WTF Bites
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An Apple a day makes it harder to pay.
probably because you spend all your money on buying Apple products daily?
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Today I discovered that .forum domains are now a thing. I mean, I've known for years they were coming (since 2015) and last I'd looked, 'general availability' was March this year.
Today I looked again, a few vendors are selling them now... Namecheap has a special deal making them only €529.55 for registration.
I'm wondering who's possibly going to buy them... the forum market isn't in the most amazing health (though it's not in the worst health at all) but no hobbyist I know is going to drop that much on a domain.
I suppose if you're going for it as a corporate that might be more palatable but in that case you probably already have a domain and wouldn't be hosting your forum on a separate TLD, surely?
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Today I discovered that .forum domains are now a thing. I mean, I've known for years they were coming (since 2015) and last I'd looked, 'general availability' was March this year.
Today I looked again, a few vendors are selling them now... Namecheap has a special deal making them only €529.55 for registration.
I'm wondering who's possibly going to buy them... the forum market isn't in the most amazing health (though it's not in the worst health at all) but no hobbyist I know is going to drop that much on a domain.
I suppose if you're going for it as a corporate that might be more palatable but in that case you probably already have a domain and wouldn't be hosting your forum on a separate TLD, surely?
If I could swing as a business expense I might get it but anything above €20 is out of shits and giggles terrority for me. I've recently being introduced to business expenses in Ireland. If I can tangentially relate it to my current contract I can refund it in tax. Still waiting for that winrar cd.
*edit looking at price of novelty domains like this they really are out of reach for most people especially since the main ones are so cheap these days.
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I'm wondering who's possibly going to buy them...
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.forum
.bug-tracker
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Today I looked again, a few vendors are selling them now... Namecheap has a special deal making them only €529.55 for registration.
The "A fool and his money" thread is
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I suppose if you're going for it as a corporate that might be more palatable but in that case you probably already have a domain and wouldn't be hosting your forum on a separate TLD, surely?
Some corporations do stupid things.
Colleague was investing through some portal – don't remember the name – and instead of the portal being hosted under the custom TLD the bank that operates it has they have a completely unrelated domain for it – going against all the advice to check where you are entering your credentials, because the two sites don't appear related by URL.
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I thought it would come with more colour, to be honest.
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@DogsB yeah, the logo should have been in colour. Lame.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
this letter
omittedadded on the wrong side of the AtlanticHave your "u" back, you jackanapes!
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Why, oh why, do so many people fail to spell “definitely” correctly and inevitably end up producing “defiantly” instead?
It irks me unreasonably much to see “I will defiantly get this back to you next week” when defiance ain’t what they meant.
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@Arantor I get the impression many (particularly from the US) have learned to speak English, but never properly got round to learning how to write it.
Though usually that goes wrong with homophones, and these two words aren't homophones. Maybe they don't know how to pronounce defiantly.
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@PleegWat I’d just appreciate them learning and getting it right!
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It irks me unreasonably much to see “I will defiantly get this back to you next week” when defiance ain’t what they meant.
I avoid using either. "Defiantly" isn't ever right and "definitely" sets an unreasonable expectation I might actually do whatever it is I'm saying I'll do.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
"definitely" sets an unreasonable expectation I might actually do whatever
Definitely
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@HardwareGeek Yes, definitively.
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Why, oh why, do so many people fail to spell “definitely” correctly and inevitably end up producing “defiantly” instead?
It irks me unreasonably much to see “I will defiantly get this back to you next week” when defiance ain’t what they meant.
Auto carrot.
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I get the impression many (particularly from the US) have learned to speak English
...but some people from would disagree.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
"Defiantly" isn't ever right
It might be defiantly if person B has previously expressed an expectation that the attempt will fail, and person A is going to be a bit of an ass about succeeding?
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I thought it would come with more colour, to be honest.
Your use of a wooden table is approved.
Do you actually still have a CD reader, or were you looking for a rather exclusive beer coaster?
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I thought it would come with more colour, to be honest.
Your use of a wooden table is approved.
Do you actually still have a CD reader, or were you looking for a rather exclusive beer coaster?
I have no way to read that disk so it's now a beer coaster.
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@DogsB Cheers.
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Thanks Apple.
I just compiled my program with the 12.1 sdk on Maverick- evidently Toolbars now belong in the caption.
When you have a long toolbar and a long file name (displayed in the caption), well, something's getting truncated.
I don't care if it's the "new style", it looks like shit.
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I was briefly considering creating a new thread, "Big list of software that cannot handle parentheses in paths", but I wouldn't want us to run out of threads.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Why, oh why, do so many people fail to spell “definitely” correctly and inevitably end up producing “defiantly” instead?
It irks me unreasonably much to see “I will defiantly get this back to you next week” when defiance ain’t what they meant.
Auto carrot.
definately
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My bank is a great example of how if you cannot display something properly you should not display it at all.
This happens if you login at the wrong time. My guess is that they are batch processing things right now so for whatever fucking reason they just display zero. But imagine you're not the type of person that understands such things, you login, expect six figures for your balance and see zero dollars.
They should just not allow logins if this would happen. But banks are fucking retarded, so we get this.
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Morons.
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Some corporations do stupid things.
Like the French national train company (called SNCF), who now operates their ticketing website as "oui.sncf"?
I get the feeling someone decided they "needed" a custom TLD (.sncf), and then had to find something to put in front of it as the actual domain and thus "brainstormed" some "funky and positive and young and modern and ..." name (oui = yes).
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
But imagine you're not the type of person that understands such things, you login, expect
sixminus three or four figures for your balance and see zero dollars.
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@Applied-Mediocrity An audiofool and their money are soon parted.
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@Applied-Mediocrity, you missed the switch.
(not , right? I’ve seen this at least twice but I’m sure it wasn’t here…)
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@Applied-Mediocrity Well, as you probably know, music is stored in bits, essentially zeros and ones. Now, there are good sounding artistic zeros and ones and bad sounding characterless zeros and ones.
But a normal SSD, especially if you store other data on it, is like a breeding ground for the latter -- to the point where even if you were to put good sounding bits there, you can't keep them isolated enough from the bad ones. Before you know it the good zeroes and ones will be shaving off their mustaches, putting away their thick-rimmed glasses, getting rid of their knit beanies, and start dressing corporate. And ... you wouldn't want your music to sound like a Windows DLL or Word document, now would you?
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you wouldn't want your music to sound like a Windows DLL or Word document, now would you?
Damn. You got me here.
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@Polygeekery said in WTF Bites:
My bank is a great example of how if you cannot display something properly you should not display it at all.
My bank was all "Oh we're so great! You can now get push notifications if a transaction happens on your bank account!"
Said notification only includes info about the amount and the time. And when you open the app then there's nothing to see.
Because obviously in their pipeline, it goes like this: Money transfer is announced => Push notification goes out => The COBOL backend sits on the transaction for a few hours => The database feeding the app is updated.
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@Rhywden
I'm more and more surprised how sane Belgian banks seem to be ... notifications JustWork ... only is that the notifications are not marked as :bank_name: or something similar but "Kate" ... so sometimes it seems like this Kate payed me a hefty lump for unspecified services ...
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@Applied-Mediocrity Well, as you probably know, music is stored in bits, essentially zeros and ones. Now, there are good sounding artistic zeros and ones and bad sounding characterless zeros and ones.
But a normal SSD, especially if you store other data on it, is like a breeding ground for the latter -- to the point where even if you were to put good sounding bits there, you can't keep them isolated enough from the bad ones. Before you know it the good zeroes and ones will be shaving off their mustaches, putting away their thick-rimmed glasses, getting rid of their knit beanies, and start dressing corporate. And ... you wouldn't want your music to sound like a Windows DLL or Word document, now would you?
And now all I think about is fucking bits until they stop being evil.
I'm sure there's a story with that exact plot....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
And now all I think about is fucking bits until they stop being evil.
Not sure how bit banging makes the bits less evil.
On second thought, though, I guess sending bits out on a long trip down on a serial bus may give them the opportunity to rethink their life.
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Not sure how bit banging makes the bits less evil.
They become happier or something? I don't know the specifics, just the plot!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I don't know the specifics, just the plot!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I don't know the specifics, just the plot!
I mean, I summarized it above, there's not much else to it. Fucking happened, then they weren't evil anymore. Everyone was happy and wanted to get married. Typical teenage drivel.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
wanted to get married.
Surely that kind of entanglement can only happen to qbits?
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My bank was all "Oh we're so great! You can now get push notifications if a transaction happens on your bank account!"
That reminds me of the from my bank when they ask me to confirm a transaction (e.g. when buying online).
I get a notification that I have a transaction to confirm. But that's not actually a normal system notification, they're using some fancy different way of doing it, which I guess aims at being more intrusive (so you don't miss it). Which probably means they've reinvented the wheel and tried to circumvent some normal OS features. Which means the notification is half-botched, and actually goes away before you can tap it -- and it does so in the most annoying possible way: it stays visible on the lock screen even if you wait some time before picking up your phone, but as soon as you unlock it, bam! it goes away. It's like it's teasing you.
So I see their notification, which says something like "tap to validate the transaction", I see the notification go away, and then I have to find the bank app on my phone, open it, log in (and of course it's sloooooow), browse through a few submenus until I get to the list of transactions to validate (because of course it's a "list", it's not like the validation is only available for a couple of minutes and you only ever interact with it once, you need a full list UI).
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@Applied-Mediocrity, you missed the switch.
(not , right? I’ve seen this at least twice but I’m sure it wasn’t here…)
My friend is an audiophile, I'll show it to him, chances that he'll buy this crap are non-zero.
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You shouldn't encourage his self-harm behavior, you know.
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chances that he'll buy this crap are non-zero.
Well, you’d hardly want one of those cheapo switches that buffers and decodes all throughput, identifies and decompresses all types of audio stream, adds some random noise, then recompresses the whole thing and makes a whole new bytestream and packets for the connection, would you?
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chances that he'll buy this crap are non-zero.
Well, you’d hardly want one of those cheapo switches that buffers and decodes all throughput, identifies and decompresses all types of audio stream, adds some random noise, then recompresses the whole thing and makes a whole new bytestream and packets for the connection, would you?
You mean the ones injecting a subliminal track for the illuminati?