WTF Bites
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@bb36e I'm still disgusted by how the Win10 start menu searches the Internet faster than it searches locally-installed applications, so if you type too fast and hit "Enter" without paying attention, you get a web browser instead of launching the application you wanted.
Technically, I think the "search the internet" option is the fallback, so you get that if the local one doesn't pop up fast enough. But yes, still a WTF. Also the jellypotato of search results when you type more specific matching letters
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Which is the bigger - letting one of your Twitch mods write a custom chat client for you, or spending 20 minutes deliberately letting your chat XSS attack your browser when someone found that it wasn't doing any sanitization at all?
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
@marczellm said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
Those apps elect not to use it.
no, Chrome and Firefox are banned
False. Chrome's application got kicked off the app store not because it was Chrome, but because it was just a downloader for the regular Chrome installer.
If the regular Chrome installer was allowed on the store, then they would've just put it there, instead of messing around with the "just a downloader for the regular Chrome installer" installer.
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maybe I should check my log files instead
You think Wordpress-- or PHP in general-- uses a log in any useful manner?
ha. i have a sensible laugh at your statement.
Maybe the error is in the /php/log. Or maybe it's in a special Wordpress log. Or maybe it ended up in the MySQL log. Or maybe it's in the apache error log. Or maybe it's in the Apache vhost-configured log. Or maybe something just dumped it into /dev/null. Or WordPress silently ate the error and died. Or PHP silently ate the error and died.
Versus opening Windows Event Log and seeing "oh, there's the fucking stacktrace, noice."
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
I largely abandoned Windows a long time ago
Yeah, it's much easier to use a Porch to see who's on your lawn.
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
You think Wordpress-- or PHP in general-- uses a log in any useful manner?
I think that Wordpress is stupid as a log. Will that do?
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
You think Wordpress-- or PHP in general-- uses a log in any useful manner?
I think that Wordpress is stupid as a log. Will that do?
No. You can at least set fire to a log to keep you warm.
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
You think Wordpress-- or PHP in general-- uses a log in any useful manner?
PHP can easily log things sensibly, but there're a lot of bad php programmers around and many unskilled people run wordpress websites.
Bad workers blame their tools, but it's usually not the tool's fault.
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@Rhywden setting fire to wordpress is quite fun, but doesn't keep you warm
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@japonicus said in WTF Bites:
PHP can easily log things sensibly, but there're a lot of bad php programmers around and many unskilled people run wordpress websites.
Bad workers blame their tools, but it's usually not the tool's fault.
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@dkf that's an efficient UNIX-style nail pulling device - single responsibility! Who wants a newfangled dual purpose 'hammer'?
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@japonicus You could probably still pound in a nail by turning it sideways.
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@japonicus The carpentry tool equivalent of UNIX would be a set of weird devices designed in the 1600s with names and purposes no one else uses. People who used them would swear they are the only true design and would actually manage to build impressive stuff with them, while everyone else finds them weird and confusing. Some of the tools would have obvious glaring flaws or be inconsistent with the rest, but their defenders insist you just need to get used to them.
Windows would be a set of tools that comes in a $100 "home edition" that has everything you need except a hammer, a $2,000 "pro" edition that includes the hammer, and a $50,000/year "enterprise" contract that has god knows what. Every 5 years they deprecate about 1/3rd of the tools and introduce a similar amount of new ones. Also all the parts are coated in rubber to prevent you from seeing their internal design, and if you peek inside you can see most of them are made with bits of old recycled newspapers wrapped in duct tape, but despite that they seem to hold together pretty well.
OS X is set based on the Unix tools, but with a much nicer design, and a lot of extra handles and some of the worse parts remade with a brand new design. Unfortunately they are only available for use in authorized Apple™ workshops.
Android is a set of power tools that actually use the UNIX tools inside, but you'd never know that because you only ever interact with the outside shell that completely covers them.
Man, I love creating overly complex analogies.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Man, I love creating overly complex analogies.
All software analogies must be car-based.
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@loopback0 But limiting yourself like that would be like having a car that only travels through one street.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
OS X is set based on the Unix tools, but with a much nicer design, and a lot of extra handles and some of the worse parts remade with a brand new design. Unfortunately they are only available for use in authorized Apple™ workshops.
And some of the bits inside (mysteriously labelled “Xcode”) are made out of rotting fish and used gym socks.
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@Rhywden Addendum: If I switch to 1080p suspend and resume works fine.
But then I can't switch back to 3440x1440 without getting a black screen in the process.
And just for shits'n'giggles I exchanged the HDMI cable for another one I know from experience to be 4K capable just to make sure it's not the cable.
Maybe you need the ultra-special Apple-HDMI cable.
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Status: Goddam, Windows, WTF are you doing?!?!
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@Tsaukpaetra
Keeping the cpu temp from going too low. Don't you know anything about modern hardware?
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@Rhywden Addendum: If I switch to 1080p suspend and resume works fine.
But then I can't switch back to 3440x1440 without getting a black screen in the process.
And just for shits'n'giggles I exchanged the HDMI cable for another one I know from experience to be 4K capable just to make sure it's not the cable.
Maybe you need the ultra-special Apple-HDMI cable.
Make sure the contacts are gold-plated, too.
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Might be slightly unfair to harp on this because it's an amateur mod for a game but...
So I'm trying to fix this thing because some updates broke it, presumably. Or the author did. Whichever.
There's a GitHub repo. The repo's folder structure is nothing like what the final mod structure should be. I see nothing in the VS project that looks like a release script, so files were copied to proper folders for release, which is silly, but unless I'm missing something this had to be done for testing as well (unless there's a way to run the game directly from VS with the mod loaded despite the folder structure that I'm unaware of).
That's all annoying but ok, fuck it, give it a pass. And then, I opened a debugger class file...
public OptionalDebugger() { switch (currentComputer) { case "pavilion": resultsFile = pavilionAddress; break; case "thinkpad": resultsFile = thinkpadAddress; break; } /* snip */ }
I... WHAT?
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Look, it's one of those youtube streams that use copyrighted characters illegally and super cheap flash animation to get views from children.
...is what I assumed. But then I saw the verified check mark and checked the channel. Nope, it's owned and produced by Warner Bros.
Oh god it's terrifying. Well, I guess it's great by youtube kids' channel standards, but still terrifying by DC animation standards.
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Which is the bigger - letting one of your Twitch mods write a custom chat client for you, or spending 20 minutes deliberately letting your chat XSS attack your browser when someone found that it wasn't doing any sanitization at all?
You're asking those questions about a person who wrote a Twitch chat client and a video chat program that run on multiple Nintendo game systems via arbitrary code execution vulnerabilities in various games exploited entirely via the controller port.
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@Rhywden Addendum: If I switch to 1080p suspend and resume works fine.
But then I can't switch back to 3440x1440 without getting a black screen in the process.
And just for shits'n'giggles I exchanged the HDMI cable for another one I know from experience to be 4K capable just to make sure it's not the cable.
Maybe you need the ultra-special Apple-HDMI cable.
Make sure the contacts are gold-plated, too.
I realize that this is meant as a joke but I've yet to run across a HDMI cable where they're not gold-plated.
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I realize that this is meant as a joke but I've yet to run across a HDMI cable where they're not gold-plated.
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@PJH: The contacts still look gold-plated on the picture. Maybe the nickel plating only applies to the outer shell?
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@Zerosquare Also not sure why they'd use Nickel of all metals.
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@Zerosquare Also not sure why they'd use Nickel of all metals.
Because it wasn't worth a dime?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Goddam, Windows, WTF are you doing?!?!
Do you have Windows Management Framework 3.0 installed? It seems to cause a memory leak (and CPU hogging) in netsvcs.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Status: Goddam, Windows, WTF are you doing?!?!
Do you have Windows Management Framework 3.0 installed? It seems to cause a memory leak (and CPU hogging) in netsvcs.
I have no idea. Microsoft is managing it after all.
It's supposed to be a vanilla server 2016 VM, but who knows what shit is installed to make it Azure friendly?
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
As a non-Dutch speaker, I am constantly amazed at how legible it is...
My main problem with reading Dutch is that I have to constantly hold back my urge to laugh out loud, because it just sounds so much like a joke language. Sorry Dutch-speakers, no offense meant, but your language is hilarious.
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@ixvedeusi
I'm no Dutch-speaker, but I elect myself to take offense in their stead. No Dutch shaming! No to Eng-splaining! #MeOok
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
No Dutch shaming!
Nederlands is ook een echte taal.
Courtesy Google translate. Real dutch might might be even more difficult to take seriously.
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Excel
When pasting in long numeric strings (e.g. IDs), Excel will format them in scientific notation, even when you change the cell formatting to Text. If you change it to the Number preset, it treats it as a decimal number and displays the whole thing with .00 added to it. The data in the cell still remains the same, your original number written out in full, without decimal. But when you change it back to Text format, it'll revert to displaying it in scientific notation.The solution: Set the cell format to Text before pasting in your stuff. Only then will it display the actual text that's in the cell.
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@hungrier I hate Excel trying to be "helpful" in detecting column types. Dates are an especially sore spot--or anything that looks like a date. Like a fraction (that you want kept as a string).
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
@hungrier I hate Excel trying to be "helpful" in detecting column types. Dates are an especially sore spot--or anything that looks like a date. Like a fraction (that you want kept as a string).
"Look, ma, I'm helping!"
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@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Man, I love creating overly complex analogies.
All software analogies must be car-based.
Unless it's software licensing, then beer-based.
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"Special" Christmas Tree. Uh huh.
That's actually a terrible idea. Not only are the plastics in most 3D printing materials not food-grade and thus could contain potentially harmful chemicals, not only are these one-use-only (because the crevices between layers make for excellent bacterial breeding grounds), but it's ridiculously easy for delamination to occur with the forces used, which could lead to part of the object becoming stuck, potentially with sharp edges.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Man, I love creating overly complex analogies.
All software analogies must be car-based.
Unless it's software licensing, then beer-based.
...of the root variety for us teetotalers.
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Excel
When pasting in long numeric strings (e.g. IDs), Excel will format them in scientific notation, even when you change the cell formatting to Text. If you change it to the Number preset, it treats it as a decimal number and displays the whole thing with .00 added to it. The data in the cell still remains the same, your original number written out in full, without decimal. But when you change it back to Text format, it'll revert to displaying it in scientific notation.The solution: Set the cell format to Text before pasting in your stuff. Only then will it display the actual text that's in the cell.
I've gotten around that. That tends to happen with tracking numbers or some other data bits I regularly have to deal with. There's an entry in the "Custom" format category that's just labeled "0" which will just display the number as-is.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@loopback0 said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
Man, I love creating overly complex analogies.
All software analogies must be car-based.
Unless it's software licensing, then beer-based.
...of the root variety for us teetotalers.
It's OK even for teetotalers to use alcoholic analogies. You can even safely mix them with the car analogies (if you don't read the replies).
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
it's nice to hear that they're catching up with modern times
It only took them 20 years
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTF Bites:
I hate Excel trying to be "helpful" in detecting column types.
"Look, ma, I'm helping!"
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No idea how to get any of the available options.
Easiest way is to assume it should have been "starts or ends with" rather than "starts and ends with".
BOxxxxxx + xxxxxxBO - BOxxxxBO
26^6 + 26^6 - 26^4 = 617,374,576.
If you change it to the Number preset, it treats it as a decimal number and displays the whole thing with .00 added to it.
You do know you can then change the decimal precision to get rid of the .00, right? It's right there on the ribbon:
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Excel
When pasting in long numeric strings (e.g. IDs), Excel will format them in scientific notation, even when you change the cell formatting to Text. If you change it to the Number preset, it treats it as a decimal number and displays the whole thing with .00 added to it. The data in the cell still remains the same, your original number written out in full, without decimal. But when you change it back to Text format, it'll revert to displaying it in scientific notation.The solution: Set the cell format to Text before pasting in your stuff. Only then will it display the actual text that's in the cell.
Try it with dates too. Converting to text afterwards makes it into a number
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Unless it's software licensing, then beer-based.
I for one like my software to be free as in "Free Willy".
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
I for one like my software to be free as in "Free Willy".
so you like your software flopping about in the wind?
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so you like your software flopping about in the wind?
...and all sad-faced with a tragically hanging fin, making the children cry. And in the end it disappears into the wild without a trace.
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@ixvedeusi said in WTF Bites:
@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
Unless it's software licensing, then beer-based.
I for one like my software to be free as in "Free Willy".