WTF Bites
-
Instead he chose to point his junk directly at the only alley around.
"you're holding it wrong!"
Somehow these two posts work very well together...
-
I still find it fun that the Outlook safelinks feature triggers the Thunderbird phising filter, as it replaces the pasted links with their own redirection URL in the message. So getting sent a mail with a link to example.com/work-resource where Outlook has made it safe by replacing the href I get all the red flags, as well as this popup trying to click the link:
"Thunderbird suspects the message is a fraud. The links in the message may be an attempt to look like the site you want to visit. Are you sure you want to visit?"
Using the same strategy to protect people as the one fraudsters use to deceit people aint the smartest, Microsoft!
-
as it replaces the pasted links with their own redirection URL in the message
Which also means that those links won't work a year from now, because we all know how diligent Microsoft is about keeping their services up.
-
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
I have acquired a new hamster wheel for my office...
It's been going since Friday afternoon sometime. I'm not using the laptop, so I'm just going to let it go and see how long it takes.
(TRWTF is Windows Update.)
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Huh. Okay, so now, in addition to that hamster wheel (still going!) there's a Windows Update icon in the system tray that says "Downloading updates: 0%".
WTF update:
Hamster wheel is still going
Windows Update icon is still there
Downloading status is still 0%...this isn't much of an update. The only thing that's changed is the date...
-
-
Does it persist through a reload? If so, buy as many as possible (assuming the $0.00 stays).
-
@pie_flavor After all, getting Nan for free is good. Although, there isn't supposed to be such a thing as a free lunch, so it must be a trick.
-
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Does it persist through a reload? If so, buy as many as possible (assuming the $0.00 stays).
It appears intermittently, but clicking on it doesn't do anything useful; the Buy Now link points to
https://.../
. So no free grandmas, unfortunately.
-
@Benjamin-Hall Naan is good. An Indian family in our church has had us over for dinner, including some homemade naan, which was amazing.
-
@benjamin-hall said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor After all, getting Nan for free is good. Although, there isn't supposed to be such a thing as a free lunch, so it must be a trick.
Shipping and handling extra!
-
In the same class:
anOption ^= true; // NB: a boolean anotherOption ^= 1; // NB: an int yetAnotherOption = (yetAnotherOption + 1 ) % 2; // NB: also an int
None of these are per se, but the inconsistency is making me cringe.
-
Help! We filtered <a list> the way you told us to, and we told the system to distribute 10,000 items among 10 users, but every user only got 96 items each!
Ok, how many results did you get after filtering?
960
...
You there?
How did you expect the system get 10,000 items to distribute out of 960 results?
Oh, I thought it's just going to figure out what I want!Is it Monday again?
-
-
Status: Okay, fixed the judder issue with my 3D printer's y-axis - I suspected that the belt connecting the sled with the stepper was a bit loose. Was indeed the case and circles are now proper circles and not ovally-shaped somethings.
There's still an issue with the z-axis distance between extruder and hotplate. It's probably due to the metal hotplate not being a perfect plane, instead having a slight curvature downwards towards the middle (seems to be on the order of 0.1 to 0.2 mm difference to the outer edges). Will have a look at two options:
- Calibrate according to the center of the plate (but taking care that the extruder won't scrape along the plate itself when moving towards the edges) or
- Putting a glass plate (which is hopefully more planar) on top of the plate. Will have to experiment then which temperature to use and whether I need an additional adhesive.
-
@rhywden Wrong thread.
-
NodeBB annoyance of the day.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8GtdRijewFzS1c3OTFWaHVlaTQ/view?usp=drivesdk
I've gotten used to the stupid notification bar. But TWO? Really? 35 notifications, and TWO visible?
Discourse doesn't even pull the 'regular NodeBB shit' with me. I see every notification I have, right from the menu. Add that to the list of reasons Discourse is pretty good software.
-
@pie_flavor that bug has been mildly annoying me for months. I just put up with it as it randomizes which notifications are visible and invisible each time I click on one.
-
I really wish it would retrieve more than just 20 or whatever it does. If it's not going to show me ten unread and ten read in the dropdown, what's the point?
-
@Benjamin-Hall Naan is good. An Indian family in our church has had us over for dinner, including some homemade naan, which was amazing.
That's the stuff Jesus created while trying to divide the bread when there was nobody there, right?
-
@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I really wish it would retrieve more than just 20 or whatever it does. If it's not going to show me ten unread and ten read in the dropdown, what's the point?
Pull requests to this line of code encouraged: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/ce3e1f31ab95580ad1557f356d7013052ea0163a/src/user/notifications.js#L21
-
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I really wish it would retrieve more than just 20 or whatever it does. If it's not going to show me ten unread and ten read in the dropdown, what's the point?
Pull requests to this line of code encouraged: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/ce3e1f31ab95580ad1557f356d7013052ea0163a/src/user/notifications.js#L21
Ew, JS. Isn't there some forum software implemented in a sane language, like, I dunno, Ruby or something?
-
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Add that to the list of reasons Discourse is pretty good software.
For some definitions of "pretty good". Hellstew of developer community and Rube Goldberg machine of a back-end notwithstanding.
-
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I really wish it would retrieve more than just 20 or whatever it does. If it's not going to show me ten unread and ten read in the dropdown, what's the point?
Pull requests to this line of code encouraged: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/ce3e1f31ab95580ad1557f356d7013052ea0163a/src/user/notifications.js#L21
Ew, JS. Isn't there some forum software implemented in a sane language, like, I dunno, Ruby or something?
How about one written in .NET? I hear it doesn't support some lesser-used browsers like Chrome, though.
-
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I really wish it would retrieve more than just 20 or whatever it does. If it's not going to show me ten unread and ten read in the dropdown, what's the point?
Pull requests to this line of code encouraged: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/ce3e1f31ab95580ad1557f356d7013052ea0163a/src/user/notifications.js#L21
Ew, JS. Isn't there some forum software implemented in a sane language, like, I dunno, Ruby or something?
How about one written in .NET? I hear it doesn't support some lesser-used browsers like Chrome, though.
Filed Under: We need a new tag cloud to attack?
-
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I really wish it would retrieve more than just 20 or whatever it does. If it's not going to show me ten unread and ten read in the dropdown, what's the point?
Pull requests to this line of code encouraged: https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/ce3e1f31ab95580ad1557f356d7013052ea0163a/src/user/notifications.js#L21
I'm not sure if I'll be able to promise all that well on mobile...
-
Looking up some game development resources and tools.
I can't tell if the funding for this one is going very well or very bad...
-
I gotta go fire up my old Pentium 1 computer with Windows 98 so I can develop apps for Android, iOS and Windows 10!
-
@atazhaia Supposedly they're working on a from-scratch rewrite for version 3 of the software, which probably won't support such old systems. But yes, I have worked with the API for that software and it is definitely straight outta the nineties.
-
@lb_ A friend got The Games Factory back in the day, giving me my first introduction into game development. Never managed to produce anything useful from it, but it was easy and fun to play around with. I also used Fusion 2 to throw together quick mockups during my brief stint as a game developer, as it was a pretty good tool for that. And I'm even doing some game development-related things in my current job, so I'm back to working with it, surprisingly.
-
My favorite things: Steam errors. The first page (note the 2 of 15 at the top) works, the rest don't.
Edit: actually, a few of the later ones do as well. Seemingly at random.
-
@benjamin-hall oh, I get those all the time. It's just loading; it appears if you give it long enough.
-
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Ew, JS. Isn't there some forum software implemented in a sane language, like, I dunno, Ruby or something?
I take it you missed this.
@bb36e said in FastCGI forum software written in x86 assembly:
Of note: the test thread with 15,000 posts in it. Pages load instantly, and the platform appears to track how many times each post has been viewed (refresh the page and it'll increase the view count for posts).
You can view the script run time at the bottom of the page. It appears to be 5-30ms at most.
Linux only. Should we migrate?
-
the test thread with 15,000 posts in it. Pages load instantly,
It does!
-
Decompiled code is weird
try { foreach (XmlNode xmlNode in XmlSource.SelectNodes(".//Actions/Action")) { //do some stuff } } finally { IEnumerator enumerator = null; if (enumerator is IDisposable) (enumerator as IDisposable).Dispose(); }
-
the test thread with 15,000 posts in it. Pages load instantly,
It does!
Apparently the link to the test thread should now be
-
I wanted to test search so I clicked the red magnifying glass.
I hadn't realized the whole grey rectangle is a text input.
I'm not sure how I feel about paging starting at zero.
-
What... what? Postal mail?! Of all the communication methods, why did they choose this one to select by default???
Never mind the small detail that I haven't given them my physical address or phone number.
-
@jaloopa That really makes me wonder what the original looked like. High likelihood of front-page material?
-
I'm not sure how I feel about paging starting at zero.
Depends on who the forum is targetted at!
-
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Postal mail?! Of all the communication methods, why did they choose this one to select by default???
Never mind the small detail that I haven't given them my physical address or phone number.Opt into their marketing BS, but in a way they can't actually deliver it. Sounds like a good default to me.
-
My WTF of the day: So, there's this repository of open source 3D files for printing (Thingiverse).
And there's an astounding amount of people who claim they have actually printed the models they uploaded there. Only problem: When I download their files the slicer quite often claims that the model is not manifold (i.e. missing surfaces - in the real world such an object would not be "watertight" or superfluous surfaces inside the object)
So I'm currently asking myself: If those guys claim that they printed their non-manifold objects by which magic did they do so? After all, that kind of error doesn't fix itself on its own.
-
the model is not manifold
So... like a cup?
Perhaps the prints are meant to be done on something that's not a single solid string?
-
@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
the model is not manifold
So... like a cup?
Perhaps the prints are meant to be done on something that's not a single solid string?
Yes, if the walls of the cup were strictly two-dimensional.
-
@tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
the model is not manifold
So... like a cup?
Perhaps the prints are meant to be done on something that's not a single solid string?
Yes, if the walls of the cup were strictly two-dimensional.
I don't see any problem with this.
-
-
-
-
-
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@hardwaregeek I'm assuming
But that required going to the Wikipedia disambiguation page to find instead of just grabbing the first Google result. And it's not as funny.
-
This isn't really a good place for this but I don't know where else to put this. It looks like someone in central Europe really pissed off God. I took a few pics of things I ran saw today when I wasn't busy driving. (Click through to imgur; I guess it wasn't done processing the photos when I embedded it, so the onebox seems to only display 2 out of 5 images... sigh.)
I also found this - insulation torn off an apartment building. "Shouldn't we anchor this better, boss?" "What, you think it's gonna get blown away?"
Also, earlier today I was driving down a highway and I saw a gust of wind tip someone's trailer over at about 90 kph. I was far enough to have plenty of time to react but those right behind the unlucky bastard are probably still cleaning their pants. The trailer got torn off the hitch, crossed two lanes and ended up in the divider, luckily it didn't hit anyone else on the way -
everyone stomped on the brakes the moment it started tipping over.I also saw a completely obliterated wooden stall in front of a mall a bit later, but a bunch of people were busy trying to dismantle the wreckage and clean up, and I didn't want to piss them off, so I didn't take a picture of that. The poor thing looked like a giant tried to punt it all the way to Austria.
I hear (parts of) Poland and Germany have been having the same problems.