WTF Bites
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They still used to work wrong though. home took you to the start of the first line of the current entry, and end took you to the end of the last line
The worst of both worlds. It would be less infuriating if they just did nothing.
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So Windows just told me that I have a misbehaving program that changed the "open" action of
.ts
files and that it had very kindly set it back toMovies & Videos
which is obviously the correct program to open.ts
files.
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@ben_lubar .ts is a MPEG transport stream. It's a valid video format.
... wait what the hell else do you expect a .ts file to be?
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@ben_lubar .ts is a MPEG transport stream. It's a valid video format.
... wait what the hell else do you expect a .ts file to be?
Maybe the thing that Microsoft Visual Studio comes with support for?
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@ben_lubar Why the fuck would they reuse a video extension? Morons.
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@ben_lubar o_o they used a 2-letter extension!? WHY!? What's wrong with
*.typescript
!?
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@LB_ because programming language file file extensions are usually typed by humans and therefore shorter is better?
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@ben_lubar How many times a day do you have to type file extensions compared to the long names used in programming?
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@LB_ Obviously the correct solution is to use a programming language with a 2-letter name.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Obviously the correct solution is to use a programming language with a 2-letter name.
I'm gonna use a three-letter abbreviation as the name for my next language: it's going to stand for @dkf's Lovely Language…
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Yes, the Unicode characters are rendered in all browsers, but they aren't converted into colored emoji (unless you're on FireFox or something).
It depends on the font and on the font renderer.
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@dkf is the Linux version called StackOverflow?
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@ben_lubar Does Your Library Involve Bugs?
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@dkf it even has its own Wikipedia page already.
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@Jaloopa Yes, works for me in Windows 10. Even
#
is valid.
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What's wrong with *.typescript!?
Well duh, how would I be able to write code on my DOS 6.22 machine?
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
because programming language file file extensions are usually typed by humans and therefore shorter is better?
Maybe those programmers should get an IDE and stop working like it's 1977.
Look, I don't care what extension they use, but they shouldn't use an extension from a video format still in extremely common use. (IIRC, every DVD contains at least one .ts file.) I'm 100% in Windows' camp on this one. The guys who came up with the extension for TypeScript did fuck up, and Windows is correct saying so.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
IIRC, every DVD contains at least one .ts file
Yes, I'm sure people store their typescript source code on video DVDs.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
Look, I don't care what extension they use, but they shouldn't use an extension from a video format still in extremely common use.
I have never seen one. Your comment is the first time I was made aware of it. Where are these typically used?
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@boomzilla The DVD format spec.
I guess if you've never shoved a DVD into your PC and looked at its file structure, it's feasible you've never seen one. Doesn't change the fact that it's extremely common.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
I guess if you've never shoved a DVD into your PC and looked at its file structure, it's feasible you've never seen one.
I have done that and don't remember seeing those. Everything was a VOB file, IIRC.
@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
Doesn't change the fact that it's extremely common.
I'm not saying it doesn't. I'm just curious at what I've been missing.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I have done that and don't remember seeing those. Everything was a VOB file, IIRC.
Oh. VOB's like an archive format that gloms all the actual MPEG streams, the DVD menus, etc. into a single big file instead of keeping them separate.
The VOB contains .ts streams, they're just not in separate files like they usually are.
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@blakeyrat Still, you are missing the Real WTF, which is why does Windows require .ts files to be set to Movies & Videos.
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@XanderTheGamer So if you double-click it, it will play the video in the .ts file.
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@blakeyrat Why would someone double click a file on a DVD instead of playing the DVD in their POC? What if I wanted to open the file with with VLC by default?
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@XanderTheGamer said in WTF Bites:
@blakeyrat Why would someone double click a file on a DVD instead of playing the DVD in their POC? What if I wanted to ope the file with with VLC?
Then you'd rightclick the file and choose "Open with... => VLC"?
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@XanderTheGamer said in WTF Bites:
What if I wanted to ope the file with with VLC?
VLC is an app that handles Movies & Videos, so I guess you're in fucking luck, aren't you?
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@blakeyrat Is there any way to tell Windows "This extension isn't a movies & videos extension, dammit"?
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Another delightful captcha fail:
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@XanderTheGamer said in WTF Bites:
Is there any way to tell Windows "This extension isn't a movies & videos extension, dammit"?
Time for the “MacOS got this right” rant. And yes, it did, though it probably ought to be a MIME type and not a four-letter code these days.
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This has been giving me a notification on startup for ages:
For whatever reason they released 16.5.1 first as beta for VR support and then 16.3.2 came out later. I finally tried installing 16.3.2, and it didn't change anything. According to AMD's driver detection program I am using the latest version already. Guess I'll have to wait until they release a new driver with a higher version number than 16.5.1...
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Time for the “MacOS got this right” rant. And yes, it did, though it probably ought to be a MIME type and not a four-letter code these days.
Too bad the UI for setting up which program will open which format is a fucking travesty.
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
Too bad the UI for setting up which program will open which format is a fucking travesty.
What's wrong with the Registry Editor?
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@XanderTheGamer said in WTF Bites:
Is there any way to tell Windows "This extension isn't a movies & videos extension, dammit"?
Time for the “MacOS got this right” rant. And yes, it did, though it probably ought to be a MIME type and not a four-letter code these days.
Actually, yes, it is. Using file extensions to indicate file type is made of fail. This was true in 1966, and is still true in 2016.
Unfortunately, not only are most of the alternatives equally bad or worse, the solutions that aren't disastrously awful, such as MacOS resource forks, require system-specific programming, and don't play well with others when it comes to network file sharing. Tons of Mac software ended up using file extensions anyway, either because they were ported from somewhere that used them and the devs never bothered to learn The Apple Way, or because they needed to share data files with other systems and thus got screwed because they had to keep everything in the data forks anyway.
Yeah, this is An Issue for my plans, and I've been trying to find a way to deal with it that won't be too horrid. I'm not at all convinced one is possible.
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@ScholRLEA said in WTF Bites:
the solutions that aren't disastrously awful, such as MacOS resource forks, require system-specific programming
Every standard was once system-specific, someone has to be the first one to implement it.
Besides, it's not even true. Most network standards already use MIME types, Windows uses NTFS which has Alternate Data Streams and is very extensible, OSX has "extended attributes", Linux... probably has a dozen ways to do it which are all similar but different and none of which is widely used. It's just a matter of getting Microsoft and Apple to say "OK, we're switching to MIME types to determine what program to open, for realz this time".
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Obviously the correct solution is to use a programming language with a 2-letter name.
I'm gonna use a three-letter abbreviation as the name for my next language: it's going to stand for @dkf's Lovely Language…
In that case I'm going to create Zecc's Idiomatic Programming.
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That's a photo of my TV showing search results and those are actors' names.
To be honest only 39 of the 43 results were like this. The remaining were correct results, of people with "amp" in their name. There were 27 results for "nbsp".
Filed under: when in doubt HTMLEncode
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@Zecc Is that encoded four or five times? ;)
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@dkf They were not all encoded the same number of times, which may be an even greater WTF, but the maximum seemed to be five times, yes.
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@ScholRLEA said in WTF Bites:
such as MacOS resource forks, require system-specific programming,
Only because the Lunix assholes are still using filesystems from 1978, and that's all they programmed their Internet protocols to support.
It's not HFS+ or NTFS holding us back, it's those fucking open source dicks.
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@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@ScholRLEA said in WTF Bites:
such as MacOS resource forks, require system-specific programming,
Only because the Lunix assholes are still using filesystems from 1978, and that's all they programmed their Internet protocols to support.
It's not HFS+ or NTFS holding us back, it's those fucking open source dicks.
You've invented a folder that's
- invisible to the user
- impossible to access without a specialized API
- only able to store files with 4-byte names (no, not even "up to 4 byte names")
Congratulations.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
You've invented a folder that's
When did I do this? What the fuck are you talking about?
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
@blakeyrat said in WTF Bites:
@ScholRLEA said in WTF Bites:
such as MacOS resource forks, require system-specific programming,
Only because the Lunix assholes are still using filesystems from 1978, and that's all they programmed their Internet protocols to support.
It's not HFS+ or NTFS holding us back, it's those fucking open source dicks.
You've invented a folder that's
- invisible to the user
- impossible to access without a specialized API
- only able to store files with 4-byte names (no, not even "up to 4 byte names")
Congratulations.
Hey, it's a perfect porn stash!
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@ben_lubar on Windows at least you only need a colon to access the hidden extra streams, and I tested and the names are definitely not restricted to 4 bytes. But they are mostly invisible.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
invisible to the user
impossible to access without a specialized APISo how is that different from any other OS feature?
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on Windows at least you only need a colon to access the hidden extra streams
So it's accessible by any asshole?
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Obviously the correct solution is to use a programming language with a 2-letter name.
I'm gonna use a three-letter abbreviation as the name for my next language: it's going to stand for @dkf's Lovely Language…
In that case I'm going to create Zecc's Idiomatic Programming.
Jaloopa's Programming Grue.
V2 will be Jaloopa's Programming Extended Grue
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@Jaloopa
Never code in the dark