTML and CSS to 'fake it till you make it', but it's not my strong point." Worked for me.
Skills:
Full Stack Development
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@levicki said in WTF Bites:
ut it is still work
And maintaining a password database isn't?
I thought the whole point was that DRM was forcing him to create more accounts (thus creating entries in his password DB) so he avoids all that crap in the first place.
Maybe you need to reboot your shoulder robots?
Uptime: 17 minutes
Status: operational
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My keyboard's numbers are in hexadecimal. True story.
Sweet. Where did you get the extra a-f keys?
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Sweet. Where did you get the extra a-f keys?
He took them off from the alpha portion -- real programmers write only in
hexbinary.
FTFY.
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The damn game has me trying to escort a suicidal NPC. Seriously, she dies in 1 hit to these barghests, and every time I try to fight them she jumps into the middle of all of them and draws aggro. I can't lure them away, because she won't follow me, she actively engages them.
I'm just reloading until the RNG gods decide to give her several dodges in a row.
Edit: fuck, I beat that encounter; the next has half a dozen barghests spawning in the middle of town, where all the NPC townfolk figure "I think I've got this."
Editedit: I don't even feel bad about savescumming that shit. I don't see how the stars would ever align like that to have her survive otherwise. It's not like I have any way of giving her commands, or taunting the enemies, or restoring her health. It's entirely reliant on her AI vs their AI, and the RNG
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
False.
By "using" I meant "signing in", in which case everything you do in the browser while signed in is tracked in your account.
Why? I use plus-addressing all the time on my own Postfix. Additionally, I don't set up any addresses containing a dash on that box, so that doubles as a separator for where morons wrote the address verification regexen.
I wonder how many spam email address generators have a "If
foo+bar@bazis a target address, thenfoo@bazis also a target address" rule.You don't have to accept mail at
foo@baz, do you? Use one account only for the plus-addresses and everything without that is spam by definition.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Why? I use plus-addressing all the time on my own Postfix. Additionally, I don't set up any addresses containing a dash on that box, so that doubles as a separator for where morons wrote the address verification regexen.
My website and email are on shared hosting. The only email controls I have are those exposed through cPanel which means creating standard accounts and one catch-all. Oh, and adding custom mail filters, which I started using with pleasure to eliminate some rather persistent spams I have been receiving by returning
550 No Such Userwhen the criteria matches.That sucks, but considering that a little vserver is about €2.50/mon, your shared hosting must be really cheap.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Some morons also reject hyphens in email addresses. (I know this because there's a hyphen in my domain name.)
Do they have any customers at all? Certainly not many from Germany where the standard domain for I-got-my-email-with-my-DSL people is t-online.de.
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It's not like I have any way of giving her commands
I try to do the next best thing in that kind of situation: put rocks in the way so they get stuck.
Sadly, path finding algorithms seem to be getting better...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
It's not like I have any way of giving her commands
I try to do the next best thing in that kind of situation: put rocks in the way so they get stuck.
Sadly, path finding algorithms seem to be getting better...
This game, sadly, has no physics, fixed geometry, and you can't move or place items. Ah, 2007.
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@levicki I insert my CC card into ATM machine and it asks for my PIN number.
My GPS system downloads RIFF format data over HTTP protocol.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
RNG gods
Ever since I was exposed to gaming I always thought that RNG was an acronym for Random Number Gods, which would have made your sentence a bit redundant.
Both variations are common in gaming - RNG as in Generator and RNG as in God. RNG Gods is also not unusual.
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The damn game has me trying to escort a suicidal NPC. Seriously, she dies in 1 hit to these barghests, and every time I try to fight them she jumps into the middle of all of them and draws aggro. I can't lure them away, because she won't follow me, she actively engages them.
I'm just reloading until the RNG gods decide to give her several dodges in a row.
Edit: fuck, I beat that encounter; the next has half a dozen barghests spawning in the middle of town, where all the NPC townfolk figure "I think I've got this."
Editedit: I don't even feel bad about savescumming that shit. I don't see how the stars would ever align like that to have her survive otherwise. It's not like I have any way of giving her commands, or taunting the enemies, or restoring her health. It's entirely reliant on her AI vs their AI, and the RNG
Typical escort mission. The only game I've ever seen actually do an escort mission well was Mass Effect 2.
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The damn game has me trying to escort a suicidal NPC. Seriously, she dies in 1 hit to these barghests, and every time I try to fight them she jumps into the middle of all of them and draws aggro. I can't lure them away, because she won't follow me, she actively engages them.
I'm just reloading until the RNG gods decide to give her several dodges in a row.
Edit: fuck, I beat that encounter; the next has half a dozen barghests spawning in the middle of town, where all the NPC townfolk figure "I think I've got this."
Editedit: I don't even feel bad about savescumming that shit. I don't see how the stars would ever align like that to have her survive otherwise. It's not like I have any way of giving her commands, or taunting the enemies, or restoring her health. It's entirely reliant on her AI vs their AI, and the RNG
Protip: in addition to save scumming, use the active pause so there's no delay between your actions. And if you think that was bad, just wait for the first boss. Get Aard 1 and go for knockdown insta-kill.
Although after the first boss, the game becomes MUCH less random and frustrating. And I really mean it. It actually becomes almost playable. You just have to get through that first boss.
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@Gąska I think it was the first boss (the barghest one?) that made me stop playing. I eventually beat it, but lost interest at that point. If I'm thinking of the right game.
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@Benjamin-Hall yup. And I don't blame you. The game is HORRIBLE. The first chapter is 10x more horrible than the rest of the game, but still. It's such a shame - the story is very good and side quests are really interesting, but the gameplay just sucks. I hope they remaster it one day.
Witcher 2 is much better gameplay-wise, though still not ideal, and the story is quite bland in comparison. But Witcher 3 is simply amazing in every regard, and the two DLCs are some of the best storylines I've ever seen in any game (and the main game isn't much behind; and there's hundreds of hand-crafted side quests, and none of them is just a simple fetch quest except a few, and even these were made interesting).
As long as you're not Blakey and don't mind playing as a cynical douche (the level of doucheness can be controlled with dialog choices to some degree).
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@HardwareGeek the stupidity is real.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in WTF Bites:
Typical escort mission. The only game I've ever seen actually do an escort mission well was Mass Effect 2.
Well, there's also that goat mission in Witcher 3.
The game is HORRIBLE. [...] the gameplay just sucks.
Strange, I had a lot of fun with it and don't remember anything too hard or frustrating.
Witcher 2 is much better gameplay-wise, though still not ideal, and the story is quite bland in comparison. But Witcher 3 is simply amazing in every regard, and the two DLCs are some of the best storylines I've ever seen in any game (and the main game isn't much behind; and there's hundreds of hand-crafted side quests, and none of them is just a simple fetch quest except a few, and even these were made interesting).
To each his own I guess. I find the story in Witcher 2 the best, with 3 a close second and 1 last.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Some morons also reject hyphens in email addresses. (I know this because there's a hyphen in my domain name.)
Do they have any customers at all? Certainly not many from Germany where the standard domain for I-got-my-email-with-my-DSL people is t-online.de.Well, the specific morons I'm thinking of don't exist anymore, as a separate company, anyway; they're now part of Oracle. So yes, they do. Back in the day when Sun owned Java, I tried several times to register a Java developer account (
), but they would not accept an email address with a hyphen in either the username or domain name parts.
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As long as you're not Blakey and don't mind playing as a cynical douche (the level of doucheness can be controlled with dialog choices to some degree).
Although I do prefer my fem heroes for incel reasons (to keep me company and all), I don't mind playing a douche if that's the only choice. I mean, Adam Jensen is similar in lots of ways. But Gerald somehow didn't click. I can't put a finger on what exactly it is.
Edit: It got even more confusing. I fucking loathe all the supermens, the entire set of them, so I kept thinking Cavill being Gerald would be total trainwreck. I think I checked it out only to confirm my convictions. But lo - that one clicked right away. Watching is, of course, rather different from playing, but it's the same-ish base material, so what gives?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
the specific morons I'm thinking of don't exist anymore, as a separate company, anyway; they're now part of Oracle
The jokes write themselves.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Some morons also reject hyphens in email addresses. (I know this because there's a hyphen in my domain name.)
They must be sourcing their mega-email-checking-regex from SO.
Pro-tip for vaildating email address client-side: DON'T DO IT.
I'd check for
^.+@.+\..+$. It is trivial, but catches the real cases of the stupids (that's what client-side validation is for) and you probably don't want to support local mailboxes or bang paths anyway. In theory it discriminates against morons who have their email at an actual TLD, but whatever.Real validation is by sending an email and getting a response notification (by web typically) with a crypto token in it.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
real programmers write only in hex.
IME there's a lot of cursing, but not that kind
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I've "solved" my VMware pasting problem by exploiting the fact that while it can't paste more than 4 MB of text from guest to host, it can transfer files from guest to host. So I can copy my pasta into a file or three and transfer it that way.
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"retard" is at the lowest with only 4 occurrences? Apparently we don't have many kernel hackers among us.
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@levicki said in WTF Bites:
Why waste energy adapting?
those who adapt thrive. those who do not adapt become food for those that adapt.
do you want to be food?
/me licks lips hungrily
/me can see the headlines now "Fox Hunts Man, declared more humane that human hunts fox"
