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@coderpatsy said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
It can always be worse. For example, they could get Oracle involved.
Or Lotus Notes.
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@coderpatsy said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
It can always be worse. For example, they could get Oracle involved.
Or Lotus Notes.
Lotus Notes: PHP Edition, powered by Oracle and Wordpress.
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@e4tmyl33t said in WTF Bites:
@coderpatsy said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
It can always be worse. For example, they could get Oracle involved.
Or Lotus Notes.
Lotus Notes: PHP Edition, powered by Oracle and Wordpress.
I almost vomited through my nostrils.
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@mott555 okay. well, kickstarter time. someone out there wants this.
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@e4tmyl33t speaking of Oracle, I talked to a friend yesterday who works for <famous media company> in their finance/hotel side. They're doing a big new project using the Oracle database. His comment (starting from unrelated matters): everything bad you've heard about Oracle is true.
Including "weekly" reports (the built in ones) that cover Tuesday through Monday, with no obvious configuration option to change it. Even if you tell it the right week number (using the ISO standard), it gives screwy dates. Support says "that's intended behavior. Deal with it."
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@Benjamin-Hall Thanks for getting that confirmation that Oracle sucks. Everybody in the software industry was wondering.
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@Gribnit this was entirely unprompted. I asked how his week was and he said that comment.
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@Benjamin-Hall Okay.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
this was entirely unprompted.
Oooh! You should plant a bug, what other corporate secrets will he leak?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@Gribnit this was entirely unprompted. I asked how his week was and he said that comment.
I don't see how that's unrelated. Unless you expected him to talk about the weather? ;)
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
Including "weekly" reports (the built in ones) that cover Tuesday through Monday, with no obvious configuration option to change it. Even if you tell it the right week number (using the ISO standard), it gives screwy dates. Support says "that's intended behavior. Deal with it."
Wait, how is that a database bug? Unless it's a database self-diagnostics report of course.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
I asked how his week was and he said
that commentTuesday to Monday, apparently.FTFY
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@PleegWat the ISO standard for week numbers is that they start on Monday, with the first week being the week in which the first Thursday of the year is. This... Isn't that. It starts weeks on Tuesday (this year, if you change the year it changes the reporting period start day) and starts on the wrong week. So you give it week 2 and you get something totally unexpected. This is not just the database, but a whole Oracle product, including these reports.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
This is not just the database, but a whole Oracle product, including these reports.
Oracle E-Business, presumably.
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@loopback0 Likely. I didn't inquire.
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I remember the days when YouTube played ads between videos, instead of interrupting a song literally 10 seconds in. If you hate the ad-supported free users so much, why do you even offer that service?
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@Benjamin-Hall Ah. Wouldn't know if the database does that right or it's the application. And I've got the week off so I'm not currently in a position to check if the database gets that one right - I know we calculate our own day ranges for weekly reporting.
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@topspin: probably to entice people to subscribe to YouTube Red.
Except that instead, people install adblockers. Which remove ads not just on YouTube, but also everywhere else. Which is even worse for Google, whose income comes mainly from selling advertising on third-party sites.
As the old saying goes: don't bite the hand that feeds you.
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@Zerosquare speak for yourself, I don't block ads that follow acceptable ads guidelines
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I don't either.
We just have different criteria for "acceptable ads guidelines"
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@Zerosquare Sorry, should have capitalized. Acceptable Ads guidelines.
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@Benjamin-Hall Ah. Wouldn't know if the database does that right or it's the application. And I've got the week off so I'm not currently in a position to check if the database gets that one right - I know we calculate our own day ranges for weekly reporting.
Just checked my database; looks like default maintenance windows on 12c are 2200-0200 on weekdays and 0600-0200 on weekends. So it's probably a different product.
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Dear co-worker:
Don't join to an SCD if you're going to restrict your query to the current record. Just join to the underlying table instead.
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@pie_flavor : I know, but capitalization is a to jokes.
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@blakeyrat said in When being configurable is more important than being useful:
Explain this whole post to me then.
This is a lunix-y open source developer getting pissed-off at a distro for shipping a version of his product (which, BTW, is one of the only reliable ways to get screenlocking in that disaster known as X11 and therefore is critical to security) that's years and years out-of-date, resulting in his receiving constant bug reports for bugs he fixed years ago.
Because of this, some time ago he programmed in a "time bomb" where if you were running a version that was ages out-of-date, it'll pop up a little warning dialog so at least users were aware of this.
The Debian people/idiots (whose crack security code reviewers, BTW, completely missed that dialog in their no-doubt thorough quality assurance process), instead of actually respecting the author's wishes and removing the screensaver from their distro, instead just commented-out the warning. Because apparently they were garbage people.
Good grief. Cross-posting where it can be seen by more eyes, as it deserves.
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@Zecc The only WTF here is JWZ ranting.
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@Bulb My opinion is that JWZ has every right to rant.
Not saying JWZ is completely devoid of fault either. For one thing this is an extremely unprofessional way of addressing a user that was otherwise mostly polite (word "obnoxious" in their post notwithstanding):
In the time it took me to read your whine, you could have upgraded your incredibly-out-of-date computer and saved us all the grief.
However, as a user I find these warnings rude and obnoxious, and I wish my computer not to be obnoxious to me.
I find your request to be obnoxious and I wish to not have read it, but sadly we don't always get what we want.
May I ask that further replies that would derail this thread be put in a new free thread?
I would do that myself but I currently have no inspiration for thread titles.
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https://i.imgur.com/Tz49iz8.png
This happened when I launched Realm Royale. At any other time, wallpaper32.exe chugs along just fine giving me my lovely animated Arstotzka flag.
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@ben_lubar Wallpaper Engine. The flag is billowing.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar Wallpaper Engine. The flag is billowing.
Why does it need to be rendered in real time?
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@ben_lubar Because that's how Wallpaper Engine works.
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It took nearly ten seconds to "hang up". Holy fuck!
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
It took nearly ten seconds to "hang up". Holy fuck!
Why does hanging up need to be a modal action? Why can't the call UI go away while it hangs up?
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@Tsaukpaetra
Well, no wonder. Looks like you're at 20,000 ft and climbing. How much higher up do you want it to hang?
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@PleegWat the ISO standard for week numbers is that they start on Monday, with the first week being the week in which the first Thursday of the year is. This... Isn't that. It starts weeks on Tuesday (this year, if you change the year it changes the reporting period start day) and starts on the wrong week. So you give it week 2 and you get something totally unexpected. This is not just the database, but a whole Oracle product, including these reports.
SELECT to_char(to_date('31-dec-17'), 'IW') FROM DUAL; SELECT to_char(to_date('1-jan-18'), 'IW') FROM DUAL;
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52 01
Must be some Oracle application because the DB itself seems to be correct.
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@Zecc The only WTF here is JWZ ranting.
Not true. The time bomb is pretty y.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra
Well, no wonder. Looks like you're at 20,000 ft and climbing. How much higher up do you want it to hang?Great comeback!
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Windows displaying the connection status of my workplace VPN. Because connecting just once is not enough.
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https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/19454/nodebb-updates/281
There are 3 replies to that post. But it's the last post. And if you expand it, there's several dozen responses. Responses 4+ are from 2 years ago. Scrolling down them, um... I'm suddenly at post 16 with a blank browser.
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https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/19454/nodebb-updates/281
There are 3 replies to that post. But it's the last post. And if you expand it, there's several dozen responses. Responses 4+ are from 2 years ago. Scrolling down them, um... I'm suddenly at post 16 with a blank browser.Congratulations on being user number eight billion to discover this.
Congratulations on it still not being fixed.
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@ben_lubar May it have something to do with Jeffing?
Filed under: I am having stupid questions, don't I?
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@ben_lubar May it have something to do with Jeffing?
Filed under: I am having stupid questions, don't I?
We've been over this. It's to do with the last post having replies. Be that from jeffing, or from the popcorn button.
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@DCoder don't you want to connect through the connection to nest connections for extra privacy? Double-encrypted data is more secure!
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@DCoder don't you want to connect through the connection to nest connections for extra privacy? Double-encrypted data is more secure!
Just be careful not to connect back to yourself and cross the streams. It will create a feedback loop that will destroy the universe as someone knows it!
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@Tsaukpaetra Never cross the streams.