WTF Bites
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In the movies they specifically indicate it's not iron.
I'm going with "it changes with each iteration", which has a release cycle on par with Chrome. In Iron Man 3 he's at Mark 42, and in IW he's got a Mark L nano-suit or something.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
why does it take more than 145 hours to configure it?
Downloading updates directly from Ableton? And Ableton is sitting behind a single shared 9600baud modem?
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And Ableton is sitting behind a single shared 9600baud modem?
Download limit exceeded. But we're not Samsung, you know, so we just drop the download speeds down to something similar to whistling the Lumberjack Song into your modem. Thanks for downloading Ableton!
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
why does it take more than 145 hours to configure it?
Downloading updates directly from Ableton? And Ableton is sitting behind a single shared 9600baud modem?
Oh, this was the uninstall.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
something similar to whistling the Lumberjack Song into your modem.
I can't tell if this is a pun on Ableton being music production software or not.
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
this was the uninstall.
145 hours is probably enough time to format a 200TB drive
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@TimeBandit it was more of a display error than an actual slowdown.
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@pie_flavor
I was about to make a joke how it's probably not very useful to write an A-weighted phil-harmonic mean statistics function for Windows Installer to accurately predict the remaining time, but I couldn't hit the right notes.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor
I was about to make a joke how it's probably not very useful to write an A-weighted phil-harmonic mean statistics function for Windows Installer to accurately predict the remaining time, but I couldn't hit the right notes.
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@Applied-Mediocrity It looks like he's going to be a-weighting a long time for the process to finish
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@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
I can't tell if this is a pun on Ableton being music production software or not.
At low bit rates, you can tell pretty much what is going on with a modem just by listening in; it's indeed quite musical (though also cacophonous; it's not music at all). But the higher the bit rate, the harder it is to distinguish from total noise; I remember the noises of my 14400 baud modem from waaay back (never had anything slower than that) and I could tell whether it'd negotiated a good connection entirely by ear. The next modem I got was a 56k one, and that almost always sounded like noise except very briefly at the start of the post-dial handshake.
After that, I got cable and it was glorious. I ain't ever going back to that old shit again.
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@TimeBandit said in WTF Bites:
@pie_flavor said in WTF Bites:
this was the uninstall.
145 hours is probably enough time to format a 200TB drive
145 hours is enough time to format a 200TB drive by hand with a teeny-tiny magnet.
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Gold-iridium alloy IIRC?
Incredibly heavy, but not at all strong? Sure.
Actually, I'm not sure what the properties of a gold-iridium alloy would be (apart from being very dense). Gold is very soft. Iridium is hard but brittle. An alloy would certainly be harder than gold, but whether it would add much strength to iridium's brittleness is a question that would be easy, but expensive, to answer.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
An alloy would certainly be harder than gold, but whether it would add much strength to iridium's brittleness is a question that would be easy, but expensive, to answer.
Maybe you should ask one of those popular youtubers that make stupid and pointless things because thdy can (and because ads will always pay it all back).
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
An alloy would certainly be harder than gold, but whether it would add much strength to iridium's brittleness is a question that would be easy, but expensive, to answer.
Maybe you should ask one of those popular youtubers that make stupid and pointless things because thdy can (and because ads will always pay it all back).
K yearI hear Thunderf00t is looking for things to do.Edit: Surprised nobody said anything for so long.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Gold-iridium alloy IIRC?
Incredibly heavy, but not at all strong? Sure.
Actually, I'm not sure what the properties of a gold-iridium alloy would be (apart from being very dense). Gold is very soft. Iridium is hard but brittle. An alloy would certainly be harder than gold, but whether it would add much strength to iridium's brittleness is a question that would be easy, but expensive, to answer.
I would make the suit out of pure radium, with a lead inner lining.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTF Bites:
Actually, I'm not sure what the properties of a gold-iridium alloy would be (apart from being very dense). Gold is very soft. Iridium is hard but brittle. An alloy would certainly be harder than gold, but whether it would add much strength to iridium's brittleness is a question that would be easy, but expensive, to answer.
It's actually very difficult to predict what the properties of such an alloy would be. Now it's a long time since I've thought much about this stuff (over 25 years…) but IIRC it depends on the actual atom-level properties of the bulk compounds within the alloy (i.e., not necessarily just the starting metals) and also the pattern of how they are arranged, which is partially affected by how the alloy has been worked and quenched and so on. And also the temperature and pressure.
Alloys of platinum and iridium seem to be more useful from a very swift search…
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So, the info message the boss sent out the day before yesterday never got out to anyone. This morning came the explanation: it had got stuck in Google's spam filter as I got a spam report about a "suspicious message" as I am apparently a moderator for the staff group.
What did the message contain? A "Welcome back!" and the schedule for the first day. No links, was sent from his work mail. But yeah, apparently spam. But now it could be approved and reach everyone the day after it was relevant!
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At low bit rates, you can tell pretty much what is going on with a modem
I found this a while back and thought it was rather neat:
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At low bit rates, you can tell pretty much what is going on with a modem just by listening in; it's indeed quite musical (though also cacophonous; it's not music at all). But the higher the bit rate, the harder it is to distinguish from total noise
True, but that's not just because of the higher bit rate. To get higher bit rates on a channel with fixed characteristics, you need more complex modulation schemes and error-correction. These makes the signal sound like noise.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
@Applied-Mediocrity said in WTF Bites:
Pathfinder: Kingmaker changelog:
I guess it's good that devlopers are at least scrambling to fix, but... damn.
Holy fuck and I thought our policy of releasing major updates every two weeks was insane...
It is.
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Alloys of platinum and iridium seem to be more useful from a very swift search…
For measuring weight?
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@Gąska I didn't check carefully. I just saw that they came up but gold/iridium alloys didn't (except in relation to something in India).
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@dkf why nobody ever gets my jokes
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Edit: Surprised nobody said anything for so long.
I thought "K Year" was an actual term that I just wasn't hip enough to get.
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@dkf why nobody ever gets my jokes
What jokes?
Oy, that's my line!
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Randomly generated password (
haew1ash;ooSh'i
) rejected because of password rules:Either
;
&'
aren't special enough ... or maybe they are a bit too special.They probably only allow the special characters they listed:
!@#$%^*()~`{}[]|\&_
.Also, apparently the password is too long, but that's fine.
This is no problem, as it will probably be trimmed to the appropriate length, but only when registering.
And what's up with the hate for leading/trailing spaces? How badly does their system actually suck?
This requirement is one that I actually find reasonable, as there are far too many people who would not be able to remember a password that had a leading or trailing space. Even if they remember it correctly, there could be problems with typing it (although there shouldn't if it is a
type="password"
element, "show password" probably turns it intotype="text"
and then you can get autocorrect messing with things, plus then the space is invisible so you might type multiple trailing spaces and not realize it), or copying-and-pasting it (which could either omit leading/trailing whitespace, or inadvertently add some).
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@dkf why nobody ever gets my jokes
Perhaps try explaining them?
But then everyone will be mad that once again I'm overanalyzing everything and will want to suck my dick.
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But then everyone will be mad that once again I'm overanalyzing everything and will want to suck my dick.
Count me out
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But then everyone will be mad that once again I'm overanalyzing everything
Nah, if I've learned anything from TDWTF, the better the joke, the more times it gets explained. And since we know that correlation implies causation, the more times you explain your joke, the better it will get.
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
They probably only allow the special characters they listed:
!@#$%^*()~
{}[]|&_`.Good point. Went back and tested it, it accepts a password with a single quote if it has at least one of the special characters listed (and obviously doesn't fail on any other count). Curious.
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But then everyone will be mad that once again I'm overanalyzing everything
Nah, if I've learned anything from TDWTF, the better the joke, the more times it gets explained.
What do you mean by explained? Is it enough to point out the thread or post that was being referenced?
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@anotherusername said in WTF Bites:
They probably only allow the special characters they listed:
!@#$%^*()~
{}[]|&_`.Good point. Went back and tested it, it accepts a password with a single quote if it has at least one of the special characters listed (and obviously doesn't fail on any other count). Curious.
Sounds like you've found a glitch in the
matrixregexp.
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@dkf why nobody ever gets my jokes
Perhaps try explaining them?
But then everyone will be mad that once again I'm overanalyzing everything
:thatsthejoke.gif:
and will want to suck my dick.
Wat?
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Edit: Surprised nobody said anything for so long.
I thought "K Year" was an actual term that I just wasn't hip enough to get.
Well, you aren't entirely wrong...
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Edit: Surprised nobody said anything for so long.
I thought "K Year" was an actual term that I just wasn't hip enough to get.
Well, you aren't entirely wrong...
You need lots of KY to fit it in the ear.
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@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
@Lorne-Kates said in WTF Bites:
@Tsaukpaetra said in WTF Bites:
Edit: Surprised nobody said anything for so long.
I thought "K Year" was an actual term that I just wasn't hip enough to get.
Well, you aren't entirely wrong...
You need lots of KY to fit it in the ear.
Not if you're a Yeerk.
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@Atazhaia said in The Official Status Thread:
And as a bonus I get a link to the Google Mobile page that looks to have been last updated when Android 4.0 was the latest.
Ooh, no flat design icons!
Yes, I shall be sure to explore the latest Nexus devices and join the Android Google+ community!
Accessing the desktop version has flat design icons, but is otherwise still very much not updated.
The difference being that google.com would redirect to the new page, but google.se doesn't, so...
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So Intel's response to the 32-core Threadripper is to make a completely new platform. So we get a slightly modified 28-core Xeon that runs at a higher TDP and with an unlocked multiplier, along with a slightly modified server chipset. Just the motherboard will cost nearly as much as a 32-core Threadripper and add another $5k or so for the actual CPU. Intel aims this towards the professional market (or so they say at least).
Asus is the first company to showcase a motherboard for this platform. Which branding do they find most appropriate? Republic of Gamers of course! Because nothing says gaming like Xeon and server chipsets! This combination of Asus branding idiocy and Intel knee-jerk reaction is truly a marvel to behold.
The board has two 24-pin ATX power connectors and a whopping four 8-pin and two 6-pin power inputs that feed a 32-phase VRM arrangement.
So I need to upgrade the electrical wiring in the house to run one of those?
The Dominus Extreme comes with the AURA Sync RGB lighting system and also has a 1.77" color LiveDash OLED screen.
Because of course it does.
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Republic of Gamers of course! Because nothing says gaming like Xeon and server chipsets!
For the real pro gamers that play 14 games at the same time on max settings.
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So Intel's response to the 32-core Threadripper is to make a completely new platform. So we get a slightly modified 28-core Xeon that runs at a higher TDP and with an unlocked multiplier, along with a slightly modified server chipset. Just the motherboard will cost nearly as much as a 32-core Threadripper and add another $5k or so for the actual CPU. Intel aims this towards the professional market (or so they say at least).
Asus is the first company to showcase a motherboard for this platform. Which branding do they find most appropriate? Republic of Gamers of course! Because nothing says gaming like Xeon and server chipsets! This combination of Asus branding idiocy and Intel knee-jerk reaction is truly a marvel to behold.
The board has two 24-pin ATX power connectors and a whopping four 8-pin and two 6-pin power inputs that feed a 32-phase VRM arrangement.
So I need to upgrade the electrical wiring in the house to run one of those?
The Dominus Extreme comes with the AURA Sync RGB lighting system and also has a 1.77" color LiveDash OLED screen.
Because of course it does.
It's going to run Minecraft just great!
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@topspin But can it run Crysis?
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Asus is the first company to showcase a motherboard for this platform. Which branding do they find most appropriate? Republic of Gamers of course! Because nothing says gaming like Xeon and server chipsets!
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@Gąska That's a Xeon + HEDT chipset. So not that much different from running a similar i7/i9 for the same socket.
As a result we strap the Xeon to a regular consumer level motherboard that can support them
(I would not call HEDT "regular consumer level" however, that would be a Xeon for 1151 or similar.)
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@Atazhaia I still don't see why a dedicated high-performance desktop CPU based on dedicated server CPU would be bad for gaming. It's all about single-thread performance, and Xeons have very good single-thread performance.
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@Gąska
Not bad, just not optimal perhaps. Consumer CPUs having less cores, less L3 and less memory channels (and perhaps disabled SMT) can have higher clock speeds and more aggressive turbo multipliers.
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Republic of Gamers of course! Because nothing says
gaming like Xeon and server chipsets"I will buy gold-plated audio cables, I'm an audiophile" like self-identified gamers