@LaoC DisARMed thread coming soon?

@dkf said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?": @acrow said in "Everything is live. Why would you need a test environment?": @Carnage Now that you mention it... Good Stuff IT Services British surnames beginning with 'TEST' Find out where in the world your surname originated, what it originally meant and how many other people you share it with. Test Testa Testaferrata Moroni Viani Testaferrate Testagrossa Testall Testam [...] River Test - Wikipedia Which gives its name to the Test Valley which means several local organisations with that in their name - e.g. Test Valley Borough Council, Test Valley Golf Club. It did make me go the first time I saw them in our B2B systems.

I guess that explains this:

@TimeBandit said in Fixing morale, according to management.: @CarrieVS said in Fixing morale, according to management.: In the UK, the taxman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsO_slTTEr4 Sorry, couldn't resist The reference in that song to "nineteen for me" is understating the reality of the time the song was written. At the time, the top rate of UK personal income tax was 97.5%, that is, thirty-nine for the tax man, but it would have sprung the rhythm...

Actually I remember it wrong, the total must not exceed 1/4 of wages payable. From http://www.labour.gov.hk/eng/public/wcp/ConciseGuide/03.pdf , chapter 3, section 2.2: deductions for damage to or loss of the employer's goods, equipment, or property by the employee's neglect or default. In any one case, the sum to be deducted shall be equivalent to the value of the damage or loss but not exceeding $300. The total of such deductions shall not exceed one quarter of the wages payable to the employee in that wage period; So if you got pay by daily wage of $100 and you damaged something, at most your employer can deduct $25 from your wage.

@levicki If a picture is worth a thousand words, I wonder what a video's worth... Also this.

But far more likely to go wrong and do something that, let's face it, doesn't bear thinking about

Toggl I've used in a situation like yours. Super simple, and exports to spreadsheets.

@abarker said:I hope you can script that because I don't want to do that 4 times. Open "Local Security Policy" administrative tool. Right click on "Security Settings" and choose "Export Policy" from menu. Save somewhere. Do the same, except chose "Import Policy" on the other three computers. You can do the same with SECEDIT /import and SECEDIT /export.

@Jaime said:This is one big file that needs its content synced, and it's a nightmare to do. It's hard enough to believe that that's reasonable even on the one system.

@Jaloopa Hmm. That's actually a really old-school way of writing messages, which I think used to be very popular. I'm familiar with it even though I'm young, but nowadays I only see it on specific (usually really old) message boards. If the person is really savvy, then they'll add some variation of "(n/t)" at the end of the subject to let you know that the body has "no text" and you can just skim past reading the subject.

@Lorne-Kates said in I'm getting tired of this npm shit: I tried the program, but I got a "npm package not found" error. Serves you right for wanting to left-pad a string, you heathen!

@tsaukpaetra said in Paypal and the Aye-Eighteen-Anne: Let's try again: As yet, no response. I think I'll drop the matter for now.

@dangeRuss said in Business Meeting Humor: @Polygeekery said in Business Meeting Humor: @dangeRuss said in Business Meeting Humor: Or the company can just eat that cost. Perhaps, but groceries and especially produce are fairly low margin as it is. If they can afford to have sales having 50% off, I'm sure they've got pretty healthy margins. The more perishable food is, the higher the markup typically is. Produce is typically priced with a 2-4x markup, but that doesn't take spoilage into account. Their actual profit margin won't be as high, because for highly perishable goods they'll almost inevitably end up with some product that is unsellable. If they have a 50% off sale on produce, they're probably selling it for very close to their cost. It's an easy way for them to offload whatever's still sellable from a bunch of product that wouldn't be sellable for much longer. And, in some cases, they'll sell product below cost, just to try to get something in return for it before it spoils, so they end up with less that they have to throw away.

Jan 27, 2014 Car Faces From the North American International Auto Show Cars have faces and they look stupid.

@ben_lubar said in Learn some goddamn fucking basic debugging skills for fuck's sake already!: @sumireko said in Learn some goddamn fucking basic debugging skills for fuck's sake already!: @lorne-kates said in Learn some goddamn fucking basic debugging skills for fuck's sake already!: AND IF IT IS ACCESSING DATA IS THAT FUCKING DATA EVEN THERE "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" "I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." Wrong figures, right answers

@Rhywden Hm, no, I don't think I've seen that one.

@cvi said in I'm too smart to read job ads that I apply for: But is it intended to be gotten inebriated over? Obviously, the answer is yes, or the writer @RobFreundlich mentioned wouldn't be so disappointed!

Hey all, thanks for the useful replies. I probably won't make any hardware changes until the NBN arrives at our place (although... I should try to find how how long they expect it to be, I guess), so I've bookmarked this for future reference.

@jaloopa said in A WINS Server is Required: Sounds like every time I've ever called tech support All our agents are currently busy. Please stay on the line, your call is important to you !

@blakeyrat said in "Le mobile multifonction": @anonymous234 said in "Le mobile multifonction": If you're going to abandon "smartphone", you might as well use the opportunity to name it correctly: pocket computer. I totally had one of these as a kid. Wow, is that the prequel to the movie that just came out?

Btw, I recently found this YouTube channel. Watch his April Fool series, it's interesting. I seriously recommend search his channel for review of locks you plan to buy before actually buying them. EDIT: Oops, just saw that someone already posted the same video.

@Gurth said in A.I. gone wrong...: @mikehurley said in A.I. gone wrong...: Was there a time component to the contest and they just ran the clock out? Otherwise I'm not seeing how a bunch of defenseless ships would win. I can’t find where I read it, but defenseless != unarmed. As I recall, the software decided that spending points on propulsion or armour was wasted, so it put everything into weapons. The result was lots of cheap ships with far more firepower than opponents could defend against, even if they blew up a whole slew of them. It was probably also either time- or turn-limited, which would also work to this strategy’s advantage because there’s only so much the opponent can destroy in a given time. Huh, I skipped "software" in initial read and thought you were talking about the British Admiralty just prior to World War I. Then "time or turn limited" showed up. Apparently I had also skipped "propulsion"...

@mott555 I do not think TeX will reach that version any time soon.

@izzion said in Why do people do this? Episode 2: I am in this post and in my defense I used to be responsible for writing the tier 1 Internet support script so it’s only natural that I worked ahead before I called. Reminds me of Dr. Timothy Leary recounting how when he was admitted to prison, he was given an aptitude test that he had written. He deliberately scored as "hopelessly incompetent" on the administrative skills test, because he didn't want to be assigned as an inmate clerk, because that would have interfered with his escape plans.

@boomzilla said in Our security auditor is an idiot. How do I give him the information he wants? (Server Fault): Proud to announce: https://hashes.discourse.org/v1/password/******* I think there's something wrong with your link...

@NeighborhoodButcher said:a screenshot from a file comparison tool It's amazing what people come up with https://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-new-wooden-table/7609

@HardwareGeek said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant: @DogsB said in The "Good news, everybody: we’re safe from Skynet!" Rant: To be fair, if I could ride a skateboard without breaking my arse I probably would try. At least you don't need to worry about breaking your head. In Ireland they worry about having sense knocked into them rather than out

@cabrito said in Why yes, I do have a hobby. Glad you asked.: @MrL boy, you have a nice eyesight! Not like I used to :( Once I could cut it out with no support, now I have to use a magnifying glass (that small black thing in the middle of the table).

@Jarry said in The Story So Far, or what the hell has mikeTheLiar Been Up to for the Past Two Years: that's so evil.... It should've been called onerrorresumenext…

@pie_flavor https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/17496/the-right-tool-for-the-job

@presidentsdaughter said:A value returned by POSIX's time(), which is no. of seconds since epoch, includes UTC leap seconds? No. UTC is civil time, which assumes that leap seconds don't exist. When a leap second happens, it's usual to either just correct the clock immediately (not normally a big problem) or push the adjustment through over a period of time (e.g., adjust by one millisecond per second over the following 1000 seconds). Either of these works well for most applications. The others typically need GPS time anyway, or are NTP implementations that are written by people who ought to know WTF they are doing…

@lb_ said in Anti-WTF: @dreikin said in Anti-WTF: You mean gift cards, right? Trading cards, those things you get randomly from having time played in a game, and you are guaranteed to never get a full set, so you have to buy the rest on the community market for real money (or trade away something you don't want). IIRC you need multiple full sets to get stuff like wallpapers and steam profile custom background images. All random of course. I honestly don't know much of how it works because I avoid it as much as I can. Oh, ewww. I didn't realize it was anything more than just the cards.

@topspin You don't own the printer, the cartridges are a license to print a few pages on it. It just happens to carry the ink inside.

$deity damnit, really?

@ScholRLEA said in The contractor that should not be: Calling ByronMonty Hall!

@cartman82 said in One final niggly detail: ¯\(ツ)/¯ You tried. But it has to be a triple backslash.

This is basically the I'm With Stupid comedy sketch format.

@Jarry said:smack him Now, you can't do that, Well, not until the same function gets its input from XML.

@topspin said in Silicon Valley’s $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze: @Gribnit said in Silicon Valley’s $400 Juicer May Be Feeling the Squeeze: Are those caverns in New Mexico a national park or a recognized scenic area? National park, but Carlsberg is Danish and has no funny letters, while "Karlsbad" is spelled "Karlovy Vary" in Czech and has none either. Phew! For a second there, I was worried.

@Gurth Trying to remember now which novel it was that had one character telling another a story about someone who whacked himself a couple of weeks after his corneal implant display started spamming him 24/7 with ads in a language he didn't even know. Wow. Metagossip.

@owatson Podcastica. Fun, in-depth talk about great TV. Fun, in-depth, episode-by-episode talks about great TV shows.

Google Image Search strikes again!

@An old bath towel I used to own said:Warning: Your new sony walkman may cause serious sunburn. Please turn around at the end of the tape. post not empty

@boomzilla said in Finally nailed my Windows memory leak (A.K.A. The official we hate Karl club): @Carnage said in Finally nailed my Windows memory leak (A.K.A. The official we hate Karl club): @error said in Finally nailed my Windows memory leak (A.K.A. The official we hate Karl club): @boomzilla said in Finally nailed my Windows memory leak (A.K.A. The official we hate Karl club): I even keep Java up to date using apt. WTFCorp has been locked at version 8 since some licensing terms changed a while back. Filed under: Deep, dark necromancy My current gig is using Java 8. And an old build at that. Except for a few projects still on Java 6. We're using 8. Last year we switched from Oracle to OpenJDK though. We're stuck on oraclejdk, with oracle weblogic and oracle database. Surprisingly enough, not oracle Linux. That is redhat instead.

@HardwareGeek In my fridge I have about 1/3 of a jar of homemade kimchi that needs to be finished...

@darkmatter I don't care about that person, because they don't work here.

@Jaloopa And I'm sure it would have generated a lot of complaints as well.

@xaade said in How I broke my computer at 12 years old: Hurry. This is history we're talking about. It must be saved!!! See, this is what happens when you volunteer for stuff: you get more work on your plate. ;)