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" draws inspiration from the anime series “Evangelion.”"
It's utter shit? Or just the capacitors whine all the time?
You just don’t understand eva. It was ahead of its time and he couldn’t complete his vision in just one season. He needed more time and a bigger budget. Half of the Shinji arc had to be cut for time constraints. You need an iq of 77387 to just understand the corners he was scratching at.
I still think its funny that he fucked up the ending so badly it struck Japan retarded. And then he repeated the trick two decades later!
Yeah, fans of this shitshow are quite comical when they try to defend it.
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As if on cue, Windows decided to disconnect shortly after I posted above.
Do not taunt the (un)happy little Windows.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Uh oh, are there control characters in the name?
macOS gives such helpful warnings about that too. Especially annoying because
:
is one of the few illegal characters, meaning most people will probably encounter it with filenames likeEpisode VI: Return of the Jedi.mp4
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@Gurth Surprised the warning wasn't 'you didn't buy this from iTunes, therefore you're buying it wrong'.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Uh oh, are there control characters in the name?
macOS gives such helpful warnings about that too. Especially annoying because
:
is one of the few illegal characters, meaning most people will probably encounter it with filenames likeEpisode VI: Return of the Jedi.mp4
.:
is invalid on windows too. So how do you routinely get filenames containing them?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Uh oh, are there control characters in the name?
macOS gives such helpful warnings about that too. Especially annoying because
:
is one of the few illegal characters, meaning most people will probably encounter it with filenames likeEpisode VI: Return of the Jedi.mp4
.:
is invalid on windows too. So how do you routinely get filenames containing them?It's a Japanese c
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how do you routinely get filenames containing them?
I don’t. What I meant is, I’m betting there are plenty of people who have a file
Some_Movie_With_A_Subtitle_WAREZCREW.H264.xvid
and want to rename it toSome Movie: Subtitle.xvid
only to find that they can’t.(In my case, it’s more likely to be
Some_Book_with_a_Subtitle.pdf
, that I will end up having to nameSome Book — Subtitle.pdf
even though there’s a:
printed in the book to separate the subtitle from the main title, and I don’t like having to replace it with a dash.)
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
I disabled AdBlock on YouTube because of their new policy, and this is the ad they show me
A company that makes an ad blocking program is paying to advertise on YouTube, a platform whose official policy is that they do not allow ad blocking.
And the just keep rolling along.
Next step in making : create an "acceptable ads" policy in the adblock software. Allow website owners to pay for being added to the list of acceptable ad providers.
'd by reality: the idea is not new at all, and there is at least one adblocker doing exactly this.
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Some_Book_with_a_Subtitle.pdf, that I will end up having to name Some Book — Subtitle.pdf even though there’s a : printed in the book to separate the subtitle from the main title, and I don’t like having to replace it with a dash
I've occasionally abused Unicode U+2236 RATIO
∶
for that sort of purpose when organizing my files.
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Not quite sure if I've posted this before. I first encountered it like 2 years ago and it pissed me off enough that I thought about posting it, but can't remember. Now I've figured out the source of the problem, so I might as well post it again.
So you used to be able to just paste formulas into google and it would evaluate them, converting units correctly and all in the process. So I pasted something unwieldy like this:
If you're anything like me, you're probably too to read what I input there, but the result is completely wrong. Here's what Wolfram Alpha says about it:
You might notice that not only is the result many orders of magnitude wrong, but it's not even the correct dimension!
Let's try to simplify it, so you can check yourself. One part of this is just a conversion between mass-flow and volume-flow by dividing with density:
mass-flow [kg/h] / density [kg/m³] should obviously result in volume-flow [m³/h]. Instead it's ... whatever [m s / kg] is.
Trying to further reduce it to figure out where Google fucks up is complicated by the fact that it doesn't show the formula thing if the entry is too simple. But here's the culprit. Google's idea of what 1 hour is:
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@topspin When you return to your original Google input, then replace the hours with seconds (or minutes), does it work then?
(OK, it would then be kg/s or kg/min, but just for testing purposes...)
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@topspin interesting, and wholly logical in a sense.
It doesn't seem to recognise "H" or "hr" or "hour" (neither are an official symbol for hours, of course, but who knows?). It also doesn't know "min" by the way. But "3600 s" (properly within brackets but in simple cases it seems to correctly guess what I meant?) seems to work. But of course that's tedious.
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@topspin interesting, and wholly logical in a sense.
It doesn't seem to recognise "H" or "hr" or "hour" (neither are an official symbol for hours, of course, but who knows?). It also doesn't know "min" by the way. But "3600 s" (properly within brackets but in simple cases it seems to correctly guess what I meant?) seems to work. But of course that's tedious.
Does it recognize mega-seconds?
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@BernieTheBernie yes, that seems to work.
But "3600 s" (properly within brackets but in simple cases it seems to correctly guess what I meant?) seems to work. But of course that's tedious
Problem isn't so much that that's tedious but that you'd have to know beforehand to not get completely wrong results.
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@topspin At least, we are members of a small group of people who know how to check the result's plausibility...
Just imagine doing such a business calculation ...
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@topspin I agree.
It's the same for the weird Windows calculator bug that I have (and seem to be more or less the only one?), where any operation with numbers larger than a couple of hundreds end up hilariously wrong (for example,
150 x 150 = 22
, I kid you not).Now that I know of it, it is trivial to avoid (don't use Windows calculator!) but I got bitten a few times initially (thinking that maybe I had fat-fingered something, or when the results were wrong but still plausible).
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150 x 150 = 22
I could understand a localization bug turning that into 22.5.
150 x 150 = 22,500 -> 22.500 -> 22.5
But dropping the 5 completely, no.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
150 x 150 = 22
I could understand a localization bug turning that into 22.5.
150 x 150 = 22,500 -> 22.500 -> 22.5
But dropping the 5 completely, no.
He was silently in Programmer mode.
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@Tsaukpaetra Maybe. It does use
,
as a thousands separator for base-10 numbers in programmer mode.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
150 x 150 = 22
I could understand a localization bug turning that into 22.5.
150 x 150 = 22,500 -> 22.500 -> 22.5
But dropping the 5 completely, no.
150*150=22,500, reparse as float using US locale, 22?
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@topspin At least, we are members of a small group of people who know how to check the result's plausibility...
Just imagine doing such a business calculation ...We’re losing $500,000 each minute. If we keep up, we’ll have made billions in profit by the end of the year… Checks out.
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@topspin I tried to reproduce that, but forgot the = at the beginning. This is what I got:
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@topspin At least, we are members of a small group of people who know how to check the result's plausibility...
Just imagine doing such a business calculation ...We’re losing $500,000 each minute. If we keep up, we’ll have made billions in profit by the end of the year… Checks out.
That's venture capitalist math.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
A company that makes an ad blocking program is paying to advertise on YouTube, a platform whose official policy is that they do not allow ad blocking.
IIRC last time Youtube tried to stop adblocking, Brave browser ran a Youtube ad campaign touting its adblocking front and center
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Trying to further reduce it to figure out where Google fucks up is complicated by the fact that it doesn't show the formula thing if the entry is too simple. But here's the culprit. Google's idea of what 1 hour is:
What's the bet it suddenly knows what hours are when you include milliphots?
The solution, as always, is to just use qalculate already.
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IIRC last time Youtube tried to stop adblocking, Brave browser ran a Youtube ad campaign touting its adblocking front and center
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150*150=22,500, reparse as float using US locale, 22?
I guess, more or less, yes.
It does keep the correct internal state as deleting digits restores the proper numbers, and doing further maths (that fall below 1000) give the correct results. I just noticed that there is an "history" section next to the calculator itself and that part seems correct as well. So it's just the main display.
In any case, I can't fix it (assuming I could...) because this is in IT's hands, and it's easy to use instead one of the tons of other calculators available, each with their own bugs
Oh, one more bite with the calculator: somehow when I start it I get every 5 s or so the popup for "an application has crashed, do you want to debug it?" The culprit is apparently "search.exe" which I would think is something related to the start menu, not the calculator, but only the calculator seems to trigger that issue (another MS-standard app such as calendar doesn't, Firefox doesn't etc.).
Then again, I have seen some random crashes of this "search.exe" at about any time (more often when hibernating than when doing nothing?) so this is likely unrelated to the calculator itself. Still.
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Twitch's linked page says they support the latest two versions of Firefox and I'm on the latest version (119.0.1).
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@BernieTheBernie said in WTF Bites:
@topspin At least, we are members of a small group of people who know how to check the result's plausibility...
Just imagine doing such a business calculation ...We’reThey are losing $500,000 each minute. If wekeep upcan find a bigger fool in time, we’ll have made billions in profit by the end of the year… Checks out.That's venture capitalist math.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Twitch's linked page says they support the latest two versions of Firefox and I'm on the latest version (119.0.1).
Maybe that's the 2 latest version on the "alpha" channel? The "release" channel is too old!
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I can't fix it (assuming I could...) because this is in IT's hands
Sure you can fix it, it's all open source now so all you need to do is submit a pull request and then wait for Microsoft Store to update to the latest version once it's merged.
Perhaps you can at least see if you can add lines to the Manual Tests Script
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Twitch's linked page says they support the latest two versions of Firefox and I'm on the latest version (119.0.1).
Maybe that's the 2 latest version on the "alpha" channel? The "release" channel is too old!
I did wonder if it was they were detecting the version in a stupid way and 119.0.1 was too new or something like that.
Amazon are a small company, they're doing their best.
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I can't fix it (assuming I could...) because this is in IT's hands
Sure you
cancould, but actually can't fix itFTFCIT
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
they support the latest two versions of Firefox
So you have to update Firefox every 7 seconds or Twitch stops working?
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
they support the latest two versions of Firefox
So you have to update Firefox every 7 seconds or Twitch stops working?
Even after!
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@HardwareGeek Mozilla's way of getting into the streaming business. Instead of downloading their software, they just stream you the instructions to execute.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Twitch's linked page says they support the latest two versions of Firefox and I'm on the latest version (119.0.1).
"the latest two versions"
WTF does that even mean? The latest two versions ... when? The latest two versions when that page was written??
How exactly does that work? There's a new version of Firefox every few weeks. So version 116, which is only 3 months old, is no longer supported because it is now the third newest version ????
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
WTF does that even mean? The latest two versions ... when? The latest two versions when that page was written??
In theory it's "current version and previous version" but as it's bitching about the current version then
@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
So version 116, which is only 3 months old, is no longer supported because it is now the third newest version ????
117 too. That sort of thing isn't uncommon and it's understandable. Just not bitching that the current version which your own documentation says you support is unsupported.
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@Gern_Blaanston said in WTF Bites:
There's a new version of Firefox every few
weekshoursminutes.
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I'd love to pay, but apparently I can not.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I'd love to pay, but apparently I can not.
Keeping old forum memes alive?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I'd love to pay, but apparently I can not.
Keeping old forum memes alive?
Only when I get fucked!
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Status: The number of "shots" is a whole number in the single digits.
So, what the fuck is meant by increasing the number by a sub-100-percent number?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I'd love to pay, but apparently I can not.
Keeping old forum memes alive?
Only when I get fucked!
So… not?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I'd love to pay, but apparently I can not.
Keeping old forum memes alive?
Only when I get fucked!
So… not?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Uh oh, are there control characters in the name?
macOS gives such helpful warnings about that too. Especially annoying because
:
is one of the few illegal characters, meaning most people will probably encounter it with filenames likeEpisode VI: Return of the Jedi.mp4
.What are you talking about?
:
is a completely valid character in OS X filenames and I use it all the time.
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I thought it was special-cased for backwards compatibility with Classic MacOS (where it was used as a path delimiter). Is that no longer the case?
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
I thought it was special-cased for backwards compatibility with Classic MacOS (where it was used as a path delimiter). Is that no longer the case?
I remember Finder being a bit funny about it, but everything else is quite happy.
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So, it's almost time to renew my license. This year, I have to go into the DMV (guess there's a limit of renewing by mail of 2 times - makes sense since the license is for 5y and, well, I'm older now so they need a new photo). Ok, let's consider updating to the RealID...
<starts down checklist>- Passport
- 2 Utility/phone/etc bills
- <prints>
Must be originals or certified copies
Well, . I've gone paperless on everything. to going to a notary.
Guess I'll stick with a plain old drivers license. I've got my passport, so there really isn't a need for RealID.