WTF Bites
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And then you edit with whiteout and a pen, scan it in and let that Mspaint IDE convert it back to a text file?
Now there's a classy way to edit the git commit messages.
If I ever interview developers I will do whiteboard coding and take points off their score if they don't write in cursive
What if they use mixed fonts for syntax highlighting, e.g. print for code, cursive for comments, and calligraphy for language keywords?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Is that part of the git commit hash?!?
Looks like it. I parsed it as:
'15.8.168'
+'+'
+'ga'
+<hash>
The A is part of the hash.
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And then you edit with whiteout and a pen, scan it in and let that Mspaint IDE convert it back to a text file?
Now there's a classy way to edit the git commit messages.
If I ever interview developers I will do whiteboard coding and take points off their score if they don't write in cursive
What if they use mixed fonts for syntax highlighting, e.g. print for code, cursive for comments, and calligraphy for language keywords?
If you ever read my writing on a whiteboard, you'll wonder which is cursive and which is just illegible.
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Windows 10 notification, of course (the light cyan background is because the screenshotter did not pick out the background image for some reason).
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At this point, they may as well replace the message with "Click here".
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Windows 10 notification, of course (the light cyan background is because the screenshotter did not pick out the background image for some reason).
That's because the pop-up is actually that big. It just has transparent borders.
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I ordered a cheap 9VDC wall adapter on Amazon almost two weeks ago and I needed it for a little side project. It was through Prime, with two-day shipping, but it never shipped. I keep getting emails from Amazon saying there was an unexpected delay processing my order etc. etc. Finally today, I decided to cancel the order. Now Amazon told me they are unable to cancel the order, but at the same time they are unable to fulfill the order.
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I ordered a cheap 9VDC wall adapter on Amazon almost two weeks ago and I needed it for a little side project. It was through Prime, with two-day shipping, but it never shipped. I keep getting emails from Amazon saying there was an unexpected delay processing my order etc. etc. Finally today, I decided to cancel the order. Now Amazon told me they are unable to cancel the order, but at the same time they are unable to fulfill the order.
Dammit. You just started the World (Amazon) reboot timer. You know zombie processes can only be cleared on reboot.
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I ordered a cheap 9VDC wall adapter on Amazon almost two weeks ago and I needed it for a little side project. It was through Prime, with two-day shipping, but it never shipped. I keep getting emails from Amazon saying there was an unexpected delay processing my order etc. etc. Finally today, I decided to cancel the order. Now Amazon told me they are unable to cancel the order, but at the same time they are unable to fulfill the order.
Dammit. You just started the World (Amazon) reboot timer. You know zombie processes can only be cleared on reboot.
They don't charge your account until it ships. For $4 or whatever it's not really worth calling up customer service. Three years from now I'll find a random $4 charge on my account and a 9VDC power adapter in my mailbox and by then I'll have forgotten why I even needed it.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Windows 10 notification, of course (the light cyan background is because the screenshotter did not pick out the background image for some reason).
That's because the pop-up is actually that big. It just has transparent borders.
They don't look transparent to me.
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Had to reset my computer to factory settings, so I'm going through resintalling everything. Because I have a fast SSD and a large spinning disk in my machine, I relocate all my user folders to the big disk, including my Downloads folder. Next up, I use the microsoft official chromE DownloadinG Engine to download the Chrome installer, and then use Chrome to download installers for everything else.
I accidentally forget to tell Chrome to ask me where to download files to, so for the first thing I download it defaults to my Downloads folder. Except not really. Some genius at Google set the thing up to hard code the Downloads folder location. So instead of going to D:\Users\Kian\Downloads, it sends the file to C:\Users\Kian\Downloads. And because that folder doesn't exist anymore, it actually goes ahead and creates the folder itself.
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@Kian You should do what I did and set up junctions for all the important folders.
While you're at it, junction Chrome's local and roaming appdata folders to the hard disk too, because the write rate is massive.
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@pie_flavor: careful, I vaguely remember people having nasty surprises with that solution (can't remember which ones exactly, but it did blow up in a significant way)
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Windows 10 notification, of course (the light cyan background is because the screenshotter did not pick out the background image for some reason).
That's because the pop-up is actually that big. It just has transparent borders.
They don't look transparent to me.
The background image was light cyan, as @Bulb mentioned.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Windows 10 notification, of course (the light cyan background is because the screenshotter did not pick out the background image for some reason).
That's because the pop-up is actually that big. It just has transparent borders.
They don't look transparent to me.
The background image was light cyan, as @Bulb mentioned.
Light cyan is a color, not an image. My impression of what he wrote is that, in order to hide the window(s)/desktop behind the window that it was capturing, and instead of capturing an image with actual transparency, it replaced the transparency with light cyan.
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
export EDITOR=:(){ :|: & };:
?That would kill you at the time you define it if it wasn't a syntax error in the first place, but yeah, I get the idea.
It's probably easier to find though thanexport EDITOR=emacs eval "emacs(){ if [ \$RANDOM -gt 32000 ]; then rm -f \"\$@\"; else $EDITOR \"\$@\"; fi; }"
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Working with legacy and bespoke equipment is great if you like breaking monotony.
A rack one of my clients asked me to refurbish is missing its power cable. After much head-scratching and continuity testing, I had to accept the fact that whoever designed it thought it was OK to use a DE-9 connector as a power input. And when I say "power", I mean mains, which is 230V AC here.
(For those who are too young to remember them, DE-9 connectors looked like this, and were normally used as data connections for modems, mice, etc.:
https://i.imgur.com/g99dEcR.jpg
)
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@Zerosquare Hasn't blown up yet.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
I had to accept the fact that whoever designed it thought it was OK to use a DE-9 connector as a power input. And when I say "power", I mean mains, which is 230V AC here.
Holy mother of fuck, and I thought interpretations of "security" were loose in these here parts!
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor: careful, I vaguely remember people having nasty surprises with that solution (can't remember which ones exactly, but it did blow up in a significant way)
Windows has some issues with junctions for system folders, although some of them are fixed in Windows 10.
it's impossible to redirect certain system folders:
- folder containing
hiberfil.sys
(if it's configured to be outside root directory) \Windows
\Windows\System32
\Windows\Config
However it is possible to redirect non-critical folders:
\Users
\Documents and Settings
\Program Files
\Program Files (x86)
Creating junctions for
\Users
and\ProgramData
pointing to another drive is not recommended as it breaks updates and Windows Store Apps.
Creating junctions for\Users
,\ProgramData
,\Program Files
or\Program Files (x86)
pointing to other locations breaks installation resp. upgrade of Windows.
Creating junctions for\Program Files
or\Program Files (x86)
pointing to another drive breaks Windows' Component Based Servicing which hardlinks files from its repository\Windows\SxS
to their installation directory.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point#Limitations
- folder containing
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@DCoder Oh, I didn't mean junction those. I've got ones for Documents, Downloads, Desktop, and Chrome's AppData folders.
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https://i.imgur.com/UpOvOOI.png
Yeah, there's totally a reason to paginate that...
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Working with legacy and bespoke equipment is great if you like breaking monotony.
Do electric shocks count as “breaking monotony”? I really hope so, for your sake. (Our hardware abuses SATA connectors for the inter-board comms fabric, but at least that's just weird and not electrically dangerous…)
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Working with legacy and bespoke equipment is great if you like breaking monotony.
Do electric shocks count as “breaking monotony”? I really hope so, for your sake. (Our hardware abuses SATA connectors for the inter-board comms fabric, but at least that's just weird and not electrically dangerous…)
One of ours uses RJ45 connectors for power and RS485 (both non-isolated). I'm just waiting for the first customer to plug it into a POE ethernet network
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Working with legacy and bespoke equipment is great if you like breaking monotony.
Do electric shocks count as “breaking monotony”? I really hope so, for your sake.
I'd be more worried if electric shocks formed part of his workplace's monotony!
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
One of ours uses RJ45 connectors for power and RS485 (both non-isolated). I'm just waiting for the first customer to plug it into a POE ethernet network
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I'd be more worried if electric shocks formed part of his workplace's monotony!
That was exactly the point I was leaving as a subtext, yes…
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I'd be more worried if electric shocks formed part of his workplace's monotony!
That was exactly the point I was leaving as a subtext, yes…
Uhm...yeah, obviously, on second read
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
One of ours uses RJ45 connectors for power and RS485 (both non-isolated). I'm just waiting for the first customer to plug it into a POE ethernet network
Heh, we make a lot of products for an industry that's all standardised on 24VAC (isolated transformers). The number of products we get back where traces/components/large-section-of-the-PCB are missing...
The story is always the same:
Your product arrived broken!
Did you connect it to the mains?
Of course not!
Then why is the inside of the box covered in vaporised copper?!
its_a_mystery.jpg
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The latest Safari has a bizarre bug in its
Array#reverse
implementation:TL;DR:
- Create an array literal containing only primitive literals:
let arr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5];
- Reverse it:
arr.reverse();
- Refresh the page.
- Observe that
arr
starts out already reversed
- Create an array literal containing only primitive literals:
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Looks like Windows isn't the only piece of software that's unable to work while updating, but updates while working anyway.
(Fig. 1) Firefox 62 on Ubuntu 16.04 shitting all over itself.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Windows 10 notification, of course (the light cyan background is because the screenshotter did not pick out the background image for some reason).
That's because the pop-up is actually that big. It just has transparent borders.
No it ain't. I cropped it from a screenshot of much larger area and all the background was this plain cyan rather than the background image.
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Looks like Windows isn't the only piece of software that's unable to work while updating, but updates while working anyway.
(Fig. 1) Firefox 62 on Ubuntu 16.04 shitting all over itself.
Does Ubuntu have auto-updating on by default? Because in Linux Mint, if Firefox has an update it says in the update manager if I highlight the update: "To avoid problems, please restart Firefox after updating." (Not that anyone would bother reading that message but anyway.) As in Linux Mint, unless you explicitly turn on automatic updates, no software will update itself automatically. (Except for Steam and other software that uses update mechanisms instead of the one provided by the OS.)
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
One of ours uses RJ45 connectors for power and RS485 (both non-isolated). I'm just waiting for the first customer to plug it into a POE ethernet network
Looks like Windows isn't the only piece of software that's unable to work
whileafter updating, but updates while working anyway.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
Your product arrived broken!
Did you connect it to the mains?
Of course not!
Then why is the inside of the box covered in vaporised copper?!
Because people keep doing this, we've added a overvoltage protection crowbar, which permanently changes color when subjected to mains voltage. As you can see, it has tripped.
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@TwelveBaud said in WTF Bites:
@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
Your product arrived broken!
Did you connect it to the mains?
Of course not!
Then why is the inside of the box covered in vaporised copper?!
Because people keep doing this, we've added a overvoltage protection crowbar, which permanently changes color when subjected to mains voltage. As you can see, it has tripped.
Nice work on the emoji. I did a double-take until I looked at the raw.
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@Cursorkeys Thanks, but it's Something Awful that deserves the credit.
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@pie_flavor It's blank space reserved for future posts
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Windows 10 notification, of course (the light cyan background is because the screenshotter did not pick out the background image for some reason).
That's because the pop-up is actually that big. It just has transparent borders.
No it ain't. I cropped it from a screenshot of much larger area and all the background was this plain cyan rather than the background image.
Here's a trick for you to try: next time you receive such a notification, try clicking just outside the apparent bounds of it, in the area your tool apparently made blue but obviously has a background. Be amazed that despite not clicking the notification (visually) it will be activated!
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Does Ubuntu have auto-updating on by default? Because in Linux Mint, if Firefox has an update it says in the update manager if I highlight the update: "To avoid problems, please restart Firefox after updating." (Not that anyone would bother reading that message but anyway.)
… or that it would avoid problems for that matter. Maybe some problems, but I noticed later versions of FF tend to create hundreds of threads that do $DEITY-knows-what (but a lot of it) when you quit it, making my load shoot up to ~150 and effectively freezing the system for a minute or so
Ah, and opening a dozen tabs at a time from a script simply crashes it, not without doing its threads thing of course
So Chrome's usability sucks, FF's stability sucks, Edge just plain sucks, W3M's rendering kinda sucks, Opera sucks differently, Safari sucks different. A browser that is not shit really seems to be to much to ask.
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@Tsaukpaetra: that's just the OS being helpful. Because you were clearly trying to click on the notification, right? ;)
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra: that's just the OS being helpful. Because you were clearly trying to click on the notification, right? ;)
Claro.
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A browser that is not shit really seems to be to much to ask.
May I suggest Lynx?
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@Atazhaia You may do so. You may be spanked. These two possibilities may or may not be related.
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Looks like Windows isn't the only piece of software that's unable to work while updating, but updates while working anyway.
To be honest, I'd rather have that once in a while than this, which I see almost every time I start it:
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Seen in a job posting today (posted on LinkedIn 1 month ago) in the Skills section:
Visual Studio 6.0 and C++ programming experience
Ok, it's for testing ICs, but still... especially when the opening line has "The candidate will join a fast-moving".
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in WTF Bites:
which I see almost every time I start it:
There's one simple way to avoid seeing it. Well, more than one, actually, but one is significantly more painful than the other.