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WTF kind of service is that where they charge you money to update your data? Much less £25?!
The same kind of service that raise your price 30% at the same time since you drive less
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@TimeBandit 1 second in the past? He clicked to close it as soon as the seconds changed, and the snapshot may have only been a few milliseconds old. The system has a buffer that it uses for such things as rendering the window minimize/maximize animations and for the previews it displays when you hover over the taskbar buttons or use Alt+Tab or ⊞+Tab (and note that those are live previews, not just static image previews).
I'd assume that the visual glitch you observed was just caused by the contents of the buffer lagging slightly behind the contents of the window, because copying added a slight delay.
As far as why it replaces the window with a (live) snapshot, I'd assume it's because of hardware acceleration and needing a single, flat buffer to simplify the animation.
edit: then again, I could be completely wrong. I'm not seeing any perceptible delay between the live window and the preview when running screen capture at 30 FPS and then stepping through it frame by frame, and I'm not curious enough to bother actually video recording the screen to see if the screen capture itself might have been affecting the outcome. And it might just be that this computer is too fast to notice a delay.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@Cursorkeys: the guy told me straight out "at this point, you have to prostitute yourself to get 100 nF capacitors".
Hmm, this might be an issue. How long is the lead-time?
Arrow are showing 0 stock for buying whole reels. Well, I'm boned. I need at least a hundred 0402 50V 100nF X7R caps within a couple of weeks.
Edit: this isn't funny anymore. I can't even find any on the grey market (well, 2 Chinese suppliers claim stock but...yeah). I think I'm going to call in a favour with an actual purchaser I know and see if she can score me a reel.
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WTF kind of service is that where they charge you money to update your data? Much less £25?!
The sort of service that if you call up and ask their Customer Services over the telephone to update the details they definitely charge you £25 but if you fill in an online form to ask their Customer Services to update the details they don't. Except when they do. Or they just send you an email claiming they did while not doing so.
Until this debacle I've had no issues, so I've been with them for like 3 years. There's a 50/50 chance that if I do ring them tomorrow it's to cancel so I can sign up with a different company.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Let's see if they can satisfy me.
After another round of emails, I've apparently scared them enough that my POC seems to need two more people to talk about things.
How many architects are required to create a solution that analyzes less than 1MB of data per day?
I'm considering starting a new topic on this, but kinda don't want to because technically these communiques are NDA (maybe).
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
my POC
You can't own people of color, dude. 13th Amendment.
How dare you assume my ownership!
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So, check out the replies to this tweet: https://twitter.com/BenLubar/status/1050116135922880514
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@Cursorkeys: the guy told me straight out "at this point, you have to prostitute yourself to get 100 nF capacitors".
Hmm, this might be an issue. How long is the lead-time?
Arrow are showing 0 stock for buying whole reels. Well, I'm boned. I need at least a hundred 0402 50V 100nF X7R caps within a couple of weeks.
Edit: this isn't funny anymore. I can't even find any on the grey market (well, 2 Chinese suppliers claim stock but...yeah). I think I'm going to call in a favour with an actual purchaser I know and see if she can score me a reel.
Here are a few tricks you can try before considering naughty things with a purchaser:
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use a lower voltage grade. Do you actually need 50V? (warning: don't go too far in the other direction. For MLCCs, capacitance goes down as you get closer to working voltage.)
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use a different dielectric. X5R can be okay if you don't need a wide temperature range. Even Z5U could work if your circuit doesn't require precision. Don't use Y5V unless that's your only option (it's trash).
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use a different value. A 150 (or even 82) nF decoupling cap will probably work just as well as a 100 nF one, and may still be in stock since the value is much less popular.
(Of course, if it's a critical circuit that will get you tarred and feathered if it breaks, I don't recommend taking risks...)
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Until this debacle I've had no issues, so I've been with them for like 3 years. There's a 50/50 chance that if I do ring them tomorrow it's to cancel so I can sign up with a different company.
My experience with UK car insurance is that they randomly jack up the price by at least 20% on each renewal, but if you call them and complain they drop the increase (sometimes entirely or even offer a better renewal than the old price, sometimes they just drop it to a more reasonable 1-2% increase). I hate it, but that's apparently how it works. Offer a good deal the first year, try and fuck the customer the next one.
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Running the command helped. Why couldn't it run that command itself!?
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Running the command helped. Why couldn't it run that command itself!?
pull requests are accepted
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@pie_flavor somehow, I doubt it.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
Here are a few tricks you can try before considering naughty things with a purchaser:
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use a lower voltage grade. Do you actually need 50V? (warning: don't go too far in the other direction. For MLCCs, capacitance goes down as you get closer to working voltage.)
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use a different dielectric. X5R can be okay if you don't need a wide temperature range. Even Z5U could work if your circuit doesn't require precision. Don't use Y5V unless that's your only option (it's trash).
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use a different value. A 150 (or even 82) nF decoupling cap will probably work just as well as a 100 nF one, and may still be in stock since the value is much less popular.
(Of course, if it's a critical circuit that will get you tarred and feathered if it breaks, I don't recommend taking risks...)
Thank you. Of course, this would have to be a design that embodies functional safety and needs to operate at temperature extremes wouldn't it?
It looks like everyone else has had the same idea about 82n as that's out too. 68n is still available though, I'll have to run a Monte Carlo on the bits I have a SPICE model for and see if everything still looks good. There is some sensitive analog in this design as well as the digital so I can't make the rails too furry.
X7R and 50V are my go-tos for stability, but needs must I suppose. Your analogy was bang-on, this is like all M3 machine-screws suddenly becoming unavailable. Almost unbelievable.
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Until this debacle I've had no issues, so I've been with them for like 3 years. There's a 50/50 chance that if I do ring them tomorrow it's to cancel so I can sign up with a different company.
My experience with UK car insurance is that they randomly jack up the price by at least 20% on each renewal, but if you call them and complain they drop the increase (sometimes entirely or even offer a better renewal than the old price, sometimes they just drop it to a more reasonable 1-2% increase). I hate it, but that's apparently how it works. Offer a good deal the first year, try and fuck the customer the next one.
And UK breakdown cover. My cover was 120 GBP/pa, high but acceptable as it had all the trimmings. At the next renewal it jumped to 280 GBP/pa for no discernable reason. I rang them, and after asking to cancel it magically became 80 GBP/pa
Edit: I had a car insurance chap get stroppy once, 'you can't just keep calling in with matching quotes to force the price down!'. of course I can. It's you gits that have made this system, just offer me your best price to begin with and we'll both be happier.
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@Cursorkeys This is the downside of all those "you could get a lower price by switching" ads. It's becoming the norm to have to waste time shopping around every year, so companies assume you're going to do that anyway and fuck you deep in the ass if you don't (but if you show them that you are doing that, then they give you the discounted price again).
I've seen the same thing with broadband, just calling them at the end of the first-year discounted rate is enough to get that rate renewed for a few months (lather, rinse, repeat...). Energy providers seem a bit more restrained (probably constrained would be a better word) in that respect, but I'm pretty sure they would do it if they could.
I hate it.
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Why couldn't it run that command itself!?
It's against the linux way to fix things for the user
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
So, check out the replies to this tweet: https://twitter.com/BenLubar/status/1050116135922880514
Yeah, that guy's a retard.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
Edit: I had a car insurance chap get stroppy once, 'you can't just keep calling in with matching quotes to force the price down!'. of course I can. It's you gits that have made this system, just offer me your best price to begin with and we'll both be happier.
And they could probably even get away with a slight increase every year and it wouldn't be worth your hassle.
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@TwelveBaud Exactly. Fuck off JavaScript too
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@JazzyJosh said in WTF Bites:
You could use Kotlin
Fuck off !
Kotlin semicolon inference is actually good, unlike JavaScript semicolon inference.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Kotlin semicolon inference is actually good, unlike JavaScript semicolon inference.
is the difference?
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@TwelveBaud said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit
Øredev 2014 - James Mickens - LIFE IS TERRIBLE: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE WEBI learned that semicolons are also optional in lua, except when they're not.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Kotlin semicolon inference is actually good, unlike JavaScript semicolon inference.
is the difference?
They behave the way you want them to, all the time.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
They behave the way you want them to, all the time.
You mean, they read your mind?
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@TimeBandit No, your mind reads them.
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Bing is the best search engine
https://www.howtogeek.com/367878/bing-is-suggesting-the-worst-things-you-can-imagine/
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
Until this debacle I've had no issues, so I've been with them for like 3 years. There's a 50/50 chance that if I do ring them tomorrow it's to cancel so I can sign up with a different company.
My experience with UK car insurance is that they randomly jack up the price by at least 20% on each renewal, but if you call them and complain they drop the increase (sometimes entirely or even offer a better renewal than the old price, sometimes they just drop it to a more reasonable 1-2% increase). I hate it, but that's apparently how it works. Offer a good deal the first year, try and fuck the customer the next one.
It wasn't on the renewal. It was on making the change after the renewal.
The renewal was a slight increase not worth bothering about.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
Edit: I had a car insurance chap get stroppy once, 'you can't just keep calling in with matching quotes to force the price down!'. of course I can. It's you gits that have made this system, just offer me your best price to begin with and we'll both be happier.
I previously had AA Insurance's renewal department refuse to match an online quote from AA Insurance. They wouldn't match their own quote.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I learned that semicolons are also optional in lua, except when they're not.
They're also optional in Python and Tcl, and don't cause the majority of users problems in either case because the algorithms for understanding the code in those languages aren't colossal fusterclucks like that of Javascript.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
Bing is the best search engine
https://www.howtogeek.com/367878/bing-is-suggesting-the-worst-things-you-can-imagine/
Clicking this suggested search unleashes a torrent of racist, antisemitic content, with more suggested searches like “Jewish People Are Evil,” “The Evil Jewish Race,” and “Why Are Jews so Evil.” [...]
Type in “muslims are” and Bing will suggest that they are evil or terrorists, or simply suggest that they are stupid.
Search for “black people are” and Bing will suggest that black people are ugly, stupid, racist, and even savages.Microsoft must be putting this in on purpose. It can't possibly be a ranking of most popular search terms because we all know racism is a thing of the past.
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@LaoC that just makes it weirder. Do racist people research their racism online? As in, you think certain demographic must be awful so you go to Bing of all things and search for more evidence? I don't know what would make it worse, the racism itself or that they used Bing.
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Do racist people research their racism online? As in, you think certain demographic must be awful so you go to Bing of all things and search for more evidence?
I don't doubt that they absolutely do. People with any sort of radical or fringe beliefs will tend to search out and find like-minded fellows, and then they can congregate and swap ideas. That's just a basic human behavior... they're trying to normalize their ideas, so they want to surround themselves by other people who also think their ideas are normal.
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I don't know what would make it worse, the racism itself or that they used Bing.
At least, they get paid to use Bing
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@Kian: I don't think they "research", they just use Google like Facebook, and type "what's on their mind". Lots of people do that.
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@Zerosquare Huh, I wasn't aware of that. TIL
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
they just use Google like Facebook, and type "what's on their mind".
Where does the empty search lead these days anyway?
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@dkf nowhere
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
they just use Google like Facebook, and type "what's on their mind".
Where does the empty search lead these days anyway?
Deez nutz, natch.
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@pie_flavor Why the fuck would you ever want that?
Either make semicolons mandatory or don't use them at all. This is a programming language, not a guessing game.Filed under: Fuck DWIM.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
Do racist people research their racism online? As in, you think certain demographic must be awful so you go to Bing of all things and search for more evidence?
I don't doubt that they absolutely do. People with any sort of radical or fringe beliefs will tend to search out and find like-minded fellows, and then they can congregate and swap ideas. That's just a basic human behavior... they're trying to normalize their ideas, so they want to surround themselves by other people who also think their ideas are normal.
Exactly. Wait, were you talking about racists or Bing users?
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@pie_flavor Why the fuck would you ever want that?
Either make semicolons mandatory or don't use them at all. This is a programming language, not a guessing game.Filed under: Fuck DWIM.
Semicolons are used to separate statements on the same line. If you don't have two statements on the same line, you don't need semicolons. Easy. Also, close your damn tags.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Semicolons are used to separate statements
on the same line. If you don't have two statements on the same line, you don't need semicolonsthat's why it should not be optional. Easy.FTFY
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@pie_flavor Here's a crazy idea: Don't give whitespace syntactic meaning.
Seriously, do these language designers feel so triggered when the compiler complains about missing semicolons that they want a language to not have them?