WTF Bites
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Yeah, I should probably make a small lounge thread about my employment, it's not quite what everyone remembers...
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@TwelveBaud said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery
: But "static" is not a date!That was not what I was objecting to.
Was it the 25 month years?
I guess that's one way of looking at it.
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@Polygeekery no, the retarded thing is middle-endian dates
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Yeah, I should probably make a small lounge thread about my employment, it's not quite what everyone remembers...
We do remember. We just prefer memes.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in WTF Bites:
I'm not sure what it does if interrupts are disabled.
It just halts the CPU until either a NMI or a reset occurs.
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In law (especially English law), you can have an employment contract without it being written. It's very unwise as it becomes really difficult for either side to prove anything in the case of a dispute
It also works with French law: a verbal employment contract is legally valid. Of course, it's still a Really Bad Idea™ for the reason you mention.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Writing a REST method to receive an uploaded file along with basic metadata (title, some hierarchy / pseudo directory-like information, etc). The information shows up as a (java)
Map
.I'm checking the
id
of the thing to see if this is a new file or updating an old file. So a new file should have a nullid
. Via the wonders of serialization a null value becomes a string:"null"
.That is always fun. There is probably configuration to force "null" to be interpreted as null.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Writing a REST method to receive an uploaded file along with basic metadata (title, some hierarchy / pseudo directory-like information, etc). The information shows up as a (java)
Map
.I'm checking the
id
of the thing to see if this is a new file or updating an old file. So a new file should have a nullid
. Via the wonders of serialization a null value becomes a string:"null"
.That is always fun. There is probably configuration to force "null" to be interpreted as null.
Maybe. Other
null
things have worked correctly when transmitted via regular json but this is my first time doingmultipart/form-data
.
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It's not my query's fault that one specific term I'm looking for has apparently never been discussed in the context of what I'm looking for
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So, given a university that already has a web-based interface to authenticate students, request certificates, and make payments, how do you think you request your physical diploma?
Expected: you go to that interface and request the diploma.
Reality:
- You send an email requesting the diploma, along with a scanned image of your government ID (the highest form of cryptographic authentication, no one else can possibly obtain an image of your ID)
- A person checks if you fulfill the requirements and emails you a Diploma request form
- You print the form, fill it out, sign it and scan it
- You sign into that first interface I mentioned and pay the fee (which is bullshit, but whatever)
- You go to an entirely separate web interface and manually enter all your data yet again, including what degree you completed (I hope they double check that info), include the scanned image of the form and your ID again
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
So, given a university that already has a web-based interface to authenticate students, request certificates, and make payments, how do you think you request your physical diploma?
Lemme check...
Yeah I ain't got no fuckin' clue. Searched the entire place. Google found me a form, but it's one that looks pretty old.
Luckily (?) I still have the actual document, so dodged that bullet... for now.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
So, given a university that already has a web-based interface to authenticate students, request certificates, and make payments, how do you think you request your physical diploma?
Expected: you go to that interface and request the diploma.
Good one!
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in WTF Bites:
And this inference still survives in reasonably common usage in one place even in C++17, and probably C++20. There is no C/C++ type specifically called just unsigned. The compiler infers that you mean unsigned int.
Nor are there types called
signed
,short
,long
, orlong long
. These all use implicitint
.(Bonus trivia:
signed
is only mostly useless. Unlike with all other integer types,signed char
andchar
are distinct types.)
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
The author of this book also tried to lobby for literal Polish translations of computing terms, coining the term międzymordzie - literally "betweenface", meant to be a translation of "interface", but everybody just says "interfejs" today.
I seem to remember that he has also tried to make everybody use the word "piktogram" instead of "ikona" when talking about icons in graphical interfaces, with his reasoning being that "ikona" is used for describing religious imagery in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
The Wikipedia article about him also mentions that he apparently invented "dwumlask" ("doublechew"? "doubleslurp"?) to describe a double mouse click, which I've never heard used, even jokingly.
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Status: Fucking busy-loops. There's a perfectly fine Thread.sleep function ready and waiting for you!
Fuckers...
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@strangeways said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
The author of this book also tried to lobby for literal Polish translations of computing terms, coining the term międzymordzie - literally "betweenface", meant to be a translation of "interface", but everybody just says "interfejs" today.
I seem to remember that he has also tried to make everybody use the word "piktogram" instead of "ikona" when talking about icons in graphical interfaces, with his reasoning being that "ikona" is used for describing religious imagery in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
The Wikipedia article about him also mentions that he apparently invented "dwumlask" ("doublechew"? "doubleslurp"?) to describe a double mouse click, which I've never heard used, even jokingly.On second thought, that book is called "C : Interpretation of the Standard". Perhaps that was a way of saying "look at what kind of weird things we can do while still staying perfectly legal!" - it's an "interpretation", after all.
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@strangeways said in WTF Bites:
międzymordzie
I'm so gonna use that exclusively from now on.
Legend has it, that it was promoted by Commision Of Polish Language (Komisja Języka Polskiego), together with some other idiotic translations.
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@MrL you mean Rada?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Show me where we have to pay for the boilerplate code, or I'm not going to do this.
Yeah, I have a (poorly scanned) copy of the agreement. Among other things it:
- Defines
Source Code
, but never uses the term ever. - Is missing several Exhibits, two of which would be pretty critical for my query as it's supposed to reference what parts of the software belong to which company
- Calls out Object Code as being specifically owned by the respective party
- Says that joint development will occur, details in another document (that I can't have found)
- Says customizations will be done for the other party's products, but does not specify in any way what that means, other than that it is modification to the party's software done by theirself, the other party will reasonably cooperate to accomplish the development and integration of said customization.
So for all intents and purposes, I'm treating the given source code as a gift with no obligation or intent, express or implied.
Initiating a simple global Find-n-replace for their name and scheduling a joyful whistling.
- Defines
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@Tsaukpaetra does the Other Party still exist? If so, make sure to obtain a written order to do what you are about to do. Preferably in dead tree format, but an email is fine as a backup option. If the Other Party ever ends up copyright-trolling your company, you really don't want them to become YOUR problem. I'm being serious.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in WTF Bites:
And this inference still survives in reasonably common usage in one place even in C++17, and probably C++20. There is no C/C++ type specifically called just unsigned. The compiler infers that you mean unsigned int.
Nor are there types called
signed
,short
,long
, orlong long
. These all use implicitint
.(Bonus trivia:
signed
is only mostly useless. Unlike with all other integer types,signed char
andchar
are distinct types.)And
unsigned char
is distinct from both of them.And the presence or absence of a signedness keyword matters(1) in bitfield members of structures.
struct flobble { unsigned int ufield : 1; signed int sfield : 2; int ifield : 1; };
Now:
flobble::ufield
is just fine, an unsigned field of length 1 bit, holding 0 or 1.flobble::sfield
is also just fine, a signed field of length 2 bits, holding -1, 0, 1 and another value that might be -2, -0, or ... something else.flobble::ifield
is not fine, because at the compiler's whim it is a signed or unsigned field but definitely of length 1, and therefore holds 0 or ... something else that might be 1, -1, -0 or, well, I'm not sure what.
(1) Er, in C89/90 for sure. YMMV on later versions of the standards.
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@strangeways said in WTF Bites:
The Wikipedia article about him
From 1997 he was a professor at the Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology in Warsaw, where he headed the Department of Programming Methods, incl. introducing Java programming to the curriculum.
Bielecki is the author of over 100 coursebooks for learning programming languages (Pascal, C, C ++ and Java) and for operating popular office software, with a total circulation of over 800,000. copies issued in the years 1989–2001, including those translated abroad
This guy needs to be prosecuted for war crimes.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
incl. introducing Java programming to the curriculum.
If his Java is as terrible as his C, his students are probably responsible for a few front page articles.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
incl. introducing Java programming to the curriculum.
If his Java is as terrible as his C, his students are probably responsible for a few front page articles.
How does the phrase go... A bad developer can easily create employment for two good developers.
In wtf news the online music station I listen to just had two minutes of static. Actual tuning static before becoming clear again.
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In wtf news the online music station I listen to just had two minutes of static. Actual tuning static before becoming clear again.
Maybe that's the audio version of the wooden table: their online stream is generated by putting a microphone in front of a radio tuned to their FM station
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@Zerosquare virtual audio outputs are worse than printer drivers. If I've been tasked with setting this up, I'd probably do exactly that.
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@DogsB There's one of those crappy local TV stations in my area. I remember as a kid one day the TV program suddenly disappeared and the default Windows XP desktop appeared. Then the cursor started moving, opened a Word document and printed it, then several minutes of nothing happening, then the program returned to normal.
Someone must have hit the wrong switch.
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Synergy 2 is a complete non-starter due to lack of proxy support and its reliance on phone-home mechanisms (which they promised repeatedly to fix but 3 years later never did). Now that's planned for version 3.
So what's the plan for version 3?
wat?
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@error all the speed of the web with the stability of C++. What's not to like?!
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@error There's always Barrier which is forked from Synergy 1.9.
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I can't believe that's a direct quote.
It's almost too easy to mock them like that, like shooting
fishfeet in a barrel.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@DogsB There's one of those crappy local TV stations in my area. I remember as a kid one day the TV program suddenly disappeared and the default Windows XP desktop appeared. Then the cursor started moving, opened a Word document and printed it, then several minutes of nothing happening, then the program returned to normal.
Someone must have hit the wrong switch.
I wasn't fast enough to take a photo, but a while ago the weather prediction on TV for one of several cities was a Chrome start page.
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Well, if your point of comparison is NodeJS, you could say that C++ is a stable platform...
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@DogsB There's one of those crappy local TV stations in my area. I remember as a kid one day the TV program suddenly disappeared and the default Windows XP desktop appeared. Then the cursor started moving, opened a Word document and printed it, then several minutes of nothing happening, then the program returned to normal.
Someone must have hit the wrong switch.
Was it an HR/payroll document?
Filed under: At least it wasn't, :gasp:, porn. :pearl-necklace:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Much like my employment contract (which I have not seen or signed), I want to see it!
So what? At my previous employer, I had a contract for a six-week project. But stayed there for more than 6 years, without a contract for that period.
In the end, the contract does not matter at all when things run smoothly.
And when things don't run smoothly, better do not believe in the words on that sheet of paper - they are worthless for an employee, anyway.
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Sometimes, out of nowhere, VirtualBox will popup this delightful piece of information:
As indicated, clicking "OK" immediately kills your VM. However, you can still do stuff inside the VM, such as saving your work, closing windows and shutting down gracefully. But there's also a similar but more different version, where it's a different part of the process that mysteriously explodes, which also freezes your entire VM.
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n wtf news the online music station I listen to just had two minutes of static. Actual tuning static before becoming clear again.
Maybe it was an ad. And someone never bothered checking the file before sending it to the station.
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@dcon Or they did check, but then noticed that the file picker for the playlist only accepts
wav
files and had to perform a "manual override" to get it to accept Appleaiff
files.
Filed under: How do you mean, changing the extension doesn't convert the file?
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Um, why did my Javascript debugger breakpoint stop in the
<title>
element of an HTML document?Go home , you're drunk.
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signed char
andchar
are distinct typesOnly the former includes a digital signature for every single character.
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signed char
andchar
are distinct typesOnly the former includes a digital signature for every single character.
Filed under: Parity bit
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
And when things don't run smoothly, better do not believe in the words on that sheet of paper - they are worthless for an employee, anyway.
In Europe, written contract is needed to establish employment relationship, which grants you 19437954 additional rights from Employment Code even if they're not explicitly enumerated in the contract. But I understand it might not apply to USA.
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In Europe, written contract is needed to establish employment relationship
No, it's merely an extremely good idea.
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@dkf verbal employment contract is illegal in Poland and AFAIK most if not all other EU countries. But you're right; the employment relationship doesn't need a contract - but unless you want your (hopefully former) employer to go under, reporting it anywhere is a very bad idea.
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MSI gave me this helpful graph:
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@Gąska
Here a verbal contract or no contract will result in the judge siding with the employee.