The minor rants thread.
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@blakeyrat said in The minor rants thread.:
I don't see anything up anywhere, just a garbled mass of pixels.
Damn hipster resource packs. About halfway up the right-hand side off the moss-covered building is an iron golem. Took me a while to find it, too.
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@accalia did I ever tell you about the time we lost an entire village mysteriously? It was like the Roanoke Colony: we returned from mining and everyone was gone except one crazed survivor hiding in the basement.
Best we can tell, it's because someone build a home under the lake. There was a door there, so when night came, they tried to go inside the door to hide from zombies, and drowned. He removed the door and the next batch of villagers remained alive.
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@Yamikuronue said in The minor rants thread.:
they tried to go inside the door to hide from zombies, and drowned.
Excellent pathfinding!
I wonder if you could make a gauntlet of sorts and have them try surviving laval walls and the like?
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@Yamikuronue said in The minor rants thread.:
the time we lost an entire village
One of the nice things about...I think it's the Witchery mod...is that in big enough villagers, some of them will become guards, and the guards are pretty darn good about attacking hostile mobs, even ones like skeletons that won't go after villagers. You can even turn a villager into a guard by giving them armor.
Of course, they're rather...zealous...so if you accidentally punch a villager while trying to open a door, they'll chase you 'round the Moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames before they give you up! Or they'll go after kobolds even if there's not enough of them to get hostile on the villagers.
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@FrostCat said in The minor rants thread.:
some of them will become guards, and the guards are pretty darn good about attacking hostile mobs
we haven't lost villagers to mobs in a long time. It's trivial to lock them in their homes and baby-proof the village >.>
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@Yamikuronue said in The minor rants thread.:
lock them in their homes
True, but I like to let the little dumbasses walk around.
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@FrostCat We let them out when there's a fence and no more deep pits in the middle of the village :)
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Fair enough. I always have a tough time getting to that part. :)
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Seriously, what in the 7 hells am I doing wrong here with
npm update
? Because the error messages of npm are really NOT helpful.Here's where npm has bit me in the past:
a) Updating packages to a new version where other packages explicitly stated that they still depend on the older version. This leads to fun times (i.e. everything not working).
b) Not updating packages at all. This lead me to create a bug report with the author's answer: "That's been fixed 10 releases ago. What version are you running?" and me realizing that just because I ran npm update 5 minutes ago, this obviously doesn't mean that it really updated anything. And, no, it doesn't tell you that there are new versions available. Had to fix this by editing package.json by hand.
c) Or the part where it does update some packages but not all of the packages. Again, broken site.
d) Or the part where it updates packages but does not pull in new dependencies. Because raisins. Can you say: broken site?Seriously, is it so hard to NOT update packages when you find out about dependency issues? You could simply tell the users, in PLAIN, easy to understand sentences:
New version for ABC is available, the dependencies MNO and XYZ do not have updated versions available yet.
Also, package DCE depends on version x.y.z of ABC
If you want to update anyway, please add the parameter --forceAnd not this console.log diarrhea where you need some kind of CompSci degree to make sense of what depends on whom.
/endrant
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
So, then another guy turned up who looked at all the gas stuff. But he wasn't the guy responsible for certification. Didn't matter because this guy noticed that the main gas valve was becoming uncomfortably hot. Which meant: a) no certification and b) some construction works because they now would have to create an air flow to cool the valve down.Wait, what is causing the valve to become hot? Is this the one behind the lab dishwasher?
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@JBert said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
So, then another guy turned up who looked at all the gas stuff. But he wasn't the guy responsible for certification. Didn't matter because this guy noticed that the main gas valve was becoming uncomfortably hot. Which meant: a) no certification and b) some construction works because they now would have to create an air flow to cool the valve down.Wait, what is causing the valve to become hot? Is this the one behind the lab dishwasher?
No, that's just a special valve for our preparation lab desk. I was talking about the main valve which provides every room with gas.
But now that you're asking: I haven't got the faintest of clues - it's a special valve which can detect pressure fluctuations (and thus gas leaks). But I thought that the actual controlling equipment (and thus the main power consumption) was housed in the box on the wall. And an electronic pressure measuring device should not consume that much power - I mean, I myself have one in my Physics lab and that one is able to live off the power a standard USB connector provides (i.e. 2.5 Watts maximum).
I'll have to check that one out on monday. I guess another is waiting for me.
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Fire drill this morning. Given that it's a nice warm day, that's actually the best thing to happen so far today. I want to go home.
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What I learnt today - No amount of engineering can fix the "I need it by tomorrow morning" problem.
[When your boss is] in front of multi-million contract, [your] resistance is futile.
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"Batteries included" my ass. The Python standard library can't even manipulate HTML files.
There's a library called html.parser but it just parses a string and spits out a stream of "start tag" and "end tag" events. HOW FUCKING USEFUL. It's not like anyone would ever want any kind of "document tree" or anything.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
(short: ω) with the letter "w"
my keyboard doesn't have that first symbol. fuck these greek letters
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
@Rhywden said:
"Which is the relationship between cycle duration and the frequency?"
"It's complicated"
Thanks for reminding me. That was an actual answer.
I hate my life right now.
you shouldn't worry that much. most children have a hard time with physics, and most of them will come out ok. I aced this stuff and I'm just a code-cowboy now.
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@FrostCat what game is that?
edit: nevermind, blakey already said its MS mass of unrecognizable pixels, I assume its minecraft
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@anonymous234
This is not a help section but:
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@fbmac said in The minor rants thread.:
my keyboard doesn't have that first symbol.
You can always just use ω (or Ω, if you hold down shift). Type it in here as a suitable HTML entity and cut-n-paste…
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@dkf w is good enough
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I needed to write a Python script to parse some data. Not a very unusual task, right? But the only computer I have access to right now is one running Xubuntu not commonly used for development, so the first thing I had to do was install a decent IDE with a debugger (call me crazy but I kinda like being able to set breakpoints and see what's going on without having to write a hundred
print
s).So, before jumping to to Eclipse or NetBeans I decided to give a chance to NINJA-IDE, which looked really fancy. I mean, look at all these amazing features, plus it has 4.5 stars on the Ubuntu Software Center which is totally a reliable place to get software reviews from.
And, well, it works great indeed. Except for one minor detail.
IT HAS NO DEBUGGING FEATURES WHATSOEVER
What the fuck is the point of an IDE with no debugger?! Seriously? Isn't it the main feature of an IDE? What is wrong with the bunch of idiots that decided to make their own "IDE" from scratch when there were already 50 of them, end up producing something that''s barely more advanced than gedit, then publish it as if it were the best thing ever? It's like the epitome of open-source retardedness. They wasted their time making a useless program and now they waste everyone else's by getting them to try it.
(there are a few unofficial "debugger" plugins but I don't want to bother trying them. That's not something you leave to a plugin)
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@anonymous234 gdb -tui
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Non-IT rant time!
So, my street is being renovated. New coat of asphalt, some sewer and/or water pipes work apparently, and we're finally getting a sidewalk (yes, you read that last one correctly).
7 months in. 7 months! For a few weeks now I didn't see a thing change. Today, finally, something was done: they decided that the sidewalk, or at least parts of it, will be paved in those concrete cube things. They did two tiny sections and one just about long enough to park a small (European small, not American "7 meters long" small) car. Given the length of the street, it's gonna take them 2 months at this rate. Still no asphalt on the road either, after 7 months.
Fucking hell! I know some things take time but this is damned ridiculous. At this rate I can only hope it might be done before next winter... sigh...
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@anonymous234 Most open source teams don't even know how to use debuggers. They just printf everything.
That's why debugger support is always the last thing added to hipster open source shit like Node.JS or GoLang. (Which I believe still doesn't have a real debugger, just one that requires special compiler hooks to compile-in debugger stuffs in your code.)
NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cro
Bing! That's the exact moment where I stop giving a shit.
Wait, here's the full sentence:
NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE). NINJA-IDE runs on Linux/X11, Mac OS X and Windows desktop operating systems, and allows developers to create applications for several purposes using all the tools and utilities of NINJA-IDE, making the task of writing software easier and more enjoyable.
That's utter gibberish. (Also you can make applications for several purposes. Not all purposes, or any purpose you can imagine, only "several". Here's the list.)
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@Onyx said in The minor rants thread.:
I know some things take time but this is damned ridiculous.
Sounds like somebody was awarded a project that is being paid-by-the-hour. "Let's see how long we can stretch this..."
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@Onyx said in The minor rants thread.:
American "7 meters long" small
Pffft. 7 meters long is mid-size, Euro-dwarf.
Small cars are 6.5 meters.
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@FrostCat said in The minor rants thread.:
Euro-dwarf
Hey, I'll let you know, I'm 1.006124 fathoms tall! It's not that tall, but it's not a dorf size!
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@Onyx said in The minor rants thread.:
Hey, I'll let you know, I'm 1.006124 fathoms tall! It's not that tall, but it's not a dorf size!
[snide comment about non-SI units here]
INB4 someone asks about me using meters--I did it so as not to confuse you.
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@FrostCat said in The minor rants thread.:
I did it so as not to confuse you.
Appreciate. It won't stop the trolling though.
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Rant: My state's tax portal is in the middle of a restructuring project (good! it's got terrible usability). This means I had to reset my password and add recovery questions (good, because it means they're holding us to higher standards now than when I first made my password, but bad, because my old password already fit their requirements, but actually good, because it means they probably can't decode my password to find that out).
BUT. They disabled pasting in some weird way into the password change field. Which means when I fucked up and used the wrong "old password" and had already changed my password in LastPass (happens to me a lot, PEBKAC), it was downright painful to change my password and made me seriously consider shortening my password because I had to type it out.
Not cool, state government. You just make it harder for people without password management to set their passwords to something secure.
The page looked a bit cleaner but still had a terrible workflow. I actually closed the tab as tep too early, because there were 4 "confirm" clicks required (I had thought there'd be 3, but after closing I recalled seeing another button so I re-opened it and, sure enough, it hadn't gone through.)
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@Yamikuronue said in The minor rants thread.:
4 "confirm" clicks
Eh? Did they need your shoe size as well?
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@Yamikuronue said in The minor rants thread.:
Which means when I fucked up and used the wrong "old password" and had already changed my password in LastPass (happens to me a lot, PEBKAC)
I use keepass and I often copy the old password down into the notes until I'm sure it's correctly updated.
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@dkf said in The minor rants thread.:
Did they need your shoe size as well?
It was literally "You owe nothing, this is ready to check out [confirm] -> here is your cart [checkout] -> you owe nothing [confirm] -> this will submit your return [confirm] -> Last chance to submit your entire cart [confirm] -> some bullshit I didn't even read [confirm] -> confirmation screen: your return was submitted!"
@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
I often copy the old password down into the notes
LastPass has a history feature, so I used that to fetch out the old password, but while I could paste that, I had to type the new password twice. And then I realized I'd pasted the wrong old password and had to start over. It was awful.
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@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
I use keepass and I often copy the old password down into the notes until I'm sure it's correctly updated.
They want me to use Keepass at work. I told them I wouldn't until I could set the font size bigger than 4.
"Here's a string of 57 randomly-generated digits. The font is ant-sized. Good fucking luck reading them. No, there isn't a font size setting in Options, why would there be? It's all open source-y! Nobody gives a shit about usability here!"
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@blakeyrat I dunno...the font sizes all seem reasonable on my machine so I've never felt the urge to change them.
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@boomzilla It probably was reasonable when 15" monitors were set to 800x600. It's not today.
Not having a setting to change the font size, though, has NEVER been reasonable. Ever.
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@blakeyrat Yep. Most of my applications use system settings for stuff. Things like text editors have their own controls for the editor portion (and browsers are in a world of their own). I'd expect something like keepass to respect system settings. I don't know how easy that is to make work when you're dealing with an application in mono that's using GTK (I think?) on a system running KDE, but they don't appear to be doing it.
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@Yamikuronue said in The minor rants thread.:
They disabled pasting in some weird way into the password change field
Someone suggested a while back that sometimes drag and drop still works.
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@blakeyrat said in The minor rants thread.:
They want me to use Keepass at work. I told them I wouldn't until I could set the font size bigger than 4.
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@blakeyrat said in The minor rants thread.:
Not having a setting to change the font size, though, has NEVER been reasonable.
Good thing KeePass has such a setting, right?
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@FrostCat The version work puts on our computer doesn't. I'm sorry I lacked the telepathic powers to magically know there is some other version out there that does.
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@FrostCat Ah, mine's (v2.25) laid out a bit differently and those buttons got lost when I looked at the dialog. They look like they belong to the controls to their left. But then I also see this, so maybe it's actually using some of my font settings:
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@blakeyrat said in The minor rants thread.:
The version work puts on our computer doesn't.
What version? I checked--my screenshot is from 1.29.
@blakeyrat said in The minor rants thread.:
I'm sorry I lacked the telepathic powers to magically know there is some other version out there that does.
You should be!
More seriously, call corporate IT and tell them you need a different version because the font's too small. If they're not assholes they might very well switch versions company-wide. Not everyone's 23. Even if they don't, they might give you permission to change versions, especially if you show them the screenshot and say "see, this other version already had what I need".
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@FrostCat said in The minor rants thread.:
More seriously, call corporate IT and tell them you need a different version because the font's too small.
I ALREADY TOLD THEM THAT, ME SAYING SO IS WHAT STARTED THIS LITTLE CONVERSATION.
Goddamned man. I might lack telepathy, but at least my memory's better than a goldfish's.
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@blakeyrat said in The minor rants thread.:
at least my memory's better than a goldfish's.
Yeah, but I have a version of KeePass where I can make the fonts bigger.
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@blakeyrat Do you wear glasses? Start talking about "reasonable accommodations" with a meaningful look, maybe they'll cave rather than risk ADA issues ;)
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@Yamikuronue Nope. But given how many shitty open source developers love unreadably tiny fonts, I'm sure I will sooner or later.
I actually found how to change the font size. It turns out the "Change Font" button actually allows you to select a SIZE as well. (Quick: tell me I'm an idiot for not intuitively knowing that!)
However, it seems to have that hilarious bug where font size 14 isn't size 14, but actually closer to 16.5. (It's correct in the preview in the font dialog; it's incorrect in the actual application.) How the fuck, open source developers, do you keep fucking up "draw 14 point font"?
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@blakeyrat said in The minor rants thread.:
It turns out the "Change Font" button actually allows you to select a SIZE as well. (Quick: tell me I'm an idiot for not intuitively knowing that!)
The standard font dialogs have more or less always supported that, and AFAICT that's what KeePass uses. I guess it's possible someone could use Windows for 20 years or whatever and not know that. I don't know that that'd make them an idiot. Unobservant, you could make a better case for.