The Official Funny Stuff Thread™
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@blek said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
the time taken to recognize is the same (or worse!) than the sound file length itself
There's a guy sitting in a call center in India transcribing the speech in real time, isn't there.
I do know it's on an Amazon ec2 instance, and that the input is being converted into raw PCM Bytes for the recognition program. Can you believe they wanted me to transmit the raw audio buffers in a gambit to make it "faster"?
My response was: we're planning on having several hundred users talking, do you think your endpoint can take that kind of pounding?
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https://medium.com/@isaaclyman/8-css-gotchas-to-start-your-morning-off-right-c5daade0731d
1 — Vertical centering is hard
Like I said, vertical centering used to be a messed-up gig. You had to relatively position something at 50% the height of its parent element, then give it a top margin of -50% of itself, and there was a special tax form you had to fill out, and sometimes the effect was only temporary and you had to cast it again a few days later.
there’s no hard-and-fast rule about when to use
white-space: nowrap
, but multiple studies have found that it’s far more likely to work during the fifth hour of debugging than the first. And don’t bother trying to outsmart it: CSS can tell when you’re just going through the motions (cycling through properties, trying different values for display and position). The clock doesn’t start until you’re really upset.In the course of your career you may meet people who self-identify as “CSS gurus.”...In all likelihood, they aren’t smiling at you; their face is broken from the strain. Most of them will die of a triple heart attack by the time they’re 40.
Some believe that the maintainers of CSS penciled
z-index
into the spec in order to explore its possible use for situations where multiple elements share the same space; unfortunately, it is said, they never got around to specifying its behavior and it was only left in the documentation so that people would stop asking for it.
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@bb36e the worst part of
z-index
is that az-index
isn't az-index
isn't az-index
. No... az-index
is az-index
inside of a stacking context which can be created by like a billion different types of elements. So thatz-index: 99999
you just set? Yeah, it's not actually atz-index: 99999
; it's stuck in the stacking context of its parent(s). Congratulations.
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@anotherusername shit like this is why i hate computers. because this is apparently the best we could do when it comes to cross-platform interfaces.
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@anotherusername also, you'll notice that the W3Schools CSS reference page on
z-index
mentions "stacking contexts" exactly nowhere, because W3Schools is shit...
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@anotherusername from the original article:
(they may use mystical phrases like “stacking context” and “clearfix” — these are minor deities of the CSS underworld)
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@hungrier the MDN article is actually pretty good in terms of explaining it in a way that makes sense.
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@anotherusername if you need z-index you're already in hell
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@Boner Someone ought to stick a note under his windscreen wiper saying “sorry, but unlike what your sticker says, you're not straight”.
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@dkf
Oh and by the way I just humped your tailpipe.
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Reminds me of a joke I saw recently:
Honey, I bought a Pet Rock.
You what?
Pees on the couch
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@anotherusername said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@izzion said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
@DoctorJones
I'm given to understand that's no laughing matter when performed after one can remember it.Like any surgery, I'd imagine it depends a lot on whether an anesthetic is used.
Oldish post, but: even with anaesthetic for the surgery itself, the recovery is rather painful. My son had to go through it as a pre-teen and it was not a happy time for him.
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BT just emailed me, trying to sell me some explosives!!!!!
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1128 GBP (~1314 EUR). What kind of extortion is that.
It is selling for as low as 809 EUR for S8 / 909 EUR for S8+ over here.
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Presented without comment...
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
1128 GBP (~1314 EUR). What kind of extortion is that.
It is selling for as low as 809 EUR for S8 / 909 EUR for S8+ over here.Clearly, premium grade explosives aren't cheap.
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@DoctorJones
I don't know what's more concerning: The spelling, the stupidity or the fact that there are people who play golf, but can't afford a £20 putter.
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@DoctorJones We got a cave with that general shape near where I live. It is however situated low, it's quite wet around it and it's a bit of a challenge to get into despite being big.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
It is however situated low, it's quite wet around it and it's a bit of a challenge to get into despite being big.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
the recovery is rather painful.
We've actually made great strides in learning how to reduce post-operative pain in general recently. The topic is fascinating ^_^ It probably hurt more because the location is rather... dear... to his mind, for example.
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Another mashup discovered:
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@obeselymorbid said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
1128 GBP (~1314 EUR). What kind of extortion is that.
It is selling for as low as 809 EUR for S8 / 909 EUR for S8+ over here.Especially when you can get the pre-explosive era Galaxy S7 for as little as €449
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@aliceif My family used to all have Samsung phones. When it came time for me to upgrade from my Note 3 I considered Note 7 but I wanted
- something larger and was disppointed when Note stayed with the same 5.7'' screen
- something cheaper as Note 7 was around a 1000 EUR
- something right now and Note was still a couple of months away.
Bullet dodged there, I guess.
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@RaceProUK Did that image maybe come from Scoop Alley? They should let people know.
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@coldandtired said in The Official Funny Stuff Thread™:
Did that image maybe come from Scoop Alley?
I admit it's hard to tell, but I think it might have done.
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@RaceProUK the last image show a guy piloting it
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@wharrgarbl
It's apparently also been tested by Colin Furze, though that doesn't mean much with regard to the safety:
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