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@Polygeekery I guess someone at Dell never considered the existence of USB-C PD power banks.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Me being me, I have a MacBook Air I use for that, but that will not suit their needs.
Can concur, I use my MacBook Air a lot for working over remote connection (both windows and linux), so the heavy lifting is done on the big machines. This thing's battery life (so far, we'll see how it degrades) is awesome.
That would make entirely too much sense. It doesn't fucking work at all. If you plug a USB-C laptop charger into it, the laptop charges. If you plug a USB-C battery bank into the laptop.....the fucking laptop charges the battery bank.
That's interesting. With all the new-fangled USB-C stuff that charges in both directions and all kinds of appliances serving as hubs and pass-through and what not, I have been wondering if at some point there's a scenario where we need a setting to define what charges what / in which direction. I mean, with your battery bank case it's obviously retarded, even though when the laptop is also connected to a wall plug and fully charged, then itsuddenly might make sense for it to charge the battery bank. But I was thinking about either more complex topologies or something like two mobile-ish devices. Not sure if there realistically is such a scenario, for example iPad connected to laptop it's still pretty obvious that the "larger" mobile device (laptop) charges the smaller one. But there might be.
If anyone has any ideas I am all ears. Well, I am mostly penis, but I will listen to your ideas.
I thought you're mostly ABV.
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But I was thinking about either more complex topologies or something like two mobile-ish devices.
If you have two phones and a USB-C cable with the proper connectors on both ends you can plug them in to each other and each will pop up a prompt asking if you want it to deliver power or charge itself. I think that whichever one you answer on first is the decider. But yes, it is possible to charge one phone from another phone. Which is of limited utility unless you have one phone almost dead, another entirely charged, and also happen to have the proper cable with you. Which no one would. Well, I do, to go with my power bank that I would just use instead.
But under normal circumstances that capability is basically useless.
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I thought you're mostly ABV.
Okay, let me fix that.
@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
If anyone has any ideas I am all ears. Well, I am mostly drunken penis, but I will listen to your ideas.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
If you have two phones and a USB-C cable with the proper connectors on both ends you can plug them in to each other and each will pop up a prompt asking if you want it to deliver power or charge itself. I think that whichever one you answer on first is the decider. But yes, it is possible to charge one phone from another phone. Which is of limited utility unless you have one phone almost dead, another entirely charged, and also happen to have the proper cable with you. Which no one would. Well, I do, to go with my power bank that I would just use instead.
But under normal circumstances that capability is basically useless.Oh, and as for how I discovered this, that happened when I got my Pixel 4. I was switching from a Samsung S9 or whatever and Samsung actually makes one decent application that makes switching phones super easy. Install it on both phones, hook them to each other via USB and transfer all of your text messages and all the stuff that isn't (or at least wasn't at the time, it may be now?) backed up to your Google account.
I plug the phones together with a USB-C cable and they pop up the prompts. My first thought was:
"Well, that's pretty nifty. I never realized you could charge one phone from another, but it makes sense given the USB-C spec."Then I thought about it for a short bit:
"I will have to remember that, in case my wife and I ever need to top up the other's phone."A bit longer:
"But we would have to have a USB-C to USB-C cable with us, and we never do."Then I realized:
"Well, the only time we ever need to top up our phones is at the end of the day, and chances are both phones would be low on power, and even if one wasn't we would need a cable that we never have with us so this whole thing is fucking useless."
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@dangeRuss said in WTF Bites:
I'm sure the @boomzilla's of the world will say this is just business rights, even though it's illegal under Georgia law.
Granny, 63, and granddaughter, 6, kicked out of hotel after bad review
Susan Leger, 63, was on the first of her three-night stay at the Baymont Inn & Suites in the mountain town of Helen, Georgia when she got a call from the hotel manager telling her she had to leave.
I'm sure this must have had a very positive effect on the hotel's public perception.
Brillant managment.
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@Polygeekery how do you not have a USB-c to USBC cable on you? It's literally the only cable you can use to charge your laptop at about 100W and PD fast charge your phone. Although and I have no idea how this works, but my OnePlus has some sort of magic usba to USBC cable and charger that goes way faster then PD charging
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
get a technically accurate picture?
That. The overall number only remedies your misplaced curiosity. By all means, keep it there if you want. Just like progress bars.
On the other hand, if you have actual concerns about CPU usage, detailed picture is the right starting point.
watch -n0.1 '(cat /proc/stat; fgrep -e 'model name' -e 'cpu MHz' -e 'flags' /proc/cpuinfo)'Precision FTW
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@dangeRuss said in WTF Bites:
I'm sure the @boomzilla's of the world will say this is just business rights, even though it's illegal under Georgia law.
Huh? At least they purport to quote the article that basically says a hotel can do this for any reason whatsoever.
Susan Leger, 63, was on the first of her three-night stay at the Baymont Inn & Suites in the mountain town of Helen, Georgia when she got a call from the hotel manager telling her she had to leave.
I hear Barbara Streisand has had nothing but praise for the place.
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@dangeRuss said in WTF Bites:
I'm sure the @boomzilla's of the world will say this is just business rights, even though it's illegal under Georgia law.
Huh? At least they purport to quote the article that basically says a hotel can do this for any reason whatsoever.
From the article
Georgia law says guests can't be kicked out before the time they paid for runs out, but it carves out an exemption for 'cause,' defined as 'failure to pay sums due, failure to abide by rules of occupancy, failure to have or maintain reservations, or other action by a guest.'
Now not sure giving 3 out 5 stars in hotels.com qualifies. I bet a half decent lawyer can get her a good settlement. Also funny how the guy was pretending to refund her, when he should've known he can't. And the booking site didn't want to refund her either until contacted by reporters. I don't know about you, but I'd be pretty pissed getting kicked out of my hotel in the middle of the night and having to walk to the closest hotel (although not sure why they didn't have a car), and pay possibly higher last minute charges.
Susan Leger, 63, was on the first of her three-night stay at the Baymont Inn & Suites in the mountain town of Helen, Georgia when she got a call from the hotel manager telling her she had to leave.
I hear Barbara Streisand has had nothing but praise for the place.
Huh?
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@dangeRuss said in WTF Bites:
@dangeRuss said in WTF Bites:
I'm sure the @boomzilla's of the world will say this is just business rights, even though it's illegal under Georgia law.
Huh? At least they purport to quote the article that basically says a hotel can do this for any reason whatsoever.
From the article
Georgia law says guests can't be kicked out before the time they paid for runs out, but it carves out an exemption for 'cause,' defined as 'failure to pay sums due, failure to abide by rules of occupancy, failure to have or maintain reservations, or other action by a guest.'
Now not sure giving 3 out 5 stars in hotels.com qualifies.
"or other action by a guest". I.e. whatever they fuck management finds annoying.
I bet a half decent lawyer can get her a good settlement.
That's probably true nonetheless.
Susan Leger, 63, was on the first of her three-night stay at the Baymont Inn & Suites in the mountain town of Helen, Georgia when she got a call from the hotel manager telling her she had to leave.
I hear Barbara Streisand has had nothing but praise for the place.
Huh?
Streisand Effect … you've heard of it, right? Right?!
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You might want to brag that your CPU used "1 Million Percent CPU Time" by multiplying cores x time, because it sounds more impressive in your advertising or CPU/Penis Measuring Contest, but it is meaningless and irrelevant bullshit.
One second elapsed is one second.
Imagine you log on to a server and you see a process running at 8% CPU. What can you tell me about its workload?
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Streisand Effect … you've heard of it, right? Right?!
Nah, somebody managed to take down all the information about it.
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Brillant managment.
Manager Danny Vyas told a 911 dispatcher that he wanted her out because, 'I know that you didn't like the room and you have reviewed us'
In 911 audio obtained by WXIA, Vyas explicitly references Leger's review as the reason why he wanted her out.
And the police attended?!
'And then I hear, literally, "Bam, bam, bam!"' Leger said, opening the hotel door to an officer from the Helen Police Department.
Yes, yes they did.
Can't be legal, right?
Georgia law says guests can't be kicked out before the time they paid for runs out, but it carves out an exemption for 'cause,' defined as 'failure to pay sums due, failure to abide by rules of occupancy, failure to have or maintain reservations, or other action by a guest.'
Posting a review clearly qualifies as an "action by a guest". Then again, so does checking in.
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And they aren't even intelligently caching them
This is what you get when you let developers who can't even imagine a world without always-on connectivity design a solution for displaying a handful of pictures
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
That market and those the use LOB apps that do not play well with VPN latency, such as apps developed by idiots that are built on frameworks built for and by idiots were our other market. There are still lots of those out there.
hey! this LOB with the shitty framework was a replacement for a mainframe solution somewhere in the 90ties ... newer stuff is tagging along as .NET parts
completely new stuff is even cloudy and is so up to date dat it is already past nosql, sadly the cloud part is there just to hide mainframe still doing the heavy lifting in the background
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Well, I am mostly drunken penis
per your signature the rest is asshole
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User: My Pixel prevented me from calling 911
Google: That's because you have Teams installed but aren't logged in
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User: My Pixel prevented me from calling 911
Google: That's because you have Teams installed but aren't logged inBRAVE NEW WORLD!
both Google and Microsoft are heavily prioritizing the issue, and we expect a Microsoft Teams app update to be rolled out soon
No! No matter show shitty MS Teams is (and it is very shitty), that is a bug in your fucking OS!
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that is a bug in your fucking OS!
In devices allegedly known as phones?
Android doesn't consider "making calls" a core OS functionality
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
Well, I am mostly drunken penis
per your signature the rest is asshole
Drunken penises and burning assholes often occur together for some reason.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Android doesn't consider "making calls" a core OS functionality
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
@Rhywden it's a Dell issue. If you plug in a wall plug charger it charges as you would expect. But I'd bet that anything that can be powered would be powered. But in this case "USB-C charging" actually means "USB-C charging, maybe, in some configurations".
Yeah, best info I could find on the interwebs is to try simply unplugging and replugging immediately to redo negotiation which (in theory) should hint that you want to switch directions.
Of course, that is mostly if there is no control panel of any kind denoting the preferred charge direction.
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* Personally I'd rather we as a civilization got rid of percents altogether and expressed everything in simple fractions, but oh well.
At least once a semester, my statistics students come to me trying to implement a formula from a chemistry class, and it's always way harder than necessary to follow what it's trying to do because the authors insist on converting back and forth between proportions and percentages in every single fucking step 😾
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@HannibalRex I've had one economics-related class in college, and it was mostly learning definitions. The number of definitions that had "expressed in percents" as part of it was infuriating. I could be just multiplying the three numbers together but noooooo, first I must move the decimal point by two digits! It's not economics if you don't move the decimal point all the time! And adding one! Don't forget to add one before multiplying! Because -5% is so much more readable than 0.95. Especially in tabulated data where they omit the % symbol so what it actually says is -5. A -5 that actually means 0.95.
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@LaoC I though only us-east-1 was affected?
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@dangeRuss turns out that there’s a metric ton of stuff that us-east-1 does that others don’t do, like be home for root account logins.
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@dangeRuss turns out that there’s a metric ton of stuff that us-east-1 does that others don’t do, like be home for root account logins.
Also: CloudFront certificates must be in us-east-1 (certificates from other regions are just not available). And there is more, but I don't remember everything.
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The number of definitions that had "expressed in percents" as part of it was infuriating.
Similar problem exists in other domains, also with other kinds of units. Distance in versts here, time in fortnights there and then you multiply by 8.268 to get the result in that other unit—instead of just giving the equation in dimensional quantities and let the user plug in value in any consistent set of units. A knife always opens in my pocket when I see that kind of crap—I was taught in physics to do derivations symbolically, do a dimension check and only convert units at the end as desired.
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The number of definitions that had "expressed in percents" as part of it was infuriating.
Similar problem exists in other domains, also with other kinds of units. Distance in versts here, time in fortnights there and then you multiply by 8.268 to get the result in that other unit—instead of just giving the equation in dimensional quantities and let the user plug in value in any consistent set of units. A knife always opens in my pocket when I see that kind of crap—I was taught in physics to do derivations symbolically, do a dimension check and only convert units at the end as desired.
But with percents in economics, there is an extra bonus: delta! For example, if the
inflation rate used to be 1.2% and then it went up by 3%, it's now... eeeeeehm... ?worse?
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Distance in versts here, time in fortnights there
Speeds in attoparsec per microfortnight?
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@Kamil-Podlesak said in WTF Bites:
The number of definitions that had "expressed in percents" as part of it was infuriating.
Similar problem exists in other domains, also with other kinds of units. Distance in versts here, time in fortnights there and then you multiply by 8.268 to get the result in that other unit—instead of just giving the equation in dimensional quantities and let the user plug in value in any consistent set of units. A knife always opens in my pocket when I see that kind of crap—I was taught in physics to do derivations symbolically, do a dimension check and only convert units at the end as desired.
But with percents in economics, there is an extra bonus: delta! For example, if the
inflation rate used to be 1.2% and then it went up by 3%, it's now... eeeeeehm... ?worse?It's also possibly expressed in basis points. Because you need things in units that aren't used anywhere else at all.
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And they aren't even intelligently caching them
This is what you get when you let developers who can't even imagine a world without always-on connectivity design a solution for displaying a handful of pictures 
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@boomzilla firstly I feel like the colour choice isn’t the most apt. Maybe either the red or the green.
Secondly, fuck that’s still a thing?
Thirdly… not only is it still a thing, but now they’re on avatars CDN v4? Was the first awful version not enough clue?
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firstly I feel like the colour choice isn’t the most apt.
Take it up with the color CDN.
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@HannibalRex I've had one economics-related class in college, and it was mostly learning definitions. The number of definitions that had "expressed in percents" as part of it was infuriating. I could be just multiplying the three numbers together but noooooo, first I must move the decimal point by two digits! It's not economics if you don't move the decimal point all the time! And adding one! Don't forget to add one before multiplying! Because -5% is so much more readable than 0.95. Especially in tabulated data where they omit the % symbol so what it actually says is -5. A -5 that actually means 0.95.
Fermions and Bosons would like a word with you.
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@Rhywden well, I don't want anything to do with fermions or bosons! Once I ran out my "naturally talented in STEM throughout school without even trying" credits, I've consistently got Ds in every physics class. I basically graduated my engineering degree on a technicality.
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well, I don't want anything to do with fermions or bosons!
I don't want to force the issue, but what's the matter?
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@Zecc I don't have energy for this.
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@Zecc I don't have energy for this.
Just keep to a ground state and you won't feel as excited.
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@dangeRuss said in WTF Bites:
@Polygeekery how do you not have a USB-c to USBC cable on you? It's literally the only cable you can use to charge your laptop at about 100W and PD fast charge your phone. Although and I have no idea how this works, but my OnePlus has some sort of magic usba to USBC cable and charger that goes way faster then PD charging
That's easy. Because the only things I have that take USBC are 2 laptops. I do have a USBC hub now because decreed that "tho shalt only have one connector type" on the MacBook Air. Old phones don't get new-fangled technology!
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
And they aren't even intelligently caching them
This is what you get when you let developers who can't even imagine a world without always-on connectivity design a solution for displaying a handful of pictures 
I always thought that was made up but apparently
wins again.*edit the best bit is that there is a version 1-4. Are they generated on the fly or cached somewhere?
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Are they generated on the fly or cached somewhere?
Oh, what, and burn down acres of rainforest every time you look at a thread? These are fucking artisanal letter avatars. You don't just get proportions like that by invoking ImageMagick on the fly. Do you even understand the concept of an ADN?
No longer welcome here.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
that is a bug in your fucking OS!
In devices allegedly known as phones?
Android doesn't consider "making calls" a core OS functionality
I always tell the one or two people who legitimately try to call me: my phone does not like to do phone things.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
which (in theory) should hint that you want to switch
should hint
I swear it's in the spec somewhere!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
my phone does not like to do phone things.
In my case, it's usually more like T-Mobile doesn't like to do phone things. Well, except the battery; it doesn't like to do battery things — well, I guess running down is a battery thing, and it likes to do that.
