WTF Bites
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I hate it when my system is unavailable due to {0}.
"The system is unavailable due to fewer parameters provided than required by the formatting string."
"Operator has been paged to enter missing parameter, please wait."
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So use this web app that allows to build custom reports on it's data set. Great! Let's copy the query of this existing report to a new one and then fiddle with it to get the thing we want ...
You should have picked one that wasn't broken yo
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Yeah, I know expensive HDMI cables are not a new WTF but this one has "directionality".
Directionality
All audio cables are directional. The correct direction is determined by listening to every batch of metal conductors used in every AudioQuest audio cable. All signal conductors controlled for digital-audio direction in AudioQuest HDMI cables, and care is even taken to run the conductors used in the Audio Return Channel in the opposite direction to ensure the best performance for that application. Arrows are clearly marked on the connectors to ensure superior sound quality.
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@loopback0 I think the next-level cable bullshit needs to focus on microcrystalline structures.
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@loopback0 I ran into a directional HDMI cable once. It, in fact, only worked in one direction. You got "no signal" if you plugged it in the other way. I was completely dumbfounded.
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@loopback0 And only $1122 US for 3 meters
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@mott555 active ?
i've had that happen, but active cables actually contain some kind of signal amplyfing device, making them directional.
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@swayde I don't know. The thing was maybe 5 - 6 feet long, not nearly long enough to justify an amplifier, I'd think.
The funniest part was all the clueless iDiots on the scene who ate up cable marketing nonsense. One of them said something like "How can you work in IT and not know that all cables are directional?"
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@mott555 active ?
i've had that happen, but active cables actually contain some kind of signal amplyfing device, making them directional.These folks put some kinda static charge on their insulation, it's sorta active, in that it has batteries that can die too.
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@mott555
Please, don't lump audiophiles in with people who prefer a nice peaceful curated garden for their smartphone app store, without having to choose between 7275 different App Stores that each have 175325 different versions of Candy Crush.
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@loopback0 I think the next-level cable bullshit needs to focus on microcrystalline structures.
Modern HDMI cables can have costly bit errors that will negatively effect the picture AND sound quality! Why rely on outdated, legacy "quality of service" techniques when you can ENSURE your data is 100% reliable with... BitHDMI, the world's first HDMI cable that validates data with the blockchain!
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@swayde Perhaps, but:
When insulation is unbiased, it slows down parts of the signal differently, a big problem for very time-sensitive multi-octave audio.
really tells me that there's some believers in non-standard physics about. Also, a cable capable of handling a bitrate suitable for better than 15Gbps really isn't going to have a problem with even a very high quality audio stream, where it's hard to imagine using more than a few Mbps per channel. Even in an HDR scenario with a 7.1 speaker deployment, that's not going to need more than 100Mbps, i.e., a bog-standard ethernet cable.
Without directional arrows.
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@mott555 The good old "You are good with computers, you must know how this random widget works".
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How can you work in IT and not know that all cables are directional?
Exactly. That's why you need 2 different USB cable for an external hard-drive: One to write data to it, the other one to read from it
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@dkf: audiophiles live in their own world. You're not going to convince them with rational arguments.
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@izzion These were the type who bought $3,000 MacBooks because they have the best GPUs in the world which is great for all the video editing they never actually do.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@dkf: audiophiles live in their own world. You're not going to convince them with rational arguments.
"You're wrong times infinity!"
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@dkf But what about the warmth of the sound and the blackness of the perceived noise background? It sounds like you're saying that no amount of gold-bricking a digital signal is going to change the contents almost.
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@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
You're not going to convince them with rational arguments.
If I was less principled (and less lazy), I'd be trying to sell cables to them with as high a markup as possible.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Zerosquare said in WTF Bites:
@dkf: audiophiles live in their own world. You're not going to convince them with rational arguments.
"You're wrong times infinity!"
I think this is a transcendental argument now?
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
BitHDMI, the world's first HDMI cable that validates data with the blockchain!
The downside is that you only get to see the movie 2 hours after starting it
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The best way to deal with audiophiles is to take them to the gun range with a big-bore revolver and pop off 6 rounds before they have a chance to put hearing protection on.
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@dkf: I've actually thought about it more than once: "why am I designing 'serious' electronics while I could build audiophile gizmos for much less work and more money?".
Fucking moral principles.
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@mott555 They're idiots with more money than sense. Do the universe a favour: correct that ratio!
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really tells me that there's some believers in non-standard physics about. Also, a cable capable of handling a bitrate suitable for better than 15Gbps really isn't going to have a problem with even a very high quality audio stream, where it's hard to imagine using more than a few Mbps per channel. Even in an HDR scenario with a 7.1 speaker deployment, that's not going to need more than 100Mbps, i.e., a bog-standard ethernet cable.
I fucking hate hdmi. It could have been so great. But yet again corporate america has to fuck shit up by enforcing DRM. A 19 conductor cable having actual problems carrying 200MB/s. FFS! And hdmi chains/handshakes are a fucking nightmare.
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big-bore revolver and pop off 6 rounds before they have a chance to put hearing protection on.
Do you need directional bullets for that?
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@TimeBandit I've never tried to load my only revolver's cylinder from the wrong end. Now I'm curious.
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@dkf No, I think that's the C++ gun. The PHP gun has three triggers which do three different things, none of which are what you'd expect and are named similar phrases with different repetitions of the word "real", and will blow up in your hand if anyone nearby says
Robert'); die(); --
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@dkf No, I think that's the C++ gun. The PHP gun has three triggers which do three different things, none of which are what you'd expect and are named similar phrases with different repetitions of the word "real", and will blow up in your hand if anyone nearby says
Robert'); die(); --
If that's any BCPL gun it's the C gun. The C++ gun is an automatic.
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@Gribnit But that implies that C++ is better than C, and I definitely do not agree with that.
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@Gribnit But that implies that C++ is better than C, and I definitely do not agree with that.
Did I say the barrel was oriented any differently?
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@Rhywden this is what happens when you don't buy official Belkin Apple certified adapters
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@bb36e Heh. But say what you will, I filed a bugreport on their bugtracker and have already gotten two replies from them asking me for further specifications, syslogs and other documentation of this error.
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@Gribnit The C gun is a plain handgun. The C++ gun is a fully automatic rifle awkwardly built around the C handgun in order to preserve backward compatibility.
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@anonymous234 said in WTF Bites:
@Gribnit The C gun is a plain handgun. The C++ gun is a fully automatic rifle awkwardly built around the C handgun in order to preserve backward compatibility.
Oh right, usually the gas advances the cylinder but every six rounds it needs to pop the arbor, extract six used brass, and re-load from the spring magazine, which is why it needs the storage tank and a positive seal at both ends of the chamber (which is on the arbor)...
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
BitHDMI, the world's first HDMI cable that validates data with the blockchain!
The downside is that you only get to see the movie 2 hours after starting it
Are you kidding? They have to verify each frame. Sequentially. You can't verify frame2 until frame1 is complete. Please come back next year.
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Please come back next year.
Or buy a real audiophile-quality blockchain cable that can cut the time down. Sure it's more expensive.
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Please come back next year.
Or buy a real audiophile-quality blockchain cable that can cut the time down. Sure it's more expensive.
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@boomzilla said in WTF Bites:
@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@anonymous234 Nope
Unfortunately, the download limit for the day has been reached, please try again within 24 hours.
If it's a daily limit, why the fuck trying within 24 hours would make a difference
If you wait a full 24 hours then they've probably hit the download limit again, assuming tomorrow looks like today.
So just keep trying every random.nextInt(22) + 1 hours. You can probably just tell cURL to do this.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I'd also quite like to place a bloody order!
Unless it is for raw meat, I personally would much prefer that my order not be bloody.
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@Cursorkeys said in WTF Bites:
I'd also quite like to place a bloody order!
Unless it is for raw meat, I personally would much prefer that my order not be bloody.
All meat? I love a blue steak as long as it's good quality meat, you can use the chips to mop up the blood
This just isn't on though:
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@Cursorkeys: "#healthy #cleaneating"
Yeah, right.
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@Cursorkeys Mmm, salmonella strips~
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@sweaty_gammon said in WTF Bites:
@mott555 The good old "You are good with computers, you must know how this random widget works".
"How would you like it if I did this to you, like I said 'You are good with...' ummm, hmm, you know what, I can't finish that. There is nothing you are good at. You suck at literally everything."
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@dkf But what about the warmth of the sound and the blackness of the perceived noise background? It sounds like you're saying that no amount of gold-bricking a digital signal is going to change the contents almost.
Have you tried powering it with clean electricity? It helps so much, you can really hear the undertones and there's no sub-jitter at all!