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@HardwareGeek I'm sure he'll be happy for the rereassurance that the joke was made.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Microwave ovens are typically 800–1000W.
Weaklings. Mine's 1300W!
Which means every "nuke for N minute" instruction is wrong...
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Microwave ovens are typically 800–1000W.
Weaklings. Mine's 1300W!
Which means every "nuke for N minute" instruction is wrong...They are for most microwaves, but in the other direction. Most are under-powered compared to what the instructions were developed for.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Microwave ovens are typically 800–1000W.
Weaklings. Mine's 1300W!
Which means every "nuke for N minute" instruction is wrong...They are for most microwaves, but in the other direction. Most are under-powered compared to what the instructions were developed for.
At least some instructions list the wattage they assume. Makes it a little easier to adjust.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Microwave ovens are typically 800–1000W.
Weaklings. Mine's 1300W!
Which means every "nuke for N minute" instruction is wrong...They are for most microwaves, but in the other direction. Most are under-powered compared to what the instructions were developed for.
At least some instructions list the wattage they assume. Makes it a little easier to adjust.
Always use the gas station microwave for cooking. It is the closest to what the product was designed for, in most cases.
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every "nuke for N minute" instruction is wrong...
Well, yeah. Target distribution is stochastic vs geometric. You'd only use them by the strict minute if you were going for like a smooth, glossy finish.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Microwave ovens are typically 800–1000W.
Weaklings. Mine's 1300W!
Which means every "nuke for N minute" instruction is wrong...They are for most microwaves, but in the other direction. Most are under-powered compared to what the instructions were developed for.
I’m not sure about the wattage a nuke puts out, but I guess that’d put the cooking time in the nanoseconds
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I’m not sure about the wattage a nuke puts out, but I guess that’d put the cooking time in the nanoseconds
Cooking time: measured in miles. Or kilometers for those weirdos.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
While some people have rejoiced the death of physical media, at this rate of game bloat we might see game devs ship SSDs with the game on it...
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Nah, game companies don't want to pay for physical storage anymore. They've shifted the costs to the consumers.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
While some people have rejoiced the death of physical media, at this rate of game bloat we might see game devs ship SSDs with the game on it...
The return of cartridges!
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Microwave ovens are typically 800–1000W.
Weaklings. Mine's 1300W!
Which means every "nuke for N minute" instruction is wrong...They are for most microwaves, but in the other direction. Most are under-powered compared to what the instructions were developed for.
I’m not sure about the wattage a nuke puts out, but I guess that’d put the cooking time in the nanoseconds
The Tsar Bomba delivered about 200 PJ and the fusion reaction takes a few microseconds, so in the ballpark of a few hundred exawatts. But in a convenient cooking location you'll have to quite patient—about 100µs for the remote to trigger the ignition and another 100 for the radiation to get back to where you are.
I'm not sure X-ray and hard UV give enough BBQ flavor for someone used to wood chips from a whiskey barrel but microwave-meal users aren't usually that discerning anyway. You have to make some compromises after all when you're in a hurry.
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I'm not sure X-ray and hard UV give enough BBQ flavor
Remember: the longer-wavelength radiation will be along later, as things cool down. (Black-body radiation works like that.) As a bonus, the longer wavelengths tend to penetrate through the atmosphere more easily.`
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I'm not sure X-ray and hard UV give enough BBQ flavor
Remember: the longer-wavelength radiation will be along later, as things cool down. (Black-body radiation works like that.) As a bonus, the longer wavelengths tend to penetrate through the atmosphere more easily.`
The vast majority of the energy output is in longer wavelengths anyway, but they take just too long for that nanosecond microwave!
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More cookie (non-)compliance BS:
If you do not approve to the use of cookies, please be sure to opt out, as in block or disable them using your browser settings as described below or the opt-out link provided to you on your first visit to the website.
Except, I'm looking at the opt-out link, and there's no interface to change the cookies. There's a button to save your settings, but nothing to set them.
:thats_not_how_this_works:
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
More cookie (non-)compliance BS:
If you do not approve to the use of cookies, please be sure to opt out, as in block or disable them using your browser settings as described below or the opt-out link provided to you on your first visit to the website.
Except, I'm looking at the opt-out link, and there's no interface to change the cookies. There's a button to save your settings, but nothing to set them.
:thats_not_how_this_works:
The trick I've seen on mobile is to make the whole cookie dialog "accidentally"1 too large, the opt-out button off-screen and of course
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.1 Hanlon's razor doesn't apply when malice is the "follow the money" explanation.
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Reddit has had "Promoted" posts (i.e. ads) for a while now, but recently they've started just straight up spamming my front page with whatever random horseshit from subreddits I don't subscribe to:
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@LaoC what if I wrap my meal in a moderating foil? What are my en paquet options, with for instance lithium foil?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
More cookie (non-)compliance BS:
If you do not approve to the use of cookies, please be sure to opt out, as in block or disable them using your browser settings as described below or the opt-out link provided to you on your first visit to the website.
Except, I'm looking at the opt-out link, and there's no interface to change the cookies. There's a button to save your settings, but nothing to set them.
:thats_not_how_this_works:
The trick I've seen on mobile is to make the whole cookie dialog "accidentally"1 too large, the opt-out button off-screen and of course
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.1 Hanlon's razor doesn't apply when malice is the "follow the money" explanation.
That may be true, but I don't think it applies here. I'm not on mobile, I'm looking at it on a 4k monitor, and it's not
overflow: hidden
; thedialogfull-page overlay has a scroll bar (of its own, independent of the browser's scroll bar for the page).
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subreddits I don't subscribe to
is that apparently there are some that you do subscribe to.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Suggested posts
It's suggesting you "take a cold shower"?
No, mostly shower thoughts, but without the thoughts.
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@LaoC what if I wrap my meal in a moderating foil? What are my en paquet options, with for instance lithium foil?
A bit of vaporized Lithium on your meal is a good idea to get you through the afternoon slump AKA nuclear winter, but to reduce cooking times even further, the gourmet's choice is Li²H
or U₂₃₈(uh no, that's what goes around the stove …)
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Reddit has had "Promoted" posts (i.e. ads) for a while now, but recently they've started just straight up spamming my front page with whatever random horseshit from subreddits I don't subscribe to:
You can cut down on these by going to New Reddit's Feed Settings and turning off "Enable home feed recommendations", then heading to New Reddit's Safety & Privacy Settings and turning off the various "Personalize" options.
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You can cut down on these by going to ... and turning off
I imagine it'll work just as well as:
- turning off LinkedIn emails
- various Windows settings
- removing stuff from Steam's What's New section
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
You can cut down on these by going to ... and turning off
I imagine it'll work just as well as:
- turning off LinkedIn emails
- various Windows settings
- removing stuff from Steam's What's New section
It worked for the mobile app, which shares these account-based settings with New Reddit.
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@Parody I mean, I don't doubt that your advice is on point. I just expect Reddit will "forget to remember" the settings after some innocent little update on their end some time later, because modern web is designed for maximum annoyance
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You can cut down on these by going to New Reddit's Feed Settings and turning off "Enable home feed recommendations",
I've done so, and it looks like it did the job. The promoted ones are still there, but I don't imagine there's a setting to turn those off
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You can cut down on these by going to New Reddit's Feed Settings and turning off "Enable home feed recommendations",
I've done so, and it looks like it did the job. The promoted ones are still there, but I don't imagine there's a setting to turn those off
Well, if one promoted one in particular really annoys you to the point where you overcome you can simply block the user promoting the ad.
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Reddit has had "Promoted" posts (i.e. ads) for a while now, but recently they've started just straight up spamming my front page with whatever random horseshit from subreddits I don't subscribe to:
You can cut down on these by going to New Reddit's Feed Settings and turning off "Enable home feed recommendations", then head to New Reddit's Safety & Privacy Settings and turn off the various "Personalize" options.
Because one isn't enough, thanks much
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
You can cut down on these by going to ... and turning off
I imagine it'll work just as well as:
- turning off LinkedIn emails
- various Windows settings
- removing stuff from Steam's What's New section
How could you omit Google like this?
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How could you omit Google like this?
Not using google much myself, so I don't personally know how bad is it
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I am currently in a (Teams) meeting. It is:
- scheduled for an hour,
- there is 16 people in it,
- it is titled a “standup discussion”,
- 3 people are doing all the talking.
That's three man-days thrown out of the window.
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@Bulb Defenestration of man days on Mondays.
News at 11.
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@BernieTheBernie … the meeting is scheduled daily.
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- there is 16 people in it,
- 3 people are doing all the talking.
That's what muting your loudspeaker is for. With that level of BS to value going on, being openly dismissive is fine.
Unless you're chairing the meeting. If you are, mute the chatterboxes and say that as they're not adding anything to everyone else's day, you're closing the meeting early. You'll be amazingly more popular like that!
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@BernieTheBernie … the meeting is scheduled daily.
I've been in those situations. Like at my last gig. I kept telling them to cut the meetings short because they were wasting my time of being able to get shit done.
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@Carnage The meetings will continue until productivity improves.
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@HardwareGeek Should we have a meeting to discuss having fewer meetings?
Let's schedule a meeting to discuss.
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@Zecc Whoa there! I see you're trying to schedule a meeting to discuss a meeting to discuss fewer meetings. We're following an initiative to reduce meetings, so you should run it by our efficiency consultants first. I'll send you an invite to a call with them to discuss.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@Carnage The meetings will continue until
productivitymorale improves.
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@BernieTheBernie Meetings tend to improve morale all right:
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JS WTF:
Consider the following lines, using the standard MySQL date format.
var testDate = new Date('2022-01-01 00:00:00');
Chrome says "ok, here's
Sat Jan 01 2022 00:00:00 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
"
Safari?Invalid Date
.But both are happy if the string is
2022/01/01 00:00:00
;Because...well...Safari. I guess.
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@Benjamin-Hall Well,
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date says:
Note: Parsing of date strings with the
Date
constructor (andDate.parse
, they are equivalent) is strongly discouraged due to browser differences and inconsistencies.And then the example has the
T
separator instead of space as is the default ISO-8601 separator.… and then it does not seem to understand time-zone either in conversion from string or from a sequence of numbers, which is the bigger .
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@Benjamin-Hall Date and time parsing without the format string always explicitly specified should be immediately banned, obscenely ridiculed and offenders mercilessly fined forthwith. What you say, JS doesn't have such a Date constructor? it is.
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@Benjamin-Hall Well,
Note: Parsing of date strings with the
Date
constructor (andDate.parse
, they are equivalent) is strongly discouraged due to browser differences and inconsistencies.And then the example has the
T
separator instead of space as is the default ISO-8601 separator.… and then it does not seem to understand time-zone either in conversion from string or from a sequence of numbers, which is the bigger .
Yeah. We really should be returning epoch timestamps (since that's what we care about here, really), but there's no way I'm digging into the old code for that (and potentially breaking everything in all sorts of spaghetti-code ways)--that's hideous old code. So instead I'll just use a regex to switch
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for/
in those strings where I need to convert them....yes, yes, I am
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
So instead I'll just use a regex to switch
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for/
in those strings where I need to convert them....yes, yes, I amRough sack needs a rough patch they say.
Just make sure to test it with some weird locales set in the browser – my understanding is that the parsing is locale-specific and there is plenty of people even in the USA that are likely to have Spanish, Indian, Chinese, Arabic etc. set as primary language in their browsers.
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@Benjamin-Hall Well,
Note: Parsing of date strings with the
Date
constructor (andDate.parse
, they are equivalent) is strongly discouraged due to browser differences and inconsistencies.And then the example has the
T
separator instead of space as is the default ISO-8601 separator.So it discourages the constructor, says they're working on something sane that's not ready yet—and the implication is, "please roll your own", isn't it?