WTF Bites
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Observe what features I need to install for this app. Bear in mind the app in question is a game from Steam that I bought originally in 2011.
You must wait for the internet to tell you what features you need. Because is not like whatever program functionality that was used to detect you needed more features (wtf) could have possibly also told you straight out what it was you needed...
Side note: has anyone actually seen this window outside of installing .net 3.0?
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Another Win10 WTF (inb4 @Lorne-Kates calling me an idiot)
Because fuck you if I might have flexible working hours and want to make sure I don't get updatified in that time.
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@Arantor I think you can also tell it to never update when someone is logged in. I can't remember how I set that on my system, but it does work. Except that a pending update interferes with the Sleep→Hibernate transition. :(
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You cannot be third worlder, because you do not know that thirld worlders do not complain about access to a book, they will pirate it.
Ebook pirate scene is TERRIBLE.
If you're not looking for some recent best-seller, you'll probably have to pay the author. Disgusting.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
What is wrong here!?!?
To be honest I'd rather get that message than getting frustrated because the thing that I'm looking for is mysteriously missing from the store.
But if I can't buy it, yeah don't include it in any featured items lists or suggestions or front page
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@bb36e Yeah, they shouldn't completely exclude it from view so that you know it still exists. But at the same time, there should always be something to tell you it's incompatible without having to visit the page (or worse). Grey it out, stick a red X over it, something.
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Another Win10 WTF (inb4 @Lorne-Kates calling me an idiot)
Because fuck you if I might have flexible working hours and want to make sure I don't get updatified in that time.
Wait until you discover that "quiet hours" is completely non configurable besides "on" and "off"...
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Twitter!! What have I done wrong to be mis-categorized in the basket of deplorables:
And how did they come up with 183$ figure? Trump was too big to fail, what happened then.
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I was happy for a while, but sadly my team was not planning to praise Satan.
The mail was about reporting hours in different teams that you're originally assigned to. Hence "cross" (-team) "burning" (by analogy to a burndown chart, I suppose).
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Side note: has anyone actually seen this window outside of installing .net 3.0?
I saw it yesterday; while installing an old game for the kids it informed me that it needed NTVDM. Seemed to work well enough as far as that goes.
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
you'll probably have to pay the
authoreditor. Disgusting.FTFY
AFAIK the author usually does no longer have the right to sell it to you.
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@Yamikuronue said in WTF Bites:
I'll reboot LATER, dammit!
(clicking "no" returns me to the installation wizard)
Does clicking the cross on the titlebar install Windows 10?
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@Zecc Yes.
And by install Windows 10 I mean, reboot the damn machine.
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
? can you explain what does it have to do with strong typing.
He probably has ORM-like code that serializes tables columns into object fields.
If they add a special column with test data next to column with "real" data, there goes that schema. What they should do instead is have a test db instance, like normal people.
Yep.
For reasons I don't want to get into it's not as simple as having a separate instance for testing. Having additional columns makes sense for this situation.
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So my new laptop got the Win10 AU over the weekend and for raisins I don't quite get, the sound drivers and the 'dynamic audio' widget that sits on top - Nahimic Audio Enhancer - have been crapping themselves, such that the sound just is wrong. The onboard speakers have issues where at even under 10% volume the sound distorts like it's been clipped and so on.
So I go to the manufacturer website, there's a big discussion about it on there and presto, new audio drivers + Nahimic updates.
So I download and begin to install.
It's fucking 2016, people.
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@Arantor Though I will note the updated audio driver and updated Nahimic have restored sound quality to what it should be.
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STOP CHECKING IN CODE WITH ALL SORTS OF DUMB WARNINGS ABOUT UNUSED IMPORTS AND VARIABLES
Sheesh.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
STOP CHECKING IN CODE WITH ALL SORTS OF DUMB WARNINGS ABOUT UNUSED IMPORTS AND VARIABLES
Sheesh.
We have what amounts to "Warning: foo is deprecated. This will become an error in a future version." Thousands of them. And nobody shows any sign of caring. Bonus points for the script that processes the log files picking up the "error" in the message (along with such things as echoing the "ABORT_ON_ERRORS=10" command line option) and counting it as an error in its end-of-process error count (but not failing anything, because it doesn't actually affect the pass/fail decision).
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So I looked up the Windows Store. First time I ever tried to use it.
I'm thinking with all the extra time I have that I might try to resurrect my writing properly - and since commuting is no longer an issue I'm looking at writing tools on Windows.
So I went to the store, found a few things.
Clearly something bizarre happened. I've spent 15 years being a web programmer and forgot about system architecture. What is X86 ARM? I thought these were two completely different types of CPU, not just like Intel and Intel-knockoff (since this isn't 1998 and we're not doing Intel vs AMD vs Cyrix x86 derivatives)
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
And nobody shows any sign of caring
I bet they'll be really angry at the compiler/library vendor if they ever actually stop supporting it.
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So my new laptop got the Win10 AU over the weekend and for raisins I don't quite get, the sound drivers and the 'dynamic audio' widget that sits on top - Nahimic Audio Enhancer - have been crapping themselves, such that the sound just is wrong. The onboard speakers have issues where at even under 10% volume the sound distorts like it's been clipped and so on.
So I go to the manufacturer website, there's a big discussion about it on there and presto, new audio drivers + Nahimic updates.
So I download and begin to install.
It's fucking 2016, people.
What are you talking about? Seems to me you just re-skinned Windows 95!
Filed under: Pretty sure there's actually a Stardock theme, actually...
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@Arantor You're making me all nostalgic. Nobody sane has done an installer like that for ages, unless you count the irritating BS that Win10 flashes up after installing a major update…
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@Tsaukpaetra SourceTree requires at least Win7...
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@Tsaukpaetra SourceTree requires at least Win7...
Carefully ing the icons is a to jokes...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra SourceTree requires at least Win7...
Carefully ing the icons is a to jokes...
HERE?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra SourceTree requires at least Win7...
Carefully ing the icons is a to jokes...
HERE?
No no no, there:
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@Tsaukpaetra no no, no no no no, no no no no, there's no limits...
...to
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@Tsaukpaetra no no, no no no no, no no no no, there's no limits...
...toAre you sure? 'cause when you have explicitly defined everything, I'm pretty sure you'll find and end somewhere... :D
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@Tsaukpaetra I'm sure. There's always that guy who will go to any lengths to out- others.
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@Arantor You're making me all nostalgic. Nobody sane has done an installer like that for ages,
Except:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra no no, no no no no, no no no no, there's no limits...
...toAre you sure? 'cause when you have explicitly defined everything, I'm pretty sure you'll find and end somewhere... :D
Still have to get everyone to agree on the definitions, and then on what arguments are valid or not.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra no no, no no no no, no no no no, there's no limits...
...toAre you sure? 'cause when you have explicitly defined everything, I'm pretty sure you'll find and end somewhere... :D
Still have to get everyone to agree on the definitions, and then on what arguments are valid or not.
To use broken scientist logic: Just because it may take almost forever, doesn't mean it's not possible to eventually happen.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
I bet they'll be really angry at the compiler/library vendor if they ever actually stop supporting it.
Perhaps. If they're like a former employer, they'll simply never update. Or, it's a trivially scriptable fix, the equivalent of
void some_func(some_param) { int some_param; ... }
to
void some_func(int some_param) { ... }
Unfortunately, it's 3rd-party code, so it's not up to us to fix it.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
STOP CHECKING IN CODE WITH ALL SORTS OF DUMB WARNINGS ABOUT UNUSED IMPORTS AND VARIABLES
Sheesh.
We have what amounts to "Warning: foo is deprecated. This will become an error in a future version." Thousands of them. And nobody shows any sign of caring. Bonus points for the script that processes the log files picking up the "error" in the message (along with such things as echoing the "ABORT_ON_ERRORS=10" command line option) and counting it as an error in its end-of-process error count (but not failing anything, because it doesn't actually affect the pass/fail decision).
We run with highest warning level, with warnings turned to error and compile against 3 major compilers. You cannot even hide a stray unused variable.
If absolutely necessary, have to work around it by pragmas.
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So my new laptop got the Win10 AU over the weekend and for raisins I don't quite get, the sound drivers and the 'dynamic audio' widget that sits on top - Nahimic Audio Enhancer - have been crapping themselves, such that the sound just is wrong. The onboard speakers have issues where at even under 10% volume the sound distorts like it's been clipped and so on.
So I go to the manufacturer website, there's a big discussion about it on there and presto, new audio drivers + Nahimic updates.
So I download and begin to install.
It's fucking 2016, people.
Have you seen their website?
(hardcoded to 800x600).
This is what it looks like on a (simulated) 4k display...
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
This is what it looks like on a (simulated) 4k display...
There's your problem! Looks fine on a 4K monitor. Other than lots of white space on the right.
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
This is what it looks like on a (simulated) 4k display...
There's your problem! Looks fine on a 4K monitor. Other than lots of white space on the right.
Well, yeah, the whitespace is the issue...
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
Well, yeah, the whitespace is the issue...
Right - but it looks exactly the same on both a 4K (at 250%) and normal (at 100%) monitor. Except the text is crisper on the 4K... (using Chrome on W10)
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Funny how the fate of messenger applications is similar... At times I feel the same about Skype.
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Funny how the fate of messenger applications is similar... At times I feel the same about Skype.
The new Skype Preview isn't that bad at first glance. At least they took out all the bars of advertising...
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Best viewed at 800x600 with IE 6.0 or Netscape 7.02 or Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or higher.
©2016 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. All rights reserved.that's not a joke, that's literally on their front page.
edit: it's actually even better, the browser names are all links! really bummed to find out the netscape link doesn't actually download the browser anymore.
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@fwd The only device I have that feels even close to comfortable that small is my phone…
… which doesn't run any of those browsers. And is thus not TRWTF…
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Best viewed at 800x600
I have to use a program that works best at that. And it tries to scale to keep those proportions on higher-res screens. Needless to say, it fails. Miserably.
I could never convince the developer to just not do that. (And will never be able to - she died. No idea on the status of a replacement version...) They took bug reports and enhancement requests as personal attacks. Sigh. I was also the reason they "encrypted" the program data. Since it maintained the dbase file format, it only took 5 seconds to figure it out... Rot13!
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Best viewed at 800x600 with IE 6.0 or Netscape 7.02 or Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or higher.
©2016 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. All rights reserved.that's not a joke, that's literally on their front page.
edit: it's actually even better, the browser names are all links! really bummed to find out the netscape link doesn't actually download the browser anymore.
Indeed. And they've updated the copyright, so you know someone has touched it in less than a year...
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
Best viewed at 800x600 with IE 6.0 or Netscape 7.02 or Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or higher.
©2016 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. All rights reserved.that's not a joke, that's literally on their front page.
edit: it's actually even better, the browser names are all links! really bummed to find out the netscape link doesn't actually download the browser anymore.
Indeed. And they've updated the copyright, so you know someone has touched it in less than a year...
Is it so difficult to echo the current year in the footer with the © symbol?
Filed under: Copyright 200 @index©
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
Best viewed at 800x600 with IE 6.0 or Netscape 7.02 or Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or higher.
©2016 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. All rights reserved.that's not a joke, that's literally on their front page.
edit: it's actually even better, the browser names are all links! really bummed to find out the netscape link doesn't actually download the browser anymore.
Indeed. And they've updated the copyright, so you know someone has touched it in less than a year...
Is it so difficult to echo the current year in the footer with the © symbol?
Filed under: Copyright 200 @index©
No, but given the website in question, do you really think they're doing that?
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
Best viewed at 800x600 with IE 6.0 or Netscape 7.02 or Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or higher.
©2016 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. All rights reserved.that's not a joke, that's literally on their front page.
edit: it's actually even better, the browser names are all links! really bummed to find out the netscape link doesn't actually download the browser anymore.
Indeed. And they've updated the copyright, so you know someone has touched it in less than a year...
Is it so difficult to echo the current year in the footer with the © symbol?
Filed under: Copyright 200 @index©
No, but given the website in question, do you really think they're doing that?
ASP Classic? Sure, why not.
Edit: Fscking called it:
Yay postbacks!!!!
Edit2: Yes, the whole damn page is a form.
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
Best viewed at 800x600 with IE 6.0 or Netscape 7.02 or Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or higher.
©2016 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. All rights reserved.that's not a joke, that's literally on their front page.
edit: it's actually even better, the browser names are all links! really bummed to find out the netscape link doesn't actually download the browser anymore.
Indeed. And they've updated the copyright, so you know someone has touched it in less than a year...
Is it so difficult to echo the current year in the footer with the © symbol?
Filed under: Copyright 200 @index©
No, but given the website in question, do you really think they're doing that?
Oh, nice @index shenanigans
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
Best viewed at 800x600 with IE 6.0 or Netscape 7.02 or Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 or higher.
©2016 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. All rights reserved.that's not a joke, that's literally on their front page.
edit: it's actually even better, the browser names are all links! really bummed to find out the netscape link doesn't actually download the browser anymore.
Indeed. And they've updated the copyright, so you know someone has touched it in less than a year...
Is it so difficult to echo the current year in the footer with the © symbol?
Filed under: Copyright 200 @index©
No, but given the website in question, do you really think they're doing that?
ASP Classic? Sure, why not.
Edit: Fscking called it:
Yay postbacks!!!!
Edit2: Yes, the whole damn page is a form.
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Why though!