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@anonymous234 Why in the cunting fuckscape are we still shipping things with 32bit Windows on them?
Is there ANY reason!?
Fuck, why the shit is Microsoft still shipping 32bit Windows?
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@anonymous234 Why in the cunting fuckscape are we still shipping things with 32bit Windows on them?
Is there ANY reason!?
Fuck, why the shit is Microsoft still shipping 32bit Windows?
Because 32-bit devices still way outnumber 64-bit ones for reasons?
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@Weng You think ATMs and cash registers are 64-bit?
You think that's air you're breathing?
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Just saw a guy from Hungary complain that some webserver did very badly when dealing with a number of concurrent users.
That number was 100,000 (10E5).
The server ran on a single Dell notebook, with the only hardware spec being "it has 8 GB of RAM".
I'm not sure what the guy expected.
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Just saw a guy from Hungary complain that some webserver did very badly when dealing with a number of concurrent users.
That number was 100,000 (10E5).
The server ran on a single Dell notebook, with the only hardware spec being "it has 8 GB of RAM".
I'm not sure what the guy expected.
I would think that 10e5 concurrent users was impressive on such a machine. Was it running Apache or nginx?
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@Tsaukpaetra Node :)
To clarify: I don't know what he meant by "doing very badly". Because, while he did include a report, it looked like this:
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clarify
With that awesome JPEG compression, “clarify” is the wrong word. ;)
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@dkf What I just realized - the real mystery here is:
Why the hell is the "3|Page" at the bottom of that picture crystal clear?
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Why the hell is the "3|Page" at the bottom of that picture crystal clear?
This is guesswork, but the screenshot was JPEGged hard, then put in a (Word?) document,
then put on a wooden table,then that was converted to a PNG at high resolution. With probably a few additional steps of WTFery in there for good measure that didn't leave a trace, but those were the minimum.
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@dkf What I just realized - the real mystery here is:
Why the hell is the "3|Page" at the bottom of that picture crystal clear?
That may be the real mystery, but the real ququestku is: why did he screenshot a non-responsive App?
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@Yamikuronue Okay, fine. Embedded Edition can keep 32bit.
But Intel and AMD shipped the last x86 32bit consumer processors of note in 2008. Server chips died WAY earlier than that.
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@Weng Because 32-bit Windows uses slightly less memory and space than 64-bit Windows.
Though no, I don't think that's really a valid excuse anymore, considering the annoyance and confusion it causes and that SSDs are at $0.5 per GB.
IMO, Microsoft should
- Stop selling 32-bit Windows to the general public.
- If they care about install size, work on making the 64-bit version Windows smaller. I mean, Ubuntu is 5GB, Windows is 20GB, I'd like to know what takes all that space. I'm guessing you could remove 50% of it and make it to install only on demand or something.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
If they care about install size, work on making the 64-bit version Windows smaller. I mean, Ubuntu is 5GB, Windows is 20GB, I'd like to know what takes all that space. I'm guessing you could remove 50% of it and make it to install only on demand or something
True this.
For example, my phone's OS fits in a whopping 600mb file. It unpacks to a 2.5gb partition. WTF.
Then there's Apps. By raw package information I should have maybe 1gb worth of apps. But then get odexed (or whatever the newest method of recompiling is) and when combined with bloated appdata now I'm nearly full on that partition as well, despite the "emulated SD card" being nearly empty in comparison. I blame that on the phone makers and the inability to repetition MTD devicesproperlyeasily though.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
For example, my phone's OS fits in a whopping 600mb file. It unpacks to a 2.5gb partition
Same with Windows, it's 4GB unpacked to 20GB. So I'm guessing you could reduce the size a lot by simply enabling NTFS compression, at the expense of speed.
Edit: I decided to compress the Windows partition on my tablet just to see if it works and how the performance feels after that. WILL I BREAK EVERYTHING AND HAVE TO REINSTALL? STAY TUNED FOR AN UPDATE when it finishes compressing in 2 weeks or so.
Seriously though, it's sat there for an hour and the progress bar has not moved a single pixel yet.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Am I missing something? It's a rabbit, A baby one at that, get a new one!
Oh, that reminds me of something that happened around here not too long ago:
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Am I missing something? It's a rabbit, A baby one at that, get a new one!
Oh, that reminds me of something that happened around here not too long ago:
Wow. I literally jellypotatoed half the page down as all the facebook oneboxes loaded....
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File names with NULs are good for you!!1 Just found this while restarting a piece of shit application server:
ATTENTION: logging into blahQuack.log^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@glossyErrors.log caused Exception. Logging to that file disabled.java.io.FileNotFoundException: blahQuack.log^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@glossyErrors.log (Permission denied)
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
Press and hold a key on Windows, Linux, old Mac-s
... you remind me, just yesterday my mom called me that her keyboard stopped working. Took me quite some time (over TeamViewer session in which keyboard input didn't work either) to find that she accidentally enabled the "filtered keys" accessibility option (IIRC basically key has to be held for some time, half a second by default, to be recognized; it is enabled with a keyboard shortcut, which gives a message box when it triggers, but who reads message-boxes these days, right?)
I've noticed Windows switched the terminology to "Ease of Access," which avoids such implications.
If enabling it by accident takes two hours of your time, "ease" might not be the right word (ok, the above is KDE, not Windows, but the feature is similar in both).
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binding caps lock to
For many, many years, my CapsLock key is mapped to mode switch for typing accented characters—so I type á as capslocka, é as capslocke, ě as capslockw, ů as capslockh etc. Unfortunately I can only do this on Linux (the second layout is ucw); on Windows I have to do with the "cz-prog" keyboard, which uses alt-gr as switch and the normal Czech layout with accented characters on numbers.
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filtered keys
That and sticky keys tend to fuck me up at least once on every new Windows install I use before I go into the options and turn them off. Filter not so much, since the "press ctrl 5 times" shortcut isn't that easy to do accidentally, but I sometimes press shift at the start of writing a sentence then lose my train of thought while holding it for the requisite 5 seconds.
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since the "press ctrl 5 times" shortcut isn't that easy to do accidentally
That depends on the control set for the game you're playing…
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Private m_WhenSimulateExcelCursorMovementsUseEnterToToggleCellEditMode As Boolean
Self documenting code: variable names so long you forget the start by the time you've reached the end
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Self documenting code
That's self commenting code. Self documenting code is straightforward and concise.
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Public Sub EnableSelectedRows(ByVal enabled As Boolean)
What do we think this does? Because I thought it would set the selected rows to enabled or disabled depending on the value of
enabled
.What it does is set whether the control allows selecting of rows. Except it doesn't, it just sets the colours of selected rows to be the same as unselected. rows. Double clicking and right clicking still work fine.
It's possible there is no way to disable rows in this stupid, pointlessly inherited bastard gridview
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Am I missing something? It's a rabbit, A baby one at that, get a new one!
DICKS OUT FOR JET
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Who'd have thought that simply trying to mash stuff together which makes food doesn't actually result in real food?
Geniuses like this, apparently:
Another of Soylent’s new products, Coffiest, has also been subject to reports of making people ill. “I wanted to believe it was something else getting me sick, but every morning for the past month-and-a-half I have been lightheaded and can't concentrate,” writes a Reddit user who goes by blazedentertainment.
Wow...a month and a half?
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
lightheaded and can't concentrate
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
blazedentertainment
I see another candidate
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@cartman82 i use that feature a LOT. it saves me from having to change keyboard layouts when i need a ñ. which is often enough to be annoying if i don't have it on the keyboard.
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@Jarry Compose, n, Shift+~ ⇒ ñ
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@Jarry If you're using a Mac, what's wrong with option+n,n? Did they remove it from recent updates in favour of the stupid hold down method?
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@hungrier
i didn't knew that, it's useful.
but i still don't have a way to do accented letters(like á, é, etc)
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No, I don't want my food to be agile
Eat enough fiber and you can rapid release.
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Extra bonus, iTunes creates a separate registry entry for each file.
Apple. Actively trying to cripple Windows since the beginning.
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
Eat enough fiber and you can rapid release.
As opposed to using a fortnightly release cycle?
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
Eat enough fiber and you can rapid release.
As opposed to using a fortnightly release cycle?
I used to do that, but then I got bigger.
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Just watched an episode of Mr. Robot where they censored the word 'fuck' but not the word 'cunty'.
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@coldandtired an ex girlfriend used to hate the word cunt, but was happy calling people a cuntybumface
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@coldandtired said in WTF Bites:
Just watched an episode of Mr. Robot where they censored the word 'fuck' but not the word 'cunty'.
I am continuously confused by CBS's decision to censor the second syllable of "asshole".
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@cartman82 said in WTF Bites:
Protip:
If you're spelling out a number in the name of a function/method/variable....
You're probably doing it wrong.
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
If you're spelling out a number in the name of a function/method/variable....
You're probably doing it wrong.
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@sloosecannon said in WTF Bites:
If you're spelling out a number in the name of a function/method/variable....
You're probably doing it wrong.I know, right?
What's the problem with writing scope2014(), scope2015, scope2016, ...?
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@cartman82 I like this from that Reddit thread, from the same commenter:
As a manager, I'd have straight up fired your ass
HR does not like it when I fire people.
As it happens, I've never actually had to fire anyone
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I'll be sure to cultivate some LSEP squares, whatever those are.
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So Google Wallet has been redesigned:
Guess where payments.google.com redirects to?
The same page that tells you to visit payments.google.com in the first place.
EDIT: Seems it's a DNS issue.
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Found a function that returns '0' for false or '1' for true (ascii values, in a C program). It's a 14 line simple function to validate some data.
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Found a function that returns '0' for false or '1' for true (ascii values, in a C program). It's a 14 line simple function to validate some data.
Could be worse, could be a string that the caller has to free.
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@ben_lubar said in WTF Bites:
Found a function that returns '0' for false or '1' for true (ascii values, in a C program). It's a 14 line simple function to validate some data.
Could be worse, could be a string that the caller has to free.
... and the string is in UTF-8 and includes a BOM at the beginning.