The minor rants thread.
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In a technical sense, perhaps. They usually have a different tail and snout, though. Must be a different species.
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In a technical sense, perhaps. They usually have a different tail and snout, though. Must be a different species.
Besides, capybaras are fluffy and cute, more like a giant guinea pig than most people's vision of a ROUS ;) (They are raised domestically for meat, fur, and fats, and are said to be quite gentle as well, to the point where some folks keep 'em as pets)
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You mean there are [capybara]
No, I meant these:
Besides, I suspect that there are a fair few wetlands out there where the water in them is cleaner than what comes out of a Dallas tap
Water can be clean and still have trace elements of something that happens to be presumably-harmless but vile-tasting. I am going under the assumption that, regardless of cleanliness, swamp water tastes bad.
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Low-fat milk? Ugh, might as well use soy "milk".
Soy milk is tasty. Low-fat milk is white coloured water.
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Low-fat milk is white coloured water.
Milk is OK down to 1.5% fat (except I don't drink milk anyway these days) but the real low fat stuff is just pointless, as you say. Might as well get some titanium dioxide powder and stir it into (non-Dallas) water…
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Might as well get some titanium dioxide powder and stir it into (non-Dallas) water…
Pour it into Dallas water and you get the taste of soy milk.
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Pour it into Dallas water and you get the taste of soy milk.
No, it would still taste better than soy milk.
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Horizons in asymmetric chemistry:
Add one tumbler of distilled water to one tankerful of sewage. Result: one tankerful of sewage.
Add one tumbler of sewage to one tankerful of distilled water. Result: one tankerful of sewage.
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Rant :
WTFDude : Hey can I disconnect this?
AnotherDude : Sure...
-- After some seconds main power for the test site goes off --
AnotherDude : WTF!!!
WTFDude : You just told me I could.
Anothe Dude : Yeah disconnect the JTAG next to you, that, you could do.
WTFDude : Oh silly... you though I meant that... well that's embarrassing.¿So you wonder why would WTFDude want to do that, and why would he word it like that instead of saying " Can I switch this off?", which would have warranted a second thought ? Well, because Fuck you, that's why
I mean sometimes you wonder how bad silly misunderstandings can get, then you know; then you wish you did not.
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Soy milk tastes of soggy cornflakes.
... says the catgirl who puts raisins in her coffee.
I'm not questioning your taste, but you have to admit it's not quite mainstream ;)
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... says the catgirl who puts raisins in her coffee.
I once dropped a raisin into my coffee by accident.
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I once dropped a raisin into my coffee by accident.
I have to ask: what where your raisins for that?
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@OffByOne said:
... says the catgirl who puts raisins in her coffee.
I once dropped a raisin into my coffee by accident.
to-may-to, to-mah-to...
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I once dropped a raisin into my coffee by accident.
I'm pretty sure you claimed you did it again a short while later.
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He's with the NSA!
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@CarrieVS said:
I once dropped a raisin into my coffee by accident.
I'm pretty sure you claimed you did it again a short while later.
IIRC that was not by accident, but for SCIENCE! More specifically, to see if raisins dropped in coffee would rehydrate to grapes.
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IIRC that was not by accident, but for SCIENCE! More specifically, to see if raisins dropped in coffee would rehydrate to grapes.
Nonetheless, unless it was carefully placed per se, it was probably dropped.
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@OffByOne said:
IIRC that was not by accident, but for SCIENCE! More specifically, to see if raisins dropped in coffee would rehydrate to grapes.
Nonetheless, unless it was carefully placed per se, it was probably dropped.
I didn't refute the "dropped" part of your statement, but the "by accident" part
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I didn't refute the "dropped" part of your statement, but the "by accident" part
I'm not the one who said by accident, though. Are you trying to refute yourself?
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I'm not the one who said by accident, though. Are you trying to refute yourself?
True.
I got confused by:
@CarrieVS said:
I once dropped a raisin into my coffee by accident.
I'm pretty sure you claimed you did it again a short while later.I read your "did it again" as referring to both "dropped a raisin into my coffee" and "by accident". I guess you didn't mean the "by accident" part then.
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I guess you didn't mean the "by accident" part then.
Yeah, I was just disagreeing with the "putting raisins in coffee only once" bit.
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IIRC that was not by accident, but for SCIENCE! More specifically, to see if raisins dropped in coffee would rehydrate to grapes.
It wasn't coffee, it was water.
The only time it was coffee was an accident.
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I'm glad we could get that all straightened out.
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Excel,
We need to have a talk.
You see, I have two monitors.
And sometimes, I want to repackage information from one spreadsheet into another.
WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I PUT ONE SPREADSHEET ON EACH MONITOR.
Filed under: FUCKING HELL WHY DOES IT DELETE TWO SPREADSHEETS WHEN I BREAK MY HARDDRIVE ONCE
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WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I PUT ONE SPREADSHEET ON EACH MONITOR.
*has just opened two spreadsheets and put one on each of her two monitors*What version of Excel is it?
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I'm guessing it's two sheets from the same workbook.
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Oh.
If that's the case, then yeah, that's shit; VS allows you to break code files out of the main window and put them on another monitor, so why can't they do the same with Excel?
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We're on Office 2010. All the files open in the same master window; when I move one, I move them all. I can maximize the master window and minimize the sub-windows, but I can't break them out. I guess I could maximize the master window across both monitors, but seriously...?
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They must have changed that for 2013 then; Excel isn't an MDI program anymore
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We're on Office 2010. All the files open in the same master window; when I move one, I move them all.
Rather than double clicking the file to open it, go to the menu and start excel that way. With 2007 that gets you a second master window. Annoying, but it works.
EDIT:
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I, er, can't. My computer is borked. Today it's decided that I don't have a license for Office, which it apparently only checks when I launch from the start menu but not when I double-click a file.
But before it exited it did seem to be starting a new master window, so, TIL.
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I, er, can't.
oh uh, sorry you've got things that are broken in wonky ways that prevent the workaround.
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Yeah, even the guy who was helping me with the powershell issue was like "...it might be time for a rebuild." So some glorious day, I'll be able to split spreadsheets across monitors~
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Okay so I finish my spreadsheet and I want to embed it in my Word document.
So I go to Word, and I click embed from file, and I click the file.
Word locks up.
I wander off to let Word do its thing. I come back, it says it's waiting on an OLE from another program. I click "switch to"...and it brings me to the Task Manager. Brillant.
Well I know what program it is. It's Excel... telling me I can't open another copy of the same file. WTF?
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Excel can't open two workbooks with the same filename, an issue that's both pathetic and still present in Excel 2013
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Right, right, but...
Why did it need to? I wanted to embed it in Word, not edit it in Excel.
Like, I can imagine why on a technical level, but from a user perspective, Word is Word and Excel is Excel. I can open the same file in Notepad and Word, so why not Word and Excel?
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I'm afraid only Redmond can answer that one
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I wanted to embed it in Word, not edit it in Excel.
But the office things are tied together such that word is going "hey excel open this file and tell me about it so I can insert junk". Or at least that is my best guess and it kinda makes sense, but it is annoying that you would need to close a workbook to insert it.
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Like, I can imagine why on a technical level, but from a user perspective, Word is Word and Excel is Excel. I can open the same file in Notepad and Word, so why not Word and Excel?
You said you can imagine, but I've worked with Office at the COM level. It might actually be starting up another instance of Excel. I have no idea how Word does it, but it's possible to use an existing instance or start another one. I suspect it starts a new instance, though.
If it's a new instance running, then the multiple openings message totally makes sense. I'm not sure how it would work if the workbook was supposed to be displayed in two different places.
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You said you can imagine, but I've worked with Office at the COM level. It might actually be starting up another instance of Excel.
IIUC, it does start up a fresh instance of Excel; that's why it's such a bad idea to use it on servers
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Yeah, having your entire LOB app go down because Excel puked a modal dialog onto the desktop of a headless server is not good...
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is not good
Nope, but it does provide some job security to the support guys that handle those calls (and should either reduce that of the developer, or the approver who said "OK" to design despite the warnings).
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Yeah, having your entire LOB app go down because Excel puked a modal dialog onto the desktop of a headless server is not good...
Wouldn't it be simpler to use Autohotkey to detect that case and automatically click the OK button when that happens? I know, the “insane ideas that might work” thread's gotta be around here somewhere…
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I suppose? Unless you can't do UI actions on a COM-automated Excel for some reason...
Still doesn't excuse people putting Office COM automation on servers, though!
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IIUC, Office Automation doesn't require a GUI
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I thought it did because Office had a habit of popping dialogs whenever it tripped on something?
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Hmm… maybe it does; certainly, it will run happily on a non-interactive desktop
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IIUC, Office Automation doesn't require a GUI
By my memory of trying to do things completely without a GUI (not my design) you still get the "pop up a dialog and wait" happening such that you need to completely kill things and restart the services/clients/whatever. Of course unattended screen with a dialog is basically the same thing, so maybe it was that, been years.