@dkf said in Commuting WTF Thread: keeps you from unexpectedly converting right. Better than converting left.

@Carnage said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: @Tsaukpaetra said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: @error said in Is it a duck or a rabbit?: There's no red Thanks for explaining, I was wondering if there was a statement about dithering or something. Have one based on a related (not not the same) phenomena. Am I supposed to see red in that picture? I think you have to stare at this one for a while then look away

@Gąska said in Help Bites: Edit: as for stripping, I don't know the .Net toolchain very well, but considering that you can call object's private method through reflection, it's possible nothing ever gets stripped from classes so the ugly hacks like that don't randomly break down based on dead code analysis. Fun times with Android, when people insist in using the damn obfuscator that strip things that are used only with reflection, so you have to remember to put them manually in a exclusion list. Combine this with folks that think OMG that's hardcoded, so they put the classname in a xml file that is totally different from hardcoding for reasons

@topspin said in Scientific Science: Was there an inexplicable and unexplained uptick in penguin maulings in the data?

@Arantor said in Unit of Measurement WTF: @HardwareGeek what happens if his replacement, when he eventually retires, is not 6’? Is being precisely 6’ one of the job requirements? Standard issue Prussian.

We're totes not AI generated, and here's why - Wibble News An opinion piece serving as a satirical defense of the allegations suggesting Wibble News is AI generated, framed in the style of the Totally Not Robots subreddit.

Also voice calls stopped working in both the browser version and the Facebook mobile app. Either we can't hear each other, or we can but the ringtone is still going infinitely. Although maybe it is related to the fact that I stopped using Messenger apps when this EU requirement happened.

@topspin said in In other news today...: @Applied-Mediocrity said in In other news today...: What did all the dumb fucks involved - on both sides! - thought was going to happen?

@dkf said in Official forum improvement requests thread: @kazitor said in Official forum improvement requests thread: @Arantor said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members: @topspin said in Things that remind you of WDTWTF members: @Arantor can we get those merged into our instance? :yell-at-x: should automatically compose with the existing emoji for :x: But that would require writing code...

@Polygeekery said in Neighbors are TR: try not to be fucking retarded about rooms or meals that you charge to me. Terrible news for anyone that wanted a pound of steak and pint of beer in a 200 ft² flat

It is worth noting that Private Eye is still in circulation today, its editor has had the distinction of reputedly being the most sued man in England, and he is still just as inclined towards the same kind of answer as his predecessor. (Its current editor, Ian Hislop, has been in the role since 1986.)

@Steve_The_Cynic I can't speak for the others but I've seen how much internal bullshit MSF has going on and frankly I would never encourage anyone to donate to them. I know that such orgs all have some internal bullshit but... fuck me... theirs is more internal bullshit than usual by quite a margin.

@sockpuppet7 Yes, but I wanted something slightly different. See, you can tell it to use four columns and it will flow over four columns, but it will still be height that it extends as necessary to fit the content. Which is fine if the content does fit on the screen, but when it does not, it means you are scrolling down to read the first column, then back up to the next one and that's not so fine. There are basically two ways out: break the content into sections that are short enough to fit the screen, then lay each into columns separately, or extend the page to the side by adding more columns instead. The reading view in Word does the later—it shows the pages side-by-side, two or three fit on the screen and scrolling shifts the pages by one, so is a horizontal scroll. But people are not used to horizontal scrolling on the web, so web mostly uses the first method of breaking it down to sufficiently short sections. Or punting and accepting the bad scrolling.

Google, stay Google.

@ixvedeusi said in TIL （ａｂｏｕｔ ｔｈｅ Ｄａｒｋ Ａｒｔｓ ｏｆ ＨＴＭＬ）: otherwise it would have to muck around with the function body (or worse, the call site). Not saying it couldn't be done, but it wouldn't be as straight-forward and the way it actually works makes sense to me. But that's already what it is doing at that exact moment. It's saying here's a function which has this name, these parameters with these names (which are basically part of the call signature because of named arguments), etc., and it has the following "text" as code. Besides syntax, the function isn't evaluated, so why should default arguments be evaluated at that point? The code to execute them might as well be stored along with the other information that make up the function.

@blek If we're crashing back down, it's not much of a peak; just about triple the last trough.

@PotatoEngineer said in Drug prohibition: @boomzilla about fucking time! Almost every state had some flavor of pot-permission laws, and it's a crying shame that marijuana remained on the "there is no possible medical benefit" list in the DEA. I'd be interested in watching a documentary of why it remained Schedule I for so long. Was some specific leader an anti-pot person? Was it bureaucratic inertia? DEA putting pressure on the FDA so it could keep doing civil forfeiture? Also, yes. It's generally good business, keeps pesky minorities in jail, profits go right back to the arms industry and bribes, what's not to like?

@PotatoEngineer said in Economics of technical debt: you just refinance it all onto the new framework! All the make-work to move over to the new framework gives you a very good reason to not spend time fixing your own bugs. Why pay down the principal when there's an introductory offer to take advantage of?

On a tangent, I did play Stardock's Star Control: Origins, and it was all right; it kept the space combat pretty much as-is, I enjoyed learning the new ships, and they didn't have that godawful Ethics Committee from Star Control 3 to limit my choices. (Granted, I usually play a good guy, but there was a moment in SC3 where you had to not shoot an actively hostile alien, because it was possible to talk them down.) There was a good variety of aliens, too: the final enemies-from-another-dimension, and the enslaved-by-software guys you eventually ally with were creative. I didn't like the planet exploration; I get that doing a 3d exploration of a planet is what you've got to do in a modern game, but the limited view meant that it would take a while to finish getting the loot from a planet. SC2's exploration, while slightly dull, was at least quick and didn't overstay its welcome. I also didn't like the fetch-quests in Origins; there were thankfully few in the base game, but the idea of "gather X resource which you may or may not have harvested and sold already" doesn't work well in Star Control. And I didn't end up getting the DLC; the base game was all right, but I was ready to be done with it when I finished the game. (And honestly, I don't remember it that well anymore; I played it a few years ago.) I expect Free Stars to be a much better game, but at least I'm not expecting it to be Best Of All Time or anything.

300 reasons to hate Southwest: Wheelchair basketball players say Southwest left a '300-piece jigsaw puzzle' after flight Teams of wheelchair basketball players say their devices were dismantled on Southwest Airlines flight ahead of championship tournament. TL;DR: Southwest baggage handlers disassembled the wheelchairs to put them on the plane but had no personnel available to reassemble them at the destination. Bonus: They left some normal baggage off the plane to accommodate the wheelchairs, so some able-bodied passengers were angry at the basketball players when they didn't have their luggage.

$deity damnit, really?

@Arantor yeah...was just reading this bit, which hits those points: Rust is the type of language where wanting to do a new type of upgrade might lead you down a path of refactoring all of the systems, and many would even say "that's great, now my code is much better and can accommodate so many more things!!!". It sounds like a very convincing argument, one that I've heard many times, and one that has also caused me to waste a lot of time chasing down solutions to the wrong problems. A more flexible language would allow the game developer to immediately implement the new feature in a hacky way, and then play the game, test it and see if the feature is actually fun, and potentially do a bunch of these iterations in a short amount of time. By the time the Rust developer is finished with their refactoring, the C++/C#/Java/JavaScript developer has implemented many different gameplay features, played the game a bunch and tried them all out, and has a better understanding of which direction should their game be taking. And I can definitely see his point. I often do that sort of thing, even in not-game-development. Then throw some things away and maybe start over if it was actually too ugly and the Final Solution actually sparks some ideas about how to do it better.

Alternatively could have been a candidate for 'things that remind you of WDTWTF members'.

TIL Sovereign citizen movement - Wikipedia Edit: partially, anyway. I'm not reading all that.

@loopback0 said in In other hostile takeover Tweets...: they're really more involved in Twitter than their profile suggests. Is that supposed to be in indication of legitimacy or a red flag? Filed under: Yes

DeAngelo Marquise Vaxter  /  Apr 24 Video released: Assault on Embark bus driver leads to crash into Oklahoma City business Video has been released from inside of the bus that crashed over the weekend in Oklahoma City, causing damages to a business and injuries.On Saturday, police ar

@Gurth is that a picture of the notepaper that one writes Lotus Notes on?

@HardwareGeek Did you searching on PornHub? They got some great statistical data.

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@Atazhaia said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @Watson said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : @LaoC said in Linux on the Desktop? A long way off... : Nah, just kidding, it's over 7100 pages, ...which Microsoft Word doesn't fully comply with, giving us Wait... Microsoft doesn't follow their own standard? Well, Microsoft's first submission to ISO had a lot of Windows-specific stuff (for supporting all their different versions of Word), and ISO naturally said that such stuff wasn't appropriate for a vendor-neutral industrial standard. Microsoft went away and split their backward compatibility out those 600 pages of "Legacy" @LaoC referred to, and resubmitted the "Strict" part as the standard, with the optional "Legacy" extension. ISO accepted this on the condition that all new OOXML documents adhere to the "Strict" part, with the extension only used as required for backward compatibility. Microsoft said "Okay, sure" with its fingers crossed behind its back.

@coderpatsy Thanks though, the follow up(s) clarify. A bit.

@BernieTheBernie said in Pay peanuts or chicken feed: How many Indian "sofwtare specialists" would be willing to take software job abroad The point isn't to pay foreigners a reasonable wage, no matter how the "Fachkräftemangel" talk makes you believe that. The point is to drive the price down with the alternatives of not paying well here or outsourcing because you "can't find anyone" here.

@HardwareGeek said in The Official Don't-Interpret-My-Dreams Thread: I'm certain this dream was entirely unrelated to watching Fast and Furious 5 just before going to bed. Ah yes, Fast and Spurious...

@Gern_Blaanston Interesting that you mention Barbie, whose middle name is the same as Millie's first.

@acrow said in From Pure Windows 7 to Linux Dual Boot: Eurion I do not think so: I scanned all the documents myself with a vintage scanner from the early 2000ies (@Tsaukpaetra may like such hardware, too). And with LibreOffice 4.x, it just worx.

@Arantor For an online version, you can telnet to mapscii.me. It works with the mouse and everything!

@pcooper said in Is there a guide to certificate algorithms?: It's also worth knowing that ECDSA uses curves that have parameters hand-picked by NIST Fifty years ago, NIST hand picked S-boxes for DES, and it turned out that they tweaked them to be resistant to attacks that only NIST knew. Today, there's not so much trust that they will be as ethical, especially after they were already caught breaking Dual_EC_DRBG in exactly this way.

@Zecc said in Help Bites: Sie haben die maximal zulässige Anzahl an Blinkernutzungen überschritten So maybe there's a horizontal gradient atop the conical gradient? I don't think that's it as I think the seam transitions smoothly from soft to hard. But anyway, your attempt looks pretty damn close. EDIT: wait, maybe yours does that too. Doesn't quite look like it to me, but I'm not sure.

@Arantor said in Shipping Antipatterns: Snarry I can only guess, but yuck.

@PotatoEngineer said in The Fox Ideas Thread: @accalia That reminds me of Lackadaisy Cats, which is about cats rather than foxes, but is definitely about illegal activity during Prohibition. (Mind you, progress on that comic has come to a screeching halt now that the creator is working on an animated series for the comic.) That's that I was thinking of but couldn't remember the name!

@Steve_The_Cynic I guess you like your instructional videos to be younger.

@Steve_The_Cynic said in I Hate Jira Because ...: @dkf said in I Hate Jira Because ...: And yes, JIRA encourages this by its design. I wouldn't necessarily say, "encourages this," but "facilitates this" or "makes this too easy" are definitely on the cards. Atlassian absolutely encourages you to use JIRA in these ways if you can stomach any of the marketing shite they serve up.

What am I here? Projection file disappears in WPF project · Issue #1543 · microsoft/CsWinRT Describe the bug I would like to use CsWinRT in WPF the same way I use it in a WinUI project, but it doesn't build. To Reproduce See my minimal repro at https://github.com/mmarczell-graphisoft/...

@Parody said in Disk too full to delete files; Delete files to free up space: Meanwhile, I still shut my computers down when I'm done using them... My wife's father does that. He turns on his computer long enough to check/send e-mail and do whatever he needs to do right at that minute. Then shuts it down.

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@boomzilla

@Bulb well it is a bad idea and the proposers should feel bad.

@cvi said in "I swear to you, I did exactly as you told me......": @TwelveBaud said in "I swear to you, I did exactly as you told me......": Free beats 0.3¢ every day. Further costs savings: measure voltage over the speaker, so it can act as a (terrible) microphone. Remove one of the buttons in favour of the user screaming at the device. I feel like I would be willing to pay more for this feature.