Fuck you, Wikipedia
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@loopback0 said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
the iOS ringtone
What's a ringtone, and why do people still use it?
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@topspin said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@loopback0 said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
the iOS ringtone
What's a ringtone, and why do people still use it?
Alarm clock, mostly.
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@levicki said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
For example, banks here take as much as a 5% cut from each transaction merchant processes through a PoS terminal using customer's credit/debit card.
It also depends on the card. Cards in the Mastercard and Visa universes charge less than, say, American Express, which is why there are lots of merchants that accept Mastercard and Visa but not Amex.(1)
(1) Like the one I went in many moons ago when I had just received my first Amex card. I hadn't thought of this aspect of things, and pulled it out. The guy behind the counter looked at me like I was offering him a week-dead fish.
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@Steve_The_Cynic Does Amex even still exist? I haven't seen ads for them, or stickers on business windows or the sides of registers or whatever, for a loooooong time. Like... maybe since the 90s? Maybe a bit later than that but it's been quite a while!
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@Mason_Wheeler Their website makes it seem like they still exist, although the last time I used one was a corporate card in 2006.
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@Mason_Wheeler I saw a commercial for them in the last few weeks. I was fairly surprised to find out they still exist.
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@coderpatsy huh. TIL.
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I have an Amex corporate card. It's more accepted now than it used to be here in the UK.
Oddly there are places here which accept Discover and JCB, both of which are basically non-existent here, but not Amex.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@Mason_Wheeler Their website makes it seem like they still exist, although the last time I used one was a corporate card in 2006.
I recently got rid of my card. Because Costco changed from AmEx to Visa for the membership card.
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@levicki said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
On the scale of totally useless to extremely useful it is somewhere near the "concrete shoes".
Nowadays we have malfunctioning cameras and prison bed sheets
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@levicki said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
On the scale of totally useless to extremely useful it is somewhere near the "concrete shoes".
Concrete shoes are useful if you're a movie gangster and want to kill someone.
EDIT: there are better ways to kill people, like Mr Nine Millimetre, but they can be used, and have a sort of symbolic purpose. END-EDIT.
A blast-furnace made of chocolate is more what you're thinking.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
Mr Nine Millimetre
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@levicki said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
they are very harmful if worn while thrown into a body of water
That's what makes them useful.
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@Mason_Wheeler said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
Wouldn't that require attaching helium (or hydrogen) balloons to his feat?
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@PleegWat said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
Wouldn't that require attaching helium (or hydrogen) balloons to his feat?
Stop trying to ruin the joke!
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@loopback0 would be more effective if rendering each bubble also killed a small animal, somewhere around hamster class.
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@loopback0 are they pretending to be text messages or what?
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@Gąska said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@loopback0 are they pretending to be text messages or what?
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IDGI
╰ ╯╭ ╮
wdyt
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@Gąska said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@loopback0 are they pretending to be text messages or what?
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@hungrier Wait, your phone is still working at 3%?!?!?
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@dcon it's a very old screenshot.
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@Gąska said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@dcon it's a very old screenshot.
Only 20 minutes, look at the timestamp.
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@dcon said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@hungrier Wait, your phone is still working at 3%?!?!?
I made sure to set the battery low.
Micro-wtf: None of the fake text message generators I was able to find handle long messages in any realistic way. They've all got shitloads of options like setting the battery, time, date, network, blue or green bubbles, the placeholder text in the textbox, etc. But none of them will let you have a message go off the top like you'd see if you were looking at the most recent messages in text conversation. I had to edit the thing in Paint
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@hungrier Did I just hear an @error_bot feature request?
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@error I can only imagine what the syntax is going to be like
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@hungrier I figure I'll keep it simple.
!sms --letter1=H --letter2=e --letter3=l --letter4=l -letter5=o --line2 --letter1=w --letter2=o --letter3=r --letter4=l --letter5=d
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@error said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@hungrier I figure I'll keep it simple.
!sms --letter1=H --letter2=e --letter3=l --letter4=l -letter5=o --line2 --letter1=w --letter2=o --letter3=r --letter4=l --letter5=d
Enhancement request, specify all indices of a letter at once
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@error said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@hungrier I figure I'll keep it simple.
!sms --letter1=H --letter2=e --letter3=l --letter4=l -letter5=o --line2 --letter1=w --letter2=o --letter3=r --letter4=l --letter5=d
Hooray for the simplicator’s gloves!
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@error said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@hungrier Did I just hear an @error_bot feature request?
Have you ever?
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@error said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@hungrier I figure I'll keep it simple.
!sms --letter1=H --letter2=e --letter3=l --letter4=l -letter5=o --line2 --letter1=w --letter2=o --letter3=r --letter4=l --letter5=d
And sorting the arguments should result in:
--letter1=... --letter10=... --letter11=.. --letter2=...
TODO: come up with a list of words that make sense that are completely wrong when the letters are rearranged.
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@error said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@hungrier I figure I'll keep it simple.
!sms --letter1=H --letter2=e --letter3=l --letter4=l -letter5=o --line2 --letter1=w --letter2=o --letter3=r --letter4=l --letter5=d
I'd like to be able to specify letters using Unicode codepoints so I'm not restricted to just the ones I can type easily. For support.
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@dkf said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@error said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@hungrier I figure I'll keep it simple.
!sms --letter1=H --letter2=e --letter3=l --letter4=l -letter5=o --line2 --letter1=w --letter2=o --letter3=r --letter4=l --letter5=d
I'd like to be able to specify letters using Unicode codepoints so I'm not restricted to just the ones I can type easily. For support.
And it has to work from a Windows
cmd
prompt.
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@error said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@hungrier I figure I'll keep it simple.
!sms --letter1=H --letter2=e --letter3=l --letter4=l -letter5=o --line2 --letter1=w --letter2=o --letter3=r --letter4=l --letter5=d
Don't forget to pre-render your letters and put them on a CDN:
@boomzilla said in discobot feature requests and ideas:
Filed Under: Don't ask how long it took to find an example of this
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@boomzilla said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
Don't forget to pre-render your letters and put them on a CDN:
Filed Under: Don't ask how long it took to find an example of this
Goddamnit, I just had to make my own Levicki letter because I couldn't find the CDN.
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@boomzilla said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@error said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@hungrier I figure I'll keep it simple.
!sms --letter1=H --letter2=e --letter3=l --letter4=l -letter5=o --line2 --letter1=w --letter2=o --letter3=r --letter4=l --letter5=d
Don't forget to pre-render your letters and put them on a CDN:
@boomzilla said in discobot feature requests and ideas:
Filed Under: Don't ask how long it took to find an example of this
Well it's worth it, that was a very smoothly rendered post.
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@topspin said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@boomzilla said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
Don't forget to pre-render your letters and put them on a CDN:
Filed Under: Don't ask how long it took to find an example of this
Goddamnit, I just had to make my own Levicki letter because I couldn't find the CDN.
Looking at the url, I'm now wondering if they ever got past v2.
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@boomzilla said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@topspin said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@boomzilla said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
Don't forget to pre-render your letters and put them on a CDN:
Filed Under: Don't ask how long it took to find an example of this
Goddamnit, I just had to make my own Levicki letter because I couldn't find the CDN.
Looking at the url, I'm now wondering if they ever got past v2.
v4
apparently:<img alt="" width="45" height="45" src="https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c57346/45.png" class="avatar">
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@boomzilla said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
Looking at the url, I'm now wondering if they ever got past v2.
edit:
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@boomzilla said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
v4
apparently:[…]
:but_why:
How the fuck do you manage to need four API versions of something that you can code correctly in an afternoon, and which probably shouldn't have ever been a thing in the first place? It's a matryoshka doll of .
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@dkf because
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@dkf said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@boomzilla said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
v4
apparently:[…]
:but_why:
How the fuck do you manage to need four API versions of something that you can code correctly in an afternoon, and which probably shouldn't have ever been a thing in the first place? It's a matryoshka doll of .
They changed fonts?
- v1:
- v2:
- v3:
- v4:
Looks like v1 v2 was a legit change. v4 is definitely different. Not sure what v3 was about.
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@dkf said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@boomzilla said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
v4
apparently:[…]
:but_why:
How the fuck do you manage to need four API versions of something that you can code correctly in an afternoon
An afternoon? I can do it in one line.
Heck, I don’t even need to do it myself:@dkf said: > shouldn't have ever been a thing in the first place
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@topspin I can't even remember what problem the DiscoDevs thought they were solving.
The topic about it on their forum no longer exists, natch.
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@error said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@hungrier I figure I'll keep it simple.
!sms --letter1=H --letter2=e --letter3=l --letter4=l -letter5=o --line2 --letter1=w --letter2=o --letter3=r --letter4=l --letter5=d
Worst interface ever.
Should start with --letter0=H.
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@cvi said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@error said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@hungrier I figure I'll keep it simple.
!sms --letter1=H --letter2=e --letter3=l --letter4=l -letter5=o --line2 --letter1=w --letter2=o --letter3=r --letter4=l --letter5=d
Worst interface ever.
Should start with --letter0=H.
And it should have a
--letter00=
too.
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@loopback0 said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@topspin I can't even remember what problem the DiscoDevs thought they were solving.
The topic about it on their forum no longer exists, natch.I remember saying that just throwing a letter up and centering it with CSS didn't always look quite right, so they had to do something custom to make everything perfect.
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@dcon said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
And it should have a --letter00= too.
On the other hand, --letter09 should be an error, because it's trying to interpret the digits as an octal number.
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@dcon said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@cvi said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@error said in Fuck you, Wikipedia:
@hungrier I figure I'll keep it simple.
!sms --letter1=H --letter2=e --letter3=l --letter4=l -letter5=o --line2 --letter1=w --letter2=o --letter3=r --letter4=l --letter5=d
Worst interface ever.
Should start with --letter0=H.
And it should have a
--letter00=
too.Something to denote a probability other than 1, of just one letter per position, is sorely lacking. For instance, frequently misspelled words.