The minor rants thread.
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@Rhywden Not really I do it all the time.
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@Rhywden
shrug I've been casting from my computer all afternoon. And screen mirroring worked just fine for me when I was messing with the CC before I set it up to connect to my home network.
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I hate parties. And why people put shit remixed versions of music that were originally good? These suckers ruin music.
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@fbmac said in The minor rants thread.:
I hate parties. And why people put shit remixed versions of music that were originally good? These suckers ruin music.
You do not understand the arts and farts. That is why you are a robot, perhaps an engineer too? You need more alcohol, I have experienced that helps in parties.
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@dse said in The minor rants thread.:
farts
I don't think I'd be interested in a party where that's the main subject: might be a bit smelly.
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@dse OF COURSE I'M NOT A ROBOT, I'LL TRY INJECTING ALCOHOL IN MY BLOODSTREAM NEXT TIME I GO TO A PARTY, TKS FOR THE ADVICE FELLOW HUMAN. I ABBREVIATED TKS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT US HUMANS DO.
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@fbmac said in The minor rants thread.:
US HUMANS
No person says, "US HUMANS"! Everyhuman knows it's "we humans", because friendship!
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@Tsaukpaetra I DO TRANSLATE ERROR, BECAUSE I'M IMPERFECT HUMAN. END OF LINE.
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@fbmac said in The minor rants thread.:
END OF LINE.
Well then! No need to be so short with me then!
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@RaceProUK said in The minor rants thread.:
@dse said in The minor rants thread.:
farts
I don't think I'd be interested in a party where that's the main subject: might be a bit smelly.
You also need more alcohol, or better yet few joints (do not mix).
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Watching the first in the new series of Top Gear, with Matt LeBlanc and two guys I've never heard of.
The studio looks like a cheap cocktail bar, the presenters have no real screen presence, the on-screen chemistry is flatter than a punctured tyre, the humour is forced, and there's just no flow to the show at all.
This concludes the test of the RP Software OnionBelt System.
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@RaceProUK I thought the same about the first top gear.
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@RaceProUK said in The minor rants thread.:
and two guys I've never heard of.
You didn't watch any of the last series?
To be fair it's a massive improvement over the Chris Evans season. The challenge was entertaining.
Even the Clarkson, Hammond and May Top Gear took a while to get going.
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@loopback0 said in The minor rants thread.:
Even the Clarkson, Hammond and May Top Gear took a while to get going.
It never got going. There were 3 over paid cunts on the BBC making shit jokes on a Sunday Evening.
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@izzion said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden
shrug I've been casting from my computer all afternoon. And screen mirroring worked just fine for me when I was messing with the CC before I set it up to connect to my home network.The point is that Chromecast is more of a hassle to setup and it's also not an open standard like Miracast.
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@loopback0 The problem with Stewart Lee is he gets far to meta for my tastes. Thought his "Pear Cider" rant is quite apt.
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@loopback0 said in The minor rants thread.:
You didn't watch any of the last series?
I didn't even get past the intro of the first episode.
@loopback0 said in The minor rants thread.:
To be fair it's a massive improvement over the Chris Evans season. The challenge was entertaining.
I did make it all the way through the episode, so on that measure alone, it's lightyears better than before.
And then I remember The Grand Tour is a thing. Compared to that, even this new Top Gear doesn't really compare.
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@RaceProUK The Grand Tour has an established set of presenters so they work better together.
Grand Tour also has stupid bits like the "let's pretend to kill of a celebrity" bit that need to not return next series.Now Evans has been sacked off I think Top Gear deserves a chance to get going and a chance to be its own show.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
@izzion said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden
shrug I've been casting from my computer all afternoon. And screen mirroring worked just fine for me when I was messing with the CC before I set it up to connect to my home network.The point is that Chromecast is more of a hassle to setup and it's also not an open standard like Miracast.
Which is weird, because it could totally support
MiracastWiDi if it was an open standard enough for cheapo-chinese makers to do it...
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Working with timezones sucks.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
Not to mention that casting from a wired device to a Chromecast is an absurdity in and of itself.
Wait, why?
Wired and wireless devices should all work exactly the same. That's why we have network layers and stuff.
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@lucas1 said in The minor rants thread.:
The problem with Stewart Lee is he gets far to meta for my tastes.
I think you have to be a kiwi to properly appreciate him.
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@anonymous234 I don't get this comic. I wouldn't like to be any of those characters.
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@fbmac said in The minor rants thread.:
@anonymous234 I don't get this comic. I wouldn't like to be any of those characters.
Just because you don't see yourself, doesn't mean you weren't deleted....
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
Wired and wireless devices should all work exactly the same.
Yep. Just plug in the wifi cable, and you're good to go!
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
Not to mention that casting from a wired device to a Chromecast is an absurdity in and of itself.
What are you on about I do it all the time at home.
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@RaceProUK said in The minor rants thread.:
Working with timezones sucks.
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
Not to mention that casting from a wired device to a Chromecast is an absurdity in and of itself.
Wait, why?
Wired and wireless devices should all work exactly the same. That's why we have network layers and stuff.
Because if I have a wired connection I don't really need the Chromecast.
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@Rhywden there are lots of reasons you might want to cast from something wired. Maybe your desktop has a wired connection but it's not comfortable to sit several people in front of it and you want to share a video
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
Because if I have a wired connection I don't really need the Chromecast.
What?
Also even the Chromecast can be wired...
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
Not to mention that casting from a wired device to a Chromecast is an absurdity in and of itself.
Wait, why?
Wired and wireless devices should all work exactly the same. That's why we have network layers and stuff.
Because if I have a wired connection I don't really need the Chromecast.
Don't compute. I use the Chromecast so I don't need to plug my laptop on the TV, that would require HDMI cable, a near outlet, a place to put the laptop, etc.
With the Chromecast I just command it to play Netflix without anything on the HDMI. Why would an Ethernet cable change any of that?
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SendGrid's C# library is a butt.
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In a factory of physical goods, if the factory has a capacity for producing 100 units and a salesmen promise 200 to a client it's clear who is doing it wrong.
Somehow in the IT industry it seems acceptable, nobody knows or cares about the production capacity, and everyone is just asked to work more and there is blame flying everywhere, minus the salesperson that gets compliments for closing a big deal.
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"Antisocial" is a perfectly fine way to say "dislikes social interaction". I'm sick of wrong pedants trying to contradict that.
That "Antisocial Personality Disorder" means something else doesn't change anything. Words can have different meanings in different contexts.
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@RaceProUK said in The minor rants thread.:
SendGrid's C# library is a butt.
I was playing with that the other day. Got an OK response from the sample code, but no indication in the SendGrid portal that anything had happened. Possibly because I'm behind a proxy but either way it's shit
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@Jaloopa It's not just that. If you dare upgrade from one major version to the next, all your code will break because they changed the entire API, and there's no documentation to help you migrate. Oh, and they fucked up the assembly bindings somehow, so if you upgrade
SendGrid.CSharp.HTTP.Client
from 3.0.0 to 3.1.0, the main SendGrid package can't find it anymore.
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@RaceProUK said in The minor rants thread.:
If you dare upgrade from one major version to the next, all your code will break because they changed the entire API
That would explain why all the tutorials I found on other sites were completely wrong then
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@RaceProUK said in The minor rants thread.:
is a butt
a nice booty or a flat fart distribution device?
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@Luhmann said in The minor rants thread.:
flat fart distribution device
That one. And it's particularly good at generating methyl mercaptan.
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Arsehole coworker strikes again.
there's a regulatory change coming up in my industry, so various things have to change to meet it. I was aware that things I maintain will have to change but haven't had the official change request yet so haven't started on it. I have contacted the stakeholders, including {coworker} to ask when I'll be required to make the changes.
In this morning's standup, the change's effect on another product was being discussed and I mentioned that I'm waiting for the panicked "Oh my god, Jaloopa's product needs this change to go in yesterday!!!eleven" request that's the usual way I hear about big change requirements. My boss came back with "{coworker} sent an email out this morning saying they'd updated {dependant system}". That's all very well but without the changes on my side, that I've still heard nothing about, there will be inconsistent information going out to customers.
OK, so I need to email the coworker in question and gently point out that I really should have been consulted in this.
Hi {coworker}
I’ve just heard that you’ve put some {regulation X} changes live. There are {Jaloopa's system} elements that relate to {regulation X}, should these have been updated at the same time?Reply:
Probably wise
At this point my boss +1 steps in and gently points out that we only heard about this yesterday by accident and "it would be better to know earlier". This will have to be done today, delaying another important piece of work and also be rushed through to a live release.
Reply:
I'm surprised this wasn't already well underway
I'm just glad he works in a different office, because if I had to deal with him daily I wouldn't cope well
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Why are browsers so incredibly bad at selecting text?
"Oh I see you dragged the mouse cursor 2mm. Did you want to select the entire page?" No I didn't.
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@anonymous234 not as bad as Office. I swear smoetimes it's literally impossible to select a few letters from the middle of a word without it insisting on selecting the whole word
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Meetings suck withered turtle penis.
@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
Why are browsers so incredibly bad at selecting text?
At least you're on a site that allows you select text: not all of them do.
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Virtually everything written on certificate management ever is either flat wrong or deeply misleading. Which is dumb as hell because what is going on is mostly simple (except for the math canned inside it) but the hoopla layered on top of it is just so unnecessarily complicated.
:sigh:
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@dkf said in The minor rants thread.:
Virtually everything written on certificate management ever is either flat wrong or deeply misleading. Which is dumb as hell because what is going on is mostly simple (except for the math canned inside it) but the hoopla layered on top of it is
just so unnecessarily complicatedprofitable.:sigh:
FTFRL
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@izzion +1 :(