WTF Bites
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Then again, people buy bottled water all over this country as well.
It is said once a young entrepreneur proposed selling water in bottles. The potential investors called him naive, and so the brand Evian—naive spelled in reverse---was born.
Of course reality is a to good pun: it is actually called that because it is mineral water from Évian-les-Bains, a spa town on the south shore of Geneva lake. But it might still be funny.
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Of course reality is a to good pun: it is actually called that because it is mineral water from Évian-les-Bains, a spa town on the south shore of Geneva lake. But it might still be funny.
Characters that can't be written on regular keyboards are always funny
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Of course reality is a to good pun: it is actually called that because it is mineral water from Évian-les-Bains, a spa town on the south shore of Geneva lake. But it might still be funny.
Characters that can't be written on regular keyboards are always funny
Doesn't surprise me in the least that this is what passes for fun in Poland.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
I can't get Windows 10 to set the local time from the network at all.
I cleared the CMOS so now my time is 6 hours off. I go to time settings and "set time automatically" is enabled. The time zone is correct. I've had the system running for hours now. I disable it and re-enable it and it shows a throbber for like 5 minutes and nothing happens.
Win10 never picks up the correct time on its own, at least not for me. I always have to disable the auto-settings and fix the date and timezone myself.
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@Rhywden we also make fun of Germans for their lack of sense of humor.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
I can't get Windows 10 to set the local time from the network at all.
I cleared the CMOS so now my time is 6 hours off. I go to time settings and "set time automatically" is enabled. The time zone is correct. I've had the system running for hours now. I disable it and re-enable it and it shows a throbber for like 5 minutes and nothing happens.
We have machines that ocasionaly just refuse, what nearly always works is
w32tm /config /update /manualpeerlist:<your_timeserver_ip> w32tm /resync /rediscover
Then you should be able to see it swinging back into sync from:
w32tm /stripchart /computer:<your_timeserver_ip>
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How hard is it for a system to integrate/report to itself? Amazon keeps showing a jump in sales rank for my ebook this month if I look at the line graph. But nowhere else does it show that I've actually had any sales this month.
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The command — ".byte 0x0f, 0x3f" in Linux
I don't think that's quite a Linux command...
The good news is that, as far as Domas knows, this backdoor exists only on VIA C3 Nehemiah chips
Ah, so there's like 15 of those processors in circulation tops.
The bad news is that it's entirely possible that such hidden backdoors exist on many other chipsets.
Of course there are, but Intel and AMD's backdoors are hopefully better designed than just 2 random bytes.
I mean at least make it a bit longer so it's harder to find.
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How hard is it for a system to integrate/report to itself?
Extremely. If I know anything about enterprise software, it's at least two dozen systems each with its highly specialized database circulating your data around.
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Not sure I get the WTF. It's about dating. Swiping is a reference to Tinder.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
I can't get Windows 10 to set the local time from the network at all.
I cleared the CMOS so now my time is 6 hours off. I go to time settings and "set time automatically" is enabled. The time zone is correct. I've had the system running for hours now. I disable it and re-enable it and it shows a throbber for like 5 minutes and nothing happens.
Win10 never picks up the correct time on its own, at least not for me. I always have to disable the auto-settings and fix the date and timezone myself.
IME, the time has to be close to correct in order to adjust automatically. If it's too far off — I don't know how far — it won't pick up the correct time. (This applies to pre-10; I don't think I've ever had a Win10 computer that far off.) However, it sounds to me like @anonymous234's problem is more likely not being able to connect to the NTP server.
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@Rhywden we also make fun of Germans for their lack of sense of humor.
Do you also make fun of the sun being bright and the night being unusually dark? I mean, making fun of Germans for having no humor is like using a shotgun to hit the broad side of the barn.
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@Rhywden we also make fun of Germans for their lack of sense of humor.
Do you also make fun of the sun being bright and the night being unusually dark?
I don't have to; you provide enough entertainment on your own.
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@Rhywden we also make fun of Germans for their lack of sense of humor.
Do you also make fun of the sun being bright and the night being unusually dark?
I don't have to; you provide enough entertainment on your own.
I see, your special characters are not that funny after all! They're just special.
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@Rhywden just like you.
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@Rhywden we also make fun of Germans for their lack of sense of humor.
Do you also make fun of the sun being bright and the night being unusually dark? I mean, making fun of Germans for having no humor is like using a shotgun to hit the broad side of the barn.
And still MISSING THE SHOT!!!
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@Tsaukpaetra Now, that is funny
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Not sure I get the WTF. It's about dating. Swiping is a reference to Tinder.
The WTF is "these millenials".
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meh, if people want to pay
exorbitantlyfor frozen water, why not ?Do people not have freezers where they can make their own? (Given the size of those packs, they're hardly 'big enough for a party-size')
The only time I've known people to deliberately buy ice cubes is when the local pub sent someone because their ice machine had broken down.
I buy them when I want to use them to fill an ice chest. Usually either for drinks for a party or picnic or camping, etc. I don't have enough room in my freezer for 10 - 40 pounds of ice and also for the price of a few bucks.
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Do you also make fun of the sun being bright and the night being unusually dark?
I thought they just took advantage of that for their space program and flashlights.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
for the price of a few bucks.
Ah, so you don't get the artisnal cubes, carved by local children, in China, rolled in sea salt,...
OK, I haven't had cheap wine for a few months, and even I can recognise the effect this 2nd bottle is having.. :/
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Ah, so you don't get the artisnal cubes, carved by local children, in China, rolled in sea salt,...
I do not. I once got a lecture from my nephew about the virtues of artisanal ice, though.
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@Rhywden Using a shotgun to hit the broad side of a barn is tricky to do without a sense of humor. If you sensibly walk up to the barn and strike it with the shotgun with a calibrated amount of force predicted to do damage to neither while conserving ammunition, I suppose it could be done.
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Sadly, programming is actually hard, and eventually punishes mediocrity.
I think the existence of this site disproves the second half of that statement.
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eventually
so about half the time, maybe, this hasn't happened yet. :claps_dust_from_hands_in_job_done_fashion:
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@Rhywden Using a shotgun to hit the broad side of a barn is tricky to do without a sense of humor. If you sensibly walk up to the barn and strike it with the shotgun with a calibrated amount of force predicted to do damage to neither while conserving ammunition, I suppose it could be done.
I see that I should have been more or less specific what the shotgun was for!
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@Rhywden Using a shotgun to hit the broad side of a barn is tricky to do without a sense of humor. If you sensibly walk up to the barn and strike it with the shotgun with a calibrated amount of force predicted to do damage to neither while conserving ammunition, I suppose it could be done.
I see that I should have been more or less specific what the shotgun was for!
Providing a seat next to the broad side of the barn so you don't get fatigued standing while swinging your arm. Obs. ;)
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@anotherusername more just the idea that YouTube is pouring money into a 'TV' show based on tinder
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Sadly, programming is actually hard, and eventually punishes mediocrity.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Ah, so you don't get the artisnal cubes, carved by local children, in China, rolled in sea salt,...
I do not. I once got a lecture from my nephew about the virtues of artisanal ice, though.
I assume you gave him a lecture on the value of not being an idiot.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
for the price of a few bucks.
Depending on whether you're getting in-state or out-of-state tags (and which state), that could range from a few hundred to several thousand dollars.
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@Rhywden Using a shotgun to hit the broad side of a barn is tricky to do without a sense of humor. If you sensibly walk up to the barn and strike it with the shotgun with a calibrated amount of force predicted to do damage to neither while conserving ammunition, I suppose it could be done.
Then what was the point of undertaking the action?
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Of course reality is a to good pun: it is actually called that because it is mineral water from Évian-les-Bains, a spa town on the south shore of Geneva lake. But it might still be funny.
Characters that can't be written on regular keyboards are always funny
Found the APL programmer.
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@bb36e Yes, IIRC this is because of certain "unmovable" files that are part of the NTFS filesystem. I think it was $MFT (or a mirror thereof) that normally resides around the middle of the drive, but can move under certain circumstances.
Resizing the partition in such a way that it won't cross that immovable file will allow the system to move it away and then you can potentially shrink it again.
Still not sure why this has to be so mysterious that Microsoft can't write up a function to "Move $mft closer plz" to invoke during such operations, but whatever.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Still not sure why this has to be so mysterious that Microsoft can't write up a function to "Move $mft closer plz" to invoke during such operations, but whatever.
or hell, maybe not let the user attempt a partition resize. it looks like the partition tool does some sort of preliminary check to see the last immovable file anyways...
either way, on my machine it was a Windows Defender report. exciting!
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@PJH I buy bottled water because it's either mineral water or at the least carbonated. For 0.19€ at 1.5l it's basically too cheap to care, and I'm too to buy a machine to carbonate my own tap water.
Now paying for expensive mineral water instead of cheap mineral water (or carbonated tap), that's different.
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@topspin I hope you don't buy the plastic bottles. There's most likely some nasty shit in those plastics.
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@Rhywden Sometimes I do.
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@topspin I hope you don't buy the plastic bottles. There's most likely some nasty shit in those plastics.
Doesn't seem like it's a major issue unless you've seen any different testing:
The Harvard study was a quicky, published last month in Environmental Health Perspectives, a journal published by the NIEHS. The researchers asked 77 participants to drink cold beverages for a week from stainless steel containers and then from a week from polycarbonate bottles, the popular, reusable hard-plastic bottles. The traces of BPA in their urine increased from about 1.2 parts per billion to 2 ppb.
The researchers couldn't assess how much BPA was consumed. Most likely it was lower than the daily dose the EPA considers safe, 50 ppb, and lower than the 5 ppm used in "low dose" animal studies.
I buy bottled water if it's sparkling because it's convenient and I love sparkling water. The huge choking cloud of whatever-the-hell-PTFE-becomes-when-it-burns I made yesterday has probably taken more off my life than the water.
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@djls45 point was assumed as an axiom
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@Cursorkeys Wow, that's some very selective quoting right there. Congratulations.
By the way, they only tested for BPA.
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@Cursorkeys Wow, that's some very selective quoting right there. Congratulations.
That's not at all fair. I wanted to include a quote and tried very hard to get the gist of the article without distorting it. I was careful to include 'the Harvard study was a quicky' and 'The researchers couldn't assess how much BPA was consumed' along with the conclusion being 'most likely'.
If you think you can make a more accurate synopsis then please feel free.
By the way, they only tested for BPA.
I know, I quoted the bit that says that. I've only personally heard concern about BPA being the worrisome component. The same as people only seem to worry about phthalates when talking about plasticisers.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Still not sure why this has to be so mysterious that Microsoft can't write up a function to "Move $mft closer plz" to invoke during such operations, but whatever.
I know the answer
let me tell you
it's because they don't give a damn
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@Cursorkeys The problem is that the replacements for BPA (like BPS and BPF) are equally worrisome. Plus, there's the little known fact which was news to me as well:
No one knows exactly what's in the plastic wrapping. I mean, sure, you know the main ingredient (PET, PLA, ABS) but you don't know the additives. You also won't be able to find out - the (Chinese) producers are notoriously secretive if you ask them about it.
But if you pose as a potential buyer they'll tell you that they'll mix whatever and however much you want into your plastic. Oh, legal limits? Who even cares about those...
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I just got an email from my son's afterschool program asking me to nominate my favorite location. Like...who is this email for? Everyone would just nominate the one their kids go to.
My only guess is that it is an email catering to deadbeat dads who have kids all over the city in several different schools.