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And today, the left mouse button developed the exact same problem. Which, considering the ratio of left versus right click, is a bit more catastrophic in nature. For example, it makes moving windows with the mouse virtually impossible.
My (Logitech) wired mouse is doing the same thing somewhat sporadically. It's most visible when I go to upvote a post here and get an error toaster that says I've already voted for that post.
I've found that using the tip of my finger to press the very end of the mouse button keeps it doing single-clicks, but that's very wearing on the hand.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I feel like absolutely nothing about these goddamn toasters was done correctly.
Yeah, it can't even toast bread properly
You're using the wrong kind of display. You need an old-school (and very faulty) plasma screen if you want to toast bread with the NodeBB UI.
I dunno, I'll bet my phone could do it just fine.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
You need an old-school (and very faulty) plasma screen if you want to toast bread with the NodeBB UI.
Clearly, is superior, it can do it using my phone
I need neither nor with my phone
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 7
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Outlook Webmail? We need to talk about your flair...
You do want to...
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prevent others from forwarding them.
Oh no, they’re implementing Lotus features.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Outlook Webmail
You mixed up the threads, this should have gone here.
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@ixvedeusi
Actually maybe possibly it's not all entirely bad. By 2018 standards at least. Admittedly, that's a rather low bar to clear. There's now a Reply button, for example.
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@ben_lubar
I'm disappointed that you didn't set up the proxy to allow for dynamic question generation. This link doesn't seem to work:
https://ben.lubar.me/quiz/blubar-is-trwtf
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Well, I didn’t fucking try.
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prevent others from forwarding them.
Oh no, they’re implementing Lotus features.
I was always under the impression that Lotus just broke forwarding and replying so much that prevention was the most effective alternative (along with sterilization and nuking from orbit).
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Microsoft said in @Applied-Mediocrity's post in WTF Bites:
Encrypt your e-mail messages or prevent others from forwarding them with Office 365
2018: Sign, encrypt, and restrict messages using Office 365! It's new!
2003: Sign, encrypt, and restrict messages using Office 2003's Information Rights Management! It's new!
1998: Sign and encrypt messages using Exchange Client's S/MIME! It's new!
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And today, the left mouse button developed the exact same problem. Which, considering the ratio of left versus right click, is a bit more catastrophic in nature. For example, it makes moving windows with the mouse virtually impossible.
My (Logitech) wired mouse is doing the same thing somewhat sporadically. It's most visible when I go to upvote a post here and get an error toaster that says I've already voted for that post.
I sense a theme here...
My Kensington (wireless) and Microsoft (wired) mice are performing fine!
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Mouse switches problems are annoying, but at least they're easy and cheap to repair if you have a soldering iron. (Of course, it only makes sense if your mouse costs more than $5 or so.)
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Kensington
In my experience, the one Kensington mouse I used was the worst, bad enough that I would not buy another one.
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@Zerosquare often, spraying electric contact cleaner on the switch will fix it for a while
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Kensington
In my experience, the one Kensington mouse I used was the worst, bad enough that I would not buy another one.
I have the "Pro-Fit Full Size" one. Basic mouse with a couple buttons. Nothing fancy.
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Well, I didn’t fucking try.
Logitech mouse?
I have a Logitech trackball model. I told myself it was so I could practice thumb-dexterity when using controllers.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
I have a Logitech trackball model. I told myself it was so I could practice thumb-dexterity when using controllers.
Many years ago I used one. For about a month. Until my thumb threatened to volunteer for transplant surgery to someone nicer.
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C++17 constexpr Compile-time Ray Tracer
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
"Simple"?
Fairly, yes. It's just a normal raytracer (the core is less than 500 lines of code). The compile-time part is mostly about slapping
constexpr
on everything -- unlike previous attempts which were a bit template-heavy. So, yes, in the grand scheme of things, this is rather simple.
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@ben_lubar
I'm disappointed that you didn't set up the proxy to allow for dynamic question generation. This link doesn't seem to work:
https://ben.lubar.me/quiz/blubar-is-trwtfyou need one of the first two words to be "you" or "your".
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Status: Wow...
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
"Simple"?
Simple is probably very relative, as in using
constexpr
instead of template metaprogramming.E: ‘d thoroughly.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Wow...
And it doesn't even use HTTPS. How can you fuck up security so badly in 2018?
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C++17 constexpr Compile-time Ray Tracer
This is fantastic and I am very happy it exists. It should also never be used for real, but most art isn't meant to be used anyway.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Wow...
And it doesn't even use HTTPS. How can you fuck up security so badly in 2018?
Well, it's apparently not been updated since 2012 (some pages indicate 2014, for consistency).
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When reporting an "Entry Point Not Found" error, if the entry point name is too long, do you just truncate it to fit in your dialog?
Well, no. You just drop it entirely
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@TimeBandit
Well, I mean, the Entry Point wasn't found. They never specified that it had to only be not found in your code, so being not found in the dialog is still in spec.
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Little WTF of my day: Our new device management software continues to work well, with a few small snags here and there, nothing unexpected.
One of the features it has is that you can stream the contents of your screen to the pupils's screens (because when you're showing them what to click on in Word, the pupil six meters away will have problems seeing that tiny icon. And it will be a tiny icon!) During streaming, the PC is locked down (no keyboard, no mouse).
I decided to try that out with the pupils' PCs only being connected by wifi. Yeah. Not that great - in fact, it resulted in a black screen for everyone. Not the software's fault I'd say - the access point in question only does 300 Mbps (we'll replace it soon, though) and it had 28 clients to deal with.
But the other feature where I can have tiny previews of the pupils' desktops works fine (they're refreshed every 5 seconds so not that bandwidth intensive).
Then I noticed that upon mouseover I got the "Stream to this PC" icon again.
Hmmh. Maybe it works for a single PC? So I warned the pupil and clicked.
Well, I obviously misread because I found out that this was intended as "Stream this pupil's desktop to all the other desktops". Would have been fine if that didn't include my own PC.
Which meant that everyone except the pupil now had a black screen in front of them with me not being able to turn it back on.
Good thing I tried that out with only five minutes to the lesson's end.
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@Rhywden: hey, it could have been worse. At least there wasn't anything compromising on the screen when that happened.
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In 2014, the infinitely wise government of Spain defined a new category of savings product in an effort to incentivise small investments (yay regulatory micromanagement). There's a bunch of conditions, such as a maximum of 5000€ saved per year and only one such product per person, in return for which, if you wait at least 5 years before withdrawing the money, you don't have to pay taxes on the gains.
OK, whatever, I'm going to assume that all makes sense. Here's the bizarre part: those savings products can actually be implemented as a bank account or as insurance. So you can get an Individual Long-Term Savings Insurance plan that works exactly like an investment and does not insure anything in any sense of the word.
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I have an old Samsung ( #0) slide phone (model R451, on a prepaid account) that has a bunch of media messages on it. I'd like to get the photos off of it partly so I can more easily upgrade to a new phone at some indeterminate point in the future.
I have taken this phone to a few different phone shops, and no one has the ability to copy the messages (neither SMS nor MMS) off of the phone. The best they can do is copy my contact list, ringtones, and audio recordings. Of course, I can do that much with a bluetooth adapter. ( #1)
This phone has a special connector, so I can't find any adapter cables to connect it to a computer's USB port, and even if I did, I suspect it would only support copying contacts and sound files. ( #2)
What I've been doing with the SMS messages I want to keep (there's a hard limit of 70 SMS messages that the phone will store; I have to manually delete some if I've hit the limit and want to receive more; the system does hold them for me, though, so on that at least) is to hand-type them into a document on the computer, since that's the easiest and fastest way to copy them. They're limited to 160 characters each, so it doesn't take that long for each message, but there can be a lot to go through. (I've reached the limit with just the 'keep' messages a few times now. The most I've copied off is ~30, which at a guess probably took me ~45 minutes.) ( #3)
For the MMS messages, I can either save the pictures to the phone's memory or forward the message to somewhere else. Saving to the memory copies just the picture, so I have to do something else with any text in the message (up to 1000 characters), and the photo goes to the phone's internal memory, so I have to then go in and manually copy it to the removable micro-SD memory card or to the computer via bluetooth. That's a lot of time to spend on it, since the copy function is soooooo slllooowwww, so that's out. ( #4)
Forwarding the message keeps the photo and all the rest of the message together (context can be helpful for the photos), and takes only as much time as my phone takes to send the message. I still have to do it one at a time, but it's faster than the copy-to-phone-memory-to-removable-memory or copy-to-phone-memory-to-computer-via-bluetooth methods. Unfortunately, neither Gmail nor Yahoo! Mail will accept these messages. I tried sending several to Gmail, but only the second one got through. ( #5) I tried sending some to Yahoo! Mail. None appeared in my Yahoo! Mail inbox. ( #6) I can't find any filters that were blocking them, nor do the messages appear in any other folders, including Spam. Apparently, their servers are transparently blocking them. ( #7)
I did find a way around it though. My work's email server does accept these media messages, so I can still get them off the phone, and I can then forward the email to one of my personal accounts. There's also a hard limit of 60 MMS messages that the phone will store (it will show me download markers for more that come in, though ( #8 for being different than SMS); I have to delete some before I can download more), so I still have to take the time and cost per message from the prepaid account to send each message. ( #9)
But after the phone sends each message, it kicks itself back out to the home screen, so I have to re-navigate back to the messages to keep going on. ( #A)
Maybe you guys (and gals) can find more. And before you mention it, I am probably TR for any number of reasons.
Also, I am accepting suggestions for possible solutions or explanations for any of the above. (INB4: #B)
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@djls45 Welcome to the 21st century, glad you're here.
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I am accepting suggestions for possible solutions
Get people to stop sending messages to that phone. No messages, no need for copying them elsewhere. Sorted!
[Insert useless roll safe meme here]
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Some questions that have no correct answer:
https://i.imgur.com/lsoe295.png
(6⋅5⋅(8⋅7⋅6⋅5))
https://i.imgur.com/N6IYSsd.png
(308,915,776)
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More lack of CSS:
https://i.imgur.com/IizMiUt.png
https://i.imgur.com/aty2ZNb.png
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@pie_flavor Honorable mention to this question:
https://i.imgur.com/zy2ufd0.png
Because the correct answer's scientific notation is ×1029, not ×1030.
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@pie_flavor in the sciences it's not uncommon to use multiples of 3 for 10^x notation to more easily convert to kilo/mega/giga etc.
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@Jaloopa But this isn't the sciences - this is discrete math - and the homework has used 229 before.
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Let's throw in some vague questions where you're not sure if they want combinations or permutations, for good measure.
https://i.imgur.com/FUShpjf.png
This is the combinations section of the assignment, but the later parts (visitation of which it assures you, incorrectly, will prevent you from returning to this part) are about permutations.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
This is the combinations section of the assignment
This is the part where you learn the difference between 7 and 64.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
This is the combinations section of the assignment
This is the part where you learn the difference between 7 and 64.
In case that was a bit of trollery towards me - the homework has given several trick questions before.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
https://i.imgur.com/N6IYSsd.png
(308,915,776)Since the first and last two letters are fixed, there's only 4 letters to arbitrarily pick, so 26^4 = 456976 ??
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@topspin One of several interpretations of the question. I interpreted it as "B••••••O". The question was apparently meant as (BO••••••)∪(B••••••O)∪(••••••BO).