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@izzion to be fair, it's more than likely that this kid has never used a CD in their entire life.
It was in the context of a Wii vs Wii U debate in a speedrunning channel. So I'm willing to bet he's used the odd game disc or three. But I suppose that those aren't CDs
Unless it really is a CD, and fucking up the actual disk can be accidentally beneficial...
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@izzion all optical disks are CDs to me.
I made the distinction between CDs and DVDs but when Blu-ray came along I also stopped.
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The
"all those discs look the same to me"racism thread is
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Twitch Plays Technical Expert:
This used to be sort of kind of almost halfway not untrue, iirc. There were issues playing back 4X-written discs in some lower-speed drives? Was that it? This isn't entirely false, at least. Something about the pit shape or something. Ye gods, now it's going to drive me nuts.
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This used to be sort of kind of almost halfway not untrue, iirc.
If you go back to the age of vinyl records, then it is indeed halfway not untrue.
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This used to be sort of kind of almost halfway not untrue, iirc.
If you go back to the age of vinyl records, then it is indeed halfway not untrue.
I'm not trolling here (that I know of (yet)), there is some dang anecdote, of a complete or partial experiment, around this - I used to burn the masters for the first place I worked at. We had one case where we needed to get a firmware update so that we could get a dang burner to write discs that all readers could read, it was something about the pit shape. I think the threshold function of the bug was reader speed.
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For a given disc burner, usually a higher burn speed implies a less accurate burnt pattern, which translates to the disc being more difficult to read and less resilient to damage. So if you want the disc to be readable on a drive that's picky (such as earlier CD-ROM drives), lowering the burn speed is a good idea.
But the explanation as quoted is nonsense.
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Somewhere between Youtube and our embed box, there's some confusion about the length of this 16 second video:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
"This column can hold one of two possible values. Let's make it able to hold up to 20 character strings!"
Status: Was so pissed off I very nearly posted about it, but then remembered I had already done so.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
"This column can hold one of two possible values. Let's make it able to hold up to 20 character strings!"
Status: Was so pissed off I very nearly posted about it, but then remembered I had already done so.
y'know, that's a good use for those extra characters - commentary!
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Status: So when Debugging, an
ZipArchiveEntry
from aZipArchive
has a property calledExternalAttributes
. Makes sense.I want to use this property, because it tells me whether to expect it to be a folder or file (among other things).
Does this property exist in the
ZipArchiveEntry
class?Nope! Because why the fuck would you want that?!?
Goddammit Microsoft!
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@Tsaukpaetra Sounds like compile-time/run-time framework version mismatch. Apparently this property was added in 4.7.2.
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@Tsaukpaetra Sounds like compile-time/run-time framework version mismatch. Apparently this property was added in 4.7.2.
I have no idea how this is possible... Am I not compiling against the same framework I'm running on?
Whatever. Just means I make more bullshit code to try inferring whether the entry is a directory or not. So far the directories have a trailing
/
so I'm going to fudge that assumption with a dismayed dragon warning until someone later () comes along to figure out what went wrong...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Sounds like compile-time/run-time framework version mismatch. Apparently this property was added in 4.7.2.
I have no idea how this is possible... Am I not compiling against the same framework I'm running on?
Or maybe you are but your project is set up to only allow APIs available in 4.7 (or another older version). It's like compiling C++ with newest GCC but with
-std=c++11
flag.Whatever. Just means I make more bullshit code to try inferring whether the entry is a directory or not.
I insist you first try to change your project settings to use 4.7.2, if possible.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra Sounds like compile-time/run-time framework version mismatch. Apparently this property was added in 4.7.2.
I have no idea how this is possible... Am I not compiling against the same framework I'm running on?
Or maybe you are but your project is set up to only allow APIs available in 4.7 (or another older version). It's like compiling C++ with newest GCC but with
-std=c++11
flag.That makes sense I guess.
Whatever. Just means I make more bullshit code to try inferring whether the entry is a directory or not.
I insist you first try to change your project settings to use 4.7.2, if possible.
I am unable to overcome the ...
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So for some time, notification posted to Teams started to include this warning:
That's very informative. Ok... so I first look in the application that sends the notifications. Nope, not there. So I realize it means the connector setup in Teams. Open it... first, it takes ages to load the settings, just spinning like
because, you see, it has to first load all available connectors. When they load, the “Incoming Webhook” is fist
but clicking Configure just tries to add a new one. You have to switch to Configured, where a second option shows up
Opening the “1 Configured” drop-down shows
Hm, so here I need to do something. Let's click “Manage”:
This is all the information there. So what the hell requires the attention here‽
…. yeah, Googling reveals
Microsoft, can't you just say it in the notification or at least the configuration dialog‽
Oh, and after updating the URL, it changes to
The URL is still the same, but if I click on the Copy button, it shows a different URL. Which was kinda the point—the new URL is tenant-specific.
By the way, I blacked the start of the UUID in the URL, but it is lot longer than what fits the widget anyway.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
So far the directories have a trailing
/
so I'm going to fudge that assumptionThat is the normal method for ZIP archives, yes. The external attributes aren't necessarily there; it's an optional extension that the ZIP writer might've not bothered with.
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Microsoft, can't you just say it in the notification or at least the configuration dialog‽
One of the true Microsoft Ways Of Doing Things is to throw vague scary warnings in users' faces that they have no idea what to do anything about. Your little saga all sounds rather on-message for them.
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@dkf Not just vague warnings, but vague errors and vague platitudes too
Something went wrong :(
Your files are right where you left them
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
So far the directories have a trailing / so I'm going to fudge that
I'm not sure this is a fudge, I think it's standard. Not standard enough to actually be in the spec, but standard enough to rely on.
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@bobjanova said in WTF Bites:
Not standard enough to actually be in the spec,
And that's why it's fudge. Until it becomes hard candy, at which time add a little egg and it becomes bread!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
And that's why it's fudge. Until it becomes hard candy, at which time add a little egg and it becomes bread!
Looks like you do cooking the same way you do hardware
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
And that's why it's fudge. Until it becomes hard candy, at which time add a little egg and it becomes bread!
Looks like you do cooking the same way you do hardware
I dunno, I have no records of @Tsaukpaetra adding flour to hardware either
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
And that's why it's fudge. Until it becomes hard candy, at which time add a little egg and it becomes bread!
Looks like you do cooking the same way you do hardware
I dunno, I have no records of @Tsaukpaetra adding flour to hardware either
Sounds like you just didn’t search hard enough.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
And that's why it's fudge. Until it becomes hard candy, at which time add a little egg and it becomes bread!
Looks like you do cooking the same way you do hardware
I dunno, I have no records of @Tsaukpaetra adding flour to hardware either
Sounds like you just didn’t search hard enough.
The question of effort level did not arise.
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@Tsaukpaetra Later runtimes in a major version will support anything compiled against an earlier rev. So 4.8 (which is installed unless you've been fucking up Windows Update) is what you're running on, but targeting 4.7.1 or earlier.
What really fucks you up is when you target a later version and then run on an earlier version. Like compiling for 4.6.2 and then running on 4.6, whereupon you get a crash every time you create an array because Array.Clear() doesn't exist.
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So 4.8 (which is installed unless you've been fucking up Windows Update)
Remember who you're talking to.
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So 4.8 (which is installed unless you've been fucking up Windows Update)
Remember who you're talking to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGQnGQzlAmA&t=60&start=60&end=100
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Like compiling for 4.6.2 and then running on 4.6, whereupon you get a crash every time you create an array because Array.Clear() doesn't exist.
How is that even possible. Shouldn't it just say it needs a runtime >= 4.6.2 and give up? Not that it would surprise me Microsoft sucks at versioning, of course…
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@Bulb It normally does so, in the
.exe.config
file:<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.8"/>
But you can change that in any text editor, and then...
The application may still start und run seemingly un-affected. Till, out-of a sudden, it crashes. Because something was called which is available in a later version only...
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I didn't even make an account. I just visited one page.
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@Gąska Gamification! Doesn't it want to make you visit that site more!
Upvote this post for a badge!
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@bobjanova said in WTF Bites:
Doesn't it want to make you visit that site more!
No. But if I do visit, it makes me more likely to use incognito/private mode.
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@HardwareGeek I agree. Then you get a badge for every visit!
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@bobjanova said in WTF Bites:
Doesn't it want to make you visit that site more!
No. But if I do visit, it makes me more likely to use incognito/private mode.
E_ALREADY_AT_100_PERCENT
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@bobjanova said in WTF Bites:
Upvote this post for a badge!
Hey! Where's my badge?!
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I didn't even make an account. I just visited one page.
This is like a participation award, except worse somehow, since you didn't even actually participate in anything.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
Till, out-of a sudden, it crashes.
If you're changing some apps config like that, you deserve all the crashes it can generate. Preferably in a data corrupting manner.
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
It normally does so, in the .exe.config file:
There isn't an .exe.config file installed for the service (Yes, that was a real example). I guess, if there isn't, it just sees it's a 4.0 and runs. Until, as you said, it tries to do something that didn't exist.
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Yes, that was a real example
We know. It was way too detailed to be made up. We feel for you.
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@bobjanova said in WTF Bites:
@Gąska Gamification! Doesn't it want to make you visit that site more!
Upvote this post for a badge!
Give me my badge.
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Give me my badge.
If you don't understand what it means, now you know how I feel most of the time when I read you
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- create Github account
- to complete registration, verify email address by clicking link in email
- link takes me to login page
- login page requires me to verify email address for 2FA
I have to verify my email address to verify my email address.
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FFS. It's already a rounded rect. It looks like shit when you crop it into a circle.
Why do so many apps do this shit?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
what it means
"Warning: risk of being backstabbed with a fork"?
The Open Source way.